Hello friends, how are you? Here’s a monthly reminder for you…
We’ve got our Zoom guild meeting 11/19/20 – and we’d love to see your smiling faces! Our meeting is wherever YOU are – your couch, backyard, your sewing table, you pick!
We’ll open it up at our usual 7pm to visit & we’ll start at 7:15
Look for an email with the ZOOM call in details.
What do we need from you? ByWEDNESDAY– photos from:
the PapperSaxsten Cogs and Caterpillar wheels class from last month
UFO challenge finishes
Show & Tell
Send to the Programs team (programs@njmqg.com) with the MONTH in the subject line (NOVEMBER (UFO, S&T, class, etc) in the subject line so we can include your makes in the slide show.
We are looking forward to seeing you.
If you would like to be a guest at our meeting this month, please email us for the Zoom information.
For our October Zoom meeting we had 51 attendees. We had 9 tickets paid for by non members for our guest lecturer Sara Trail, which in turn we donated to the Social Justice Sewing Academy.
We also welcomed two new members Meghan Johnson and Ann Marston.
Guild Business
Community Outreach Quilt Challenge – After some Zoom workshops, the participants of the COQC completed their assigned blocks and were asked to mail them back to Margy for assembly ASAP. We hope to have a photo for next month’s meeting of the assembled top.
Quiltcon Updates – Anyone who wishes to submit a quilt has until November 30th. Check the website for guidelines.
Can you take the survey? If you feel like you have participated in Modern making in any way, please do! It’s open until mid-November. Questions inquire about your own personal making, and the trends and people who have influenced you. It is anonymous (thanks, Qualtrics!), contains 15 questions, and should take you 5-8 minutes to complete.
Charity Updates – After having a wonderful tutorial from Sue Erdreich at our September meeting, we are asking for you to make some pillowcases for Giving Hope Network. They are collecting them before Thanksgiving.
We also have received our preprinted quilt labels for charity quilts. If you have completed a quilt for charity and would like to attach a NJMQG label to it, please contact Elinore Gordon or a board member.
Honoring Margy Schilling – Former President
We were able to watch as Margy opened the quilt we made for her in appreciation of her service as NJMQG President for the 2017-2019 term. We are grateful for Margy’s leadership during her term. As well, we thank all who participated in the construction of this quilt.
Guest Lecturer Sara Trail from Social Justice Sewing Academy
What a wonderful time we had hearing from Sara Trail. From her enthusiastic childhood, through her energetic teenage years, and into her academic excellence in higher education, Sara provided us the insight to forming her Social Justice Sewing Academy.
SJSA empowers young people to use sewing to express themselves and create opportunities for growth and change.
We thank Sara for her very informative presentation. To learn more about SJSA or get involved with her organization click the link above. If you have scrap fabric you would like to donated to SJSA, you can mail it to the following address. SJSA P.O. Box 2473 Antioch, CA 94531
You have until Friday 10/30 to join in the fun! Contact programs@njmqg.com
UFO Challenge
And the winner of October’s UFO Challenge, receiving a $25 gift certificate to Sew Jersey was Christa!
Next month your UFO is #11 and the prize is a Tula Pink coloring book.
Sisterhood Swap
Several of our members took part in a swap similar to our Connected Project. They used the sisterhood block also from Berene Campbell from Happy Sew Lucky to make the adorable blocks below.
Show & Tell
Thanks to all for another great meeting!
Join us next time, Thursday, November 19th @ 7:15pm!
The MQG’s Community Outreach quilt for QuiltCon 2021 is focused on curved piecing with a given color palette. As in previous years the NJMQG is participating and we are well on our way. A shout out to our members: Lenny van Eijk who came up with a great design, Kathy Morganroth for getting our templates in order, and Margy Schilling who has sorted out organizing, prep and co-ordination of all the parts.
Thanks to all who are already participating on our community quilt: 24 guild members were sent kits! About 20 of us hung out in three Zoom sessions. Twelve have already returned pieced blocks, and they look fabulous!!
cutting & prepping fabric kits
Hopefully the rest are on their way. Please let us know if you have any problems with the blocks or find that you don’t have the time you thought you would. We have a small group lined up to piece the top together, but we will let you know if we are in need of more assistance in this area.
There is another opportunity to help with this quilt: It needs a back! We have a few yards of the blues, and plenty of orange scraps. Anyone interested in doing a bit of improv??? If we have one person to sew it, I bet we can get a few others to consult over Zoom.
Think about it, and let Margy know, or we can talk more about it at the Guild meeting on Thursday.
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