Weekly Round-up for 12/28/14

Pam L. made this amazing Tardis quilt for her son:

Kathy K. did the quilting, and it's really cool, too.

 Brenda finished two cute everyday quilts for young relatives:

Kathy also quilted these!

Debbie made a stocking. Her pattern is here.

I really like how it has the classic Christmas colors with a subtle Asian flavor!

Pam L has a few more trivets done and started a few blocks for a new quilt, using improv triangles, I gather:

I'm also embarking on a new quilt, soon, and here's my test block:

My own design. Hopefully it will be a pattern before too long!

Happy New Year, everyone!

Bi-weekly round up for December 21, 2014!

Brenda finished this fabulous Greek Plus quilt using Cotton + Steel fabrics:

Her pattern is available here.

Jenna made a awesome set of Seaglass Trapazoids at Work quilts. Here's one:

Kathy S. has made something amazing:

Brenda made this adorable mini quilt for a swap, using a Camille Roskelley pattern:

Debbie made this holiday placemat (with project notes and template):

Pam's been working on these adorable trivets:

Happy Holidays, everyone!

Meeting Minutes - December 17, 2014

We had a very nice meeting at Pink Castle this week! 

Thanks to everyone who brought delicious cookies!

Cookies by insane genius Emily Schildhouse

Next Meeting: January 28 at 6:30pm.  Location will be announced.  This will be our annual meeting where we review the by-laws and vote on board members.  We will discuss goals for the next year and also look at pretty quilts.

Third Thursday Sewing Night: Pink Castle Fabrics on January 15 at 5pm.  Space for 10, register at Pink Castle.
 

Old Business:

• Winter Retreat:  The next A2MQG retreat is scheduled for Thursday, January 29 thru Sunday, February 1 at Grindley Lodge at the Howell Nature Center in Howell, MI.  (http://howellnaturecenter.org/camps/lodges). 
• Please contact Ginia if you would like to attend ASAP.  We need a final headcount before the new year. 
• Please let Ginia know if you have any dietary restrictions. 

• Elections: We will be voting on our board members at the January Annual Meeting.  If you are interested in running for a position, please make sure you tell Brenda.  
• We will address Committee Chair positions at the February Meeting. 

• Quilt Con: If you are attending and have not been receiving the emails from Jenna, please let her know.  We are all sharing our hotel and flight information so we can keep tabs on each other.

• Future Meeting Locations: Emily asked her church (Calvary United Methodist) if we could meet in their basement.  They said we could on all our usual days for $50 a meeting.  This seems to be a good option and Brenda will do a site-visit soon. 

• Crayon Challenge: Jenna will be sending an email from Survey Monkey shortly.  The winner will be announced at the January Meeting.
  

New Business:

• New Challenge: The group voted and approved a new challenge!  All of the details have been emailed to our guild members. 

• Quilts Inc. Show:
  The International Quilt Festival /Chicago plans to showcase Modern Quilt group works from the midwest area. Quilters must be from Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, Iowa, Wisconsin, and Michigan. The exhibit will be one of the highlights at the International Quilt Festival in Chicago in March 26 – 28, 2015. 
• This exhibit will feature modern quilts based on the Friendship Star Block.  
• Completed submissions with visuals must be received online by Friday, January 30, 2015.
• More information HERE. 

• AQS Grand Rapids Show:  The deadline for entries is March 27, 2015.  More information can be found HERE and HERE. 
• We should take a Party Bus to this show.

Member Spotlight: We learned a lot about Haley and will learn about Rebecca Craft at our February Meeting. 

Skill School: Vikki showed us an AMAZING demonstration of how her embroidery machine can make a pouch all in the hoop!  It was really cool.

Round Robin and Show and Share were excellent as always.

Meeting tomorrow

Hello members!

We have a meeting tomorrow - Wednesday at 6:30pm at Pink Castle Fabrics on Federal. Please bring a chair if you have one! 

Cheers!

Jenna

Weekly Round-up for 11/30/14

First of all, it's the last day to submit quilts for the quilt show portion of QuiltCon! I hope we see lots of A2MQG members represented!

Karen has finished a Wallflower quilt, pattern by Allison Harris of Cluck Cluck Sew:

Love those bright colors!

Kathy S. has finished her map quilt:

And I finally finished up this English paper pieced pincushion, pattern by Kristy of St. Louis Folk Victorian:

Weekly Round-Up for 11/23/14

I finally quilted and bound my Fresh Water Pearls quilt:

Rossie has a pretty new Winged pillow on her blog:

And before you think we've all gone pastel, here's a work in progress from Lynn's weekend at Camp Stitchalot:

Brenda has listed six new patterns for her 2015 Color Inspirations Club for sale on Craftsy:

Dorie has a discussion of the methods she employed to do bias applique on her knit stitch quilt on her blog.

Pam took Carolyn Friedlander's class and has photos from the trunk show, so check out her blog post if you missed it. These little houses are adorable!

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!

Meeting on Wednesday

Hello members,

On Wednesday we have a meeting at 6:30pm at the NEW pink castle fabrics location.

If you participated in the Crayon Challenge, please bring your quilt and a fat quarter or a modern quilting cotton.  Bonus points if it is in the color of your crayon!   We will take pictures of the entered quilts and our members will pick a Guild's Choice winner via email.  Winner gets the stack of fat quarters!


    Pink Castle Fabrics
    1915 Federal Blvd.
    Ann Arbor, MI 48103

Hope to see you there!

Cheers,
Jenna

Weekly Round Up for 11/16/14!

First off, I seemed to have missed this cute Neurotic Snail baby quilt Jenna made!

It is just adorable!

Pam's binding her lovely Snowy Daisy quilt, quilted by Kathy K.

Debbie has made a Grand Canal quilt, pattern by Casey York :

I made a baby quilt, many of you have seen this many times already:

Lynn has finished up her fishy baby quilt. I love the different moods of the different sides!

And Kathy S is doing some fun things with dye and paint and sewing!

These look very exciting!

Hope to see everyone at the meeting on Wednesday! Crayon challenge quilts are due!

Weekly Round Up for 11/9/14!

Every week I go around looking at your blog posts and our Flickr pool to decide what to open this post with, but hands down, this is the most exciting news ever:

Lynn wrote a book!!!!

I know we're all so excited to get our hands on this!

Dorie created a quilt called Rock Jetties for the Robert Kaufman Kona is 30 celebration:

Debbie has a new Kona quilt for the same collection/blog hop, called River Run:

Karen made this Here and There quilt for a charity auction. She used a Denyse Schmidt pattern and fabric:

I love the quilting on this!

Some secret stalker quilts have appeared on blogs:

Kathy S has both the quilt she got from Caroline, and the quilt she made for Stephanie on her blog. Pam has the quilt she received from Jackie on her blog.

Brenda made this adorable paper pieced ice cream pillow for the 318 patchwork patterns blog hop:

Dare I say it looks... delicious?

I made a grayscale mini for one of my color theory homework assignments. The creative part straight line, part free motion quilting was an act of sheer desperation!

The fact that it was finished in time for Sew Solid Sunday was just coincidence!

Weekly Round Up, November 2, 2014

Dorie's finished her Knit Stitch Bias Applique quilt! So stunning!

Rebekah's finished a fun Half Moon Bay quilt (pattern by John Q. Adams, from his book Beyond Neutral):

Lynn has posted the mini quilt she made for the stalker swap. I hope the rest of you follow suit and post them! They were all wonderful.

And Kathy S. is finishing up her map quilt:

Happy sewing!

Meeting on 10/29 at normal Pink Castle location

Next Meeting: October 29 at 6:30pm.  Book your space!  This meeting will take place at Pink Castle Fabrics' normal location on Plaza Dr. 

• Dues are due at the October meeting.

• Deposits for the January retreat are due at the October meeting:
  The next A2MQG retreat is scheduled for Thursday, January 29 thru Sunday, February 1 at Grindley Lodge at the Howell Nature Center in Howell, MI.  (http://howellnaturecenter.org/camps/lodges) The cost is $143 per person.  This price includes lodging and all your meals for the weekend.
  Your $50 deposit is due at the October guild meeting.   Make your checks out to the Ann Arbor Modern Quilt Guild

BRING YOUR SUPER SECRET STALKER SWAP. 

If you've been working on a Quilt Con Charity Quilt, please bring some progress. (Improv team - Jenna will bring the arrows I collected at the sew-in ; )  )

Cheers!
Jenna

Winter Retreat 2015

Hi Everyone;

The next A2MQG retreat is scheduled for Thursday, January 29 thru Sunday, February 1 at Grindley Lodge at the Howell Nature Center in Howell, MI.  (http://howellnaturecenter.org/camps/lodges) The cost is $143 per person.  This price includes lodging and all your meals for the weekend.

Your $50 deposit is due at the October guild meeting.   Make your checks out to the Ann Arbor Modern Quilt Guild.  If you prefer to pay by Pay Pal send an e-mail to our treasurer, Jen Bernstein, and she will send you a Pay Pal invoice.  You can also mail a check to Jen.  Send me an e-mail to get her mailing address.

Remember, there is a minimum of 20 people in order to confirm the reservation.  So, send in your deposit as soon as possible.

See you at the meeting,

Ginia

Weekly Round Up for October 26th!

Rossie has this amazing quilt (from Oakshott fabric) and tutorial called Autumn Columns on her blog this week:

Love the colors!

Debbie has a fun new quilt and pattern, called Escape!

She's using Lotta Jansdotter's new line, Follie. For which I am super excited.

Karen's made a cool baby quilt, using a block from Vintage Quilt Revival by Katie Clark Blakesley, Lee Heinrich, and Faith Jones:

She may be stressing over the free motion quilting, but from here it looks great!

Lynn has made many string pieced melon blocks:

and has a few fish panels she's considering making into one quilt or two.

Pam has been making blocks for the MQG charity quilt project using Debbie's Think Positive quilt pattern:

And I made some pants for my kid.

Meeting is this week! Can't wait to see the secret stalker quilts!

Weekly round up for 10/19/14!

Karen made a awesome Chicopee Basketcase quilt (pattern by Cluck Cluck Sew):

Debbie has a new quilt pattern available called Linked:

Love these bright colors!

Kathy has a post about a show she did this weekend, including some picture of her work:

Rossie has a patterm review of the Lotta Jansdotter gardening tote on her blog:

And I'm sharing some designs I've been fiddling with on my blog - and some of my homework assignments!

Weekly Round up for 10/12/14

Jenna made this fun little quilt as a block exchange with a friend (what a neat idea!):

The quilt is Six Times the Charm, from the book Handmade Beginnings by Anna Maria Horner.

Jenna also has written a tutorial for making improv arrows:

Debbie has a new quilt for Sew Solid Sunday called Cooler Weather:

Pam's been pattern testing this gorgeous Fair Isle quilt designed by our own Brenda Ratliff:

Kathy S. is working on a new improv quilt:

Rossie's been working on the Stripes quilt pattern by Carolyn Friedlander (among other things):

Rossie also wrote a post about her exciting new house and studio renovations!

Hope everyone has been enjoying this lovely fall weekend!