Sew-A-Thon....

This months meeting, Saturday May 25, is the Sew-a-thon. All About Sewing and the Central Coast Modern Quilt Guild are hosting a charity day / sew-a-thon to raise money for the Keira-lee Willams Appeal.

We are expecting about 80 crazy sewing ladies so it is being held at Wyong Golf Club to accommodate us all. We can arrive at the club from 9.30am and we can stay til 9pm...phew... (insert bleary eyes here)

ALL ABOUT SEWING WILL BE CLOSED FOR THE DAY...so be sure to have all your supplies before the day.

It is $20 for your seat...

Bring along something to sew. You can bring your machine or just some hand sewing. Morning and afternoon tea are provided and the club has a nice restaurant for lunch or there are some takeaway outlets across the road.(you can't bring takeaway into the club)

We have raffles and luckydoor prizes throughout the day and lots of great company.

If you haven't already put your name down please contact Jody on 43932200, it's filling up fast. You don't have to be a guild member to attend so bring along a friend and change to buy raffle tickets.

You could win this quilt...

 

All proceeds are going to the Keira-lee Willams Appeal.

See you there

CCMQG Committee

This year has been a bit of a slow start. Our scheduled meeting for January was a public holiday, Our February meeting saw only the die hards attend as we were in the midst of a huge storm with torrential rain and huge winds. Thanks to those ladies that braved the weather.

 

Our March meeting has been planned since last year. We are having PURPLE DAY to coincide with Epilepsy Australia's Purple Day to raise awareness and funds for epilepsy.

We have planned a day of purple. We ask that you come dressed in purple and bring a plate of food, possibly purple but it doesn't have to be. It will be a general sewing day with some added fun with spot raffles, a guessing competition and other fun things.

 

We also have our main fundraising raffle of a beautiful quilt made by the members of the guild.

 

(75" x 75")

 

Tickets to win this awesome quilt are available at All About Sewing- Charmhaven. (Australian residents only) It will be drawn May 25 2013

 

We hope you can join us on Sat March 23 for this fun day at All About Sewing 9am - 2pm

 

CCMQG Committee



Central Coast Charity Quilt Show...

It is time for the Annual Central Coast Charity Quilt Show. It was two years ago that the guild first went public and it was recieved really well.
This year we will be represented once again at the show. Leanne is doing a demonstation on improvised block constrution and Jan is doing a demo on free motion quilting. It will be a great weekend of quilts, quilts, quilts and friends to catch up with.

Hope to see you all there

CCMQG Committee

Our Second Birthday...

It is two years since we joined with a guild known as The Modern Quilt Guild. It is based in Los Angeles and soon after setting up, the Guild grew into an international guild, including us, The Central Coast Modern Quilt Guild.


It has been a huge success. A lot of new friendships have been forged, money has been raised for charities and tonnes of quilts have been made.


Next year, The Modern Quilt Guild Presents QuiltCon 2013 in Austin, Texas,USA, The First International Modern Quilting Conference and Show with Keynote Speaker Denyse Schmidt

QuiltCon will be the inaugural conference and show by and for The Modern Quilt Guild. The first modern quilting event of its kind, QuiltCon will feature top modern quilting instructors and will

attract attendees from around the world.

The Modern Quilt movement has been key in getting a whole generation of young people into sewing and quilting. They have shown that you don't have to stick to the tradtional ways of doing things and experimenting with fabric can achieve some really great results.
So here we are two years on. Looking to the future we hope to grow our guild and have more adventures in quilting.

"Happy 2nd Birthday"

Annual General Meeting...

Adgenda
*Nominations for Officers Positions
*Fees
*Treasures Report
*Joining the NSW Quilt Guild
*Challenges
*Charity- Sew-a-thon
*Bus Trip
*Wyong Show
*Thursday Nights

Nominations for Officers
Firstly the Officers stepped down from their positions.
Nominations for President
Gail nominated Leanne
2nd by Rhonda
Leanne accepted
Nominations for Vice-President
Lyn C nominated Jody
2nd by Leanne
Jody accepted
Nominations for Secretary
Jody nominated Robyn D
2nd by Lyn C
Robyn D accepted
Nominations for Treasurer
Leanne nominated Gail
2nd by Colleen
Gail accepted

Fees
Leanne asked if members would like fees to be reduced.
The vote was No. Membership fees are to stay $30/adult, $15/junior.
Extra funds are to be used for fabrics for charity quilts, prizes for challenges and to Join the NSW Quilt Guild.

Treasurers Report
Gail presented the guild finances. We have $1051.90 in the bank. Some of this is for the next bus trip and has been paid by members. The remainder is from fees.


Joining the NSW Quilt Guild
Leanne asked members if they would like to join the NSW Quilt Guild as a Group. This would enable the CCMQG to enter group quilts in the Sydney show, we would have access to their extensive library and members can attend NSW Guild meetings and special events.
Colleen voted Yes
2nd by Rhonda
Leanne to organise NSW Quilt Guild membership.

Challenges
We talked about having a couple of challenges throughout the year.
Most guilds have different challenges and we hope to get some great prizes to win.
Stay tuned for our 1st challenge.

Charity
This year we have been making pillows and bags for Breast Cancer. A huge cheers goes to Lyn Mac. She has made hundreds of them. Great Job Lyn !! Also thanks to all the other memberswho have had a hand in making them. It really makes a difference in someones life.

Our next Charity project is close to our hearts. Rhonda White's grand daughter Keira has a brain injury that causes severe epilepsy, cerebral palsy and slow development.
She needs constant care and spends alot of time in and out of hospital. As you can imagine, this takes a huge emotional and financial toll on the whole family.

To raise funds for them Jody (All About Sewing) is having a Sew-A-Thon.

Sew-a-thon

All About Sewing

Saturday Oct 29

9am- Whenever (midnight??)

$30/seat

All proceeds to go to Keira's family



Ally has had some fabric donated by some fantastic shops so we are going to make a couple of quilts to raffle. Leanne is cutting out the blocks for members to sew together. Blocks will be available to pick up from All About Sewing. We need to get them done ASAP so we can get the quilts together to start selling tickets. The raffle will be drawn at the Sew-A -Thon.

Put this date on your calender and lets get a good roll up for a good cause.

More info will be available as it we work out all the details.

Newcastle/Hunter Bus Trip
We have a 20 seater bus going to Belmont Patchwork Heart, Coffee on Main at Boolooroo and on to the Hunter to Harrigans Pub for lunch. There is a waiting list but you never know you may just get on. The whole waiting list got onto the last trip. Drop in to All About Sewing to put your name down or call on 43932200.

Wyong Quilt Show
The date are set for next years Wyong Quilt Show.

Sat 5 & Sun 6 May 

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Wyong Memorial Hall

Start getting those beautiful quilts ready for hanging. And remember all proceeds go to Wyong & Gosford Cancer Care Units to purchase much need medical equipment.

Thursday Nights

We have given Thurs nights a go for over 12 months now. We usually only get about 5 members. Jody has kindly offered one Thursday 9am-3pm a month to the guild for a sit and sew day. That's an extra 5 or so sewing days a year. Check the calender on the blog/website for dates.

Saturdays will remain the same.

That's it for the AGM minutes..

2011-2012 fees are due now..

Please pay ASAP..

Here's to another great year

Leanne Harvey

CCMQG Preident

Sydney Bus Trip July 2011

On Saturday July 23 a  bus load of members headed down the highway for a day of fabric shopping and lots of laughs.

Our first stop was at Craft Depot, Pennant Hills. We were first through the door and shopped up a storm. It can be quite overwhelming with all that fabric. Decisions, Decisions... but we managed..

Next off to Material Obsession at Drummoyne. So colourful. There was much to choose from and tonnes of inspiation. The ladies here were lovely and very helpful.

We had lunch at Birkenhead Point. WOW!! I think a few of us will be back here to shop some more. They had fabulous factory outlet shops. The prices were great and it was all good quality.

Our next stop was a cute little shop Calico & Ivy in Balmain. It was packed with beautiful fabrics, lots of giftwares and gorgeous yarns for knitting and crochet. They were really welcoming and happy for us to be there.

The front of Calico & Ivy.....

Some intense faces there...

Buying up big. Way to go girls...

The last stop was Logan's Patchwork at Liechhardt. Even more fabric to choose from. It was hard to pass  on the discount fabrics. Ladies found the Asian fabrics they were looking for and others found that little something for their stash.

A great day was had by everyone. A huge thanks goes out to Wally for driving all the cackling ladies around the town.

Can't wait for the next one....

Cheers

Leanne

Monica Poole Workshop....

On Saturday 7th May 2011, we were lucky to have Monica Poole come to "All About Sewing" on our Guild Day to provide us with a workshop on 5 different ways to "Quilt-as-you-go".

It was a wonderful day.

Monica had us working thru' a "quilt-as-you-go" sampler which taught us 5 different methods of constucting a quilt...quilting as you go....and all the things you need to consider with each method, like thread choices, backing colours etc. Most methods favoured being done by machine, but some did involve hand sewing...although Monica did suggest ways to even avoid hand sewing on those "hand sewn " ones as well.

Throughout the day Monica shared a wide variety of tips and tricks to help keep our work neat,and straight, and also demonstrated a great way to join wadding which eliminates waves and lumps.

Close up of quilting technique demonstrated by Monica using the walking foot. Very effective, easy and fun to do.

Joining wadding.

The results.

The girls had a great day. I think we all agreed that Monica's "Quilt-as-you-go" sampler was a great way to try out all 5 methods of quilt as you go....decide which one we liked the best and then use that on our next quilt.

The wonderful staff at "All About Sewing"

What a great day. Thanks Monica!