What's New? (In work.)

Join the team to help us organize quilt distribution. 

This is going to be a daunting task, but if we pull together as the "village" that we are, we can do it.  Please click here to add your name to the list of helpers in the coming months. We're looking for this to be a regional guild effort as we collect and sort quilts.  Please sign up yourself and/or your guild to help. 

Resources 

SCCQG Booth at Road to California
Road to California has offered us booth space in the main exhibit hall. We can use that booth space for several purposes.

First, we will collect NEW quilts to go to the Mountain Fire (Camarillo Springs area in November 2024). Patrice Lambourne and her team from the Camarillo Quilt Association will be there to accept your quilt donations for the Mountain Fire victims.  At this time we do not have the resources or storage space to collect quilts for the Eaton and Palisades fires.  We're working on that. It will be several months before they are in a position to choose and accept quilts.  Please be patient.  We will announce a CALL FOR QUILTS soon. 

Second, with the devastating fire damage we have seen this week, there will certainly be many in need of help in the coming weeks and months. Matt Reese has suggested that the Road to California quilting community may be able to help those quilters start to rebuild their sewing supplies. As we shop for ourselves among the vendors at Road, we can also take the opportunity to purchase a few basic sewing items to donate. At this time, we would like to restrict this collection to new items only that are purchased at the show. Better yet, make a donation of $$.  We will work with the vendors at the show to purchase gift certificates to allow those in need to purchase what they need!  

SCCQG Booth Staffing
We still need a few more "booth sitters". 

To facilitate sign-ups we are using a tool called Sign-Up Genius.  Click here to sign up for a shift. Ignore that it's set for EST.  Trying to fix that! When you sign up, note there is an area for comments. Please use the comment section to let us know if you can be available as a backup, if someone cannot work their shift.

SCCQG Disaster Fund

In addition, the Council has a Disaster Fund. In past years, we have been able to make a small donation to guild members who have lost their homes. Toward this effort, we are asking that Member Guilds notify us of any of your members who have lost their homes. To do so, please click here to provide that information. We will collect this information in the coming weeks and hope to have a full list to review at our February board meeting.

Mountain Fire Victims - Call for Quilts

The Camarillo Quilters Association is heading up a project to offer a free, homemade quilt to all persons whose homes were destroyed in the recent MOUNTAIN FIRE 2024 that burned down over two hundred homes in Camarillo, Somis, and Santa Paula.

The guild is requesting new quilts, lap size and bed size, which they will distribute at recovery events coordinated with Ventura County agencies. Please contact Patrice4CQA@yahoo.com for further information. Camarillo Quilters Association, P.O.  Box 347, Camarillo, CA 93011

Several of our Southern California quilt shops have offered to serve as “drop off” locations for your quilt donations. See the list below.  We will update the list of shops as they confirm they will participate. Please spread the word to your membership.

• Cotton and Chocolate, 380 Thousand Oaks Blvd., Thousand Oaks, CA 91360 - 805-371-3042
• Orange Quilt Bee, 628 E. Katella Avenue, Orange, CA 92867 - 714-639-3245
• AAA Sewing and Fabric, 3873 Pacific Coast Highway, Torrance, CA 90503 - 310-257-1744
• The Sew'n'Sew, 160 N. Glendora Avenue E, Glendora, CA 91741 - 626-852-2223
• Sewing Arts, 2306 Corinth Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90064 - 310-450-4300
• The Fabric Shoppe, 642 Las Posas Road, Camarillo, CA 93010 - 805-383-7183
• Fabric Town, 2686 E. Main St., Ventura, CA 93003 - 805-643-3434
• superbuzzy, 1794 E Main St., Ventura, CA 93001 - 805-643-4143
• Quilt Passions, 27001 La Paz Rd, Suite #116, Mission Viejo, CA 92691 - 949-934-1199

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Next SCCQG Quarterly meeting - January 11, 2025 
Our meeting topic in January will be Quilt Guild Money Matters.  We will cover fiscal issues, forms, and documents pertinent to quilt guilds.  This is always a popular meeting and a meeting that all Presidents and Treasurers should attend!  

SCCQG Quarterly meeting - October 12, 2024
“Affordable Alternatives for Guild Programs and Workshops.”
We had a great response to the survey (48 guilds responded).  Their responses provided a treasure trove of ideas.
We recorded the meeting and the links to the Zoom recordings and notes for the meeting are found below in Program Notes. 

Road to California Quilters Conference January 22-25, 2025
Call for Entries SCCQG 2025 Special Exhibit
"Tradition with a Twist"
Find out more information about this special exhibit and the requirements for entries HERE.

Check out the Calendar at the bottom of the Home Page!

Lots of new events posted on the calendar recently.  Check them out!

We're getting back to something like normal.  You can see many more events and quilt shows listed in the calendar.  Is your guild starting to plan an event?  Send your event information to info@sccqg.org for Sandy, our webmaster, so that she can post your information on the Calendar.

Gallery of Guild Opportunity Quilts

Please use the following information to prepare your opportunity quilt photos and information for submission to the Gallery of photos:

• Provide an image file of the quilt (JPG or JPEG or PNG format)
• Please size the image to 300 pxls (pixels) on the largest side of the photo.
• Either in the email forwarding that photo or a separate document, give us the name of the quilt, the size, date of the drawing and other information you wish to provide about the quilt. Provide this in Microsoft Word format.