STLMQG August Meeting 2025 Presentation.pdf

Octavia (president) opened the meeting at 10:03 on 8/9/2025. 

The account balance as of 6/30/25 is $24,726.61. Financials are posted on the website Here. (https://www.stlmqg.org/2025)

Membership: 197 members

Guild Business:

• Quit Con Registration

• • Quilt submission 9/1-10/31

  • Class registration 8/20 at 9am

  • Make sure your Modern Quilt Guild log in works to sign up for classes

• 25% off Longarming with Trace Creek Quilting through August

• • Need to submit quilt to the business before end of month

• Art Elements Quilt Show

• • Quilt submission 7/12-10/16

• Quilted Soiree- Sign up here

• BOM 2026 - Year of doubles

• Board Candidates

Announcements

• Artist’s Statements with Art Quilters

• Volunteers Needed for November meeting

• STL Trans Quilt Project on display at PRIDE fest in Tower Grove

• City Sewing Room FREE books/patterns 

STL MQG schedule: 

• August 20: Hand Stitchers 

• August 23: Virtual Sew 

• August 26: Hand Sew Happy Hour 

• September 2: Art Quilt Meeting (discussing artists statements)

• September 3: Hand Stitchers at Buder Library

• September 13: Regular Meeting 

• October 10-12: SEW ME 

• No October meeting

Block Lotto for 16-Patch Star:

• Solid white background 

• Solid guild logo colors for points

• Guild logo colors for centers, prints are fine

• 6in or 12 in

Guidelines are on the website Here 

Committee Announcements: 

Sew Me Committee: October 10-12

• Retreat registration closes 8/13/25

• • Friday and Saturday are wait-listed

  • Spaces will open up if members cancel

  • Sunday is open 

• Payment is due by 8/13/25

• • If not paid on time, your reservation will be cancelled

• You will be notified if additional hotel rooms open up

• Volunteers are needed (sign up through 9/15)

• • Please sign up through sign-up genius

  • We still need help on Friday, Saturday and with Sunday clean-up

  • Raffle items will also be accepted at September meeting 

  • Check website for Sew Me 2025 room raffle

MQG’s Community Challenge Quilt

• Goal: For guild members to work together to make a quilt that will be given/donated/raffled to support a local charity. 

• Challenge: Each year guilds are given a theme and a color pallet to use. 80 of the resulting quilts are displayed at quilt con

• Theme: Medallion Quilt

• Our design: A minimalist, modified medallion with improvisationally pieced blocks

• See slideshow for instructions. 108 blocks

• Return at September meeting or Sew Me. Must be in the committee’s hands by October 10th. 

• If mailing, mail to address on envelope.

• Contact Leila at September meeting or SewMe with questions

• See video here for tips on inserting strips. 

Swap: Stripes

• Challenge: Stripe It! 

• Due: November 8th, 2025

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

• Top must be finished but it doesn’t have to be quilted/finished

• It can be a quilt, wall hanging, apparel, etc as long as it reads s-t-r-i-p-e-s.

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

• Look at pinterest or online for stripes ideas 

Swap: Favorite Things

• Due November 8th

• Place items in a brown paper bag

• Consider things that you like to have near you while sewing

• NOT to exceed $10.00

• This may require some creative thinking, but we want you to have fun with it!

• Put your name in the bag

Charity Committee

• Congrats to August winners of the Longarm contest! Ann Philiph, Irene Kattner-Stuhrenberg, and Marie Hill

• If you didn’t win, you can submit again for the next contest

• Thank you to Dotty Vaughn, Debbie Bouquet, and Lilo Whitener-Fey

• Epworth was THRILLED with the donations. “She is looking forward to September meeting. Also, the kids absolutely looooove the quilts. We only had enough for half of the boys dorm and we definitely need more boy quilts.” It's wonderful to give these kids a quilt hug. 

• A spokesperson here from Epworth Family Services will be at the September meeting.

• Quilts due Nov 8th.

• Post your quilts on instagram and tag the guild @stlmqg 

• Throws or twins for 11-19 year olds. No baby quilts. No specific length requirements. 

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

To be continued with August 9th, 2025 Meeting Recap Part 2 post.