May 2013 meeting minutes

Welcome to Susan Clark who visited our group.

New Business:

Phoebe explained that in July we will be joining the Modern Quilt Guild and officially becoming a chapter of the main MQG.  By joining the main guild we would be able to take advantage of their 501c3 status, have use of their CRM software, plan events and have an online RSVP system, and have a social media hub to share pictures and communicate with other chapter MQGs.  Also, our members would receive priority registration and discounts for MQG events as well as other discounts and benefits. The Charleston Modern Quilt Guild will need to pay dues to the main guild which will be based on the number of members we have on our roll. 

An executive board which will serve until January 2015 was established and has written by-laws.  The officers are:  

Phoebe Harrell - President

Kelly Biscopink - Vice President

Tamie Herin - Treasurer

Kim McPeake - Secretary

Kelly Martin - Member at Large

  

Our fiscal year will begin in January.  Dues will be $60 per year, but prorated to $30 for those joining after July 1.  Accordingly, our starting dues for 2103 will be $30.  

Formalized membership packets will come out in July.  We are still planning the budget, which will include membership costs to the Modern Quilt Guild, insurance, accounting, sewing days, etc.  The by-laws were emailed this week to all for review.  Discussion of questions or concerns will occur at the June meeting.  Dues and membership forms will be collected at the July meeting.  Each member will be required to choose a committee to join.  Committee ideas:  education, programs, community outreach, etc.  If you think of anything else contact/email Phoebe.

Sandy announced the AlabamaChanin workshop/trunk show presented by Good Business Forum on June 20, 2013.

Reminder about the following challenges:

Northern Ohio Modern Quilt Guild Art Spark Challenge.  This group has issued a challenge to make a quilt inspired by a piece of art at a museum.

People, Place and Quilts has issued us a challenge using the current Modern Block of the Month program at the shop.  You would make the 12 blocks starting now until July.  The quilt will be finished in any way the maker sees fit, quilted and turned in by October.  It will be judged, prizes are:  $100, $75, $50.  Guild members will receive a 20% discount on the kit; cost will be $48 plus tax. 

Community Outreach:

We made pillowcases and quilts for Moore , Oklahoma.  We had a short discussion about creating a signature quilt block for us to use in the future for our give away quilts.

Block Swap:

Linda received 15 LOVE  blocks tonight.  Karen King has asked us to make any kind of pieced blocks 8 ½ inch unfinished.  She does not want any 2 ½” squares.  The blocks can be any pieced pattern, but she asks for applique.   Sarah is visiting us from Alabama and she is the June block swap, but brought her fabric and pattern to us tonight.  Next month you only need to turn in Karen’s black/white blocks.  Turn in Sarah’s blocks in July.  We will receive a packet from Jackie in July.

Sarah's block for June

Show & Tell:

Phoebe - a quilt designed by her husband Scott called Flume and a tote made from paper pieced hexagons.  

Kelly B-pillowcases for OK and her block swap trip around the world quilt.

Keri - shared a new book, Sunday Morning Quilts, by Amanda Jean Nyberg & Cheryl Arkison.

Sandy - Turtle quilt (Geri quilted for her).

Linda - Tuesday Morning has Gee Bends Reproduction Quilt Kits for $30.  You can go online with Tuesday Morning to purchase.

Delynne-Disappearing 4-patch baby quilt for OK.

Brenda - Fish Calendar quilt.

Becky - Fabric collage picture, weave quilt, and a mosaic quilt banner based on tiles in Spain. 

Geri - a quilt long-arm quilted by Geri that Phoebe pieced.  (Phoebe LOVES it!!!)

Tamie - Quilter’s Newsletter (June/July issue) has Angela Walter’s quilt on the cover, an article on Quilt Con and a contest for a modern quilt.

Alice - block swap red/white quilt and a 1600 lap quilt for OK.

Next meeting will be at 6:30 pm on June 25, 2013.

May 2013 meeting reminder

Hello quilting pals!!!

As usual, our meetings are held on the fourth Tuesday of each month so we'll be meeting next Tuesday, May 28th at 6.30pm at the SMHA offices located at 400 Hibben St.  

If you are participating in the block swap, please remember to return Linda's block.  Karen King is up next on the list for May.  If you are participating in the swap but can't attend this month's meeting, please buddy up with someone to return your block and pick up next month's.  

Also, Tamie and Kelly B sent me emails about a quilt drive that the Oklahoma City MQG is doing to help victims of the tornadoes in Moore, OK.  The guild there is collecting finished quilts to distribute so if you have anything that you'd like to donate, please bring them to the meeting and we will get them to OKC.  You can read more about what they're doing here - 

http://www.okcmqg.com/2013/05/oklahoma-tornado-relief.html

As an alternate, quicker project we could make pillowcases to send if you don't have a finished quilt handy.  Since this will be a long weekend, I'm hoping maybe some of you will have a few minutes to whip one (or more!) up for us.  Here's a link to a quick and easy pillowcase pattern - 

http://quilting.about.com/od/quiltpatternsprojects/ss/easy-pillowcase-pattern.htm

As always, bring your show and tell and hope to see lots of you there!

April 2013 meeting minutes

Charleston Modern Quilt Guild

April 23, 2013

Welcome to Keri Davidson.

Tonight we celebrated our first year with birthday cake.  Thanks Kim!!  It was delicious!

Business - 

Charleston Modern Quilt Guild has a flicker page - http://www.flickr.com/photos/94931435@N04/.  At this time pictures from the Austin QuiltCon 2013 are posted.  You will see many of the quilts that were on display.

Program:  We talked about what makes a fabric/quilt Modern.  Is it the design, color, or how you use it?  Members brought in fabric from their stash.  We had everything from chevrons, geometrics, Amy Butler, Denyse Schmidt, etc. We talked about what could define a Modern quilt:  the use of negative space, the very dense quilting, mixtures of fabric (cotton, linens, etc), and using a traditional block with a spin.  Make what you like.  There is not a right or wrong as long as the quilt makes you happy.  However, our guild wants to focus on a modern approach in making quilts.

If you have some ideas for future a presentation contact Phoebe.  Upcoming programs already in the works:  blogs and using the internet for inspiration, new fabric designers, Pinterest, a new binding technique with Tamie, hand quilting with Alice, and liberated blocks/quilts with Geri.

People, Place and Quilts has issued us a challenge using the current Modern Block of the Month program at the shop.  You would make the 12 blocks starting now until July.  Kits include fabric and patterns.  The challenge is that each quilter will determine how to set the blocks and finish the quilt.  Quilts are to be turned in by October.  It will be judged, prizes are:  $100, $75, $50.  Guild members will receive a 20% discount; cost will be $48 plus tax.  Please contact Phoebe if you want to do this Challenge or go to PPQ to pick up your kit.

BLOCK SWAP:  Sandy received 14 Confetti blocks tonight. 

Linda passed out fabric for the background of her LOVE blocks and directions.  It is based on the Tula Pink design but she decreased the size.  We each received white fabric and we are to use any of our own fabrics.  Any fabrics or colors are acceptable.  Linda gave a quick demo on how to make the 5x7 (cut size) of each individual letter.  You can arrange the LOVE letters however you want them.

Karen King will be up for next month.

SHOW & TELL:

Tamie – quilts and technique samples from her week long retreat in North Carolina

Linda – large Wonky Log Cabin Block, class taught by Geri last Saturday

Alice – completed her Word Quilt using the Boy Scout Creed/Law, a quilt using fat quarters from Alaska from her daughter, and a reproduction of the Harriett Powers Bible Quilt that she is restoring for a friend.

Kim – quilt as you go technique class and linen from Tabby’s Quilt Studio in Beaufort.

Sandy - large Wonky Log Cabin Block, class taught by Geri last Saturday

Keri – quilt for her grandson and a bag (pattern – Wave purse/tote)

Kelly B – a log cabin quilt from her book and pillowcases made by Rhonda of Tabby in Beaufort

Next meeting will be at 6:30 pm on May 28, 2013.

April meeting reminder and IT'S OUR BIRTHDAY!!

Hello quilting pals!!!

Guess what? Our little group is one year old this month. Awwwwww. . .  sweet.  

Since we all tend to get reflective around our birthdays, I'd like to mention a few things. 

1.  I'm really proud of our little group and I am grateful every single month to see so many faces around the table.  It really does make me feel warm and fuzzy. I had a little dream of having friends who were into the same sorts of fabric and designs that I liked. I just never thought I'd meet so many of you. Thank you.

2.  I think that since we're one year into this, it's time to circle back and revisit the idea of what makes the kinds of quilts we make modern. Is it the fabric? Or patterns? Or quilting? It can be any one of these things or a combination. So, this month, I'd like to ask each of you to bring in a modern fabric from your stash. It could be yardage or a scrap. (Just big enough so we can all see, please.) We'll talk about what makes these fabrics (or doesn't make these fabrics) modern. This will be the first in a series of presentations about what makes quilting "modern". I'd like to tap members of our group to come up with short, 5-15 minute presentations at the beginning of each meeting so if you have ideas about something you'd like to discuss, please let me know and we'll get you on the schedule.  

As usual, our meetings are held on the fourth Tuesday of each month so we'll be meeting next Tuesday, April 23rd at 6.30pm at the SMHA offices located at 400 Hibben St.  

If you are participating in the block swap, please remember to return Sandy's block. Linda Ambrose is up next on the list for April. If you are participating in the swap but can't attend this month's meeting, please buddy up with someone to return your block and pick up next month's.  

As always, bring your show and tell and hope to see lots of you there!

March 2013 meeting notes

In attendance:   Pat, Brenda, Linda, Rita, Ginny, Martha, Kelly M., Tamie, Phoebe, Sandy, Delynne, Alice, Geri, Jackie, Kelly B., Cathy, and Kim.

Phoebe:  April will be our one year anniversary.  

Kelly B took two quilts for the Beaufort Quilt Exhibit.  The dates of the exhibit will be April 2-May 31, 2013.

Geri:  Saw Grass Technologies is looking for quilters to design fabrics and make quilts using this fabric for samples to show their new technology in printing fabric.  They want quilts 24 or 36 inches for a July 2013 show in Oregon.  Quilts must be completed in May.  Geri will be going for a visit and will share additional information. 

Cathy has been in contact with Sheri Lynn Wood, who would like to visit with us.  We will get more information about her visit to the area.

Kim mentioned a modern quilt contest by American Quilters Society.  More information can be found at http://www.americanquilter.com/promos/2013_modern_quilt_challenge/ .  Quilts are due August 13, 2013.  Winners will be announced October 2, 2013 at Des Moines Quilt Week.  A selection of the Modern Quilt Challenge quilts will be seen by thousands as they travel to all of AQS events for a year. They must be available for AQS's traveling exhibit at AQS Quilt Week events from September 13, 2013 until two weeks after 2014 Grand Rapids Quilt Week, September 5, 2014.  Accepted Modern Quilt Challenge quilts will be returned to the owners at the conclusion of the traveling exhibit.  Prizes total $6,000.

Block Swap:

Alice received 17 blocks tonight.

Our sixth block swap belongs to Sandy.  She passed out fabric packets to be used in her block along with directions.  We will be doing a confetti block.

Linda will be our next person in the swap.

Show & Tell:

Kelly M showed a Drunkard’s Path Quilt (her third by the way). 

Brenda shared an Easter Bunny quilt and a baby quilt for her brand new grand (Thing 2).  (I apologize but don't have pictures of this quilt.)

Cathy showed a quilt made with kids.  The fabric was dyed using tissue paper.  The kids combined three different animals into one.  Buttons made of clay.

Kelly B has another quilt top done using her “Unicorns & Rainbow” bundle.  She and her writing partner created a fat quarter bundle for the Fat Quarter Shop.  The number fabric came from IKEA.

On April 20, 2012 Geri will be teaching a Wonky Log Cabin quilt for Cobblestone Quilters Guild’s Quilters Day Out. 

Alice made a stuff turtle with yo-yo’s for it’s shell.  Then a basket quilt made with a layer cake (10 inch squares) of Denyse Schmidt’s Shelbourne Falls and added the solids.  

Delynne showed a quilt inspired by our Quilt Con trip using her scraps.  

She also shared a quilt made as a group from her last guild.  Each year the guild made two quilts - one for Christmas and one for summer - and each member helps with piecing or quilting.  Blocks are signed.  Each year there is a drawing within the guild membership for the quilt.  We will open discussions for doing a similar project.

Our next meeting will be April 23, 2013 at 6:30 pm

March 2013 meeting reminder

Friends! Quilters of the modern variety! It's time for our monthly meetup.  Our next meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, March 26 at 6.30pm at the SMHA offices at 400 Hibben St in Mt Pleasant.

If you're participating in the block swap, please remember to return Alice's block.  If you won't be able to attend the meeting, please contact me at charlestonmodernquiltguild@gmail.com and we'll make arrangements to get the block from you.  Also, April is Sandy's month so be ready to receive instructions from her.

Don't forget to bring your show and tell!  See you all bright and shiny!

Phoebe

February 2013 meeting recap

In attendance:   Phoebe, Tamie, Jackie, Juanita, Rita, Pat, Cathy, Geri, Ginny, Kelly B, Sandy, Kelly M, Alice, Delynne, Janet, Kate, and Kim.

New in attendance:  Welcome to Juanita Gowder and Becky Hurwitz.

Phoebe:  Updated us on QuiltCon 2013 and those that attended this past weekend in Austin, Texas.  The next QuiltCon will be in 2015, not sure of the location at this time.  The main Modern Quilt Guild will be updating their website to be user friendly with local guilds/chapters.  We can join as an affiliate of the Modern Quilt Guild and would be granted a chapter membership and the associated benefits.  This means that a membership fee would be paid to the MQG.  We will be updated as news comes out.

Sea Island Quilters sent us a list of their 2013 programs and workshops.

Beaufort MQG:  everyone should have received an email about their upcoming quilt exhibit.  The dates of the exhibit will be April 2-May 31, 2013.  We need to let Rhonda of Tabby’s know if you have anything to exhibit or sell.

Show & Tell:

QuiltCon 2013 pictures will be uploaded to a website where all can have access.  Phoebe and Tamie shared their blocks and experiences from the Denyse Schmidt class.  Plans are being made for them to share their information to have our own class.

Sandy shared her experience with Weeks/Ringle and Valerie Wells classes.  Also showed a new bag she made.

Kelly B shared quilt blocks.  Kelly and her writing partner created a fat quarter bundle for Fat Quarter Shop.com and she is creating a kaleidoscope quilt with it.

Ginny made a bag with her Madrona Road by Violet Craft for the Michael Miller Challenge – the Queen bag by Moda Bakeshop.

Geri shared her latest quilt completed on her long arm. 

Kim shared two quilts, one from the Sheri Lynn Wood’s class at QuiltCon.

Alice used Madrona Road fabric in a baby boy quilt.  She also shared an embroidery alphabet quilt-the pattern was first printed in the newspapers in the 1930’s. 

Delynne used her Madrona Road fabric in a pieced hexagon quilt top and showed a small quilt from her grandmother.

Block Swap:

Kelly B received 16 blocks tonight.  She is making the Scrappy Trip Around the World quilt.

Our fifth block swap belongs to Alice.  She passed out white fabric to be used in her block along with our red fabrics.  We will be doing the Pinball block, pattern has been emailed to all.   If you did not receive them let Phoebe know.

Sandy will be our next person in the swap.

Our next meeting will be March 26, 2013 at 6:30 pm.  Hope to see you all there!