Our September Block Workshop

Are you excited for our September Block Workshop yet? For the month of September, rather than having a standard meeting, we'll be working on mastering the improvisational stitch-and-flip technique to create beautiful interlocking wonky stars for a charity quilt, and we now have some gorgeous fabrics to do it with, thanks to Dear Stella Design!

If you are interested in bringing your own fabrics, you're welcome to work on blocks for yourself as well. For your own fabrics, plan to bring 3 1/2" squares of your background fabric, 3 1/2" squares for your star centers, and various 3 1/2" wide rectangles ranging in size from 2" to 5" tall for your star points. I will bring precut fabric for us to work with during the workshop to maximize our sewing time.

Please be sure to also bring your sewing machine, thread, as well as a handy pair of fabric scissors and a rotary cutter.

And don't forget about the current guild challenge: the Name Tag Challenge! Bring your finished nametags to our September Block Workshop for a chance to win a prize :)

The Block Workshop will be held on September 15th at the Jimmie B. Keel Library from 1:30 to 4:30 in the afternoon, in the Community Room, which is at the front of the library, prior to entering the main library. Please be sure to RSVP by commenting here on this post or within the Facebook group. See you there!

Our September Meeting

Mark your calendar! We'll be meeting next on September 15th at 1:30pm at the Jimmie B. Keel Library, in the Community Room at the front of the library. This meeting is a block workshop, where Elizabeth will teach the improvisational stitch-and-flip technique used to create interlocking wonky star blocks. Plan to bring your sewing machine! Stay tuned for details on how much fabric to bring, and please be sure to either comment here on the blog or RSVP within the group Facebook group to RSVP!

please pardon my horrible cell phone picture ;)

Catching up on our July meeting - and our August meeting!

Our next scheduled meeting is Saturday, August 18th, at 10 a.m. at the Jimmie B. Keel Library. If you plan to attend, be sure to RSVP in our Facebook group or through a comment here on this post.

We last met on July 21st at 10 a.m. also at the Jimmie B. Keel library, with seven members in attendance. It was a great meeting, where we discussed upcoming meeting plans, various challenges and goings-on in the modern quilting world, as well as had a brief sew-and-share before the Sew Day.

Don't forget our Name Tag challenge is wrapping up at our next meeting - be sure to bring your finished name tag for a chance to win a prize!

Mark your calendar for these other challenges and goings-on:

a.       Salt Lake Modern Quilt guild – EZ Dresden challenge

                                                               i.      Link up your quilt/project using Dresden wedges in some way between September 1-9, awesome prizes in various categories

                                                             ii.      For more info, check: http://www.slmqg.com/ez-dresden-challenge/

b.      DC Modern Quilt Guild – 100 Quilts for Kids charity drive

                                                               i.      Make a baby or toddler sized quilt and donate it to an organization in the community, like Ronald MacDonald House, local military support organization,  homeless shelters, etc.

1.       Then after you donate, you can link up your finished quilt online for a chance to win some great prizes!

                                                             ii.      For more info, check: http://www.swimbikequilt.com/

c.       QuiltCon block challenge

                                                               i.      Using the colors of the QuiltCon logo, make a block, to be used as a part of a quilt(s) for Austin Children’s Shelter or possibly for a quilt to be raffled off at QuiltCon in February.

                                                             ii.      Blocks should be 12 ½” tall x the width of your choice. That could mean 12 ½” x 5”, 12 ½” x 24”, or anything wider, more narrow, or in between. Be creative!

                                                            iii.      Deadline: August 15^th

d.      QuiltCon

                                                               i.      The Modern Quilt Guild is holding its first conference February 21-24 in Austin, TX, with Denyse Schmidt as the keynote speaker.

July meeting this Saturday

Our July meeting will be held this Saturday at the Jimmie B. Keel library at 10am, in meeting room #2 at the back right side of the library. Please feel free to bring up to two items for Sew and Share. We'll be discussing the current guild challenge, the Nametag Challenge, as well as future meeting plans and other challenges and activities you can be a part of.

If you cannot make this meeting, our next meeting will be held on August 18th at 10 a.m.

July Meeting/Sew Day update

I am so excited at the number of folks planning to turn out for our next guild meeting next Saturday, July 21st. We have reached our maximum capacity for the Sew Day for this month. All guild members are welcome to come for the guild meeting, which will be at 10am, however, but due to other existing events at the library that day, we are in a smaller room than usual. In the future, I'll make sure that we get the largest room possible, now that our group is growing. Thanks for your understanding!

Our July meeting

Our next meeting will be held Saturday, July 21st, at 10 a.m. at the Jimmie B. Keel library. We'll be discussing the current guild challenge, the Name Tag challenge, as well as what modern quilting is. Guild members, please make sure to RSVP for the meeting within our Facebook page.  Directly following the guild meeting, we will hold a Sew Day until 3 p.m., so feel free to bring a current project, your machine, and any other items you may need for your project. Hope to see you there!

Name Tag Challenge

This month, we'll be having our first Sew Day. I think it's going to be really fun to get together and work on some sewing together.

Since we are a new guild and we are all still working on getting to know each other, I think it's a great time to have our first guild challenge: The Name Tag Challenge!  At our August meeting, we'll have a show-and-tell for all finished name tags, but feel free to wear yours to our July Sew Day if you're done by then!  Better yet, feel free to work on yours at our Sew Day!

The only requirement for the challenge is that it have your name on it somewhere.  It can be as simple or elaborate as you want, and can be a clip-on tag or a lanyard-style tag, whichever you'd prefer.

Need some inspiration?  Check out some of these really fun name tags made by other Modern Quilt Guild members!