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November 10, 2015

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NJMQG Sponsoring Mid Atlantic MOD: A Modern Quilting Retreat!

Wonderful News!!

The NJMQG is an official Mid Atlantic MOD sponsor! This retreat is planned by Central Jersey MQG and the Philadelphia MQG with surrounding guilds also participating. It’s a fantastic retreat filled with SO much to do!

Being a sponsor for the retreat gives our guild first access to 10 total spots during early registration and a $25/person discount for our members that attend. Early Registration begins November 18th at 7pm! We will be supplied with an access code to register which will be posted in the Members Only section of the blog once we receive it.

Mid-Atlantic Mod Retreat DATES: April 21-24, 2016 at the Doubletree by Hilton in Lancaster, PA. It’s a beautiful hotel in a great location!

Cost to Sponsoring Guild Members (that’s us!): $120 (plus “local” fee if applicable)

Workshops: $15 each. The list of workshops will be posted this month. You can choose to take workshops or not.

Lodging: Room rate is $124 + tax per night for single or double occupancy.

“Local” fee: The event pricing has been established based on an assumption that all attendees will choose to stay overnight at the hotel using the event room block. Because we incur additional fees if attendees do not stay at the hotel, we have instituted a “local” fee of $50. A limited number of “local” attendees will be allowed.

Standard registration will open to the general public in early December. Non-Member cost: $145 (plus “local” fee if applicable).

The 2015 retreat had the following (some info copied from MOD’s site):

Plenty of social sewing time with the sewing room accessible from morning until very late at night
Various short hands-on workshops
Progressive quilts – where those who participated had a chance to win the completed top at the end of the retreat (!!!)
Secret and regular swaps
Charity sewing
Cocktail mixer
Local shop hops (nothing formal but there were carpooled trips to the many area shops)
Discounts to fabric shops
Swag bag filled with goodies (patterns, fabric, etc.)
Great giveaways
Sign ups for massages from professional masseuses
Some attendees chose not to participate in any of those options and sewed to their heart’s content (some people even sewed in their pjs). 🙂
Great location and beautiful hotel
And more!!

If you are on Instagram, check out the hashtag #midatlanticmod to see what everyone was up to at the last retreat!

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September 24, 2015

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September Meeting Recap

:: SEPTEMBER MEETING RECAP ::

• Our fun question for the meeting was:

~ How Many States Have You Bought Fabric In? Diane totaled a final number of 26! Aleeda was a close second with a total of 21!

• Our October Swap is an Infinity Scarf swap! Click here for details and to sign up!

• QuiltCon Charity Quilt 2016: ~ We distributed the fabric and guidelines for the QuiltCon 2016 Charity Quilt: Improv with Intent. Thank you to all of our participants. The blocks are due back at the October meeting. If you tag photo s of your progress/finished block(s) on social media, please use the tags: #njmqg #quiltconcharityquilt

~ QuiltCon 2016 Magazine: The deadline to submit a quilt design or an article to the QuiltCon 2016 magazine is Tuesday, September 29, 2015. Click here for details. Please consider submitting.

• QuiltCon 2017:

~ Call for Instructors and Lecturers for QuiltCon 2017: Deadline is December 31, 2015. Applicants notified by March 31, 2016. Click here for details.

• NJMQG Library:

~ The board has appointed an NJMQG Librarian: Kelly Chladil! Details on procedure coming soon.

• Upcoming Events:

~ Our OCTOBER GUILD MEETING is: Thursday, October 15, 2015 at Rock Paper Scissors from 7 – 9pm.

~ Brownstone Quilters Guild Quilt Show: November 6 – 7, 2015. Please click here for details. Hopefully everyone had the chance to buy a raffle ticket for the beautiful raffle quilt that was shown at the meeting!

~ Blanket Statements: New Quilts by Kaffe Fassett at the Michener Art Museum. Click here for details. Also, please check out the related programming going on in November through December here (see column on right for listings).

~ Cross Roads Retreat: November 11 – 15, 2015. All spots are currently filled.

~ Central Jersey MQG Fall Sewing Retreat: November 13 – 15, 2015. Please email njmqginfo (at) gmail (dot) com for details.

~ Rock Paper Scissors will be vending at Quilter’s Take Manhattan this weekend.

~ Rock Paper Scissors Annual Holiday Boutique is December 4, 5, 6th, 2015.

• Congratulations to Krishma! Her quilt, Juxtapose, was chosen as one the the 18 quilts to represent the MQG at the Texas Quilt Museum. The show runs from January to March, 2016.

• Check out the Show and Tell. Wow!

See you at the next meeting!

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September 15, 2015

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August Meeting Recap

Our August Open Sew guild meeting was awesome!

• We had an Open Sew Challenge! Tracy prepared bundles of donated fabric for charity quilt tops for those who wanted to participate for a prize. The competition was heated. 🙂 At one point Amy and Kimberli were neck and neck. Ultimately, Amy finished first and Kimberli came in at a close second. Way to go ladies!

• There was a “Free Table” set up at the meeting. So many goodies to choose from. We are considering practicing this concept at future meetings. Stay tuned for details at a later time.

• We had our Dumpling Pouch Swap and our 2nd Quarter Bee Block Swap and overall, a great time!

• Just look at these two Show and Tell stunners by Michelle and Diane!

• Thank you to all who donated blocks for Mother Emanuel Church at the July meeting. Six quilt tops were made and donated! The photos are from the Charleston MQG.