Sit And Stitch With The Jersey Shore Modern Quilt Guild

The Jersey Shore Modern Quilt Guild invites sewers of all skill levels to bring their “spools and tools” to its sit-and-stitch fund-raising event on Saturday, November 3, 2018. The event takes place from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Wall Township Municipal Building Community Room located at 2700 Allaire Road, Wall Township, New Jersey.

According to guild member June Mellinger, proceeds from the $35 event registration fee will be used exclusively to support the guild’s charitable projects. Mellinger, a Belmar resident who retired from the sewing industry after 25 years, has been a member of the Jersey Shore Modern Quilt Guild (JSMQG) for over two years.

“Our guild has been involved in helping people in many different ways,” Mellinger says. “We have a very active charity quilt chairwoman who is always on the lookout for people who could benefit from our efforts. Every year, our guild makes one charity quilt to show at the Modern Quilt Guild’s QuiltCon, which requires all the quilts to be donated after the event is over. This year, our quilt was titled ‘Jersey Shore Bird,’ and we will be donating it to a young Marine Corps veteran from Neptune Township who is having a Smart Home built for him by the Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation.”

Over the past several years, the group’s charitable quilting initiatives have also benefited the Valerie Foundation, women undergoing chemotherapy for breast cancer, and dialysis patients at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Members also have sewed portable diaper packs for hurricane victims in Houston, placemats for local Meals on Wheels clients, quilts for the families displaced by the devastating 2017 Ocean Grove apartment fire, homeless shelter residents in Freehold, and even draft dodgers and bandannas for area dog kennels.

JSMQG meets every third Wednesday of the month from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Colts Neck Reformed Church, 139 Route 537 in Colts Neck, New Jersey. Members also gather at the church every second Saturday for sew-in events from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Currently, the group has 18 members from Monmouth County. In addition to Belmar, members of the guild reside in Wall Township, Freehold, Wanamassa, Asbury Park, West Long Branch, Jackson, Colts Neck, and Allenwood.

“Our membership is open to all, and skill levels are not judged,” Mellinger says. “Members and friends bring their favorite project to work on, and new techniques are discussed at each meeting as well. We share and ask advice about what everyone is making. The best part about being in the guild is the camaraderie with folks you never would have met otherwise.”

To register for the November 3 sit-and-stitch event, please click here.

Originally published on the Belmar Beachcomber blog.

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