CMQG Meeting Notes November: Paper Piecing with Panache

Good News!

Kathy G. is doing well after her foot surgery. We missed you Kathy and wish you a speedy recovery!

Winter 2013 Fabric Challenge

The National Modern Quilt Guild has announced the Winter 2013 Fabric Challenge (Here’s the link for more details:http://themodernquiltguild.com/2012/11/01/announcing-winter-2012-fabric-challenge/ ).

The fabric is Madrona Road by Violet Craft for Michael Miller. We talked about participating in the challenge and then using our work for the CMQG at NQA in June (it’s the two birds with one stone thingy).  “Celebrate America!” is the theme for this year’s NQA show. So we kicked around a lot of ideas on what theme we could use for our exhibit. Stars and Stripes was the group’s favorite. Stacy will go back to NQA with our ideas, so we’ll have to sit on the edge of our seats for a bit longer.  Fabric for the challenge should arrive by mid-December.

CMQG Quilt for Quilt Con

Kathy F. showed the nine blocks we were sent from Modern Quilt Guild and explained the plans for the quilt. A pieced state of Ohio block will be made and placed on the quilt top. Catie has offered to quilt it for us once it’s pieced (Thanks Catie!!). Once it's done, we'll send it to Austin for the show in February and then it will be donated to a children's shelter in Austin. 

Sew In: Saturday, Dec. 8

The next Sew In is just a few weeks away. You can work on anything you wish, but we will be working on the Quilt Con quilt at the Sew In, so if you’d like to pitch in, we’d love to see you there!

Paper Piecing

Angela gave a great demo on paper piecing and showed some of her amazing work. She also talked about designing your own paper piecing patterns. Thanks Angela!

Musical Fabric Stash

Most everyone brought their fabric for the musical fabric stash game. A fine time was had by all.

 

Next Month

December 20 meeting will be at Karen’s in Upper Arlington at 3857 Fairlington at 7 pm (thanks, Karen!). If at the time of the meeting you have anything that you crafted for Christmas, please bring it for show and tell. Speaking of sharing, please feel free to bring an appetizer or other nibbly food to enjoy with the adult beverages which you can also bring along to share (thank goodness our mothers taught us to share!). We talked about a fabric swap and white elephant. More news to come on this fun event!

See you all next month!

See you Thursday!

This week we'll be discussing ideas for a possible quilt show in the spring - what theme would we like to use? 

We'll also have a paper piecing demo by Angela - yay! 

And at our October meeting, we were so busy partying we forgot to play any games. So, we'll play games this Thursday, November 15th. 

Of course, you don't need to play the games to attend the meeting! But it should be a fun time! 

As always, feel free to bring a finished quilt to show and tell (or an unfinished one!) and books, if you like, for the quilty book exchange. 

Here's the info you need to play the games! 

Musical Fabric Stash

Each person in the circle starts with 1 yard of fabric.  The music begins and you’ll pass the fabric around in a circle.  Once the music stops, you’ll cut the fabric in your hands in half.  You keep half and then the next round starts.  We’ll continue to pass and slash the fabrics until we end up with scrap-sized pieces left.  The fabric you keep each round becomes yours to take home, so you’ll leave with a yard of various prints.

What to bring:

-          As many 1 yard cuts of fabric as you’d like (we can do multiple smaller rounds or a few really large rounds).  Fabric should be quilting-weight cotton with a modern design. (We are the modern quilt guild after all!)

-          Scissors

Strip Poker

Building on the fun from our 1^stAnniversary party, strip poker is back again!  We’ll play rounds of “poker” (highest single card wins).  Each round you’ll bet a 2 ½ “ fabric strip.  Winner takes all!

What to bring:

-          As many 2 ½ “ x WOF strips as you’d like.  Jelly rolls work great for this, but you can also cut your own.

Quilt Voting

After you all have cast your votes at your local polling place, here is a fun chance to support some "local candidates" with some quilty votes!

AnneMarie and Dana (and let me know if anyone else does and I missed it!) both have quilts nominated in the Bloggers Quilt Festival, which is a fun, huge on-line quilt event that happens twice per year.

AnneMarie's fun quilt (which is available as a pattern) is up in the "Wall Hanging" category.

Dana's quilt is in the "Bed Quilt" category. 

There are many other fabulous modern quilts up! Go here to vote! Voting ends November 8th.

And if looking at all those amazing quilts inspires you to get sewing, Abbe has recommended  this handy fat quarter chart - enjoy!

 

October Meeting Summary

October - Second Anniversary Celebration meeting

It was so fun seeing you all at the October meeting! We all had a great time with amazing food and door prizes plus...

Paint Chip Challenge...we saw a lot of creative projects and no two were alike. But now it's time to announce the winners (drum roll please!)

and the winners are:

Cristin won best use of paint chip. She did an awesome table runner.

    

     

Jaclyn won viewer's favorite with a really cute twin size quilt. She said it started out small and then kept growing.

    

Catie won best use of wonky with a great little wall hanging.

Congrats guys! 

We were so busy partying we forgot to play any games. So, we'll play games at our November meeting, on November 15th

Musical Fabric Stash

Each person in the circle starts with 1 yard of fabric.  The music begins and you’ll pass the fabric around in a circle.  Once the music stops, you’ll cut the fabric in your hands in half.  You keep half and then the next round starts.  We’ll continue to pass and slash the fabrics until we end up with scrap-sized pieces left.  The fabric you keep each round becomes yours to take home, so you’ll leave with a yard of various prints.

What to bring:

-          As many 1 yard cuts of fabric as you’d like (we can do multiple smaller rounds or a few really large rounds).  Fabric should be quilting-weight cotton with a modern design. (We are the modern quilt guild after all!)

-          Scissors

Strip Poker

Building on the fun from our 1^stAnniversary party, strip poker is back again!  We’ll play rounds of “poker” (highest single card wins).  Each round you’ll bet a 2 ½ “ fabric strip.  Winner takes all!

What to bring:

-          As many 2 ½ “ x WOF strips as you’d like.  Jelly rolls work great for this, but you can also cut your own.

More Entries! 

Plus, we wanted to let you know of two upcoming quilt show deadlines - 

The Zanesville Museum of Art is hosting a show of Ohio quilters - submissions are due Dec. 15th. More info here.

And The Modern Quilt Guild is accepting entries for QuiltCon - submissions are due November 30th. More info here.

See you at the November meeting!

More beautiful quilts!

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They also offer 24 hour service which  I presume means they'll be to your house in within 24 hours, not that you can call them at 2am with a broken down machine. 

The cost for a regular maintenance visit was $29.95+tax, but the price may have changed since I used their service about 9 months ago.

Cheers! 

Cristin

Annual Party!

Hope lots of folks can make it for our annual party this Thursday, October 18th! 7 pm at Quilt Trends.  We'll have two fabric games (you'll need to bring fabric to participate), a grand reveal of the Wonky Challenge, and tons of lovely door prizes! Plus delicious food!

So what do you need to bring? Just yourself is plenty! Come on out and join the fun!

But optional extras could include:

1. Your Wonky Paint Chip Challenge - in an anonymous bag so it can be anonymously judged...

2.Fabric for our optional fabric games -
 --- As many 1 yard cuts of fabric as you’d like (we can do multiple smaller rounds or a few really large rounds). Fabric should be quilting-weight cotton with a modern design. (We are the modern quilt guild after all!)
--- If you want to play Strip Poker - - Bring as many 2 ½ “ x Width of Fabric strips as you’d like. Jelly rolls work great for this, but you can also cut your own.

3. Some food for our buffet table - email columbus.modern.quilt@gmail.com if you need a reminder of what you signed up to bring - or just whatever suits your fancy.

4. Any works in progress or completed quilts you might have to show and tell

5. A bag to take home all the fabulous door prizes you might win!

September 2012 Meeting Notes

Columbus Modern Quilt Guild – September 20

Two Peas in a Pod Meeting

Next month is our Second Anniversary Party! Here’s the scoop…

·         Bring your paint chip masterpiece! Your name should be covered and your paint chip attached somewhere on the front. Oh, and put your item in a paper bag so that everything is anonymous. More detailed rules are on the CMQG blog, so check them out. And of course we’ll have fabulous prizes for 1. Best use of paint chip colors 2. Best use of wonky 3. Viewers choice.

·         There will also be food – a signup sheet was sent around. If you didn’t get a chance to sign up, just bring something tasty (and if it matches your paint chip colors and is actually edible, you might get extra credit!). Email if you need a reminder of what you signed up to make! Columbus.Modern.Quilt@gmail.com

·         We’ll also have games. Nicole volunteered to act as coordinator. Thanks, Nicole! Keep an eye out on the guild blog so you’ll know what you need to bring to play.

·         Leadership. This year, Dana, Abbe, and Stacy have been tri-chairs. If anyone else is interested in helping; just say so! Barb has been scribe – that job can move to someone else if anyone is interested as well. Cristin is going to share some of her responsibilities with Jacqueline too.

Stacy is talking to NQA about a possible exhibit of CMQG wall hangings (or something similar) at the 2013 show so stay tuned for more info.

Kathy G. has been working on bringing guest speakers to Columbus.  More to come on this as well.

Trish Preston was our speaker. She is the owner and founder of Two Peas in a Pod. She shared a great presentation on what it really takes to start a new business in the quilt world  called “My Handmade Story”. It was really well done. She has some new patterns coming out soon and check her website  to learn about "Sip and Sews" she is hosting in the Columbus area - there's one on October 13th! 

See you all next month at the P-A-R-T-Y!