- The guild currently has 22 paid members as of February 10, 2016. Membership dues are due by February 17, 2016 or you will be inactive with the National MQG. Please fill out the membership form here and dues can be paid via PayPal by clicking on the PayPal button on right hand side of our website.
- Treasury Report: The guild account balance is $1038.57, with $33.68 coming in and $55.00 going out.
- We passed around sign-up sheets for the different guild committees. The Education, Outreach, Swaps and Challenges and Hospitality committees all need members to help with the work they are doing. Please email andrea@theberryhills.net and let her know how you’d like to serve!
- A reminder that the Challenges and Swaps committee is putting on selfish sewing name tag challenge. Make a name tag that best represents you for our March meeting. Prizes will be issued for best name tag.
- Quilt con is next week, who is going? Represent us well! Remember to tag us on social media with #dmmqg and @denvermetromqg.
- Teresa Barbagallo will put together as list of who is attending and info to get from the airport to your hotel. Please email her for more information.
- September 28th is sew day at the Makers Space at CU Boulder from 11-4, cost is $5.00. Please RSVP online and pay with PayPal. If you want to pay in person, you can still use the RSVP form; just close the window after it redirects to PayPal. We will still get your RSVP.
- No sew day in March due to Easter and Spring Break.
- The March meeting will take place at the Makers Space at CU Boulder and one of the students will give a presentation on CAD software for quilt design.
- Representatives from Hoffman Fabrics will also be coming to the March meeting to talk to us about their new batik fabric line ME + You and their printing process.
- If anyone is interested, there will be a quilt show in Estes Park, called Face of Fiber in the Rockies. This is a juried show and will be held June 10, 11 & 12, 2016. If you would like any further information, contact Wendy Bermingham.
- We had presentation by Shelby Skumanich about the quilt show at the Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum. The theme is “How New is Modern” and will be held in October of 2017. All info can be found on this post on our blog. It will be updated periodically as details get flushed out. You have all of 2016 to make the quilt for the show and this year we will focus on how to maintain engagement and enthusiasm. Show starts October 26, 2017 and comes down January 25, 2018. Quilts should be of an original design and 3-D is welcome
- Shelby will be needing some help to put this show on and she is looking for help with promotion, photography, writing/copy editing, event planning and hanging the show. The guild also talked about an educational component in the form of a workshop, class, lecture, panel or artist talk.
- Please take the Inspiration Quilt Survey to help us decide which quilts we want to use as inspiration for the show. The committee and interested members will be viewing the selection of quilts at the museum in mid-March to chose the finale 3-4 quilts.
- Lauren Lang spoke about our program for May on Barn Quilts of Boulder County.. The guild would like to do a charity quilt based off traditional blocks, which we will talk about more during May’s meeting.
