Minutes from October 2025 meeting and 2026 calendar

 Meeting was held at the Albany County Fairgrounds Extension office meeting room Saturday October 18.

We welcomed Cathy Wissner to our meeting.  She saw our show in August and found us that way.

We discussed the calendar for 2026.  The theme for 2026 is “Fun in the Making”.  Since we spent so much time getting ready for the show in 2025, it’s time for fun!  After much discussion we came up with a calendar with lots of different demos and playing.

Cathy is a representative for SW WY at the WY state quilt guild.  The state retreat is July 8-12.  She also noted that LCCC in Laramie is also a place to be able to hold classes.

We did discuss having a nationally known teacher for the upcoming year.  If anyone knows of a teacher that might work well, let us know.  Although it is getting late to be able to secure a spot in someone’s calendar.  Another option mentioned by Cathy is that Cynthia England is going to be at the WY state guild retreat.  She might be an option to hire to teach a class since she will already be in WY.

We will be having challenges again in 2026!  We are now calling them experiments, because they should be fun not “challenging”.  Barbara and Joan will be in charge of coming up with ideas for the experiments.  The first one will be given at the January meeting.

NOTE:  Since the meeting, Ashley has had something come up where she won’t be here in July for Dye Days.  So we have decided to switch it to June.   Dye days will be June 19-20th.

Barbara said she went to the Avenir Museum in Fort Collins and they currently have a great exhibit of Christmas stockings.  They were very creative and were lovely.

Cathy mentioned that a good resource for felting and natural dyeing would be Izzy Anderson from Glenrock.  We will be trying to connect with her to get more info.

It was also mentioned as a reminder that the dues for 2026 LAQ will be $25 and due in January.