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February 14, 2017

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Reminder: February 2017 Meeting this Thursday!

Happy Valentine’s Day!

• Our February meeting is this Thursday, February 16th, 2017 at 7:15pm at the Community Church of Cedar Grove, 65 Bowden Road, Cedar Grove, NJ 07009. Parking is located in the large lot in the back – use the side entrance to come in. Feel free to arrive about 15 minutes early.
• Important: Check in at the registration table to sign in and pick up a raffle ticket for door prizes before finding a seat.

• FREE table: Bring in the quilty items you no longer use and drop them on our FREE table at the beginning of the meeting. If your items are not taken, please bring them home with you.

• Member Corner: Many of our members have their own creative businesses and services to offer. A designated table is provided for members to leave their business cards, class/workshop lists, postcards, etc. This is a great way to get the word out about what you have to offer!

• Library: Have you borrowed a book from the NJMQG library? Books can be checked out for one month. Please see Margy S. If you borrowed a book at the last meeting, remember to return it at this meeting.

• Did you take Amy Rehbein’s Betty Bowler Bag Member-Led Workshop? Please bring your work from this class to the meeting to share with the group.

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• Member Trunk Show continues: Amy Rehbein is the next featured NJMQG Member in our Member Trunk Show Series for 2017!

• Cross Back Apron Swap: For those of you who signed up for this swap, please bring your apron to the meeting.

• Brown Bag Mini Quilt Swap: If you would like to participate in this swap, we will have brown paper bags at this meeting for you. More details to come!

Quilt Fest 2017: If you submitted quilts to the NJMQG Special Exhibit, please bring your quilt(s) to this meeting. More details are in the email that was sent to those participating in the exhibit. If you did not receive an email and submitted a quilt, please email njmqginfo at gmail dot com.

• Jelly Roll Race: Not going to QuiltCon? Come to our Open Sew on Saturday, February 25! We will be sewing pre-cut fabric strips/jelly rolls into charity quilt tops! We will need volunteers to cut and roll fabric at our guild meeting this Thursday. We also need volunteers to bring 2 large cutting mats, 4 rulers & 4 rotary cutters for cutting the strips. Please comment if you can provide!

• Refreshments: Consider bringing a light refreshment to share.

• Remember to bring your name tag. If you do not have a name tag, we can arrange a partner swap- ask any of the NJMQG Executive Board Officers (Daniela, Amy, Annette, Kourtney, or Stella). As always, please bring anything you may have for Show and Tell!
See you on Thursday!

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February 9, 2017

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Quilt Fest 2017 NJMQG Special Exhibit

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All NJMQG members who choose to do so have the opportunity to review the quilts submitted via a Google form. The form is available in the password-protected Members Only section of the blog. Forgot or need the password? Email us at njmqginfo at gmail dot com.

The form will be available until this Sunday evening, February 12th.

Can you lend a hand? If you are able to volunteer for the event, some needs include: determine the order the quilts will hang in the show; bring quilts and set up the exhibit on Wed., March 1; take down quilts on Sun., March 5. Please email njmqginfo at gmail dot com to volunteer.

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January 24, 2017

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January Meeting Recap!

hey all! The QuiltCon charity quilt looks amazing! A huge thanks to all who volunteered to help make this happen! 🙂 You’ve all done an amazing job!

here’s some info and reminders below:

The Modern Quilt Guild has introduced its “modern monthly!’ It’s a monthly newsletter dedicated to things like, quilt of the month, block of the month, webinars, articles, interviews, etc. To gain access to these you must be a paid member.
Quiltfest is coming up March 2-5! We have about 23-24 quilts to put into the show! SO exciting! A form will be available soon for all to see the beautiful quilts. If you would like to help curate how they hang, help to set up or take down the exhibit, you can volunteer by emailing njmqginfo at gmail dot com.
There is a fabric challenge coming up by Kaffe Fassett for FreeSpirit fabrics called, “I am an Artisan .” Make a quilt, and possibly have it picked by Kaffe himself along with tons of different prizes! The quilt must be at least 80% artisan and the rest can be anything you would like to pair it with. The deadline is in June. Click the link for more info & you can look up examples by using the #artisanchallenge on instagram.
Feb. 4th is Amy’s Betty Bowler Bag class! Make sure you have your supplies! It’s coming up 🙂
All info for the Bee blocks has been emailed to the appropriate hives!
Our February swap is the cross back apron ! SO much fun! Click the link to sign up and for more info. The brown bag mini quilt swap will be after this one 🙂
Don’t forget to mark your calendars Timna Tarr is coming to town! She will do her lecture Friday, June 16th, and her map workshop will be Saturday, June 17th at our regular meeting location.
Our garment district adventure will be rescheduled! Stayed tuned for more info!

Thanks Liz for the Artisan presentation! We are excited for the challenge.

QuiltCon Charity Quilt!

Lovely ladies hard at work ripping the papers 🙂 ❤

Some of the Hawaiian Appliqué blocks from Diane’s class!

Aleeda’s Quilty Tips!!

Aleeda’s got some awesome quilty tips to share with all of us!

For rulers, threads, & cutters- you must first take inventory of what you have! Organize the rulers by shapes and use a peg board with a pipe cleaner to hold them all together. Aleeda uses an “omnigrid” bag that she got from JoAnn’s that she highly recommends.
For circle rulers, use a belt holder to keep them together and organized.
Thread can be stored in pencil cases/boxes. (which I believe she got from staples/office depot) She suggests organizing them by the type of thread they are. For example “Aurifil, Polyester, Metallic, etc.”
She keeps her bobbins secure by using the “donut” bobbin holder.
She uses a magnetic bar to hold her other tools such as scissors, [put a LOCK on them if you have some sneaky hands in the house :)] you can purchase them from IKEA, & harbor freight.

Show & Tell!