Speakers

Modern Fabrics from Sew Fresh Fabrics Quilt Shop – April 5, 2014, USM, Room #108, 9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. – Phenomenal Sewist and Guest Speaker, Rhonda Galpern

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Rhonda Galpern, Modern Sewist with Sew Fresh Fabrics Quilt Shop of Ipswich, MA will be doing a lively and educational Trunk Show Presentation: “Sewing Modern with your Stash: Integrating Modern Fabrics and Designs with your Current Fabric Selection”.

Rhonda, wearing a green top and a big smile is in the Sew Fresh Fabrics booth at the Quilters Gathering Quilt Show in Manchester, NH in 2013. Such a vivacious lady! Sew Fresh Fabrics had a booth at the 2013 Maine Quilt Show in Augusta.
Rhonda, wearing a green top and big smile, is in the Sew Fresh Fabrics booth at the Quilters Gathering Quilt Show in Manchester, NH 2013. Such a talented lady! Sew Fresh Fabrics had a booth at the 2013 Maine Quilt Show in Augusta.

Seating is limited to 40 people. All tickets are purchased through Cindy Visbaras, Maine Modern Quilt Guild, VP of Communication.

Tickets in advance are $15 and must be purchased by April 1st. Tickets at the door are $20. To check on availability of tickets in advance or at the door, contact Cindy Visbaras,  at cvisbaras@roadrunner.com. Contact Cindy via email no later than 8:00 p.m. on April 4.  All tickets are non-refundable. Returned checks will have an over-draft fee of $30.00.

The latest, beautiful fabrics from modern quilt designers will be available for purchase at this event.

To be included in the modern fat quarter drawing, bring one FQ of modern fabric. Bring along your Show and Tell, especially if you have used non-modern fabrics in a modern style quilt.

For information concerning the event, contact Betsy Cannan, Pres. Maine Modern Quilt Guild at bjtulip@aol.com.

SewDowns

March 15, 2014 Agenda, USM, 9:00 a.m.-2:45 p.m., Rm. #108,

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This is a Sew Down Slipper day! Bring your lunch, machines and sewing supplies.

First-time guests attend for free. Welcome!  Yippee! Meet new sewists of all skill levels.

Joan Emerson will teach us how to make neat, fancy, “Sew Down Slippers”.  No more cold weather or toes! 

Lunch

Then we will work on Name Tags. Yeah!

As always, if you choose to not do these projects, you may bring a UFO to work on.

Fat Quarter color TBD.

Refreshments: Carmen Dickinson and Vicky Westleigh  Thank you!

Meetings

Modern Quilt Meeting: Saturday, Jan. 4, USM L/A College, 51 Westminster St., Lewiston, ME 04240

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Welcome to the next Woo Hoo! meeting of Maine Modern Quilt Guild! What a GREAT group of Quilters!
Time: 9-12 Arrive a little early to sign in. You may bring in drinks and food.
Location: Room #108 (Drive ALL the way around the building to get to the nearest entrance to room 108.)
Wear a name tag if you have one, or we will give you a sticky one. Yeah for stickies!

The extended weather forecast is sunny for Saturday. However, the snow date, if the weather is BAD, is Friday, Jan. 10, same time, same place.
Remember, if the university is closed, we don’t meet.

Agenda:
Bring your modern projects for 2 reasons: 1) for display so we can vote by secret ballot what projects we would like to learn to do in the coming months, 2) Jane H.M. needs your projects for the Jan. 25th PTQG mtg. You will be hearing from Jane. Discussion as needed about the Jan. 25th PTQG meeting in Augusta. Contact: jhannmorey@roadrunner.com

Riley Blake Challenge S&T
(If you did not do the Riley Blake Challenge, please return the fabric so we can use it in a quilt to raffle. TY)
Who would like to be on a committee to organize making a raffle quilt with our RB fabric? Email me to sign up. bjtulip@aol.com

Logo: Who would like to volunteer to design a logo for us? It’s time! We need one? Email me! bjtulip@aol.com

Apron Runway – Wear or show an apron you made. (Any kind of apron) Give a notecard to Ann-Marie when you come in with info about your apron. She will read it to the group. ann-marie107@hotmail.com

Show and Tell: Limit your projects to 1-2. Cindy V., VP of Comm., will take pics and load them on our sites. Pls tell Cindy if you prefer no pics. cvisbara@bates.edu Our sites: http://www.mainemodernquilters.com and http://www.themodernquiltguild.com

Skill Builder: Hexies by hand and by machine – taught by Vicky Westleigh, Sec., and Ann-Marie Schechtman, VP of Events

FQ color is Valentiney red (for FQ exchange) Is Valentiney a word?

See you soon!

Charity

Left to right, Jill Bolduc, Level 2 Nurse specializes in Maternity, NICU, and Infant Demise. Melanie Lee, RN, Clinical Educator, contact person for Hazel Henderson.

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Left to right, Jill Bolduc, Level 2 Nurse specializes in Maternity, NICU, and Infant Demise. Melanie Lee, RN, Clinical Educator, contact person for Hazel Henderson.

Left to right Jill Bolduc, Level 2 RN, specializes in Maternity, NICU, and Infant Demise Nursing. Melanie Lee, RN, Clinical Educator, contact person for Hazel Henderson. Ann-Marie Schechtman, Maine Modern Quilt VP of Events, and Hazel Henderson, contact person for Maine Modern Quilt Guild.

Speakers

Sew Fresh Fabrics from Ipswich, MA

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Sew Fresh Fabrics from Ipswich, MA

Peg Connolly, front, owner, and Rhonda Galpern, behind in the green top, in their booth at A Quilter’s Gathering. Rhonda will be visiting MMQG in Lewiston on Sat., April 5, 2014 to present on “How to Integrate our love for modern fabrics with our love for fabrics in our stash.” More info to come later. Contact Betsy Cannan at bjtulip@aol.com with questions.

Angel Wraps, Charity

Baby Quilts

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The following “baby” items were made for the purpose of donation to the new hospital, Maine General Medical Center, in Augusta, Maine.

The “Angel Wraps” were made for tiny babies of miscarriage. The parents of these babies are given the wraps to take home with them.

The 24″x24″ quilts were made for stillborn babies and also given to the parents to take the home with them.

Not pictured yet, but made by Joan Emerson, Ann-Marie Schechtman, Hazel Henderson, and Betsy Cannan, were 4 isolette (crib) covers for premature babies. These isolette covers keep these premie babies warm and cozy, enhancing every bit of their body and spirit to be strong, and to help them grow up to be healthy human beings.

Ann-Marie graciously opened her home so that we could get together and work on the isolette covers. Thank you so much, Ann-Marie!

All the items were delivered to MGMC NICU (neonatal intensive care unit) on November 14, 2013 by Ann-Marie and Hazel.

This endeavor was headed up by Ann-Marie and Hazel.

Thank you, mod-quilters!