Greetings from the South Florida MQG! We hope everyone is enjoying the nice autumn weather in South Florida :)
Our September meeting was held on Saturday, September 19th at StitchCraft.
View the all of the photos from the meeting full-size in our Meeting Gallery.
QAL: Patti Auten and Kerrilyn O'Rourke talked about our Month 4 blocks from the Improv QAL. We love watching these blocks come together! It's fun to see everyone's different versions from the same tutorial.
Monthly Topic : Modern Traditionalism Patti Auten gave a great presentation on Modern Traditionalism. She also invited members to join her for a game of 9-patch password, where they got to try to make 9-patch blocks more modern. Patti will also be teaching a Modern - Traditional Workshop this weekend at StitchCraft. She showed us a completed top made using the technique she will be teaching us.
Mini Challenge: Everyone got to take home a 9-patch block, and instructions to make it more modern. We'll bring in our new, modernized blocks to the October meeting to show off!
Logo Competition: Our members voted on the two finalists for our log competition. Congratulations to our winner, Alyson Christianson! (Alyson's logo is on the top). The runner-up design was made by Charlotte Noll. We had many wonderful submissions to vote on, thank you to all who participated, we're very excited to have a new logo!
Block of the Month: Our September block was the sunrise block in low volume prints. Diane Moss won the BOM lottery! We also got to see our upcoming BOMs for October and November. October's block will be paper pieced, in a beautiful, autumn color palette:
Show and Tell: This month, we had a lot of extra projects to show off in Show & Tell. To start, the participants in our improv workshop showed off their progress on their improv round robin quilts. Tonya Ricucci (who was the workshop leader) also used LoriAnn's blocks to show us some ideas on how to piece them all together. Many of our members brought in some of their Modern Traditional Quilting Projects for Show & Tell.
Andrea Etkie, from the Nominations Council, gave us a progress update on the nominations leading up to our first election, this October.
Allison Schnackenberg (VP of Administration) announced our opportunity to make our first QuiltCon Charity quilt, as a guild, and enter it in QuiltCon next year. We'll be working on this together for the next few months.
Charlotte Noll (VP of Programs) announced three upcoming quilt shows (which we'll have special exhibits in), more details will be sent via email.
We are having a Holiday Swap in November, where members will make a small gift and swap during the meeting. Details were sent to members on the 20th, we hope to see you all participate in this fun swap!
Sewcial: We also had our monthly Sewcial, after the meeting. This is a great opportunity to socialize, get to know some other guild members, and enjoy some hand sewing!