SEPTEMBER MEMBERS MEETING
Date: Monday, September 12, 2016
Time: 6:00 – 8:00pm
Location: Ventura Masonic Center, 482 E. Santa Clara St., Ventura [map]
Building entry: Refer to your email for the front door code

Meeting:

• Bring your project from the Improv Quilting Challenge from Becky H: Using solid colors, 100% cotton and an improvisational approach to piecing and quilting, create a piece, wherever improv takes you! Option to create a placemat or placemats using your work. Size: Approximately 13½” x 17”. Consider donating your project to our Philanthropy effort. See more info and a tutorial on our Challenges page.
• We are holding another popular Quilt University, where members are showcasing quick tips and techniques that you can use in your quilting. Scott G – tube piecing; Judy C – flip triangles; Janna B – curved flying geese; Barbara O – binding tips; Jenn R – English paper piecing
• Quilts needed! Bring your modern quilts to the meeting for display on Sunday, September 18th, at the Simi Valley Quilt Show. Quilts must have a hanging sleeve and a label with your name on it.

• Philanthropy project roundup: If you have orphan blocks, challenge blocks, or fabric that is taking up space in your stash, consider bringing them to the General Meeting and we will incorporate them into our philanthropy projects.

Upcoming Events:

It’s Sew-In Time!
Wednesday, September 14, 6-8pm at the Masonic Center (our regular meeting venue).
Bring your machine, all equipment you need, fabric, ideas, and your inspiration as we work on philanthropy items.

Simi Valley Quilt Show – Modern Quilts on Display
Sunday September 18, 10am-4pm
Rancho Santa Susana Community Park
5005 East Los Angeles, Simi Valley
Admission is $10. Our Opportunity Quilt will be there and we will be selling tickets!

Alissa Haight Carleton at the Conejo Valley Quilters Meeting
Monday September 19, 7pm
Ascension Lutheran Church, Pederson Hall
1600 East Hillcrest Drive, Thousand Oaks
The co-founder of the Modern Quilt Guild will be the speaker at the Conejo Valley Quilters meeting. Social hour starts at 6:30pm and the meeting begins at 7:00pm. Guests are welcome; guest fee is $5.

Check out our Calendar for more details

Looking Ahead:

October 6-8: QuiltFest Oasis, Palm Springs, featuring the National ModernQuilt Competition and a Modern Quilt Symposium

Jackie Gehring:

Camarillo Quilters

• Nov. 8 – Camarillo Quilters, lecture at 9:30 am. “Honoring Tradition or Modern Quilting: You know it when you see it.”
• Nov. 9 – Camarillo Quilters workshop, 9:00am, “Quirky Pineapple”. $40 for non-members
  Details at camarilloquilters.org

Simi Valley Quilters

• Nov. 9 – Simi Valley Quilters, lecture at 7:00pm
  Details at simivalleyquiltguild.org

Valley Quiltmakers

• Nov. 10 – Valley Quiltmakers, lecture at 9:30am, “Rethinking Quilting”
• Nov. 11 – Valley Quiltmakers workshop, 9:00am. “Creative Quilting using the Walking Foot.” $40 for non-members
  Details at valleyquiltmakersguild.org

BOARD MEETING – NOTE SPECIAL TIME
Date: Tuesday, September 6, 2016
Time: 6:00 – 8:00pm (1/2 hour early – this month only)
Location: The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, 4360 East Main Street, Ventura [map]
RSVP: Please RSVP to president@venturamodernquiltguild.com with your agenda item

All Members are invited to attend, but please RSVP to Patrice. Only items that have been submitted to Patrice for the agenda will be discussed.

SEPTEMBER MEMBERS MEETING
Date: Monday, September 12, 2016
Time: 6:00 – 8:00pm
Location: Ventura Masonic Center, 482 E. Santa Clara St., Ventura [map]
Building entry: Punch in the door code (refer to your emailed meeting reminder)

Details to come!

Ventura MQG Board Meeting
Special Date and Time: Thursday, August 4, 2016
Time: 6-8pm
Regular Location: The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, 4360 East Main Street, Ventura
RSVP: Please RSVP to president@venturamodernquiltguild.com with your agenda item
All Members are invited to attend, but please RSVP to Patrice. Only items that have been submitted to Patrice for the agenda will be discussed.

August Ventura MQG Members Meeting
Date: August 8, 2016
Time: 6pm to 8pm
Location: Ventura Masonic Center, 482 E. Santa Clara St., Ventura
Building Entry: Refer to your email for the code to the building.

Presentation: Becky H will present information about improv quilting, another request from our survey of guild members last spring. Becky has always been on the cutting edge of improv, so it will be great to hear from her!

Refreshments: On the list for August – Jenn Rodriguez, Tisha Maeda, and Lynn Hofflund will provide us with snacks and liquid refreshment during the break in the meeting. Thank you for keeping us nourished.

Challenge: Graph Paper Challenge – From Sarah W. Create a block (or quilt top) using a design laid out on graph paper. Use design from workshop (see below), or inspired by another quilt patters, a specific fabric or shape, a style of quilt. See our Challenges pagefor more information and a link to Sarah’s presentation.

Coming Up: Our Quilt University will be back in session for our first fall meeting in September. Do you have a technique or strategy that you’d like to share in a 12-15 minute presentation to a small group? Judy Chaffee will present “Flip Triangles,” Barbara O’Grady will share binding techniques … per the results of the annual survey, we will have presentations on free motion quilting using a domestic machine to take away the fear of free motion in October.

Michael Miller Challenge Fabric is here!  If you signed up with MQG for QuiltCon 2017, please pick up your fabric at the meeting. Note: there are two different colors, so step up to have a choice.

Quilt Exhibit: We have been invited to participate in a display of modern quilts on Sunday, September 18^th in conjunction with the Simi Valley Quilt Show. There is room for about ten large, bed-sized quilts, or more if some are wall hangings.  Please look over your quilt cupboard to see what you can display.  All quilts need to have labels, with your name, the quilt’s name, and date. We will have sign-ups on Monday evening.

Opportunity Quilt:  Our beautiful opportunity quilt, Wonkstellation, is ready for display!  Thanks to everyone who created stars, planned and pieced, quilted, bound and finished — and provided emotional and financial support! We couldn’t have such an incredible quilt without all our members. We are setting up a schedule of Saturdays where the quilt can be displayed at a local quilt shop and we can sell tickets for the drawing.  Quilt Ventura, superbuzzy, Homespun Treasures, and Fabric Town are all on board with us!  It’s great to have such support from our quilting community.  Which Saturday can you help out?

Philanthropy: The heart quilt for the Orlando Pulse night club victims is nearing completion. More details on Monday night at the meeting. Shout-out to Jenn R for organizing the creation of this piece.

SEW-IN scheduled for September 14^th (Wednesday) from 6:00 – 9:00 pm. We will be meeting in our regular room at the Masonic Center (the dining room), so bring extension cords and surge protectors with your sewing machines.

Library: Judy Hunt, Library Chair, has organized the growing selection of books and magazines available to check out for a month.  If you have an item at home, please return it at the meeting so that it’s available for the next reader.

Step up to volunteer: 

1. To sell raffle tickets at a Saturday or Sunday event
2. To work on the Pulse Orlando quilt
3. To share an idea that has helped you with some aspect of quilting.
4. To bring snacks for a future meeting.

JULY MEMBER MEETING
Date: Monday, July 11, 2016
Time: 6:00 – 8:00pm
Location: Ventura Masonic Center, 482 E. Santa Clara St., Ventura [map]
Building entry: Refer to your email for the entry code

Special things to bring (all voluntary):

• Bring a 12″-18″ ruler, any width — this is for Sarah W’s activity and quilt square challenge.
• Bring materials (see “Orlando Quilt, below) and/or a machine  — this is for helping to complete a quilt for Orlando

Orlando Quilt – Mini-Sew-In at Tomorrow’s Meeting
Jenn R is coordinating the creation of a quilt to be sent to the Orlando MQG, who are collecting quilts and blocks for the victims and families of the shooting at Pulse nightclub on June 12. If you want to bring materials (see below) and your machine, the Masonic Center room will be available to us until 9pm tomorrow, so we can get some sewing in during the meeting. We WILL be holding a regular meeting (including Sarah’s activity and quilt square challenge), starting at 6 — the only thing we’re asking, for time’s sake, is that folks hold off on bringing regular show and tell — just bring your challenge blocks (see next item). Members can choose to participate in the  main meeting then sew, or begin sewing earlier.

Jenn is asking for the following materials: Two hundred twenty-five (225) 4-1/2″ squares total:

• 104 pink/red, solids and modern patterns are OK
• 121 white/light gray/neutral, solids and modern patterns are OK.

Jenn will bring some fabric markers for writing messages on the squares. (If someone has some strong convictions about their favorite fabric markers, please speak up!)

Please contact Jenn with any questions.

Activity/Challenge from Sarah W
Should be fun! Please bring a ruler, any width, between 12″-18″, for the activity and quilt square challenge for August.

Bring Your Quilt Square from the Line Drawing Exercise
Bring a 12.5″x12.5″ modern quilt block from the activity and challenge from June:

July 2016 Board Meeting

Date: Tuesday, July 5, 2016
Time: 6:30pm to 8pm
Location: The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, 4360 East Main Street, Ventura [map]
RSVP: Please RSVP to president@venturamodernquiltguild.com with your agenda item
All Members are invited to attend, but please RSVP to Patrice. Only items that have been submitted to Patrice for the agenda will be discussed.

July 2016 Members Meeting

Date: Monday, June 11, 2016
Time: 6pm to 8pm
Location: Ventura Masonic Center, 482 E. Santa Clara St., Ventura
Building Entry: Refer to your email for the code to the building.
More details to come!