ECMQG Meeting Minutes Aug. 11, 2018
Rachel is back. She
was here last month, and was a previous member a few years ago. She joined today. Yay!
Moment of silence.
New junior member, Athena, introduced. (Linda’s daughter)
Loree set up the ECMQG Fun Fair for this months meeting,
featuring concessions of popcorn, cotton candy, cracker jacks, peanuts. For $1.00, you pick your snack.
Loree baked a homemade peach pie to raffle off, $1.00 per
ticket to win.
If you are still supposed to receive Faye’s blender fabrics,
see Loree.
Food Sign Up Sheet for next meeting was available to
sign up. Please spread the love!
Auction items are due at the Oct. 13 meeting so we
have time to catalog, take photos, etc.
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The auction is Nov. 1 – 15. Cindy will be organizing the auction.
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Please help support our guild and make items!
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There is a form to fill out per item. The form will be posted on our guild Facebook
page.
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We need volunteers to help catalog, take photos,
and then afterwards to help pack and ship items. We would like to make the packing exciting to
receive.
Dress a Girl Around the World will be headed up by
Maureen.
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Please bring fabric for these projects.
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There are patterns to use.
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The fabric requirements: a) you should not be able to see through it
when you hold it up, b) don’t use fabric with licensed logos like Disney, movie
themes, etc., and no americana (red, white & blue), c) good choices are flowers, stripes, and
solids, d) trim, ribbons, etc. should be washable, e) fabric does not need to
be modern.
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Maybe we can do these together in a sit-n-sew.
Charity quilts
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We decided to pay for 2 charity quilts for this
year (last Feb.).
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The Hospice Quilt is done and delivered.
Yay!
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The Popsicle Quilt still needs more
quilting. (Natalie’s long arm
broke.) Marsha volunteered to finish the
quilting, Faye volunteered to do the binding, and Loree will do the label.
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We need to chose a charity to receive this
quilt. Fischer House has already
happened this year. ARC Gateway is
usually a Christmas theme, and we determined that it could not be used for the
next Hospice quilt.
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Keep your eyes open for a charity that could use
this quilt to auction off.
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Lorraine made a quilt top from the pluses
we had. See Show & Tell today. We still need to make the back, and quilt it.
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We have more pluses to make another charity
quilt.
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Rachel volunteered to quilt the red, white
& blue Adore-La quilt.
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MQG QuiltCon Charity Quilt Challenge
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The theme is small piecing with a set of allowed
colors. See the website for
details.
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Does anyone have any ideas?!
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If you have an idea, it needs to be presented by
the next meeting, Sept. Please submit a design proposal, an estimate of fabric
costs (top, back, binding), and a timeline for completion.
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The guild has batting for this quilt.
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Check out our guild Pinterest board for ideas!
Athena won the 1st door prize! Yay!
Loree won twice in a row, and gave the second one of Alison
Glass to Wendi who is making a quilt of this.
Linda gave a treasurer’s report. The bottom line is that we are staying just
above the red, so we need to continue to think about not spending too much
money.
We discussed our insurance, and about possibilities to reduce
this cost.
We purchased the accounting software Aplos, which was
comparible to other software. On nice
feature is that any board member can go online and get updates on our finances.
Anniversary Meeting is coming up next month in
September!!!!!!
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We discussed how to celebrate and budget. We voted to keep the budget at $100 or
less.
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Wendi will shop for fabric, tools, etc. as
prizes. We discussed types of fabric and
tools, etc. that people would like.
cool!
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Linda will bake a cake, to save the money from
buying a cake, and well, homemade tastes great!
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We discussed how we should award tickets to win
prizes and which prize you win. We
decided that everyone will get one ticket for membership, plus one additional
ticket for every meeting that you have attended Jan. – Aug. 2018. When your ticket is randomly picked – you get
to chose out of all of the prizes, which prize you want. Yay!!!!!!!
Go to QuiltCON.com to see the guest speaker, the
different quilt challenges, charity quilt challenge, the swap opportunity,
etc.
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Natalie told us about her experience with a swap
event at the conference in Savannah, GA.
She had to make something for one of the instructors so she was nervous,
so she said she had to “step up her game” but that it was a good opportunity to
grow as an artist.
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For the Swap opportunity, you get to sign up for
your level: beginner, intermediate, and expert (maybe other categories…).
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There is a 2-color challenge. Tone on tone fabric counts as 2 fabrics. hunh!
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There is a list of categories and prizes to
enter quilts.
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Entries are due Nov. 30, which means you fill
out a form and pay the fee, $15/quilt (even if not accepted, overhead expense…)
Our Swap for next month, the
Anniversary Meeting was discussed.
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Last month, everyone interested blindly chose 3
crayons, then picked scrap fabric with these 3 colors and add one neutral. We brought these in a one quart bag to
today’s meeting.
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Later in the meeting, we picked a bag of fabric
that was hidden.
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The maker talks to the person whose fabric they
chose, to find out more what they want.
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Everyone is to make a table top that must be a
least 12” x 18” or larger.
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The item must be finished for the next meeting,
including machine quilting or handiwork, etc.
However, some people like Loree, have asked that hers does not have a
binding on it because she wants to make a pillow case with it. Other people could be interested in making a
tote out of it, for example.
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The maker can also add one other color.
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Natalie presented many examples of what colors
that makers could chose, using color fabric squares on the board with the color
wheel. Examples:
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Lorraine had picked 3 analogous colors: dark green, yellow-green, and yellow. Complimentary color that could be added would
be purple, and if used sparingly could make it peaceful. Blue-green could be added as an analogous
color scheme. We couldn’t really pick
colors for a triad with these.
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Lisa chose red-violet (looked pink), blue-green,
and blue, which is an anologous range, and could stay happy if added purple,
red, or blue-violet. She tried a split
complimentary with red-orange, but it didn’t look great.
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Maureen also had analogous: red-violet (pink), orange, and a
yellow-orange. Can add other colors in
the same analogous region or a complimentary color, blue-green.
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Her advice was to play with your scraps on a
design board.
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Cindy had red-violet or ~mauve, blue-violet, and
sky blue, an analogous scheme which you can add another analogous color, or
make it pop with yellow-green.
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Faye had contrasting colors yellow, red-violet,
and blue-green which was a triadic scheme already. Probably don’t want to add a different color,
maybe one from the same family.
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Linda had purple, red, sky blue, an analogous
scheme. Could pop with yellow but then
looks like primary colors, or add another blue or blue-green.
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Loree had cerelean blue, cornflower blue, and
pink (red-violet), which is fairly analogous.
Here I didn’t write down what she said…
We discussed this month’s Block
Lottery, the Improv Curves.
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Different people had advice. Cindy didn’t use starch, and did use a small
stitch length.
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Wendi suggested to snip the curve seam allowance
on the back to help prevent puckering, as in garment sewing.
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Many people agreed that it turned out better if
you matched the curves in the center first (instead of the ends). Lisa started pinning at the center, and then
pinned outward to the ends.
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Lisa won the Block Lottery. Yay! Pictures of blocks:
Maureen presented the new Block
Lottery for September.
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They are half square triangles.
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Use a 6” square of Kona snow and a 6” square of
black and white print fabric.
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Place them right sides together. Maureen marked the diagonal with pencil first
on the Kona snow. Then sew ¼” away from
diagonal on both sides. Cut apart to
make 2 squares of half square triangles.
Do this one more time, to have a set of 4 squares (of the half square
triangles), and this will be considered “one block”. However, do not sew them together, to allow
the winner many options of how to put these blocks together. Cool!
These are pictures showing different ways they could be arranged by the
winner:
Show & Tell:
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Lorraine made a plus quilt top from the pluses
the guild had in red, white & blue.
Loree will make the back and Rachel will quilt it. It looks awesome! Thank you! This will be a quilt of honor for our
inventory, until someone recommends a recipient.
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Cindy put together a red, white & blue
Adore-La quilt. Cindy will make the back
and Rachel will quilt this one too!!! We
hope Rachel doesn’t get burnt out. ;)
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Natalie showed her quilt made on vacation. Pieced with her mother’s very old maching and
then quilted on a Bernina rented for $10/day.
We had no idea it was this cheap!
Really cool pattern!
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Marsha showed 2 Quilts of Valor. The first one was from the Quilter’s calendar
(maybe June or July?). This is for her
son in the Air Force, and is entitled “Third generation”. The second one is for her husband using
blocks of the month from her other guild.
Nice work Marsha! Marsha added
beautiful labels and a label with washing instructions.
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Lisa showed a Patriotic quilt for her stepson in
the Navy, and just flew off to start training in the Navy Seals. (He couldn’t take the quilt with him
yet.)
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Rachel showed a quilt top she made from her
winning the block lottery at our guild in 2014!
The blocks were a tutorial quilt-a-long, and she also used the trimmings
from these blocks. It looks cool! She will use wonky log cabins from her recent
guild, McKinney Modern Quilt Guild (in Texas).
Welcome back to our guild and Florida, Rachel!
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Maureen showed a quilt she made and had Rachel
quilt it. Cool!
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Faye showed fancy comfortable underwear for her
daughters, using a pattern called “Scrundies” (spelling?). Fancy!
Wendi showed large strips of a quilt top using
all polka dots. At the sit-n-sew today,
she has sewn all of them together and worked on the Quilt of Honor that others
had helped make a few blocks.
Faye won the homemade peach pie!
Yay!
We will discuss quilt labels in a
future meeting since we the meeting has been long enough.
See you next month!
Written by Lisa, substituting for
Roxie this month. Hope you enjoyed it!
