September 2018 Meeting Minutes

September 2018 Mtl MQG Meeting Agenda
Tuesday, September 11 at 7pm, SouthWest Mission Verdun

Quick points of business:

• Welcome back! Exec team for the 2018-19 year are: 
• President - Stephanie 
• Vice-president - Izzy 
• Treasurer - Claudia 
• Secretary - Fiona 
• Registrar - Josee 
• Programming - Joanna, Stacy, Cinzia 
• Assisting - Patti
• Dues for 2018-19 = $40, see Josee to complete registration
• Snack volunteers, send around sign up sheet (list complete)
• We will continue to collect donations for the mid-year raffle (December) and end of year raffle (June) like we did last year. If you have something you would like to contribute, bring it to a meeting. To participate in the raffle, you simply need to wear your name tag during our regular meetings and see Izzy to get your raffle ticket at the break.
• LDH (https://shopldh.com/) had donated some scissors which we will be raffling off at the December meeting
• Collect Palliacco quilts -
• Total of 15 quilts being donated, Debby has them and will be delivering them soon. 
• Thank you to everyone who contributed!!! This was a great turnout for a great cause.
• Collect QuiltCon challenge blocks, we may have enough for more than one quilt
• Next steps: design/layout will begin at the September 22 sew-in, you can bring more star blocks to the sew-in if you still wish to contribute
• Volunteers for finishing: Patti, Shannon S., Josee, Izzy and Nicole (quilting), Michele (backing), Cinzia and Stephanie (binding).
• Our deadline for finishing the quilt is December so it can be shipped in time for QuiltCon
• MQG released new version of website, be sure to set up your new profile and join the Montreal MQG Circle. If you have any difficulty, there is a 'Help' section specifically for new website 

October 2017 Mtl MQG Meeting Minutes

October 2017 Mtl MQG Meeting Minutes

October 10, 2017 at 7pm SouthWest Mission, Verdun, QC

Quick points of business:

• Seating arrangement, comments welcome. Trying new things with the fridge making too much noise.
• No one answered for last call for being paired up to make name tags, so if you want one please make your own.
• Membership dues are due by November meeting.
• Only a couple left FQ Mtl Fat quarter bundles left at Clinton Modern, order them asap if you want one.
• Please be aware that the room accoustics are terrible so please listen when someone is talking.
• Remember we are a welcoming, collaborative and often rule breaking modern quilt guild ….. compliments, suggestions and ideas are always welcome. Be careful to phrase them with kindness and openness ….. quilt rules demanders and quilt police, please keep your comments to yourself. 

#QuiltsforQC delivery

We have been in touch with the Ste-Foy mosque and we will be delivering the finished quilts to them at the end of the month. If you are a guild member and were interested in coming with us to deliver them (and did not already receive an email from me about it), please send us an email (mtlmqg@gmail.com) right away. We will be organizing the carpool and finalizing details soon.

I have also had a number of inquiries about pictures of the finished quilts. I was hoping for a sunny weekend day to get them out on the clothesline and photographed, but as the weather has not been cooperative, I will have to move to Plan B and do it indoors. I will have all 50 of the quilts documented and posted here to the blog by the end of the month, so watch this space (and thank you for your patience!). :)

Vitrine sur la Courtepointe Moderne / A Window into Modern Quilting

Our much anticipated showcase of modern quilts is finally on display at the Maison de la Culture Marie-Uguay in Montreal. The vernissage was this past Sunday afternoon, and it completely surpassed our expectations. The quilts look fantastic, the gallery staff did a great job hanging and lighting them and the gallery space was packed with visitors who spent the afternoon enjoying the works and chatting with the quilters. To cap things off, our founding members Cinzia and Josee gave a presentation on the distinguishing characteristics of modern quilting, and walked the audience through the categories that we had explored for this show.

If you weren't able to make it to our vernissage, don't worry... the show is up for the entire month of February so you still have plenty of time to drop by and check it out (admission is free)!

Go to the vernissage photo gallery

Wall to wall color and inspiration

I really should be working on the back of my showcase quilt, but it's fighting me at the moment so I've put it in the "time out" pile for a bit. So, I thought I'd take a moment to post a few photos from last night's visit to the Fondation Guido Molinari. 

For those of you who braved the rainy weather to join us, thank you! And for those of you who couldn't make it, please try to find some time to visit the gallery on your own, it is *well* worth the trip! We were welcomed very warmly by Gilles, the executive director, and Lisa, his assistant... they gave us a great little introduction to Molinari's life and work before guiding us through both the main gallery space on the main floor and the rooms upstairs, as well as even allowing us a sneak peek into the basement storage space! They were both very enthusiastic about sharing and discussing Molinari's work and it was a really lovely visit. 

 M. Daigneault in front of a few of the works on display

Stacy and Tamara listening intently to our guides