General Discussion
Reminder that membership dues are due. Dues are $40 and payable online or to Linda Cunningham by check or cash.
2015 Meeting Calendar
January 17 - Open Sew
February 21 - English Paper Piecing taught by Stephanie Williams
March 21 - Community Service Sew Day
April 18 - Improvisational Curves by Jayne Willis
Machine Binding by Stephanie Williams
May 16 - Open Date
June 20 - Open Sew
July 18 - Shop Hop / Scavenger Hunt - Jenny Parker, Stephanie Williams
August 15 - Community Service Sew Day
September 19 - Field Trip - Upper Cumberland Quilt Festival - Allgood, TN
October 17 - Planning
November 21 - Officer Nominations - Open Sew Day
December 12 - Holiday Party - Election Results
Sub-committee meeting were held and will report back to group.
Social Media Committee - Ashley Gomez
Community Service Committee - Stephanie Williams
Guild Banner Committee
Pile O Fabric is offering your choice of BOM Skill Builder. Check with Jenny Parker for more information.
Callie Tinney asked if there was any interest in a free motion class? Fabric Squares might hold a class if there is enough interest.
SHOW & TELL
Linda Cunningham shared an baby quilt with appliqued frogs and cattails in beautiful blues and greens.
Stephanie Williams shared a quilt top using the Norway pattern and Bonnie and Camille fabric. Update on Granny B's - they are now a Janome dealer in addition to longarm rental.
Mimi Shimp shared a beautiful floral applique quilt block she is going to frame. She also shared Moonlit Flowers quilt in gorgeous gold, red, green and black applique. Mimi shared quilt blocks from the Sensational Sampler pattern. Showing how you can update an older pattern with modern fabrics.
Jennifer Hastonshared her LOVE quilt in process. Working on completing the quilting. She also brought in a large applique project of Dolly Parton for a friend.
Sharon Hels shared what she learned for the Creative Walking foot Craftsy Class. She used the wavy stitch on her Log Cabin quilt top. Sharon is also completing hand quilting on a shibori dyed project.
Tori Grant shared her quilted name tag - very cute and personal! She brought in her COMPLETED Bionic Gear Bag!
Jayne Willis shared several items. A batik jelly roll strip quilt in plum, pink and purple. She also brought in Vice Versa BOM from Genex Quilters using her hand dyed fabric in aqua, plum and gold. Jayne free motioned quilted it. She also brought in her COMPLETED Bionic Gear Bag using Tula Pink fabric.
MEETING REMINDER - February 21 2015 - English Paper Piecing - Project list on FB
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Saturday, January 31, 2015
Thursday, October 30, 2014
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
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
Thursday, July 24, 2014
July 19 2014 Meeting
General Discussion:
Jenny brought up Nashville's upcoming Art Walk and was in contact with Nancy from the Fabric Studio. She was interested in displaying 10 - 15 quilts for the Art Walk. It is held the first Saturday of each month.
Chelly Black is handling the sign ups and match ups for our Christmas Secret Santa Swap. Please complete the survey by first week of September if you are interested in participating this year. Chelly will try to have the Secret Santa assignments by October.
Our guild now has its own calling cards. Each member is asked to post and distribute all over town. Thanks you Stefanie for handling this for the Guild!
SHOW & TELL
Michael Miller Challenge
Linda Cunningham brought her chevron pieced wall hanging using grey as her background.
Jayne Willis made an adorable pillow with a paper pieced hedgehog.
Katie Dornan constructed a mini quilt utilizing flying geese.
Ashley Gomez made rectangle style pillow focusing on the aqua tones.
Jenny Parker made a baby quilt using the square in a square pattern and lime green is her background.
Other Show and Tell by Stefanie Williams made a baby quilt using the Swoon Block and Jayne Willis also brought in two wall hangings, one in reds and the other in blues. It was quilted using her walking foot.
Next meeting: August 16 - Fabric Dying at Jayne Willis' home.
Jenny brought up Nashville's upcoming Art Walk and was in contact with Nancy from the Fabric Studio. She was interested in displaying 10 - 15 quilts for the Art Walk. It is held the first Saturday of each month.
Chelly Black is handling the sign ups and match ups for our Christmas Secret Santa Swap. Please complete the survey by first week of September if you are interested in participating this year. Chelly will try to have the Secret Santa assignments by October.
Our guild now has its own calling cards. Each member is asked to post and distribute all over town. Thanks you Stefanie for handling this for the Guild!
SHOW & TELL
Michael Miller Challenge
Linda Cunningham brought her chevron pieced wall hanging using grey as her background.
Jayne Willis made an adorable pillow with a paper pieced hedgehog.
Katie Dornan constructed a mini quilt utilizing flying geese.
Ashley Gomez made rectangle style pillow focusing on the aqua tones.
Jenny Parker made a baby quilt using the square in a square pattern and lime green is her background.
Other Show and Tell by Stefanie Williams made a baby quilt using the Swoon Block and Jayne Willis also brought in two wall hangings, one in reds and the other in blues. It was quilted using her walking foot.
Next meeting: August 16 - Fabric Dying at Jayne Willis' home.
Wednesday, May 21, 2014
May 17 2014 Meeting
General Discussion:
Jenny Parker reminded us that the Michael Miller Challenge is due in July and hopes everyone is able to get their projects completes and uploaded to the site.
She also brought door prizes for our Charity Sew today provided by the Modern Quilt Guild
July meeting will be hand quilting taught by Linda Cunningham. Basic supplies to bring:
- Pieced project
- Quilting Grid
- #10 Quilting Needles
- Hoop
- Quilting Thread
- Thimble
Callie Vick gave a tutorial on NICU smock construction our group is working on today for the Vanderbilt NICU Unit.
Thanks to all our members and guests that participated in completing 44 smocks to deliver to Vanderbilt Childrens Hospital.
Next meeting date: August 16, 2014
Jenny Parker reminded us that the Michael Miller Challenge is due in July and hopes everyone is able to get their projects completes and uploaded to the site.
She also brought door prizes for our Charity Sew today provided by the Modern Quilt Guild
July meeting will be hand quilting taught by Linda Cunningham. Basic supplies to bring:
- Pieced project
- Quilting Grid
- #10 Quilting Needles
- Hoop
- Quilting Thread
- Thimble
Callie Vick gave a tutorial on NICU smock construction our group is working on today for the Vanderbilt NICU Unit.
Thanks to all our members and guests that participated in completing 44 smocks to deliver to Vanderbilt Childrens Hospital.
Next meeting date: August 16, 2014
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