Monday, March 30, 2015

March Meeting Recap

Our March meeting saw a LOT of quilts! We shared our challenge projects for Jessica Levitt's Cascade fabric, plus the usual quilt-a-long blocks, bee blocks, and show and tell.

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What an awesome picture of most of our current bee members with the blocks they made for Teddi! I will post the individual blocks on the blog soon.

-We recapped both QuiltCon (February in Austin, TX) and QuiltFest of NJ XI (where we had an exhibit of modern quilts). Generous attendees of QuiltCon raffled off some swag (more to come at the April meeting!)

-Jessica's Cascade fabric challenge - more entries. The contest ends tomorrow! Members had to make a quilted item with her fabric. Thank you to Jessica and to Windham Fabrics for providing fat eighths and scraps of fabric!


Lori

 Jess S. - see other pics on my blog :)

 Andy

 Elaine

 Tatiana

 Kathleen

March Quilt-A-Long blocks:


 Great job everyone! Let's keep the momentum going in April! So many people are participating (even more than in the photo) - it's great! :)

-We held our 2nd Great Fabric Destash - members brought in fabric and notions that they wanted to trade or sell to other members. It was fun and I hope next time we have even more participants! We can hold another in the fall.



Show and Tell:

 Laura and her astounding 3-D butterflies (thank you again for all of these meeting pictures!)

 Liz and her beauteous Cotton and Steel

 Nicole and her cute Minecraft pillow

 Janneke and her lovely tulips



Lori and her bold, beautiful fabric mixing


Sonia and her thoughtful improv piecing

 Michelle and her stunning rainbow


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Please join us for our April Meeting!
Guests welcome, as always - please see the "About" tab on our website for details. First time guests are free! Please email us if you'll be attending.
Members, RSVP here
Central Jersey Modern Quilt Guild

Tuesday, April 14, 2015
6:30 optional social/shop time, 7-9:30 meeting
Pennington Quilt Works, Pennington, NJ

-Swap - low volume fabrics (see info here - anyone can participate if you are present)
-Challenge: Try a new quilting technique and share (can be practicing on a scrap quilt sandwich - straight lines OR free motion - anything goes!)
-Bee
-Turn in purple flower blocks for Mott Hall Bridges Academy (due in May to Lori)
-Guild QAL - April blocks
-Show and Tell


See you soon!
Jess S.