January 2019 meeting minutes

January 2018 Mtl MQG Meeting Minutes

Tuesday, January 8 at 7pm, SouthWest Mission Verdun

Quick points of business:

• Get your raffle tickets from Izzy at the break
• Call for exec team volunteers
• Need a volunteer for the President and VP positions
• A set of job descriptions will be sent 
• Feb 12 meeting will be 0% planned, so please bring something to work on and/or a topic to discuss!

News from the MQG Ambassador (Izzy)

• QuiltCon Feb. 21–24, 2019 
• Webinar how to design quilts using different tools - on the 17th of January at 14:30. Will be available the day after recording.
• Charity quilt will be ready for QuiltCon, Cinzia will show tonight.

Applique demo by Claudia

• Draw picture on fabric
• Bast on the inside of the drawing
• Cut out around the outside of the drawing about a ¼ inch
• The line becomes the border of the applique
• Put the thread up through the applique between the layers (through the top layer)
• Take needle push raw edge underneath and hold with thumb and follow the line and sew it to the bottom layer, making a invisible stitch. 
• When you reach a curve clip a little v, so you can maneuver the fabric. How big you make the v depends on the curve
• Tiny stitches if small curves, if big run, can go to a ¼ inch
• At points, use the needle to push under one side and then the other to create point
• Reverse appliqué - is the opposite…..https://thethriftyneedle-wordpress-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/thethriftyneedle.wordpress.com/2011/04/28/t-shirt-remakes/amp/

Craft De Ville

• Large quilt frame in shop now
• Put a domestic machine into it
• Can be used for quilting or basting

Discussion on soluble thread

• It can be used for basting 
• https://www.amazon.ca/FidgetFidget-Sewing-Thread-Soluble-Clothes/dp/B07HM4MG1S

For next meeting we will be doing a show and tell of your favorite notion or sewing tool

Announce upcycle challenge (Cinzia)

• Work on at Feb 12 meeting
• Due at March 12 meeting
• Make something *for yourself* that uses upcycled/recycled/salvaged materials (fabrics, fastenings, etc) - details posted to the blog
• Item can be decorative (wall hanging, quilt) or functional (bag, mug rug, storage bin, etc) - it just needs to be sewn/quilted

Show and Tell

• Jessie - floppy discs 
• Beth - appliqué whale 
• Tamara - large hexi and English Paper Piecing made from old clothes 
• Anne - hexi tree skirt
• Snezana - ribbons with a dragons on the back
• Suzanne - book is here - email for a book in February - $30 (regular at $38 cdn regular).
• Elana - fruit applique quilt
• Garden quilt very bright shows the bird.
• Patti - Jewel egg, Hexi table runner, Diamond quilt was niece request 
• Michele - Michele is looking for ikea sheet does anyone have see photo, Scrappy cushions, Kay facets mystery quilt, Squares from mystery quilt

Volunteers for next meeting: Izzy and Nicole

Next sew-in - Jan 26