June Meeting Wrap up

What a fun meeting we had showcasing some of our first quilts.  What great stories attached to our quilting journey.  Photos will be up soon on our Facebook page.  Feel free to add your story to your photo when I get them up.

We have a quick challenge due at the July meeting UFO Challenge!  Finish one UFO project between now and July 18 (our next meeting date), there will be a door prize drawing for everyone who participates.  If you weren't at the meeting you can still sign up by commenting here, you must indicate exactly which UFO you will complete.  (Please note your comment won't appear automatically, the comments are moderated).  We will leave the sign ups open for a few days, so join in if you need the push of a prize to finish an older project!

Carolyn Dixon is coordinating our Charity Quilt for the Modern Quilt Guild, you can still participate, contact either Carolyn or Mary Menzer, and we will add you to the group.  This is an improv with purpose project, so there are guidelines we are to follow.  After QuiltCon 2016, the quilt will be returned to our guild to donate where we chose.

Sign ups are still open for our sewing retreat, information can be found Here sign ups will close August 31, 2015 so that we may have a final count for door prizes, swag bags (yes we will have swag!) and other fun surprises.  We hope you will be joining us!  You do not have to stay at the hotel, you can set up and sew, and return home each night!

We have had several new members the last few meetings:
Welcome
Nancy Glover
Kathy Poston
Peggy Jebavy (returning member)
Brenda Riggs
Annette Clark
Natalie Moore
Wonderful to see our group growing!

This months Member Bee Block was for Shelley Brooks and July will be Elizabeth Milholen.  By the way, Elizabeth wore a gorgeous maxi dress to the meeting that she had handmade!  Yay for handmade!

Check our blog pages for other information on swaps, challenges, and charities.  

Our June 20th meeting is right around the corner!  

We are now meeting on the third Saturday of the month at St. John's Baptist Church on Holland Rd.  Please go to the small church building in the back of the complex.  The building is the original white church and you enter with the stairs at the very back.  

Bring one of the first quilts you made to this meeting.  Won't it be fun to see how your quilting has changed and grown over the years?  I know mine has and my first top is quite embarrassing!  But I know it tells me that I have become a better a quilter in the years since.  

Bring any new show and tell you may have been working on.

Sign ups are still open for our guild sewing retreat in November and you can find more detailed information here

Call for Entries

It is not too late to enter a quilt in the Texas Quilt Museum Modern Exhibit.  Open to all members of the Modern Quilt Guild.  Entry dead line is April 30, details can be found 

HERE

Announcements after our April 2015 meeting

The Virginia Beach Modern Quilt Guild will change the date of our meetings to the THIRD Saturday of the month starting with June 2015 meeting.  

This item was put to a member vote at the 4/25/15 meeting and the majority of attending members voted for changing the date to the third Saturday.  

Information on the Hopes and Dreams Quilt Challenge:

Hopes & Dreams Quilt Challenge for ALS

• Begins August 1^st and ends July 31^st of the next year (quilts received after July 31st are automatically entered in to the next year's challenge)
• Minimum quilt size 35"x 44" or larger. Lap or bed quilts of all sizes are welcomed.
• We encourage the addition of a 4" removable or hidden sleeve on the backside of the quilting for displaying.
• Please not the size of your finished quilt on the Entry Form.
• If you used a specific pattern or fabric line and would like to share that with fellow entrants the information is shared on the Hopes & Dreams Facebook page for the enjoyment of quilters across the world.
• Tied quilts are welcomed, as are knit or crochet blankets -- however, at this time they are not eligible for quilt challenge prizes.

Please note that quilts will be accepted until July 31, so you can bring your donation quilts to any meeting up to the July meeting to be added to our total donation of quilts for the year.  We have the forms available that should go with each donated quilt.  

April Meeting

April 25, 2015 

VBMQG Meeting

10:30 am

*Announcement*

We will be meeting in a different room, it is located at the FRONT of the church.  Park in the parking lot to the right as you are facing the church (it's gravel) from the road, and the meeting is in a room on the right side.  

Someone will be there to point you to the correct room.

• Third Anniversary Meeting!
• If you signed up to bring a brunch dish and can't recall what you signed up for - send me a note fairlymerry@gmail.com
• Bring your Show and Tell
• Game and prizes
• Secret Pal Gifts
• Sew Day / Charity Sew Day until 4:00 pm (bring your machines, extension cords, sewing supplies and a project you want to work on!)
• Retreat Sign ups (find information here )

See everyone there!

Retreat Announcement

VBMQG 

1st Annual Retreat

• Friday November 20 - Sunday November 22, 2015
• Fri 4 pm - 10 pm, Saturday 9 am - 10 pm, Sunday 9 am - noon ( we can get permission to stay longer in the evenings, it's just a matter of locking up)
• Virginia Beach Hotel and Conference Center - 2800 Shore Drive, Virginia Beach
• Open Sewing / Crafting in large conference room, room to spread out, press, cut and sew
• Coffee, Tea and water will be provided throughout the day / evenings
• Breakfast Saturday and Sunday included
• Dinner Friday evening provided by guild
• Lunch and Dinner Saturday on your own - there is a restaurant on premises and many more in walking distance on Shore drive.  Delivery is also an option
• Rooms are available at the hotel 481-9000 starting at $89 per night, (mention the retreat)
• Door prizes
• Sew along of Noodlehead pattern - Caravan Tote! Purchase your pattern and supplies and we can sew this bag together at the retreat!  
• Cost per person (not including room, lunch, or dinner Saturday) only $60 

Come join us! Open to all members of VBMQG

Please register with Mary Menzer fairlymerry@gmail.com or at the next meeting and make your deposit.  

February Meeting is Cancelled

Due to the forecast of even MORE snow tonight and tomorrow leadership has made the decision to cancel the meeting this Saturday 2/28. We want everyone to be safe!

*If you haven't paid dues yet, but planned to at this meeting, please let either Jana, Mary or Angie know so we have an updated count of members. 

*Secret Pal reveal will be moved to March meeting 3/28.

*If you would like to sign up for Secret Pal for the new year and haven't yet please let Mary know. Partners will be emailed to you and 2015 Secret Pal will run from March - Oct. 

*Our group challenge 'Beach Bee Swap 2015' will start in March. You can still sign up- details were in the Feb newsletter, and the focal fabric can be purchased at our March meeting. Let Mary know if you would still like to sign up for this bee.