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?

April 2023 Meeting and Raffle

Here are the raffles for the upcoming meeting, Thursday, April 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 is now closed, please buy your tickets at the door!

Raffle 1:

2 fat quarter bundles of 'Seedling' by Katarina Roccella for Art Gallery Fabrics

 

Raffle 2:

25 Fat Quarters of Cotton Couture 'Coral Reef' for Michael Miller fabrics

 Good luck and see you Thursday!

March 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

Agenda, Housekeeping & Featured Quilter

Housekeeping

Next Meeting Thursday April 13th @ Church

Retreats - Lori Breen

• Waitlist no longer! Able to accommodate a *few* more people

Hospitality

• Thank you to Sonia, Carol & Maura for treats

Charity - Leslie

• December 2022 = 39 quilts to the Nashua Children's Home

• January = 32 quilts to the Pass Along project for children in foster-care

• February = “car-full” of quilts, thank you Jennifer!

• March = Sleep in Heavenly Peace (a group that makes beds)

Raffles

• Door Prize - Embroidery Kit

• Chelsea!

• Alison Glass Fabric

• Mary Lou

• Light

• Mary Lou

Mini-Yard Sale (Give/Take Table)

• Thank you Michelle & Lori

• Perhaps a Give/Take table at future meetings

• Just take home what you brought!

Agenda

• Block Swap 2023!

• Sign up sheet passed around

• Peep Robin and Helen’s quilts in Show and Tell; it’s their results from the Block Swap

• Martingale Books - Going out of business

• Check out their site for the sale

• Team Charity Quilt

• Kona color of the year = Crush

• Take a bag home tonight

• Make a 12 inch finished sized block (12 ½ square working size)

• Use your own low volume fabrics to supplement

• “Low volume fabrics are commonly shades of white, beige, gray and pale pastels with low-contrast prints. Many have graphic designs such as text, dots, florals and novelty prints. The distinction of low volume fabrics is that the overall color and design are neutral enough to be considered a background fabric.”

• Due back next meeting!

• Also please bring back the ziploc bags and the block reference card

• If you mess up; it’s ok! Bring it in anyways

• If you missed out, or want an extra charity block, email Susie Boots!

• Organizing a larger MQG meet up?

• See email for details

• QuiltCon & Modern Quilt Guild

• Look through their digital slide show online! Inspiration!

• Karen presenting - Perhaps a presenter? See email for notes

Featured Quilter

Chelsea Folini

Interview

• See email for details!

SHOW & TELL