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April 17, 2023

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Thursday Zoom – April Meeting 4/20/23!

Our Guild Zoom meeting is this Thursday & we’ve got a guest speaker!!

When/ Where: This Thursday – via Zoom, link to come via email

We’ll start a bit early so we can hand over our meeting to our guest:

Lisa Shepard Stewart!

Zoom opens at 7pm – we’ll go through some quick business updates at the top so Lisa can begin as soon as possible

There will not be a show & tell this month – please hold your photos.

We’re looking forward to seeing you and sharing time with our exciting guest!

Lisa Shepard Stewart is a writer and designer based in New Jersey. In her books, African Accents: Fabrics and Crafts to Decorate Your Home and Global Expressions: Decorating with Fabrics from Around the World, Lisa encourages others to express themselves creatively through culturally relevant techniques and materials.

Her third book, African Accents On The Go! Designing Accessories with Cultural Style was published in 2007, and in 2011 began publishing FABRIGASM magazine, for Lovers of African Textiles.

Lisa offers classes and events internationally, and travels to Ghana to source artists, fabrics and materials. She also organizes and hosts SewJourns to Ghana, Colorado, New Mexico and other fun destinations.

Lisa has written for various web sites, and trade and consumer publications. and has demonstrated several projects & techniques on HGTV, and DIY, along with Discovery Channel and sewing & quilting programs on PBS. For four years (2001 to 2004), she was the craft columnist for the Star-Ledger, New Jersey’s largest newspaper, serving a readership of over 450,000 at the time.

She opened CE’s first studio location in downtown Rahway, NJ in 2017. The space combines retail and event space for classes and private parties.

See you later this week!

-Rachel

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January 30, 2023

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January 2023 Meeting Recap

Hello quilty friends! Hope you’ve all had a lovely start to the new year. This month we had 50 people join us for our Zoom meeting. We welcomed some new friends to our guild with a special shout out to Mary Ann D, Daniel R, Cindy S, Pat B, Mary K, Pam F and Michelle.

We went over some quick guild business, because what we all were here for this month was a lecture from Heather Kojan. First things first, we could not continue without proudly congratulating our very own member and cofounder, Aleeda C. for being elected MQG Board President! We know she will put her heart and smarts into her role. Read more about it here!

Quiltcon is coming up. Thanks for Margy S. for once again taking the lead on all the coordinating for the Community Outreach Quilt. If you are going to be in Atlanta, Lenny is coordinating a meetup/group photo. Contact her to join in. For those of us not going to Quiltcon, we will be hosting an open sew over Zoom on Saturday, February 25. We’ll send out an email with that info soon.

We are in the middle of our guild renewal! Tell your friends! I may be biased, but we have the best guild around. Don’t forget to fill out the form AND then send the payment, either through Paypal, or check to the PO Box. To do that and find out more check it out here. We are hoping to have majority of the signups done by the end of January. We reset our roster in February.

We will be hosting a Needle Minder Swap! We will be sending out the sign ups and matching up partners soon. Then we will be swapping at our In Person Tea Party meeting/Open Sew in March.

Last, but certainly not least, we welcomed Heather Kojan for a lecture ahead of the Interleave Piecing class she was teaching on Saturday January 21.

Heather talked to us about Quilt Design. Her personal style is more modern traditional. During the pandemic she was quite a prolific quilter with about 20 quilts each in 2020 and 2021! Regarding quilt design she talked about 5 points. Inspiration (is everywhere!), Design Composition, Education, Selection and Construction and Documentation. It was lovely to have her with us and I hope everyone enjoyed!

Next month we will have our usual updates, as well as the quarterly treasurer’s report and show and tell! Send pictures of everything you’ve been working on to programs at njmqg dot com. We want to see all the quilty goodness!

Until next time, be well, stay crafty!

-A

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January 17, 2023

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January Guild ZOOM & Guest speaker

Hello & Happy New Year!
Our Zoom guild meeting is this Thursday 1/19 & Heather Kojan will be joining us as a guest speaker!

We’ll open it up at 7pm and start at 7:15 so we can go through some quick guild business and then hand over the meeting. Please hold your Show & Tell photos until next month’s meeting.

A little more about Heather Kojan who will be teaching a (sold out) Introduction to Interleave workshop with us this Saturday…

Heather has been sewing since her teens and quilting for more than 25 years. She considers herself a modern quilter, with traditional roots.

She is the founder of the Baltimore Modern Quilt Guild and loves speaking to different groups and sharing the modern aesthetic. She is foremost a teacher. She teaches modern quilting classes in local shops, guilds and shows across the country.

She is a contributing author to the book Classic Modern Quilts and a featured quilter in The Improv Handbook for Modern Quilters by Sherri Lynn Wood, and 50 Little Gifts published by Lucky Spool. You can frequently find her work in Quiltmaker’s 100 Blocks Magazine, Modern Patchwork Magazine and Curated Quilts.

You can find her at her blog: http://www.heatherkojan.com or on Instagram @heatherkojan

We are so excited to have Heather join us, we’ll see you in a few days!

Check you email for the Zoom invite.

-Rachel