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.