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"