Time to Renew or Join

Don't forget it's time to renew our guild memberships or join for 2017!. 

The cost is $30 and if writing a check, please make it out to Tyler MQG and mail to Tricia.  You can get her address from her.  

or... You can bring your membership dues to the Christmas party.  Deadline for renewal is December 31, 2016.  

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There are many benefits to joining the MQG besides all the benefits of our Monthly Meetings and sewing events.

for more information on benefits go to https://themodernquiltguild.com/join

If you joined this year and you were not an individual member before and have never received an MQG pin, please let Tricia know. 

Tyler MQG Holiday Party

Thursday, December 15, 2016 at 6 p.m.

Tricia Harvey's home

Bring a sewing related wrapped gift worth $25 

and

a homemade Pincushion.

This is completely optional of course. Only participate if you'd like to.  The pincushion needs to be made by YOU. \

You can make any kind of pincushion you want - something super duper fast and easy out of scraps, or an intricate one. Or somewhere in between.
Bring your pincushion wrapped so we can't see them ahead of time. We will just put them on a table and then everyone who brought one, will be able to pick one from the table. Then we unwrap and see our pincushion surprise!

See you there.

Charity

Holiday season is the time of giving and I wanted to share some of the giving the Tyler MQG has done this year.


Quilts for Pulse - Organized by the Orlando MQG to collect quilts and blocks for the victims of the shooting at Pulse nightclub on June 12, 2016 - Our Guild donated 5 Quilts

Quilts for Peace - Organized by the Dallas MQG - Donations of blue and white blocks for the fallen and injured officers that were killed during a protest in Dallas, TX - Our guild donated several blocks including many that were signed by officers.  We received a lovely thank you note from the DMQG.

And of course, our favorite Charity -  Covered In Love

Unfortunately, I don't have any pictures of the blocks donated but above is a link and our Guild has provided many blocks and quilts.

May 26 2016 Meeting

Minutes from Rhonda Chapman:

Tricia wanted to thank Milton for the glue basting technique he taught at the previous months meeting. Unfortunately Milton was not in attendance for the meeting. Tricia said he would thanked at the next meeting he attended.

Item 1

Block Builder

A new block builder challenge was passed out, due back June 23. Tricia outlined the block builder challenge for the benefit of new members, that had not been involved in the previous

B.B. challenges.

Item 2

June-July Program

It will be a Scrap Quilt outlined in a MQ book. Members will bring scraps of a fabric and a fat quarter. Scraps will be sewn into squares by members and the quilt could be used for a Guild fundraiser. Tricia will email members with specifics.

Item 3

Anniversary Dinner with Jackie Gehrig

After some discussion, it was decided that Jackie Gehrig, who will be teaching a class at the QGET on Friday, will be invited to the anniversary dinner of the TMQG to be held on

Thursday, July 14. Restaurant suggestions will be decided at a later date.

Item 4

Bionic Gear Bag Class

It was decided to host a class on how to make the Bionic Gear Bag. This class will be a fundraiser for the TMQG. 8 members showed an interest in participating in this class.

  

Item 5

Covered in Love

Kat presented a blue and yellow block that will be the donation block for the May block drive.  All blocks due at June meeting. Kat will have all information on May block on her Facebook page and blog, as well as on the TMQG Facebook page.

*Tricia talked a little about the Covered in Love program for the benefit of some new TMQG members.*

Item 6

Spring Challenge

There were 5 members that participated in the challenge. Each participant showed and talked about there project. Marilyn V'Soske was chosen at random as the winner of the challenge.

Item 7

It was suggested that members solicit items for prizes for challenges and a coordinator for donations is needed.

Show and tell:

Riley Blake Challenge Quilts





Next general meeting scheduled for Thursday, June 23, 2016 at 5:15 p.m.

April Meeting of the Tyler Modern Quilt Guild

We are coming up on our April meeting date - in only 2 days!  We will meet April 28th from 4pm-7pm at A Nimble Thimble.

Don't forget your Show and Tell projects and come prepared for a fun meeting!

Our program tonight includes a demonstration from our member, Milton Slocum who will be demonstrating his technique for glue basting.  I'm excited and can't wait.

If you'd like to visit our guild meeting, you are more than welcome.  All first visits are free.  The second visit has a $5 fee and after that we ask that you join.  Please see our About page for information about joining our guild.

See you all Thursday!

Volunteering at local quilt show in March

Hello TMQG!
I'm still looking for volunteers to help at our local quilt show. Our group volunteered to help with the take down and folding area of the show. It should take about an hour or so on Saturday, March the 19th. We will start at 5pm and finish around 6-6:30 ish.
There will be other volunteers helping but we need at least 10 people from our group to volunteer.

So far I have:
Tana Doss
Karen Walters,
Melanie Dossey
Tricia Harvey
June Nyvall
Robyn Lieberman
Susan Gutierrez

Thanks so much to those who have already volunteered!!!
Please contact me if you would be able to help also. You DO NOT have to be a member of the Quilters Guild of East Texas (QGETX) to help.
Lets show our support of QGETX by helping with this job!
Please respond by Saturday as I really need to get the list back to the lady in charge of this area.
Thanks!
Tricia

January Meeting

Hello Tyler MQG members!

Our January meeting is coming up very quickly – it will be this coming Thursday, January 28^th from 4-7 pm.  Social time/shopping, free sew will be from 4 till 5:00 (ish).  We will start our business meeting at 5 ish followed by show and tell.

I will try to bring some snacks to munch on.  Would anyone like to be our snack coordinator?  Please contact me if you would like to do this job.

**Calling all members – If anyone has a special class, technique or pattern they would like to teach this year, please let me know.  We are working on our schedule for this year and we are looking to our members for classes/demos you'd like to teach!  (Remember we are a new quild and can't afford the nationally recognized teachers at this time)

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2016 Skill Builder Block of the Month

http://pileofabric.com/pages/skill-builder-bom  - Scroll down to the bottom of the page where all the blocks are shown with instructions on how to complete and a video on how to quilt.

If you would like to bring the fabrics you are using for the BOM to show and tell, that would be great.  Also, if you have any completed blocks already, please bring them to show.

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We have a fun year ahead full of learning, growing, designing, swapping, quilting and laughs.

I’m soooo looking forward to it!

Tricia Harvey

President of Tyler MQG