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March 21, 2018

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March 2018 Guild Meeting

We had 49 members, 2 guests and 1 new member join us at our meeting this month. Welcome to our new member Debby and visitors Jeannette and Julia!

Happenings

Wayne Art Center in PA has a show coming up Art Quilt Elements March 16-Apr 28
Black Panther and Victora on PBS have some major inspiration going on
Josie has a felted bracelet class coming up at SOMA

MQG

Quiltcon 2018– Let’s discuss. We pretty much agree that there should be more transparency in judging and it is also quite subjective. But don’t forget you do have to be juried, but not judged, to get in.
anyone sign up for Nashville yet?
still looking for taskforce volunteers, especially Inclusion and Diversity
and as always, look for articles, webinars and other good stuff

Charity

Please continue to make pillowcases!
and see Rachel for Charity sew kits/projects to help complete

Quiltfest

Beka accepting sign ups for quilt exhibition due by March18. Monochromatic HST still need to fill out form and send pic. Quilts due at April meeting
and still asking for volunteers to set up, take down and coordinate!

Bylaws

We will be voting on changes in April. Biggest change is the timing of the dues and officer terms

Programs

Chawne Kimber is coming March 16 and 17. Saturday is full. (Will post a recap)
Quarter 1 Bee blocks were due. Here’s just some…

JoAnns classes on the Mariners compass will be April 20 and 21. More info and to sign up
Kathy will be teaching the Down and Dirty t-shirt quilt June 16. Look out for sign ups
Aleeda will be teaching screen printing in August. Keep and eye out for that too
New round of Bee block signs up going out now
Don’t forget your Organizer bag swap due at the April meeting

Field Trips

We will be going to Brooklyn April 14. There will be carpool options and other meetup options. We’ll see the Brooklyn Quilt show, get a yummy lunch and hit up Brooklyn General. Let’s hope for good weather!
And keep your calendar open in June we are hoping to check out Grounds for Sculpture and Pennington quilts. There will be a challenge to go along with this too!

Round Robin

Show and Tell

Jeanine- Dr Suess

Foxy Roxy

Judy- Yukata love squares

Look at that detail

Kelly- charity quilt

Debby- Purple Passion

Ameri- Amy Friend class

Jackie- monochromatic hst

Table runner

Debby- Warwick guild

Mary Jane- bee block

Rachel

Mary- bee block baby quilt

Melanie, Michele and Betsy have Quilts in this book. Check it out from our library!

Raffle winner

Congrats to our newest member, Debby, for being the first to sign in to our meeting!

We will see you soon! Can’t wait to see your latest snowy day sews.

-A

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February 2018 Guild Meeting

Hello!

Let’s take a trip down memory lane to our fabulous Valentine’s tea…

So many people and goodies. And what a fun time! What did you think about our impromptu theme?

A HUGE shout out and thank you to Robin for taking an idea and making it happen!

Welcome to our new members and visitors Jeanette, Berene, Cosmo (the ultimate quilt holder) and Kathy. (Sorry if I’ve misspelled your names)

Field trip

Michelle R updated us all on the field trip scheduled for April 14. We will be heading into Brooklyn for an adventure. We will check out the Brooklyn Museum have lunch and hit up Brooklyn General. We need at least a commitment of 10 people, so we will be taking sign ups and money at the March meeting!

Swap

Our next swap will be due at the April meeting. Let’s make some cool sewing organizers! There’s still some time to sign up! Get inspired here

Info

If you want to work on your free motion quilting, Angela Walters is doing a FMQ-along. Check it out here

New members, if you need a name tag, we’ll partner you up and you can swap!

If you are a new member and have not received an MQG pin, see Lori at the next meeting!

We are looking for a volunteer to lead the sunshine committee!

A special thank you from a recipient of a charity quilt.

MQG

Quiltcon has come and gone. Have you seen the amazing stuff that was out there? And 2019 has been announced…who already has plans to go to Nashville?

Get more info about the MQG task forces here

Quiltfest

We are asking for volunteers to help coordinate, set up and take down. Set up will start Tuesday April 24, 1-4. We will have a guild exhibition. Individual entry for quiltfest is March 26 (for guild March 21)

Charity

We will be collecting more pillowcases in a April. Whip a few up today!

Rachel is generously offering to make more templates. Any shapes and sizes you know would work well with kits? Let her or us know.

And check out the great quilts made for donation (from the amazing kits put together by the extraordinary Rachel)

Bylaws

We are continuing to review and revise the bylaws.

Programs

Sarah is busy filling up our calendar! Keep an eye out for updates and sign ups. Chawne Kimber will be here before we know it! So excited!

Our Round Robin continues….

JoAnn is going to teach a Mariner’s Compass class.

Challenge

We had some great entries into our monochromatic half square triangle quilt challenge!

Congrats to Michelle, Amy and Ameri!

Show and Tell

We we’re lucky enough to have Berene aka Happy Sew Lucky aka member Janita’s sister be at our meeting. Funny thing is that she was having a little giveaway on IG and our Margy (and I) won!! So she was able to give her the prize and brought along the Badass quilt for us to enjoy.

And here is Cosmo rocking the quilt holding. He’s got some mad skills.

Thanks so much for sharing, Berene! And I can’t wait to start making a tattoo quilt!!!

Carol- Amy Friend Class

Laura- Amy Friend class

Laura- Timna Tarr class

Laura- Bee Block quilt

Kelly- Charity quilt

Debbie- Portrait quilt. (amazing!)

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January 2018 Guild Meeting

Happy New Year everyone!

48 members and 2 guests joined us.

We have renewed our membership with the MQG for another fabulous year. Thanks so to all who have renewed and if you haven’t, there is always time! We will be receiving our membership cards next month.

Thanks to Sew Jersey for vending!

MQG News

The MQG will be debuting a new website in February. In the meantime you can still check out all they have to offer here

President

Welcome to our new member Rebecca and 2 guests Pam and Kathy.
We will update the password for the blog in February
Ezza and Becca will exchange nametags
Let’s vote- keep the catering at the Holiday party? yay- will be budgeted for
Let’s vote- skip the Show & Tell at the Holiday party- yay- stick to gifties only
Aleeda- Retreats March 22-25 and June 15-17 contact for more info acquiltsy@yahoo.com

Happy News

Congrats to Kimberli getting into graduate school at Rutgers
Congrats Melanie, Michelle, Betsy, Michelle B and Krishma for having work in the MQG book

Programs

Quiltfest- Any help setting up April 25 or taking down April 29 would be greatly appreciated. Reach out to us if you know you can/would like to help
Amy Friend workshop- coming up this Friday Jan 26 and Saturday Jan 27. If you are available to help set up or break down, it would be much appreciated. You can find the details here
New calendar in the works. Handout given. Will post soon. We are working on booking high demand teachers 2 yrs in advance. Any ideas? Shoot us an email info@njmqg.com
Round Robin starting! Will be monthly. Check out the Pinterest board if you need ideas or help.

Here are some of the starters…

Challenge! due at the Febrary meeting. Make a mini (no larger than 20″ on any side) monochromatic half square triangles. To be part of a special exhibit at Quiltfest. Pinterest inspiration her e
Chawne Kimber signups will begin February 2
1st quarter Bee Swap signups available until Friday Jan 26- 3 catagories- stars, improv and/or 21st centurey log cabin
Bylaws committee met. Updating certain details such as where we meet (still said
RPS). working on others such as elections every 2 years, overlapping changes… Voting will be at the February meeting. If you’d like to suggest anything, email Diane at NJquilter58@gmail.com

Raffle winners

Congrats Aleeda and Kimberli! Happy shopping at Sew Jersey

Charity

Melanie-Our quilt is named Star Power. We voted to have it donated to Quilts for Vegas directly from Quiltcon- yays all around

Rachel- 20 New wave patterns donated from Elizabeth Hartman, quilt kits donated from Beth and templates made from Rachel make for some amazing charity quilt kits!