We’re now sharing our meeting slides with those who could not attend. You can find the slide deck here.
Cheers to 2020!
We’re now sharing our meeting slides with those who could not attend. You can find the slide deck here.
Cheers to 2020!
Hello SBAMQG!
Your former President, Chelsea, here! Why? Well, let me tell you!
In year’s past, former Presidents were made quilt blocks of their choosing by the guild to show member appreciation for their years of service. This idea seems grand until you’re the former president and you’re asking people to make you stuff in the middle of a pandemic, which feels sort of weird and uncomfortable, but here we are!
So as I retired, I was approached with a request for my plan and I began to plan or as some of you may know, agonize over my plan. This quilt block or that quilt block? This color scheme or that color scheme? I once had a near meltdown over choosing a bathmat in an attempt to redecorate. I don’t make decisions lightly. I don’t like to have extra stuff. I just want to have things I really LOVE (Marie Kondo takes credit for this, but I think I did it first). And this quilt was extra important to me because it was going to come from all of you.
And then the current board was like “Uh… a plan?” and I was like “Working on it!” And then another month went by and maybe another month and then COVID dropped on us like a bomb. While we’re still working through all our feelings about social inequality, quarantine and the how our pants don’t seem to fit quite right anymore, you can rest easy in the fact that I have made a plan!
The Plan: You will pick-up a kit consisting of one 3″ strip of chambray to make a scrappy 4-patch block using the color palette of this super fantastic vintage sheet I found for the backing. Each kit has enough fabric to make four 4-patches! If you used a different print for each square that would be super nifty!
A Final Note: I just want to say, I really valued the four years that y’all allowed me to be your President. I enjoyed getting to know each and every one of you in a way I probably would not have in the general membership. Being President defined my identity for those years and led me towards creative opportunities like teaching sewing and quilting that I might not have explored otherwise. When I look at this quilt, I already know a little TV sitcom highlight reel will play in my head. Thank you for the highlights!
The Block
We had a different – but fun – meeting this month. We hosted on Zoom, which allowed us to see and hear each other, while also sharing our Sew and Tell quilts from the month. Darlene introduced Mo, Heidi, and Renee as members/previous member guests that were able to join us from out of town and Jen Janisch who will become a member after moving to Santa Cruz County this summer.
Darlene had us share our socks, which was a fun watch as everyone lifted their feet into the camera view. We gave away a fabric with the words “home” and “love” on them, as a reminder that we love our homes, especially while we are stuck in them! Laura Ryle won the fabric from a random number generation. https://www.instagram.com/p/B-ucCKqHxNC/
Darlene gave an update on masks, which we have been collecting for local needs. Please see our blog for updates
Mickey put together our BOTEOM color palette vote and we voted by Google Form. Mickey made the palettes based on Émile Alain Séguy prints. The winning vote with 67% of the vote was Dragonflies. This color palette will be used for the BOTEOM demo in May for blocks due in July.
For philanthropy, two of our members, Ruth and Kathy, finished quilts for Quilts Beyond Borders. Kathrin shared a Disappearing 9-Patch child quilt top for CASA that Monterey Peninsula Quilters Guild, which will tie at annual Tying Event at September meeting.
Tamlin gave virtual demos of the SBAMQG blog, showing members how to navigate to our payment page, BOTEOM page, and more. She also demoed the MQG website to show members how to find their membership card, sign up for virtual classes, and find archived patterns and classes.
With all of us spending more time at home, many of us had a lot of quilting progress to share, but also our members made SO MANY masks! It was great to see the variety. We had a very interesting and productive conversation about mask making options. We learned from our resident fabric experts that fabrics like batiks, which are made of poplin and have a high thread count, are best for making masks. Art Gallery Fabrics has a thread count of 200, while other cotton quilting fabric tends to have a thread count of 120-180. The higher the thread count, the better resistance to particle transmission, high thread count sheets, pillowcases, and flannel have been proven to be great alternatives. See NYTimes for more info: https://www.nytimes.com/article/coronavirus-homemade-mask-material-DIY-face-mask-ppe.html
We also learned to use vertical cuts of t-shirt material for ties so that it properly rolls. We were very impressed with Lori Green’s two seam, one piece of fabric mask. We hope she can follow up and send us a video to show us her tricks!
Quotes of the night goes to Kathrin: “We’re all wearing masks, but who is wearing a bra?” Yes, we’ve replaced bras with masks and at least the braless part feels really nice! And Kathy “No family member will ever tease me about having too much fabric again!”
14 members (those below + Lori by video) participated in our virtual Sew and Tell by emailing photos of their work prior to the meeting, in order for it to be included in our slide show. When their slide was being presented, members spoke about their quilts. See our Instagram for photos:
https://www.instagram.com/p/B-v8nJGnl7s/
https://www.instagram.com/p/B-v9WylHq6e/
https://www.instagram.com/p/B-v9yONHUn9/
https://www.instagram.com/p/B-v-WtPnu5L/
https://www.instagram.com/p/B-v-f0wnuIt/
https://www.instagram.com/p/B-v-qnnH3Gv/
https://www.instagram.com/p/B-v_E0lHM-a/
https://www.instagram.com/p/B-v_dtuH75K/
https://www.instagram.com/p/B-v_pilHOho/
https://www.instagram.com/p/B-wADwsHLOL/
https://www.instagram.com/p/B-wAd9nHjoL/
https://www.instagram.com/p/B-wAx0RHnMU/
https://www.instagram.com/p/B-wBDgYHmSh/
Thanks to all who virtually joined us!
There are many resources that are looking into the efficacy of home sewn masks during the shortage of medical grade masks usually provided to protect Health Care Providers (HCPs), you can find some resources here, here, here, here, here, or here!
SBAMQG has received two specific requests for masks and we are asking for your help to fulfill these requests.
We are checking comments on this blog, which is one of the best ways to communicate your questions with us at this time.
# of masks delivered
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# of masks still needed
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Request #1 | 98 | Order fulfilled |
Request #2 | 39 | Order fulfilled |
Elastic | Fabric | Nose Wires | Notes | |
Hart’s Fabric | yes | Yes | – | Hart’s Fabric reached out through Tina and would like to contribute to the mask making cause. We will be making arrangements for a pick up later this week. |
Lori Green | 1/4″ black – 288 yards | – | – | Lori will leave elastic at Pat’s pick up spot. Take what you need for this purpose. |
Sarah Eblen | yes, lots avail. | – | – | Sarah has offered elastic when the stash at Pat’s runs out |
Kathy Howard | 1/8″ – 40 yards | – | – | If you need thinner elastic, contact Kathy. |
Darlene Talukder | – | – | my daughter has many paper clips | I’ll leave a box at Pat’s the next time I pick up there. contact me at dartal6@gmail if you need a delivery |
Elastic: The elastic requirements are very specific and may dictate which style of mask you can make. Elastic is in short supply at many online resources. We will have more information about elastic soon. Use what you have at home for now. If any of you have large stashes you are willing to share, let us know. The patterns have an option for ties; ties are not preferred by HCPs, but work if you don’t have elastic.
Link with video & pattern or How to Sew A Face mask Instructions-1 Video Only
“As you may know, my daughter, works as a nurse anesthetist at the Kaiser Santa Clara Medical Center (KSCMC). The center is being set up as Kaiser’s NorCal primary coronavirus testing and treatment center. She said the numbers of patients are increasing rapidly. And supplies are already in very short supply. To be honest, since she is pregnant, I’ve begged her to take medical leave, especially since the safety gear is in such short supply. She insists on being there to help – like others on the front line.She sent out a very urgent plea for face masks for the medical workers Each health care provider was each issued only one N95 mask. They are desperately seeking face masks that can be used over their N95 masks.I tried many different ways to make face masks and this is the easiest that I found:YouTube video: https://youtu.be/S9RWII2-5_4 [see alterations below]There are many other YouTube face mask vids that you may prefer. I chose this one above for the ease of making it for mass production, relatively speaking.If you follow the directions in the video, it is SUPER easy. However, at least near me, it impossible to buy elastic as the fabric stores are all closed. And Amazon cannot deliver the elastic bands for weeks. So these are my modifications…also to meet my daughter’s request via the anesthesiologists’ needs. They need these masks to function as covers over their ONE issued N95 masks.”
Terry Pohle kicked off our first member spotlight.T erry took us on a journey from some of her first quilts in traditional piecing through her newer modern quilts. She talked about her favorite thing to do while quilting: make it bigger! She showed some enormous quilts! Terry shared over 23 quilt tops and tons of blocks yet to go into a quilt top. At the end she shared her sketchbook, which she uses to doodle possible quilt designs. We were all impressed with the breadth of work from Terry and loved learning more about her quilting life.
A member asked Terry “When is the last time you bought fabric?” Terry’s answer was, of course, “Yesterday!” For images of some of Terry’s quilts, see our Instagram post:
We voted from three color palettes and “Fabulous Colors 2” won the group vote for May 2020 BOTEOM. Kona Gold (golden brown) Kona Ochre (golden yellow/mustard), Kona Caribbean (turquoise blue), and Kona Terracotta (rust/burnt orange) with Kona Eggshell as background fabric:
Isabelle shared her great pattern testing of Cotton and Bourbon’s Indigo Radial pattern. https://www.instagram.com/p/B8T4_OKHlTr/