For the Northern Lights Quilt Guild near the Turtle Mountains of North Dakota. Ours was planned during our Dec meeting, which is the first thursday of the month.
We had a couple things that we started this last couple of years while I was president, one was UFO challenge. We started in January and we complete as many items of UFO's, PHD's or WIP. Then by the end of November, they are totaled up and the Queen of UFO's is chosen and then the next 2 places are drawn out of a hat for her "princesses". This year, our secretary/newletter chairman, her and her husband made wooden crowns that can sit on your shelf with the glued on rubies, diamonds and crystals and such. Just way to cute. I just happen to be "princess #2. I got 14 UFO items completely done and the Queen, got 21 items done. I had 3 King size quilts on my list.
The other new item we did this year was had a "secret quilting pal" Through out the year, we would send various gifts and trinkets and such to our secret pal. The Secret Pal" reveal was also done at our christmas party. But before you could open your christmas present from the secret pal, you had to guess whom it was....if you didn't guess, then you put a quarter in the coin can and it moved to the next person. They had a blast with this.
We also did an ornament exchange between each other and it was "one for one" and most were hand made this year.
We meet at the LQS in their back "classroom" area at 6pm for finger foods and desserts, then at 7pm we had a short meeting to finish up the year and then did our Christmas party.
This was my last meeting with them, fore then I was finally leaving to live at our new house on the Prairies of the Dakota's.
I have been invited to attend the Prairie Quilters Christmas party in January. They do it then, because everyone is "sew" busy in December. So I will give an update on how they do things. I am just tickled to get an "invite" to attend. Need to bring an "ornament" for exchange and a finger food.
We "quilters know how to party"...