December 2024 Meeting Preview - Zoom Only - 12/21/24

SATURDAY, December 21St, 2024 9:30AM- 12:30PM EST

Zoom Meeting Only

Zoom link via email and in Facebook Members Only Group Events

9:30 Zoom opens for lecture and meeting

SFMQG December 21, 2024, Agenda

10:00 am Welcome

Lecture - Brandy Maslowski - The Gentle Judge - Quilter on Fire

Break

Membership 

Welcome new members VivianeL, KristinB, BethG - 2024 total 135

Time to renew your membership for 2025! - 2025 Membership Renewal

We have a great year in store with fantastic speakers and workshops aligned: David Owen Hasting (February and March) and Maria Shell (April).

Early Bird prize for all who renew prior to December 31st 2024 to be placed on list to win a prize drawn at Jan 2025 meeting. 2025 Membership Renewal

Renew your membership for 2025 and continue to access MQG’s resources, log in to https://www.themodernquiltguild.com/ to access.

Treasurer Report

KaneM and MarieF to give an update in January 2025 

Workshops

January 25, 2025 Workshop - Marge Tucker - Contemporary Quilting with your Walking Foot is Sold Out with 24 attendees!

March 29, 2025 Workshop - David Owen Hastings - Stitched Paper Collage registration opens February 3rd, 2025 9am EDT.

Maria Shell’s visit April 25-27, 2025, in Palm Beach Gardens: Time to add your name to the intention list! We have 10 spots to fill, and the 10 participants and (if needed) wait list will be randomly selected at the January 18, 2025 Hybrid meeting. You may reply to the email Charlotte will send or contact MarieF directly at president@southfloridaMQG.com

Details:

Two-day Workshop : “Circle and Curve sampler”

Saturday and Sunday April 26 and 27, 2025, 10:00 am-5:00 pm

Location: Hilton Garden Inn Palm Beach Gardens, 3505 Kyoto Gardens Dr.

Fee: $325

Lectures

Getting to know our members

Introducing our member HillaryL to present “Paloma”, and CharlotteN to discuss its quilting, as a collaborative effort including Lolo, CathyW, DebbyS, NancyP, LindaG and JudyS accepted in the group division at Quiltcon! Congratulations!

Charity

We will proceed with a new concept for charity and merge with the BOM game. We will propose a new pattern three times during the year and collect the blocks during that period. 

In other words, we will collect the same block over 3 months and assemble into a quilt.

Mar-Apr-May

June-July-Aug

Sept-Oct-Nov

Will result in three quilts for charity. Starting in March 2025.

Preparation for the South Florida Quilt Expo (SFQE) (March 8-9, 2025, in Pembroke Pines): 

SFMQG will provide a basket of items to be raffled as a fund raiser for SFQE. Our theme is “Batik-Tropic-Islandic”. Suggested items: Please bring a donated item to the January 18th meeting in hues of blue, green and orange: spools, fabric, quilting accessories…what about a beach towel and sunscreen?

In other news:

-Quilt submission is now open

-Please consider preparing 3-5 items to sell at the Guild’s Table! AliceH is proposing to prepare cards with pictures from your quilts. Please send high resolution pictures: Minimum 1152 X 864 pixels, minimum 2MB, and

-Please consider giving a few hours to welcome visitors at the Guild’s Table!

MQG 2025 Community Outreach Challenge

Successfully submitted on October 15. It is called “Sketch Plaid”.

Top completed by CathyW and now being hand quilted by CharlotteN.

Show and Tell 

Email or message your BOM, quilt & modern pics to Charlotte by December 19, 2024 for the gallery

Next Meeting

January 18th 2025 Hybrid General Meeting, Potluck & Sew Day

See you on Saturday!

MarieF
President
South Florida Modern Quilt Guild