January Meeting Recap

Hello again and welcome to 2017! May it be quilty.

A reminder to members: please update your contact information on your Bigtent profile to make sure you receive any emergency information (like meeting cancellations due to snow).

We held our board elections for 2017. For Secretary, Helaine Lobman. Treasurer, Beth Carmody. Vice President, Laura Schafer. Neva will continue as President. Congratulations and thank you for volunteering!

The new year of the Guild Bee began with Lee handing out her packets.

The NewBee finished blocks for Cheryl:


Only one entrant in the MQG BOM:


Show and Tell happens in the middle of meetings now, so we have more opportunity to examine the quilts up close!




And then!! Our annual Secret Quilter Gift Exchange!






And finally, our QuiltCon Charity Quilt has been bound and labeled and will be off to QuiltCon soon!!

December Meeting Recap

Hello again, dear quilty friends! It's time for another monthly meeting recap post!

Member reminders: Our next meeting will be Wednesday January 11th at Hopewell Presbyterian Church.
Members who sign up for the Pantone color of the year challenge by January 11th will receive one half yard of Kona Lime at the March meeting. You can send an email to be added to the list of participants. If you aren't sure if you already signed up, there's a list in the "News" section of Bigtent.

We wanted to thank Jan of Pennington Quilt Works for hosting us over our first years as a guild. As membership has grown, we'll be moving to a larger space for 2017. Thank you, Jan, for everything you've done for us!


The NewBee brought in the blocks they made for Beth. They're hashtag blocks! #awesome


Here are some of our members' blocks for the MQG's Block of the Month.


December was the final month of our Patchwork City Quilt-A-Long!


At the break, we had a brown bag swap. Members brought in a brown paper bag filled with three fat quarters and their favorite quilting tool. There was a lot of laughter during the swap. Thanks to Cheryl for organizing!


After the break, member Christina gave us a demo on how to do quilt-as-you-go. Thank you Christina!


Member Meg brought in the quilts she had purchased in this year's Quilt Alliance auction.


We had one of our biggest Show and Tell sessions of the year!









See you in January with our annual Secret Quilter Swap!

November meeting recap

Hello out there again, all you quilty people!

Reminders for members: dues for 2017 must be paid by December 31. Please note that in 2017, meetings will be held at the Hopewell Presbyterian Church to accommodate our growing guild, starting on January 11.

Now we have a picture or two to tide you over until the December meeting!

Jess S finished quilting our QuiltCon charity quilt, and now it's being labeled and bound.


We had a challenge with the theme of FIVE for the guild's upcoming fifth birthday. Our members had a few different takes on the theme..





And then the bees!
First, the NewBee made cool scrappy blocks for Mada.


The Guild Bee made blocks for Jamee. She asked them to make something with a word that reminded them of nature, so I'm posting some closer shots that you can read.




Our Patchwork City Quilt-A-Long participants


And what did we see in Show and Tell? All of this glorious stuff:




Great work! See you next month with your brown bag swap items!

Brown Bag Swap! - December Meeting

At our Tuesday, December 13th, meeting bring the following in a plain brown bag for a blind swap:

3 fat quarters 

1 quilty item you can't live without (not to exceed $10.00)

Note to receiver

You can use social (starts at 6:30 p.m.) and break time at the November meeting to shop for your bag items!