July 19 2014 Meeting

General Discussion:

Jenny brought up Nashville's upcoming Art Walk and was in contact with Nancy from the Fabric Studio.  She was interested in displaying 10 - 15 quilts for the Art Walk.  It is held the first Saturday of each month.

Chelly Black is handling the sign ups and match ups for our Christmas Secret Santa Swap.  Please complete the survey by first week of September if you are interested in participating this year.  Chelly will try to have the Secret Santa assignments by October.

Our guild now has its own calling cards.  Each member is asked to post and distribute all over town.  Thanks you Stefanie for handling this for the Guild!

SHOW & TELL

Michael Miller Challenge

Linda Cunningham brought her chevron pieced wall hanging using grey as her background.
Jayne Willis made an adorable pillow with a paper pieced hedgehog.
Katie Dornan constructed a mini quilt utilizing flying geese.
Ashley Gomez made rectangle style pillow focusing on the aqua tones.
Jenny Parker made a baby quilt using the square in a square pattern and lime green is her background.

Other Show and Tell by Stefanie Williams made a baby quilt using the Swoon Block and Jayne Willis also brought in two wall hangings, one in reds and the other in blues.  It was quilted using her walking foot.

Next meeting: August 16 - Fabric Dying at Jayne Willis' home.

January 18, 2014 Meeting

Our January meeting was called to order and we introduced ourselves to each other since we had 3 new visitors.

- Callie Tenny spoke briefly about our charity sew for the Vanderbilts NICU. Disscussion about whether to purchase an ACCUQUILT template for the smocks. Our cost would be approximately $125. It is tabled at this time.

- Discussed February's meeting - Free Motion Quilting

Bring 12 X 12 muslin squares (w/batting) or a larger lap project to work on.

- Discussed our 2013 Sew Red for Women BOM project. Need to assemble blocks and quilt. Jenny offered to assist.

- 2014 Dues are due - $40 - pay Linda Cunningham - a portion goes directly to the National Modern Quilt Guild.

SHOW & TELL

Callie Tenny & Luke shared a baby quilt and chevron quilt squares.  So glad both of you could visit.

 

 

Jayne Willis shared her hand dyed table runner.  Really looking forward to Jayne's fabric dying class!

 

Linda Cunningham - gave a sneek preview of hand piecing.

Angela Miller - shared the 5 minute and 10 minute block from the Missouri Quilt Co. and her bag with an argyle pattern.

 

Elizabeth Johnson - shared her chevron quilt top made for a friend and some of her pinwheel blocks. Love the colors Elizabeth chose.

 

Ashley Gomez - shared her quilted bag from Missouri Star Quilt Co. and her stripe and block colorful quilt top.

 

Christine - shared many of her projects with silk neck ties and felted wool. Here are just a couple of the projects she shared.

 

Next Meeting - February 15

Free Motion Quilting by Stefanie Williams

Preview into hand piecing - by Linda Cunningham

 

September 21 Meeting - Show and Tell

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• At our October 19th meeting we will be planning for 2014.  Make sure to attend so that we can get your input!
• Remember to sign up here for the Secret Santa Swap.
• In April the MQG will be holding one of their SewDowns right here in Nashville.  Go here for more details.
• Just a reminder that we're on Facebook and Flickr.

BLOCK OF THE MONTH

 

Callie shared her block of the month pattern, a very precisely sewn weave pattern.  The pattern emphasizes beginning techniques such as rotary cutting and seam matching. 

SHOW & TELL

This is Callie's chevron quilt made from jelly roll strips.  Small two-color blocks are sewn together on the diagonal.  It's brilliant.  Here's a link to the free pattern.

Here's an improvised quilt by Jayne that reminds her of a big hot cup of cocoa.  The striped fabrics are by Kaffe Fassett. 

Jayne told us that she'd like to design quilts.  We unanimously agreed that this would be a big seller if she made and sold a pattern for it.

Linda, fairly new to quilting and to the guild, wowed us all with one of her first quilt tops.  She's making this fun quilt for her 3-year old who is already putting to good used the coordinating pillow case.

You're probably wondering where you can get these amazing prints, right?  Well, you're going to have to jump into your time machine and head back to the 70s.  That's when Christine bought the fabric and made the quilt.  She's very busy working on her soon-to-be published quilt book and although she showed us one of her beautiful current projects, we can't post a picture of it.  You'll have to buy her book when it comes out if you want to see it!