Saturday, January 17, 2015
Sew n Tell - January meeting
Every meeting is like a mini quilt show. For many, it's their favorite part. For some, it's the only reason they are there. For me, it is motivational and inspirational. Whatever it is for you, here is what you missed if you couldn't join us.
These quilts look even better in person. If you'd like a monthly mini quilt show and want to have fun with a bunch of awesome quilters. Join our guild and come to the next meeting. We'd love to have you. If you're already part of the guild but couldn't make the meeting, sorry you missed it. Enjoy the pics.
Saturday, January 10, 2015
What's in store for 2015
Here's just some of what you can expect in 2015:
January - We installed our new officers, celebrated our 5th anniversary, completed our first mini swap, selected the winner of the Road to Madrona quilt, got to see the travelling quilts, took a peak at the Habitat for Humanity quilt, and received the president's challenge. There will be a "Texty Trapunto" workshop from Jen Eskridge this month too. And the Journey to Inspired Art Quilting will be making modern trees at their bee.
February - Shannon Brinkley will be at the guild to talk about her modern applique technique. She'll be doing two workshops as well (Friday and Saturday of meeting week). Shannon Brinkley has come up with a fun way to turn all those small scraps you've collected into one-of-a-kind quilts using her simple collage technique and raw-edge appliqué. She's best known for her book Scrappy Bits Applique which includes 8 projects with find detailed sizing charts, photos and illustrations of the techniques she uses. The Friday workshop will be an animal applique class called Menagerie and the Saturday workshop will be the world map class called Around the World. You can see examples on her website (www.thebottletree.net). We will also begin taking registrations for the April retreat. And many of us will be going to QUILTCON. And the Journey to Inspired Art Quilting Bee will be learning about Sashiko/Japanese quilting
March - This meeting will be a QUILTCON de-brief. We'll all share with each other what we saw and learned and talk about how those quilts inspired us. Hopefully we'll get a chance to see those quilts made by our fellow members that did and didn't make it to the show. And the Journey to Inspired Art Quilting Bee will be focused on fabric painting with inktense pens.
April - Allison will be providing a presentation at the meeting called "Show us your solids." The guild retreat will be this month from Friday at noon on April 18 through Sunday at 3 p.m. on April 20. Some might use this to work on their president's challenge quilt. And the Journey to Inspired Art Quilting Bee will be working on embellishing designs printed on fabric.
May - The annual Modern Mercado will be held in May once again. Guild members will be able to rent tables for $10 each and set up a cross between a flea market and farmer's market to sell extra fabric, notions, patterns, books and magazine. Consider this a great recycling time. Recycle what you're done with and get a little cash to put back into the economy and buy new supplies and inspiration to get creative with this year. And the Journey to Inspired Art Quilting Bee will be learning Hawaiian quilt techniques.
June - Round Robin demo days will be held at this meeting. Come and learn from fellow guild members all their secrets to great free motion quilting. We have some experts in the guild and you'll be able to rotate through at least four demonstrations and pick their brains to improve your skills.
Well, that's the first half of the year and hopefully enough to help see what a great deal you're getting by being a member of this guild, though recognize things are always subject to change. And there will most likely be Scrappy Bee get togethers and other workshops not yet finalized. But in case you are still questioning the increase in dues, we'll also be having Anna Maria Horner and possibly Latifah Saafir visiting the guild and sharing their knowledge during the second half of 2015.
In September we'll be taking nominations for officers for 2016 and that's the month our president's challenge quilts are due. In October we'll be voting on those new officers and approving the budget for 2016. And of course December will be our annual Christmas party. And I'm sure there will be lots of great workshops, charity sew ins, bee sew togethers and imagination will flow freely. Hope you'll join us for the whole year.
January - We installed our new officers, celebrated our 5th anniversary, completed our first mini swap, selected the winner of the Road to Madrona quilt, got to see the travelling quilts, took a peak at the Habitat for Humanity quilt, and received the president's challenge. There will be a "Texty Trapunto" workshop from Jen Eskridge this month too. And the Journey to Inspired Art Quilting will be making modern trees at their bee.
February - Shannon Brinkley will be at the guild to talk about her modern applique technique. She'll be doing two workshops as well (Friday and Saturday of meeting week). Shannon Brinkley has come up with a fun way to turn all those small scraps you've collected into one-of-a-kind quilts using her simple collage technique and raw-edge appliqué. She's best known for her book Scrappy Bits Applique which includes 8 projects with find detailed sizing charts, photos and illustrations of the techniques she uses. The Friday workshop will be an animal applique class called Menagerie and the Saturday workshop will be the world map class called Around the World. You can see examples on her website (www.thebottletree.net). We will also begin taking registrations for the April retreat. And many of us will be going to QUILTCON. And the Journey to Inspired Art Quilting Bee will be learning about Sashiko/Japanese quilting
March - This meeting will be a QUILTCON de-brief. We'll all share with each other what we saw and learned and talk about how those quilts inspired us. Hopefully we'll get a chance to see those quilts made by our fellow members that did and didn't make it to the show. And the Journey to Inspired Art Quilting Bee will be focused on fabric painting with inktense pens.
April - Allison will be providing a presentation at the meeting called "Show us your solids." The guild retreat will be this month from Friday at noon on April 18 through Sunday at 3 p.m. on April 20. Some might use this to work on their president's challenge quilt. And the Journey to Inspired Art Quilting Bee will be working on embellishing designs printed on fabric.
May - The annual Modern Mercado will be held in May once again. Guild members will be able to rent tables for $10 each and set up a cross between a flea market and farmer's market to sell extra fabric, notions, patterns, books and magazine. Consider this a great recycling time. Recycle what you're done with and get a little cash to put back into the economy and buy new supplies and inspiration to get creative with this year. And the Journey to Inspired Art Quilting Bee will be learning Hawaiian quilt techniques.
June - Round Robin demo days will be held at this meeting. Come and learn from fellow guild members all their secrets to great free motion quilting. We have some experts in the guild and you'll be able to rotate through at least four demonstrations and pick their brains to improve your skills.
Well, that's the first half of the year and hopefully enough to help see what a great deal you're getting by being a member of this guild, though recognize things are always subject to change. And there will most likely be Scrappy Bee get togethers and other workshops not yet finalized. But in case you are still questioning the increase in dues, we'll also be having Anna Maria Horner and possibly Latifah Saafir visiting the guild and sharing their knowledge during the second half of 2015.
In September we'll be taking nominations for officers for 2016 and that's the month our president's challenge quilts are due. In October we'll be voting on those new officers and approving the budget for 2016. And of course December will be our annual Christmas party. And I'm sure there will be lots of great workshops, charity sew ins, bee sew togethers and imagination will flow freely. Hope you'll join us for the whole year.
Much creativity will be seen in 2015!!!
Here's a dozen things you missed
If you weren't at the January 2015 meeting of the San Antonio Modern Quilt Guild, you missed a lot.
10) Your last chance and drawing of the Road to Madrona quilt -- won by Leslie Tucker Jennison.
11) President's Challenge: Using Pantone color Classic Blue (19-4052), create a mini quilt (smaller than 36" x 36") and bring to the September meeting. http://www.pantone.com/pages/fcr/?season=spring&year=2015&pid=11#classic-blue
1) Reveal of the SAMQG ultimate mini quilt swap. I'll post pics in another blog post soon.
2) Reveal of the Traveling charity quilts (3 of 4).
3) Info about all the beautiful charity quilts this generous group made in 2014. Learn more in another blog post coming soon.
4) Reveal of the charity quilt made for the Habitat for Humanity 40th Anniversary using the MQG Charity Challenge fabric colors.
5) Info about what programs and workshops will be coming this year.
-- Next Journey to Art Quilting Bee is Jan. 17 at 10 a.m. at Landa Library. Sarah Jimenez will be demonstrating how to make the trees on the charity quilt above.
-- Next guild meeting is Feb. 5. Presentation by Shannon Brinkley (www.thebottletree.net)
-- Next workshop (Scrappy Bits Applique by Shannon Brinkley) on Friday, Feb. 6.
-- Next retreat is April 17-19 at the Main House near Creations in Kerrville.
Watch the facebook site for more info on these events.
-- Next Journey to Art Quilting Bee is Jan. 17 at 10 a.m. at Landa Library. Sarah Jimenez will be demonstrating how to make the trees on the charity quilt above.
-- Next guild meeting is Feb. 5. Presentation by Shannon Brinkley (www.thebottletree.net)
-- Next workshop (Scrappy Bits Applique by Shannon Brinkley) on Friday, Feb. 6.
-- Next retreat is April 17-19 at the Main House near Creations in Kerrville.
Watch the facebook site for more info on these events.
6) Installation of the new guild officers.
-- President: Allison Chambers
-- President: Allison Chambers
-- Vice President, Programming: Leslie Jennison
-- Vice President, Hospitality and Membership: Sara Elliott
-- Vice President for Charity/Outreach: Sara Jimenez (previously committee chair)
-- Treasurer: Sue Poliquin
-- Secretary: Emily Robbins (new)
-- Workshops Committee Chair: Danielle Wilkes (Kathleen Null, Rebecca Cronk, Kristen Wright)
-- Publicity Committee Chair: Cathy Kropp (Jen Eskridge, Sarah Rodriguez) (new)
-- Retreat Coordinator: Sarah Rodriguez (new)
-- Block of the Month and Bee Coordinator: Susan Andrews (new)
-- Block of the Month and Bee Coordinator: Susan Andrews (new)
7) Instructions for the first block of the month for 2015 are on the Facebook group.
8) Preview of a QUILTCON quilt made by Sara Rodriguez with the help of other guild members. She won these from the Block of the Month in August.
9) Another great sew n tell in a blog post coming soon.
10) Your last chance and drawing of the Road to Madrona quilt -- won by Leslie Tucker Jennison.
11) President's Challenge: Using Pantone color Classic Blue (19-4052), create a mini quilt (smaller than 36" x 36") and bring to the September meeting. http://www.pantone.com/pages/fcr/?season=spring&year=2015&pid=11#classic-blue
12) Let them eat 5th anniversary celebration cake.
SAMQG Ultimate Mini Quilt Swap REVEAL
In August one of the guild members announced a mini quilt swap. This was a first for our guild, and even though there were only 16 participants, it was a HUGE success. I'm pretty sure if we have another swap, people will be fighting to get in on it. The results were amazing. During the January meeting sewcial time, the swapping commenced. Check out all the happy quilters and beautiful quilts. This blog post was updated to include the last two swappers. The swap is complete
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| Danielle got this from Ashley |
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| Sarah got this from Rebecca |
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| Rebecca got the bag from Sarah R. |
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| Rebecca got the mug rug from Sarah R. |
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| Rebecca got this from Sarah R. |
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| Kim got these from Suzanne |
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| Sarah J. got this from Cathy |
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| This is the back |
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| Suzanne got this from Sarah J. |
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| This is the back |
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| Vickie got this from Kim |
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| This is the back |
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| Jessi got this from Allison |
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| Allison got this from Jessi |
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| Stacy got this from Kelli |
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| Cathy got this from Vickie |
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| Kelli got this from Lisa |
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| Erica got this from Danielle |
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| Lisa got this from Stacy |
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| Anna got this from Erica |
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| Ashley got this from Anna |
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