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Old 09-05-2015, 02:00 PM
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Got an email from NQA they are calling it quits. So sad.😢
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Old 09-05-2015, 02:41 PM
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What is NQA? I'm assuming National Quilting Association? What were they involved in?
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Old 09-05-2015, 05:47 PM
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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.
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Old 09-06-2015, 07:33 AM
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Another organization dissolves. Yes, they were a great support of quilt guilds.
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Old 09-06-2015, 08:00 AM
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They sited poor attendance to the shows as one reason.
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Old 09-06-2015, 09:14 PM
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I know they were different, but perhaps there was too much similarity/conflict/competition with the American Quilters Society which I believe was larger?

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Old 09-07-2015, 12:16 AM
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The website NQAquilts.org is still up and promoting shows through 2017.
Wonder what is real.
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Old 09-07-2015, 01:10 AM
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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/
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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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The show at AR was very good but the attendance was very low. There was no advertising of the show at all. If I hadn't been a member of the NQA I would not have know it was in AR. I got the impression from vendors that they were very disappointed in the turn out, their booth fees were high and most traveled a long distance. The area guilds didn't know in time to get buses arranged for groups. It was lack of organization and leadership for sure.
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