June Meeting - Our Favorite Things

JUNE MEETING

Thursday, June 27

6:00 - 8:00

Morrison Library

7015 Morrison Boulevard
Charlotte, NC 28211
(near South Park Mall)

As always, bring any fun sew-n-tells you have to share.  We love to see anything crafty - quilts, bags, pillows, garments, etc.  This month we also ask you to bring 2 of your "favorite sewing things".

The theme of June's meeting will be "Our Favorite Things".  Each person is asked to bring/show/or talk about TWO of their favorite things.  They could be products, notions, patterns, designers, books, magazines... anything. 

To get things rolling, I thought I would share one of my favorite things.  I have been doing lots of hexagons lately; however, with my aging (ahem) eyes I have trouble threading my needle.  I love my Clover Needle Threader.  I picked mine up a few years ago at a local quilt shop and it is still working great.  They run around $10-$15.

  

Happy start of summer and I hope to see you next week - Karen E.

May Meeting Recap

Last week we had 27 members/guests come for some great food, wonderful sew-n-tells and lots of good chit chat.

1. New Officers & Committee Members
The following 2013-14 officers and committee members were introduced.

President:    Bianca Miller
Vice President:    Elizabeth Busschek
Treasurer:    Elizabeth Phillippi
Secretary (Web):    Karen Ernest

Program Committee (Chaired by VP):
Jennifer Bland
Amanda Murphy

Swap Committee:
Elyse Mullis
Joyce Mullis

Librarian:
Elaine Novak

THANK YOU to everyone that graciously agreed to serve.  


2.  May Swap - Pillow Covers

Eight people participated in the May pillow cover swap.  Look at these wonderfully creative covers!  Joyce will be sharing ideas for our upcoming swaps at the next meeting.

3. Meeting Dates & Location
We discussed that the meetings will continue to be on the LAST Thursday of each month.  We are still searching for a "permanent home" so we don't need to keep switching locations.  Please let Bianca know if you have any ideas for a meeting space that would hold our group.

The June meeting will be held on Thursday, June 27 from 6:00-8:00.  (Location will be announced shortly).  The theme of the June meeting will be OUR FAVORITE THINGS.  Start thinking of some of your favorite sewing/quilting/crafty things.  Each person is asked to bring/show/or talk about TWO of their favorite things.  They could be products, notions, patterns, designers, books, magazines... anything.

4. Pencil In Sew Modern Retreat 2014
Joyce is planning our 2nd annual Sew Modern Retreat to be held once again at the Meadowbrook Inn in Blowing Rock.  The dates will be April 4-6, 2014.  More information and registration will be held as the date gets closer, but we hope everyone can start planning now to attend this fun weekend.

5.  May Sew-N-Tell
Pictures from the May sew-n-tell have been posted over on Flickr.  Lots of eye candy and inspiration can be found here http://www.flickr.com/groups/cltmqg/

Meeting-Social This Thursday

Hope you can make it to our meeting-spring social this Thursday!

May Meeting & Social

Thursday, May 30

Carmel Presbyterian Church -2048 Carmel Rd

Cathcart Hall (Building beside playground)

6:00-8:00

Bring your sew-n-tells (quilts, bags, anything crafty) to show us what you are working on, what inspires you and what you plan to make this summer.

Also, please bring a dish, appetizer or sweet to share with the group and the guild will provide the drinks and paper products.

Guests, if you have been thinking of coming to see what the guild is all about, this is a great opportunity to come meet everyone and have lots of fun.  Come join us!

May Meeting & Get Together

May Meeting & Social

Thursday, May 30

Carmel Presbyterian Church -2048 Carmel Rd

Cathcart Hall (Building beside playground)

6:00-8:00

In May we will have a joint meeting and social.  Please bring a dish to share with the group and the guild will provide the drinks and paper products. We hope everyone can come and guests are always welcomed!

Don't forget to bring any show & tells and your swap pillow if you signed up for the May Pillow Swap.

Sounds like fun,
Karen

April Meeting Recap

1.  Revised Bylaws, New Officers & Committees:

April's meeting included discussing a change in our bylaws to allow for an additional year of an officer's term (should the guild and the officer agree on the second term).  It appeared that everyone was in favor of this idea and Bianca will be drafting the new bylaws shortly.  They will be posted on the blog.

With this bylaw change forthcoming we discussed officers for the next guild year (July 2013 - June 2014).  The following is the list of our nominated officers.  If you are interested in serving in a position or helping with a committee please raise your hand.  We would love to get many people involved!  We will vote on the nominations at our May meeting.

President:    Bianca Miller
Vice President:    Elizabeth Busschek
Treasurer:    Elizabeth Phillippi
Secretary (Web):    Karen Ernest

Program Committee (Chaired by VP):
Jennifer Bland
Amanda Murphy

Swap Committee:
Elyse Mullis
Joyce Mullis

Librarian:
Elaine Novak

THANK YOU to everyone that graciously agreed to serve.  Also a HUGE THANK YOU to Bianca for agreeing to serve a second term.  We love your energy and cheery smile each month!!


2.  MQG Upcoming Changes
The Modern Quilt Guild will be changing its membership plan starting in the next year or so.  They will be collecting funds from the local guilds (like our guild) to fund various expenses such as the national MQG web and a few other staff positions.  We will need to vote as a guild to decide if we want to be affiliated with the national organization or switch to a nonaffiliated guild.  No decision is needed right away but Bianca wanted everyone to be informed of the upcoming changes.  We discussed the pros and cons and will decide at a later date.


3.  Quilt Shows & Workshops
Amanda Murphy shared some of the great projects included in her upcoming book.  It looks like a great, fresh take on holiday sewing.

Amanda will be teaching a workshop through the local Charlotte Quilt Guild in July (7/11/13).  If you are interested please contact that guild this week to see if spots are available.   Link to CQG Program Page


There are several local quilt shows coming up in the next few months.  Many of our members are also members in other guilds and it is great to hear of these upcoming shows.

August 16 & 17, 2013  Lake Norman Quilters
Talbert Recreation Center  
210 Talbert Point Drive  Mooresville, NC 28117 
www.lakenormanquilters.com

October 11-12 2013  Foothills Quilt Fest 2013
LeGrand Center  Cleveland Community College  
1800 East Marion St.  Shelby NC 28150


4.  May Swap - Pillows
The May swap will be pillow covers.  A sign up sheet was passed around for those interested.  If you did not sign-up but would like to participate please email us.


Information on the May meeting will be coming shortly.  We are working on options for a meeting space where we could meet each month.  If you know of a good space please email us.  Right now we often need to switch from place to place due to availability.  Having a set space on a set night each month would be wonderful.

Have a wonderful week,
Karen

April Sew & Tell

Wow, what an amazing Sew & Tell at this week's meeting.  Head over to Flickr and check out the wonderful work.  http://www.flickr.com/groups/cltmqg/

Thanks to everyone that brought in a project to share.  I find it really inspiring to see all of the creativity and great workmanship.

A recap of the business part of the meeting will be posted soon.

Have a great weekend,
Karen

p.s. CONGRATS to Courtney on the new addition to her family.  We can't wait to see more of the little guy.

Retreat Recap & April Meeting

RETREAT RECAP

The first Sew Modern Retreat was held this past weekend up in Blowing Rock and IT ROCKED!!  We had such a fun and productive weekend.  It was full of laughs, inspiration, talented ladies and friendship.  Thank you to Joyce M. for organizing such a wonderful event.  She did a fabulous job!  

Check out her blog for lots of pictures and a recap (don't miss the 2 pictures at the end of her post - so cute).    Click here for the recap

Somebody fell in love with the little iron.

This is going to be an AMAZING quilt!

Trying to concentrate on very little sleep :)

We hope to have a great turnout next year so make plans now.  Oh, and don't forget to practice your fat quarter cornhole tossing.  Joyce's prizes and goodie bags were fabulous.



APRIL MEETING

Our April meeting is this Thursday.  We will be having lots of discussions about our plans for the future, board member positions, possible by-law changes and what we want to accomplish this next year.  We hope to have a good turnout with lots of input.

Also, bring your show & tells and any hexie BOMs for the drawing.

Our April meeting will be:

 

Thursday, April 25

6:00 - 8:00

Morrison Library

7015 Morrison Boulevard
Charlotte, NC 28211
(near South Park Mall)