March Meeting ReCap

2108 LIMQG UFO CHALLENGE

We kicked off our March Meeting with entries for our 2018 UFO Challenge!  Wow!  Our members have lots of UFO's!  This challenge will encourage members to finish their projects by June so that they will be entered into a raffle for some great prizes.
Take a look at a few of the projects that were registered:

Karen

Nancy

Karen

Nancy

Nancy

Nancy

Nancy

Nancy

Julie

Julie

Madelyn

Colleen

Madelyn

Colleen

Amy

Amy

Amy

Amy

Amy

Lorraine

Amy

Julie

Carol

Julie

Janet

Janet

Lorraine

Lorraine

Lorraine

Karen

Lorraine

Madelyn

Janet

Janet

Member Spotlight:

English Paper Piecing with Janet

We did a little hand sewing with Janet. She demonstrated her technique of EPP with 1" paper hexagons.  She took 2 1/2" pieces of fabric and glued the fabric to 7 paper hexagons.  Then she sewed the hexagons together in a flower pattern.  Janet had a few suggestions on how to hand sew them together such as whip stitch or  ladder stitch. 

SHOW AND SHARE

Here are a few quilts and bags that were shared with our group:

 

May Guest Speaker Announced

We are pleased to announce  the guest speaker for our May 16th meeting:

 Sheri Cifaldi-Morrill of Whole Circle Studio.  

Please check out Sheri's website:

WHOLE CIRCLE STUDIO

About Sheri:

Sheri is a designer, maker and self-taught modern quilter from New Haven, Connecticut.  She specializes in the design of custom modern quilts and patterns.  She founded Whole Circle Studio LLC in 2015 and since then she has published several quilt patterns, won awards at QuiltCon & Quilt Week Paducah  Her quilts have been featured at art centers and galleries across the country.

We are looking forward to meeting Sheri in person and listening to her lecture and seeing her wonderful quilts.  

March Meeting Rescheduled

March meeting has been rescheduled to March 28, 2018

Art League of LI at 7:30pm

Please see  Meeting Info   tab to get a supply list for the EPP project!!. 

Don’t foget to bring your UFOs to the meeting so that you can register them for the Great UFO Challenge. 

MARCH MEETING

CANCELLED:  March meeting due to inclement weather. 

The Great LI MQG UFO Challenge

Have you gathered up all your U.F.O.'s?  

Pick out the UFO projects that you need some encouragement to finish.

Follow these easy steps and your UFO project will be finished in no time:

1. Bring your UFO's to our March meeting. 
2. Find Amy and register them in the Great LIMQG UFO Challenge!
3. Registration fee is $ 2.00 per project.
4. Show and Share your UFO with the Guild.
5. Take UFO home and finish
6. Bring it in by our June meeting to earn a chance to win some awesome prizes.

You will receive tons of encouragement from your fellow Guild members to hurry up and finish your project!  The more you finish, the more chances you have to win!

See the details of the challenge below on the tab above labeled:  2018 LIMGQ UFO Challenge

Hands On Class:  English Paper Piecing (EPP) 

At our March Meeting, Janet will teach us her English Paper Piecing technique.  I have scanned and attached  a copy of Janet's supply list in the Meeting Info tab above:

Supply list:

• Fabric- cotton or linen.  7 squares at least 2 1/2" 
• Glue stick or Sewline fabric glue pen
• Needle
• Thread
• Scissors or rotary cutter w/mat 
• Small scissors
• Small paper clips or clover clips

EPP templates will be distributed during the meeting.

Show & Share

Bring in your latest project or some UFO's to share.

Raffle & Door Prize

Great raffle prizes to win!! Raffles are $1 each or 6 for $5.

February Meeting Recap

SHOW AND SHARE:

What fun we had at the last meeting!  So many Show and Shares proves that are members are very talented and loving the quilt making process.

ANTIQUE QUILTS FROM 1800'S

Collen brought some very old quilts that she found in one of her relatives house.  These quilts were made by women in the middle of the 19th century, probably around 1845.  Thank you for sharing apart of quilt history! 

Circa 1845. Made by Harriet Osborn, aka Great Great Aunt Hat!

Victorian Crazy Quilt. Made By Aunt Lizzie Armour, before 1895

Member Spotlight

Suzi demonstrated how to make a pineapple block using Creative Grids Pineapple trim tool ruler.

 

 

Carol demonstrated the slide-and-insert technique that Jacquie Gering has used to make some of her quilts. Check out a pattern using this technique: Fresh Cut Quilt by J. Gering & K. Pedersen

 

Mario gave a talk about Grain Direction.  Mario states: Grain of fabric matters greatly when making a garment but is not always discussed when cutting fabric pieces for a quilt.

ORPHAN QUILT BLOCK EXCHANGE

We had such fun playing Yankee Swap with orphan quilt blocks. There was a bit of "stealing" that took place, but everyone went home with a block that they can create a project with!

LIMQG 2018 Challenge

Amy introduced our next challenge: Long Island Modern Quilt Unfinished Project (UFO) Challenge

This challenge will give you an incentive to finished those projects that have been lingering in your sewing space for ages...

Bring your UFO's to our next meeting.  Register the projects with Amy, ( $2.00 registration fee per UFO), show the guild your project, take it home finish it, and bring it in no later then June's guild meeting. For every UFO you finish, you get a chance to win a great prize!  The more projects you register and finish, the more chances you have to win.

For more information and complete set of Rules go to:

2018 UFO Challenge 

tab a the top of this blog. 

February Meeting Highlights

Three Red Hearts for Valentine's Day

Happy Valentine's Day....

February Meeting...

ORPHAN BLOCKS

Get out  your Orphan blocks, dust them off and bring them to our next meeting.  We will be swapping orphan blocks with one another in a fun game called Yankee Swap...details of the game will be announced at the meeting.  It will be fun to see if the blocks will come back at the June Meeting (or sooner!) in a finished form, whether it be a pillow, bag, wall hanging or a full blown quilt!  

MEMBER SPOTLIGHT

Our Guild is very lucky to have creative and talented members who love to share their ideas and techniques with other members. The following members will be demonstrating and giving a talk: 

• Mario will talk about "Fabric bias and Block construction".

• Carol will demonstrate her technique of "Slice and Insert".

• And Suzie will demonstrate how to use a Pineapple Ruler.

SHOW & SHARE

Please bring in some of your latest projects and/or something that you created to celebrate Valentine's Day for Show & Share!

Chocolate Valentine...No calories!

RAFFLE

We have a few raffle prizes that you are going to want to win!

Modern Quilt Guild

I was checking out our group page on the National Modern Quilt Guild website and saw that a few more people have joined our group page! Yay!!

I would like to encourage the rest of you to login to the MQG webpage:

 https://www.themodernquiltguild.com/front-page 

and join the Long Island Modern Quilt Guild Group Page.  

Get the most out of the membership dues that we (LIMQG) paid to join the MQG.

There are a few steps needed to find our group page.  After you log in, click on "Community", then "Groups" and search for "LONG ISLAND" 

Our group will pop up, just click to join!

Also look around the website...it has lots to offer. If you click on "Education" and then "Resources" you will find a lot of free webinars, quilt patterns, even videos of a modern quilting show called: Fresh Quilting

If you have any questions about the website...just send an email to me @ contactlimqg@gmail.com

 I will try to answer!