CMQG Meeting
July 10, 2013
Centennial Barn
Current Business
Shop Hop
Kara confirmed
who is coming to the Shop Hop, this Saturday, July 13. We’ll meet at Sewn Studio at 10:00 a.m., then travel to Lavender Street in Montgomery, and
finally to Fabric Shack in
Waynesville. Update: The Shop Hop was
so much fun! Huge thanks to Kara for putting this together and for scoring us
the great deals at all the fabric shops!
Sew Original Quilt Expo in Louisville
August 30–September
1 is the Louisville quilt expo. Heather will be working out a schedule to man
our booth at the expo, so please keep this in mind if you are coming. Heather
will also let us know about the sleeve requirements and any contracts we need
to fill out. Please bring your quilts to the August meeting. We will take the
quilts to Louisville and hang them up and bring them back, which will help keep
our expenses down.
Charity: Quilts of Valor & Cincinnati
Children’s Hospital
Andie has a
meeting coming up for the Children’s Hospital project and will have more
information on this afterward. We also have two projects with Quilts of Valor that
we can contribute to. The first is QOV’s 10th anniversary project. Members can
make blocks according to their guidelines
(these will be signature blocks with your first name and state) and send them
in to QOV before November.
The second QOV
project is a quilt top from the CMQG! We would like to have 25 or more star blocks
from our guild. These should be signed with your first name only, not state
since it’s from the CMQG. Blocks should be 8.5" square minimum to 16" square maximum. More details can be found
on the CMQG
Charity Quilt Projects blog post. Please bring your star blocks to the September
guild meeting.
Ohio Star Project
Christine updated
us on the Ohio Star project. We are still working on a contract. It is on hold
for now. So everything is pending for this project. Update: This project has been canceled—a disappointment to all, but
keep those patterns in mind to publish another way. Special thanks to all the
members who were so willing to do this to help promote the guild.
Happy Hour
Teresa and Ellen
went to June’s happy hour and had a great time! Next Happy Hour is July 27 at
Cock and Bull in Glendale at 8:30 p.m.
Next Year’s IQF
This is very
preliminary. We have been informally invited to have another show at next
year’s IQF in Cincinnati in April. Even though the show is in April, our quilts
are due in December or January, so we do need some time to prepare. We have a
poll on the website that we can vote on, but keep in mind that anything we
propose needs to be approved by IQF. Update:
The poll is now closed, and the winner was Flying Geese!
Modern Quilt Guild
National membership opens July 17. With the 31 Totes fundraiser,
we raised $170!! Thank you, Kayla! We
are not quite ready to join because we have some organizational paperwork to
complete, but this is in the works and we will join ASAP.
New Business
Cincinnati Museum Center Community Quilt
We have been
asked by the Cincinnati Museum Center to make a community quilt for the city. It
will be on display at the Cincinnati Museum Center and the Underground Railroad
Freedom Center. These will be huge displays and events that many, many people
will see, not only residents of Cincinnati and the tri-state area but also
people who travel here to see them. People will be making 9" (unfinished) blocks
with their Cincinnati memories on them. Blocks must be on white cotton fabric,
and we will have a special sew-in at the Museum Center to put them all
together. This is tentatively
scheduled for November 9 (but we hope the date moves because it’s the same
weekend as the 1st
Annual #OHcraft Sew-In). In January we will tie the quilts. The squares are
due October 19. They are hoping for two large quilts–they will be very large.
Swaps
Amy announced next
month's challenge: fabric boxes! More details will be posted on our blog about
the challenge, but it’s simple: Make a box out of fabric.
For the scrap
bag swap, members brought bags of scraps, which were combined and mixed
together, and then redistributed back to members.
Show and Tell
Kara showed a beautiful
lap-size quilt she made with Amy Butler’s Cameo collection.
Gillian showed
her Tula Pink Nightshade quilt that Jill just finished quilting with freehand
spiderwebs.
And a quilt she
made using a Camille Roskelley pattern. This is for her grandmother, who is
turning 90 in September.
Barb brought a
quilt that she made last year for Charlie. It was his day care blanket, and she
sewed binkie straps onto two sides. Awwww…So sweet!
Carol brought a
quilt that Janine quilted for her. All the circles are appliqué. All the
squares are in strips. This is for her queen-size guest room bed.
Janine and Kathy
made twin quilts with Faith Jones’s Up and Up pattern.
Janine also
brought her quilt made from her Kewpie blocks. That quilting is just beautiful!
Amanda brought a
prairie point quilt that was her first free-motion quilting project.
Amy brought an Ohio Star baby quilt.
And a cute Plus-sign baby quilt.
Christine
brought her elephant placemats that she made for her husband. She and her hubby
foster two elephants in Africa, and their names are on the back of the
placemats.
Our guest brought a quilt she made after a 23-year break from sewing. She made a doll
quilt that is an exact match to the baby quilt she made. After that, she
crocheted a baby blanket, and then made a doll to go with it.
Brenda made a
lap-size or wheelchair-size quilt from scraps.
ETA: Brenda, I'm so sorry the photo is cropped so much. I'm having issues with my computer and I don't know how that happened! Heather
Cass shared some
Crystal Light containers that are perfect for storing scissors and other
notions.
Education
Cathedral Windows with Janine
Janine took a
class on making Cathedral Windows. She has been working on her Crazy Cathedral
Quilt for 8 years. ARDCO makes
some templates, and Janine used their Cathedral Windows template set for this. Start
with three 8.5" squares of fabric: the front, the back, and muslin for the
middle.
Both the front and the back fabrics will show on the front of the
quilt, so they should be fabrics you like and that coordinate. Lay the three
squares together, with the muslin first, then the back fabric right side up,
then the front fabric with the wrong side faceup (so the back and front fabrics
are right sides together). Place the circle template on the fabric layers, draw
the circle, and then sew the three fabrics together on the marked line. Cut the
seam allowance really close to the sewn line with pinking shears. Then carefully
cut a small slit in the back fabric and turn the circle right side out. The
slit should be an inch or two away from the seam, so that it won’t show when
the circle edges are folded over later. The template set comes with a square
template that you then use to fold the circle edges over the square template to
press your fold lines. With your folds pressed, sew two folded circles together
on a single fold line, matching the folds. Then sew the circular edges down.
Some people hand sew these down, and others machine sew using a fancy stitch or
thread.
Next month Holly
will present on free-motion quilting. Remember her amazing Dresden quilt?
Our next meeting
will be Wednesday, August 14, at the Centennial Barn. See you then!
