Wednesday, April 12, 2017

April 2017 Meeting Minutes

April 2017 Mtl MQG Meeting Minutes
Tuesday April 11, 2017 at 7pm at CRCS St-Zotique
  • Quilts for Quebec: 
    • It looks like we will have about 45 finished quilts for the mosque.
    • We have 20 or so ready for quilting - we need quilters! 
    • A few are ready for binding.
    • We might be organizing another basting party over the next few weeks once we have all the tops pieced as well as backing for everything.
  • Visit to the McCord Museum to see the Expo 67 Exhibit:
    • We will meet in the lobby of the museum at 6 PM on Wednesday, April 19.
    • The cost on Wednesday evening is $9.50 per person.
    • For those interested, we will most likely have dinner and a drink after the visit.

Show and Tell:
  • Francine: Fancy Forest quilt based on the Elizabeth Hartman pattern.  This is for her 2nd grandson's room.
  • Maurice: Showed off his amazing Monopoly quilt top - all made to scale. 
  • Nathalie: Worked on a Quilt of Valor with two other members of the South Shore Guild. All black and white flying geese with pops of red.
  • Patti:  Patti not only made blocks for the CQA bee, she put them together in a massive quilt top.
  • Marie-Eve: Made a quilt for a friend - all purple and yellow HSTs arranged in a gradient layout. She quilted it with the Ultra Wavy quilting tutorial by Better Off Thread.
  • Isabelle:  Showed a beautiful reverse appliqué and hand quilted mini.
  • Jen: Completed a cute baby quilt with squares and wonky stars.

Next meeting: 
  • May meeting  - May 9:
    • Garage sale: bring anything you would like to sell, swap or give away.
    • Metro Challenge quilts are due
    • We will discuss the results of the survey
    • We will also reveal plans for the June "sew-out"

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