Meeting Notes from our Jan 19, 2016 meeting

Business Meeting & Discussion items

• Welcome visitors Rhoda and Joyce
• Members were asked to bring ideas for activities and challenges that we might want o try in 2016.   So put your creative thinking caps on and bring your ideas to our Feb meeting.    Some ideas mentioning include:  ALZ Initiative (small quilts for auctions), Batik swap (similar to the Bag Batik swap we've done before), Member Spotlight
• Donna found some and you can read about them HERE.

Lorelei gave us an update on our  last Charity Quilt sew-in.

Our January 19th Program was:  "The colors and crafts of Nepal", by Donna and Mary (and a little help from Dianne).

Members shared their latest Round Robin work (in progress).   If you are wondering what's next in the round-robin, here was our schedule for the rows.

Challenge schedule:
July - focus square for piece
August - border with squares
Sept. - border with triangles
Oct. - border with rectangles
Nov. - border with circles, ovals or curves
Jan. - border with letter, letters, words, number or numbers
Feb. - wild card (add or substitute one of the rows)
March - add embellishments to your piece

General Show and Tells:  pics can be found on our Facebook page.

What's up at our Feb Meeting?

• Discussion of Challenge ideas (and bring your ideas and Modern Quilt books).
• Round Robin Show and Tell
• General Show and Tell

See ya on 2/16.
Mary

Some Challenge ideas for 2016

At our Jan meeting we talked about Goals and Challenges for 2016.  

Here are some Modern Tutorials that Donna thought you might be interested in.
Tutorial - http://www.ohfransson.com/all-projects/mod-mosaic-quilt-blocks
Tutorial - https://themodernquiltguild.wordpress.com/category/100-days-of-modern-quilting/

Possible 2016 Challenges
We also talked about Challenges ideas for 2016.  Here are some Challenge ideas that Donna found online.

• Solid color challenge
• Paint chip challenge:  3 colors plus same neutral color for all participants
• Art challenge:  Bring your block (any size) inspired by the element that you picked: Earth, Air, Fire or Water. Wouldn’t it be fun to put together an entire quilt built from those Element inspired blocks?
• Challenge: This month’s challenge is all about your imagination!  Make a block inspired by architecture. That’s the whole structure or an interesting feature-tile floor, carved door or interesting shaped window perhaps. Let your eye roam and your fabric fly!
• App Quilting!  Make a block inspired by your favorite smartphone app or computer program … or the one you wish you had.
• Challenge – Neon!  Create a quilt square or other project incorporating neon (fluorescent) solid or patterned fabric.
• Charity challenge: Create a placemat designed in a modern aesthetic to be donated to Meals on Wheels! Placemats should be big enough to hold a plate, glass and silverware on its surface (eg, 11″x17″). Scott G  http://keptinstitches.org/tutorials/placemat-tutorial-2/) has a great placemat tutorial on his blog!  Another tutorial: http://www.alissahaightcarlton.com/placemat-pattern/
• Challenge:  Create a quilt square of any size which is inspired by a quilt that you saw at a recent quilt show (bring picture of quilt inspiration with your show and tell)

We'll discuss them and any other ideas that you may have at our Feb meeting.

Reminder: Our Next CFMQ Guild Meeting is Tuesday January 19th

HAPPY NEW YEAR !!!!

Here's whats-up at our January Meeting

Business Meeting & Discussion items

• Welcome visitors/new members
• Goals for 2016
• Programs for 2016 (put your creative thinking caps on!)
• Field Trips for 2016 (ideas?)
• Other ideas

Charity Quilt :  update on the progress of our last Charity Quilt sew-in.

January 19th Program:  "The colors and crafts of Nepal", by Donna and Mary (and a little help from Dianne).  

Round-Robin:  bring your latest Round Robin work in progress.

If you are wondering what's next in the round-robin, here was our schedule for the rows.

Schedule:
July - focus square for piece
August - border with squares
Sept. - border with triangles
Oct. - border with rectangles
Nov. - border with circles, ovals or curves
Jan. - border with letter, letters, words, number or numbers
Feb. - wild card (add or substitute one of the rows)
March - add embellishments to your piece

General Show and Tells:  we love seeing all of your latest completed projects.

Please note:  we have a new meeting day for 2016.   We will be meeting on the 3rd Tuesday of the month (from 10am - Noon @ Sew Happins) starting in January 2016.

See ya on 1/19.
Mary