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May 24, 2018

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T-Shirt Quilt Workshop with Kathy Morganroth

Think you don’t have the skills to work with knits?
Think it’s too expensive or time-consuming?

If you know how to use a ruler and a sewing machine, you can make a throw-size quilt in one weekend! In this class, NJMQG member Kathy Morganroth will teach us how to make a fun T-Shirt quilt without batting or fusible!

When: Saturday, June 16 from 10-4
Where: Communty Church, 65 Bowden Road, Cedar Grove
Cost: $30 for members, $35 for non-members.
Sign-ups open on Thursday, May 24 for members, May 31 for non-members.

TO SIGN UP, fill in the form below, then send your payment. Make checks out to NJMQG and bring to the next meeting, or mail to NJMQG 41 Watchung Plaza, Montclair, NJ 07042. Do not mail cash.

To pay online, click the link below the sign-up form. There is a $2 service fee added to online payments.

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T-Shirt Quilt workshop with Kathy Morganroth

$30.00

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January 31, 2018

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Chawne Kimber Workshops

The North Jersey Modern Quilt Guild is excited to announce that textile artist Chawne Kimber will be giving a trunk show and lecture, and teaching two workshops for us.

The workshops will be on March 16 and 17, with an evening lecture on Friday March 16.
Sign-ups: Saturday, February 3 at 10AM for NJMQG members
Sign-ups for non-members will open on February 10 at 10AM.
Cost: $70 NJMQG members, $75 non-members

Lecture: Friday, March 16, 7 PM at the Chawne will give a trunk show and lecture about her quilting journey at: United Way of Northern New Jersey, 60 South Fullerton Avenue, Montclair, NJ 07042

Workshops:

Improvisational Hand Quilting: Friday, March 16, 10AM-4PM at the United Way of Northern New Jersey, 60 South Fullerton Avenue, Montclair, NJ 07042

Hand quilting is super, super fun! And the best way to make something more fun is to improvise. So let’s practice the basics of hand quilting (beginners are welcome!) and then consider design and techniques for improv.
Supply list is here: ImprovisationalHandQuilting

Adventures in Small Piecing: Saturday, March 17, 10AM-4PM at the Community Church, 65 Bowden Road, Cedar Grove, NJ

A surefire way to slow down your machine stitching is to stitch small things. We’ll construct a custom mini sampler quilt top whose blocks encourage practicing some efficient traditional and improvisational techniques specialized for smaller work. We’ll also discuss the visual impact of the use of varied scaling of blocks in our design work. In the end, we’ll agree that small piecing can enhance our quilts without terribly increasing our workload. It will be a free-form class that starts with a trunk show and demonstrations of techniques. We’ll follow up with open sewing time with one- on-one instruction. Supply list is here: SmallPiecing

Chawne Kimber is an award winning textile artist who has exhibited quilts and embroidery in galleries and festivals in all over the United States. When not manipulating cotton, she is a professor of mathematics at a small liberal arts college in the Northeast. Chawne blogs at CauchyComplete.com Shown here is Chawne’s embroidered headshot.

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September 14, 2017

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Events for Autumn 2017

I hope everyone has had a fun summer! Doesn’t it seem like it has been ages since our last meeting? Here’s an overview of our upcoming happenings (all events are at the Cedar Grove Community Church unless noted):

Charity: We’re now adding a quilt drive for Houston and Florida in addition to our planned pillowcase drive for children in foster care.

Pillowcases for the Giving Hope Network – Please bring pillowcases to the September 21 Meeting. (You can also make them at the October 7 Open Sew but our focus on that day is now moving toward quilt making for Hurricane victims.)

Here are a few tutorials:

Craftsy
All People Quilt Free Patterns
Nancy’s Notions Speedy Trim Pillowcase PDF download
Missouri Star Burrito/Rollup Pillowcase Video Tutorial

Hurricane Response: We’d love to hear from members your ideas about how you would like us to implement this, but we know one thing: we will be making quilts for distribution! To that end, please feel free to start making them now. In addition, our Open Sew on October 7 will be dedicated to making quilts for Florida and Houston. The guild has fabric and batting, and we’ll be looking for volunteers to quilt and bind them.

Meeting September 21:
Trunk Show with member Michelle Reiter.
The Paint chip mini quilt swap is now due at the October meeting. Details are below.

September 23 10AM-4PM:
Noodlehead Market Tote with Michelle Reiter – There have been a few cancellations, so there are 2 spots open.
SIGN UP: Noodlehead Market Tote

Open Sew October 7, 10AM-4PM:
Guild Charity Sew Day for Houston and Florida. Come and sew for a few hours or all day! Guild will supply fabric and batting.

Meeting October 19, 7:15 PM:
Trunk show with member Melanie Tuazon.
Paint Chip Minis due. Make a mini quilt using the colors on the paint chip that you chose at the August meeting. Size Should be no longer than 12″ on one size and 20″ on the other. (see above for details!)

October 21 10AM-4PM
Trill Workshop with Melanie Tuazon – There are still a few spots available.
SIGN UP: Trill Workshop

Meeting November 16, 7:15:
Bee Block Swap Quarter 3 due
Potholder swap due -Make a potholder (8″x8″). This should be a modern take on a classic block!