Got an email from NQA they are calling it quits. So sad.😢
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Got an email from NQA they are calling it quits. So sad.😢
What is NQA? I'm assuming National Quilting Association? What were they involved in?
Got the email, too. I went to their show in Columbus a few years ago. It is a shame that they are having to dissolve. There were benefits to guilds that were NQA members such as breaks on insurance when holding a quilt show. I enjoyed their magazine, too.
Our guild always attended the Columbus show and loved it. The dates kept changing and finally it was held over Memorial Day weekend in Columbus, so no one was able to attend. In checking the vendors ahead of time for the last show there were a handful, mostly selling sewing machines. (I actually had withdrawal !)
So sad there was so much infighting in NQA. My father had a saying, "Big frog in little puddle".
Another organization dissolves. Yes, they were a great support of quilt guilds.
A Good Friend, like an old quilt, is both a Treasure and a Comfort
They sited poor attendance to the shows as one reason.
I love my life!
I know they were different, but perhaps there was too much similarity/conflict/competition with the American Quilters Society which I believe was larger?
Jan in VA
Jan in VA
Living in the foothills
peacefully colors my world.
The website NQAquilts.org is still up and promoting shows through 2017.
Wonder what is real.
This is from their FB page - a link to a newsletter explaining it all. So sad. I was a member for years.....
http://www.nqaquilts.org/current/newsletter/
I volunteered at Columbus for many years and joined at the shows. When they announced they where moving to Arkansas due to infighting, I didn't rejoin. There where some with superior attitudes involved. Pity loved it.
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