November 25, 2019 - Our first anniversary!

The Moncton Modern Quilt Guild is officially one! Our November meeting was dedicated to celebrating this auspicious event and we did it in great style! We had a number of amazing door prizes, all donated to us and it was great sharing this good fortunate with our members, although we did make them work for them!

Penelope at The Fabric Curator, an online shop based out of Toronto, provided us with a gorgeous selection of Robert Kaufman fabrics!

Bev of Edge Squared Quilting in Barnaby donated a whole selection of items including a book, some cool water bottles, and a hexie cutter!

Northcott was incredibly generous and sent us a Fed Ex box jam packed with bundles, fat quarters, and microchips! 

Wonderfil Speciality Threads sent us some beautiful threads!

Soakwash sent us a box of Pineapple Grove Flatter!

Jackie at The Fabric Cupboard donated a lovely fat quarter bundle and a gift certificate!

And our own Carol Miki donated a sewing mat to place your machine on!



First up was our monthly Block Lotto. Maryse was the excited winner of a whole slew of half square triangles and knowing the speed this energizer bunny goes, it shouldn't be too long before we see her completed quilt back in Show and Share!

Annette and Maryse did a great job of collecting this months blocks and delivering them back to the participants! Each member participating in the Challenge went home with one of these glorious orange bundles of 12 - 10 inch squares.

This month participants received a very generous discount coupon from Jackie at The Fabric Cupboard!

We also had a report from Giselle on the progress of the Hospice Quilts. Sue gave her a hand showing one of two strips of pink that Darline whipped up for the Juvenile Quilt. Note: The balance of strips needed in all colors except pink (thanks, Darline!) can be found under Comfort and Charity Quilts on the blog.

They also showed us the two Modern Boy quilts that Deb W and Jodi quilted for us. Another beautiful job done by these two prolific longarmers! Giselle mentioned that she was looking for assistance with binding the finished quilts and began getting some volunteers. 

One of our fun games was to create a modern block design using construction paper and tape. Afterwards everyone voted for their favorite and when there was a tie, we drew for a winner.

All the members got to guess how many spools were in the bottle and how many pins were in the pin cushion. Amazingly Lana had the closest guess for both and scored a couple of great prizes! 

Then, as we say, let the games begin and the race was on as members split into two teams and played some Minute to Win It Games! 

Maryse and Lisa give it their best as they move those thimbles from one dish to the other using only a plastic spoon and great concentration!

Lorette and Lise use all they've got to blow up a balloon and then blow each solo cup off the edge of the table so their team mates can have their turn!

Kim and Lisa wore the winning crowns as their team filled their panty hose hats with inflated balloons!

The teams also raced against each other playing a cup stacking game, a game where they each had to wear oven mitts and peel a Hershey Kiss and the Junk in the Trunk Game. 

Whenever and where ever quilters gather, there are snacks and tonight was no exception. Everyone brought something to add to the table and we all shared these lovely treats!

Deb W. brought all the fixins for these adorable candy cane reindeer and put them all together at the meeting!

As always, our Bring and Buy table continues to attract donations and sales and we thank everyone for helping raise the necessary monies for our backings and batting!

Gisele was excited to win the door prize from The Fabric Cupboard and I bet that gift certificate has been spent already! 

Deb holds one of the beautiful Northcott bundles which she won!

Melanie won both the sewing mat from Carol M as well as a water bottle from Edge Squared Quilting

Deb had a great night, going home with a door prize from Edge Squared Quilting as well!

Kim was pretty darn pleased to win the beautiful fabrics donated by The Fabric Curator! No doubt they will find their way into one of Kim's exquisite creations in the near future.

The Northcott bundles featured their Figo fabrics as well as their Colorworks line and everybody went home with several fat quarters and a microchip pack!

Annette came ready to celebrate with her fun party hat!!

There were only two Show and Share this evening: Carol's Kimonos and Jennifer's Pinwheels.

Again, thanks to those wonderful individuals who donated door prizes, thanks to the members who joined us for the evening and brought treats to share. And thanks to everyone for having a sense of fun and enjoying a great time with their fellow guild mates!

October 28, 2019 Monthly Meeting

At our October meeting, we handed out the postcards from the PEIMQG postcard swap. There were lots of happy sounds as members received theirs and vied to see their neighbour's. This was our guild's first swap and we have already discussed having another in the late summer, early fall of 2020! If you were not at the meeting and did not pick up your postcard, they will be available at the November 25th meeting.

Postcards received from the PEIMMQG

Some of the postcards created by our members for the exchange.

As well, the PEIMQG sent us a lovely thank you card! Many thanks to the guild for asking us to participate!

This month's block lotto block proved to be very popular and Carol Miki was the lucky member taking these blocks home! Next month Carol will present the block lotto block due in January.

Kim presented this month's block (due in November) and for each entry, you need to make a total of five blocks: one 4.5 inch HST and four 2.5 inch half square triangles. She has chosen white and either a solid or a modern print for the second fabric. All instructions can be found under the category, Block Lotto on the dashboard.

Kim's lovely selection of samples

 4 more small HST's for each large HST here will give a total of 12 entries....so 24 more small HST's needed. 

Work continues on the Hospice quilts and a nice selection of blocks was brought in for the current tops. The last of the required pink and green string blocks was collected and now we need a volunteer to piece the top. There is no rush so if this is something you feel you would have time for in the new year, please let Giselle know. 

There were also woven blocks and sections for the Rainbow Juvenile top brought in. All instructions and updates on what is needed for these two tops is on the blog dashboard under Comfort and Charity Quilts. Sometimes we also post what is needed on our Facebook page where you can comment and let us know if you have any blocks to contribute.

Pink and Green String blocks for the second top! Thanks to everyone who helped make two quilts with these blocks! 

Woven blocks. The number still needed is posted under Comfort and Charity Quilts on the blog dashboard.

Rainbow Juvenile top sections. The sections and quantities needed to posted on the blog dashboard under Comfort and Charity Quilts and we have posted it on our Facebook page as well. Darline has graciously committed to making the two pink sections required but sections are still needed for all other color ways.

The Bring and Buy table continues to thrive and bring in revenue for the Hospice Project. We thank everyone who donates by bringing and/or buying!

Our second guild challenge is organized by Maryse and Annette and what organizers they are! The first color of the challenge, red, was organized in groups of 12 along with a copyright free pattern, a rainbow pencil, a zip carrier for our fabrics and a 15% discount card for any orange fabric at Spruce It Up Quilt Shop, good until our next meeting! 

We commented that we felt rather special as each of our names was called out and Maryse presented us with our month's squares! It felt kind of like a graduation, or an induction..although most of us are no doubt already in the "too much fabric" hall of fame, if there were such a thing..

Members can join in the fun at any time and of course, will be responsible for providing their own squares for any colors missed in the exchange. All the details are on the blog dashboard under Challenges.

Jodi, Lise and Pat receive their bundles. All those happy, smiling faces!

 

Our evening's program was presented by Pat who gave us an excellent demonstration of piecing curved 4 patches and inserting odd slivers.

Pat is a retired school teacher and her skills are evident in her preparation of story boards which she created for her demo.

What was also evident was how much she enjoyed demonstrating her self admitted favorite part of the process, pressing into submission. We all agreed that was a useful skill and that her demonstration was great!

Fortunately Deb W. has been her usually busy bee self and had lots to show us for Show and Share..Also note her EPP patch on her jeans - one of the guild's first demo's given by Charla.

Our next meeting will be held on Monday, November 25th and will be our first year anniversary celebration! Members are asked to wear their party hats and bring a dessert or nibble to share as we enjoy a social evening. There will be games (all fun and not lame at all, we promise you) and door prizes (amazing door prizes...you need to be there!) and we will be sending out an email reminder. Hoping to see all our members gathered for our first birthday as the Moncton Modern Quilt Guild!