We held our June meeting on June 7 at the Stratham Public Library in Stratham, NH.
Our meeting opened with an informal discussion of our summer lottery block. We'll be drawing a winner at the September meeting, so there is still plenty of time to make one--or many--blocks and have a chance to win these beauties!
Here is the link to the tutorial. Please make the 16'' block size (which is composed of 64 2.5'' squares OR HSTs squared to 2.5''). It's a good scrap buster!
Our July meeting will be held on July 12 from 10 am to 12 pm at the Stratham Public Library (NOT the first Saturday, due to the Fourth of July Holiday). Mark your calendars!
Our Michael Miller Challenge projects will be due at the July meeting.
At our July meeting, voting for the Michael Miller Challenge projects will take the place of usual show and tell. Please save all your non-Challenge projects to show off in August. We'll be attempting a blind vote, and the winner will receive a copy of
Playful Little Paper-Pieced Projects.
Finished Michael Miller Challenge photos will be due on the Modern Quilt Guild website on July 25. To post your photos:
1) Go to https://www.themodernquiltguild.com/
2) Click the "Community" link on the upper right hand side of the page
3) Click Login, and log in with the email address and password associated with your MQG account. You'll be taken to your profile page.
4) Click "Forums" in the upper right hand side of the page
5) Click "MQG Fabric Challenges" (this is currently third in the list)
6) Click "FINISHED Michael Miller Fabric Challenge" (this is currently stickied to the top of the page)
7) Click the "Quick Reply" button to create a new post. Click the little icon furthest to the right that means "media" and upload your photo. Add any text you want about your photo, and click Post.
In other Modern Quilt Guild business, please remember that QuiltCon registration begins June 24. All of the information, including a schedule, registration details, and pricing can be found at http://www.quiltcon.com/ . If you would like to enter a quilt in the QuiltCon show,
please find information here.
Nancy showed off two rows of a quilt she is making for her bed to try to bust her scraps and stash. It is going to be huge, and colorful! Can't wait to see this finished.
Barbara showed off some bunny wool felt applique pillows that she has been making while her students are taking tests this spring. She kept pulling them off her pile--Paula joked that they were multiplying like bunnies. I love how the slight variations in the colors she chose for the bunnies, flowers, and leaves change the whole look of the pillows.
Sarah is the host for a Do Good Stitches circle, and this is a quilt top she just finished piecing. The vibrant citrusy colors are so "her"!
Paula took some "made fabric" from last month's improv workshop and made a star tabletopper. The bright colors in her work have me itching to try some made fabric myself.
Laura finished a Fancy Fox quilt from Elizabeth Hartman's pattern,
and she finished quilting her Snake Trail quilt.
Laura then led a demonstration of sketch stitch applique, using black thread and a regular machine foot. The first photo in this post shows some cute little blocks that Diane (left) and Mary (right) created. Here are a few more photos of busy hands at work:
It was a good meeting! Hope to see as many people as possible in July for Amy's machine-pieced clamshell workshop. You can check the previous post for details about some supplies you will need, and I will post a reminder before the meeting. Happy summer stitching!
