Charity Sew Day - Hawaii Style

We are having a Luau!!! Come join us in the opportunity to raise some funds to benefit our Charity projects.  We have been commissioned to make 10 lap/throw size quilts from Hawaiian fabric for a Hawaiian family who recently lost their mother-grandmother.  The fabric and batting will be provided.  Bring your sewing tools and join us for a sewing Luau. Wear your Hawaiian shirts and grass skirts (if you have them).  
Or you can just join us with your own projects to work on.  Hope to see you there.

• Saturday, February 7, 2015
• 10 AM to 11 PM
• Los Altos Library meeting room
• 13 S. San Antonio Road
• Los Altos, CA

 If you plan on being there, PLEASE reply to the discussion on the Ning so we can get a head count. 

If you are first to arrive,  please go to the librarian in the children's room and ask to have the doors opened to the room and to the supply room.

Shout out if you can bring these items to share

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

Plan to bring your own:

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

January Minutes

Bay Area Modern Quilt Guild Monthly Meeting
January 17, 2015
Redwood City Library

 January’s meeting started with each person introducing their self and sharing their favorite color. Picking one favorite color was easier for some than for others.

Announcements: BAM will be joining the National Modern Quilt Guild again in 2015. Mike L. is the MQG liaison for BAM. This is a new volunteer position. He will be providing helpful tips throughout the year on how to get the most out of the national website. Periodically, the guild will use its projector to show archived webinars from MQG during sew days and after general meetings. (Note: The archived webinars are available on the MQG website to all MQG members for viewing at anytime.)

BAMQG treasurer, Claire F. was unable to attend the meeting so the 2015 membership dues ($40) will be collected at the February meeting.

Kelly O. introduced the BAM Theme for the year - What IS Modern/Improv? Karen M. has volunteered to coordinate challenges throughout the year that will help highlight elements of modern design.

A new activity was introduced at the meeting – Angela O. lead a group discussion on The Slow Stitching Movement, a term attributed to Mark Lipinski. She started off with an excerpt from the website, stressing this is not about just sewing by hand. It was an enjoyable, interactive discussion with many people participating.

Resolutions for 2015 – Everyone was encouraged to write down their quilting/sewing resolutions for the year on cards and put them in envelopes. The resolutions will be revisited at the end of the year. Please see Cheryl S. at the next meeting if you have not filled out a card yet.

Charity Update - Currently, lots of kits need to be quilted.

• Please return all 2014 kits you have at home, in any state. They do not need to be completed, but they do need to be returned to the guild. 
• The new block for 2015 will be introduced at the February meeting. 

Attendees were invited to stay after the meeting and help cut fabric for the 2015 block.

The next charity sew day will be Saturday, February 7 at the Los Altos Library. We will be working to make 10 quilts from Hawaiian fabric donated to BAMQG.

2015 Retreat – The committee is working on retreat dates in the spring and hopes to start sign ups at the February meeting.

BAM Opportunity Quilt Update - Amanda M. has volunteered to oversee the completion of the quilt and the ticket sales throughout 2015. The quilt top and back were passed along to Marcie Gore for long-arm quilting. The Opportunity Quilt will be shown at the SCVQA Quilt Show in March and PIQF in October. Amanda is lining up additional venues. Volunteers will be needed to help bind the quilt and to sell tickets whenever it is shown.

Peggy L. has the quilts from the Los Altos Library Show. Please contact her if you haven’t gotten your quilt back.

2014 UFO Project update – 115 projects were completed by the participants in 2014. Congratulations to all who participated. Kelly O. did one last random drawing for all the participants and presented a bag she had sewn, filled with goodies, to Lyndalee K.

Gift bags were given to Kelly O. (President), Amanda M. (Vice President), Claire F. (Treasurer), Peggy L. (Charity Committee) and Michelle B. (Charity Committee) as a “thank you” for their volunteer work for the guild in 2014. The bags were made by Jaye L. and Cheryl S. and filled with items donated by members. The effort and hours all five dedicated to BAM is greatly appreciated.


Quilty Happenings:

Amish: The Modern Muse at the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles Update

• The 2nd half of the show is going up on Monday, 1/19/15. 
• The start date was delayed due to issues that caused the museum to be unexpectedly closed for a short period. 
• The Antique Ohio Amish Quilts exhibit and Amish: The Modern Muse show will continue until March 15, 2014. 
• Details are on the museum’s website - www.sjquiltmuseum.org 

Don’t miss this wonderful exhibit. Quilts by BAM members are also in the second showing.

• Santa Clara Valley Quilt Association will be having its biennial SCVQA quilt show on March 14-15, 2015 at the Santa Clara Convention Center (same location as PIQF) 
• BAM members have been invited to submit quilts. 
• Kelly O. will have more details on the submission date and how many quilts the guild can submit. 
• Watch for details on the Ning site. 
• We will be showing the BAM Opportunity Quilt at this show Volunteers are needed for Opportunity Quilt ticket sales, set up and take down of show quilts, door staffing during show and white glove duties. 

Sign up sheets will be passed around at the February meeting.

Barbara, C., President of the Peninsula Quilters presented information about their 24-hour Quilt-a-Thon on January 25-26 from 8:00am to 8:00am. BAM members are invited to join the fun and/or sponsor Peninsula Quilters in their efforts. More information is available at on their website peninsulaquilters.org

The Modern Quilt Guild’s show Quiltcon 2015 is February 19-22 in Austin, TX. There will be a few BAM members attending.

Our next meeting will be on Saturday, February 21 at the Redwood City Library, 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm. Please bring a sample representing your interpretation of Marsala – the 2015 Pantone Color of the Year.

Members Exhibit Quilts

During December 2014 member of the Bay Area Modern Quilt Guild will exhibit our quilts in an exhibit called "MOST MODERN." 

The Quilts are hanging at the Los Altos Library, 13 S. San Antonio Road in Los Altos and are available to view during regular library hours.  There is no entry fee. 

One of the benefits of such an exhibit is that people who would normally not have the opportunity to see quilts as art get to see them in a setting that is not scary.

A team of guild volunteers led by Peggy did the hanging of the quilts on December 1.

Thanks to Peggy L for organizing and hanging and the Los Altos Public Library for the opportunity.

New Officers for 2015

Thanks to all who have stepped up to volunteer in 2015 - we're so thankful to have you!  Below are those who signed up for particular positions.  At the end of this post I'll list those roles still open - it is never to late to volunteer!

ROLES TAKEN:
President:  Kelly O!
Vice Presidents: Angela O & Cheryl S
Treasurer: Claire F
Charity Committee Chairs: Peggy L & Michelle B
Charity Committee Members: Karen & Susan
Retreat Committee Chair: Rhonda L
Opportunity Quilt Chair: Amanda M
National MQG Liaison: Mike L
Swap Coordinator: Joy-Lily
Sew Day Coordinator: Peggy L
Membership Coordinator: Alison S
Meeting Note Taker: Nicki M.
Photographers: Jennifer J and Helen H

ROLES STILL OPEN:
Social Chair
Challenge Coordinator
Meeting activities Coordinator

There is a spot for everyone! If you have an idea, let Kelly know!

Thank you, everyone!

Winter Extravaganza!

Claire told us that the 501(c)(3) paperwork has been put in. That is a ton of work and GREAT news.

Meetings

• The meetings in 2015 are all scheduled to be at the Redwood City Public Library Community Room. The one that might change is the December Holiday Extravaganza because of the Redwood City parade that usually coincides with our meeting. Stay tuned on the BAMQG blog for updates.
• Sew Day: January 3, 2015 at Los Altos Public Library
• Charity Sew Day: February 2015 at Los Altos Public Library. Probably the first Saturday. Stay tuned on the BAMQG blog for updates.

Quilty Happenings

• Amish Exhibit at San Jose Museum Quilts & Textiles. Reception is on 12/7/2014 from 2-4, though SJMQT members and the artists are welcome to a walk through starting at 1pm.
• BAMQG members have a show up at the Los Altos Public Library through December 31, 2014. It is open during library hours
• CQFA Members have a show at the Main Branch of the San Francisco Public Library in the Wallace Stegner Environmental Center. I have 3 quilts there! Through April.
• Santa Clara Valley Quilt Association show will be in March or April and the BAMQG will have a big presence, both in quilts and helping out.

Events

• There will be three speakers next year, Stacy Lynn Wood, the lady from Peppermint Pinwheel and another, as yet to be named, national speaker. Buy or renew your membership to join that fun.

There was a prize drawing for the UFO Challenge and I won a spool of Aurifil thread! Yay! I can totally use that. There is a super prize in January and I can't wait to see what that is. I hope I don't have to be present to win as I can't make that meeting.

BAMQG 2014 Swap Items

The Holiday Swap was awesome. The gifties were much to be admired.

I didn't take a picture of the food, but the committee did an awesome job. There are now five of us who eat a GF diet, so there were plenty of GF goodies of which to partake. I had some yummy chocolate thing that Claire made. Yay for chocolate!

Quick Review of Last Meeting

The next meeting will be held on December 6 and will start at 10 am for sewing, then adjourn at 1230 for the regular meeting, which will include a festive winter interlude, meeting and swap of gifts (if you signed up).Sewing will commence, again, after the meeting and will continue until 11pm. If you plan on coming after 6pm, let someone know as people often leave when the library closes if they think they will be alone.

The Board is pretty much set, but there are still volunteer opportunities. The guild needs a challenge coordinator, meeting activities coordinator. The Elections are unopposed. There will be a multitude of discreet opportunities to volunteer, so keep your eyes open if you cannot commit to a whole year. In order for the guild to function, we need all hands on deck!

Need volunteers to hang quilts in January when the Amish exhibit changes.
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The festive winter interlude swap is already in progress.

Peggy (the Awesome) already has 27 entries for the Los Altos Library exhibit. If you want to help, contact Peggy about helping to hang quilts next week.

Charity - Karen volunteered to take quilts as the guild make them so we don't have to store them. Over 90 quilts were already donated this year. Claire made a materials log.  If you donate all or part of quilt, write it down on the log and you will get a receipt suitable for taxes at the end of the year.

February 7 is the next charity sew day

QuiltCon entries are now open for the quilt show.

SCVQA show is in March. BAMQG has once again been invited to participate. The guild will need help setting up. Look for notice about this fun and useful activity!

The CQFA show is now up at the San Francisco Public Library. The main library is easily accessible via BART (exit at Civic Center).

After the meeting Kevin Kosbab spoke about Mid Century Modern quilts. His work can be viewed at:

Feed Dog Designs www.feeddog.net


Happy Thanksgiving!

Meeting Saturday!

At this Saturday's meeting at the Downtown Redwood City Library, quilter, author, pattern designer and speaker Kevin Kosbab will be joining us to speak on Mid Century Modern Quilts. You can take a peek at his website and find more out about him at http://www.feeddog.net/

You can also check out his blog here:  http://feeddog.blogspot.com/

We'd love to see you there, and if you're not a dues-paying member yet, please join us and check us out.  The first meeting is free!

We hope to see you Saturday! Meet us at the Redwood City Main Library!

Details:
Date/Time: Sat, November 15, 1pm – 5pm

Where: Redwood City Library, 

Address: 1044 Middlefield Rd., Redwood City, Ca 94063.
We meet upstairs Community Room (the elevators are on the far left of the entrance).

(map) more details»  copy to my calendar

Bring:

• Name tag
• Show and Tell (we all want to see!)  - All projects are welcome.
• Enthusiasm and a positive attitude
• Charity blocks and quilts
• Small group projects (Tula Pink City Sampler, Hand quilting, Amish inspired design)
• Information about local/national quilty happenings
• Non-messy snacks
• Reminder:  If you still have them, bring your completed opportunity quilt blocks, and/or any unused fabric from the kits
• SCHNIBBLES!  Amanda will be taking schnibbles for cat beds this month, so please bring yours in.  Cotton, fleece, flannel, or batting pieces only please. Thanks!
   

UFO-ers! Remember to cross off your completed UFOs and be entered in the drawing this month!



Please note: this list is not necessarily all-inclusive. It's quite likely there's something important that's been left off, so if you think of something that should be added, please speak up!