Here we are in 2010. (BTW - do you say "Twenty Ten" or  "Two Thousand Ten"?) Amazing to think that we are already a full decade into the New Millennium! The biggest news Meander Publishing had in 2009 was merging our two magazines, Machine Quilting Unlimited and Unlimited Possibilities. We believe that we now can focus our attention on giving you the best all-around machine quilting information available. We began the process to upgrade our website and are continuing to add features that you asked for. Recently we added a Guild Reference Guide to our links page. This is helpful to folks who may be new to an area and looking for a guild to join, or even someone who has lived in the area forever, but doesn't know how to contact a local guild. Please, if your guild is not listed, let us know! It does require having a web access, either a website or a blog site. Just email Liz (liz@meanderpublishing.com) and she will add your information to the file. We are also in the process of adding articles from past issues for you to access. We hope to add video streaming sometime this year as well. Clips from your favorite quilt artists and writers may be just the ticket to help you through any dilemma you may have while machine quilting.

Another promise we made to ourselves is to quilt more! The Editors and a select group of quilt artists from Colorado are currently in a challenge called "Pass It On". This is similar to the Whisper Quilts you may have seen on the web and elsewhere. We have two groups of six quilters each. Starting with a photograph, the first quilter creates a quilt from the photo. She then passes her quilt on to the next quilter , but NOT the photo. The second quilter uses the first quilt for inspiration and produces her own quilt based on any element of the previous quilt, passing hers on to number 3, but NOT sharing the inspiration quilt, and so on. By the time it reaches the sixth quilter, the subject matter has usually changed enough that if you show the original picture, the finished quilt is unrecognizable as having any relationship to it! When these series of quilts are completed, we will publish them in MQU. We have also offered the twelve quilts as a special exhibit to quilt shows in 2010.

Do you have a challenge within your quilt group? We would be interested to hear about unique ways you all are working together.

We are working on many more ideas to make the website user friendly as well. If you have a thought about something you would like to see, be sure to drop us a line. You can always reach me at vicki@meanderpublishing.com.

HAPPY NEW DECADE!

Vicki Anderson, Executive Editor

Comments

• Hi Karen... The new Millennium started Jan 1, 2000, and we have now reached ten years...that's a decade in my book! We could argue all day about it. I, myself, felt that the new Millennium should have been 2001, but the powers that be decreed otherwise. So, we are starting a new decade with 2010.
  by Vicki Anderson on 03 January 2010 at 7:11 p.m.
• Sorry, the decade isn't over until the END of 2010. The new decade starts on Jan. 1 of 2011.
  by Karen Shively on 03 January 2010 at 6:31 p.m.

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