Meeting this Thursday, November 20

Quilters! It’s meeting week! Our next meeting is this Thursday, November 20. It’s going to be packed full of information and inspiration, so come join us at 7PM at Rock Paper Scissors. Bring a chair, something to show and tell, and a nametag.**

We have an important announcement about our Quiltcon Charity Quilt— it’s on! But we are very, very tight on time. Daniela, Amy and Melanie came up with a simple but modern design of floating pluses that we can turn around on our tight schedule of finishing in January. We are looking for quilters to piece one or more 18-inch blocks on a very short deadline. You will get the fabric with directions at Thursday’s meeting and must mail finished blocks to Amy by December 1 (address will be included in directions). Please help if you can! The online sign-up is here. (Please note: the sign-up page cannot be edited from a mobile device. Computers only.) If you can make more than one block please put your name on more than one line.

Also, Stella and Melanie will be doing an Instagram 101 presentation! If you would like to follow along, visit your smartphone’s app store and download the Instagram app for free. Choose a user name and create a profile before coming to the meeting. We’ll talk about community, hashtags, etiquette, and a fun new interactive guild activity. We won’t have access to wifi during the meeting, so do your downloading at home beforehand.

**If you don’t have a nametag, let us know at the meeting and we’ll match you up with a partner to swap with.

Updates and Reminders – November

In order of occurrence:

  • Sunday, November 9 is registration for sponsoring guilds of Mid Atlantic Mod. The dates are April 23-26, 2015 at the Doubletree in Lancaster, PA. The cost for NJMQG members is $120 for the retreat plus $15 per workshop if you choose to take one or more. If you stay in the Doubletree, blocked rooms are available for $124/night. If you do not, there is a “local” surcharge of $50.
    • All registration information is available here.
    • Workshop information is here.
    • Ten NJMQG members may register on Sunday starting at 7PM. This will be first come, first served. If you would like the discount code, please email njmqginfo at gmail.com. The code will be sent out by Sunday afternoon.
    • Registration will open to the public on November 30. NJMQG members will still get the discounted rates. Any spots not taken by sponsoring guilds will be added to the pool of general spots.
  • Monday November 10, members will receive a ballot to vote for our regional representative to the MQG board of directors. We are in region 4, which is huge, and there are three candidates. You can read about them and see videos they’ve made here (this information is also in an email that went out to members last week):
  • Wednesday, November 12 starts the Crossroads retreat. Hope everyone has fun!
  • Thursday, November 20 is our monthly meeting. More on this soon.

October Sew In Metting Recap

This months meeting was our quaterly open sew. For all that weren’t able to attend, you were missed. What a wonderful fun time getting to know everyone and watch them working.  We also began work on laying out our Guild Quilt at our open sew on Saturday.

Just to follow up on the announcements that were made;

Please if you haven’t already signed up for the Holiday Swap over on Elfster go ahead and do so.

Our next meeting will be on Thursday, November 20th at 7:00 pm over at Rock Paper Scissors. Please remember to bring your name tags and a chair. Also look for an upcoming blog post on how to download the Instagram App onto your phones and set up your username. During our meeting we will be having  a Instagram 101.

No November Swap. Swaps will be returning 2015.

December Meeting will be our Holiday Swap

January will be our quarterly Open Sew

We have decided not to participate in this years Quilt Con Charity Quilt. With the deadline for the quilt being Jan 3rd we just felt we would not have enough time to prepare a quilt.

Thank you for all the work on the charity quilts. They are all beautiful and will be very much appreciated by their recipients.

Also, a HUGE thank you to the LDS church for allowing us to use their gymnasium.

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