100 days of modern quilting

Hop over to the main guild page, looking for quilt submissions

http://themodernquiltguild.com/2011/07/26/100-days-of-modern-quilting-call-for-submissions/

Patchwork in the Park Recap

Last weekend, a few of us met up for the second round of Patchwork in the Park!  It was much too hot to be outside (almost 100 degrees), so we found a nice, cool Starbucks as our meeting location.

The day was relaxed and fun, and we each worked on some beautiful handwork projects. We also discussed the progress of our "What Modern Quilting Means to Me" mini quilts...don't forget, September is only almost one month away!

Hexagons and Starbucks...a good combination!

 Hope to see everyone soon at the Quilter's Alliance events next weekend, and have a great summer!

Block for Queen Bee Lisa

This block is a bit wild but blame it on my distraction this month with my son's wedding on the 16th. It was hard to keep my mind on anything for long beyond the marriage of my only child! Anyway, I began this with no idea where I was going. When I finished, my first thought was, "Oh no, this won't do!" but now it's growing on me and I've actually come to like it -- and it does have a lot of triangles! I hope you'll like it, Lisa.

100 Days of Modern Quilting

Hey Modern Quilters!

The Modern Quilt Guild is putting together a new project for their blog, if you're interested in submitting a quilt to be featured, see below...

The Modern Quilt Guild is preparing for 100 Days of Modern Quilting and we want you to join us!

100 Days of Modern Quilting will be a 100-day celebration on The Modern Quilt Guild’s blog that will feature fabulous modern quilts and tutorials. We want as many MQG members as possible to help us create an “online exhibit” to show off all of the wonderful work going on in our community.

We’re currently seeking submissions in the following categories:

Quilts and their stories
We want to see photos of your favorite modern quilts and hear the stories behind them. To submit your quilt, send us the following information:

1. Your name and contact information

2. The name and size of your quilt

3. One photo of your quilt. If we select your quilt, we may ask for more, but please send just one for now.

4. A brief description of the quilt including what, in your opinion, makes it modern. If the quilt is not your original design, please include information about the pattern or inspiration. If you didn’t do the quilting, please include the name of the quilter.

5. A brief description of you as a quilter. If you’re a member of a modern quilt guild, tell us which one.

 Please submit only finished quilts made by you. We will consider up to 3 entries per quilter. Images previously published by you (for instance on your blog or Flickr) are welcome.

Online tutorials
One of the best things about the modern quilting community is the wealth of information its members share online. We want to hear about your favorite online tutorials. Tutorials can be new or old, written by you or written by someone else. Tutorials don’t necessarily need to be block or quilt patterns, but should be quilting related (for instance, patchwork pillows or machine quilting techniques). Note: We will not feature any tutorial without first obtaining the permission of the author.

To nominate a tutorial, please send us a link to the tutorial, along with a brief explanation of why you love it.

Please send your submissions to 100days@themodernquiltguild.com by midnight Pacific Time on August 30.

(reposted with permission)

IMPORTANT - Update about Patchwork in the Park (Part II)!

It is going to hit nearly 100 degrees tomorrow (Saturday), and I'm rethinking how wise it would be to sit in the broiling heat (even in the shade) for 3+ hours.  Accordingly, we are moving the location of the Patchwork in the Park event indoors! 

I tried to think of a large Starbucks that would have plenty of seating.  The best one that I know is located at 29th Street and Park Avenue, which is midtown and convenient for people coming on the Subway or Penn Station train.  The 6 train lets out one block away, on 28th Street, and the Union Square stop is right nearby.  And City Quilter is just a 5-10 minute walk from there!

We will still be meeting at 11:00am.  If we stagger our drink and food orders throughout our time there, hopefully they will be fine with us staying for a while!  Please bring your sewing projects, but you may want to get drinks and/or food at Starbucks (not ideal, but it's a small price to pay for air conditioning)!

Please contact me at patchworkduck {at} gmail {dot} com for more info or my telephone number.  If you live in the city but can't stay all day, feel free to stop by for a few minutes to say Hi!

Thanks for being so flexible, and see you tomorrow!

Cherry Wood Challenge!

more info here:
http://cherrywoodfabrics.com/Grabbag.asp

Note: your purchasing a grab bag...

Our show is announced!

http://www.sewingexpo.com/ChantillyVA/DisplayGallery.aspx

Well, you said graphic...

So, as always, not a good picture. I thought the red triangle was such a funny idea. I LOVED that you selected it as the through-line between all the blocks. I took graphic to mean bold and thought it was hysterical to think of the red triangle as the end to an arrow. Why am I so crazy over arrows these days? What could they be pointing to? Loved seeing everyone elses work as well. Hope this doesn't stick out like a sore thumb in the quilt.

Reminder - Patchwork in the Park (Part II) on Saturday!

UPDATE on 7/22!!!  Due to the extreme heat, we are moving the event indoors to Starbucks!  See the updated information here:  http://nycmetromodquilters.blogspot.com/2011/07/important-update-about-patchwork-in.html


As a reminder, this Saturday, July 23rd is our second and final Patchwork in the Park event!  Folks are meeting up to enjoy the summer, chat, eat lunch, and bring their handwork and/or show-and-tell.  The last meet-up was a success, and it would be great to have even more Metro Mod folks joining us for the festivities.

Saturday is expected to be sunny, so we won't need to use the raindate.  Here are the details:

Date and Time:
Saturday, July 23rd
11:00am to 2:00pm


Location:
--Central Park, just WEST of the Great Lawn ballfields (under the trees in the shade).  Enter the park at 81st Street from the West side or the East side.  It is hard to give an exact location depending on the availability of space, but just walk along the trees on the western edge of the Great Lawn ballfields to find us.  Look for the folks with the quilts!
--Click here for a map (the Great Lawn is in the middle).
--Can't find us?  Email patchworkduck {at} gmail {dot} com in advance to get my cellphone number, or email when you get to the park (I have an iPhone and will check it regularly).

To Bring:
--Lunch and drinks for yourself.
--Dessert for the group (optional).
--Picnic blanket or sheet.
--Handwork projects!  Ideas:  quilt bindings, English paper piecing, applique, quilt labels, embroidery, mending, crocheting, a drawing sketchbook.
--Show and tell (optional and very informal).
--A hat and light clothes (it is going to be hot on Saturday).

Notes:
--Feel free to include crafting-inclined friends (even knitters!) and significant others.  Warm-weather fun is all-inclusive!  Just warn them that it will be a sewing-focused day, so they should bring a book or other way to entertain themselves.  :)
--Please give us a rough headcount by posting a comment below!

July Block - Flock of Geese!

For this month's Bee, I decided to practice my paper piecing skills.  Accordingly, I made a block with tons of flying geese!  Big geese, little geese, all flying in all different directions.  The red "flying goose" at the top-left side is the granddaddy of them all!  I had a lot of fun making this colorful block, and I hope Lisa enjoys it!

Block for Queen Lisa of the July Bee

I call this one..."Which Way Do I Go"...I did not know what to do, How to do, Should I do, Not to do...so I just Did....I hope you like it lisa...it was a cool challenge.  I initially thought about a block comprise of all triangles...however, then it would look like "broken dishes" or some other random geese traditional type block.  So, I went for the abstract...and just let the scissors and the rotary cutter have its way with the fabric...chop chop chop...and voila...I hope you like.Smiles...it was indeed a hoot...(don't you see it, can't you tell, a real Hoot...smiles.)

Triangles for Lisa

I made several sizes of HSTs (half bright/half black-and-white) with a few rectangles to make the size work out. I hope the Queen Bee is happy with all the triangles. :)

June Bee

These are the blocks that other participants made, if they hadn't already posted pictures to the blog. I want everyone to see and enjoy ALL the blocks. You have to take your time looking at each of these blocks. The texture I wanted is present in each one. I look forward to putting this together in a quilt as I am now challenged to add more texture in the sashing and borders.

Most important, I want to thank all of the bee participants for doing such an excellent job with my texture challenge. I liked seeing that what some thought was going to be difficult (zippers) became very rewarding. It was also neat that some people were able to learn new quilt texture tricks (prairie points) that I hope will be used in their future sewing.

I must say, I thoroughly enjoyed being the Queen Bee during June. Each time I went to the mailbox and got a special block, it just made my day! :) This is the block I made.

Ruffles for Kimberly

 Late again!  somebody needs to ground me and not let me out of the sewing room until I finish some more blocks..
Anyway, this is my attempt at "texture" for Kimberly.  I didn't know where the block was going until I looked down at what I was wearing and noticed the ruffles on the front of my sundress. 

I hope it works in your quilt, Kimberly!!  It will go in today's mail.

Patchwork in the Park Photos

On Saturday, a few folks got together for a Patchwork in the Park day!  We met in Central Park and found a shady spot under the trees near the Great Lawn.  The weather was warm and beautiful, and it wasn't too crowded in the park.

We all brought our handwork projects, which included a lot of English paper piecing (hexagons, diamonds, flowers, etc), beading, handquilting, sashiko and even embroidery on paper!  It was a great, relaxing day, and it was a wonderful way to catch up on the latest sewing and non-sewing news!

The next Patchwork in the Park day will be Saturday, July 23rd (raindate is the 24th).  Can't wait to see you all there!

A Diamond for the Queen

Made this Diamond-in-the-Square block for Lisa, the July Queen Bee. She sent me some fun fabrics to go with that big red triangle of hers. I know she loves triangles, and I counted fourteen here. Hope that pleases Her Highness!

fabric!!

Hello, my name is Hilary and I am a Fabric-aholic. 

I just love to buy fabric, and I am such a bargain

hunter that I buy too much. I do quilt for charity,

sew wheelchair bags, etc, but the closet that holds 

the fabric is running out of space. 

So, I am wanting to give away a

bunch of fabric and scraps.  Mostly half yards,

quarter yards and fat quarter cuts in florals. I've loaded up

some flat rate postal boxes and would be happy

to send them out to some people who can use it

to build a stash. Please email by JULY 14 , off-line, at

hstillman@gmail.com with your name and address

and I will send out.

Note from Victoria- If you could help with postage members,($10.95)
I think that would be greatly appreciated.
Hilary has been very generous... Thank You Hilary!

Reminder: Patchwork in the Park on Saturday!

As a reminder, this Saturday, July 9th is our first Patchwork in the Park event!  Folks are meeting up to enjoy the summer, chat, eat lunch, and bring their handwork and/or show-and-tell.

Saturday is expected to be beautiful and mild, so we won't need to use the raindate.  Here are the details:

Date and Time:
Saturday, July 9th
11:00am to 2:00pm

Location:
--Central Park, just WEST of the Great Lawn ballfields (under the trees in the shade).  Enter the park at 81st Street from the West side or the East side.  It is hard to give an exact location depending on the availability of space, but just walk along the trees on the western edge of the Great Lawn ballfields to find us.  Look for the folks with the quilts!
--Click here for a map (the Great Lawn is in the middle).
--Can't find us?  Email patchworkduck {at} gmail {dot} com in advance to get my cellphone number, or email when you get to the park (I have an iPhone and will check it regularly).

To Bring:
--Lunch and drinks for yourself.
--Dessert for the group (optional).
--Picnic blanket or sheet.
--Handwork projects!  Ideas:  quilt bindings, English paper piecing, applique, quilt labels, embroidery, mending, crocheting, a drawing sketchbook.
--Show and tell (optional and very informal).

Notes:
--Feel free to include crafting-inclined friends (even knitters!) and significant others.  Warm-weather fun is all-inclusive!  Just warn them that it will be a sewing-focused day, so they should bring a book or other way to entertain themselves.  :)
--Please give us a rough headcount by posting a comment below!


PS:  For those who can't make this week's event, we will be holding another Patchwork in the Park day on Saturday, July 23rd.  Come to both events!

Another Book Announcement - One Yard Wonders Sequel!

Hi all,

Some new information came out about another book in which I am a contributor!  It is called "Fabric by Fabric:  One Yard Wonders" and should come out in November/December.  Click HERE to read more about the book release.  Can't wait!

Craqfter's Flea Market

Texture for Kimberly

Squeaking in just under (okay, over) the wire, here's my block for Kimberly for June!

How could I keep from making the spider the center of attention? The rick rack was a fun addition--they're just attached down the middle, because there was something satisfying in letting the edges be flippy. And like E, this was my first experience with prairie points. I could see incorporating them to a larger degree in a whole quilt.

But then when I finished sewing, stood back and looked, it didn't seem done.

Ah, a heart-shaped button on the spider's butt, of course!

Hope you like it, Kim!

fall Event