May 2017 Instagram Challenge Requirements

May 2017 Challenge Requirements (Read our original post about this challenge for the complete set of rules and more details about this year-long challenge.)

• The May Challenge topic is ZIPPERS!
• Minimum of three separate Instagram posts (one photo per post).
• Sew a NEW project that includes the insertion of a sewn-in zipper.
• Deadline: Post photos of your inspiration/materials, project progress, and finished project by Friday, June 9.
• Bring your finished project to the Sunday, June 11 CLMQG meeting.
• You may start posting photos now.

Each May challenge post must include the following elements in the photo caption:

• @crystallakemqg
• #clmqgigchallengemay
• At least two other relevant hashtags (no spaces and no special characters are allowed within the body of IG hashtags)

Additional Info:  

• CLMQG has a Pinterest account with a board titled "Zipper Fun" where you can find project ideas and links to zipper tutorials. (You do not need a Pinterest account to view this idea board.)
• Remember to add relevant info to your photo captions.  The more information you can provide, the more interested people will be in your photos!
• Be extra mindful when typing your hashtags and "@crystallakemqg".  If these are not correctly typed your photo(s) will not qualify for challenge prizes.
• Use a space before and after each @ or # string.  Don't put spaces within the @ or # string of characters. 
• You must be present at time of drawings to win prizes.
• If you complete the month's challenge requirements but are unable to attend the meeting, you will still receive your qualification button for that month but will not be entered in the monthly prize drawing.

How will you know if your photos qualify for the challenge?

• Thumbs Up emoji comment from CLMQG tells you photo meets requirements.
• Gold Star emoji comment from CLMQG means you have qualified that month with 3 correct photos

*** View all slides from the May 21, 2017 meeting Powerpoint presentation here.

May 21, 2017 Meeting Reminder

Sunday, May 21 is our next meeting and program

at the Home State Bank Commercial Banking Center (see map on the right sidebar.)

The meeting starts at 10:30am and concludes at noon.

The workshop begins promptly at noon and concludes at 4:00pm.

May Monthly Meeting Highlights:

• Executive Board Elections
• May Instagram Challenge Theme and rules announcement
• Show and Tell & Monthly prize drawing for April Instagram Challenge participants
• Show and Tell
• Secret Pal gifts
• Door Prize Drawing
• Barn Quilt Painting Workshop (See Supply List below)
• ** Space is limited so only CLMQG members who have registered via the April 15 Evite email may participate in this lecture and workshop.

What you need to bring for the meeting:

• Items from your April Instagram Challenge photos (if participating)
• Show and Tell - bring your modern quilted items to share
• Secret Pal gifts (if participating)
• Donation Quilts - Bring any newly completed comfort quilts for Gavers Breast Care Center. Please remember to include a CLMQG label on the back of your quilt.
• Snacks (if you signed up to bring this month)
• Nametag
• $40 cash or check Workshop Fee (if participating)

Barn Quilt Painting Workshop Supply List:

• $40 cash or check
• painter's tape (recommend .94 inch green Frog brand)
• yardstick
• pencil
• hair dryer with extension cords to reach the tables (1 hair dryer per 4 people)
• Choose your Barn Quilt design BEFORE THE WORKSHOP from the options shown below.  Colors shown are just examples; you will be able to choose your colors. If you have a different pattern in mind, please draw it on a letter sized sheet of paper and bring it with you (but keep it simple - for example NO Mariner's Compass) and be ready to draw it onto your 24-inch square board.

CLMQG Book Club

The new, very informal CLMQG Book Club was announced at our April 9 meeting, and it's not at all like a traditional book club.  Long story short: CLMQG members offer a book they have read and recommend, and other CLMQG members can sign up to read it and then pass it on to the next person who signed up to read it.  But the really fun part is each reader gets 3 new fat quarters that relate to the book!  

Read on for all the details!

CLMQG BOOK CLUB RULES

• Any CLMQG member can sign up to read a book - you do not have to offer a book to participate.
• Sign up for a book you are interested in reading (max 10 people on list).
• Post a photo to Instagram (#clmqgbookclub @crystallakemqg) when the book comes to you.  You’ve got until the next meeting – approximately 30 days - to read it.
• Keep the 3 FQs included with the book when you receive it.
• After reading, provide 3 new, quilt shop quality FQs to include for the next reader - fabrics that remind you of the story, setting, or characters – they don’t have to be a literal representation of the story.
• Post a photo of the book and FQs before passing it on to the next reader at the next CLMQG meeting.  If you cannot attend PLEASE find a friend to bring it on your behalf - others are waiting in line to read it!
• At the end of the reader list, the book comes back to the owner with 3 new FQs from the last reader.
• No one is policing this – please stick to the rules and hold up your end of the bargain.  If you cannot read the book within 30 days when it comes to you, please be honest and pass it to the next reader.
• While a book is in your care, please treat it with the same respect you would if it were your own book :)

HOW TO OFFER A NEW BOOK TO MEMBERS

• Choose a book you have read and enjoyed.  Choose 3 quilt shop quality FQs that remind you of the story (the setting, characters, time period, storyline, etc) to include with the book.
• Don’t choose a book that you will be upset about if it is lost/stolen/damaged.  Life happens – water splashes, wine and coffee spill, pages get dog-eared :)
• Put your name and email address in the front cover.
• Tape in a paper explaining the rules (available at CLMQG meetings and listed below).
• Post a photo of the book and FQs to Instagram telling members you are offering the book to readers.  Ask them to comment if they wish to be added to the reader list.  Start the list and cap it at 10 readers.  Or present it at a CLMQG monthly meeting.
• Tape the reader list into the back cover including email addresses.
• Keep a copy of the reader list.
• If there are 10 people on the reader list, you should expect to receive the book back in approximately one year.
• There may or may not be a full reader list when you start the book.  More people will probably sign up when they hear others talking about the book and see the fun FQs in photos.
• You are not required to offer a book in order to request another book.
• This is all completely voluntary.  Please adhere to the honor system when a book is in your care.

There are currently two books in circulation, and both have sign-up spots available.  You can sign up to read either (or both) at our May 21 meeting :)

** This book club format is based on the Instagram #quiltersbookpassport book club.  Thanks Monica @buttoncounter for the inspiration!!

April 9, 2017 Meeting Minutes

1. Committee Updates: 

• Bees: The bee did not officially meet this month, although they went to International Quilt Festival on Thursday.
• Snacks: Darlene has sign-ups to bring snacks to the May and June meetings.
• Donation Quilts: Mary brought seven quilts to Gavers this month. If you do not like a block that you made for an Instagram challenge, you can give it to Mary and she will assemble these blocks into a quilt for Gavers. Please remember to attach a CLMQG label to your donation quilt before you give it to Mary. She has the labels and the “in kind” donation forms for tax purposes. Quilts for Gavers should be a lap-quilt size, minimum of 50 X 60”. 
• Retreat: Vikki will be sending out an email to the members who are going to the retreat with an agenda. Check-in is at 1:00 Thursday.

2. Upcoming Meetings:

• May 21: 10:30 am – 4 pm: Barn Quilt Workshop: Kit fee of $40, you must sign up through the Evite that was recently sent; Board elections

1. 10:30 – 11:15: Regular meeting
2. 11:15 – noon: Social/Lunch
3. Noon – 4: Workshop

• June 11: 1 – 4 pm: Zentangle workshop with Maryanne Olsen
• July 9: 11 am – 4 pm: Summer Social

3.  Other Business:  

• Thank you to those who filled out the 2017 Survey.
• CLMQG Book Club: New this month. Members can offer a book and three fat quarters related to the story for other members to read and pass with three new FQs. Any member can sign up to read an offered book.  You'll have one month to read the book then pass it and the three new FQs to the next member on the list at the following CLMQG meeting. If you have read a book but will not be at the next meeting, please find a friend to bring the book and FQs so the next person on the list can read it. You are also encouraged to post a photo of the book and your fabric choices on Instagram with the hashtag #CLMQGbookclub before passing it on. Shelley offered two books this month.  A blog post about this new program will be published here soon.

4. Instagram Challenge: Instagram Show and Tell with buttons given to all participants who correctly finished the March challenge. The monthly prize was drawn. For the April challenge, members must post three photos in three separate Instagram posts of a project they have repurposed. Photos must be posted by May 19. This completed project must be brought to the May meeting to qualify for the prize. See this post for all the details.

5. Door prize

6. Show and Tell

7. Secret Pals gifts handed out

8. Break

9. Suzy Quilts Trunk Show

April 2017 Instagram Challenge Requirements

April 2017 Challenge Requirements (Read our original post about this challenge for the complete set of rules and more details about this year-long challenge.)

• The April Challenge topic is Repurposing!
• Minimum of three separate Instagram posts (one photo per post).
• Use Fabric AND at least one other material that is not textile related (such as wood, metal, glass, leather, ceramic) to create an entirely new object with a completely different purpose than the components.
• Deadline: Post photos of your inspiration/materials, project progress, and finished project by Friday, May 19.
• Bring your finished project to the Sunday, May 21 CLMQG meeting.
• You may start posting photos now.

Each April challenge post must include the following elements in the photo caption:

• @crystallakemqg
• #clmqgigchallengeapril
• At least two other relevant hashtags (no spaces and no special characters are allowed within the body of IG hashtags)

Additional Info:

• The slides presented at the April 9 meeting contain examples of projects that qualify, and you can view those slides here.  
• CLMQG also has a new Pinterest account with a board titled "CLMQG Repurpose Ideas" where you can find additional inspiration. (You do not need a Pinterest account to view this idea board.)
• Remember to add relevant info to your photo captions.  The more information you can provide, the more interested people will be in your photos!
• Be extra mindful when typing your hashtags and "@crystallakemqg".  If these are not correctly typed your photo(s) will not qualify for challenge prizes.
• Use a space before and after each @ or # string.  Don't put spaces within the @ or # string of characters. 
• You must be present at time of drawings to win prizes.
• If you complete the month's challenge requirements but are unable to attend the meeting, you will still receive your qualification button for that month but will not be entered in the monthly prize drawing.

How will you know if your photos qualify for the challenge?

• Thumbs Up emoji comment from CLMQG tells you photo meets requirements.
• Gold Star emoji comment from CLMQG means you have qualified that month with 3 correct photos

*** View all slides from the April 9, 2017 meeting Powerpoint presentation here.

April 9, 2017 Meeting Reminder

Sunday, April 9 is our next meeting and program

at the Home State Bank Commercial Banking Center (see map on the right sidebar.)

The meeting starts at 1:00pm and concludes at 4:00pm.

April Monthly Meeting Highlights:

• Executive Board Nominations
• April Instagram Challenge Theme and rules announcement
• Show and Tell & Monthly prize drawing for March Instagram Challenge participants
• Show and Tell
• Secret Pal gifts
• Door Prize Drawing
• Suzy Quilts Trunk Show

What you need to bring for the meeting:

• Graph and Quilt Block from your March Instagram Challenge photos (if participating)
• Show and Tell - bring your modern quilted items to share
• Secret Pal gifts (if participating)
• Donation Quilts - Bring any newly completed comfort quilts for Gavers Breast Care Center. Please remember to include a CLMQG label on the back of your quilt.
• Snacks (if you signed up to bring this month)
• $$ for Suzy Quilts pattern vending
• Nametag

March 19, 2017 Meeting Minutes

1. Committee Updates: 

• Bees: The bee met this week to work on projects.
• Snacks: Darlene asked that if you are signed up to bring snacks and you find out you cannot do it, please ask a friend from guild if they can bring the snacks. Today’s meeting was the 3rd or 4th time that Darlene has gotten an email the night before our meeting saying that someone who volunteered to bring snacks would not be at the meeting. 

2. Upcoming Meetings:

• April 9: 1 – 4 pm: Suzy Quilts ~ Trunk show & vending ~ follow Suzy on Instagram: @suzyquilts
• May 21: 10:30 am – 4 pm: Barn Quilt Workshop: Kit fee of $40, you must sign up through the Evite that will be coming; Board elections
• June 11: Time TBD: Zentangle workshop with Maryanne Olsen

3.  Other Business:  

• 2017 Survey link is on the website. Your answers to the questions will help the Executive Board plan for future meetings.
• Retreat money is due March 27th 
• International Quilt Festival in Rosemont: April 6 – 8 

4. Instagram Challenge: 

• Instagram Show and Tell with buttons given to all participants who correctly finished the February challenge. 
• The monthly prize was drawn, and Cari G was the winner.
• March Challenge: members must post three photos in three separate Instagram posts of a block they have resized using graph paper. Photos must be posted by April 7. This completed block and your graph paper drawing must be brought to the April meeting to qualify for the prize. See this post for all the details.

5. Door prize - winner Sharon T.

6. Show and Tell

7. Secret Pals gifts handed out

8. Break

9. Catherine Redford ~ Lecture, Workshop: Walking Foot Quilting, and Vending

** Catherine wrote a lovely blog post about her visit to our guild; you should read it!