23.06.06 GENERAL MEETING Hybrid In-Person and Zoom
6:40 p.m. Meeting called to order by President Isabelle Selak
Announcements:
- QuiltCon 2024 Registration open 8.15 Quilt entries 9.01 – 10.31
- Windham fabric challenge – use four of six colors
- Scrappy – design challenge/minimum 30 fabrics
- Maximalism = colors/shapes
- Irene Roberts MQG video sample
Community Quilt for this year:
- Anna Brenkwitz and Lori Green will Co-Chair project (Wahoo!)
- Fabric has been ordered Sign up to participate
- Only 80 quilts will be accepted this year Done by 9.30
- Design completed end of June Pieced by July
Challenge for Every Other Month – Presented by Karen Foster
- Cheers Challenge
- Inspiration: favorite mug, glass beer stein, wine glass
- Complete by August Meeting/ use stash – do not buy fabrics
Retreat – Darlene Talukder Chair (Yay!!)
- Volunteers happily accepted
- 9.15 – 9.17, Happy Valley Retreat Center – 4:00 p.m. Friday to 2:00 p.m. Sunday
- Registration to open soon $50 deposit
- Massage $115 – 60 minute, Maddie Fister masseuse
- $150 – 90 minute
- $10 reduction if more than 10 signups
- Activities: cyanotype dying with Mickey Beebe
- Games
- COVID test on arrival
- Mattresses are all new with one side soft, other side less soft
SEW N TELL: Pam Rocco, Laura Ryle, Vivien Skripek, Ruth Smith, Gayne Barlow-Kemper, Mickey Beebe, Lori Green
- Next meeting: July 11
- Virtual Sew Day 6.17.23 – no host
Meeting adjourned: 8:05 p.m. Pat Goulet, Secretary
Following are some links that arrived in an email from MQG that might be of interest:
Sew Along and Quilt Challenge Opportunities
MQG Make-A-Difference Challenge
QuiltCon 2024 Community Outreach Challenge
American Patchwork & Quilting Super Scrappy Quilting Challenge