Tampa Modern Quilt Guild
August 9, 2014
In attendance: Ellen,
Sandy, Anita, Sara, Carol, Adele, and Ellen S.
Guests: Pattie
French, Lola Bolton, and Dianne Tanella
Our Tampa MQG flyers are on Facebook, so you can download
and print to take to any quilt shop that Ellen hasn’t already. Flyers are at Crafty Threads, Happy Apple
Quilts, Keep Me In Stitches Carrollwood, Scrap and Sew. Happy Apple is providing a 10% discount with
your membership card.
Our September meeting will be at Dali Museum. We will have a pixel challenge following this
meeting. Arrive at 10AM, have lunch
either at the Museum or somewhere around it, and have our Sew & Share at
lunch.
Quilt CON has 3 challenges:
- Panasonic
Bias Tape Appliqué. Minimum size is
36 inches square. You must make
your own bias tape.
- Michael
Miller Spring Cotton Couture. You sign up as an individual online with the
national MQG and they send you the
featured fabrics. Any fabrics you
add must be MM from Spring Cotton Couture or any of its solids. National is saying, only request the
fabric if you plan to create and enter the challenge.
- Local
group challenge, to create a Charity Quilt using the colors of the MQG
logo, with white and grey. A file
is posted on our facebook page containing color references to use. We will be making either 12 inch or 6
inch finished blocks, using an alternate grid work pattern. Bring to the October meeting, and we
will then design our quilt from our blocks, collectively put it together,
and have someone take it home to quilt.
At the November meeting, we will bind it and ready to be sent off
to Austin for the Quilt CON in February.
October meeting is our swap meeting, to bring in
quilting/sewing supplies we no longer use and can swap with others.
November meeting we will collect our Linus Quilts.
Block of the Month.
Everyone brought in the economy blocks for Katie. Next block is for Sandy. She demonstrated how to make the disappearing
hourglass block. She provided the “I Like
You” 10 inch fabric square for the background, and you complete it with a
bright or novelty fabric.
Demos:
Ellen showed her cook book holder that she uses to keep
quilt books open. It is cheaper than
having your books cut and spiral bound.
Adele showed her paper piecing with freezer paper. Fascinating, that you don’t sew on the line,
you fold the freezer paper and sew next to the fold, after you are done, you
just lift off the freezer paper and use it again.
Show & Tell
Anita: Tessellating
stars
Ellen S: Citrus
sunshine strip ‘n flip; 18 inch origami bag; grey strips pillow in process
Adele: little
bag/pouch
Sandy: baby quilts
for neonatal unit that VanDyke Quilters make; hexie eye spy quilt