June 2023 Recap
Our June meeting was another full event! We started off with a review of the retreat, including the reel made from the photos taken. If you haven’t ever attended a retreat, I encourage you to really consider it. It is such a good time! Here’s the reel, if you want to watch us one more time. :)
You might notice a few photos towards the end of the reel full of tote bags. Judy estimates we made over 100 tote bags for Women’s Center & Shelter of Greater Pittsburgh! In fact, we had a visitor at the June meeting who came just to give us her tote! Thank you, Nora! You can read more about the tote drive here. The guild is not collecting totes as a group anymore, but you are always welcome to donate on your own.
Programs:
June 25th is the Kawandi Workshop with Vivian. It is from 1-5pm at the Millvale meeting location. If you didn’t receive the supply list, reach out to Erin at pghmqg.programs@gmail.com Vivian has since clarified to also brings scissors and to press your backing folds to the back.
July is when we introduce the next quarterly challenge and the Q2 Pre-cut challenges are due.
Future programs: July - Color Theory & quilting, August - Skill Builders and Framing Quilt Blocks, September - Sew Day and assembling the charity quilt, October - fabric weaving
Quarterly challenges: Q3 - Limited color palette/due October, Q4 - Block Exchange/due January 2024, Q1 - Temperature Quilts/due April 2024
Sara Goer workshop coming in October - Building An Improv Toolbox
Membership:
The membership year is over as of June 30, 2023. Renewals are due by then. You can pay by cash or check, and you can also mail your payment to the Treasurer at the following address:
Pittsburgh Modern Quilt Guild
PO Box 105
Wexford, PA 15090
President:
The 2023 QC charity quilt will be hung at the Quilt Co East show and it is for sale. The 2024 QC charity quilt programs has some changes, but volunteers are needed to work on a design. (Peggy, Patti, Kathy, Rose, Connie and Cheralee all volunteered at the end of the meeting.) A vote was taken to do the quilt and attempt to make the MQG deadline, but we’re fine if we don’t. It can still be donated locally.
Please consider stepping up to lead next year! Several offices will have met their term limits and an organization is only as good as its volunteers.
Social Media:
Social media had a huge portion of the business part of the meeting. Voting was put forth to move to SquareSpace, a new platform that can also offer a commerce option for processing payments in the future. This first phase is a site that is up to date with an interactive calendar, easy email links and connections to officers, a place to provide member-only content like our roster and biographies, etc. The vote passed unanimously and more research needs to be done before the online payment option is brought back to the guild. A schedule of refreshing the online presence and social media for the guild was also presented with June covering the new site, the reassignment of our Pittsburgh Modern Quilt Guild domain to the new site and backing up the old blog for our archives. As of this post’s writing, those have all been achieved. The password to access the member-only section of the new site was shared in the May email from the president. That password will be good through June 30, 2023. A new password, accessing new updated content will be provided to members who have renewed for the 2023/24 year. All 2022/23 members were also subscribed to the new site. You are free to unsubscribe at any time, however, it will remove the ability to receive notification of additions to the calendar or new posts like this one, etc.
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June’s programming:
We were treated to a Zoom talk by Lyn from www.battingsupersale.com Lyn generously offered a few prizes to both our in-person attendees as well as our Zoom participants. She covered each substrate (cotton, polyester, blends) with information on their quilting distances, their warmth factor, washability, and best applications. It was a great talk and we’re grateful for her time!
*Please see some additions to the calendar, including the Beaver Valley Show, the Dairy Barn in Ohio show, QuiltCon 2024 and a North Pittsburgh Guild lecture in September!
