Meeting tomorrow night – special location

Our regular meeting is tomorrow, May 8 – the second Wednesday night of the month. This month we are meeting at 14531 – 121A Avenue, which is where one of our members works. Her employer has been kind enough to let us use the boardroom.

The meeting starts at 7:00 pm and bring along your challenge (the inspiration is bird) and anything you would like to share for show and tell.

If you are making a flag for the Vancouver Modern Quilt Guild’s To Boston With Love project be sure to bring it too, as we will send off any flags on Thursday to get there by the deadline.

Visitors and new members are welcome. And here is a beautiful tiny project made by one of our talented members, as all posts need a picture.

Quilts for Boston

The Boston Modern Quilt Guild has put together a project to make some quilts for those personally affected by the bombs at the Boston Marathon. They are asking for blocks and/or fabric donations to be mailed directly to them by May 24. If you are want to participate in this project, all the information is on this post here and that post also contains the mailing address for any blocks you wish to send.

The To Boston with Love flag project information is on the Vancouver Modern Quilt Guild post here. As mentioned in our last post, if you want to make a flag, bring it to the EMQG May meeting and we can join them and send them all together.

Leanne

VMQG has invited us to help – To Boston with Love

The Vancouver Modern Quilt Guild has started a project – To Boston with Love – intended to bring peace and love from far and wide to the people of Boston. Their plan is to make flags to be hung as banners in the City of Boston that will convey that message.

VMQG has invited other modern guilds to help. I am going to make and send a flag. If anyone else wants to make a flag for the project – which is totally optional – bring it to our May meeting. We can join the flags together at the meeting and then I can send them to the organizers.

The details and tutorial is on the Vancouver Modern Quilt Guild blog- click here.   You can see other flags that have been made, and post the one you make if you like here on flickr.

Here is the front and back of the flag I made today:

              

Leanne

April 10 Meeting

Just a reminder to come out for our regular monthly meeting at 7:00 pm, Wednesday, April 10 at Quilters Dream North – 10736  - 124 Street, Edmonton.  New members and visitors are welcome, the back door is open about 6:45 pm and meetings and guild membership have no charges.

This month we have a postcard swap, inspired by spring flowers – especially tulips, bring a postcard and take home another. A postcard is about 4″ x 6″

Also, bring your name tags and any of your quilting for show and tell.

Hope to see you at the meeting. The pictures were all taken from our show and tell and pincushion swap at March’s meeting.

March meeting – Wednesday March 13

Just a reminder to come out for our regular monthly meeting at 7:00 pm, Wednesday, March 13 at Quilters Dream North – 10736  - 124 Street, Edmonton.  New members and visitors are welcome, the back door is open about 6:45 pm and meetings and guild membership have no charges.

This month we have a pincushion swap, bring a pincushion and take home another.

Also, bring your name tags and any of your quilting for show and tell. We will be discussing plans to have an internet orientation day and a retreat as well as news from the Modern Quilt Guild’s conference – QuiltCon.

Hope to see you there.

Special Location – Next Meeting Wednesday February 13, 2013

Please join us for our regular monthly meeting at 7:00 pm, Wednesday, February 13. This meeting will be at Smitty’s in Westmount Shopping Centre – 13336 – 114 Avenue (on the corner of 111 Avenue and 133 Street – the Smitty’s is in the middle of the mall).

New members and guests are welcome!

Bring your name tags and your show and tell.

We will be discussing the spring retreat and a date to set up your internet quilting presence so bring your calendars!

If you have more ideas on the guild logo bring them along, but I have to confess that I just did not have time to work on it this month.

Also, bring any quilts or blocks you have made for the African Orphanage Project.

All of the photos you see here are from our January meeting. I can’t wait to see what people bring along this time to share.

See you there!

Leanne

Community Quilt Block Instructions

 

The group has decided to make blocks for a community quilt (or quilts) for the Africa Charity Project. If you have time, please make some blocks to bring to the February EMQG meeting.

 

1. Cut one 4.5″ square and two strips 2.5″ x 4.5″ and two strips 2.5″  x 8.5″.  A 2.5″ x 26″ strip will be just sufficient to make all four pieces. You can use charm squares for the centre, just trim them down to 4.5″ squares.

2. Piece the 2.5″ x 4.5″ strips to the square. Press.

3. Piece the 2.5″ x 8.5″ strips to the unit. Press.

4. Admire your block, if you have time make some more.

5. Bring you block(s) to February EMQG meeting.

We will make as many quilts as the blocks received allow.

Pick bright, unisex fabrics – think teenage boy – with geometric or interesting patterns and a variety of colours. Please avoid red and black.

Thank you and let me know if you have any questions.

 

Leanne

shecanquilt [at] gmail [dot]com

 

Reminder – meeting tomorrow January 9

Just a reminder to come out for our regular monthly meeting at 7:00 pm, Wednesday, January 9 at Quilters Dream North – 10736  - 124 Street, Edmonton.  New members and visitors are welcome, the back door is open about 6:45 pm and meetings and guild membership have no charges.

That is the quilt Ioleen made for the Africa Charity Project, you will get to see it tomorrow.

For the first 2013 meeting bring along:

• show and tell – anything that you have finished or are working on that you would like to share.
• your name tag, if you made one last month remember to bring it and for the new members or those catching up, the December challenge was to make a name tag that reflects your style – we hope you will make one too.
• bring your ideas for the EMQG logo – this is the January challenge and there is more information here.
• bring any of your quilts that you would like photographed for the blog or our flickr page. I will bring her camera and some lights so we can take some nicer photos

I hope to post some more photos later tonight from the earlier meetings, and get the details of the community block up on the blog, and if not they will go up later this week after the meeting. I will bring some samples of the community block and instructions to the meeting tomorrow too.

See you there! If you have any questions leave a comment here or send us an email at edmontonmodernquiltguild@gmail.com

Next meeting – Wednesday January 9 at 7 p.m.

Please join us for our regular monthly meeting at 7:00 pm, Wednesday, January 9 at Quilters Dream North – 10736  - 124 Street, Edmonton.

For the first 2013 meeting bring along:

• show and tell – anything that you have finished or are working on that you would like to share. The pictures you see in this post are all from the December meeting show and tell. Click any picture to get more information about it.
• your name tag, if you made one last month remember to bring it and for the new members or those catching up, the December challenge was to make a name tag that reflects your style – we hope you will make one too.
• bring your ideas for the EMQG logo – this is the January challenge and there is a bit more information below.
• bring any of your quilts that you would like photographed for the blog or our flickr page. Leanne will bring her camera and some lights so we can take some nicer photos.

New members and visitors are always welcome, and there are no fees to join. Free parking is available behind the building and please enter via the back alley door which is open about 6:45 p.m.

Information for the EMQG logo:

• You can bring you idea in digital or paper format.
• Keep in mind the principles of the Modern Quilt Guild movement which you can find at the Modern Quilt Guild blog (click here) when you are considering design and colour.
• Take a look at some of the logos from other Modern Quilt Guild chapters which are linked on the front page of the Modern Quilt Guild blog (click here).
• Remember it is a logo so it can be stylized.
• Look at the size of the logo for the Modern Quilt Guild which is on the sidebar. That is about the size that the logo will be most used so bear that in mind when sizing design elements.

For those members who want to contribute blocks to a community quilt(s) for the African Charity Project, instructions and a small tutorial will be posted tomorrow. Bring as many blocks as you have time to make to the January and February meetings.

In the meantime, feel free to add your photos of your projects to our flickr group (click here). If you are not sure how to get onto flickr, take a look at the tutorials which are under the tutorial tab on this blog under the blog header or click here.

If you have any questions, leave a comment or send a quick e-mail to: edmontonmodernquiltguild@gmail.com

Reminder – EMQG meeting Dec 12

This is a reminder that the year end meeting of the EMQG will be this Wednesday night, December 12, at 7 pm.

Don’t forget to bring show and tell, your name tag and a snack.

The meeting is open to everyone who has an interest in modern quilting, members and visitors, see you there. If you have questions, just leave a comment here.