January Meeting Recap!

Happy New Year Quilters!

Calendar of Events:
The 2nd annual Willamette Valley Quilt Festival will be held on February 1st & 2nd at the Linn County Fair and Expo Center in Albany, Oregon. The hours are from 10am to 5pm, both days. CMQG will have a table and we're looking for members to sign up to help each day. Please contact Pattie, if you'd like to help out!

(edit: this blog post is being posted after the Quilt Festival - big thanks 

to everyone who volunteered at our table this weekend!)

 
We're excited to announce that we'll be hosting a free motion quilt class with Christina Cameli in October - more details (date, cost, location) to come!

The members present at the January meeting also voted YES! to continue with our ABC House quilt drive! This will be our 3rd year donating quilts to ABC House - we'll be collecting them all year to gift to ABC House in December. We love supporting this amazing organization! NOTE: Diana's mom, Florence, has once again graciously offered to quilt ABC House quilts for us! Diana will be taking quilts to her in March - please have your tops + backs to her by the March 13th Meeting.


New Years Goals:
Our January meeting usually centers around our individual goals, plans, quilting/sewing skills we'd like to learn and patterns we hope to accomplish in the coming year. As we went around the table, there were a couple of common themes - finishing projects (UFO's!) and learning/further developing our free motion quilting skills. 

Some other goals were: learning how to quilt on a long arm, cleaning + organizing our craft/sewing spaces, learning needle turn applique, piecing triangle quilts and improv quilting.

Show & Tell:

Caroline shared two table runners and a couple of quilts:

 

Diana shared four pillow covers she's made recently: 
 

Karla has been working on her free-motion skills and shared this great sampler:
 

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Next Meeting: February 14th
Our swap for February will be 10" mini quilts featuring decorative stitches - with a heart theme, of course! It's a chance to try out a few of the many decorative stitches that come with our sewing machines (or get creative with hand stitches, if you prefer). This will be a blind swap - so bring your finished mini in a brown paper bag. As always, feel free to add other little goodies to the bag, if you'd like!