February 2025 Meeting Preview - Zoom Only - 2/15/25

SATURDAY, February 15th, 2025 9:30AM- 12:30PM EST

Zoom Meeting Only

Zoom link via email and in Facebook Members Only Group Events

9:30 Zoom opens for lecture and meeting

SFMQG February 15, 2025, Agenda

10:00 am Welcome

Lecture : David Owen Hastings & Teresa Duryea Wong 10 Modern Masterpieces

Break

Membership

  • 107 members renewed, 31 didn’t. About the same count as last year at this time.The members who didn't renew either moved away, not interested anymore or didn't participate and never got back to me.

  • The only thing I still want to do is reach out to members not in the Facebook members only group and see if they are interested in joining. If you use Facebook and aren’t a member of our group yet - you can request to join us. Lots of good information is posted.

Treasurer Report

Transfer of signature will be done in March 2025

Workshops

March 29, 2025 workshop- David Owen Hastings “Stitched Paper Collage” registration is open. Two spots still available in Store!

Maria Shell’s visit April 25-27, 2025, in Palm Beach Gardens. We have 2 more spots to fill, please register on our website. For those of you who have registered, please pay at the SFMQG store.

  • Details:

  • Saturday and Sunday April 26 and 27, 2025, 10:00 am-5:00 pm

  • Two-day Workshop : “Circle and Curve sampler”

  • Location: Hilton Garden Inn Palm Beach Gardens, 3505 Kyoto Gardens Dr.

  • Fee: $325

  • Hilton Garden Inn has a special rate of 229$ plus tax per night before March 26, 2025. Code: Palm Beach Modern Quilt Guild.

Lectures

Charity

We will kick off the “Charity merged with a BOM game” on March 15 with the “Spring” pattern. We will propose a pattern and collect the blocks in March, April and May.

Are you interested?

1- A Challenge? We are suggesting 

- A “Bugs” Challenge: prompts will be provided to inspire you to stitch creepy-crawlies, and

- A repeat of the “Make Do 2017” Challenge-in 2025.

2-A postcard exchange with Central Florida MQG? Stitch and quilt a postcard and mail to your pen pal on July 1st, 2025.

Email will come your way this week with a survey to gauge your interest.

Preparation for the South Florida Quilt Expo (SFQE) (March 8-9, 2025, in Pembroke Pines): 

  • Twenty-five SFMQG members submitted one or multiple quilts at SFQE. Winners have been notified. Please share with us your success in our next month’s Show and Tell! Congratulations! 

  • Please consider preparing 3-5 items to sell at the Guild’s Table! You may bring them at the Expo, and we will put them for sale right away! Also bring a fat quarter in a Ziploc/sandwich bag to give visitors interested in learning more about modern quilting.

  • Sign-up ready for the Guild’s Table. Sign-up on “SignUpGenius” here

  • Our SFMQG “Batik-Tropic-Islandic” basket of items to be raffled as a fund raiser for SFQE is complete. Thank you all for contributing!

QuiltCon

QuiltCon 2025 Awards Ceremony will be streamed live on Wednesday February 19, 2025, 7pm MST (9pm South Florida Time)

Have a nice trip, Quilters!

Show and Tell 

Email or message your Workshop & modern pics to Charlotte by February 13, 2025 for the gallery 

Next Meeting

  • Hybrid on March 15, 2025. 

  • Please reach out to me if you want to give a method presentation in the afternoon!

  • Planning a sewing machine tune-up by TOPS, sign in sheet on SignUpGenius coming soon!

  • Sip and Sew Feb 27 and Mar 13

See you on Saturday!

MarieF
President
South Florida Modern Quilt Guild