November 2018 Meeting Recap

Hi Beautiful Guild members! We had our November meeting and here’s some highlights.

First, the recipient of the Block of the Every Other Month is Ruth. She received all the blocks that were made pictured behind her.

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Ruth @scarletbegonias633 was the lucky winner of the BOTEOM lotto drawing. The pattern, Echo Block Study, by @capitolaquilter is available on the #mqg website.

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Our own Karen designed the Echo Block Study and is found here on the MQG website.

We then announced the next BOTEOM with Pam’s tutorial on how to make it.

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Pam Rocco introduced the December BOTEOM pattern, Water Slide, and gave us a demo. The pattern will be available on the blog. Pic 3 shows the the triangular flag you need to establish correct alignment of the curves.

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Here is Isabelle with a sample block.

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Isabelle @southbaybella introduced the color pallet for the BOTEOM due at the December meeting. Swipe to see how much fun we have at our meetings. The pattern is “Water Slide” by Pam Rocco.

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Here is a link to the directions along with the color palette. More copies of the templates will be available at the December meeting.

We had plenty of member show and tell as well.

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Mickey @mickeybeebe shared another wall quilt with an architectural theme.

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Jeannie showed us her quilt made of shot cottons, designed by her.

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Jeannie @landjeannie shared a top featuring her original block design, “Maze”. Our #SBAbbey consultants recommended curved/organic quilting.

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Laura created this Amish beauty

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Laura @laura.ryle picked a beautiful color palette for this Amish inspired top.

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Darlene stitched this up for donation

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VP @darlenetalukder hiding behind her spooky Halloween quilt at tonight’s meeting!

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Anna made the two following quilts

 

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@anna_brenk Anna quilted her orphan block quilt by connecting the centers of the flowers on the backing fabric (pic 2) A close up of the resulting pattern is in pic 3.

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Anna @anna_brenk shared the quilt made for her daughter’s wedding. The pattern is #octagonshimmer Swipe to see a closeup in pic 2. The quilting is striking on the Moda grunge (in peacoat) back in pic 3.

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Kathryn made this fresh quilt

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Kathryn @katbsharp completed this baby quilt using guidance from the book Walk. Pic 2 shows the straight line stitching starting at the center block and expanding to the edges of the quilt.

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Kathy is making this quilt by layering different colored fabrics together and then cutting into the layers – creating this effect. She embroidered the bird as well.

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Here’s Kathy again with a quilt inspired by her photo (pic 2) which was converted to a digital sketch (pic 3) and then to cutwork and embroidery (close up in pic 4)

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We hope you’ll join us for our holiday celebration meeting, December 4th at 6:30. See you there!