October Social Meeting!

Mark your calendars for WEDNESDAY, 26 OCTOBER at 6:00 for our next social meeting at Gallagher's!  Hang out with your fellow modern quilters for food and/or drinks, quilt-talk, and SHOW & TELL!  Bring your WIP's and UFO's for help, inspiration, and motivation!

Gallagher's Eatery & Pub
4210 Stadium Dr, Kalamazoo, MI 49008

September Meeting Recap

Hi, all! 

Here's a quick photo recap from September's meeting. Details to follow (aka meeting minutes) in an email. 

Our business meeting was short and sweet so we could move onto the fun stuff--the block giveaway and show and tell! 

Carolyn found these simple but impactful shadow blocks for us to make. Jane P. won them--we can't wait to see what she does with them! 

Jane also showed off her two WIPs from the Jacquie Gering workshop earlier this week. First, a table runner in progress: 

And then a wall quilt:

Lisa showed off her scrappy rainbow star quilt, made from using the made fabric technique she demonstrated at our March meeting. 

Pam shared a man's dress shirt that she converted into a cute maternity shirt as a gift for a friend.

Stephanie shared a quilted notecard case she made (and then generously donated as a giveaway for the group!)

After the meeting, we moved on to our sew-in, with a sweet project to sew! Karen Kortman from Bernina Sewing Center joined us to teach the candy bag zipper pouches featured in Missouri Star Quilt Co.'s Block magazine. Armed with our copies of the magazine for reference, we followed Karen's instructions to transform our favorite candy bags! We may have eaten a little chocolate too...

Here are Karen's samples:

Karen, sharing her experience:

Stephanie and Claire with their bags:

Lynn and Jane:

Jill, proving that you can sew with a baby attached to you! 

 

Pat's M&M bag

Jane's Tootsie Rolls

 Pam helped two visiting friends sew candy bags

Shannon's M&M bags

Love Stephanie's purple skittle bag!

Jeanine's Swedish Fish and Candy Corn M&Ms!

Thanks to everyone who joined us for the meeting and the sew-in, and another thank you to Karen for coming to make the candy zipper pouches with us! 

Our next informal meeting will be Wednesday, October 19th, location to be determined. Stay tuned! 

Meeting Tomorrow 24 Sept 2016

Hi,

Just a reminder about our meeting tomorrow. 

There are a lot of events in downtown Kalamazoo tomorrow.  So allow plenty of time to find a parking place.
Remember meters are free on the weekends.

Here is a link to the library, and parking.

http://www.kpl.gov/central/map.aspx

All of the info about our demo project is here
http://greatlakesmodernquiltguild.blogspot.com/2016/09/important-information-for-our-september.html

We have the library room from 9am-4:30.  So feel free to arrive early and we will have plenty of time to sew following our candy pouch demo.

Also, you can bring your lunch/snacks  to this meeting.

See you tomorrow.

Pam