We have two remaining meetings for 2013, both scheduled to take place at Inspire Quilting & Sewing in Plant City, FL - Saturday, November 9, 2013 at 10am and Saturday, December 15, 2013.
At our November meeting, we'll be talking about the new MQG Community site and how to use it. If you are a dues paying member of our guild and do not currently have access to the MQG site, please let us know!
For our December meeting, we'll be having a handmade White Elephant swap. Bring your wrapped handmade goody and head home afterward with another handmade goody, made by someone in the guild, as well as probably a funny story or two about the mad swapping that occurs after we open our items.
In 2014, we'll be working on varying our meeting locations. We'll be alternating between meeting at Inspire as well as some local libraries. Stay tuned for more info on that!
Saturday, October 19, 2013
Sunday, March 10, 2013
March 2013 Meeting Minutes
We had twelve members present at our March meeting!
At our March meeting, we discussed some news from the national guild, shared our Madrona Road projects and voted on a winner, as well as talked about modern quilting resources online.
The national MQG is moving toward a new membership model which will include yearly dues to the national organization. These dues will yield many benefits to us, and Elizabeth will be sharing more information on this at our April meeting. Benefits will include discounts and priority registration for educational events like QuiltCon and regional SewDowns, discounts with affiliated companies and sponsors, as well as access to a new centralized website for managing our guild as well as conversing with our guild. The new website will be rolled out toward the end of 2013.
Speaking of SewDowns, there are currently five different ones planned between now and the next QuiltCon (which will be 2015) - Philadelphia in September 2013, Portland in February 2014, Nashville in April 2014, Minneapolis in July 2014, Scottsdale AZ in September 2014.
There will again be a Modern Quilt Guild showcase at International Quilt Festival/Market this fall - entries open now through April 26th - for more info visit MQG blog - themodernquiltguild.wordpress.com
The Madrona Road challenge was a great success for our guild, with a total of nine entries. Thanks very much to Katie, Maria, Anita, Donna, Sandy, Ellen, Ann, Elizabeth and Bree for taking part in the challenge! Members can view the photos of all of the entered projects on BigTent in the Files tab. As a group we voted blindly on all of the projects, and Elizabeth's project was the winner. Maria and Ann tied for second place, and each received/will receive a bundle of fabric. At our April meeting, we'll discuss starting a new guild challenge.
This month's educational presentation, Find Your Tribe, was about finding modern quilting resources and community online. These educational presentations will become a recurring part of our monthly meetings. Members can log into our BigTent site to find a copy of the presentation.
Our next meeting is April 6th at 1pm at the Jimmie B Keel Library, and our educational presentation for this meeting will be What is Modern Quilting. Our May meeting will be held on May 11th at 10am at Inspire Quilting & Sewing in Plant City.
Saturday, February 16, 2013
Our March Meeting
Our next scheduled meeting is Saturday, March 9th, at the Jimmie B. Keel Library in northwest Tampa, at 1pm. We'll be viewing all of the entires in our guild's Madrona Road Challenge and selecting a winner, so make sure to attend!
For more information about our March meeting and to RSVP, visit our new BigTent group.
For more information about our March meeting and to RSVP, visit our new BigTent group.
February Meeting Minutes
At our February meeting, we met at Inspire Quilting & Sewing in Plant City, a lovely quilt shop with lots of beautiful space for us to sew in. We had six members in attendance at this meeting, as well as two visitors from the Orlando MQG.
We discussed the upcoming Original Sewing Expo in Lakeland March 14-16, the Madrona Road challenge currently underway, as well as the upcoming evening mixer planned tentatively for 2/26. We also discussed setting some basic bylaws for the guild and a steering committee for this task was gathered.
Our next meeting is scheduled for 3/9 at the Jimmie B Keel Library. The JBK Library is currently under construction and will be for the remainder of this year, so they are limiting the use of meeting rooms, so we may meet more often at Inspire, as they have offered to host future meetings in their spacious classroom.
We discussed the upcoming Original Sewing Expo in Lakeland March 14-16, the Madrona Road challenge currently underway, as well as the upcoming evening mixer planned tentatively for 2/26. We also discussed setting some basic bylaws for the guild and a steering committee for this task was gathered.
Our next meeting is scheduled for 3/9 at the Jimmie B Keel Library. The JBK Library is currently under construction and will be for the remainder of this year, so they are limiting the use of meeting rooms, so we may meet more often at Inspire, as they have offered to host future meetings in their spacious classroom.
Thursday, January 10, 2013
The Madrona Road Challenge
Violet Craft's latest collection for Michael Miller Fabrics, Madrona Road, is the focus of the newest challenge hosted by the Modern Quilt Guild. Within our local guild, the guidelines for participating in the challenge are quite simple: you can only add solid fabrics (or additional Madrona Road prints) to what you receive from the guild, and you must make something with a quilted element to it. A quilt, a quilted pillow, quilted tote bag, you choose! To participate in the challenge and receive some of the fabric provided to us for the challenge, you must be present at our January meeting and Sew Day, to be held January 19th at 11 a.m. For more meeting details and to RSVP, check our Facebook group right here.
The final projects will be shared at our March guild meeting, scheduled for March 9th. Want to see what some of the other MQG's are doing so far with the challenge? Check out the Flickr group!
The final projects will be shared at our March guild meeting, scheduled for March 9th. Want to see what some of the other MQG's are doing so far with the challenge? Check out the Flickr group!
Sunday, December 2, 2012
Our December Guild Meeting
Thanks to everyone who made it out to our December meeting! We had a really great turnout, with nine of us in attendance, and I think fun was had by all :)
We chatted about our upcoming meetings, currently slated for:
January 19, 2012 at 11AM at the Jimmie B Keel library in Tampa
February 9, 2013 at 10AM at Inspire Quilting & Sewing in Plant City
Please remember that if you plan to attend, please RSVP either by leaving a comment here or by RSVP'ing in our Facebook group.
At the meeting, we discussed the current guild challenge, the Negative Space challenge, and collectively decided to put the challenge on hold for the time-being, due to guild members' time constraints and the impending Madrona Road challenge, sponsored by Michael Miller Fabrics. Stay tuned for more information about the Madrona Road challenge, including sign-ups and details, coming soon, as well as a revival of the Negative Space Challenge some time in 2013.
We had a wonderful amount of projects to see for Sew & Share this month, from beautiful English paper piecing to applique and string piecing and so forth. Unfortunately, the pictures I took seem to have gotten eaten by my camera's memory card. I'm reformatting is as I type this, so hopefully next month, we'll have photos to share.
We also chatted about ideas for the guild over the next year, since 2013 is merely a month away. Ideas ranged from sewing days with a certain technique or focus, like free motion quilting or foundation paper piecing, a day or weekend guild retreat, a block swap or an add-a-border block project, a swap with another modern quilt guild, and so forth. There's definitely plenty of ideas to get us rolling into 2013.
I hope to see at our next meeting. Cheers!
We chatted about our upcoming meetings, currently slated for:
January 19, 2012 at 11AM at the Jimmie B Keel library in Tampa
February 9, 2013 at 10AM at Inspire Quilting & Sewing in Plant City
Please remember that if you plan to attend, please RSVP either by leaving a comment here or by RSVP'ing in our Facebook group.
At the meeting, we discussed the current guild challenge, the Negative Space challenge, and collectively decided to put the challenge on hold for the time-being, due to guild members' time constraints and the impending Madrona Road challenge, sponsored by Michael Miller Fabrics. Stay tuned for more information about the Madrona Road challenge, including sign-ups and details, coming soon, as well as a revival of the Negative Space Challenge some time in 2013.
We had a wonderful amount of projects to see for Sew & Share this month, from beautiful English paper piecing to applique and string piecing and so forth. Unfortunately, the pictures I took seem to have gotten eaten by my camera's memory card. I'm reformatting is as I type this, so hopefully next month, we'll have photos to share.
We also chatted about ideas for the guild over the next year, since 2013 is merely a month away. Ideas ranged from sewing days with a certain technique or focus, like free motion quilting or foundation paper piecing, a day or weekend guild retreat, a block swap or an add-a-border block project, a swap with another modern quilt guild, and so forth. There's definitely plenty of ideas to get us rolling into 2013.
I hope to see at our next meeting. Cheers!
Saturday, November 17, 2012
February Guild Meeting & Sew Day
Mark your calendar - on February 9, 2013 at 10:00 am, we'll have our February meeting and Sew Day.
Bring an recent finished project or work-in-progress to share with your guild friends, and stay along with your sewing machine and sew with us for a while! We'll be meeting at Inspire Quilting & Sewing in Plant City for February, they've been kind enough to invite us to use their classroom. If you haven't been there before, you're in for a treat, the folks at Inspire are not only welcoming and hospitable but kind and funny as well. I hope to see you there!
We'll start the guild meeting shortly after 10am, and the Sew Day can go as long as you'd like, as the shop is open until 6. There's plenty of wonderful restaurants in downtown Plant City for lunch and snacks, and there's also a small kitchen adjacent to the classroom, if you'd like to bring a dish to share or snack/drink for yourself.
Bring an recent finished project or work-in-progress to share with your guild friends, and stay along with your sewing machine and sew with us for a while! We'll be meeting at Inspire Quilting & Sewing in Plant City for February, they've been kind enough to invite us to use their classroom. If you haven't been there before, you're in for a treat, the folks at Inspire are not only welcoming and hospitable but kind and funny as well. I hope to see you there!
We'll start the guild meeting shortly after 10am, and the Sew Day can go as long as you'd like, as the shop is open until 6. There's plenty of wonderful restaurants in downtown Plant City for lunch and snacks, and there's also a small kitchen adjacent to the classroom, if you'd like to bring a dish to share or snack/drink for yourself.
Please be sure to comment here if you plan to attend, or RSVP within our Facebook group.
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