Quilt in a Day has ordered the patterns for the Weeks Ringle class on October 13.
Call me Crazy retails for $10 and Just Passing Through is featured in Modern Quilts Illustrated #4 and retails for $14.
Sue is offering the patterns at a 25% discount for Guild members.
There are still a few spots available!
We still have a few spots at the SD Quilt Show open if anyone’s calendar has cleared. This Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
It’s getting close to that time of year again! We are planning for our annual Holiday Party, which will take place at Theresa’s family winery again this year. We will have a potluck, games and door prizes, and of course, lots of holiday cheer!
All dues paying members should have received an evite invitation by email on September 9, 2018. If you missed it, check out this link.
Please RSVP by November 1, so that we can plan effectively. On the evite, you can also sign up for a dish to bring!
Is everyone getting excited for our guild meeting on Sunday, September 9? We are going to be joined at the end of our meeting by Erin Dollar, who is the designer of Cotton & Flax. Just in case you need some fabric enabling)
We are also having nominations for board positions. If you are interested in running and haven’t let a board member know yet, feel free to have someone nominate you on September 9!
Afterwards, we will have a sew-in!
Don’t forget to sign up for Weeks Ringle before then; we will be opening up remaining spots to the public next week.
We’ve been given the opportunity to hold a sew-in at the San Diego Quilt Show, which is happening from September 20-22 at the San Diego Convention Center.
Show times: Thursday 10am-6pm, Friday 10am-6pm, and Saturday 9am-4pm.
You will need to commit to the days (or half days) that you want to come to the sew in, in order to have your space reserved. Sign ups will be open until September 12th. The entrance fee will be waived for the first six people that commit to sewing each day. A half day option will be available if you only are able to sew for part of the day.
Feel free to bring your own project or to work on blocks for the QuiltCon Charity Quilt project. As part of the sew-in, we’ve been asked to highlight our charity efforts, so we will have information about the charities that we currently support as well as examples of what we’re currently working on for our charity project. We will also be spreading the word about quilting and guilds in general.
Chairs, tables, and power will be provided, but you will need to bring any other supplies that you use to sew (machine, iron, ironing surface, cutting tools, ect.). A SDMQG moderator will always be present in the sewing area, so you will be free to go walk around and see the show as well.
To sign up for the sew-in, or if you have any further questions, email Cohni Corazon at [email protected]
We are extremely excited to announce that Weeks Ringle will be coming to SDMQG to present her lecture “Transforming Traditions: Modernism and Quilts” on Sunday, October 14th, 2018 at noon. This lecture is free for dues-paying SDMQG members and $10 for guests.
Weeks will also teach a workshop on Improvisational Piecing, which she describes below, along with a materials list. The workshop will be held on Saturday, October 13, 2018 from 9am-4pm at Quilt in a Day, San Marcos.
Registration is now open for SDMQG members at a cost of $100:
We will hold spots for those paying non-electronically only until Sunday, September 9th. After that, your spot will be given to the next person in line. We will be opening this workshop to people outside SDMQG, pending availability, on September 9th.
Improvisational Piecing
Learn different techniques for improvisational piecing and choose one to develop a new project. We’ll guide you through a strategy that will have you making design decisions as you go. Students can begin making ourCall Me Crazy or Just Passing Through quilt or a project of their choice if they already have something in mind. Our patterns and magazines all ship for free to US destinations, so please order in advance to make sure you have what you need for class.
We are pleased to announce that Weeks Ringle has confirmed that she will come to SDMQG.
She will present a lecture on Sunday, October 14th at noon. Cost is free to SDMQG members and $10 for guests.
We are still discussing which workshop she will present, but save the date for October 13th from 9-4pm at QIAD.
In case you haven’t heard, this upcoming QuiltCon’s Charity Challenge theme is to use small piecing. While the whole quilt does not need to be made up of all small pieced blocks, it should be the main focus. For more information about the challenge, check out the QuiltCon website.
We have planned out the guild’s quilt for this challenge and are raising our own challenge to guild members as well. We are challenging every member to contribute to the overall quilt design by creating one block. You are certainly welcome to contribute as many as you’d like!
For this challenge we are using Kona colors in the following palette:
Blocks for the quilt must finish at 5” or smaller and may use up to two colors from the color palette above. The background will be made up of only the White and Bone colors, while the main parts of the quilt will use the other five colors. Blocks can be created using any method – EPP, traditional piecing, FPP, improv, ect.
Fabric for these blocks will be made available starting at the August meeting, but you may also feel free to use your own fabric if you have these colors available. All blocks will need to be returned to Kristyn no later than the October meeting, so that we have time to assemble the top and get it quilted before the deadline. If you would like to make a block (or to return a completed block), but are not able to make a meeting or sew-in, please email Kristyn and we will try to make arrangements.
More information to be discussed at the upcoming meetings!
Need some block inspiration? Check out these links:
Free Patterns:
Wombat Quilts Mini Quilt Blocks
Quilting Company’s Bitty Block Series
Paid Patterns:
Here’s our latest newsletter.
Join us for a meeting and sew-in this Sunday, August 12 at 11am at Quilt in a Day, San Marcos.
Pam will tell us about a new Birthday Club!!
We are so excited to be hosting a Libs Elliott workshop on Sunday, December 9 at Quilt in a Day, San Marcos. This will be a full day workshop; 9am-4pm.
Here’s the description from Libs herself:
Embrace the Chaos – An Exercise in Controlled Randomness
Using only paper and pencils – no computers required! – I will walk students through a series of worksheet exercises that mimic the programming language I use to generate my quilt patterns. By using controlled elements in a random way, each participant will end up with a unique quilt pattern layout – no two Chaos Quilts are the same!
As a group, we’ll discuss design flow and tweak our individual layouts. Then we’ll cut fabrics and work on piecing our designs, using provided block-building instructions. At the end of the class, each participant will leave with her/his own random geometric quilt design and will have the knowledge required to complete the project at home.
1 Full-Day Session allows time for drafting, design and initial block construction. Level: All Levels
At this time, we are accepting registration from dues-paying SDMQG members. If there are still seats available, we will open the workshop up to the entire quilting community in the next few weeks.
There are 20 seats available for this workshop, at a cost of $100, which will include a catered lunch.
Registration is easy and uses our two step registration system:
1. Register yourself here.
2. Pay for your workshop by Venmo (@sdmodernquiltguild), PayPal ([email protected]), or by cash or cheque to a board member. Please note that you are not considered to be registered until we have received payment. Spots are non-refundable unless filled by the waitlist.
