July 2023 Show and Tell

Block swap pictures:

Show and Tell Pictures:

Maura showed two pillows she created:

Carol K shared her Town Square quilt from the Easy Peasy 3-Quilt book by Donna Robertson.:

Sue shared this black and white jelly roll quilt:

Sue also showed her Disappearing 9-Patch quilt.

Raya shared her Tula Nova quilt.

Raya also shared her entry into the MQG Make-A-Difference challenge (theme was biodiversity):

Suzanne shared her Standing Room Only quilt designed by OCarol Designs.

Simone shared her Maker’s Tote from Noodlehead.

Meghan showed her 9-patch on point quilt.

Tracy shared the block she made for the charity quilt.

Pat shared her sawtooth star quilt.

Pat also shared an improv layout quilt

Pat also shared her completed block exchange quilt with the blocks from last year.

Pat showed this Jelly Roll quilt

Michelle shared her Irish Twist quilt.

Michelle also shared her Brightly quilt designed by Cluck Cluck Sew.

Finally, Michelle showed a Plaid-ish quilt (free tutorial from Kitchen Table Quilting).

Chelsea and Susan shared their Peanut Butter quilts - a free pattern from Then Came June.

Chelsea also shared a striped quilt.

Chelsea showed us this jelly roll quilt from the book More Jelly Roll Quilts by Annie’s Quilting.

Finally, Chelsea shared her No Point Stars quilt - a free pattern from Cluck Cluck Sew.

Robin shared her Posh Penelope quilt from Sew Kind of Wonderful.

Donna shared this mariner’s compass quilt.

Donna also shared her colorful Economy Block quilt.

Donna showed her Balderdash quilt from Emma Jean Jansen.

Finally, Donna shared this black, white, and red quilt.

Julie showed us her rainbow Economy Block quilt.

Gail shared the block she made for the charity quilt.

She also shared an improv piece she made.

Mary Lou shared her bucket hat and two cat placemats she made!

Karen G showed us her Cross Current quilt designed by Emma Jean Jansen.

Ophelia showed her star quilt (a modified Stargazer quilt by Frannie B)

Ophelia also shared her Hello Spring quilt from Pen + Paper Patterns.

Ophelia also shared her Simple Squares on Point quilt from Missouri Star.

Ophelia showed a Hazel Hedgehog quilt designed by Elizabeth Hartman.

Finally Ophelia shared this Violet quilt from Kitchen Table Quilting.

Susie shared this Upwards quilt designed by Paige Puddles.

Susie also shared her Skylight quilt designed by Cotton and Joy.

 And Marie was the featured quilter this month.  Photos from her ‘trunk show’:

June 2023 Meeting Recap

June Meeting Notes:

• Our June meeting was well attended!

• Our May retreat was the most ever attended! Maura is working on a retreat recap; email any pictures you’d like included to Maura!

• The Guild Instagram and Facebook are up and running. Tag us in your projects at @NHMQG on Instagram! 

• Our fall retreat will be November 2-5, 2023 at Village By The Sea in Wells Maine. More details to come.

• Our guild has already donated 25 charity quilts this year alone to “Sleep in Heavenly Peace”, and 33 to the “pass along project”. Contact Leslie with any charity quilt questions, or bring your charity quilts to the meeting!

• QuiltCon is having a charity challenge this year with the theme “symmetry”. Brenda passed around a sign up list, contact if you’d like to learn more!

• We completed a fun craft at this meeting! Using foam board, batting, and duct tape; we each created a travel sized design wall! The technique can be scaled up to any size for your crafting needs! 

Lastly, Show and Tell!

July 2023 Meeting and Raffle!

Here are the raffles for the upcoming NHMQG meeting, Thursday, July 13. We will be gathering at the First Church in Nashua. Meeting starts at 7, fellowship at 6:30,

1 Concord Street,
Nashua, NH 03064

 

Raffle 1:

Art Gallery Fabrics Pure Solids - Blossoming Edition - 23 Fat Quarters

 

 

 

Raffle 2:

Art Gallery Fabrics Pure Solids - Summering Edition - 23 Fat Quarters

 

 

 

 

June 2023 RAFFLE

 It's a beautiful day for some beautiful fabric! 

June 2023's Raffle Items:

Raffle #1: Brandon Mabely's Reflections (12 pcs)

Raffle #2: Anna Maria Horner's Fluent (18 pcs)

April 2023 Meeting Recap

 New Hampshire Modern Quilt Guild

General Membership Meeting

March 16, 2023 (snow date)

1 Concord St. Nashua, NH 

6:30 Doors Open; 7:00 Meeting Begins

• Regular guild business

• Visitors Tasha and her daughter Rachel, Tracy, Barbara. Welcome!

• We have made $200 dollars in the door raffle, which means $80 profit

• Next meeting will be June 8th.

• We are meeting at the First church again.

• Retreat update

• We have 34 people signed up to go to the retreat!

• There is 1 opening for a shared room. 2 or 3 nights if anyone is interested

• Charity quilts

• 12 quilts ready (+2 more!)

• 5 baby quilts, Leslie

• So far we gave 32 total quilts (wow)

• Huge thank you to Raya for taking notes and Karen for taking photos!

• Show and tell

•  (pictures attached below!)

• Block of the month

• Susie and Karen thank you for all your blocks. If you have not returned yours yet it's ok, but get it to us soon

• New block this month: again, 12.5 inch block, in blue and teal, can be mixed with low volume fabric of your choice.

• We are planning another block exchange this year

• 17 people are signed up already. Please sign up and consider being a fill in or doing a second group if you can so we can have full groups.

• How it works: We will set up groups. You start by bringing in1 yard of fabric of your choice. You will put your fabric and any special requests/instructions into a bag, which will be provided,and pass it to the next person in the group. Each month, each person will make (2) 12.5 square blocks from the fabric provided and any other fabric that you fancy adding in. Return any remnants with your completed blocks and at each subsequent meeting, we will rotate the bags so that you will have yet another member’s fabrics, as well as any blocks that have been made by other group members.At the end, each person in the group will receive many different blocks made by people in your group. Depending on the number of people in each group, you may have 8 (5 members) or 10 (6 members) or 12 (7 members).

• We’ll have the groups start in June. Each person has a month to make 2 blocks every month after. Please don't make 2 of the same block for 1 person! We aim for variety.

• June 8th we'll be making a design board

• Base is boards you can get from craft stores. Karen will have boards and tape for edging.

• Please bring a 10 inch piece of batting to the June meeting, perhaps with extras for those who forget,  and scissors

• We are also planning a bag workshop with Simone. Plan to do it over the weekend some time - details will be finalized soon.

• Special guest: Laurie Mathews.

• Laurie shared her quilting journey and did a trunk show of her quilts with the help of her (very proud and excited) daughter.

• Finally, we are planning future speakers: we have so much talent in the group that we wanted to see what we can do within the group. Please think of what you'd like to learn and from whom? What would you like to teach?