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July 4, 2017

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June 2017 Meeting Recap!

hey friends! Hope everyone is having a wonderful summer so far! Few announcements below!

• Welcome to the new board!!! Sarah Fader as Programs, Aubrey Cece as Secretary, Lori Beitler as Treasurer, Kathy Morganroth as Vice President, and Margy Shilling as President!!!

• Our Not a raffle raffle was amazing!!!! All the prize money will be going to Interfaith Hospitality Network which was I believe was $800! That’s amazing!! & look who won our birth year quilt! Yay Anne!

• Melanie will be teaching at QuiltCon in Pasadena! Click the link for more info!

•Urban Sewciety will be giving 15% off to all members of the quilt guild.

•Kelly Chladil has a sign up sheet for those who would like to participate in making a basket or items to put into baskets for the Rainbow baby fundraiser. She will be collecting these items from now- September. You can make these items or buy them. Please see her/email her for more details.

• Sign up with Aleeda for the Craft Yard Sale July 22 (or the 29th as a raindate?).

• Member-Led Workshops are open for registration. Click the links below to read about them and to register! *(PDF of NJMQG Programs here for June ! & we will have a handout at the meeting)*
July: Paper Piecing Workshop with Betsy Vinegrad
July: Embracing Negative Space Workshop with Daniela Di Iorio
August: Indigo/Shibori Dying & Cyanotype/Photogram Workshop with Sarah Scott
September: Noodlehead Market Bag Workshop with Michelle Reiter
October: Trill Workshop with Melanie Tuazon
November: Nuno Felted Scarf Workshop with Josie Dakers

Bee Blocks!

Khrisma’s Trunk Show!

Older Swap Redo’s, Name tag swapping, & Show & Tell!

It has been such a pleasure being the secretary for you guys!! ❤ I now will pass the baton to Aubrey! 🙂

See you at the next meeting!

-Kourtney

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May 2017 Meeting Recap!

hey all!

First off, we did a member tally and drum roll…. 89 members! WHATTTTTT!!! that’s pretty amazing.

• NJMQG Board Nominees have been posted to the Members Only page. Elections will be held at our meeting on Thursday, June 15th. Forgot or need the password to the Members Only page? Contact us at njmqginfo at gmail dot com.

• Our Volunteer Form has been updated. Click here! You know you want to! 🙂

• Did you sign up for the One Hour Basket Swap with the Central Jersey MQG? Be sure to bring it to our June meeting.

• Timna Tarr is coming to visit NJMQG June 16 & 17 for a Lecture and a Workshop! (workshop is sold out)

THE LECTURE
Join us for a lecture with award winning quilter, Timna Tarr where she will be discussing her process as well as color theory.

Date: June 16, 2017
Time: 7pm – 9pm
Location: Community Church of Cedar Grove – 65 Bowden Rd. Cedar Grove, NJ
Cost: NJMQG members, free // all others $5
RSVP: Click this link to RSVP for the lecture

Look at all the pouches that were made!! ❤

Bee Blocks!

Josie’s Trunk Show!!!

Show & Tell!

-See you on June 15th!!

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January 24, 2017

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January Meeting Recap!

hey all! The QuiltCon charity quilt looks amazing! A huge thanks to all who volunteered to help make this happen! 🙂 You’ve all done an amazing job!

here’s some info and reminders below:

The Modern Quilt Guild has introduced its “modern monthly!’ It’s a monthly newsletter dedicated to things like, quilt of the month, block of the month, webinars, articles, interviews, etc. To gain access to these you must be a paid member.
Quiltfest is coming up March 2-5! We have about 23-24 quilts to put into the show! SO exciting! A form will be available soon for all to see the beautiful quilts. If you would like to help curate how they hang, help to set up or take down the exhibit, you can volunteer by emailing njmqginfo at gmail dot com.
There is a fabric challenge coming up by Kaffe Fassett for FreeSpirit fabrics called, “I am an Artisan .” Make a quilt, and possibly have it picked by Kaffe himself along with tons of different prizes! The quilt must be at least 80% artisan and the rest can be anything you would like to pair it with. The deadline is in June. Click the link for more info & you can look up examples by using the #artisanchallenge on instagram.
Feb. 4th is Amy’s Betty Bowler Bag class! Make sure you have your supplies! It’s coming up 🙂
All info for the Bee blocks has been emailed to the appropriate hives!
Our February swap is the cross back apron ! SO much fun! Click the link to sign up and for more info. The brown bag mini quilt swap will be after this one 🙂
Don’t forget to mark your calendars Timna Tarr is coming to town! She will do her lecture Friday, June 16th, and her map workshop will be Saturday, June 17th at our regular meeting location.
Our garment district adventure will be rescheduled! Stayed tuned for more info!

Thanks Liz for the Artisan presentation! We are excited for the challenge.

QuiltCon Charity Quilt!

Lovely ladies hard at work ripping the papers 🙂 ❤

Some of the Hawaiian Appliqué blocks from Diane’s class!

Aleeda’s Quilty Tips!!

Aleeda’s got some awesome quilty tips to share with all of us!

For rulers, threads, & cutters- you must first take inventory of what you have! Organize the rulers by shapes and use a peg board with a pipe cleaner to hold them all together. Aleeda uses an “omnigrid” bag that she got from JoAnn’s that she highly recommends.
For circle rulers, use a belt holder to keep them together and organized.
Thread can be stored in pencil cases/boxes. (which I believe she got from staples/office depot) She suggests organizing them by the type of thread they are. For example “Aurifil, Polyester, Metallic, etc.”
She keeps her bobbins secure by using the “donut” bobbin holder.
She uses a magnetic bar to hold her other tools such as scissors, [put a LOCK on them if you have some sneaky hands in the house :)] you can purchase them from IKEA, & harbor freight.

Show & Tell!