Charity Sew Day is Saturday

Where: Brown Hall, on the Loma Verde side of campus
Grace Lutheran Church
3149 Waverly Street, Palo Alto, CA 94306
(Corner of Waverly and Loma Verde Street)

Please bring:

• Light non-messy snacks
• Irons (3)
• Ironing boards (3)
• Large cutting mats (need 2)
• Design walls (need 2)

Reply to the Ning discussion or here to let Peggy and Michelle know what you will bring.

Plan to bring your own:

• Extension cord and/or power strip
• Sewing machine
• Cutting tools (your own personal mat if you want)

RSVP by the Friday before each sew day to Mary C.

Thank you Mary for setting this up!

May Meeting Notes

The May 2016 meeting of the Bay Area Modern Quilt Guild started at 1:15pm at at the Redwood City Library Community Room. The meeting was called to order by Joelle H., President of the Month.

1. Joelle’s Question of the Day: If you had 15 minutes to spend in your sewing room/space, what would you do?

• clean sewing machine
• tidy
• focus
• organize scraps
• work on scrap quilt
• organize fabric
• catch up on journal entries
• hand quilt
• make a pillow
• put things where they should be
• adjust the tension on my machine
• look at fabric
• iron fabric
• pull out fabric for a new project
• rummage
• fold fabric
• rough draft for a blind baby quilt
• find collage book
• organize colors
• deal with pile of shame
• hand sewing
• learn more about colors
• blog hop
• think about how to organize scraps
• organize
• repair something
• put things away
• stare at my fabric
• organize patterns
• clean and corral the dust bunnies

Lots of cleaning and tidying going on in those few minutes!

2. Ongoing Projects

• BAMQG Lending Library: See Kelly for information about the Lending Library.
• Charity: Kits are available. See Peggy or Michelle B. 
• QuiltCon Charity Quilt: A new small group has formed to make the QuiltCon 2017 charity quilt. Contact Michelle B. if you would like to help. Participants in this group should be members of the Modern Quilt Guild. 
• Sew Day: The June Sew Day is scheduled for the first Saturday (June 4). It will be a Charity Sew Day. The location is Grace Lutheran Church in Palo Alto. Contact Mary C. if you have questions. There is no need to RSVP. Michelle B. showed the new log cabin pattern for the Charity Sew Day. 
• Michelle S. talked to the group about making some quilts for the families who were displaced in the Sunnyvale apartment fire. About half of the 76 impacted families lost everything in this tragic fire. If you are interested in donating a quilt or participating in a sew-in contact Michelle S. She has posted details on the BAMQG Forum. 
• Swaps: The Mini Quilt Swap is due in June. The swap partners were sent out in late April.
• Fundraising Raffle: The Raffle will take place at the end of the meeting. Ruth will be selling tickets during the break. The price for tickets is 3 for $1.00. 
• Retreat Signups: See Bonnie during the meeting to sign up for the Sept. 30 - Oct. 2 Retreat. Membership must be current.
• Molehills Workshop with Latifah Saafir: The workshop will be held on June 12. See Angela for more details or to sign up. The location for the workshop will be at the Mountain View community center. The workshop fee is $85. For more information see the forum. 
• June Meeting Destash Party: Ruth is organizing a Destash Party for June. Bring in fabrics that you no longer want to the June 18 meeting. Those who bring in fabrics will have first chance at the destash table. Ruth is requesting volunteers to help set up and remove fabrics.

3. Quilty Happenings:

• San Mateo County Fair - Lynette will collect quilts today and deliver them to the fair.
• San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles - Kaffe Exhibit through July 3rd
• New Pieces in Berkeley is looking for instructors to teach modern quilt design. See Mike for details.

4. LeeAnn won the giveaway.

5. Ruth set up and conducted the Fundraising Raffle. Overall she collected over $200 in Raffle Ticket sales. Thanks to all who contributed items for the raffle and thanks to Ruth for organizing.

6. Stay and Sew: There was a good turnout for the after meeting Stay and Sew.



The next meeting of the Bay Area Modern Quilt Guild will be on June 18, 2016.

May Meeting is Tomorrow

Yay! We can't wait to see you now that it is time for our next guild meeting! Join us tomorrow at 1:00, at the Redwood City Library, in the upstairs community room. 

Reminders for this month:

• The small group for the Quiltcon 2017 charity project will be meeting to work on the quilt.  If you want to read the details, you can find them here.
• Fundraiser raffle is this month

Things to bring:

• Cash to buy fabulous items included in the fundraiser raffle (read the details here)
• IRR Round Robin bins and bags 
• Lucky spools work
• Show and Tell
• Your name tag
• Charity blocks and quilts
• Small Group projects (and ideas for new Small Groups!)
• Information about local/national quilty happenings
• Non-messy snacks
• Sewing projects for after the meeting

If you have any questions (or if I forgot something!), please reply to Ruth, or see an officer at the meeting

May Meeting is Saturday

In a flash, it is May and time for our next guild meeting! Join us Saturday at 1:00, at the Redwood City Library, in the upstairs community room. 

Reminders for this month:

• The small group for the Quiltcon 2017 charity project will be meeting to work on the quilt.  If you want to read the details, you can find them here.
• Fundraiser raffle is this month

Things to bring:

• Cash to buy fabulous items included in the fundraiser raffle (read the details here)
• IRR Round Robin bins and bags 
• Lucky spools work
• Show and Tell
• Your name tag
• Charity blocks and quilts
• Small Group projects (and ideas for new Small Groups!)
• Information about local/national quilty happenings
• Non-messy snacks
• Sewing projects for after the meeting

If you have any questions (or if I forgot something!), please reply to Ruth, or see an officer at the meeting

Sew Day Fun

We had a great time at Sew Day last weekend. Mary did a wonderful job hostessing. There were fab snacks and much laughter. The space is large and there were plenty of large tables. Cubicle style dividers provided design wall space.

Jaime (our very own bag queen) had a couple of beautiful bags that she was using as she worked on a charity quilt. The hexie bag in front is the Catch All Caddy from By Annie.

Although it was not a charity Sew Day, many people took the Sew Day opportunity to work on charity projects.

The above was inspired by a quilt on the front of a 2013 issue of Quiltmania's Simply Moderne. Jaye and Gerre are making a boy version using the plaids and a 'pushed neutral' background.

Lynette worked on her Swoon quilt, finishing up with Big Stitch using Perl Cotton. Bonnie worked on her improv quilt, hoping to enter it in the fair. Patti brought her Accuquilt cutter and many of us were able to take a cutting shortcut by using it. Thanks for sharing, Patti!

Hope to see you next time!