Welcome to Summer! Hope you are staying cool while making fabulous quilts! There were 46 in attendance on our Zoom call and we welcomed a guest, Suzanne Fiorvanti.

Here’s the recap of our latest guild meeting.

Guild Business

Congratulations!! The following members are making waves in the quilting world by being featured and honored in several ways.

• Jeanine Bowen, Wanetta Phillips and Ellaree Pray, currently have quilts featured in The Social Fabric: Black Artistry in Fiber Arts, An Exhibition in Homage to Viki Craig at the Morris Museum in Morristown.
• The National Quilt Museum in Paducah, KY is showcasing Lenny van Eijk’s quilt “Pandemonium” in their Quarantine Quilts: Creativity in the Midst of Chaos Exhibit; and Betsy Vinegrad’s “Mod Blocks 2.0” in Modern Quilt Guild Retrospective Exhibit.
• Simply Moderne Magazine featured in their latest issue our group Community Outreach Quilt for Quiltcon 2021 designed by Lenny van Eijk and quilted by Krishma Patel.
• Curated Quilts Magazine in issue #16 shipping in July, will feature an article by Melanie Tuazon, a pattern and a mini by Betsy Vinegrad, and two mini challenge submissions, by Crista Bresnahan and Jackie Laba.
• Vermont Quilt Festival declared “Azulejos” by Betsy Vinegrad as Best of Show.

Return to In-Person Meetings

We are excited to share with you that starting in September, we will return to in-person guild meetings at the Community Church of Cedar Grove. We are also working on details to continue to simulcast the meetings on Zoom.

Be sure to check out all the happenings that are going on over at the Modern Quilt Guild and Quiltcon 2022. It’s time to put your design caps on and work up a design in “Angles” for our Community Outreach Quilt for 2022. Collaborate or work independently on a pattern for this design contest in the color palette above. We will be looking for your submissions in August!

There are two other challenges for Quiltcon 2022. American Patchwork and Quilting is running a hexagon challenge. Also, there is the 2022 Artisan Cotton Fabric Challenge from Windham Fabrics. Click on the links above to find more information.

Board Elections

The vote was swift and unanimous!

These women including Lenny van Eijk, continuing as Treasurer, begin their term at the July member meeting. Best wishes to those starting and thanks to those leaving the board.

Programs

Zipper Demo Due to technical issues we were unable to do the zipper demo with Daniella, but look forward to having it at a future meeting.

There will be more information about this activity and sign ups coming soon!

Mini Mod Block Projects

Show & Tell

And that concludes our June meeting recap. Well done, everyone!

Next Meeting Thursday, July 15th @7:15pm

Jennifer-Secretary

The warm weather has returned and doesn’t it feel great! We had 43 attendees at last week’s meeting via Zoom.

Guild Business

It’s Back!

Last year’s event that was cancelled/postponed is back on! If you had previously signed up for last year’s MOD and did not request a refund, you should have received information about this year’s rescheduled retreat.

Board Elections – Next month we will be voting on the new board for the July’21- June’22 term. You can find the profiles for the candidates, posted before our June meeting, in the member’s only section.

Returning Board Members

• President – Rachel BondBaron
• Treasurer – Lenny Van Eijk
• Programs – Samantha Linhan

New candidates for the Board

• Vice President – Ann Marston
• Secretary – Siobhan Fitzpatrick
• Programs – Buntari Keitt

We will be voting over zoom with a poll during the meeting. The new board will preside at the July meeting.

MQG Updates –

• Start planning now! August 4, 2021 – Registration opens for members.
• Community Outreach Quilt theme will be “Angles”. For inspiration you can view the sample quilts they have pictured on the website. Below is the color palette.

Featured Guest

Silly Moon Quilting Co. is a Fraser Valley, British Columbia based business that has begun designing and making machine quilting rulers and tools for the quilting industry. We are a small business who saw a need for unique machine quilting rulers for domestic and longarm machines and were able to supply that need! 

What an entertaining and informative lecture we had from Silly Moon! If you are looking to learn or expand your ruler quilting skills, check them out! Thanks Silly Moon Quilting Co.!

Star in the West BOM Progress

**There is an Open Sew every month on the second Saturday for this project (next one is June12th). If you would like to join in even if you are not doing the BOM, email programs for the Zoom link.

Charity Updates

We had a nice response to the request for pouches for S.O.F.I.A. (Start Out Fresh Intervention Advocates). Check out Tari’s Show & Tell below.

Show & Tell

Another fabulous meeting!

Next Meeting Thursday, June 17th @7:15pm

Jennifer – Secretary

Good morning! Has it already been a full week since our meeting? Time flies.

Last week on our zoom meeting we had 46 attendees, some were new members and a guest, Vicky Pede. Welcome!

Guild Business

Board Elections – Crista Bresnahan, our nominating committee chair, has been busy talking with members asking them to consider running for the positions for next term. If you would like to be considered for a board position of have more questions please contact her directly. The following is the election timeline.

• May 20th meeting – Nominees will be presented.
• June 17th meeting – Members will vote on the nominees.
• July 15th meeting – New board members will begin their term.

Name Tag Swap – As we continue to gain new members regularly, we will have a continual list for name tag swapping. Please email Programs programs@njmqg.com for more details and to be put on the list.

Treasury Report – Lenny provided us with our first quarter report. You can view the details in the members only section on our website.

Quiltcon 2023/Georgia – In response to the recent political decisions in Georgia, members nation wide were inquiring about changing the location for Quiltcon 2023. Aleeda Crawley, member of our guild, and also a member of the MQG Board of Directors, reported to us that it would not be possible to change the location due to financial penalties. If you would like more details or have any questions, you may email Aleeda directly.

For those who participated last year in the Connected Project, you are now a published artist! Betsy V. sent our collaborative quilt to Curated Quilts Magazine and it is print for the article. If you would like to purchase a copy, you can order directly from Curated Quilts, asking for the COVID issue of this magazine.

Programs

The following photos are the projects from the David Owen Hastings workshop in March.

REMINDER: Mini Mod Block Swap

Star in the West BOM progress photos

Break Out Rooms

So we could socialize a bit, we had two sessions where we talked in small groups. So Much Fun!

Show & Tell

And there you have it!

Next Meeting Thursday, May 20th @7:15

Jennifer – Secretary