dThis year’s retreat was held this September and we had a larger room which meant more friends and more fun and creativity.
We love the location at the Happy Valley Conference center.
Each attendee had a nice spot to spread out and sew, hand stitch, iron as she pleased.
Karen worked on her temperature quilt
Sanda finished a bag
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Every year we come together and have so much fun while quilting. Please join us next year!
We started our meeting by announcing and celebrating that it was our 8th anniversary of our very first meeting. Who knew that our branch of the MQG would grow and thrive as it has done? We’ve not only grown in size, but together we have produced vibrant work, made friendships, had shows of our work, had guild challenges, retreats, road trips and donated quilts to various charities. We are more when we are together.
We announced our new BOTEOM and it is called “Irish Unchained” Directions for this are posted previously HERE.
October meeting we will have our annual Scrap swap. Bring your scraps, fabric, notions, books or any and sundry items that you would like to sell or share or donate. This is a great way to keep what you love and pass on what you no longer need or want.
We have a sew day coming up on 10/12 at the community foundation room in Aptos.
Here, we have our usual show and tell featuring the amazing quilts we make.
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Also, one last reminder that we still have spots in the Tara Faughnan workshop this weekend!
Hello South Bay Quilters!
We had a wonderful meeting in August with many of us bringing our ideas, enthusiasm and quilts to share.
We are looking forward to our annual retreat in September at Happy Valley Conference Center.
We still have room in our Tara Faughnan workshop. Details are listed HERE.
The results of our design challenge for next year’s charity quilt for QuiltCon was announced. The winning quilt
is titled “Persisterhood” and features hundreds of flying geese in the background and graphic letters spelling out the
title. The color scheme is grey scale with white lettering. More about this project will be discussed at our September meeting.
This quilt will hang at QuiltCon 2020.
Lynn shared with us her beautiful collection of vintage quilts. The hand piecing and quilting was such a pleasure to feel and see.
As always, we had many beautiful quilts to share.
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Thanks for reading!
Our next guild meeting will be on
September 2019 Guild Meeting (2nd Tuesday)
September 10 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
See you there!
Hello South Bay Modern Quilters!
We had a lovely guild meeting in July with an exchange and lots of beautiful quilts.
We started with Karen’s tutorial on her “bubble” block which will be our next Block of the Every Other Month.
Beautiful, organic curves are the feature of this technique. The Palette and more information on this block can be found HERE.
Then, we had our notions exchange and so many beautiful things were made for our swap partners.
We announced our upcoming workshop with Tara Faughnan.
We also announced our January 2020 workshop with Timna Tarr
Last but never least, we had beautiful quilt finishes to share.
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See you at our August meeting!
Hi there South Bay Quilters
We had a busy June with both our guild meeting as well as hosting quilter Chawne Kimber who came to present a trunk show, and teach two workshops.
At our June meeting, we reminded members who are participating in our notions swap that they would be due at our July meeting. (July 9) We will do our exchange then.
We also voted on the color palette for the next Aurora Borealis – a gorgeous, galaxy inspired palette.
We also discussed the 2020 QuiltCon Charity quilt and design contest. A different take on how we will decide on the design, we are having a contest and challenging our guild members to submit an original quilt design. The MQG has decided that this years’ theme is Quilts with Text and the color palette is grey scale. Further details can be found on the MQG Website HERE. Though the MQG has called for grey scale, we will allow 2% of color in your design. You can design whatever you like, using words and text. Your imagination is your only limit. After submitting all the designs, the guild as a whole will vote on the quilt design they want to make.
Of course, we had a great showing of our members’ work at show and tell.
Later that week, we had the privilege of having Chawne Kimber present a talk and trunk show for our guild as well as teach two workshops. Thank you Chawne for your bold and raw, honest work. Our guild members had such a great time learning Tiny Piecing as well as improv hand quilting.
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