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Friday, November 15, 2019

General Meeting Minutes - November 2019

Ede opens the meeting by welcoming members and guests.

Community Outreach

Zebra CaolitionThe finished quilts for the Zebra Coalition our year long Community Outreach drive, are paraded for everyone to admire.

Thank you very much to all who participate in making those beautiful quilts. Our next Show’n’Tell for the Zebra Coalition quilts is in February. Our goal is to deliver 25 quilts in total.

Festival of TreeKate lead the effort behind this quilt.

Thank you for everyone who participated. The quilt will be exhibited at the Museum of Art for the Festival of Trees event (November 15 to 24). It will be raffled and the money raised goes to support the Museum of Art programs and exhibitions.

Quiltcon
This year QuiltCon charity quilt initiative is lead by Kathy and Carla. The theme of Quiltcon Charity Quilt Challenge 2020 is TEXT, and the color palette is black, white and grey.
The quilt has a house at its centre which is surround by block with writing in different language including Morse and binary code. Once the quilt comes back from Austin, it will be donated to the Zebra Coalition.

In the meantime, member are ask to name the quilt. Leave a comment on our blog, or other social network pages by December meeting (December 4th) with name ideas. The winner will be selected during the meeting.

President Report - Ede

Quilts and more has an open-house for our Guild on December 14th. OrlandoMQG Members will receive a 20% discount on their purchases.
Pincushion wrap up - Ede has a list of people who didn’t get their pincushion, please contact her if you have entered the swap but haven't received your pincushion in exchange.

It is Election season - the Election Committee has been formed: Mary S, Aradria, Leslie G. will explain the process next month. On the blog, you will find the description for each position (Article IV of the By Laws HERE). Please start thinking about getting involved.

Vice President - Yanick

December meeting is our Holiday meeting. Members are encouraged to participate to the gift exchange challenge. Following our sustainability theme, we challenge you to create an upcycled object (Guidelines HERE), place the item in a large paper bag with a note on how the object has been made. There will be NO food or drink at the General meeting.
Block of the Month

The winner is CC. Remember that the instruction for each month are kept on the blog.

For this coming month, the BOM is a Block study from the MQG. On our blog, you will find the link to the instructions plus additional tips. The instructions are for MQG members only and you will need your login details, ie. the email address you gave us for your membership and your password.

Road of Tennessee - call for blocksHaving brought the largest number of Road to Tennessee, CC is winning the gift card for the Sewing Studio.Please keep making block for our Call for Blocks drive, you can use either solid or prints that read as solid.Some quilts will be made out of those blocks during the retreat weekend

Also, thanks again for the placemat for Meals on Wheels, they are greatly appreciated.

Financial report - Ede (in Zonetta's absence)

Our finances are in good order.

Education - Alissa

2 teachers will coming in 2020:

Timna Tarr is scheduled for April 25th, the class hasn’t chosen yet
Amy Friend will potentially be coming in November (first week) with a brand new class which she is going to debut at Quiltcon.

Member at Large - Beth

Sun printed class taught by Claudia will be on November 15 - only bring some bleached bright muslin (1/2 yard). 10 spaces. It will be cancelled if it rains. Update - the class has now been cancelled
B.eth will be organising a Quilty road trip in January. Please sign up if you want to take part. The plan is to stop at Quilt place in Rockledge, then at Quilt & Lace in Melbourne.
Holiday parties - in addition to the Guift exchange party at our next general meeting, each SewDay location will have a holiday party. The Guild is purchasing the main food. Please sign up for each location so we know how much to get. Judy is the main contact for Casselberry (December 28th), Mary S & Love for Maitland (December 9th) and Beth for Dr Philipps (December 7th).
Retreat - everybody should have received 2 emails with all the details. Please make sure you do not bring any mini personal iron. Access to the sewing/ball room from 4pm on Thursday night, then 6am to midnight the following days.Bring any orphan blocks bring so we can put them together.Debra and Beth will have demos.Thanks again to Marge, Beth and Alejandrina for the organisation.

Library Spotlight - Aradria
This month lets have a look at our free motion quilting books. If you are interested in Free Motion Quilting, Angela Walters has a Facebook page and a newsletter full of information.

Door prizes and Quilty basket winners

The Quilty Basket was brought back by Betty and won by Mary S. Pro-tip from Betty, use a pink eraser to clean and heal your cutting mat.

There were 54 people in attendance, 3 winner were randomly selected: Karol’s sister, Melissa's mother and Kathy.

Brainstorming

6 groups are formed and brainstorm on idea for next year programming.

If you have had new ideas since, then please send us an email orlandomodernquiltguild@gmail.com.

Also, we are looking for alternative place for our SewDay, if you have ideas, please make enquiry and pass the information to the Board.

Show'n'tell

QuiltCon 2019 Charity Quilt

Our QuiltCon Charity Quilt is about to hit to road (or the post office) to Nashville, and will be display at QuiltCon 2019 (Feb. 21-24, 2019). The theme this year was Small Piecing using a rather soft color scheme.

The joy of belonging to the Guild is to see our members joining forces together and create some amazing work.

Almost every one in the Guild has contribute to this from designing, buying fabric, writing piecing instructions, making kits, assembling the blocks, quilting the top, binding it, adding sleeve, labelling and shipping.

So give yourself a pat in the back! Here a few pictures of the preps and the quilt. If you have missed the Show'n'Tell at our last Guilt meeting, hopefully you will have a chance to see the quilt in its full beauty at Quiltcon next month.

In no special order, a big THANK YOU to all the members who took part: Aradria Cservsevits, Alissa Lapinski, Ede Nault, Carla Santorum, Kathy Aber, Debra Jalbert, Sue Kenard, Patti Lapinski, Sarah Lauzon , Carol Logan, Zonetta Glenn, Mary Smart, Marge Cree and all the quilters who worked on one of the 82 blocks.

January Meeting Minutes

General Meeting

January 2, 2019 10am

The Sewing Studio Classroom

Quiltcon Charity Quilt - Small Piecing

To go along with this year's Quiltcon Charity Quilt theme of "small piecing," we chose a block that is able to be customized so that any and all of us can take part in this year's Charity Quilt.

PLEASE only use the fabrics that come in your chairty block kit. We want the quilt to be cohesive and seeing as it's only one fabric for the background, it's important that they all match! In addition, your block does NOT....I repeat...DOES NOT need to be trimmed! It merely needs to measure a minimum of 9.5" in each direction. We (those of us putting the quilt together) will be trimming the blocks ourselves, so no need to trim them. The only other requirement for your blocks is for them to have all stripes in a single direction, with no crossing over themselves. They can be wonky, they can be straight, they just CAN'T be crossed over one another. No X's or T's!! Each stripe can be pieced in the manner I'm showing you below, or in any way you can think of. You can make lots of super skinny stripes, each one a different fabric; you can make teeny tiny geese and insert them in a stripe, you can make diagonal subset and insert them. Really, you can go wild!

Please, before you read this, let me be clear....there are a million ways to make a block that is what we're looking for! This is merely one way to make a block. The way I chose to make one, because it's quick and simple.

To start with, sew all your print strips together. (The solid purple rectangle is your background!) I used a super quick method to make stripsets, that I then cut to insert into my background.

First, choose two strips and place RST. Sew each long side together with a 1/4" seam. Slice down the middle and press open. Repeat for all strips, and then sew all these double strip sets together so you have a long stripset of skinny prints.

I then cut this stripset crosswise, into 4 strips, .75"-1.25" wide. Keep the leftover stripset, and either use for a future project, or return to us to use for piecing the backing.

I then cut the background block so that I could insert the striped subset pieces. CUT THE BLOCK FROM SHORT SIDE TO SHORT SIDE. So that you're stretching the block wider.This is super important as we need the blocks to be at least 9.5" in each direction. They're only 9" on the short side currently, you need the inserts to make them wide enough. You can do each cut one at a time, but I cut them all before starting inserting my strips so I knew I'd have enough room for all of the inserts I was planning. Since we're working with a solid, you may want to mark which side of each shape is front or back. I had an issue with rotating one of the background pieces and had to rip a seam out. (I decided with my subsequent block to mark the front left corner of each piece I cut, that way I knew I was seaming the correct side.)

Things I learned when making these blocks:

Be mindful when inserting the strips into a diagonal cut. You can't just line up the corners and sew straight down, or each side will be wonky. You'll have a dog-ear at the top and bottom or each seam.

Be mindful when cutting strips from the striped subset. The steeper the angle of the cut, the more bias edges you'll have and the more the strip can stretch!

If you're unsure, use chalk to draw out your strip pattern to make sure you're about to cut the background in the proper direction.

If you mess up no worries. We have some extra background fabric! Call either Sue Kenard, or Kathy Aber, they have the extra kits and extra bits of fabric.

Alissa

The "How To" sew the block for the Quilt Con Charity Quilt - VID 20180705 224530

How to sew the block for the Quilt Con Charity Quilt , by Alissa L .

Meeting Minutes - January 2017

MEETING MINUTES

Wednesday, January 2017

Maitland, FL

President Alissa called the meeting to order; 47 members and 4 guests were present; the guests each introduced themselves.

ICEBREAKER

The Icebreaker this month everyone lining up in alphabetical order by last name.

TREASURER’S REPORT

With various expenses for the Quilts for Pulse project, purchase of books and appreciation gifts, and income from the Raffle Basket, membership and class fees, there was a net loss for December, leaving a balance of $11,547.60.

UPCOMING QUILTY ACTIVITIES

Mancuso’s World Quilt Florida will be at the convention center January 19-21, and the guild will have a display there. Alissa has received information about a Shibori dyeing class in South Florida in February; email her if you are interested in the details.

RAFFLE BASKET

Jane returned the Raffle Basket filled with a book about color theory, a coloring book and colored pencils, fabric, a set of different weights of thread and other special items. The basket was won by Paula.

UFO LOG

Kelly, who keeps the UFO log was not present, but Alissa explained for new members that everyone can list projects in the log which they hope to finish this year. For each project reported finished by December’s meeting, the maker’s name will be entered once in a drawing at the Holiday Party. The one who finishes the largest number will win a prize, but there is also a random drawing so one can win with just one project on the log completed.

QUILTCONEAST – SAVANNH, GA

Alissa asked for a count of members planning to attend QuiltCon in Savannah, February 23-26, and there were 24 present planning to go or considering it. Heather, at the Modern Quilt Guild national office has allowed us to have a display at the admissions area, which will include many small prints in two sizes of Quilts for Pulse quilts, and Alissa asked for volunteers to help pin them to the cardboard wall on Wednesday, the day before QuiltCon opens; Patti, Mary W, Marge and Ede volunteered to assist her. She will email those volunteers when Heather sets the time. The display will also include statistics Alissa has been gathering and calculating – number of quilts, number of packages, postage, hours spent making quilts, amount of thread and fabric, etc.

Heather also set an official Meet & Greet for Quilts for Pulse on Saturday, February 25, at 12 n or 12:30 pm, in front of the display, and Alissa asked for volunteers to be there as ambassadors to thank people who contributed and to answer questions. Alissa asked that anyone who can help at that time to let her know by email.

Alissa asked the group to agree to a good time to meet for dinner, and all agreed on Thursday, February 23.

Alissa announced that Debra J has had 4 quilts accepted into the QuiltCon Show and Anne s has had 2 quilts accepted. The guild congratulates both of them on this achievement.

Alissa showed the OMQG Charity Quilt which will be submitted for display at QuiltCon and then returned for us to give to a local charity.

EDUCATION

Education Coordinator Ede reported that Frank’s dyeing class on January 7 is full, but there are still openings in both the morning and afternoon free classes offered by Mary-Jeanine on February 4^th to all who were involved in the Quilts for Pulse project, and the sign up sheet was available.

There will be an opportunity to sign up for Jacquie Gering’s March classes at next month’s guild meeting, and what the classes are going to be will be announced later.

ELECTIONS

Ede, as a member of the Elections Committee (Ede N, Karol E and Jodi P), introduced the slate of nominees to be voted on at the February guild meeting, with each nominee introducing themselves:

· Member at Large – Jane A – Jane said she sees the position as a sounding board for members to bring ideas and concerns to the board.

· Education Coordinator – Anne S – was not present but is a new faculty member at UCF and teacher at QuiltCon. Ede hopes she will offer a class or program for the guild on color theory, and she has many connections among modern quilting teachers.

· Charity Coordinator – Mary W – indicated that she has been very involved with nonprofits and charities where she lived before and is excited to continue to connect with charities here. Mary would like there to be more committees to involve more members, and she plans to put out a calendar of charitable projects spread over the year as a place for members to connect.

· Treasurer – Marge C, who has been treasurer before, loves numbers and says communication is a big deal to her; she hopes to get to know everyone in the guild by name, and she is big on surveys for finding out what members would like.

· Secretary – Mary Sm will continue as secretary after holding that position the past year. She encourages members to consider the job next year, because it’s not too time-consuming and interesting being on the board.

· Vice President – Paula K has been a member less than a year but found the Pulse project this past year was a great way to connect with the guild. Her personal goal for the coming year is to show something at Show N Tell for the first time. Her pet project will be to work with new members so they feel connected.

· President – Sarah L also found the Pulse project a great way to get involved and is excited about the coming year. She sees her job as listening and moving along ideas.

Ede told the guild that getting involved in guild activities as a volunteer is a great way to feel a part of things, and encouraged people to consider joining committees or running for office next year. She encouraged members interested in being on any committee to talk to either Paula or Sarah about it.

Members will vote on this slate of nominees at the February guild meeting, and the new board will take over at the March meeting. Mary W thanked Ede, Karol and Jodi, the Elections Committee, for their work on putting together the slate of officers for next month’s election.

[Absentee Ballots: Anyone not able to attend the February meeting should email Karol E for an absentee ballot, which must be returned by the February meeting to be counted with ballots cast at the meeting. Nominees will be posted on the blog.]

GUILD LIBRARY

Guild Librarian Yanick brings the guild’s library of modern quilting books to meetings but would like to bring just books which members have asked online to check out. The book list is available at the guild website. Books may be checked out for a month and must be returned at the following month’s meeting.

QUILTS FOR PULSE

Paula reported that she has photographed 1,768 quilts, and a quick informal count at the meeting of those yet to be photographed indicates that there will be over 1800.

Alejandrina asked for volunteers to attend a rehearsal of the Orlando Gay Chorus some upcoming Wednesday, 7-10 pm, where the guild will give them a small quilt to go on their awards wall. Judy T took the quilt, and others wanting to attend that distribution are Alissa, Debra A and Paula.

Alejandrina reported that there are two large distributions still pending, of 150 and 100 quilts to the Florida Highway Patrol and the Orange County Sheriff’s Department, but they have been hard to contact. Some will go to the Orange County Fire Department. She believes there will be about 100 left after these distributions.

LUNCH

Lunch for those who want to eat together will meet at the Ale House on 17-92 in Winter Park at 12 noon.

BLOCK OF THE MONTH

Diana’s Block of the Month brought in 55 blocks, which were won by Judy T.

Jodi volunteered to post a tutorial for February’s Block of the Month on the guild blog by this weekend. Alissa noted that Tanyia hoped to use the Block of the Month as a skill-builder for modern quilting.

THANK YOU

Sarah thanked everyone who attended the Quilts for Pulse event on December 13 at The Mezz in downtown Orlando where quilts were distributed to Pulse employees, City employees, and special quilts were presented to Mayor Buddy Dyer, Barbara Puma, owner of Pulse, and Patty Sheehan, county commissioner.

SHOW AND TELL