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Issue 48


March 6, 2020

10 Years this month!

That is 521 weeks that the Orlando Modern Quilt Guild has been offering inspiration and opportunity for Central Florida modern sewists to  create and connect together .
We are made up of people of all skill levels, ages, and quilting backgrounds.  Join us as we celebrate this milestone and look ahead to the next 10 years!

In what has become an annual tradition, March is the month for our guest lecturer, and at Wednesday's meeting , we welcome Linda Hungerford of Flourishing Palms,  from Central Florida MQG, for a lecture and demo on "Domestic Machine Quilting Using Rulers." You will not want to miss this ! Please see the biography on Linda at the end of the newsletter , and familiarize yourself with this talented and energetic instructor.

This will be a wonderful way to culminate the #10yearsinthemaking celebration of Orlando MQG , and look forward to a special gift to tie it all together !
Bring your show and tell on Wednesday; we'll proceed if we have time after the program.

See you at the meeting.

Paula Kennedy
Secretary

Questions, comments, or suggestions regarding the newsletter are welcome, please email me .  I would also love to hear of any quilty news or ideas for content you'd like to share.  Constructive feedback is always welcome.  
MEETING REMINDERS
  • It is time to renew your Guild Membership.  Click on the LINK to download the Renewal form.  Our treasurer will collect dues at the meeting.
  • If you've borrowed a Library Book, it is time to bring it back.  We hope you have enjoyed it.  Go to our blog and check the list of books available to borrow and/or look at Aradria's Library Spotlight in the Minutes Section.  If you can't find what you want, make a recommendation to our Wish List.
  • Next General meeting is on March 4 at The Sewing Studio at 10am (No drink, No food in the room).
  • February SewDays are:
  • April 1 General Meeting:  The Board will present the roll-out for the 2020-2021 year of programming.
  • Block of the Month (current and past) instructions, meeting minutes, Calendar dates, and more can be found on the guild blog.
     Below: Kelly Eskin's "Get Your Sewjo  Back"  Challenge Project as shown on Instagram. To see her project and information, visit Kelly on her Instagram page. See below about  the challenge !
    PROGRAMMING
    Debra Jalbert 
    Get your Sewjo Back Challenge is still happening  !
    If you lost your Sewjo over the holidays, we want you to rediscover your creativity. Pick up that book/pattern you were once excited to make.  Your project does not have to be completed by the end of this challenge, but actual sewing has to have taken place. Bring your progress to the April meeting. 

    10 Years in the Making BOM
    Thanks to everyone who participated in our BOM lottery celebrating our guild's 10th year! Debra J. organized this year's block each month with the idea of making a sampler quilt at the end of the year. See the blog link here  http://theorlandomodernquiltguild.blogspot.com/p/bomstutorials.html 
    Each block had an element of gray or white and you could make blocks for the lottery and one for yourself. Bring your blocks or quilt to share in April .

    Please contact Ede or Debra  for any programming ideas, or send an email to orlandomodernquiltguild@gmail.com.
    Orlando Modern Quilt Guild Call for Blocks "Road to Tennessee " 

    COMMUNITY OUTREACH
    Sue Kenard
     


    ON-GOING PROJECTS
    Call for Blocks
    (contacts: Julie Parrott, Connie Tresize, Laurie Watson)

    This year we will be continuing the Road to Tennessee blocks (BLOG LINK). Finished blocks or quilt tops can be brought to monthly guild meetings. Julie, Connie, and Laurie will be set up in the back of the room. You can also help by picking up one of the quilt bundles (includes top, backing, batting and binding) to complete the quilting and binding. The more finished quilts we have on hand the more quickly we can respond to each new call.

    Seniors First Placemats                                                                      
    (contact:Sue Kenard)
    In case you haven’t already found out, making placemats is a quick and easy way to clear out your stash of orphan blocks and fabric. Seniors First includes our placemats as part of birthday gifts delivered to their Meals on Wheels and other program clients.

    Large Drawstring Bags                                                                    
    (contact: Jan Bilbro)
    Another great stash buster for a good cause are the drawstring bags (takes about 1 yard of fabric) that are given to kids aging out of foster care who would otherwise use a large plastic garbage bag to carry their clothes and belongings. Jan mentioned that smaller bags were also needed so check with her at the next meeting.

    QuiltCon and Festival of Trees quilts
    Committees will be set up to design and coordinate these annual projects.

    NEW 2020 PROJECT
    There will be more information at the April meeting.

    EDUCATION 
    Marge Cree 


    Good news and other news ... The Timna Tarr class is currently full, but remember, your check holds your spot. Payment needs to be made by the March meeting ( March 4); after the meeting ,  the registration will open up to other members on the wait list.  Please be sure to bring the $45 to purchase the kit at the day of the class.
     If you want to learn more about Timna, visit her website (HERE).
    Aradria , our wonderful Orlando Modern Quilt Guild Librarian , has added two new titles to the library. She'll provide additional detailed information at the April meeting, but if you want to check either of them out , she'll have them available at the March meeting, or send her an email to let her know you're interested aradria@stellabell.com
    Orlando Modern Quilt Guild Members at QuiltCon, 2020 -Austin , TX 
    left clockwise
    The "sisters" Connie Tresize , Laurie Watson, Julie Parrott 
    Patti Lapinsky and friend , Linda Blakley of the Triangle Modern Quilt Guild 
    Carla Santor with the QuiltCon Charity Quilt Entry from Orlando Modern Quilt Guild 
    Debra Jalbert with her prize winning entry - (see how coordinated she is with that pretty blazer!) 
    QUILTY HAPPENINGS
    Locally, Globally, and on the Web

    Guest Speaker , March Meeting 
    Linda Hungerford from Flourishing Palms

    I have been a sewist since the age of 13 when my mother made me sew a tent dress! I transitioned from garment-making to quiltmaking in 1976, when quiltmaking saw a resurgence in popularity due to our country’s Bicentennial. In 1998 I began domestic machine quilting because hiring a longarm quilter, quite honestly, didn’t fit my budget.
    Since graduating with a journalism degree in 2000, I have written articles for numerous quilting magazines, and had several patterns published. In 2005 I began teaching free, five-week beginner quiltmaking lessons. As a result of those classes, Landauer Publishing invited me to write First Time Quiltmaking (2006). I’m honored to have had quilts accepted into three QuiltCons, one of which is included in the book Modern Quilts: Designs of the New Century (2017, C&T Publishing).
    In 2012 we moved from West Des Moines, Iowa to The Villages, Florida, where I have continued to teach. In 2015 I presented the MQG webinar “No Tails Binding: Mitered Corners by Machine.” Most frequently I teach domestic machine walking foot and free motion quilting. I have also been demonstrating ruler quilting.
    The Central Florida chapter of the MQG started in my living room in the fall of 2012 (CentralFloridaMQG.blogspot.com). I have been on the chapter’s executive committee ever since, and am currently media coordinator. I’ve blogged at FlourishingPalms.blogspot.com since January, 2009, and am on Instagram and Pinterest as FlourishingPalms.


    Thank you for being a part of The Orlando Modern Quilt Guild.  We appreciate you taking the time to read our newsletter and hope you find it as interesting as we do!

    President:  Ede Nault
    Vice President:  Debra Jalbert
    Secretary:  Paula Kennedy 
    Treasurer:  Kathy Aber 
    Community Outreach: Sue Kenard 
    Education Coordinator: Marge Cree
    Member-at-Large:  Love Sullivan
    Founding Officers and Board Members:
    René Martinez and  Michele Lancaster
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    Monday, February 10, 2020

    General Meeting Minutes - February 2020

    Ede opens the meeting, Beth introduces guests and new members.

     Icebreaker
    Beth wants you to meet new friends according to your zodiac sign.  She calls members to stand according to their sign and explains which other zodiac personalities would be a good match.  The description of the zodiac signs brings some laughter amongst the assistance.  Could her predictions be true?

    Block of the Month
    Alejandrina presents the last block of our #10yearinthemaking BOM.  The instructions are on the blog (HERE).  She makes us promise to use only our little tiny pieces of scrap.  Bring your block to March meeting for a change to win them all.
    Also, if you have been making blocks all year long and kept one of each for you, we would love to see what you made with them.

    New year, new challenge
    Yanick encourages members to participate to the New Year challenge: remember the book/pattern you bought a while ago but you never had the opportunity to do anything from it?  Pick a project and start sewing, hopefully it will bring back your sojo.  And for our March meeting, bring the book/pattern and the project, finished or not.  There will be some prizes.

    Virtual Sewing Room Tour
    This will be a year-long opportunity to share the space you're working in.  If you wish to participate, please record 1-2 minutes video (no sound) and send it the the Guild email address (orlandomodernquiltguild@gmail.com).  Today, Wendy's and Sarah shared their video.
    Isn’t that fun? Please keep sending your video.

    Treasure
    Last month income was generated by the Quilty Basket, and expenses went to the purchase of new books.
    Zonetta and Kathy are collecting dues for membership renewal and new membership.  Paula is taking pictures for the roster at the end of the meeting.
    Payment for Membership can be sent by mail too.  Here the link to the form, the Kathy's mailing address can be found on last year roster.  If you have any doubt, send us an email as her address cannot be shared here.

    Education
    We have secured the Bernina Sewing Center for Timna Tarr workshop, on April 25th.  Timna is bringing all the fabric necessary for the class.  Marge is circulating a registration sheet, the class cost is $53.  There's a $45 fee for the kit, which will be collected on the day of the class.

    Community Outreach
    This is the final Show'n'Tell for the Zebra coalition drive.  We aimed to deliver 25 quilts to the Zebra Coalition and we have exceeded this goal.

     The Festival of Trees raffle generated $4000 overall (so not our quilt only), and we are very pleased to have able to help raising donations for the museum.

    Period to date we have delivered over 500 placemats to Meals on Wheels.
    Please check newsletter for all the details.

     We have some leftover batting which can be use for placemats, please pick some up.

     We are collecting the Tree blocks for the Wollongong MQG at the back of the room.

     Also, Kelly confirms that our Quiltcon quilt has arrived in Austin.  If you're going to QuiltCon, please take some picture of it displayed. 

     Jeanne is presenting a Certificat of Appreciation to the Quilt for our participation to the Annual Quilting and Fabric Art exhibition at the Lake Mary Museum.



    Election committee - Aradria, Leslie, Marie
    Ede - president
    Debra - vice president
    Secretary - Paula
    Kathy - treasure
    Sue - Community outreach
    Marge - education
    Love - member at large
    As the board runs unopposed, we have a slate voting: 59 votes on favor.

    Library
    Aradria presents 3 new books that are now available in our library:
    Simple Geometric Quilting by Laura Preston
    That Handmade Touch by Svetlana Sotak - you should check her IG account.

    Quilty basket
    Deb presents a Valentine's inspired Quilty basket.  It is stocked with pre-cut, traveling size tools (mini iron board, scissors), pins, Missouri Star book...
    Sue is this month's winner.  Kathy, Alejandrina and Diane are the lucky door prizes winners.


    Year end Wrap up and Members Speed Trunk Show 
    Yanick asks members to come and show quilts, projects they created from the Interest Groups (check the Show'n'Tell video for more).


    And finally, Show'n'Tell for all the other beautiful quilts.




    Friday, February 7, 2020

    February BOM - Use those tiny scraps

    We are making use of those tiny scraps in a very simple, graphic, block. You will need:
    • small scraps of similar color
    • larger pieces of white
    • larger pieces of gray
    First, assemble some scraps of similar colors. Build a rectangular shape of your choice, max size around 8x8, but it can be smaller. For example, I collected some blue scrap and roughly set them together to be a rectangle. When you are finished sewing them, some scrap pieces will not be used and others will be trimmed to fit the final shape:




    Next, add a white piece to the left of the color rectangle and a gray piece to the right.  The only restriction is the total width should be 12.5 inches (or a bit longer if you prefer to trim at the end). Here is another example, using red.


    Next , build the top strip, white to the left and gray to the right:



    Finally, build the bottom strip in the same way, offsetting the white and gray segments. The only restriction is the total height should be at least 12.5 inches:


    Trim to 12.5 inches and ...done!


    Here is the blue block:





    Wednesday, February 5, 2020

    February Newsletter

    Dear Guildies,

    Turning 10 has been a lot of fun.  February is officially the last month of our #10yearinthemaking celebration.  However, we have final gift for you in March: we are bringing Linda, from Central Florida MQG, for a lecture on Domestic Machine Quilting with Rulers.  If you are making blocks for the Wollongong Modern Quilt Guild, you might be inspired to sew Linda's Australia Tree Block.

    As we are wrapping things up, let's have a special show'n'tell from all the Interest Groups.  Bring any project, finished or not, that you have been inspired to sew this year.  We also want to invite you to participate in the Member Speed Trunk Show (see in the Programming section for details).

    And speaking of inspiration, we would love to see where you create; send us a short video (1 to 2 minutes), no sound recorded, we will show it at the meeting and we will have members narrate their sewing room video.  For those interested in participating, send an email to orlandomodernquiltguild@gmail.com.

    Well, that's it from me.  As I am about to pass the baton to Paula, I want to thank you for reading this newsletter all year long!
    Happy stitching,

    Caroline Garnier Janny
    Secretary

    Questions, comments, or suggestions regarding the newsletter are welcome, please email me. I would also love to hear of any quilty news or ideas for content you'd like to share.  Constructive feedback is always welcome.  
    MEETING REMINDERS

      COMMUNITY OUTREACH
      Kelly Eskin
       

      2019 had a lot going on!  Here is a recap of all the wonderful making and giving we have done this past year.

      Meals on Wheels
      Place mat donations in 2019: 132
      Place mat donations June 2018 - Jan. 2020: 527

      Calls for Blocks
      Charity Mailing: 128 heart blocks and 51 HSTs sent to Quilter’s Healing Hearts for Christ’s Church for the mass shootings in New Zealand, 3 quilts sent to the Omaha Modern Quilt Guild for flood victims in Omaha, Nebraska, 1 quilt was sent to El Paso Quilter’s Association for mass shooting victims, 9 quilts were sent to Quilts of Compassion in Toledo,OH(They distribute quilts to disaster victims).

      Currently we have 2 finished quilts. We have 10 quilts that need to be quilted and bound if any guild members would like to help out.

      Two quilts were made with Road to Tennessee blocks donated by members.  We still have blocks remaining to continue to make more quilts.  Keep those blocks coming!

      We would like to thank all of the OMQG members who have contributed their time at home, at the Daytona Retreat and at OMQG Sew Days to help provide these wonderful quilts to people in need!

      Festival of the Trees
      A beautiful quilt was donated and we should know at the February meeting how much money was raised from the raffle for the Orlando Museum of Art.

      QuiltCon
      Another beautiful quilt was sent to show at QuiltCon.  The theme this year was TEXT and the color palette shades of gray. Inspired by our Community Outreach drive for this year, our quilt has been designed around the word HOME, using log cabin blocks, and HOME written in different languages. Once the quilt is back, it will be donated to the Zebra Coalition.

      Zebra Coalition
      15 quilts were donated in November.  We still need about 7 more twin size (or close to twin size) to make our goal.  I know we can do it! We will have a final show and tell at the February meeting.

      We donated one quilt to Access Charter school for their school auction.

      And, I wanted to thank Jan B and those that have made so many drawstring bags for the kids aging out of the foster care system.

      I love being apart of this guild and the members who give with such a wonderful hearts.  Please continue to make place mats for Meals on Wheels and Road to Tennessee blocks.

      We are also collecting and sending 12.5" tree blocks to the Wollongong MQG for those affected by the Australian brush fires.

      PROGRAMMING
      Yanick Booz


      End of Year Wrap Up
      Let's share what you worked on with any Special Interest groups. Group leaders and members are invited to share any positive experiences, skills learned or completed projects. Bring it to the February meeting for a special Show and Tell.
      New Year Challenge
      If you lost your Sewjo over the holidays, we want you to rediscover your creativity. Pick up that book/pattern you were once excited to make. Project does not have to be completed by the end of this challenge but actual sewing has to have taken place. Bring your progress to the March meeting. 
      Member Speed Trunk Show
      Let's share our love of Quilting in February.  Bring your favorite quilt project to share with the group. It should represent a project in which you learned a new technique or that you loved making. It's a great opportunity to share a bit of you.

      10 Years in the Making BOM
      Thanks to everyone who participated in our BOM lottery celebrating our guild's 10th year! Debra J. organized this year's block each month with the idea of making a sampler quilt at the end of the year. Each block had an element of gray or white and you could make blocks for the lottery and one for yourself. Bring your blocks or quilt to share in February. (Imaginary bonus points if you made all 12 blocks into a sampler!)
      Please contact Ede or Yanick for any programming ideas, or send an email to orlandomodernquiltguild@gmail.com.

      EDUCATION
      Alissa Lapinsky


      Timna Tarr will come and teach her Stitched Mosaic on Saturday, April 25th.  Registrations will start at our February meeting.  Please note that your payment holds your spot.  The fee for the kit will be collected on the day of the class. If you want to learn more about Timna, go and check her website (HERE).
      QUILTY HAPPENINGS
      Locally, Globally, and on the Web
      • I hope you're all reading Modern Monthly, the MQG quarterly magazine, it alway full of inspirations and interesting article.  This month, Dimi Atanasova's article, Quilt-Life Balance, as well as the link she shared on the Importance of Hobbie, got my attention.
      • Tthe Infinite Stitches Quilt Show 2020 is coming to the Crystal River Armory in Citrus County, on February 28 and 29th at the Crystal River Armory in Citrus County.
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