Cape Fear Modern Quilting Guild - Notes from our May 19th Meeting

Meeting notes for May 19, 2014

• Welcome to members and new member - Arleen
• Secretary minutes from March meeting
• Treasurer's report from March

Upcoming programs:

• June - Member spotlights: Lynn will share her quilts
• July - Dianne: Exotic fabrics Show & Tell from her travels
• August - Kathy: How to make stones using fabric demo (Quilting Arts, June/July 2014)

Upcoming Field Trip:

• Fall (date - TBD) - Field trip to gallery in Carolina Beach where Linda will have an exhibit of her work. (more information later in the fall)

There was a Group Discussion about projects, challenges and charity sew-in for the coming year.  Here is what the group decided:

1. We will continue to meet throughout the summer (3rd Monday of the month)
2. Summer challenge: using batik fabric that we swapped at the meeting, make a bag and bring to the September meeting. Use the fabric that you received in the swap - use any bag pattern and add extra fabric.  Can't wait to see the bags in September. 
3. Charity Sew-in for the fall (in October or November): theme will be fall colors (string piecing using scraps in fall colors).  More information later.
4. Monthly Block to make a "Modern Calendar" quilt.  Choose your color scheme for your own quilt.  Each month make a block based on the monthly theme in your color scheme.  No restriction on block size - your blocks can be different sizes.  Have fun - try new techniques, experiment with color.   Here are the block themes for the next 7 months:

• June - Beach/ Ocean
• July - "America"
• August - Picnic
• Sept. - Back to school
• Oct. - Fall
• Nov. - Thanksgiving
• Dec. - Winter holidays

Show & Tell (see pictures on our Facebook page)

• Dianne -  3 Quilts of Valor with backing fabric (she put together the blocks from our March Charity Sew In) - The quilts looks awesome! - thank you Diane.
• Also another quilt with blocks from our fall Charity Sew In with a backing fabric Dresden plate quilt
• Laura - Quilt as you go using lasagna strips (2.5" wide) - flower prints
• Donna and Mary - thread painting projects from Santa Fe workshop (dog, dancer, and buoys)
• Kathy - Bull Eye's quilt
• Lynn - Book: Adventures in Design by Joen Wolfrom, Tool: reducing glass to see a quilt at a distance
• Mary - Book: 500 Art Quilts
• Penny - Kaffe fabric quilt, Downton Abbey and batik fabrics quilt, Books: Batik Beauties by Laurie J Shifrin, Batik Gems by Laurie J Shifrin
• Didi -   Lap quilt made from scraps from dresses, Book: Designing Tesselations by Jinny Beyer
• Lois  - Wallhanging with peacock fabric (won 1st place in Senior games this year), Her spiral table runner won 2nd place and she sold this piece

Our next meeting is June 16

• Bring your calendar block (theme is Beach/ Ocean)

Have a great day, Donna (secretary)