Our November meeting
was packed full with activities, news, fabric, and of course, quilts!
Upcoming Events:
-Submit
quilts to QuiltCon
by November 30, 2014
-December Meeting
Tuesday, December 9, 2014, 6:30 (optional shop/social time), 7-9:30
Pennington Quilt Works
See bottom of post for details
-Dues for next year
- bring to December meeting preferably to renew your membership!
It's $50 for the year, and this goes towards our challenges, meeting
lessons/events, charity projects, guild retreats, and to the international
Modern Quilt Guild. If you have any questions, please email the account!
-January Meeting
Tuesday, January 13, 2015, 6:30 (optional shop/social time), 7-9:30
Secret Quilter gift exchange and officer elections
-January Sewcial (free!), Hopewell Train Station, 10am-5pm
Sunday, January 18, 2015
3 out of 20 spots remaining - members RSVP here.
Sat. March
21 - 10-4:30
-Cloud 9 Fabrics – Michelle Engel Bencsko – Lecture and Organic Fabric/Quilt Trunk Show
Saturday, January 31, 1-2 pm, Pennington Quilt Works, Pennington, NJ
Free for 2015 CJMQG members, $5 guests
Doubletree Hotel, Lancaster, PA
April 23-26
Details here - general registration - Nov. 30 @ 7pm
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General Announcements:
-Event
section on the Forum online (Bigtent) – please post any sewing related events
you are involved with/hear of. You can announce them at meetings, too.
- Please
enjoy our giveaway table and feel free to donate. However please don't bring
very large items and please only bring quilter's cotton fabric (or the kind of
designer home décor or laminate etc. sold in quilt shops).
-Meetings
start with a shop/social time from 6:30-7! No obligation to come, but this is a
great time to catch up with friends, get to know others, and shop at PQW!
-I'm
experimenting with MailChimp, an email service, for guild updates in addition to
Bigtent (possibly an all-inclusive newsletter kind of thing). You should be
getting an email from me soon!
-The Great
Fabric Trade from last meeting was successful and we'd love to see more people
participate next time. We will do it again in the spring, so set aside your
destash goods for the future!
-End of
year survey – will go out through email and link on Bigtent. Please start to
think about what you'd like to do next year!
-Please
respond to the email about volunteering to vote for our quilt exhibit and the
Quilt Fest in March. The voting committee will vote in mid-December before the
holidays.
-Our November
retreat was so much fun - see blog post here!
-Charity
quilts went to the Center for Great Expectations - see blog post here!
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Meeting:
-Ice
breaker – We found out whether there were families of sewists out there, or
lone wolves (a bit of both - and many learned from their grandmothers!).
-We
discussed officer positions and nominated members for those positions
(President, Vice President, Secretary, and Treasurer). Nominations will also
take place at the December meeting, and elections will take place at the
January meeting. If you have any questions, feel free to email the account!
Challenge: We collected 8" x 8" blocks for our guild's
QuiltCon Charity Quilt. Guess what? The top is already pieced!
Designed
and pieced by Jessica Skultety
Discussion: Scrap
sewing/storage - What are your favorite solutions for
sewing with scraps?
How do you store them?
How do you store them?
Activity: Fabric and color play with Jessica Levitt
- 2nd round of the CJMQG Bee – Lee's quilt blocks
-Show and Tell
Lori S.:
Jess S.:
Elaine:
Neva:
Jess L.:
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December Meeting
- Discussion: Favorite sewing classes online and in person – bring laptop to follow along
- Challenge: Bring in a gift you are making for the holidays
- Officer Nominations
- Work on your Secret Quilter Exchange project – due in Jan.
- Wrap up 2014 Guild QAL
- Bee
- Show and Tell
Looking
ahead:
January
Meeting
- Activity: Bring in your Secret Quilter Gift Exchange!
- Challenge: Receive fabric for Jessica Levitt's Cascade fabric challenge - due in March - you can still sign up (email us)
- Officer Elections
- Bee
- Introduce new guild QAL
- Show and Tell
Happy Thanksgiving! :)
-Jess S.
