Meetings

July 2018 Meeting Recap

We met this July for our guild meeting and it was, as ever, visually beautiful with everyone’s exciting and innovative quilts. But first, we had several guild happenings to cover.

 

Quilt Con charity quilt – This year’s design prompt is to use tiny piecing. We started making narrow strip sets at our sew day. For more information on this project see HERE. Blocks will be collected at the August and September meetings. The blocks are going to be chopped up and used to create something awesome. Future sew days (dates are TBD) will the be used as design meetings.

 

Barn Quilt – We are so inspired by Renee’s Barn Block quilt that we wanted to make our own for our Opportunity Quilt. 26 of the 36 blocks were created at the last sew day, we hope to finish the remaining 10 blocks at the next sew day (date TBD). The color scheme is turquoise and peach. The quilt will be about 72″ square.

 

 

 

We learned that our longtime and one-time officer Emily will be moving away to Texas and this was her last meeting. There was no time to prepare for a proper good-bye! Emily has been a  part of the modern quilting community since its inception and was at the very first MQG meeting in Los Angeles. She lived for a time in Boise Idaho, and when her family moved to our area, we snatched her up and said you must join us and so she did. Emily was treasurer and helped shape and write our by-laws as well as set up accounting and aided in our guild becoming a non-profit. Our guild cannot send enough appreciation, warmth and well-wishes as she moves on to her next chapter. Here are a few of Emily’s beautiful quilts. Safe travels friend!!

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Hey, will ya look at that! @lemontreetami & @littlebluecottage introduced me to the most brilliant idea… Longarm basting! And it's just in time, because I didn't have the slightest clue about how to move forward with doing hand quilting on this @libertylondon and #naniiro double gauze quilt to do it justice. I think this will give me confidence to just go for it! Maybe I will actually complete an entire quilt this year? #crosstourfingers #wishfulthinking @repostapp. ・・・ Another quilt on the frame for some basting in anticipation of some beautiful hand quilting by Emily @seventeenandem the top is made of beautiful Liberty of London 16-patch squares with the most darling polka dot lawn fabric. #apqs #APQSFreddie #longarmquilting #lovemylongarm #bastingbylongarm

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And, as always, our members showed us their quilts.

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Jean is an artist with scraps. #sbamqg

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See you at the August meeting!

August 7 @ 6:30 pm8:30 pm
Mid-County Senior Center, 829 Bay Ave
Capitola, CA 95010 United States
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