Our first Monday Meetup!

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Our first meeting will be a Monday Meetup. As described in our intro post, Monday Meetups are your chance to come and chat about all things Modern Quilting. You get to connect with other quilters in the community, as well as having an opportunity to ‘Show and Tell’ some of your current projects. As this is our first meeting, it’s also an opportunity to provide input about what you’d like to get out of the Greater Western Sydney Modern Quilt Guild.

For the first meetup, we’ve booked a private space in The Boardroom at Dooley’s Waterview in Silverwater. This venue will allow us a quiet space to discuss ideas and get the group rolling.

The Details

Monday 20th August, 2012, 7:00pm to 9:00pm
The Board Room at Waterview Dooley’s
Silverwater at the  cnr Clyde Street and Silverwater Road, Silverwater
GWS MQG – Meeting Cost $10*
Dinner, snacks and drinks are available at Dooley’s

About Dooley’s

Waterview Dooley’s is a social club adjacent to parklands on the Parramatta River. Access is free for those who live outside a 5km radius of the venue. If you are within the 5km range, then membership is required but is a low $5.50/year. With membership, you are entitled to a 20% discount on food and beverages. We plan to meet there regularly, so it may be worthwhile to join, if you plan on attending more than one meeting.   Dooley’s serves a wide range of club food. You’re welcome to sit down and enjoy a dinner out with us while we meet!

RSVP

To help us estimate numbers and ensure we have capacity for everyone, we invite you to join our Facebook group and please RSVP at Facebook Event Page. If you don’t Facebook, then please send us an email at gwsmodernquiltguild@gmail.com to RSVP.

Getting There

Waterview Dooley’s is located in Silverwater at the cnr of Clyde St and Silverwater Road.  We know many of you are coming from various parts of the city. We invite you to use the Facebook Group as a way of arranging carpools and ride shares.

What to Bring

Monday meetings are all about the social side of Modern Quilting. Please bring along Show and Tell which may be an ongoing or recently completed project. It doesn’t matter what level of quilter you are, we’d love to see your projects!  For this meeting, the monthly theme is craft books, so please bring along one of your favourites to show off to the group.  You are, of course, welcome to bring along anything else that you are excited about that would appeal to the Modern Quilting Group.

*The Greater Western Sydney Modern Quilt Guild is currently pursuing not-for-profit status. All dues collected will be used to  fund the running costs of the group including venue hire. Final due structure will be announced once our Sunday Sewalong venue is confirmed and we have a better estimation of group numbers.

Welcome to the Sydney Modern Quilt Guild!

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Sydney is a big city! Don’t we all know that!

Did you know that the Sydney urban area actually covers almost 1800 square kilometres? And the population is about 4.5 million people? With that in mind, and with the existing Sydney Modern Quilt Guild concentrating their efforts in the north of the city, Amy and I have been working behind the scenes to set up another Modern Quilt Guild in Sydney.

We present to you the Sydney Modern Quilt Guild!
and north-western suburbs of Sydney, but anyone interested in modern quilting is very welcome to attend!

You might have some questions about what is modern quilting? I cannot answer it any better than the Modern Quilt Guild has already done here! Please go and have a read if you have any queries.  We’ve got some fantastic ideas about how to make the Sydney Modern Quilt Guild a really fun organisation, and I hope you’d like to be a part of it.

Our plan is to have two regular meetings a month:


– Regular monthly meetings on a Monday evening, approximately 2 hours long. We will discuss the ‘business’ side of the guild, and much more interestingly, ‘Show and Tell’ your quilting efforts. This is your chance to come and chat about all things Modern Quilting. To spice up the conversation, we’ll have monthly themes and encourage you to bring along items that fit the theme. For example, “Show us your favourite craft book” or “Show us a handy craft tool”.


– Regular monthly meetings on a Sunday where we just sew, sew, sew. Bring along your machine, your hand stitching or your quilting and enjoy some dedicated sewing time amongst like minded quilters.

Where are we going to meet? It’s a good question. Sydney is big. We have concentrated our efforts around the geographical heart of Sydney, in an area that provides reasonably easy access from all the western suburbs.

I am still trying to secure a suitable venue for the Sunday Sewalong, but whilst I do that, we will start our Monday Meetups shortly!

Leave us a comment if you have any questions, and we’ll reply in the comments, so make sure you come back and check!