Meeting Recap (November 9, 2019)

Thank you to everyone who came out to Saturday's meeting! It was lovely to see everyone again (it was a packed house!), and we hope you all had a great time.

• Gayle, our Treasurer, gave us the updated financial info. It's time to pay your 2020 dues, which are holding steady at $40 for next year. You can pay via our Paypal link or by cash, check, or charge at our December meeting. Dues are due by December 31 to remain a member in good standing.
• Gayle, standing in as secretary, also announced our membership numbers and passed out our MQG and STLMQG membership pins. We're now over 160 members! Note: This year, the MQG is no longer sending printed membership cards. If you'd like a paper copy to use for discounts, etc., you can access and print it online. To access your digital card, log in to your MQG account, click on "My Dashboard" in the right sidebar, then click the orange "Membership Card" link at the top of your profile page.
• Marie, our VP, announced several pieces of quilting news and happenings (more about these will be sent via email).
• Jessica, our President, covered several items:
• This month's Hand-Sew Happy Hour will take place on Thursday, November 21 at a private member's home. More info will be sent in our newsletter. This is our last hand sew of the year, as we take a break in December for the holidays.
• Thank you to the SewMeSTL Committee (Heather Benz, Gretchen Watkin, Vicki Ash, Emily Amizich, Pam Hartig, Jenn Deck, Jolene Grosch, and Robyn Passig) for a wonderful retreat this year. We really appreciate all the hard work you put into the event. You can read a recap here.
• QuiltCon will be held in Austin Feb. 20-23. Member registration for classes and entries for the quilt show are now open. Quilt entries are due by Dec. 2.
• Our meeting locations have been set for next year. We're having to split between two locations due to construction at the Heights. All dates and locations have been updated on our Meeting Info page.
• We are happy to announce our new board members for 2020: Emily Amizich (President), Pam Hartig (Vice President), Lilo Whitener-Fey (Secretary), and Tess McMahon (Treasurer) will be taking the reigns in January. Thank you all for being willing to serve, as well as to the other members who applied for the positions.
• 2020 committee sign-ups are open! A link to sign up will be in this week's newsletter.

• We began collecting donations for our December ticket raffle, and boy did we get some good stuff. Don't forget -- you can still donate at the December meeting. All the info can be found here.
• Terry Darling and Marge Thomas collected the remaining blocks for our QuiltCon charity quilt and gave us a sneak peek of the quilt. It looks so great! They'll be assembling the quilt with some help this week, then passing it off to Lilo Whitener-Fey for longarming. Thanks again to everyone who's helped out!

• The Charity Committee collected the last of our quilt donations for the Project Linus project. We'll announce the total number of quilts soon, but suffice it to say, it's going to be a big number. Thank you to the committee (Gina Shelley, Lilo Whitener-Fey, Nancy Dlugosz, Emily DuBois, Ann Philiph, Patti Hawkins, Erin Chan, and Amy Suiter) for all of their hard work; to everyone who made a quilt; and to our wonderful longarmers and Nancy Dlugosz, who donated their quilting and binding services for monthly giveaways.
• For this month's activity, we did some in-depth demos on using Creativebug and Instagram. We hope you found them helpful! Members had a lot of great questions and tips to add as well.
• After the break, participants revealed their entries in the Mini Masterpiece Challenge (details on the challenge can be found here). It was fun to see the variety in all the wonderful pieces our members created. Good work to everyone who challenged themselves to combine and use colors in a new way, and congrats to our winners, Marilynn Maurer (monochromatic category and viewers’ choice), Pam Hartig (complimentary category), and Jan Ochterbeck (analogous category)!

• We wrapped up the meeting with another great Show and Tell, including these beauties by Sue Jackson, Erika Walden, and Patti Baymiller, among many others. Keep an eye on our Instagram page to see lots more pics of the meeting, show and tell, and our members' projects throughout the month.

 

 

 

Meeting #96 (November 9, 2019)

Hello modern quilters! We're so excited for our first monthly meeting since August. We've had a lot of fun things going on, but we miss our monthly check-ins. We hope to see you there!

Date: November 9, 2019
Time: 10 am-12:30 pm
Location: The Heights
8001 Dale Ave., St. Louis, MO 63117
*Childcare available, please see info here*

**Note: The west parking lot at The Heights will be closed until at least the fall due to renovations taking place in the building. We should be fine, but you might want to give yourself a few extra minutes to arrive on time. The main (east) lot remains open. Additional parking is also available near the AB Green Park on Laclede Station Road and Dale Ave.

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Agenda:

 -Welcome & Guild Business
     :: Membership Information
     :: Financial Information
     :: Quilting News / Around Town

     :: Reminders and Announcements

- Updates on QuiltCon, Officer Elections, and more!
- Collect QuiltCon charity quilt blocks
- Collect Project Linus quilts

- Activity: How-to Demos on Creativebug and Instagram

---Break---

- Fabric bundle raffle
- 2020 Committee sign-ups

 

- Show and tell/voting for Mini Masterpiece Challenge (challenge details here)
- Announce Rainbow BOM winners
- Show & Tell (time permitting)
- Door prizes
- Mix & Mingle 

-------------------------- Reminders --------------------------

:: It's time to pay your 2020 dues! Dues will hold steady at $40 for next year. You must pay by Dec. 31 to remain a member in good standing. Dues can be paid by cash, check, or credit card. You can pay at the meeting or online through our Paypal link. 

:: Planning your next solids project? Don't forget that we have a guild set of color cards for Robert Kaufman Kona solids and Essex Linen, Art Gallery Pure Elements, Moda Bella solids and Grunge, and Michael Miller Cotton Couture solids available at every meeting. Just ask up front, and you're welcome to use any of them to match your solids during the meeting.

:: Remember we have a lot of items due this month, so keep these in mind as you prepare: 

• QuiltCon charity blocks 
• Project Linus quilts 
• Mini Masterpiece Challenge entries 
• Donations for December raffle