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Meetings The
upcoming NF meeting is Hospitality The Hospitality Committee depends on members to volunteer one month at a time to bring desserts and drinks for the luncheon following the guild meeting. At these luncheons, we serve sandwiches and salad for just $4. Volunteering as a hostess for one month is a wonderful way to give back to the guild and share your favorite desserts with us all. A signup sheet is available at the meeting. Hostess volunteers should bring a dessert (we all especially love homemade desserts) and two 2-liter bottles of soda, and arrive at 9:15am to help set up before the meeting. After lunch, volunteers stay and help clean up and put the supplies away. It goes very quickly when everyone pitches in. The committee has 3 co-chairs who take turns each month to keep things running smoothly. For 2011-2012, the chairs are Rainie Broad, Beverly Ferrell, and Cathy Berman. Feel free to contact any of us with questions, suggestions, or to volunteer. The luncheons are a great way to catch up with old friends and make new ones. Please stay after the guild meeting for good food and good company. Hostesses and Lunch, please click here. Nimble Fingers meet the first Wednesday of the month at 10:00 AM at the Potomac Community Center, 11315 Falls Rd., Potomac, MD.Directions: from 270, exit Falls Road to Potomac, Community Center is on left about 1/2 mile past Glen Rd. Map to the Potomac Community Center 2012 Speakers-Workshops Feb. 1 - Our February lecture will take you to a new dimension when Eileen Doughty from Virginia discusses her techniques for “Three Dimensional Thread Sculpture.” Visit her web site at www.doughtydesigns.com to see these gorgeous creations. March 7 - Jennifer Amor is known for her beautiful and functional patterns and she will share her knowledge with us in her lecture entitled “Wearable Art?!” and in her full day workshop on March 8. You will make your own customized “Pop Top Jacket.” Check out www.jenniferamor.com. April 4 - Chris Meyers from Fil-Tec Industries will visit us to talk about his company’s threads, bobbins and other specialty products for quilters. Visit www.bobbincentral.com to learn about Fil-Tec, located here in Maryland. The April meeting will also offer members a chance to recycle their unused, like new quilting and sewing supplies in our Yard Sale. The Nimble Fingers Annual Meeting and Election of Officers also will take place. May 2 - Nimble Fingers is delighted to welcome Pat Ferguson from Connecticut to our May meeting to lecture about her method of Zen Quilting. She will teach two workshops for us, a half day on May 2 from 1-4 PM on the creative doodling phenomenon called Zentangle and a full day class on Thursday, May 3 about translating those Zen doodles into free motion quilting. Her web site is www.patfergusonquilts.com or visit www.zentangle.com to learn more about this art form. June 6 - Nimble Fingers is delighted to welcome Ellen Anne Eddy to our June meeting to lecture to explore the elements of design to make nature quilts that move and that move you. The design concepts are easy to understand and so much fun. You'll see how to build a path through your quilt that feeds the eye and the soul. The lecture focuses on taking geometric forms, translating them to organic shapes and creating nature quilts that live, move and breathe. She will teach a workshop for us on Thursday, June 7 using a 12" square project with most the design decisions made for you gives you the time and space to focus on learning technique and finishing what you’ve started. Make a great bobbin work dragonfly in this quick and easy class. Her web site is www.ellenanneeddy.com/For further information on any Nimble Fingers program, please contact Susan Sellers, program chair at sjsellers@aol.com.
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