January 2026
January 2026 Newsletter
See You Tuesday!
Calvary United Methodist Church
575 W. Northfield Dr, Brownsburg.
Our meetings will take place in the Fellowship Hall, with plenty of parking available for everyone. Please enter through the main entrance.
Please join us at 6:30pm for a bit of fellowship time and refreshments.
The meeting will begin at 7pm.
From Our President
Happy New Year, Quilters!
I hope everyone had a joyful holiday season and found some time to relax, recharge, and maybe even sneak in a little sewing time. January always feels like a fresh start — a chance to begin new projects, revisit old ones, and set creative goals for the year ahead.
As we kick off the new year, I’m excited about what’s coming up for our guild. We have new Challenges, a new Block of the Month, and new Programs planned for 2026, all designed to inspire creativity, learning, and fun. I hope you’ll jump in and participate! We are also always open to new ideas, so please feel free to share suggestions or thoughts with the board at any time.
I would like to extend a special thank you to Kristi Slinkard, who has stepped up to serve as Vice President for 2026. We truly appreciate her willingness to volunteer and support the guild. We are still looking for someone to volunteer as our Secretary, and if you’re interested or would like more information, please reach out — we would love to have you join the leadership team.
Thank you to all our members who give their time and talents to keep our guild thriving. Your generosity, creativity, and fellowship are what make this group such a wonderful community.
I’m looking forward to seeing everyone at our January meeting and starting another great year of quilting together. Here’s to a year filled with beautiful quilts, new ideas, and strong friendships.
Happy quilting,
Sandy Beard
Volunteer Time
Indiana Heritage Quilt Show
Our guild needs to provide volunteers for this show which then allows us to sell raffle tickets and earn money for future programs. Please read the following notice to get information and sign up as a volunteer.
We’re heading into a new year and a new Indiana Heritage Quilt Show coming up in March. We need your help. Many of you volunteer year after year, and some volunteer for multiple shifts at each show. It’s hard to find words to express our gratitude for your generosity of time and enthusiasm, so I’ll just say THANK YOU from me personally and from all of us on the IHQS Board.
We are using Signup Genius again this year to register volunteers. There are 150 date/times that we need to fill. We want to give past volunteers first choice of dates and times. The link to volunteer is below. You’ll receive an email confirmation after you signup.
Remember, volunteers receive a free pass to the show for each shift worked.
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0C4FAAA629ABF58-61135764-2026
We hope you will join us in 2026 for another great show--March 5-7
Programs and Workshops
January Program
Birthday Bash
Come get some relief from the cold and share in a great night of fellowship with our guild’s members! There will be friends, there will be cake, there will be games, there will be prizes! What else can you ask for???
Committee Activities
Block of the Month
Linda Cook
Now is the time to start the blocks for the 2026 Block of the Month! We will be using the book 100 Modern Quilt Blocks (Tula Pink’s City Sampler) and will be completing 7-10 blocks per month. The number of blocks per month will depend on whether you plan to make one of the smaller quilts that require 64-70 blocks or one of the larger quilts at 100 blocks. Bring the first set of blocks to the February meeting so everyone can see the beauty you have created!
February 2026
Trellis Quilt (p.228) - Complete any 7 of blocks 1-10
Skyline Quilt (p.234) or Sliding Scale (p.250) - Complete any 7 of blocks 1-10
Gridlock and City Planner quilts (pp.240-249) - Complete all ten of blocks 1-10
A complete schedule for the year can be found on the Scrapbasket Quilt Guild website along with information about purchasing the book if you haven’t already done so. Let me know if you have any questions.
Challenges
Beth Archer
Scrapbasket members....we are bringing back the great UFO challenges. Maybe your 2026 New Year's resolution is to finish more projects... and if that is the case we are committed to keeping you on task. For 2026, we will be working to complete all the wonderful UFO's in our stash. You know... those projects that we just knew we would have time to complete but then we got distracted by another great project. Or those projects that we started and then fell 'out of love' with for a whole host of reasons. Let's pull them out and commit to a year of FINISHED projects. Each month bring one or more projects to show off your work. For each completed project your name will go into the "End-of-the-Year" drawing. At the January meeting, you can pick up the Challenge Calendar. Bring it each month to get a stamp of completion. Suggested project ideas have been provided for each month, but feel free to go rogue and work on the project most important to you.
January theme is a Christmas project. This might be the project that you intended to get done for 2025 (or 2024 or 2023 or...) OR it might be the project you received as a gift and are anxious to complete.
Let's get started on keeping our 2026 Challenges.
Look at what 2 of our members accomplished during the 2025 Block of the Month and Challenges:
Cheer
Rhonda Nelson
If you know of any Scrapbasket member needing a little cheer, please let Rhonda Nelson know. She will be happy to send a card from all of us. Thank you.
Donation Quilts
Cindi Johnson
If anyone made quilt donations last year and did not sign a post it note, please do so when you come in to the January meeting. I will have blank notes by the donation bin. There will be a thank you gift drawing at the meeting.
For any of you who are new to the guild, we welcome gifts of quilts small and large, baby, child and adult, Quilted Hugs, and also completed quilt tops that are not quilted yet. Also if you have yardage to donate it can be used to make backing for unfinished quilts. I donate to nursing homes, Quilts for Kids, Project Linus, Anchor of Hope Hospice. If anyone has any specific nursing homes or organizations they would like a quilt to go to, please let me know as I am not in Hendricks County.
Have a Quilty New Year!
Cindi Johnson
Quilts of Valor
Three Quilts of Valor are now out for quilting with our generous long-arm quilting volunteers…thank you so much! We still have one more completed log cabin quilt top ready for quilting. If you are interested in helping with this, please contact one of us or see us at the meeting. We can reimburse the thread cost with funds from our budget.
Bonnie Miller made a Quilt of Valor for a friend of her husband. It was awarded to Bob T. at Brownsburg Meadows on November 29, 2025
“Echoes” was selected as the QOVF Block of 2026. We will have some block kits available for piecing at the January meeting. Please pick one up if you would like to help construct our first quilt of the year.
These blocks will be added to a panel we purchased from the organization commemorating our nation’s semiquincentennial anniversary. We have two of these panels that we plan to complete as shown below.
We look forward to seeing what we can all create together this year to honor our veterans!
Your QOV co-chairs are:
Information is also available at the QOV website: https://www.qovf.org/.
2026 Raffle Quilt Update
Our black and multi-colored raffle quilt is almost complete, with the binding soon to be finished. We’re excited to share that our goal is to have both raffle quilts on display at the Indiana Heritage Quilt Show in Bloomington, IN, March 5–7.
In order to sell raffle tickets at the show, we must have volunteers to “work” the quilt show on our behalf. Volunteers who work the show will receive free admission to the quilt show — a great perk!
We will also need volunteers to sell raffle tickets during the show. Please visit our website for the volunteer sign-up link. Your help is essential, and we truly appreciate everyone who can lend their time to support this important fundraiser.
Show and Tell
Info
Member to Member
This is an opportunity for you to list quilting items/supplies/patterns that you no longer want.
Submit a list/description to the monthly newsletter by the Tuesday the week before the meeting to newslettereditor@scrapbasket.org
Email your info included in the body of the message or as an editable attachment, like Word (not a PDF). No hard copies, please.
Any pictures should be in .jpg format and attached to the email,
Include your preferred contact information. Anyone who is interested can contact you and arrange a pickup.
Guild Documents
Please visit the password-protected Members section of the website for the following information:
Meeting Minutes
Treasurer's Reports
Membership Roster
Beelet Roster
Facebook
If you wish to follow the guild on Social Media, you can! Simply search for "Scrapbasket" on Facebook and you'll find a Page and a Closed Group. Follow our Page and Group for event notices, too. Simply request to “Join” the group, and one of the Administrators will accept you.
The Group is really just for members or close friends of our Guild. The Page is a great way to make us visible to the public...and future Guild members!
