January Meeting - Full House!!!

We had a full house for our January 2020 meeting!  

We welcomed 10 visitors, and 4 of those joined as new members - welcome!!!!

Business Items of Note:

• LIBS ELLIOTT Lecture and Classes coming up in March!
• Quilting with Code lecture Thursday, March 26, 6:30pm ($10 charge non-members)  NOTE:  Change FROM usual meeting night!!!! 
• Piecing with Dynamic Stripes class Friday, March 27, 9a-2p
• Weight of Love class Saturday, March 28, 9a-2p

 Contact Jane LeBlanc for more info

•  Charity Project for 2020 will be small quilts and drawstring backpacks to put them in for the children of Friendship Trays.  Our February 25 meeting will be sewing together as a group making these backpacks - bring your machines and supplies.
• Dues for 2020 - $40 for the year, due now.  Bring your dues and completed Membership Form to our next meeting and give to Loretta Sirota, or click here to email her for mailing instructions.

After the conclusion of our general business, we enjoyed a fun presentation about AccuQuilt cutting systems by Kay Giese, local long-arm quilter and teacher at Quilt Patch in Matthews.

And as usual, our members shared some amazing

projects during Show and Tell!!!!

 Join us for our next meeting!

Tuesday, February 25, 6:30pm

St. Gabriel Catholic Church, Room C

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Libs Elliott will be at CLTMQG in March 2020!

The Charlotte Modern Quilt Guild is pleased to announce that we will host Libs Elliott, a textile artist and designer who uses technology to design modern quilts. She will be the speaker for our March meeting to be followed by 2 workshops.

Her topic for the Thursday,  March 26 lecture will be “Quilting with Code”. There is no charge to members and a $10 fee for non-members. Please note this is a change to our normal meeting day. 

On Friday, March 27, her first full-day workshop is titled “Improv Piecing with Dynamic Stripes” which covers strip-piecing and cutting triangles shapes to make a one-of-a-kind dynamic quilt. Good for all levels of quilters. Pictures are below.

On  Saturday, March 28, her second full-day workshop is titled “The Weight of Love”.  The student will cut hexies, half-hexies and triangles using the Hex-N-More ruler and assemble blocks using the Y-seam method. Good for intermediate and above quilters.  Picture is below.

The member fee for each full day class is $70. The non member fee is $90 for each full day class.  The lecture will be held at St. Gabriel Catholic Church on Thursday evening.  The workshops will be held at Selwyn United Methodist Church.

If you are interested, please sign up at our meeting on Tuesday.  If you cannot make the meeting send Jane LeBlanc an email (2boyzmom.leblanc@gmail.com) to sign up. Hope everyone will take advantage of this wonderful opportunity!

Tuesday, January 28, 2020 Meeting

Please join us for the First meeting of the New Year!

Our meeting is Tuesday, January 28 at St. Gabriel's Catholic Church Ministry Building, Room C.
6:30 PM

Things to Remember:

• It's time to pay our Dues for 2020! $40
• The sale table will be open! There are always lots of great items to look through and they can be yours for a donation which funds our door prizes.  Also, please take a few minutes to gather a few items to add to the sale table.  You may not need it anymore, but someone else will be tickled to take it home.
• Bring your Show and Tell! 

We will have a presentation by Kay Giese about AccuQuilts, and will bring her quilts to show.

Its going to be a full evening as we discuss the calendar for 2020 and our community project.

Looking forward to seeing everyone!

January 25, 2020 Sew In

Come join us for our first Sew Day of 2020 on Saturday, January 25, from 9 am to 2 pm.

This is an open sew day, so bring whatever you are working on and plan for a fun day spent with quilting friends!

We  meet at St. Gabriel Catholic Church Ministry Building in Room C.

Recap on Place Mat to Friendship Trays

The Charlotte Modern Guild's community service program to was make 600 quilted place mats to be donated to Friendship Trays - which provides Meals on Wheels to residents in need in the Mecklenburg County.  

We exceeded our goal! The Guild made 655!

In mid December Eve Howes and Loretta Sirota delivered those place mats.

A big Thank You to our guild members who took on this goal and made beautiful place mats for our community!

Recap from December 3, 2019 Meeting

We had a lovely time during our Holiday Party!  It was filled with fun, wonderful ideas during our gift exchange and lots of fabulous Food!

And we had lots of Show and Tell.

Here's to a wonderful New Year !

Tuesday December 3 Meeting

Our next meeting will be on Tuesday, December 3 at 6.30 pm.  This will be our Holiday Party.

Please bring any remaining place mats, show and tell, BOM, renewal (see further below) and your appetizer!

We are having our annual gift exchange, Three Favorite Things.  Bring your favorite thing, (3 of the same, $5 limit on each) and everyone will go home with 3 different items!  It's a lot of fun!  It does not have to be sewing related.  

  

 It is about that time to renew your membership for 2020!  Please fill out the form sent in the reminder email and return with your check to the meeting. 

For more information about joining, please email Loretta Sirota, lmls088@yahoo.com

We meet at St. Gabriel Catholic Church in the Ministry Center.  Room C. 

3016 Providence Road, Charlotte, NC 28211.

Hope to see you all there!