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March Meeting Recap

I don’t know which was more exciting: The close arrival of Spring or our March Meeting! It’s always wonderful to see each of you and I leave inspired to make 20 new projects. (If they’re only made in my head!) As we all prepare to thaw out – here is what’s coming our way this Spring!

Quilting Retreat

March 21st – March 23rd many members will enjoy a weekend of quilting! We hope everyone enjoyed their time together – and we expect fantastic projects for the April Meeting! Get sewing!

Michael Miller Fabric Challenge

The fabric is in the mail, and at the April meeting you will receive a fat eighth of each of the fabrics if you signed up at the start of the challenge. The deadline for entries will be in June, and the only requirement is that it’s quilted. We’re excited to see what our guild contributes to the challenge. It sure would be nice if someone won a year of free fabric!

Guild Quilt

After seeing Central Jersey’s guild quilt at Quilt Fest, it was even more exciting to see all of the blocks created by our members over the past few months. It was incredible to see the variety of designs used and I know everyone will be thrilled to see the final project. Even more exciting, we now have guest judges to award gift cards to members for their blocks. Be on the lookout for verdicts from Mark Lipinski, Alison Glass and even fabric goodies from Robert Kaufman!

Warwick Valley Quilt Show

The 2014 Qults of the Valley Show is May 17 & 18, 2014. We’d love to see some of the fabulous quilts we’ve made since 2010 featured in the show! Members and non-members alike are invited to submit their quilts. Registration forms are available under the 2014 Show

Heather Grant Webinar

Check your email for information about a modern quilt webinar from the MQG’s Heather Grant! The cost to the public is $10, but with the coupon code in your email it’s free. March 26th, 9PM. The webinar will cover the History of Modern Quilting – and it will be archived to be viewed later if you can’t make it Wednesday.

Sew Down Nashville

By the April Meeting 7 of our guild members will have returned from Sew Down Nashville, with plenty of tales and lots of inspiration to share. We’re excited to have such a great showing at the last Sew Down event and we’re all looking forward to hearing the report of their boot stompin’ good time!

Quilters Take Manhattan

Be sure to check out their website, as events are already selling out for the September celebration!

March Madness

Finally, we hope everyone is currently “training” and “preparing” for our first ever March Madness event on March 29th, 2014! You can read more about the event here or find answers to FAQ here! We can wait to spend a day of “friendly” competition with each of you as we work to complete quilts for Shelter Our Sisters and Quilts for Kids!

And, finally, the reason we all come together – inspiration and celebration of our creativity as quilters!

Show and Tell

NOTE: We didn’t include pictures of the guild quilt blocks. They will have their own photo session and blog post next week.

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February Meeting Recap

There was a bright spot in all of the snow we’ve been getting here in NJ: our February meeting. It was so wonderful to see everyone, catch up, and of course share quilts. Before we get to the good stuff, the photos, here’s a run down of the meeting.

March Madness

Get ready for a fun filled day of quilting on March 29 from 9-5 at the Church of Latter Day Saints in West Caldwell, where we’ll compete to create the most charity quilts. If you are interested in being a Coach for either of the teams, please reach out to leadership over email ASAP! More details will be coming as soon as we have coaches set, and we’ll break into teams at our March meeting for planning. Of course, even if you can’t stay all day we’d still love for you to join us for however long you can!

Lisa Snipes – Garden State Quilters

Lisa will be presenting and visiting with the Garden State Quilters March 10 – 11.

If you’d like to attend, her talk will be $5.00 and her workshop will be $65.00. Workshop- 65.00

Quilting Retreat

The Quilting Retreat is right around the corner, and hopefully Spring Weather will arrive either before or at the same time! An email should be forthcoming from Aleeda with directions and information for those of you who are attending. Great news: the arrival time was also bumped up to 3:00 pm on Friday!

Warwick Valley Quilt Show

Here it is: A Call for Modern Quilts! Warwick Valley Quilt Show would love to have some of our quilts in their show. You can enter up to three quilts that were made no earlier than 2010. Registration information is provided on their website, and the registration fee is $10.00 per quilt. There’s a limit of 150 quilts, so if you’re interested – get registering!

There are so many events coming up in March, so be on the lookout for plenty of blog updates!

Now, here’s the good stuff: Show and Tell!