December Meeting Recap

Happy New Year

Have you started writing down your New Year's Resolutions? Do they include finishing all or some of your U.F.O.'s?  My list of UFO's is very long and I hope that it will become shorter by the end of 2018 (and that I do not add any more projects to the list!) . I can always hope!

Here are a few pictures from the December meeting Show and Tell:

Jamie's Foxies..her first quilt. WOW!

Nancy's fussy cutting Tula Pink Fabric! 

Nancy's Crowned Star Quilt

Amy's Quilt top from a Quiltcon 2017 Class

Janet shared what she made @ a Victoria Findlay Wolfe Class.

QUILTCON 2018 CHARITY QUILT

Here are a few sneak peek pictures of our entry into the 2018 QuiltCon Charity Challenge.
Thanks to all who helped create this awesome quilt!  Well Done!

Ornament Creation!

Next Meeting: January 17, 2018

We will be hosting Vicki Field as a guest speaker at our next meeting.  Vicki will give a lecture on Color Theory.  More details to follow.




Wishing you a Happy and Healthy Quilty New Year!

June Recap

The last meeting of the year was a fun celebration with guest speaker Jessica Levitt in the house! Members brought lots of tasty treats to share and we had a fantastic end of the year raffle prize - a $25 gift card to Hawthorne Threads!

SHOW AND SHARE

We kicked off the evening with show and tell, and the quilts did not disappoint.

Irene shared this large scale modern design, which can be double sided, since she used scraps from the front to piece the back. All made from her stash -- well done Irene!

 

Lorna shared her completed Interleave 

and so did Mario

Judy shared a few more blocks from her Delilah Quilt

and a gorgeous Alison Glass finished quilt!

Maureen shared her hexi project

And Colleen showed us the finished quilt that she started at LIMQG's sew-in night

New guest Michelle shared a Star Wars inspired quilt that she is making for her husband. She promised to share her progress when we meet again in September!

Madelyn shared her Interleave quilt, too.

GUEST SPEAKER: JESSICA LEVITT

Next up, Jess spoke to us about her journey as a quilt designer, fabric designer, book author and teacher.

Many of the quilts that she shared were made with her own fabric lines and were featured projects in her book, like this King sized beauty!

Here are some more lovely quilts she shared as part of her trunk show:

We ended the night with Janet winning the big prize from the raffle. But we didn't get a picture because we ran over time! 

We hope everyone enjoyed this year with LIMQG and we look forward to seeing everyone back again in September! We are excited to continue to build this community of modern quilters and bring you fresh and exciting content in the next year!  We'll be back with more news to share in another post to fill you in on all of the exciting new things we have going on with the guild over the summer and for next year! Stay tuned!

Have a great summer and we'll see some of you at the Denyse Schmidt workshop on July 16! 

UP COMING EVENTS

• June 21-Sept 4: Row By Row Experience
• Visit any of the participating shops and receive a free pattern for a row in a quilt. Combine your rows in any way to create a unique quilt that represents the fun you had traveling to the stores. Travel with friends, discover new quilt shops and have fun collecting rows! Create a quilt using at least 8 different 2017 rows from 8 different 2017 participating RxR shops and be the first to bring it into a participating shop to win a stack of 25 fat quarters (6-1/4 yards of fabric!)./

• July 16, 2017 Denyse Schmidt WorkShop

• September 16: Quilters Take Manhattan
• Click here for details: QTM
• September 27: First Meeting of 2017-18 LIMQG 
• please note that this is the fouth Wed...LI Art League will not be open on September 20, 2017

Have an event that you want a shout out for, just email contactlimqg@gmail.com and we can put on the list of Up Coming Events!

Have a great summer and we'll see some of you at the Denyse Schmidt workshop in July! 

FEBRUARY MEETING RECAP

FEBRUARY Meeting Recap

We started off the meeting with Show and Share:

Maureen has been very busy with Tula Pink's 100 block challenge.  She plans on quilting each long section, one at a time.  When quilting is complete, she will join the three sections together.  A "quilt-as-you-go" project. Looking forward to seeing this quilt finished!

Here a few other Show and Shares:

Amy's Purl Soho quilt with Liberty fabrics.

Mario e-quilter blocks; paper and fabric versions

ROUND ROBIN MEDALLION REVEAL

  After several rounds of adding 10", 8", 6" then a final 4" borders the challenge Medallion quilts were revealed.  They are amazing!  The creativity and originality that went into the design of these borders was fantastic.  We have a very talented group of quilters!  If you would like to see what the original block looked like check out June 2016 blog by clicking here:  Medallion Blocks

 MARIO AND Electric Quilt 7

Mario was kind enough to demonstrate Electric Quilt 7 (EQ7) quilt design software program. This program is used to design blocks, borders, sashings and quilts.  It contains lots of tools for you to become a successful designer.  The EQ7 contains libraries filled with fabrics that you can use to create blocks and quilts using currnt fabric to give you and idea of what the block will actually look like when sewn together. The possibilities are endless.  Check out the EQ7 website for more info: electricquilt.com and this blog: doyoueq.com

March Meeting:

Tutorial on the Interleave quilt by Lorraine.

For the mini quilt, you will need 4 pieces of fabric measuring 9.5" x 18 each, a fat quarter for backing and material for binding.

Prep Work @ Home:
Please place the Dark and Light Fabric pieces right sides together and sew a seam down both of 18" edges to form a tube (leave the short edges open). Do the same for the medium fabric pieces.



Supplies to bring: Fabric that you sewn, scissors, rotary cutter, cutting mat, 24" long ruler, fat quarter for the backing, marking pencil/pen, pins, small pieces of paper for numbering.
There will be a $ 5 fee for batting and grid fabric that Lorraine will supply