Notice of Annual General Meeting
Our Annual General Meeting will be held at our next guild meeting on Monday, December 16th. 

Vancouver Modern Quilt Guild
(registered as Metro Vancouver Modern Quilt Guild)

Monday, December 16, 2024
Doors open at 6:30pm, meeting begins at 7:00pm
Unitarian Church, 949 W. 49th Ave.

Agenda

• Welcome
  • Recognize a quorum
  • Call meeting to order
  • Approve agenda
  • Approve minutes of 2022 AGM
• Report of the executive
  • President
  • Membership
  • Program committee
  • Communication/Social
• Treasurer’s Report
  • Review of financial statements
  • Notice of approval of bank statements
  • Overview
• Thank you to executive who are stepping down
• Election/acclamation of incoming executive
• New business
• Adjournment

Would you like to help shape the future of our Guild? Do you have ideas or suggestions about what our Guild could do in the coming year(s)? Do you want to connect with other members? Do you have a skill to share? Our guild needs you! 

UPDATE: Only two roles are available: Education and Secretary. Consider sharing the role with another member—that makes it twice as nice since you will partner with another member as you both share the role. You can find more information about Executive role descriptions on our website, under the About tab, or click here.

The new Executive changes over at the AGM meeting in December. If you’d like to step up and volunteer, or if you have any questions, please reach out to any exec member at the upcoming meeting or email us at executive@vancouvermodernquiltguild.ca

Our first-ever Mini Retreat is sold out! Thanks to everyone who successfully registered, we're looking forward to a fun weekend of sewing and sewcializing!

Will there be another mini retreat? 
This is the first time we’re holding a mini retreat in the city for a small group of VMQG members (14 people, two days, no sleep-overs). If our mini retreat is a success, we’ll look into running it again. If you have a suggestion for a location for a future mini retreat, such as a community room, please let us know.

If you have any questions or suggestions, please email Liz Young at treasurer@vancouvermodernquiltguild.ca

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Who doesn’t love a good modern-fashioned swap?! Here’s your opportunity to get in on one. We’re gearing up for the December meeting and organizing a modern pouch swap, read on for the details…

Design, size, and fabric is up to you, please make it modern. Since it’s holiday time, we thought it’d be nice to include a little bonus—a small sewing notion, valued at no more than $10, such as a package of needles, a spool of thread or a stitch ripper. If you don’t want to buy anything—that’s totally fine—make something out of your scraps, like a mug rug or pin cushion, and pop that into the pouch. Swap will be done randomly. Gift wrapping the pouch is optional.

We’ll have VMQG modern pouch swap labels available for those who are participating in the swap, you can pick one up at our November meeting, or make your own label. Details in the sign-up form. TIP: iron or sew the label onto a pocket and sew that to the inside of your pouch.

Don’t wait,  sign up here  (shortest form ever!)

Here’s some inspiration and free patterns
How to Sew a Zipper Pouch: 50 Free Patterns for Every Skill Level 
photos: SewCanShe.com

December Block Lotto—My Town

This month’s block(s), My Town, by Material Girl Quilts is another pattern to use up some of those scraps that accumulate. Make your house using bright, modern prints with a cream background, and sew a colourful tree as well. Pattern is available for free download at Material Girl Quilts.

Block measures 5.5" x 7" unfinished
Quilt photos by Material Girl Quilts

 Block Instructions 

🧡 Block Lotto Bonus
One ticket will be provided for each house or tree block. If you submit both a house and a tree block you will receive 3 tickets.

The mountains are calling and I must sew!
Are you interested in attending a modern quilting retreat this spring? Retreats can be loads of inspiring fun, especially with fellow modern quilters from the Lower Mainland and Interior.

Modern Quilting Mountain Retreat
Thursday, April 10 to Sunday, April 13
Manning Park Resort

Cost per person: $480-$600 (includes resort accommodation, 9 buffet meals, secure group quilting space, and access to resort amenities.) Double and single rooms are available in premium cabins.

How to register: Deposits will likely be $50 (to be confirmed) and are due before December 13. Email me to let me know you’re interested and whether you’d like a single or double room.

Please email me if you have any questions.

Thank you,
Sandra Smith
modernquiltingmountainretreat@gmail.com

This retreat is not a VMQG event. It’s hosted by Sandra Smith who atteneded our retreat last April. We’d like to support modern quilting events by including her invitation in our newsletter.

👉 Reminders 
 

Show ’n Share Photos: Send us your quilt pics, we’ll post them on our IG. Email photos@vancouvermodernquiltguild.ca

Round Robin: Make sure to bring your Round Robin bag to trade with the next person.

Sew Good Quilts: If you have any quilt tops, backs or finished quilts to return to Megan, please bring them to the meeting or get in touch by email.
sewgoodquilts@vancouvermodernquiltguild.ca