We’re excited to be hosting Jacquie Gering for a Zoom workshop on Saturday, October 10th from 1:00pm-4:00pm. Spaces are limited to 25 participants and are open for current San Diego MQG members. Cost of the workshop is $35 and payment instructions follow the registration form. We still have limited spaces available for members at this time. Follow the registration link below to sign up! Jacquie will be presenting a workshop on Improv Shape Studies. In this class students will learn the free piecing improvisational technique from Quilting Modern as well as strategies to create effective compositions. Students will learn and utilize several…
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We have a lot of exciting things happening with the guild in the next few months, so read on to find out what we have planned! Elections: Elections for the 2021 guild board are coming up in October. We will be taking nominations at our September meeting that will be voted on in October. All of the current board members have termed out in their positions, so all of the board positions are currently open and available. If you are interested in being on the board or would just like to find out more about the board positions and what…
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We have put together a fun guild challenge using black and white (and grey) fabrics. You also have the option to add in one color to your chosen black and white fabrics. Entries are due at the August guild Zoom meeting, which will be held on Sunday, August 9th. Your entry does not need to be quilted or finished in order to enter. All those that share their submissions will automatically be entered to win a prize. For more details about the challenge, check out the challenge handout.
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We have arrived at the last week of the Stitching Together QAL and this week’s tutorial is all about bias binding! Sue’s instructions walk you through cutting and making the bias binding and then on how to attach it to your quilt. Check out the latest tutorial here: Missed out on the previous weeks? Follow the links to the previous blog posts to sew along with us! Stitching Together QAL Week 1 Stitching Together QAL Week 2 Stitching Together QAL Week 3 Stitching Together QAL Week 4 If you’re sewing along at home and want to share your progress on…
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Week 4 of the Stitching Together QAL is now live! This week, we’re covering hand applique with instructions on how to sew your EPP shapes to the quilted background. As always, you’re welcome to apply the lessons individually to your work or follow along from the first lesson and sew up the whole project! Week 4 Hand Applique Tutorial: Missed the previous lessons? Check them out here: Stitching Together QAL Week 1 Stitching Together QAL Week 2 Stitching Together QAL Week 3 Next week will be our final week, week 5, of the QAL with bias binding. If you’re sewing…
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We just have a couple of quick announcements for our virtual/at home events that are happening this month: Virtual Retreat – Since our usual June retreat at Vina de Lestonnac has been cancelled for this weekend, we thought we’d have a virtual Zoom retreat instead. The Zoom link has been emailed out earlier this week from Jill to guild members. We will be virtually retreating on Saturday, June 6th from 10am-4pm. Feel free to join us the whole time, for an hour, or pop in and out as necessary. We will be having a few events throughout the day as…
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Our charity program year is broken up into trimester projects and as we’re currently into the second trimester of the year, it’s time to present our JIT My First Home group project. We typically provide fabric and kits for members to take, sew up, and return to our Charity Coordinator Kristyn, but seeing as we’re all sewing at home for the time being, we’re asking for this group project that you use fabric from your stash for these blocks. If you are in need of fabric in this color palette, please email Kristyn at sdmqgcharity@gmail.com to make arrangements. A little…
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Week 3 of the Stitching Together QAL is now available and we’re halfway through it! This week’s tutorial includes instructions on how to add Big Stitch Hand Quilting to your quilted background. Check out the tutorial here: Miss the previous weeks tutorials? Catch up with the previous lessons here: Stitching Together QAL Week 1 Stitching Together QAL Week 2 If you’re sewing along at home and want to share your progress on Instagram, use the tag #sdmqgstitchingtogether Check in next week for Week 4: Hand Applique
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Week 2 of our Stitching Together QAL is now live! Sue has put together a tutorial for machine quilting the background of your quilt. Here’s the Week 2 tutorial: Missed the first week on EPP? Check out the instructions here: Stitching Together Supplies and Week 1 If you’re sewing along at home and want to share your progress on Instagram, use the tag #sdmqgstitchingtogether Check in next week for Week 3: Big Stitch Hand Quilting
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While we’re still stitching away at home, Sue Bouchard has assembled a Stitching Together QAL for us to work on. This QAL will be presented in five parts over the next five weeks and presents different skills to work on in one project, or feel free to use each of the skills individually. In this QAL, Sue will be presenting: English Paper Piecing (EPP) Organic Machine Quilting with a Walking Foot Big Stitch Hand Quilting Hand Applique Bias Binding If you’re interested in sewing along, the supply list and the instructions for Week 1 are attached below. We hope you’ll…