Time just doesn’t slow down, does it? Here we are in March and I’m once again, just getting to the meeting recaps…here’s January.
If you can remember all the way back then with me, we had 51 people join us, for our meeting over Zoom. We welcomed new members Arlene and Paula. We had a little bit of business to take care of before we had a special guest lecturer.
We asked everyone to please complete their membership renewal. Don’t forget to fill out the Google form and submit payment! Our new roster starts in February. We had a brief chat about Quiltcon. Who was going, meeting up for a group shot in front of our community quilt, and our Quiltcon sew-in for the folks at home. The February meeting is February 15, over Zoom, but our March meeting will be in person in our new space- First Lutheran Church, 153 Park St, Montclair. A heads up, there was a conflict for the April meeting date so that will now be on April 27th (happens to be my birthday).
We welcomed Libs Elliott to our meeting and she gave us a wonderful lecture, chock full of her history and process using Java based code to make randomized designs which then turn occasionally into quilts and patters. “Bridging the divide of tech and traditional craft”. She talked a bit about her Bloem class that we had with her on the 20th. Looking forward to sharing more from that at our in person meeting. Hope to see there!
Hello! Happy New Year! (can I still say that this far into the month) Apologies for the constant late recaps and updates, but you know…life happens… In December we held our annual holiday party, which never disappoints! We had a lovely meetup with 31 members, 3 guests, and 4 little friends joining us.
Donations galore for Kelly
First raffle winner
MQG community quilt
Debby C- Bernie the cat
Sam- got Debbie’s mini in a swap
By Annie Out and About Backpack
Amazing Hanukkah sign for friend (each one of those is a Bitzie Box pouch to hold goodies)
Jo Ann- Christmas Crazy
Carol M-
Karen J- pillow for son made with fabric from free table “Blessings”
Pat B- Hat made from wool left on free table
Wannetta- the surprise tool you want to add to your stash…toilet cleaner with bleach. Turned ruined skirt into a mini
Annette- stack and whack for Project Linus
Karen F second raffle winner
Carolyn M- working with negative backgroud
Working with velvet, florals and pleating
Zeffi- first quilt
Elinore, another lucky winner
Pat won too!
Miguel H- having fun with pintucks, 80’s graphics, maximal/minimal and EPP
A fun game of BINGO!!
Annette won the first round!
Karen got a little too confident and faked us out keeping us on our toes…
And I didn’t even get a picture of the winner… but we played a fun game of LRC, too! It is always fun to listen in on that!
We would like to thank the members who helped organize the party, as well as, the members who came out to have some fun with us. We hope you are staying warm and working on lots of projects! Don’t forget to label and take pictures or save them up to be shared at our in person meetings!
Hello and welcome to the October recap. This month we met over Zoom. We had 41 people joining us, including some new friends, Cecila, Arlene and Nina. Thanks for joining us, and hope to see you soon!
This month we started our meeting off with our usual guild business. Annette gave us a treasurer’s report, which as always, can be found in the member’s only section of the website.
Last month we hosted our very first Quilt Showcase, and it was just so wonderful! We had about 200 people come to see the show and we sold our MQG charity quilt! The money from that sale will be donated to Oasis Haven and Rachel Coalition. We want to thank everyone who helped pull it together, with a special thanks to the showcase committee and and extra special shout out to our president Ann, who took the reigns and totally went for it. We are looking forward to our next one, in 2025.
Some announcements were next. We took a poll about our 2024 meeting schedule. Based off the results, we will have 8 meetings in person and 4 virtually. When meeting in person we will also be going to a new location. We will be letting everyone know all those details soon!
Mid Atlantic Mod Retreat will be April 18-21 and our 10 lucky early registrants have gotten in. Regular registration has also opened and there is a waitlist if you’d like to get on it.
We have some committee updates. Did you know we have a library? Books and rulers are available for borrowing. Caroline Hayes will be our new guild librarian. We are also looking for a new head to our charity committee. Please reach out if you are interested in helping out.
At our September meeting we started working on our MQG Community Quilt. Since then we have the top and back completed and Carol M will be quilting it. Looking forward to seeing that come together!
Programs is working hard behind the scenes to bring us some fun and exciting things in the new year. Before the new year starts, though, we had a field trip to Cultured Expressions for a workshop with Lisa Shepard Stewart.
November 4, we are celebrating International Scrap Sorting Day with the MQG. Let’s get organized!!
In November we have our meeting on the 16th , at 7, over Zoom. December we will have our holiday party on December 2 from 11-3 at the Community Church of Cedar Grove. Jeanine is leading the planning on this, but any help is welcome, reach out to her at vicepresident at njmqg dot com. For January we have a lecture and workshop scheduled with Libs Elliot. If you don’t know her, you should really check her stuff out. Libs will be joining our January 18 meeting over Zoom to give us a lecture. Then keep your calendar open for January 20, for a workshop over Zoom for the Bloem quilt.
We have some other things in the works and are looking forward to sharing more with you soon!
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