7:20 pm start

47 members plus 5 guests

Welcome to new members or visitors! Samantha (and her husband), Peggy, Kelly and Liz

Announcement/ member news.

• Quilters take Manhattan overview Betsy won best interpretation of theme
• Folk art museum show
• Melanie in latest Simply Moderne
• Diane F-retreat had 5 spots still remaining  for November 8-12

Mqg happenings

• Webinars
• quilt of month and block of month calls
• Quiltcon 2018 submissio- deadline November 30

Programs- Sarah

• Open sew Saturday October 7
• Pillowcases
• October- paint chip swap due, Trill workshop, Melanie trunkshow
• November- bee block, potholder swap and Josie animo felt scarf class
• December- holiday party
• January- Amy Friend aka @duringquiettime

Questionnaire

Raffle #1

Charity

• Stars on stars. Handed out materials and directions

Michelle R  trunk show

3rd quilt for daughter’s 16th bday

Snail and spool

Kaffe

Anita Salmon Gross

Japanese blocks

Use your stash

Orphan block

Aboriginal fabric

Japanese Paper pieced (hangs in bathroom)

Color class challenge (hangs in bedroom)

Split decision (in quiltcon book) And Split personality

Matisse inspired knit handstitch

Japanese sashiko wall hanging

Vintage pieces 

Thanks Michelle!’

 

Show and Tell

Krishma- community project

Krishma- one block wonder class with JoAnn

Laura- Carolyn Friedlander

Samantha- Halloweeny mini swap

Kourtney- sharing her heart and inspiration

Debbie- bag for featherweight

Jackie- Pod cast

Ameri- sewing and bikes

Ameri- Yuma

Diane- grunge dot layer cake

Quilt of Valor- Tracy/Terri

Margy- wedding gift

Raffle #2

#771121 Congrats Krishma

 

Thanks again! 

See you next month!! November 16 @ 7:15

-A

Hello NJMQG! Melanie here, with an update on our MQG charity quilt for Quiltcon.

Our winning design is Stars in Stars! Members can choose a star that they love to make and embed it into the overall design. It will be exciting to see how the stars come out and members should be able to find their stars in the finished quilt. (This is just a mock-up, our finished quilt will look very different!)

As you can see, it’s composed of blocks. Some are squares and some are half-square triangles (HSTs).

At the September guild meeting, we handed out bags with blocks and instructions. The instructions specify a background color and a star color. HST blocks also specify a solid triangle color for one half of the HST. This is so that the overall design emerges. Blocks that are white on white can be used as background or star– they will blend together but also add a lot of interest to the “negative space” of the quilt.

Here are some example blocks by Betsy and Kathy. If you post yours on Instagram, use the hashtags #njmqgcharityquilts and #quiltconcharityquilt .

If you would still like to pick up a block, limited supplies will be available at the Open Sew meeting on October 7.

For star inspiration, search on Pinterest. Here is a post of traditional stars, and here is a tutorial for wonky stars (you will have to adjust the size).

Blocks are due at the October meeting on the 21st.

If you have questions, email me at melintheattic at gmail dot com.