Milk & Honey Quilters' Guild

Milk and Honey Meetings

Meetings this year will be either in-person or via Zoom.

"Hybrid Zoom": For meeting with a presenter via Zoom, you can watch the presentation by logging in to Zoom from home or coming to the American Legion hall and watching it there on the big screen with other members.

If you aren't a member but would like to attend a meeting, please send an email to us at milkandhoneyquilters@yahoo.com

Unless indicated otherwise in the listing below, our meetings are held on the fourth Tuesday of each month (September through May). Every Milk & Honey Quilters meeting begins with a short guild business update and includes a Show 'n' Tell, when we share the progress of our latest creations or seek project advice from each other. Both completed and unfinished projects are welcomed. Most meetings are held at the American Legion building located off Route 7 South (behind G Stone Motors) in Middlebury. Exceptions are detailed below.

Date	Day	Time	Program	Meeting Notes
9/26/23	Tuesday	6:30 pm	In-person meeting at the American Legion Hall The beginning of a new guild year! We'll dig into the history and evolution of the guild followed by a conversation about where it's headed. We'll also decide which challenges to launch and discuss potential activities or field trips.	September '23 Guild Meeting Notes
10/24/23	Tuesday	6:30 pm	Hybrid Zoom Lecture: "Every Last Crumb: An Adventure of Scrap Quilting" with Brita Nelson (via Zoom) This will be a fun and inspirational talk on what to do with all that leftover fabric in every quilter's sewing room. We'll see some "stash" quilts and hear about basic color and contrast.	October '23 Guild Meeting Notes
10/25/23	Wednesday	TBD	*Zoom Workshop: "Crumbs to Quilts"* with Brita Nelson (Zoom only) Fee: TBD A 4-hour workshop on how to turn the tiniest scraps into stunning textiles. We'll use our newly formed fabric to make a beautiful flower block.
11/28/23	Tuesday	6:30 pm	Hybrid Zoom Lecture: "The Quiltmakers of Caohagan Island" with Dana Jones (via Zoom) Dana is a quiltmaker, multi-talented artist, former editor of Quilters Newsletter Magazine and of the SAQA Journal. Her book, Pagtinabangay: The Quilts and Quiltmakers of Caohagan Island, is a story of the islanders who created a form of art quilting to support themselves. We'll see some of their stunning quilts.
12/12/23	Tuesday	5:30 pm	Guild members' Holiday Pot Luck and Yankee Gift Exchange at the Unitarian Universalist Church in Middlebury (in-person only). Bring a dish to share, your own place setting, and a (gift-wrapped) sewing or quilt-related item for participation in the gift exchange.	December '23 Guild Meeting Notes
1/13/24	Saturday	9:30 am - 4:00 pm	Community Service Projects Location TBD Come sit and sew charity projects for the full day (until 4 pm) or for just a few hours. Bring a bag lunch. Coffee, tea, and snacks will be provided.
1/23/24	Tuesday	6:30 pm	Hybrid Zoom Lecture: "Playing with Color Value" with Carolina Oneta (via Zoom) Carolina will talk about a variety of topics related to color, especially value and why it's so important. We'll see examples of how to create movement and sequences using color value.
1/24/24	Wednesday	TBD	*Zoom Workshop: "Curves and Transparencies"* with Carolina Oneto (Zoom only) Fee: TBD We'll make a mini quilt which we'll design from scratch. Carolina will show us how to create a transparency effect with color, fabrics, and shapes.
2/27/24	Tuesday	6:30 pm	In-person lecture: "Tips, Tricks, and Notions" with Carla Berno (in-person only) The purveyor of our local quilt shop will share some of her favorite things! She'll include info on threads, needles, pins, fabrics, notions, and tools.
3/26/24	Tuesday	6:30 pm	Members Teaching Members (in-person only) Four of our members will each give a 20-minute demonstration on a variety of techniques.
4/23/24	Tuesday	6:30 pm	In-person lecture: "Vintage Sewing Machines" with Louise Prescott (in-person only) Guild member Louise will talk briefly about sewing machine history then walk us through her collection of vintage and antique machines. She'll bring several from her collection for a hands-on demonstration.
5/28/24	Tuesday	6:00 pm	In-person meeting at the Unitarian Universalist Church in Middlebury (in-person only) Social gathering, potluck dinner, and the reveal of our challenge projects.