October 18 2014 Meeting

General Discussion

November is our Charity Sew - NICU Smocks in Christmas prints!  Please invite guests to participate. Jenny's bringing door prizes!

December is our Holiday Party with potluck finger food, Secret Santa and DIRTY Santa.

Business

Nominations for Guild Offices of President, Vice President, Secretary and Treasurer are as follows:
President - Jenny Parker
Vice President - Jayne Willis, Kathy Lasko, Lindsay Connor
Secretary - Trudy Jackson
Treasurer - Linda Cunningham

Trudy will send out a voting survey to all eligible members.  Lynette McKenzie will monitor and tally votes.

Jenny Parker felt the Guild needed a few specific committees for better communication and outreach.  Our members agreed.

Social Media - Chair Ashley Gomez, Jennifer Haston, Katie Dornan
Charity Committee - Chair Stephanie Williams, Kate Alicea, Marcia Reel, Callie Tinney
Community Outreach - Chair Lindsay Connor

2015 Calendar
January - Open Sew
February - English Paper Piecing
March - Charity Sew
April - Improv Sew & Machine Binding
May - Open
June - Open Sew
July - Shop Hop / Scavenger Hunt
August - Charity Sew
September - Upper Cumberland Quilt Festival
October - Planning
November - Elections
December - Holiday Party

SHOW & TELL

Kathy Lasko - Shared a 16 patch quilt that was machine quilted and bound.  She also shared a sweet baby quilt in bright wonky stars.

Jennifer Haston  shared her progress on her LOVE quilt and the appliques that has been added.

Katie Dornan shared a cross stitch project - Autumn Sampler.

Ashley Gomez also shared a cross stitch project - a Thomas Edison quote.

Tori Grant shared a quilt she made for her daughter - Dandelion in white, blues and yellow.

Stephanie Williams shared her experience at Granny B's Longarm Quilting Class.  She also brought in her Count Down to Christmas quilt top using FQ, jelly roll and solid.  Stephanie also shared her Christmas Ornament quilt top.

Linda Cunningham shared her hand pieced and hand quilted project using multi-color batiks charm squares.  She also brought in a Halloween Quilt utilizing HST and Breast Cancer Quilt with a center medallion surrounded by HST..

Jenny Parker shared a baby quilt using Jayne Willis' pattern in pinks.  Guess it's for a girl!

Jayne Willis shared a HST quilt she referred to as her "Cluster" quilt using her hand dyed fabrics and shot cotton.  She also shared a purse that she made.

Marcia Reel shared a bag she constructed to help test patterns.  She also participates in a Bag of the Month group and brought in her project in grey with magnetic closure.

Sharon Hels shared her shibori dyed fabric table runner with echo hand quilting.

NEXT MEETIN DATE - November 15, 2014

March 15, 2014 Meeting

General Discussion:
The Sew Down is in Nashville, April 11 - 14. Jenny to reconnect to see if any volunteer positions available for our guild to participate.

Jenny is waiting on fabric to arrive for those of us that signed up for the Michael Miller challenge.

More hotels have been added for 2015 Quilt Con February 19 - 22, 2015 in Austin Texas.

We should be receiving Modern Quilt Guild Member Cards and pins soon.

Chelly Black confirmed monthly room rental for our meetings is paid through March.

Our next Guild meeting is April 19 and is our Charity Sew.  All members and visitors are needed for this event.  We make NICU smocks and blankets for the Vanderbilt NICU.  Please bring your sewing machine with needle and thread.  We will publish a list of supplies that we can share and you will be able to sign up to bring (i.e. iron, ironing board, extension cord, cutting mat, etc.)

SHOW & TELL

Ashley Gomez shared her pieced quilt top made from Bluebird Park fabrics and her one of 8 quilted bags she made.  This purple pleaser was quilted using the stippling technique she learned in February's Stippling class.

 

Linda Cunningham, today's hand piecing teacher, shared a hand pieced star pattern table runner that was hand quilted too.

Linda also brought in a Log Cabin lap quilt that was quilted with interlocking circles using a coffee can for the quilting pattern.

Stefanie Williams shared a different sort of quilting pattern.  A stitch along from Little Miss Shabby (#quilty stitches).  She publishes a cross stitch quilt block every two weeks that you complete in the colors of your choice.

Jayne Willis is featured in Fresh Quilts quarterly publication.  The article is Modern Quilt Movement on page 108 of the Spring edition featuring pillows she made.

Jayne brought in a quilt she made from her own hand dyed fabric. Gorgeous colors and design!

Jayne also made a baby quilt from one of Lindsay Connor's patterns using pieced binding.

Lindsay Connor and Elliott, (all of 9 1/2 weeks old!)

shared a quilt from a charity Quilt Bee in vibrant pinks and yellows with white shashing using her January pattern from her book, Modern Bee.

Also from her book, Lindsay used the February block, Playing Cards using blues, greens, orange and pinks with an ivory background.

Lindsay made a Clam Shell pattern baby quilt she had professionally quilted.  Each shell shows different quilting design.