Happy start of a new quilting season!  Our first meeting is on Wednesday September 5th at 7pm at our normal location.  (Christ community church 2221 Bowen Road, Nanaimo) Here is a quick run down of some of the items we will be covering:

• Membership dues
• Demo planning for the year – does anyone have anything they would like to learn?  Anyone from our group want to do a demo? Do you have any names & contacts of people that may want to come and do a demo?
• Block of the month, we decided at the organizational meeting we would switch it up a bit this year; due to the intimate group we have we don’t want to overwhelm people with projects.  So we are going to switch between block of the month and challenges.  Christine is going to be in charge of block of the month and Pyra in charge of challenges.  If anyone has any suggestions for block of the month please feel free to email Christine directly. 
• Block of the month will be September November February and April.  This month is going to be wedges as topography.  A couple other groups are doing them across Canada this month and I thought it would be fun to join in the fun.  There is a hashtag etc. so I will take care of that next month.  I will have a handout and some demo for everyone to see at the meeting
• Sew ins here are the dates for them.  Carly will be the contact for the sew in days and will go over quickly what we agreed on for cancelations etc. so they run smoothly this year.

September 22

November 24

January 26

March 23

May 25

 

• Victoria MQG is holding a workshop on September 21 it is called Sparkle – Stacey Day is the teacher.  If you are interested go to their web site mqgvictoria.com and check out the picture you can register on line there and pay.  Looks like a fun one to participate in.

Hope to see you all there!

The last meeting before summer is next Wednesday, June 6

Summer is upon us and our last meeting of this year is next Wednesday, June 6

It will be a fast paced and fun meeting with the "reveal" of our 5 month round robin.  Come out and see the imagination of our members.

Also:

 -monthly update of the MQG mothership

- update on MQG guild membership dues

- procedures for sew-in's, with the dates for next year

- feather block of the month lotto 

- observations of modern quilting at CQA show in Vancouver

- we will plan the details of our summer picnic which will be held on July 4 at Maffeo-Sutton park

- a thread demo by Dona-Mae (and who doesn't need thread information?)

- members can sign up for playing card block challenge (which will be due at the September meeting)

- show and share

Everyone welcome!   See you there!!

April meeting is this coming Wednesday, April 4th.

Hello all,

Wishing everyone a very happy Easter.

The meeting is this coming Wednesday, April 4.  Please remember to bring you round robin, the block challenge and show and shares.

Looking forward to seeing what has been created by our awesome members.

New members of all skill levels are always welcome.  Come to our meeting and see how we share and laugh.

March is blowing in like a lion and our meeting is Wednesday, March 7

Another month has flown by and we are gearing up for spring(????)

 

Agenda for Mar. 7 meeting

• Sign up for Mar 24 sew in

• A member's experience at QuiltCon 2018

• Round robin exchange. 

• Bring your favourite and/or least favourite quilting tool

• Mother ship update

• A new block challenge

• Show & share

It will be fun to see which tools get the "yay" and which get the "nay".

Next Meeting on Wednesday, February 7 at 7:00pm

We will show our "fractured heart" block challenge, which is just in time for Valentine's day.

...and we will begin our round robin challenge.  Everyone that has done a middle "medallion" block will swap with others that are participating, for exchange #1.  This is an ongoing challenge that will end with our meeting in June. Pictures will be posted!

Sign up for the Mar. 24 sew-in is open and we will have show and share (always great to see what others have been doing).

Laugh and share ideas!  Quilter's of all levels are welcome, see you at the meeting.

Happy New Year! Our next meeting is Wednesday, January 10th (note it is one week later)

Our next meeting has been moved one week later to Wednesday, January 10, 7:00pm, as the first Wednesday is too close to holiday overload.

This means that you have an extra week to work on the paint-chip challenge that is due at this meeting.

-Sign up for the sew-in on Saturday January 13.  It'll be fun to quilt and socialize.
-Bring your show and shares and let's see what was worked on over the month of December.

See you at the meeting!

What a fun Christmas potluck!

We started with a potluck dinner which had lots of yummy foods - no shortage of amazing dishes and desserts.

 

Then we had our mug rug exchange.  This involved many "involuntarily" relinquishing their mug/rug.  When it ended we got a picture of all the wonderful mug rugs, with mugs to match in a lot of cases.

 

Show and shares rounded out our meeting, demonstrating that our members have been busy.