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
Thursday, October 30, 2014
Tuesday, October 14, 2014
Monthly Meeting Reminder: October 18, 2014
Our next meeting will be held on October 18. It will be at 10 am as usual and the location is the BARR CONFERENCE ROOM, where we met in September. In fact, we will be in the Barr Conference Room for the remainder of the year and probably beyond. If you haven't been with us for a meeting recently, you can find a downloadable map under the "MEETINGS" tab at the top of this page.
This is an important meeting: We will plan the calendar for next year. It will also be an open sew, so please bring your sewing project AND your ideas for next year. We'll set up right away and discuss the calendar AS we sew. That way you can get some good sewing time in. If you don't want to sew, please still come with your ideas. Big ideas, small ideas: let's talk about them all.
See you on Saturday!!
Tuesday, September 30, 2014
September 20 2014 Meeting
General Discussion:
Jenny reviewed our remaining calendar events for 2014.
October is our planning meeting and requested everyone bring 2 or 3 ideas.
November is our charity sew date where we will construct blankets varying in size and NICU smocks for the Vanderbilt Childrens Hospital. Encouraging everyone to invite a friend.
December is our Holiday Party with the Secret Santa Swap, Dirty Santa and pot luck luncheon. We will also hold elections.
Treasurer's Report - Linda Cunningham
Bank ending balance - $661.05
Linda will check the pay pal account for any deposits.
Reminder dues are $40 with $15 going to Modern Quilt Guild
Discussed the Modern Quilt Guild Charity Quilt Challenge.
Project is a twin size quilt (70 X 90).
Prescribed colors
Alternate Grid presentation
Sign up by September 30
Deadline is January 15
The members present agreed the Guild will not particpate.
Our Facebook Group is our communication tool.
SHOW & TELL
Everyone shared their hand dyed fabric we did at last month's meeting. Beautiful color range.
Stefanie Williams shared Cherrios Quilt she made for a raffle for a sick child, a baby quilt finishing with scrappy binding and a swoon mini block she made into a pin cushion.
Linda Cunningham shared two Halloween quilt tops she is quilting.
Jayne Willis shared a lap quilt made with her hand dyed fabrics and shot cottons in blues and greens.
Betty Camfield shared her Michael Miller challenge with greay background and a cat zipper pouch from Straight Stitch Nation and patten tested a tolietry kit pattern.
Jennifer Haston shared the center block that she is constructing for a friend. The center block is pink and red spelling out LOVE. You will find flying geese and a landscape bottom.
Debby Lee had lots to share with her Pixalated heart in grey and blue batiks with a red square. She is planning on doing linear quilting. She also brought an Irish table runner with a multi-color heart flower shape with a grey background. Debby also brought in her Mug Rug Exchange - Teal for Two.
Royce Vaughan shared a flower made with fabric dye pens. Her online quilt group made her a memory quilt with some of her favorite things. She also brought in the quilt our guild made for her as a rememberance of her husband.
Tori Grant shared a needle holder with tiny patchwork and a needlework kit.
Lindsay Connor is a busy girl. She shared a strip piecing project that is a work in process. She is also working on patterns for a co-authored book, On the Go Bags.
LaTanya Channel shared a minky pieced quilt top in brown, mint and aqua and a quilt block she is working on, Modified Churn Dash and some Nine Patch blocks.
Jenny reviewed our remaining calendar events for 2014.
October is our planning meeting and requested everyone bring 2 or 3 ideas.
November is our charity sew date where we will construct blankets varying in size and NICU smocks for the Vanderbilt Childrens Hospital. Encouraging everyone to invite a friend.
December is our Holiday Party with the Secret Santa Swap, Dirty Santa and pot luck luncheon. We will also hold elections.
Treasurer's Report - Linda Cunningham
Bank ending balance - $661.05
Linda will check the pay pal account for any deposits.
Reminder dues are $40 with $15 going to Modern Quilt Guild
Discussed the Modern Quilt Guild Charity Quilt Challenge.
Project is a twin size quilt (70 X 90).
Prescribed colors
Alternate Grid presentation
Sign up by September 30
Deadline is January 15
The members present agreed the Guild will not particpate.
Our Facebook Group is our communication tool.
SHOW & TELL
Everyone shared their hand dyed fabric we did at last month's meeting. Beautiful color range.
Stefanie Williams shared Cherrios Quilt she made for a raffle for a sick child, a baby quilt finishing with scrappy binding and a swoon mini block she made into a pin cushion.
Linda Cunningham shared two Halloween quilt tops she is quilting.
Jayne Willis shared a lap quilt made with her hand dyed fabrics and shot cottons in blues and greens.
Betty Camfield shared her Michael Miller challenge with greay background and a cat zipper pouch from Straight Stitch Nation and patten tested a tolietry kit pattern.
Jennifer Haston shared the center block that she is constructing for a friend. The center block is pink and red spelling out LOVE. You will find flying geese and a landscape bottom.
Debby Lee had lots to share with her Pixalated heart in grey and blue batiks with a red square. She is planning on doing linear quilting. She also brought an Irish table runner with a multi-color heart flower shape with a grey background. Debby also brought in her Mug Rug Exchange - Teal for Two.
Royce Vaughan shared a flower made with fabric dye pens. Her online quilt group made her a memory quilt with some of her favorite things. She also brought in the quilt our guild made for her as a rememberance of her husband.
Tori Grant shared a needle holder with tiny patchwork and a needlework kit.
Lindsay Connor is a busy girl. She shared a strip piecing project that is a work in process. She is also working on patterns for a co-authored book, On the Go Bags.
LaTanya Channel shared a minky pieced quilt top in brown, mint and aqua and a quilt block she is working on, Modified Churn Dash and some Nine Patch blocks.
Thursday, August 28, 2014
August 15 2014 Meeting
General Discussion
Brief meeting to remind members to complete their surveys for the Secret Santa Swap. Great attendance for our Fabric Dying class conducted by Jayne Willis and her daughter.
There is much to learn about fabric dying and the Guild is most thankful that Jayne and her daughter for sharing their talents and home with us.
Brief meeting to remind members to complete their surveys for the Secret Santa Swap. Great attendance for our Fabric Dying class conducted by Jayne Willis and her daughter.
There is much to learn about fabric dying and the Guild is most thankful that Jayne and her daughter for sharing their talents and home with us.
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, June 25, 2014
June 21 2014 Meeting
General Discussion:
New
member: Kate Dornan
9
Members were present at the June Meeting. Hand Quilting was taught by Linda
Cunningham.
Discussion
of the May meeting (Nicu Smocks): The smocks were in various stages of completion
and 44 smocks were given to the hospital. Callie was presented with a
certificate for the guilds efforts.
Prorating
member dues- Jenny to get Stephanie’s thoughts. Part of the discussion will be
to find out if the MQG’s dues are part of the prorating.
Cumberland
Valley Quilt Association – (CVQA), meets on 2nd Tuesday of the month
during the day would like to know if our members would be interested in an
exchange program. Do you have any ideas, and/or interests.
Members
to verify getting emails from Jenny.
Show and
Tell:
Christine
Copenhaver showed her talents, she made several headbands for the Tomato
Festival. Her book “Necktie Quilts” is on Amazon for pre-order. She showed the
members the mockup of the cover. Very Nice.
Lindsey
Conner, and Ashley Gomez are also talented members of the guild. Lindsey is a
freelancer and Ashley has a shop on Etsy.
Upcoming
Events:
July –
will be an “Open Sew” this would be a good opportunity to finish up the
“Challenge” for the MQG that is to be presented to MQG on the 25th.
August –
Jayne Willis, to demonstrate “Hand Dying” materials required and directions
house to follow.
September
– “Open Sew”
October
– “Planning for the upcoming year 2015” Jenny would like the members to present
at least 3 ideas to choose from.
November
– “Charity Sew” (Nicu Smocks)
December – “Holiday Party” will be a Pot Luck
the 2nd Saturday of the month. Dirty/Secret Santa, it’s so much more
fun when everyone participates. We have so many talented members. Chelley will
you coordinate the event?
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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