It’s almost Turkey Time! Are you ready?

Our October meeting had 44 members in attendance with no guests. We welcomed new member Jann Slapin, who some already know from Garden State Quilters guild. Welcome!

Guild Business:

Reminders

• Photos of projects for our monthly member meeting need to be submitted by the day before the meeting (Wednesday) with the month as the subject line.
• Workshop enrollment cancellations – we strongly encourage you to not withdraw from a workshop(with the exception of emergency/extenuating circumstances). For many reasons this becomes a great nuisance for our programs committee. Thank you for your understanding.

MQG Updates

All submissions/challenges for Quiltcon are due by November 30th.

Community Quilt Challenge Update:

Our quilt is coming together, front and back are pieced and it is now on it’s way to member Krishma Patel for quilting. Can’t wait to see it finished!

Treasurer’s Report & 2021 Budget Proposal

We thank Lenny for the amazing job she does keeping our financials in order. She presented the 3rd quarter report and provided the 2021 Budget proposal. Members voted via live survey and approved the proposed budget.

Charity Updates

We donated more pillowcases to Giving Hope Network. Please continue to make them as they will continue accepting them. Please contact Elinore Gordon to arrange for pick up of any quilts or pillowcases you want to donate to charity. You can find her contact information on the roster in the members only section.

We received a note of thanks from Trinitas Regional Medical Center for our donation from participation in the Connected Project.

Programs

Some of the results from the PapperSaxSten workshop 10/24 & 10/25

Open Sews in November

This has been such a hit! It’s been great seeing so many people get together, chat, sew and catch up! The best is yet to come…

Black Friday 6-Hour Sew-a-thon!

November 27th 9 am – 3 pm

After all the stress and business getting ready for Thanksgiving, skip Friday holiday shopping. Join rotating hosts Rachel, Jeanine, Samantha and Sue and spend time with your sewing sisters! We will start at 9 am and give away our first prize at 10 and every hour on the hour after that! You must be present to win.

Please remember to take a photo of what you are sending out. Then send those photos to programs so we can put them into the slide show for the December Holiday Party meeting. That way with all the excitement of people opening their gifts, we won’t miss out on seeing all the beautiful gifts you created. Items must be mailed by December 7th to ensure your recipients get their gifts in time for the meeting 12/17.

Samantha’ Favorite Things

A huge shout out to Samantha for giving us all kinds of wonderful, quick gift ideas to make this season. Please take a look at the previous post for all the details! I know I will be making a tissue holder or two!

And now for more pretty stuff!!

UFO Challenge

And the winner for November receiving a Tula Pink Coloring Book is Terry!

With 2 UFO’s left for the year, pick one or pick both. Make progress or finish, then submit your photo for a chance to win a Cotton & Steel coloring book!

Show & Tell

Thanks to all who attended and participated this month.

See you next month for our Holiday Meeting,

Thursday, December 17th @7:15

Happy Thanksgiving!

Jennifer – Secretary

Greetings Guild!

For our October Zoom meeting we had 51 attendees. We had 9 tickets paid for by non members for our guest lecturer Sara Trail, which in turn we donated to the Social Justice Sewing Academy.

We also welcomed two new members Meghan Johnson and Ann Marston.

Guild Business

Community Outreach Quilt Challenge – After some Zoom workshops, the participants of the COQC completed their assigned blocks and were asked to mail them back to Margy for assembly ASAP. We hope to have a photo for next month’s meeting of the assembled top.

Quiltcon Updates – Anyone who wishes to submit a quilt has until November 30th. Check the website for guidelines.

Can you take the survey? If you feel like you have participated in Modern making in any way, please do! It’s open until mid-November. Questions inquire about your own personal making, and the trends and people who have influenced you. It is anonymous (thanks, Qualtrics!), contains 15 questions, and should take you 5-8 minutes to complete. 

https://www.kristinbarrus.com/modern-quilt-movement-survey

Charity Updates – After having a wonderful tutorial from Sue Erdreich at our September meeting, we are asking for you to make some pillowcases for Giving Hope Network. They are collecting them before Thanksgiving.

We also have received our preprinted quilt labels for charity quilts. If you have completed a quilt for charity and would like to attach a NJMQG label to it, please contact Elinore Gordon or a board member.

Honoring Margy Schilling – Former President

We were able to watch as Margy opened the quilt we made for her in appreciation of her service as NJMQG President for the 2017-2019 term. We are grateful for Margy’s leadership during her term. As well, we thank all who participated in the construction of this quilt.

Guest Lecturer Sara Trail from Social Justice Sewing Academy

What a wonderful time we had hearing from Sara Trail. From her enthusiastic childhood, through her energetic teenage years, and into her academic excellence in higher education, Sara provided us the insight to forming her Social Justice Sewing Academy.

SJSA empowers young people to use sewing to express themselves and create opportunities for growth and change.

http://www.sjsacademy.org/

We thank Sara for her very informative presentation. To learn more about SJSA or get involved with her organization click the link above. If you have scrap fabric you would like to donated to SJSA, you can mail it to the following address. SJSA P.O. Box 2473 Antioch, CA  94531

UFO Challenge

And the winner of October’s UFO Challenge, receiving a $25 gift certificate to Sew Jersey was Christa!

Next month your UFO is #11 and the prize is a Tula Pink coloring book.

Sisterhood Swap

Several of our members took part in a swap similar to our Connected Project. They used the sisterhood block also from Berene Campbell from Happy Sew Lucky to make the adorable blocks below.

Show & Tell

Thanks to all for another great meeting!

Join us next time, Thursday, November 19th @ 7:15pm!

Jennifer – Secretary

The weather has begun to cool and fall has been ushered in. Our September meeting saw 48 participants online, where we welcomed new member Christina Ku.

Guild Business

MQG Updates – We recognized our own Samantha Linehan as her quilt was featured in issue 03 of Modern Monthly, from the MQG.

They have a call out to make one of their classic patterns in their specific 2020 color palette. To learn more, log onto themodernquiltguild.com

Other MQG News

• MQG is accepting applications for the MGQ Board of Directors
• You can watch/ listen to a free textile talk every Wednesday afternoon.
• Modern Monthly is looking for design submissions for Quilt of the Month for 2021. Deadline is November 1st.

• Submission deadline is November 30th.
• Mini Swap – October 2020 to February 2021, we’re holding our 5th international MQG swap, and all active MQG members are invited to participate! Spots are limited according to the number of volunteer helpers we have, but we’re accommodating as many people as possible! Once again, we’re making mini quilts — no larger than 24″ x 24″.

Challenges

For details on both of these challenges, go to themodernquiltguild.com

Community Quilt Challenge

Our coordinator Margy spoke to us on the progress of the our community quilt we will be submitting. Kits were made and mailed to those who signed up to participate. The completed blocks need to be mailed back to Margy by Tuesday, October 13th.

Charity

We were finally able to donate some of our charity quilts. We sent 15 quilts to S.O.F.I.A. (Start Out Fresh Intervention Advocates). We also gave quilts to Giving Hope Network for their Stuffed Suitcase program.

Member Demo

To assist in our charity efforts, Sue Erdreich provided us with a demo on making a burrito pillow.

You can use your basic skills to make this easy project for donation.

Programs

• Sarah Trail from Social Justice Sewing Academy will be speaking to us at our October meeting. There will be a $5 donation for non-members, going directly to SJSA.
• You can learn more about Clara Nartey, our August guest lecturer in her book “Drawn with Threads”. Available on Amazon.
• Reminder: Pappersaxten’s Workshop video replay is available for 60 days before it expires. Make sure to review it, if you need assistance finishing your workshop piece.

Above are completed projects from the August workshop.

We are happy to announce the October workshop with Jenny Haynes is full!

December

Opportunities to participate:

• Mini Quilt Challenge – “A Quilted Interpretation of 2020″ due at our December meeting, measuring 24” square or less.
• Elfster Swap – Details and sign-ups coming soon.

UFO Challenge

We had two entries for September’s UFO challenge and the winner was Elaine and she received a neutral fat quarter bundle.

Next month the UFO is #7 and the prize is a gift certificate to Sew Jersey.

Show & Tell

See you in October, Thursday 10/15 @ 7:15pm!

Jennifer – Secretary