October Meeting Recap

Charity Quilting

#quiltsforVegas

Thank you Long Island MQG members!  I received an abundance of blocks on such short notice! I received enough blocks to make a quilt for the first responders and victims of the Las Vegas Tragedy.

I will keep you updated as the blocks come together!

Medallion Quilt 2016-17

Several medallion quilts that were pieced as round robins are coming together into beautiful, finished quilts.  The first one to be completely quilted was pieced together by several members, one border at a time.  Carol was kind enough to take it and sew the binding on.  

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Several members have been busy piecing and quilting. Check out some of the blocks and quilts that were created:

Colleen: Super Sewer

Janet: Lunch Time Piecing

Janet: Lunch Time EnglishPaper Piecing

check out the beautiful piecing!

Kim:  RJR Fabric Challenge

Nancy: Sugar Skull Quilt...Front

#tulasugarskullQAL....Back

Nancy: Front

Nancy: Fabric: Alison Glass's Diving Board

Member mini workshop: 

Clamshell Quilt & Curved Pieccing

Susan was our first member to demonstrate a skill to the LIMQG members...

Susan brought in her clamshell quilt last year and everyone admired it!  So she deicide to demonstrate how she put it together.

She cut out the clam shells with her AccuQuilt 8" clamshell die. She was able to print out the remainder of the templates from designer Latifah Saafir on Craftsy.com.

Piecing curves is daunting, but Susan lead us through her technique and made it seam doable!

Thanks so much for sharing your quilt and sewing techniques!

Matching up clamshells prior to piecing.

Curved piecing with just a few pins. 

Flanged Binding Mini Workshop

Colleen demonstrated how she creates flanged binding on her quilts.

This technique uses two narrow complimentary fabric strips to make the binding strip. The main fabric is 1.5" wide, flange fabric is 1.75.  Sew them together with a 1/4" seam to form one binding strip.  Then press with wrong sides together along the length, matching raw edges.

Sew the binding on to the back of your quilt (using a 1/4" seam) with the flange fabric facing up.

When finished sewing the binding to the back of the quilt, press binding towards the front of the quilt. The flange fabric will be slightly visible on the front. Stitch in the ditch between the flange and the main fabric.

Thanks so much for sharing your flanged binding technique

Flange fabric (grey) & Main fabric (stripe)

Flange slightly visible.

Next Meeting:  November 15

November Meeting Highlights

Guest Speaker & Trunk Show Deborah Fisher of:    


      Fish Museum & Circus

October Meeting

October 18th Meeting

Member spotlight...

We will be having our first member led workshops at this meeting.

• Susan will show us how she create this lovely clamshell quilt.

• Colleen will demonstrate her creative binding technique

#QuiltsforVegas

The Las Vegas MQG has asked for donations of quilts and quilt blocks. These quilts will be given to the first responders and victims of the tragedy that happened in their city two weeks ago.

We will be collecting 10" finished quilt blocks in the Grayscale Pattern for the Las Vegas Charity quilt that we will be donating to the Las Vegas Modern Quilt Guild.  

Check out their blog post for more information: #quiltsforvegas

The guild would also like one heart block to be inserted into the quilt made from The Grayscale Quilt Block. Here is a suggested block setting:

Raffle Prize

We have the best raffle prizes this year!

Show and Share

Bring in your latest project to share with the guild!  

November Meeting Highlights

Guest Speaker & Trunk Show Deborah Fisher of:          Fish Museum & Circus

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September Meeting Recap

Welcome Back Members

Our first meeting on the 2017-18 year got off to a great start.  Kim started off the meeting by welcoming us all back for another great quilting year.  She also helped us to welcome or newest members:  Nancy and Sharon.
This year we will have a few member lead mini workshops. There will be a wide array of techniques that fellow members will share at upcoming meetings.  Kim also announced that we will have a few guest speakers at our upcoming meetings.  The board has been busy planning over the summer.

 MGQ QuiltCon 2018 Charity Quilt Challenge.

Mario and Lorraine will be heading up our charity quilt this year. A few members have volunteered to join together to participate in the 2018 QuiltCon Charity Quilt Challenge.
This challenge has a few parameters. The quilt design should follow the 2018 theme set forward which is: Modern Traditionalism.  The quilt must follow a certain color palette: 

Color Palette

Mario will be working in E-Quilter to design the quilt using nautical flags. Members will help make the blocks and sew them together and then finish the quilt.

Once the quilt is complete we will send it off to QuiltCon 2018 in Pasadena, California to be put on display at the conference. 

We will then donate the quilt to a charity that we have chosen: Camp Good Grief, East End Hospice.

 It will be an interesting charity quilt to work on.

Mario's Nautical Idea with fabric form color palette.

Rainbow Mini Challenge Swap

Check out all the beautiful quilts that were made by or members:

Mario

Susan

Colleen

Karin

Colleen...made two mini's

Karin

Lorraine

Madelyn 

Kim

Maureen

Irene

Karen

Julie

Julie

Amy

Carol

Mario

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Nancy shared a couple of  quilts that she has been working on over the summer:

Front of quilt

Back of Quilt

Nancy's Christmas Tree Shirt

Karen's Row By Row quilt was made from different quilting patterns that she collected this summer at various quilt stores in New York, Florida, New Hampshire and Montana.

Karen's "Row By Row on the Go" Quilt

 The bag Julie created was from a Quilters Take Manhattan Challenge. She bought QTM themed fabric on Spoonflower and created this lovely bag.  She modeled this bag at QTM held on September 16.

Julie's QTM bag

Our next meeting will be held on Wednesday, October 18, 2017.

September Guild Meeting

First Meeting of the New Year

Please join us for our first meeting of the new year on September 27, 2017 @ 7:30 PM. We will meet in the same location as last year: The Art League of Long Island located @ 107 E Deer Park Rd, Dix Hills, NY 11746.



We welcome new and returning members!

Meeting Activity

The Great Modern Fabric Trade

This months activity will involve trading your "modern" fabrics with other members. Please bring in a few fat eighths (9"x20") or fat quarters of modern fabric from your stash to trade with other members.

Membership:

You can click on the Membership link below to get a copy of the current membership registration form.


MEMBERSHIP FORM PDF


Yearly dues are $50.00 which covers 10 meetings from September 2017 to June 2018.
We have planned a few guest speakers and challenges along with a few surprises.


Checks and application can be brought to the next meeting (on September 27, 2017) or mailed to:

Long Island MQG
PO Box 184
Northport, NY 11768

Long Island Modern By-Laws

At the first meeting we will discuss the changes that we have made to our  By-Laws.  Please click on the link below to review them in advance. 

Long Island MQG By-Laws 9_2017


After the discussion of the changes in the by-laws, current members in good standing will vote on the acceptance of the changes.


Copies will be available at the meeting for your review as well.

Long Island MQG Takes Manhattan

Long Island MQG Takes Manhattan

A few members of the LIMQG ventured into NYC this past weekend and attended an event entitled : Quilters Take Manhattan.

QTM is a fund raiser for the Quilt Alliance which is a 501c3 non-profit organization established in 1993 with the mission to document, preserve, and share the stories of quilts and quiltmakers.

Fish Museum & Circus Pin Cushions

Click on the link below to learn all about the LIMQG member's adventure at QTM:

Long Island MQG @ Quilters Take Manhattan

Julie O participating in a fashion show @ QTM

Dr. Carolyn L.

Mazloomi interviewing Michael Cummings

Cascade by Victoria Findlay Wolfe

Goodies that were given out @ QTM

Modern Quilt Guild Members Needed

Call For Participants 

We are forming a group of quilters to work on The Modern Quilt Guild (National) Charity Quilt Challenge entitled Modern Traditionalism Quilter’s are required to be individual members of MGQ (National) and also existing or new members of Long Island Modern Quilt Guild (LIMQG) 

As this is a charity quilt we are also looking for suggestions for charity organization right in our backyard to help make a difference. Please email me any charities for consideration - nycmulea@me.com 

Time is of the essence as we have to submit participants names to The MQG by September 20th, which is before our monthly meeting at the end of September. 

If you are interested in participating in the group effort please email : contactlimqg@gmail.com. 

Those that responded to the first call are on my list. 

Best, 

Mario J. Mulea 

V.P. LIMQG 

LIMQG P.O. Box 184 Northport NY 11768

Long Island MQG 2017-18 Opening Meeting

Kim's Rainbow Mini Challenge Quilt

First Meeting of the New Year

Please join us for our first meeting of the new year on September 27, 2017 @ 7:30 PM. We will meet in the same location as last year: The Art League of Long Island located @ 107 E Deer Park Rd, Dix Hills, NY 11746.

We welcome new and returning members!

You can click on the Membership link below to get a copy of the current membership registration form.


MEMBERSHIP FORM PDF


Yearly dues are $50.00 which covers 10 meetings from September 2017 to June 2018.
We have planned a few guest speakers and challenges along with a few surprises.


Checks and application can be brought to the next meeting (on September 27, 2017) or mailed to:

Long Island MQG
PO Box 184
Northport, NY 11768

Long Island Modern By-Laws

At the first meeting we will discuss the changes that we have made to our  By-Laws.  Please click on the link below to review them in advance.

Long Island MQG By-Laws 9_2017


After the discussion of the changes in the by-laws, current members in good standing will vote on the acceptance of the changes.


Copies will be available at the meeting for your review as well.

National Modern Quilt Guild Challenge

We are forming a group of quilters to work on The Modern Quilt Guild (National) Charity Quilt Challenge entitled:

Modern Traditionalism

Quilter’s are required to be individual members of MGQ (National) and also

existing or new members of Long Island Modern Quilt Guild (LIMQG).

As this is a charity quilt we are also looking for suggestions for charity

organization right in our backyard to help make a difference. Please email Mario any charities for consideration -nycmulea@me.com

Time is of the essence as we have to submit participants names to The

MQG by September 20th, which is before our monthly meeting at the end

of September.

If you are interested in participating in the group effort please email :

contactlimqg@gmail.com.

Those that have already responded to the first call are on the list participants.

RAINBOW MINI QUILT CHALLENGE SWAP

At September's meeting we will swap our Rainbow Mini Quilts with our 'secret quilter".  

If you are a new member and would like to take part in the challenge please bring your mini quilt to swap as well!

Here are the Mini Quilt Guidelines:

• Size:  no bigger than 16"x16"
• Three layers: piece quilt front, batting and backing
• Use all colors of the rainbow: Red, Orange, Yellow Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet (ROYGBIV)

Partners will be revealed when we exchange Mini's at the September meeting!

Check out some of the quilts that the Austin MQG made for each other when they participated in a rainbow swap!

https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/austinmqgrainbowminiquiltswap/

As always....Stay Calm and Quilt on !!