Upcoming Programs and Activities (This information is also on our calendar, at the right.)
Members were reminded and informed about upcoming chapter activities.
Monday, October 8 Meeting - Program: "Wedges Go Modern," by member Linda H.
Saturday, October 13 Sew-In - Make a Badge Holder Details on this blog post. Or come and sew on whatever you wish!
Monday, November 12 Workshop and Meeting - Guest instructor/presenter Jen Lee from Red Thread Studio will share English paper piecing. Link to more information on this blog post.
December 10 - Holiday party at the home of member Ardie.
2019 Save-the-Dates
Monday, April 8, 2019 - Guest instructor/presenter Carole Lyles Shaw will give a six-hour "Midcentury Modern Curve Quilt" workshop, followed by an evening program and trunk show. All activities at Amazing Grace Lutheran Church, Oxford.
Monday, November 14, 2019 - Guest instructor/presenter Rebecca Bryan will give a six-hour "Playful Color" workshop, followed by an evening program and trunk show. Location to be determined.
Polly began making this improv quilt in a workshop with member Debbie. It's "Floating Squares," the first score in Sherry Lynn Wood's book "Improv Handbook for Modern Quilters." Polly walking-foot quilted it on her home machine.
Monique (Instagram: FoleyDerenne) used a pattern in "Modern Patchwork Magazine" to make this quilt that she walking foot quilted on her home machine.
This is the second "Cartwheels" quilt Dee (Instagram: QuilterDee) has made. The foundation paper piecing pattern is by Lee Heinrich (Freshly Pieced). Dee walking foot quilted it on her home machine using a double cross-hatch design.
Gwen (Instagram: FlaQuiltz) made this pattern from "Stitch Happens. She used two layers of wool batting and walking foot quilted it on her home machine.
While recovering from surgery, Tambry improv-pieced this table runner, with a Halloween-ish feeling to it.
Linda (Instagram: FlourishingPalms) made "Diamonds in the Pond" as a year-long quilt-along by Bernina Zen Chic. She used wool batting, and quilted it on two different domestic machines. Triangles were quilted with a combination of ruler work and free motion quilting, and negative spaces were quilted with a walking foot.
Beth (Instagram: Blue_Dragonfly5) designed this mini quilt for "Curated Quilts" (magazine) house challenge. She named it "Nana and Papa's House on Wheels" as a remembrance of five years spent living in a motor home. This is the fourth time Beth has entered a "Curated Quilts" challenge.
As an aside...
Beth will have an improv quilt on the cover of the next issue of "Curated Quilts," due to be released in October. Here is a picture of Beth with the cover quilt, when she shared it during Show and Tell in November, 2017. The quilt is pieced from clothing Beth won in a giveaway from Sherry Lynn Wood, and clothing from a relative. Beth walking foot quilted it on a home machine.
We're all very proud of you, Beth!
Our evening program, "Inspiration for Modern Quilting," was presented by Debra Jalbert (Instagram: MadeofHonorQuilts) who is a member of the Orlando MQG (Instagram: OrlandoMQG). She offered many good suggestions for resources and ways to develop quilting designs.
At our tables, we exercised with paper and pen, to draw quilting ideas for three different quilt tops. Thank you so much, Debra, for sharing your skills with us!
Monday, October 8, 6:30 pm
North Lake Presbyterian Church
975 Rolling Acres Road, Lady Lake
Program: "Wedges Go Modern"
Linda will demonstrate how to use a 9-degree or 10-degree ruler to make modern quilt designs. This program is based on a July 2015 MQG Webinar by Christina Cameli, and her book "Wedge Quilt Workshop."
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