STL MQG March 2025.pdf

Octavia (president) opened the meeting at 10:04 on 3/8/2025. 

The account balance as of 1/31/25 is $18,640.98. Financials are posted on the website. 

Guild Business:

• Spam alert: emails pretending to be from board. Do not click on links. 

• Identifying QuiltCon attendees from guild photo

• Calendar update. We are meeting in May, but we are not meeting in June. Website will be updated soon. 

• Volunteers for LitShop quilt. The youth in this program have made blocks from their perspectives on the world today and we need volunteers to help put the quilt together to give a finished quilt to them. Contact Octavia (president@stlmqg.org) to assist.  

Kitty Wilkin is coming to visit May 30-June 1. 

• Friday lecture is free for members. 

• Saturday workshop- From Watercolor to Quilt

• Sunday workshop- Improv Mountains

• Registrations to open soon.

STL MQG schedule: 

• Handstitchers on 1st and 3rd Wednesday at Buder Library 

• March 13th: History Museum Event

• March 16th: Bits and Pieces Quilt show meet up

• March 22nd: Virtual Sew

• April 1st: Art Quilters meeting (Every first Tuesday via zoom)

• April 12th: Regular Meeting

Block Lotto for April: Bitty Blocks

• Focus: tiny piecing, community, tradition meets modern, scale

• Low volume background

• Bright, bold prints/ blenders for image; smaller scale will work best

• Small blocks

Guidelines are on the website Here

Committee Announcements: 

Swap & Challenge

• Challenge: Stripe It! 

• Due: November 8th, 2025

• Focus: Stripes. Make stripes with fabric, used striped fabric, the PRIMARY focus must be stripes. 

• There will be monetary awards for 1st-3rd and participation prizes.

• Pincushion Swap due at April 12th meeting. 

• Put your name and your pincushion in a brown paper bag

Social

• Social Meet up at Bits and Pieces quilt show on March 16th. Social committee will be out front at 11am.

• 15th anniversary party in July. Members only meeting. We will have a raffle. 

• • Members will donate items in May and you will receive tickets to use for the raffle. 

  • Bring modern, new, unused, gently used books, bundled smaller items. 

  • Ticket guidelines on slideshow

Charity Committee

• Laura Patterson and Teresa Grumke are co-chairs. 

• This year will be Epworth family services. This organization supports foster children ages 11-19.

• Twin size and throw size quilts for youth. No specific length requirements.

• Due November meeting 11/8/2025.

• Charity Committee has a package of charity labels that can be placed on quilts. “STLmqg cares”

History Event

• Tess McMahon on “Fabric of History: St. Louis Women & Textiles” at the Missouri History Museum on March 13th from 5-8pm.

• Tess will be at the event representing STLmqg.

• 3 presentations 

• Kristen will be there demonstrating quilt repair.

All Women Honor Flight in June

• They are collecting all red, white, and blue quilts. They need 50 quilts by May. 

• Requirements: 36x36 inches for the laps of the veterans. Needs to be cotton quilts, finished, and with a binding. Can be print, solid, any any combination of fabrics as long as they are red, white, and blue. 

• Contact is Tess McMahon 

St. Louis Cardinals Call

• A marketing team is interested in creating a quilting event at the ballpark.

• Please provide any thoughts on this event to Octavia (president@stlmqg.org).

AI and Quilting by Annamaria Lu

• Generative AI

• Discussed fabric and quilt patterns generated by AI 

• Chat GPT, DALL-E, and quilting math

• Ethics of AI use: Environmental Impact, Energy Generation

• Bias and AI results

• Pattern mills vs person made patterns

• Copy right material used and legal challenges

Show and Share! 

Attendance Prizes

CrossHatch Block Lotto Winners: Annamaria Lu, Marie Hill, Sheila Acuncius 

Fabric raffle Winner: Jami Howell 

Huge thank you to Cotton Cuts for your donation!

Meeting Closed at 12:00pm

We hope to see you at our next meeting on April 12th. Until then, happy quilting!

Ander Weis (VP)