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Joyful and Merry Community Quilt Guild Corner✨

WELCOME to our newest guild members who joined this week! We're so happy to have you!

Would you like to join a wonderful community of quilters from all over the world? We would LOVE to have you as a member of our Joyful and Merry Community Quilt Guild! Registration has officially reopened - get all the details and registration info here:
https://www.joyfulandmerryquilting.com/guildreopenreplay

The vision of our community quilt guild is: "To create a warm and inclusive virtual space where every member feels valued. We believe in fostering a positive and supportive community, free of judgment, where quilters of all levels can come together to learn, to share, and to grow.”

We have two meetings each month, special speakers, a block library, a chat forum, training videos, free patterns, sew-alongs, live Zoom quilt chats and more!
The Joyful and Merry Community Quilt Guild will open registration again on August 1st and we would LOVE to have you join our guild.
https://www.joyfulandmerryquilting.com/guildreopenreplay

Here's the latest guild news and reminders:

NEW GUILD NEWS: Guild members receive a 15% discount on all patterns and courses on our website. Go the the Guild Resource Page for the code!

GUILD MEETING SHOW AND TELL: If you have something to “Show and/or Tell” at our Guild Meeting, please send a good quality photo(s) to [email protected] before September 30th (for our October 3rd meeting) and I will add you to the schedule. It’s difficult to show our quilts at our live Guild Zoom meeting, due to lighting, space, etc., so we will screen share the photos and then call on the guild member submitting the photos to give us the details during the meeting. Don’t be shy! We would love to share in your joy as you show share your creativity with the guild! Photos must be submitted in advance just to make sure we have enough time allotted for those members who will be sharing. I’m sure we all agree that being able to show our quilts “up close and personal” via Zoom is something unique to our guild. I will look forward to receiving your entries for our next meeting!

SEPTEMBER SCHEDULE: Don’t forget to register for the Zoom, as always. Links will be available on our Guild Resource Page as soon as they are scheduled. You will also be emailed with the links as well.

September 5: The recording for our Guild Meeting featuring Caroline Embleton presenting "The Panguitch Quilt Walk" is now available on our Guild Resource Page.
September 12: Block Training Videos Released by 5PM CDT
September 19: Guild Meeting at 11am CDT: New (free) pattern release and tutorial: Variation on Mary's Triangles
September 26: Extra Guild Meeting Sew-A-Long

Guild Membership officially re-opened last night with a limited number of slots available! Please invite your friends to join us! An email will be sent out today with replay and registration details.

SAMPLER BLOCKS OF THE MONTH CHALLENGE: 
The Sampler Block of the month, Block 8: "The Big Dipper" and Block 9: “King's Crown Block” have been added to our Guild Block Library, and the training videos for blocks 8 and 9 will be available today on the Guild Resource Page by 5pm CDT! You are welcome to make the block using the PDF, but if you would like step-by-step instruction, you will need to wait until the 2nd Thursday of next month when the training is available.

*GUILD REMINDERS*
 The following is general information that is posted in each newsletter as a helpful guide and resource for our guild members.

CALENDAR:
Just a reminder – all of the Joyful and Merry Quilting Community Guild Meeting Zoom Links are available on the Guild Resource Page of the joyfulandmerryquilting.com website. You MUST register ahead of time in order to participate in the meeting, by clicking on the link.

EXTRA GUILD MEETINGS:
Our next “EXTRA” guild meeting will be held at 7pm CDT on September 26th. Pre-Meeting Chat opens at 6:30pm CDT. Bring a project to work on! If you're working on the Outdoor Oasis Picnic and Beach Quilt, you're welcome to work on it or pick something else! It's totally up to you!

JOYFUL AND MERRY QUILTING COMMUNITY CARE CORNER: 
This will be a spot in our newsletter for members to share their needs and concerns, whether they're related to health, personal challenges, celebrations, etc. It will be a place where we can support and care for one another, share joys and struggles, and provide encouragement to each other regardless of our beliefs or backgrounds. We want it to remain a place of inclusivity while still fostering a sense of community and support within the guild. In this spirit, let’s turn our attention to those in our community in need of some extra support right now:

We don't have any submissions for our Care Corner this week. If you would like to post in our Community Care Corner, simply send your "Community Care Corner Request" (on sentence) to [email protected] and I will post it in the newsletter. You can post it anonymously or add your name - totally up to you.


RECORDED MEETINGS:
Our most recent guild meeting from last week has been added to the Guild Resource Page. Please keep in mind that our recorded meetings will only be available for 3 months or until we run out of room on our Zoom Account, whichever comes first. So, if you missed a meeting, be sure to watch the recorded version ASAP, so you don’t miss out.

WEBSITE MONTHLY TABS:
Once we move into a new month, we will have a tab that will take you to the archived files from previous months…just in case there’s something you want to review. Depending on how often our members access this feature will decide the length of time the previous months will be available. We hope you enjoy this feature!

GUILD MEETING TIMES AND MISSED MEETINGS:
We want to make sure you take note of this information. We are still having members access the meetings at the wrong time, and accidentally missing out on the guild and quilting fun.

TIME ZONES: Please keep in mind that our Guild Meeting Times are listed in CENTRAL DAYLIGHT TIME. If you live in another time zone, make sure you double check (and triple check) the guild time and then adjust it to accommodate for your time zone. We continue to have members join our guild meetings an hour or two early or an hour or two late and in the process, miss the actual meeting. The meetings are recorded, but if you want to join the meeting LIVE, please make sure you have the guild time adjusted to YOUR particular time zone. 

CHAT SESSIONS: If you have time, please join us half an hour before our guild meetings for our Guild's Community Chat sessions: 6:30pm CDT for evenings and 10:30am CDT for daytime meetings. This is such a fun time getting to know each other and I hope you’ll join us when you can. Please note that entering before the designated time strains our recording time allotment, so we have instituted a waiting room where members will be admitted to the meeting once the host is there and the chat session opens.

JOYFUL AND MERRY COMMUNITY GUILD FOUNDING MEMBER CHAT FORUM: 

We have been enjoying our Community Chat Forum! It's a great alternative to Facebook, where all guild members are included in the chat. Here's how to get to the Chat Forum (or you can click here):

1.   Go to the joyfulandmerryquilting.comwebsite
2.   Click on your “LIBRARY”
3.   Click on the “JOYFUL AND MERRY COMMUNITY QUILT GUILD FOUNDING MEMBER”
4.   Click on “FEED” and you will be taken to the Chat.  You can post pictures, questions, comments, etc.  It’s a great place to get to know our Founding Members and share our love of quilting!
5. If you would like to offer your support for any of our guild members listed in the Community Care Corner, you are welcome to do so in our Chat Forum.

EMAIL PREFERENCES: 

Important: Guild Membership is Non-Refundable
Please do not mark any guild emails as SPAM or unsubscribe from them. Since this is a virtual group, email, Zoom, and our website are the primary ways to stay involved. Unsubscribing or marking emails as SPAM removes you from the email list, and by law, we cannot reverse this action. 

Some members who have marked our emails as SPAM or unsubscribed have requested a refund, which we cannot provide. All information sent via email is also available on our website's resource page. If you prefer not to receive emails, you can still access all guild information, links, patterns, etc., by visiting joyfulandmerryquilting.com and clicking on “Library,” then the Guild tab. 

Some members still experience issues with not receiving emails. The most common problems are unsubscribing, your email provider sending our emails to your spam folder, recipients marking emails as SPAM, or using different email addresses for the guild and newsletter subscriptions. Please email [email protected] if you continue to have issues with email and we will do our best to help you remedy the situation. 

Please be very careful with emails from joyfulandmerryquilting.com through our Kajabi email service. If you no longer wish to receive them, simply delete them. Do not unsubscribe unless you intend to. By law, we cannot re-add you to our email list, and you will no longer receive any correspondence from us. If you label our emails as SPAM, your email address will be permanently removed from our list. 

Additionally, if you forward our emails and the new recipient clicks Unsubscribe or marks them as Spam, your email address (not theirs) will be removed from our list. We understand mistakes happen, but some cannot be corrected. Please be careful. Thank you!
 

That's it for this newsletter! Have a joyful and merry week of quilting!

All of our archived Joyful and Merry Quilting Newsletters can now be found in the Blog Section of our website! Many have requested a place to access all previous newsletter releases. Head over to https://www.joyfulandmerryquilting.com/blog and you'll find them all as they're released! The weekly newsletter is released on Thursdays.

ANSWERS to this week’s PATCHWORK PUZZLERS:

1. True – Quilting cotton is commonly woven using a plain weave.
2. False – Some fabrics, like yarn-dyed fabrics, are dyed before the fabric is woven.
3. True – Batik fabrics are indeed made using the wax-resist dyeing technique.
4. False – Mercerization uses a caustic soda (alkaline) treatment, not acid, to strengthen and add luster to cotton fibers.

5. False – High-quality quilting cotton typically has a thread count of around 60 to 75 threads
   per centimeter, not per inch. (That's about 150 to 200 threads per inch.)