23 | September | 2024

Happy Autumn!

Our first in-person meeting since June was held on Saturday September 21, at the First Lutheran Church in Montclair with 38 members and 2 guests in attendance. Welcome back everyone!

QuiltCon 2025

Registration woes have been sorted out.
October 31st deadline for quilt entries. Get those quilts finished!
Volunteer sign-ups opened September 19th.

QuiltCon Community Outreach Quilt

Thanks to the members who gathered at Paula’s house to create the block kits which were ALL distributed at this meeting! Yay!

To those who picked up kits, it’s not necessary to trim your blocks, and please leave the paper on the back.

October 19th Completed blocks are due at the in-person meeting.

MidMod 2025 April 4-6 2025

As a sponsoring guild, 10 spots are reserved for our members to access early registration. NJMQG will hold a lottery to award those 10 spots, and an email with a link to the sign up form was sent to members on September 23rd. Winners pay NJMQG $35 to get their early access code.

Early registration: Monday October 7th at 7 pm through Monday October 14th at 7 pm.
General registration: Sunday, November 3rd at 7 pm.

Due to rising costs of the hotel space and, well, everything, we do have a price increase for MOD 2025. The early bird registration fee is $315 and the general registration (for those that do not receive early bird pricing) is $365. General registration spots sell out quickly!

Holiday Party – seeking volunteers

Our annual Holiday Party will be on Saturday December 7th, 11a-3p.
We need a few volunteers to help plan, organize, and execute including menu, activity, setup, cleanup, etc. Please contact Ann.

Programs

Pockets-to-Go Swap

Over a dozen pockets-to-go bags were joyfully exchanged! Nice work everyone!

Bee Block Party

When you sign up for the bee, you will choose a type of block you want to make as well as a color scheme you would like for your quilt. You will be split into groups, then you will make the same 12 inch quilt block for each member of your bee, in their preferred colorway with fabrics from your stash. Your completed blocks will be distributed to all the members of your bee and everyone should have enough to create their own quilt top.

All completed blocks should be 12″ x 12″ finished (12.5″ x 12.5″ unfinished).
Saturday September 28th Sign ups end.
Sunday September 29th Group assignments go out.
Saturday November 16, 2024 Completed blocks due at the in-person meeting.

Next meetings

Saturday October 19 – In-person 11a-1p at the First Lutheran Church of Montclair.

Outreach Quilt blocks due
New name tag if you’re working on a swap with someone.
Show & Tell!

Saturday November 16 – in person meeting

Saturday December 7 – in-person Holiday Party

Other Good Stuff Happening

Montclair Fiber Arts Club – register through Lifelong Montclair to join this group with your needlework at Edgemont Park House 290 Valley Road every other Wednesday 10a-12p.

Hunterdon Art Museum – 7 Lower Center Street Clinton, NJ 08809, Unblocked: Improvisation and Identity in Contemporary Quilts, now through January 12th, 2025.

Featuring Elizabeth Brandt, Zak Foster, Coulter Fussell, Chawne Kimber, Basil Kincaid, Kwesi O. Kwarteng, Krystle Lemonias, Sarah Nishiura, our own Melanie Tuazon, and Sherri Lynn Wood.

Unblocked brings together a diverse group of artists whose quilts tell stories, express identity, celebrate community, further social justice, and engage in formal design and color investigations. Comfortable with improvisation, these artists use materials that are readily available—often discarded or donated clothing and domestic textiles—and work intuitively, without a structured plan.

Quilts in the Mill – Prallsville Mills – 33 Risler Street (Route 29), Stockton, NJ 08559, Confetti of Color sponsored by Courthouse Quilters Guild, Friday-Sun September 27-29th 2024.

On Fri and Sat, our own Jo Ann Lepore will be signing her newly published book, Picture Patchwork.

Clifton Quilters Guild – October 17 bus trip to Poconos.

Stars of the Valley Quilt Show – Sanfordville Elementary School 144 Sanfordville Road, Warwick, New York, Saturday-Sunday, October 19 & 20, sponsored by Warwick Valley Quilters.

At 1p Saturday, Melanie Tuazon will be giving a lecture Planned and Unplanned: Design and Improv in Piecing

Show & Tell

Post-meeting FMQ Workshop

Jackie and Samantha led this terrific informative class on free-motion quilting, with a ton packed into a few hours. Good job everyone! Practice, practice, practice!