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!
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!
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.
Hi guild members,
We started our year off with our guild meeting with lots to talk about participate in.
Lynn brought us a fabulous tutorial for this month’s BOTEOM. Using the “yellow submarine” palette, Lynne brought us an improv block which is easy to adapt and make your own and works really nicely with the palette.
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We hosted the fabulous Jen Carlton-Bailey. We can’t wait to see the work that comes from this fun class.
Also, we started something new! It’s the Hand-sewing happy hour at Abbott Square in downtown Santa Cruz. We will be meeting on the third Tuesday of the month at 6:00. You can bring your EPP, or hand quilting and sit with a beverage or treat and socialize while getting some handwork done. Everyone is invited to join in, not just members.
And at our show and tell, we had so many beautiful quilts from our members.
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The 7th Annual has came and went…many, many months ago! It’s not too late, however, to think about the fun we had last year in anticipation for our 8th annual retreat coming September of 2019!
The Happy Valley Conference Center hosted us again this year. We were close to Santa Cruz but felt so far away. We were able to spread out and sew, eat delicious food, and enjoy our creative community without interruption.
Thank you for Lori for organizing games and adding a little friendly competition to the retreat!
We have such a supportive community. Here a few members discuss layout and share creative advice.
Lastly, thank you to our sponsors! We couldn’t have done any of this without you!
Can’t wait for our next retreat! Look for an announcement soon!!
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