Officers

If you haven't been keeping up with all the talk going on over at flickr, we are officially going official by officializing our officialism... officially. Get it? GOOD!

What I'm trying to say is that we are electing officers for our guild. At our meeting on Sunday, we decided to keep it simple and just have a position for President, Social Media crew, and Special Events officer. Each position could have a term of one year, with elections every March.

The President would just be... president. Overseeing it all, helping where needed, and keeping communication with "the mothership". We could also make this a President/Vice President team if there was interest.

The Social Media crew would be in charge of the blog, flickr, and facebook. Making everything pretty and keeping regular updates.

The Special Events officer would be in charge of swaps, get-togethers that aren't the sew-in, and any kind of excuse for a celebration, etc etc.

So now is the time to accept nominations and volunteers for each of these positions. Who's in? Let the campaigning begin! A discussion has been started over on flickr HERE. Come join the fun!

New Year, Same Schedule.

Happy 2012, San Diego quilters! The schedule for our sew-ins at Quilters Paradise are officially booked for the new year, so I thought I would share the info with you. We will be keeping it the same with meetings on the 3rd Sunday of every month, 11-3pm, in the big room. Mark those fresh new calendars...

2012 Meetings

1/15

2/19

3/18

4/15

5/20

6/17

7/15

8/19

9/16

10/21

11/18

12/16

Our January meeting is actually in the smaller room this month, but we still managed to fit nicely last time. I hope to see everyone there this Sunday!

If you have never been to a meeting/sew-in before, COME ON BY! All levels of quilters, sewers, and/or fabric enthusiasts are welcome. Our little group is meant to be a place for non-traditional quilters to connect and create. We would love to chat and sew with you.

1. Rainbow Quilt, 2. Random Vector quilt top, 3. For Noelle , 4. Finished Basketcase Quilt top, 5. IMG_5781, 6. Pretty Pinwheels (Close Up), 7. Star struck, 8. photo 3.JPG, 9. Finished quilt!, 10. Barcode Quilt in sunlight, 11. Wedding quilt for Becky and Andy, 12. SophieQuilt1, 13. "Seeing Squares" Quilt, 14. Untitled, 15. Beach Glass Quilt, 16. Baby Quilt for Anne

P.S. Happy 1st Birthday, SDMQG!

Dec 18 Pot-luck Sew-in Bash...

Be sure to check on Flickr to sign up for the pot-luck at our next gathering on Sun., Dec. 18th. Salads, finger foods... and a few paper supplies... Looking forward to a great time, hope to see everyone there.

December 18th "Pot-holder Swap"...

Yep, it's true, we will be having a "Pot-holder Swap" at our Dec. 18th meeting.  Between now and then make a quilted pot-holder and bring it on Dec. 18th.  We thought that non-holiday fabric would allow us to enjoy the pot-holder throughout the year.  So pick some of your favorite modern colors and go to town.  Two layers of Insul-Bright for the batting should work nicely, making sure that the "shinier" metal looking side faces out on each side... (Only $3.99/yd at Beverly's and you can use a 40% off coupon on it).  Pick your shape; square, round, hexigon...
We'll lay them out, draw numbers and whoever goes last of course gets her pick from them all...

PS - I'm sure you won't be able to make just one

October 16th Meeting

Guild Labels, a photo by shanleytulip on Flickr.

It was another great day for sewing in San Diego. Susan printed up some labels using the same graphics as the business cards that Amanda whipped up for us. The labels can be used to attach to our donation quilts. There was a little fading after one wash but what a great idea!

We had a little show and tell as usual and a couple of the pictures are up on Flickr, there is a link on the right side of this blog.

Pam also asked if we would be interested in doing a potholder swap so stay tuned for the official announcement!