Hello all! Don’t forget, this Thursday is guild night! Seven o’clock at Rock Paper Scissors, 15 Bloomfield Ave, Montclair.

As always, bring a name tag and a chair, plus something to show and tell and a pincushion if you’d like to join in on the swap!

We’re going to have a fun meeting! We’re going to talk about personal quilt style and do an exercise to help define it. Bring a notebook and a pen as well.

On an organizational note, the board is looking for help from members who are interested in helping to coordinate donation quilt efforts. Ideally there would be 2-3 members who can keep track of donation quilts in progress and assign piecing/quilting/binding duties to members as needed. We are working on making guild labels and have already collectively made a dozen quilts this year! We need quilters with a can-do spirit and good organizational skills who love giving quilts to those in need. This is an important function of our guild, and we’d love to get it rolling more efficiently. If you’re interested, email njmqginfo at gmail.com

See you soon!

Here’s how to enter your quilted object into the MQG’s Michael Miller Challenge. (For a refresher, read up about the contest, deadlines, prizes, and more here.)

1. Sign in to the Community site and click on this link: https://community.themodernquiltguild.com//groups/finished-michael-miller-fabric-challenge-0
2. Scroll down to the bottom of the page. There will be an empty text box.
3. If you hover your mouse over the last icon on the right, it should read “Add Media.” Click that.
4. Click Browse to select the file(s) to be uploaded. Click Upload.
5. Write a few words about your quilted project, including the size and any information you’d like to include. 
6. Click Post. You’re done!

We had our first ever swap at the June meeting– rug mugs inspired by Radiant Orchid, Pantone’s color of the year. Everyone who made one got to take a different one home. Check out the gorgeousness that our guild produced!

We’re looking forward to more swaps! The next one will be in August, so stay tuned.