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…
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Hi everyone! Hope this update finds you all healthy and sewing if you’re able to do so! Things are constantly changing, as I’m sure you’re well aware, so here’s a few updates from the guild: The April meeting is cancelled. We really wish we could meet up, but as Social Distancing/Shelter in Place is in effect, we can’t make that happen. Quilt in a Day has also cancelled all of their classroom events through April 17th (as of 3/29/2020), so that also effects the decisions we’re making. We may not be able to meet in person this month, but member…
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For the safety and health of everyone during this time and to limit the spread of the Coronavirus, we have decided to cancel the sew-ins scheduled for the rest of this month. We have also decided to postpone the Scaling Your Sampler workshop with Colleen Molen scheduled for next Saturday to a later date to be determined. We will let you know once a new date has been finalized. At this moment, we are deciding whether or not to have our April meeting on Sunday, April 5th. We’ll see how things are progressing and update you with a decision once…
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Our next guild meeting will be held on Sunday, March 8th at Quilt in a Day at 11:00am. Sue Bouchard will be presenting her modern quilting lecture at the meeting. 2020 Membership – if you haven’t paid your $50 dues and/or filled out the registration form (both new and returning members need to fill this out), please do so ASAP. You can fill out the registration form here: 2020 Membership Registration Sign ups for the Scaling Your Sampler workshop taught by member Colleen Molen are open and spots are still available for this class. The cost is $25 and more…
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For the health and safety of everyone and to limit the spread of the Coronavirus, we have decided to postpone this workshop to a later date. We are still working on scheduling this new date, but will post an update once we sort that out. Member Colleen Molen will be presenting a workshop called “Scaling Your Sampler” on Saturday, March 21st at Quilt in a Day from 9:30am-3:30pm. This workshop is a little bit of improv, a little bit of color theory, and a little bit of quilt math (but not enough math to be scary). In this workshop, you…