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NJMQG June 2024 Guild Meeting

Hello all and happy Summer! Hope you are all staying cool and getting some sewing time in! We had yet another lovely meeting last month. We had 30 members joining us, including a newer member meeting with us in person for the first time. We also welcomed two guests, Joanna and Annette! Hope you join us again soon!

We want to give a special shout out thanks to Aleeda for donating a Keurig machine to the guild. As always we had our free table with a machine Karen brought, that I hope went home with someone. We received the latest copy of Quiltfolk magazine, which can be found in our library. Don’t forget, our library is chock full of books, magazines, patterns, and templates. You just need to check them out with Caroline and you could be on your way to learning something new!

Kelly is working with us on all things charity and we had made about 10 quilt tops that were available to be put together. A few members stayed after to cut batting and backing.

Programs was up next. We are hosting a shibori workshop on July 13, with Miriam Jacobs in Margy’s driveway in Clifton. Paula is coordinating our Community Outreach quilt for this year. The theme is lines and bars. If this strikes any inspiration in you, send in a design idea!! In September we are doing a blind swap for the Pockets to go organizer. If you haven’t bought the pattern, we have a few available for purchase.

The MQG started a quilt label week. The week of June 17, they encouraged everyone to take the time to do that important finishing step of labeling a quilt. If you have taken part, you can tag the MQG and use #labelmyquilts. The MQG Make-a-difference challenge was put out and you can find out more about it here. This year the theme is pollinators. Quiltcon is February 20-23, 2025 in Phoenix, AZ. Registration starts July 31. Set your schedule up now so you’re ready to go! Next years key note is Tara Faughnan. Submissions for the show are from September 1-October 31.

Programs is starting a new set of bee blocks! Keep your eye out for sign ups. It’s a lot of fun and a great way to get blocks for a quilt top. And Mary let us know that the Warwick Valley Guild show is a go in October. Submissions are due by Sept 7, and the quilts need to be dropped off in person on October 7. You can find out more and print the forms from their website!

Congrats to Debby for winning the first raffle prize! and Caroline the 2nd!

Rachel helped run our elections for this year. Ann Marston is continuing her term as president and Annette is staying on as treasurer. We elected all of our newest board members unopposed and unanimously. Let’s give a warm welcome to our new VP, Samantha. Holly is joining Margy in running programs, and Kathy is taking over the role of secretary. (I will miss being a part of the board, but I’m sure I’ll be back) Can’t wait to see what the new board has in store for us.

As tradition goes, the guild works together to make a quilt for the last outgoing president. Big thanks to Lenny who designed the quilt, the members who made blocks and to Krishma for quilting it. What a beautiful collaboration for a beautiful human who led our guild through those weird pandemic years.

Show and Tell Time!

Sam- Sally Tomato Ferris bag printed cork

“Let the Wild Rumpus Start” wall hanging

Debby- Applique learned from JoAnn for 5 yr old grandchild

Annette- from Sunday Quilts for Project Linus

Betsy V- 24″ clam from Latifah Saafir- sew along

Our next two meetings will be over Zoom. Thursday July 18 and August 15 at 7:00. Keep an eye out for the links and as always, don’t hesitate to reach out with any questions, concerns, ideas…

Well folks, that’s all for now. I’m signing off from the secretary duties. It’ll be nice to just be a regular member for a while. Like I said, I’m sure I’ll be back in some capacity, but I’m looking forward to getting back to my sewing machine! Enjoy the rest of the summer! Stay cool! Happy quilting!

-A

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May 13, 2024

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April 2024 Guild Meeting Recap

Hello friends! Hope you are all well and able to get some in some quilty time in. Spring is springing, and aside from allergies, I’m grateful to see all the flowers and green, so much green!! We had a lovely April meeting with 25 members joining us. A special welcome to our new members Molly and Sue and our 2 guests Jane and Mary. And congrats to Jeanine welcoming in another grandbaby!

We had a little bit of business to take care of. Annette recap the treasurer’s report for us, and as always if you have any questions you can always reach out. We had a name tag swap, with 22 members taking part. I did not manage to get any pictures of those…As a reminder, we have our free table, anything you bring that doesn’t get taken, please bring it home with you. Since Kelly couldn’t make it to the meeting, we are extending the charity block deadline to our May meeting. The person who makes the most blocks will get a little prize, so get to sewing! This charity block is a quick and easy one.

We pulled our first raffle ticket and congrats to Betsy F for being our first winner of the day.

Also coming up in May, we will be announcing the candidates for the board elections. June is when we will hold our elections, and Rachel has so kindly offered to lead that for us. This will be our first in person election since 2019. The positions we have open are, VP, treasurer, programs and secretary. If you would like to run for a board position, or help out in some other way, we would love to hear from you!

MJ, was our second raffle winner (and again, I missed the photo)

We had some overviews and updates on the Philly field trip, Mid Mod (some pics below) and talked about some upcoming programming. Mark your calendar for some upcoming dates. After our May and June meetings we will have open sew time (Saturdays May 18th and June 15th). Saturday July 13th, there will be a Shibori dying workshop held at Margy’s house in Clifton. Our July and August meetings will be held over Zoom on Thursdays the 18th and 15th, respectively.

On to Show and Tell!

Our most prolific quilter…

Blake- “You’re Going to Want More Fabric”

Grandson’s golden bday- Starry night Bloem

Sue- “Karman Line” where our atmosphere ends and space starts

Rebecca- David Owen Hastings quilt as you go coasters

2″ squares- Irish Chain-ish- 5-6 years in progress

And congrats to Kathy for winning our last raffle!

After our meeting, we had a great class with Betsy V making the Frost Fanny Pack by Petite Stitchery. Once again I was lax in taking pictures, but I was able to finish mine a few days later… I hope to see more finished ones at our next meeting!

Our next meeting is on Saturday May 18th at 11:00. We will be meeting at our new space at the First Lutheran Church of Montclair, at 153 Park St. Don’t forget to bring any show and tell, charity blocks
and/or any project you’d like to work on during the open sew. See you then! Happy sewing!

-A

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October 2023 NJMQG Meeting Recap

Hello and welcome to the October recap. This month we met over Zoom. We had 41 people joining us, including some new friends, Cecila, Arlene and Nina. Thanks for joining us, and hope to see you soon!

This month we started our meeting off with our usual guild business. Annette gave us a treasurer’s report, which as always, can be found in the member’s only section of the website.

Last month we hosted our very first Quilt Showcase, and it was just so wonderful! We had about 200 people come to see the show and we sold our MQG charity quilt! The money from that sale will be donated to Oasis Haven and Rachel Coalition. We want to thank everyone who helped pull it together, with a special thanks to the showcase committee and and extra special shout out to our president Ann, who took the reigns and totally went for it. We are looking forward to our next one, in 2025.

Some announcements were next. We took a poll about our 2024 meeting schedule. Based off the results, we will have 8 meetings in person and 4 virtually. When meeting in person we will also be going to a new location. We will be letting everyone know all those details soon!

Mid Atlantic Mod Retreat will be April 18-21 and our 10 lucky early registrants have gotten in. Regular registration has also opened and there is a waitlist if you’d like to get on it.

We have some committee updates. Did you know we have a library? Books and rulers are available for borrowing. Caroline Hayes will be our new guild librarian. We are also looking for a new head to our charity committee. Please reach out if you are interested in helping out.

At our September meeting we started working on our MQG Community Quilt. Since then we have the top and back completed and Carol M will be quilting it. Looking forward to seeing that come together!

Programs is working hard behind the scenes to bring us some fun and exciting things in the new year. Before the new year starts, though, we had a field trip to Cultured Expressions for a workshop with Lisa Shepard Stewart.

November 4, we are celebrating International Scrap Sorting Day with the MQG. Let’s get organized!!

In November we have our meeting on the 16th , at 7, over Zoom. December we will have our holiday party on December 2 from 11-3 at the Community Church of Cedar Grove. Jeanine is leading the planning on this, but any help is welcome, reach out to her at vicepresident at njmqg dot com. For January we have a lecture and workshop scheduled with Libs Elliot. If you don’t know her, you should really check her stuff out. Libs will be joining our January 18 meeting over Zoom to give us a lecture. Then keep your calendar open for January 20, for a workshop over Zoom for the Bloem quilt.