South Florida Modern Quilt Guild: October Meeting Recap!

Happy November! We had a fun-filled October meeting and planned for the months ahead. Here is a quick recap of the October meeting:

1. We officially donated the beautiful finished paper-pieced chicken block quilt and hedgehog Round Robin quilt to Project Linus!

3. We are starting up another Round Robin quilt...stay tuned for the next iteration of the quilt project!

4. We admired the great quilt blocks that folks made for our group quilt. We have a lot of great blocks, and some of our brave members have been busy turning the blocks into a quilt, which should be ready by next meeting. We hope to enter the group quilt into QuiltCon and/or the Broward quilt show.

Just some of the blocks...wow!

Lots o' blocks!

5. We enjoyed checking out the Bee blocks for October. Bee members were asked to make "X and + Blocks" in blues and greens. They look incredible together, and we can't wait to see the finished quilt! You can find the tutorial HERE.

6. We had Helia, a wonderfully talented longarm quilter, discuss her work and the longarm quilting process. It was incredibly informative and fun, and Helia was a great speaker!

7. Quilt News and Events:
--The Boca Raton Museum of Art is still hosting a show called "Politics Not as Usual: Quilts with Something to Say." If you haven't had a chance to see the exhibit, don't miss out on this wonderful event!

--The New York Metro Mod Quilters, eQuilter and Bumble Beans are requesting quilts for Hurricane Sandy victims. Click HERE for more information about how to donate quilts.
--Quiltcon (the Modern Quilt Guild's first convention) will be hosting a quilt show in February.
--The Mancuso World Quilt Show will be held in West Palm Beach from November 8th through 10th. It is a great event, with lots of beautiful quilts and vendors. The Gold Coast Quilters Guild is also having a special "red and white" mini-show at the event!

8. We discussed the ongoing Pinterest board for the South Florida Modern Quilt Guild, which you can find here: http://pinterest.com/patchworkduck/south-florida-modern-quilt-guild-projects-and-insp/

9. For our "Things to Bring" for the November meeting, members are requested to make something appropriate for the Thanksgiving table, which we are swapping with other members. This can be a trivet, table runner, bread basket, napkin ring set, coasters, etc. Let your imagination guide you! For our "Things to Bring" for the December meeting, we will be making sets of four coasters (in any pattern you like) for swapping.

10. As another November event, we are having a talented quilter speak to us regarding the ins and outs of quilt labels! Come for an interesting discussion and think of questions you might have regarding labels!
Show-and-tell: As a final wrap-up, here are some great October show and tell photos!