Alexia Abegg + Marcelle Medallion Class - Sept. 16!

Alexia Abegg of Green Bee Patterns and Cotton + Steel will be giving a lecture and Q&A at our Sept. 16 meeting followed by the Marcelle Medallion Workshop! Both the lecture & class are open to non-member registration, so everyone is welcome to attend our meeting, the lecture, and the class! Our meeting will kick-off at 10 a.m. with our Paint Chip Challenge reveals and other show & tells before moving on to the lecture. Space for the lecture & workshop is limited, so sign-up today! 

If you have questions, please contact us at musiccitymodernquilters@yahoo.com.

Location | Detailed directions will be e-mailed prior to the workshop

First Presbyterian Church

101 Legends Club Lane

Franklin, TN 37069

Saturday | Sept. 16

Lecture + Q&A

Time: 11:00 - 12:30 p.m.
MCMQG Members: FREE

Non-Members: $10

Lunch Break | Lunch is not provided, but the class location is easily accessible to some great options! Or feel free to "brown-bag" it!

Marcelle Medallion Workshop

Time: 1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

MCMQG Members: $30

Non-Members: $40

*Note!! Select the option to join our guild on the registration form and save $5 on your lecture & workshop registration - plus, we're awesome all year 'round!

Learn more about Alexia, her fabric, and Green Bee Patterns on her website.

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October 15 Meeting Reminder

This month's meeting is going to be a combo open sew as well as a planning meeting for 2017.

If you have any suggestions for our calendar next year, please bring those ideas to the meeting!  Also bring along whatever project you'd like to get a few hours of working on with you.

Don't forget to bring along some show and tell! :)

April 2016 Meeting Recap

Music City Modern Quilt Guild

Meeting Recap

April 16, 2016

The charity quilt was returned to us.  Great work and THANK YOU to all the people who worked on this quilt!  We discussed options for donating the quilt.  One option is to donate it to a specific organization.  The other option mentioned was to raffle the quilt and donate the money to an organization.  No decision was made.  We will continue discussions next month.

The weekend of June 11-12, the St. Louis Modern Quilt Guild is traveling to Nashville for a shop hop.  We are trying to organize a meet up with them at some point during their visit.  Ashley will provide more details at a later time.

Michelle Wilkie will be teaching her Modern Block Design class to us on July 23.  Please note that this is a separate time from our normal monthly meeting.  There are only 20 spots available for the class.  Ashley will send the sign up email on May 1^st.  The sign up will be first come, first serve.  This is for members only.

May Meeting – Open Sew

Show and Tell

After Show and Tell, Ashely taught us how to make zipper pouches.  Thank you Ashely and thank you to the helpers who assisted us newbies.  Take a look at a few of the pouches we made today!

March 19 Meeting Reminder

This month we're having a Quilt as You Go tutorial being lead by member Marcia Reel. Here's what Marcia has explained thus far:

 Preparation for March: pictured below is an example of a pillow panel we will be doing utilizing a very simple "quilt as you go" method. Choose the size pillow you want to make, and bring a piece of batting (cotton works great) cut about an inch or two bigger on each side. I will be doing a 16" square, so my batting will be 18". I will bring lots of colorful scraps you can utilize for your pillow or you can bring your own. If you would like to completely finish your pillow at the meeting, bring a piece of fabric cut the size of your pillow and an invisible zipper at least the width of your pillow. I can show you how to insert. Make sure you throw in your zipper foot! Can't wait to see what all you creative people make!

You'll need your sewing machine, scrap fabric, batting about 2 inches bigger than you want your pillow to finish, if you're going to finish your pillow off also bring a zipper (as noted, the width of your pillow) and your zipper foot, as well as a piece of fabric cut to the size of your pillow.

 I know I'm excited to learn this method! Thank you Marcia for volunteering to teach all of us! Look forward to seeing everyone this month!

ALSO!  Don't forget to bring some show and tell if you've got it! :)

February 2016 Meeting Reminder

Good morning!

I wanted to make a quick reminder that this month there will NOT be a regular meeting at our regular meeting space!  In lieu of our regular meeting, we're having a retreat in Paris Landing!  Just a reminder, if you haven't already paid your invoice for the retreat, you have just under 2 weeks to take care of that.

The next time we will be meeting up at First Presbyterian will be March 19!  In March we'll be having the first part of a two part, two meeting project!  In March, Marcia Reel will be showing us the quilt as you go method.  Then in April we'll be using those quilt as you go pieces to make a zipper pouch!  We'll have a list of what to bring out before both meetings.

Thanks!

Ashley Gomez