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July 12, 2016

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Quilts for Pulse Volunteers needed

Thank you to those who were able to sign up to make blocks for the Pulse Charity quilts. Those blocks are due by the July 2016 guild meeting date (July 21st). We will need volunteers for the following to complete two quilts. The final size of each quilt will be about 50 x 60″.

Spot Filled! ~~1 Quilt Top: ONE volunteer needed to assemble heart blocks into one quilt top.~~

2 Quilt Backs: ~~TWO~~ One spot filled! We now need ONE volunteer to assemble the back of the other quilt.

Both Spots Filled! ~~2 Quilts to Quilt:~~ ~~TWO volunteers needed to quilt the quilts.~~ The guild will provide the batting. The quilting does not have to be fancy or complex!

Please email njmqginfo@gmail.com if you can help. This post will be updated as spots get filled.

The blocks/materials will be handed out at the July guild meeting. We would like the quilted quilts (without binding or labels) due back by the August meeting date (August 18th). If you would like to participate, but will not be at the July or August guild meetings, please specify that in your email and we will figure out logistics.

Thank you!

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June 24, 2016

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June 2016 Meeting Recap!

hey all!!

Wonderful meeting as always! Few things happening/reminders below:

Want to give a shout out to our new (and old 😄) board members: Daniela di Iorio- our president, Amy rehbein- our Vice President, Annette aponte- our treasurer, stella singleton- our program director, and me Kourtney Teixeira- our secretary!
Thank you everyone for the amazing sign ups to make quilts for pulse !!
QuiltCon East 2017 catalog is available! Registration opens tomorrow June 25th!!
Annette went over our treasury report. We are in great standing as a guild 🙂
We are going to be doing a “cross guild” swap with the DC guild. Project will be zippered pouches-more details to come.
Open Sew-September 17th!
The Nubian Heritage Quilt show is still going until July 31st. (Sundays from 1-4PM by appointment.)
Want to thank Story Patches for being our guest speaker and giving us more information about the product!

Beth and Daniela gave us an idea of what fabrics are trending right now from their trip to Quilt market.

So many beautiful antique quilts!!! I learned so much that night about fabrics, stitching, etc. during particular time periods. So interesting!

…..Show & tell!!

See you in July 🙂

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June 17, 2016

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Quilts for Pulse Charity Update

WOW! Thank you to everyone who was able to sign up to make blocks! There was such an overwhelming response, we will have enough blocks to send TWO completed quilts to the Orlando Modern Quilt Guild!!!

HEART BLOCK:

blocks by Tracy B. (@traylas) using the Cluck Cluck Sew tutorial

The block: Please use this tutorial from Cluck Cluck Sew for the 10-inch finished block or this 10-inch finished block that is paper pieced by Elizabeth Dackson (Update: the link to the paper pieced pattern has been updated).

The heart: Please use a solid, a modern tone-on-tone or a modern print fabric for the heart area in the color(s) you signed up for. The modern print fabric should read as the color you picked.

The white areas of the block: In the white areas, please use low volume fabric. As shown in the examples above, please keep the low volume fabric consistent in each block.

Low volume fabric examples:

Some blocks we receive will be used on the back of each quilt. This is a good thing! We would like the quilt back to be as pretty as the front.

You can read more about the charity drive here on the MQG site and check out the Instagram hashtag: #quiltsforpulse.

The blocks will be due at the July meeting. If you will not be at the July meeting (Thursday, July 21, 2016), please drop your block(s) off at Rock Paper Scissors. If that does not work for you, you may also email njmqginfo at gmail dot com and we will coordinate.