September Notes

 

September Notes:

• Quilt Guild position survey:
• Not volunteering, but showing what is something you are good at/would be OK working on. These are more to gauge people’s preferences throughout the years. Volunteer to be nominated by October, Vote in November; announce in December! On boarding in January. Teams
• Retreat: 
• Fall retreat: sign ups went well! May be able to add one more! Please email the guild email if you are still interested. 
• Spring retreat: Still in the works... Margate resort, Saint Methodius (contoocook NH) If YOU would like to help on this committee for spring retreat, please email us!!!
• Raffle: Door Prize: Beth! Evergreen pattern! 
• Raffle: Lynn! Stripology Ruler
• Raffle: Slimline - Donna K!
• WIP Challenge:
• today was the deadline to turn in WIP cards. WIP = Work In Progress. Have to declare ahead of time; can not add or change retroactively. No penalty for incomplete WIPs, but if you finish, you are entered into a raffle! 
• Charity blocks:
• 2 x KONA colors; Sew day on September 30; 
• Simone’s Sew in:
• went great! Beautiful area, 9 sign ups, Thank you Simone!!
• Charity Report:
• Delivered 32 quilts to foster children; 22 to Sleep In Heavenly Peace; about 10 ready to donate; at least 64 fro, only IN SEPTEMBER! AMAZING
• Ruler Roulette! 
• Flying geese, slotted HST, 

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Show and Tell:

Susie: 1. Simone bag 2. Charity Quilt 3. WIP! Hello Spring by Pen&Paper For granddaughter! Started at retreat

Patty: 1. Delivered a WIP 2. Gingham 3. WIP! MQG criss cross chain! Tula backing! 

Lori W: 1. WIP, baby quilt, 2. Dit Dot fabric, 

Laurie M:1. Maggie, 2. Wonky stars from 2017, added in a panel, 3. Free pattern from a friend Quilts for the main Scraps snap, also a scrappy binding! (WIP!) 

Martha: Welcome Martha! 1. Former apparel design teacher; took a class

Barbara: 1. Table runner
 

Simone: 1. Jay bird pattern lightning, peacock feather quilting design; variegated thread, shows up differently across the quilt.

Lesley: 1. Old finish! 2. Panel from compass point quilts border is a Hoffman batik; 

Shelly: Simone’s class!

Donna: 1. WIP Charity, 2. For JoJo, with a label from her husband, 

Michelle: 1. Postcard from Sweden; made HST 2/time, so she made a second identical quilt!

Robin: 1. WIP, Sew-together bag, 2. WIP, charity built, 3. Fixed up hedgehogs! 

Lisa: 1. 3 yard quilts, for a 96th birthday, only accepts gold! 2. For a friend’s first baby, town square 3 yard!

Ophelia: 1. Sandhill sling, . Sweetwater 3. WIP, Hobbs, rhinos!, 4. Sweetwater, 5. Pixel quilt! Use grid interfacing, BUT you can see the grid ink through the fabric! 

September 2023 Show and Tell

 These pictures are from the September 2023 meeting.

Block exchange:

Show and tell:

Susie showed her Sandhill Sling bag from Noodlehead.

Susie also showed her Sweet Strawberry quilt from the Piece & Love book by the Cloth Parcel.

Susie finished this Hello Spring quilt from Pen + Paper Patterns.

Patty M shared her blue and white plaid quilt.

Patty M also showed her Criss Cross Chain quilt designed by Wendy Chow (a free pattern for MQG members!)

Lori showed us this lovely baby quilt.

Lori also shared this rainbow Stack and Flip quilt.

Laurie M shared her Maggie quilt from Kitchen Table Quilting.

Laurie also made this panel sampler using the Crescent panel by Sarah Watts for Ruby Star Society.

Laurie finished this Snap Scrap quilt.

Martha showed a sampler wall hanging.

Barbara shared her table runner.

Simone showed us her Northern Lights quilt designed by Jaybird Quilts.

Lesley shared this snowball quilt.

Lesley also shared this quilt made with the Zookeeper alphabet panel.

Shelly shared her Sandhill Sling bag from Noodlehead.

Donna showed us her colorful flower quilt.

Donna also showed this green and black quilt.

Michelle C shared her Postcard from Sweden Quilt. 

Robin shared a quilted bag she made.

Robin also shared this quilt that appears to be a modified Gallery quilt from the Modern Views with 3 yard Quilts from Donna Robertson.

Robin then shared her Hazel Hedgehog quilt from Elizabeth Hartman.

Lisa shared her Big Blooms quilt from the Quilts in a Jiffy 3-Yard Quilts book from Donna Robertson.

 

Lisa also showed her Town Square quilt from the Easy Peasy 3-Yard Quilts book by Donna Robertson.

Ophelia shared her  Sandhill Sling bag from Noodlehead.

Ophelia then showed us two different colorways of a quilt pattern that appears to be from a Project Sweetwater subscription box.

Ophelia showed her Rhino Romp quilt designed by Hobbs Designs.

Ophelia finished out show and tell with this Flower Vase Embroidery quilt (a free pattern from Tilda fabrics).

Pictures from this month's programming:

September Meeting and Raffle

September Raffle items are below! Get ready for our monthly meeting, September 14th at First Church in Nashua. At the meeting we will have Round Robin Rulers, tutorials with Quick Curve, Stripology, BlocLoc, Square in a Square and perhaps Circle Savvy Ruler.

 Raffle is now closed! See you at the meeting

Item 1 - Slimline 3 Table Lamp

By Daylight Co.
LED 6,000K daylight
4 brightness levels

Item 2 - Stripology XL Ruler

From Creative Grids,
Designed by Gudrun Erla of
GE Designs