February 8, 2017
The Barn in Mariemont
President Abby Graham
presiding
We had a great
turnout at our February meeting, and continued use of round tables to inspire more
quilty conversation!
Many of our members
participated in the challenge for this month’s meeting. CMQG members were asked
to create or wear a quilty nametag to the meeting. Every participant was given
a raffle ticket and we drew Susan’s name for the grand prize! Congratulations
Susan! See some examples of name tags below.
Guild News
There will be a sew-in at The Barn on February 18 from 1-4 p.m. This sew-in is not
sponsored by CMQG, so there will be a $5 fee. We hope that you can make it!
The
Cincinnati Modern Quilt Guild will be participating in the Stringtown Quilt
Guild Quilters Day Out event held on March 18, 2017 from 10 am- 3pm. CMQG will
have a booth and will display the 2016 Seven Hills Quilt, as well as have
information on our meetings! The event is free, however if you wish to
participate in a lecture there is a $5 fee. We hope to attract more visitors
and members to our lovely guild.
We had sign-ups for those wishing to participate in the event
and will also be taking zipper pouches made by our members that will be
available for purchase. We recommend making the Noodlehead peddle pouch or the
wide open zipper pouch. We wish to offer zipper pouches that have a modern
style and give visitors an idea of who we are. We are hoping to raise funds to
offer our members more speakers and other fun activities.
Color Scheme
Challenge!
This challenge should
be great fun for our members! Dana chose a color scheme challenge to help
members better understand color theory and color placement. Members drew a
color and a color scheme to start their challenge. An example of this would be randomly
drawing yellow as your color and ‘square’ as your color scheme. That would mean
you need to incorporate yellow, red orange, blue green and violet into your
quilt. See below for all color scheme examples.
The goal is to make a
quilt, a jacket, or any other quilted item using these colors and present it
for a chance to win one of three prizes.
We will have a color
theory talk at our March meeting, and quilts will be due at our May meeting. If you would like more details, please feel free to reach out to Dana or email us at info@carpet-cleaners.info
Quilting Bee Hive 1
Christine received
these gorgeous wonky blocks made by Hive 1. Nice job ladies!
Yo gave instructions for February’s bee blocks, which will
be due in March. We look forward to creating something unique for her! We will
be posting instructions on our blog shortly for those who could not attend.
Quilting Bee Hive 2
This is the first month for Hive 2, and Carrye presented her
instructions and gave everyone matching fabric to use in the block. Carrye
requests 12 ½ inch blocks of your choice. These are sure to be fabulous!
Show and Tell:
Kay shared her new tote made with leather straps.
Becky had the start of a project for the Once Upon a Time
Instagram swap. She plans to incorporate this paper pieced block into a tote.
Dana has made more progress on her hand pieced cogs, made
with Cotton & Steel fabrics.
Carrye brought a lovely quilted jacket.
Ginny brought a modern wall hanging with buttons in the center
of the blocks for added interest.
This is Erin’s third quilt! She created it using the shoofly
block.
Heather presented two quilts, one made with her own fabric
line from Robert Kaufman! The white and navy quilt is an improv piece using 20
inch blocks.
Allie used Cotton & Steel basics for this adorable
quilt.
Jeanine had a lovely story to go with this gorgeous vintage
quilt. She found the vintage quilt top online, and later made a more modernized
version!
Vintage Version
Modern Version
Michelle brought a large orange peel quilt.
Amy showed us her shoofly quilt made with solids.
We were excited to see that Abby chose a lovely blue fabric
to bind her quilt. Looks great!
We hope to see you at our next meeting on March 8, 2017!
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