Renew your membership!

Its that time of the year...  time to renew your membership with the Austin MQG! 

You can renew your membership by clicking on the Membership tab at the top of the blog.  Remember that membership is a TWO PART PROCESS.  First, fill out the registration form.  Second, pay with PayPal!



A few changes to the membership process:

Committees

• While filling out the registration form, it is now required to sign up for your top three committee choices.  The Executive Council and Committee Chairpersons will do their best to appoint you to your top choices. 
• In order to have more involvement with members, membership will require being part of a committee!  You do not have to be active on your committee, although we hope you will be.  Being a member of a committee opens communication between members, Committee Chairpersons, and Executive Council. 

Dues are $40

• This covers the cost to join the Modern Quilt Guild in July and January!  If you attended the April 2013 meeting, this was discussed in detail.  

Payments via PayPal

• As a modern quilt guild, we want to utilize online payments.  No payments in cash or check will be accepted.  You must pay via PayPal. 

Here's to an exciting year!   We can't wait to see you at the next meeting. 

Charity blocks for Boston

 

The Boston Modern Quilt Guild is asking quilters around the globe to send quilt blocks using the colors of the marathon - blue, yellow, gray and white - which will be turned into quilts. With more than 170 injured in the bombings, many face a long journey of rehabilitation ahead while struggling with the emotional element of this tragedy. The Boston MQG's hope is to provide comfort through quilts, and we are all familiar with the power of a quilt, right?

Margaret of Form & Fabric has generously offered to cover the shipping costs to Boston. Please click here read the post on the Boston Modern Quilt Guild to learn about the requirements for each block.

The Boston Guild would like to receive everything by May 24th. This means our we need to ship the week of May 17th. Please contact Margaret Udell or Jessica Pierre'auguste to require about where to mail the blocks, they need to be in the mail to one of these ladies by May 14. Or bring them to the May monthly meeting.

Please comment here if you plan to make blocks so that we have an idea of how many we are expecting. 

Also, please consider adding photos to the flickr group created by the Boston MQG.

May 21 Happy Hour

Fonda San Miguel
2330 W. North Loop
Austin TX 78756

We always have fun when we get together for happy hour, let's meet here at 6:00! Maybe we'll close the place down...oh, wait, this is a north Austin event, they may close at a ridiculous hour. Something like 10 p.m...Or maybe I am just typing up blog posts at a ridiculous hour. I feel like maybe my jokes are not coming across well.

Anyway, food, drinks, quilt-y friends, you should join us, it'll be [insert sewing-related pun here] fun!

May 2013 Monthly Meeting

Austin Modern Quilt Guild Meeting Agenda

6:30pm - 8:30pm • 8 May 2013 • BookPeople 3rd Floor Meeting Room • 603 N Lamar Blvd, Austin, TX 78703

Don't forget that this month's meeting falls on the second Wednesday of the month.
Sign in with Mitzi and the membership committee when you arrive.


GUILD BUSINESS:
1. Weekend Retreats:

• Click here for information about the Wimberley Quilt Ranch.

•  Upcoming Weekend Retreat Dates
  - Friday through Sunday Aug 2-4 & Nov 8-10
  - You can sign up to attend now on the website.
  - You'll pay the retreat cost (facilities fee + processing fee) in full when you sign up: $125

2. Upcoming Elections:

• Executive Council elections take place at the June 13th meeting. 

•  Sign up on the website at austinmodernquiltguild.com to put your name on the ballot before May 15th, when the ballots will be finalized for printing. Otherwise you can be a write-in candidate.

3. Vote: 

• Vote to disregard the length of membership requirement for Executive Council candidates in next month's election.

• Proxy votes must arrive to VP of programming (Claire's house) by no later than 1 day before the meeting or by the time the meeting starts (6:30 p.m.) 

• Check your email for a copy of the proxy form if you can't be at the meeting to vote!

• We will need volunteers to help count votes. 

MEETING EVENTS:

• 10 to 15 minute sewing demos by guild members.

April 24 Happy Hour

Join us for food, drinks and fun at The Driskill Grill.

Happy Hour, 5PM to 7PM

$5 Specialty Cocktails
$3 Domestic Bottle Beer
$5 Classic Cocktails
Half-Price Bar Snacks & Finger Foods

April 2013 Monthly Meeting

6:30pm - 8:30pm • 11 April 2013 • BookPeople 3rd Floor Meeting Room

ARRIVAL ACTIVITIES:
- There is a bag check policy at BookPeople. No large bags or backpacks are allowed past the greet desk. Anything that you'd like to take inside needs to be placed in a shopping basket while your bag stays at the greet desk or in one of the complimentary lockers.
- Sign in with Mitzi and the membership team.

GUILD BUSINESS:
1. Weekend Retreats:
- Weekend retreats are at the Wimberley Quilt Ranch. It's a 45 minute drive from Central Austin.
- Arrive as early as 11:00am on Friday and leave as late as 3:00pm on Sunday.
- Attendees can bring their own food & have coordinated dinners in the past.
- Otherwise you just bring your pillow, machine & sewing supplies.
- There is a large cutting table with mats, 3 ironing stations, & 8 design walls.
- Every sewing station has a large table & a half of workspace.
- You can drive a few miles into town to go to Valli & Kim's and have a lunch before heading back to the house.
- Upcoming Weekend Retreat Dates: Friday through Sunday Aug 2-4 & Nov 8-10
- You can sign up to attend now on the website.
- You'll pay the retreat cost (facilities fee + processing fee) in full when you sign up: $125

MEETING EVENTS:
1. In Depth Presentation on Officer Roles
2. Presentation on Joining the National Modern Quilt Guild
3. Discuss Quilt Sit and See
4. Show and Tell

We hope to see you there in our new meeting space!

Charity Quilts for Ronald McDonald House

For the past few months our guild has been meeting at the Ronald McDonald House Charities of Austin near Dell Children's Medical Center. It has been a great space to meet in, however due to increased membership, our guild felt the need to move to a larger meeting space. To say thank you for the generosity of the RMHC Austin we made these two quilts.

quilt one, front

Using some of the donation blocks from our block swap that was completed last fall, the guild put together two quilts that were donated to the Ronald McDonald House Charities of Austin for their 24th Annual Bandana Ball and Auction.

quilt one, back

A big thank you to Jessica Sloan, owner of the local quilt shop, Remnants:fiber[culture], for donating fabric used in the second quilt and for quilting it.

quilt two, front

quilt two, back

Join the Executive Council!

Would you like to run for an Austin Modern Quilt Guild executive officer position for the 2013-2014 fiscal year? Read more about it here!