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Thank you to our Guest Speaker, Erin Dollar with Cotton and Flax, that has shared her path on how she became a textile designer.  She is a fabric designer for Robert Kaufman.  Her first fabric line, Arroyo, is in stores now!  Her new Fabric line, Balboa, will be shipping to stores starting in November!  Both lines are a linen cotton blend.  You can follow her on instagram  at @cottonandflax. Go follow her and check out her website to see what is coming soon!

Show & Tell

Handmade Raffle

Thank you Dawn for donating this adorable economy block cat mini quilt! And thanks to Karen Miller @cosmicquilting for quilting it. Elise was the lucky winner.

Block Lotto Demonstration– One of our newest members won this last month’s English paper piecing blocks.  Next block lotto is paper piecing a bookshelf! Can’t wait to see how it turns out!

Holiday Party– Mark your calendars:  December 9^th, 2018 at Julie’s House.  We will spend the afternoon with a potluck, fun sewing project, and holiday cheer. We are looking for someone to help with the sewing project!

Quilt Con Charity Quilt– All the kits have gone out to members to sew and finished blocks have been coming in—the remainder of blocks are due at the September meeting.  Instructions are on the website.  We plan to hold Special Sew-in Days on 10/20 and 10/21 from 11-4 pm at Batty Lady to lay out the quilt and put the top together.  Join the fun, all members welcome.

Member De-stash Night– Any members interested in reducing their stash will have an opportunity to sell at our September 27 meeting.  The De-stash event will take place at the end of the meeting from 8-9 pm for a small fee: $5 for half a table, $10 for full table.  Please send an email to ocmodernquiltguild@gmail.com if you are interested.  Space is limited!

Quarterly Challenge– Artful September Challenge is due at the September meeting. Please bring all your entries. For November we will hold our annual children’s charity quilt based off a children’s book.  Each quilt and book donated with go to a child or teen at Orangewood Home for Children.

Demonstration Ideas– We are reaching out to our members who know techniques or methods that they would be willing to share with fellow guild members.  If you could provide a demo at one of our meetings please let Karen or Mary Anne know or email the guild if you are interested.

Board Spots and Volunteers for 2019– With the end of the year approaching we will be reaching out to all of you to see how you might be interested in volunteering for next year.  We’ll review committee and board positions and what is involved with each.  Please consider one of the many opportunities.

Budget Committee– We will be preparing a draft budget for calendar year 2019 for our Guild during October.  This is a 1-2 hour commitment for any member that would like to participate.  The budget meeting will be held 10/15 at 6:30 pm.  Please let the Guild know if you are interested in being a part of this committee.

Next Sew In– We don’t have a Sew In scheduled for September due to Labor Day Conflict.  Next Sew-in October 7^thfrom 1-5 pm, November 4^th from 1-5 pm both at our usual location all up the hill from meeting room.

Next Meeting– September 27^th, 2018 at 6:30 pm

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Our QuiltCon Charity Quilt inspiration is a birch tree.

The theme of the challenge is “small piecing.” Here you see the color palette on the show board. The kits contain 10 WOF (width of fabric) of either white or cream and then a 5″ x 10″ piece of each of the fabric palette except for blue which is the background. Cut up your fabric in 1 1/2″ strips and sew them together using the inspiration photo as your model. Make your block 6 to 10″ wide and as long as you can with the fabric provided. Do not square up your block, we will be cutting these blocks up to make the trunks and limbs of the birch tree. Please bring them back no later than the August meeting.

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Handmade items for the raffle. Sew cute!

Next month’s Block Lotto is EPP – English Paper Piecing!

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This month’s lotto winner!

Completed quilt top from Block Lotto blocks!

Block Lotto results.

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Show and Tell

Shannon S. with “Lisa the Unicorn” Designed by Elizabeth Hartman

Nancy E. with “Eldon” designed by Edyta Star.

Julie Mc with “Laundry Daze”  an original design made with real laundry line and clothespins from a friend’s baby – as a memory quilt.

Natascha B. with a Sew Fresh Quilt from the CluckCluckSew website.

Announcements:

Artful August Challenge has been pushed back a month, giving you an extra month to get your art quilt together! The challenge is to create a quilt inspired by art or architecture. Your inspiration can be a painting, drawing, building, sculpture, and anything artsy. Quilts must be finished and bound.

We have a guest speaker in August Erin Dollar from Cotton & Flax and so September is when the challenge will happen.

Our hard-working officers:

Themed dress. Love it Susie.

Mrs. Secretary

This month’s Sew-In

Our Sew-In this month is hosted at the Batty Lady. The address is 910 Batavia Ave. in Orange. Saturday August 11 and Sunday August 12 from 11 – 5:00. Bring your own project, work on the Quilt Con Charity Quilt or just chill out and socialize. Bring a snack to share.

Thank to all who share the fabric that needs a new home!

Philanthropy QuiltPhilanthropy QuiltChairperson: Ann

Pattern thanks to: Sewing Party – pattern by Eunsoo Kang. “My Wedding Ring” as seen in Simply Moderrne Issue #12 Cover.

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Sunday Sew In

Next Weekend Sew– we will not be having a sew in for August or September due to conflicts.  We will see everyone at the next sew in for October.

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Our next meeting: 

July 26, 2018 from 6:30-8:30pm
Village Greens, Club Rooms 2 & 3
24122 Moulton Pkwy
Laguna Woods, CA 92637

(Laguna Woods Village Golf Course Clubhouse)

We had SEW many amazing entries in our May Mini Quilt challenge! So many beautiful quilts to see–it made the voting process extremely difficult! The challenge was simply to create a mini quilt that was finished and bound.

We also had an extensive Show & Tell session with even more amazing quilts.

This month’s door prizes were generously donated by Art Gallery Fabrics!

Kite Block Mini by Julie Mc.

Show and Tell!

Unique blocks in remembrance of a trips to San Francisco and Hawaii with her grandson. San Francisco Bridge,  Alcatraz, The USS Arizona and “Surfing Lesson”.

Door prize winner – Pat

Door prize winner – Gail

We welcomed new members and visitors to our April meeting!  We had 2 new members join!  Welcome to the Guild!

Social Media:  Our Social Media guru, Kaylin, shared social media updates.  Instagram reached over 800 followers.  Facebook has a group and a like page, also post to like page for your work to be seen.  The group is a private group and other non-members cannot see it. The Show and Tell sign ups have also been updated to include members social media handles to share and tag online.  Thank you Kaylin!

Facebook:

• Please like us on Facebook: here: https://www.facebook.com/orangecounty.modernquiltguild/
• As part of your dues you receive access to our members only private Facebook Group. You can request access here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1751696078398807/ (or search OCMQG Quilters on Facebook)
  • This is a private group and only other members of OCMQG can see what you post. This is a great place to:
    • post about your progress of your latest challenge quilt
    • ask about quilters block
    • discuss carpooling to our next event
    • ask questions about Block Lotto etc

Instagram:

• Please follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ocmqg/
• You can also follow the hashtag #OCMQG
  • Simply follow these steps to follow the hashtag: https://help.instagram.com/2003408499915301
• Please use #OCMQG in your posts so we can all see all of the beautiful quilts you are working on! We may even pick some to repost!
• Please also post pictures of your block lotto, or send them directly to our OCMQG account so we can share them
• If you are looking for a story from the last meeting check our profile, our meetings since March have been archived there!

Twitter:

• Please follow us: https://twitter.com/OCMQG
• Please use #OCMQG in your posts so we can all see all of the beautiful quilts you are working on! We may even pick some to repost!

Membership Update:  We are still continuing to update our membership contact information.  Please see Mary if you haven’t updated yours yet!

Thomas Fire Quilts – Gail shared that they are no longer taking blocks but would gladly take finished quilts.  They have a waitlist of over 500 people still waiting for quilts.  They are also needing help with long arm quilting.  As some families need bigger quilts and they are getting difficult to sew on the domestic machines.  For more info, go to the Ventura Modern Quilt Guild site.

OC Fair Submission:

• Registration opened March 1^st.  Entries are submitted online for acceptance.
• Entry fee of $5 per entry.
• Entry Deadline June 1^st.  Notified of acceptance by June 11^th.  Drop off of accepted quilt by June 23^rd.
• Entries must be completed within the last 2 years.  Entries must be a completed product.
• Quilts that are larger than 36 inches are limited to one per person.
• More Information can be found at here or here under fiber arts.

Field Trips:

 May 5^th button making by Julie has been cancelled. The June 2^nd Ice Dying with Julie has been cancelled and will be rescheduled for a later date that will hopefully work better.

May 8^th Purl Soho Field Trip.  Karen Miller will be setting up time and lunch location.  Purl Soho carries knitting, fabric and other craft supplies.  More information will be emailed out to the guild.

Block Lotto – HUGE turn out for our March Block Lotto.  Kathy won all the wonderful blocks!  This month’s block lotto is a foundation strip piecing to create a 12 in block.

Raffle Give Aways – Made by Lisha!  Thanks Lisha!

Quarterly Challenge:  Our May Quarterly Challenge is due at the next meeting!  Remember that it is to be no larger than 24 x 24 using tenants of modern quilting.  Can’t wait to see all the entries!

Member Shares:  Jannette shared a Facebook Page, Just wanna quilt, which is a group about the quilting community and information is gathered for a research projects.  There is also a podcast that consists of conversations with hobby quilters to famous quilters and everyone in between.

 Next Weekend Sew – June 3^rd 1-5pm.  Bring your own projects or work on philanthropy.  Please note that the location for the meetings will be different than the locations for the Sew-Ins! Sew-Ins will be held in Clubhouse 2, up the hill from Restaurant 19, in the Los Olivos room. Also, after the April Sew-In, the remaining 2018 Sew-Ins will be on the FIRST Sunday of the month. Sew-Ins will now be from 1:00 – 5:00

Our new meeting location worked out wonderfully for our March meeting! Everyone was able to find the new location and the space is comfortable and has a beautiful view. Many thanks to Karen Miller for the work she has done to host our meetings and sew-ins.

Handmade Raffle Items

Kaylin made two gorgeous sewing kit bags for this month’s handmade item raffle! The patterns are available at Sewcanshe.com and the pattern is called Peek-A-Boo Pouch. Also, Kaylin has a website where she will eventually be selling her own patterns! If you sign up for her site’s mailing list, you will get her FREE paper-pieced pattern of the California bear.

Show & Tell

Meeting Recap

Please note that the location for the meetings will be different than the locations for the Sew-Ins! Sew-Ins will be held in Clubhouse 2, up the hill from Restaurant 19, in the Los Olivos room. Also, after the April Sew-In, the remaining 2018 Sew-Ins will be on the FIRST Sunday of the month. Sew-Ins will now be from 1:00 – 5:00.

Dates for Sew-Ins:

April 8
May – no Sew-In – Mother’s Day conflict
June 3
July 1
September – no Sew-In – Labor Day conflict
Oct 7
Nov 4

Donations for From the Ashes – Thomas Fire Quilt Relief

They are no longer accepting quilt blocks. They have a surplus of blocks that they’ve received from all around the world, and not enough people to sew them! They are now only accepting:

-finished quilts
-batting
-quilt shop quality backing fabrics in cuts of 4 yards or larger (wide backs are great too!)

They also need: our help! If you can get to Ventura County, consider attending a Thomas Fire Sew-In. These are held every Saturday in Ventura from 10-4. They would appreciate any volunteers who can help with sewing and quilting. Go here for more info on Sew-Ins!

Also, if anyone would like Gail to pick up some blocks that need to be sewn together when she is there on 4/13, just contact us and we will let Gail know to pick up some blocks.

Quarterly Challenges!

Here are the themes for our 2018 challenges.

May Mini – For our May challenge, sew a mini quilt using tenets of modern quilting. It can be as small as you like, but cannot exceed 24” x 24”.

Artful August – Create a quilt inspired by a work of art. It can be a painting, photograph, sculpture, or architecture. Bring a picture of the art that inspired your quilt. Any size is okay.

Philanthropy Storybook, November – We are bringing back our popular storybook quilt challenge! Create a quilt inspired by a children’s book, picture, book, or Young Adult book you donate along with the quilt. Quilts and books will be donated to Orangewood Home for Children. The size should match the age group of the book. Minimum size is baby size 30” x 40”.

Violet Craft Workshops

The San Diego Modern Quilt Guild has some extra spots available for 2 workshops and a trunk show with Violet Craft. These events will take place the weekend of June 16-17 at Quilt in a Day in San Marcos. They are having an FPP Atomic Starburst workshop on Saturday ($100), a trunk show on Sunday ($10) and a peacock EPP workshop on Sunday ($50). They are offering the spaces at the same price as for their guild members. Dawn is going and is willing to carpool!

Julie McCluney Workshops: Polymer Button Making

Create buttons from colorful polymer clay. You will learn a wide variety of techniques and then you will create your own set of buttons. The date is Saturday May 5th from 10-3 and cost is $35. All supplies and lunch will be included! Lunch is a chopped chicken salad and baked potato bar (yum!). Click here to see the brochure for this workshop.

Ice Dying

Ice dying with MX dyes produces beautiful patterns and vibrant colors. Create your own unique fabrics by sprinkling dyes over ice covered with fabric. Many of the supplies will be provided but you will need to bring a few things (see brochure here). Lunch will be provided! This workshop is Saturday June 2nd from 10:30-3 and cost is $30.

Art of Adorning – Bowers Museum

A member mentioned this one-day event that is a Bead Bazaar. With 75+ premier artisan vendors, there will be a wide selection of handcrafted jewelry, beads and bead-related items for sale. Bring a friend and come shop! It is on April 28th from 10-4.

Purl Soho Field Trip

Karen Miller will lead a field trip here on May 8th (Monday) so mark your calendars. We will visit Purl Soho followed by lunch or coffee afterwards. More details coming soon!

Block Lotto

This month’s Block Lotto uses the “Stack and Whack” technique! All the fabric and instructions were included for this Block Lotto to make it super easy for participants to complete. Thank you Lisha for organizing Block Lotto!

Our next Sew-In:

April 8 from 1:00 – 5:00

Sew-Ins will be held in Clubhouse 2, up the hill from Restaurant 19, in the Los Olivos room.