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November 2020 Book Challenge Entries

**Maker:** Jo Treffner **Book:** Teddy Bear’s Picnic **About this Quilt**:
The front has six bears surrounded by fruity fabric suitable for a healthy picnic. There is a pocket at one corner that is supposed to be like a tree canopy, under which the bears can “hide and seek as long as they please.” On the back, one bear is tucked up in bed because “at 6 o’clock their mommies and daddies will take them home to bed because they are tired little teddy bears.”

**Maker:** Jeri Polizzotto **Book:** What If? **About this Quilt**: I based my quilt on the title of my book “What If?” There are many ways to interpret the question, ‘what if?’ The book is a scientific look at answers to some absurd what if questions. I chose to look at the question in an inspiring way. What if I try something new? What if dreams come true? The words “what if” are intentionally subtle in my quilt and the question mark is bold, because it is a big question! I dyed the fabric in an ombre and let them fall in place randomly. I like the movement this creates between the different shades. I quilted it with a decorative stitch and my walking foot (from a Jacquie Gering Craftsy class) and I love the texture it added to the quilt. I had fun with the back of the quilt keeping the triangle theme going.

**Maker**: Susie Johnson **Book**: The Color of Bee Larkham’s Murder **About this Quilt**: The name of this quilt pattern is *Be Seen* which is depicting the colors that the boy in the novel “sees” when he hears sounds, e.g., the sound of a person’s voice or the sound of birds singing.

**Maker**: Lisa Handley **Book**: The 100 Rebellion **About this Quilt**: This quilt was made during the Pandemic after choosing my book for the challenge. It was made when things were in chaos and we were unsure about what was next for humanity. I made it with material I had – and not perfect. It kind of looks like stars in a murky sky. It’s metal looking. While making it, I felt very much like the book, asking what was next – everything was unknown. The 100 Book Series is set ninety-seven years after a nuclear war has destroyed civilization, when a spaceship housing humanity’s lone survivors sends one hundred juvenile delinquents back to Earth, in hopes of possibly re-populating the planet.

**Maker**: Susan Manson **Books**: Enchanted Forest Chronicles, Stardust, & Unicorn Academy **About this Quilt**: Tula Pink’s Pinkerville fabric weaves fantasy tales about Unicorns, Serpents, Owls, Stardust and more with bright, youthful colors and bold graphics. Generously sized at 62×63, preteens can grow with their books from ages 6-12. Quilting: Cosmic Quilting. Quilt Pattern: *Weave* by Running Doe Quilts.

**Maker**: Mary O’Bannon **Book**: Phantom Tollbooth **About this Quilt**:
My inspiration came from the book *The Phantom Tollbooth* which is about Milo, a bored boy who comes home to find a tollbooth in his house. He then gets in his toy car and begins a wonderful adventure traveling to crazy destinations filled with interesting characters. This pattern reminded me of the crazy road Milo takes on his journey. I embroidered Milo and his car along with a sign he encounters on the way to the tollbooth on the back. This book is a delight to read even for adults who need a laugh!

**Maker**: Gail Sevilla **Book**: Hatchet **About this Quilt**: This is a book about a teenager unexpectedly alone in the Canadian woods and having to learn how to survive. He needs to stay calm and step by step figure out how to stay alive. I used a pattern called *Show Up* by artist Lisa Congdon to make this 60 X 72 quilt with words of encouragement. Instead of a white background, I used an army green Friedlander print then based all my other selections on things from my stash that worked well with it. I think it is suited for a young man.

**Maker**: Kelly Hogan **Book**: LumberJanes **About this Quilt**: I made a rainbow bargello inspired by LumberJanes and also a YA book called “Anger is a Gift” by Mark Oshiro. LumberJanes is a comic book series about a group of girl friends at camp. It is estimated that a disproportionate number of homeless youth in the United States identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (11-40%). I wanted to make a quilt that was a warm rainbow hug of love for these youth. The quilt was hand tied with embroidery floss.

**Maker**: Helene Born **Book**: Love and Other Detours **About this Quilt**: The quilt is 72 X 72″ made with drunkard’s path piecing and nine patch. Pattern by Vanessa Goertzen called *Hey Cupcake*. Fabrics are: Dash Flow, QT 2016 & Kona solid (Chocolate Brown). Quilted myself with pantograph in a paisley shape that matched the backing fabric design.

**Maker**: Janet Segner **Book**: My Side of the Mountain **About this Quilt**: A modern ombre mountain.

**Maker**: Betty Alstadt **Book**: A Book That Takes Its Time **About this Quilt**: The book and quilt are for an older teenager. The size is 49″ wide by 60″ long. The quilt pattern is based on *Tossed Squares* by Debra Finan. The fabrics were selected for their cheerfulness and brightness. Fabrics are from Free Spirit Fabrics, including Outlander, Kaffee Fassett, Tula Pink, Riley Blade Glohaven and Moda Zen Chic. The quilting was done by me using a domestic machine.

**Maker**: Barbara Knapp **Book**: Girl Stolen **About this Quilt**: This quilt is made using Allison Glass fabric with a charcoal background. The links were echo quilted using variegated thread and the charcoal background was quilted in horizontal lines. Although the quilt pattern is called *Infinity*, it reminded me of chains. In the story Cheyenne, a blind teenage, was accidentally kidnapped and tied up to keep her from running away. There was even a dog in the story that was tied up to a massive chain, however I’m sure this chain is much more colorful. It was really good story and I highly recommend it.

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Workshop with Amy Friend, March 7, 2021

Designing Paper Pieced Curves

In this live online workshop, Amy Friend will lead you through a series of exercises where you will design six paper pieced blocks, each with a different type of curve. Because you will be drawing your own blocks, everyone’s finished piece will be unique! We will also learn about modern quilt layouts that include negative space and alternate grid work. Using our paper pieced curves, negative space and alternate grid work, we’ll each create an 18″ mini quilt or pillow cover.

Updates will posted when registration opens.

Workshop with Jacquie Gering- January 17, 2021

Registration is now open for walking foot quilting with Jacquie Gehring. See more about this artist and quilter at https://www.jacquiegering.com/.

Workshop with David Owens Hastings, October 25, 2020

Workshop: Inspired by Architecture – David Owen Hastings: Using photos of architectural elements, David will guide you through the steps to design a mini fabric quilt. We will use the quilt-as-you-go method, sewing the top pieces, batting and backing simultaneously. David will demonstrate facing your quilt, to give a more modern finish than traditional look.

davidowenhastings.com

August 2020 MQG Pattern Challenge Results

Maker: Barbara Knapp
Pattern Used: Rock Candy by Yvonne Fuchs
Description: I made a smaller version of this quilt because I didn’t have enough purple fabric and I really wanted to use the purple in it. I ended up using a 4.25” square for the curved pieces and half square triangles….what was I thinking :/>, should have used 4.5” or 4”. Quilted using straight lines about 1/4” apart.

Maker: Sally Sloane
Pattern Used: City Lights by Anne Sullivan
Description: Sunset From Walnut Beach, inspired by a photo sent to me from my cousin in Ashtabula

Maker: Mary O’Bannon
Pattern Used: City Lights by Anne Sullivan
Description: I took the original pattern and changed the colors and made it smaller. I quilted vertical lines with straight stitching and horizontal lines of varying lengths with Sashiko stitching.

Maker: Susie Johnson
Pattern Used: Merge by Karen Foster
Description: I chose “Merge” for this challenge because I felt it was the most intriguing pattern. However, I thought that too many fabric colors were used in the original so I pared it down to just three colors instead of the original eight. I find the design much more compelling with the limited color palette and the saturated colors that I used. I also used a more subtle curvy quilting design which I think emphasizes the improv curves of the pattern more than the very busy quilting on the original quilt.

Maker: Lisa Handley
Pattern Used: City Lights by Anne Sullivan
Description: Walk on the Beach – Fabric from Tahiti and some Grunge Basic

Second Place

Maker: Joanne Treffner
Pattern Used: City Lights by Anne Sullivan
Description: City Lights – day & night. Driving into the city at night and leaving in the morning – so the back of the quilt is the same design mirror-imaged. The entire quilt is made of spotty fabrics with the exception of the green stripes that are the same back and front and serves as an homage to city parks. It is quilted with birds because what is a city without birds.

Third Place

Maker: Dana LaVenture
Pattern Used: Disappearing Oranges by Cheryl Brickey
Description: My quilt is 35″ X 38″, named Autumn Leaves. The Disappearing Oranges look like leaves. Therefore I have created Autumn Leaves that are softly being blown by the wind and the leaves are beginning to drop. The leaves are appliquéd to the white background.

First Place

Maker: Jeri Polizzotto
Pattern Used: Rock Candy by Yvonne Fuchs
Description:My quilt Party Mints was inspired by Yvonne Fuchs’ quilt Rock Candy. I like how she took a block and switched the colors around so that when they are next to each other it makes a new design. I included many of the same elements as her quilt – a limited number of colors in the palette, a curve and half square triangles. I came up with a nine patch block (with 7 inch squares) and sewed them in 3 different color ways. The fun part was laying them out to see all of the different secondary patterns! My daughter collaborated with me on the color palette and we had a fun day dying fabric together, but now she wants the quilt! I quilted it on my home sewing machine. Thank you OCMQG for the fun challenge!

AUGUST 2020 MQG PATTERN CHALLENGE ENTRIES

Maker: Lisa Handley
Pattern Used: City Lights by Anne Sullivan
Description: Walk on the Beach – Fabric from Tahiti and some Grunge Basic

Maker: Sally Sloane
Pattern Used: City Lights by Anne Sullivan
Description: Sunset From Walnut Beach, inspired by a photo sent to me from my cousin in Ashtabula

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Workshop with Mel Beach – August 30, 2020

Mel Beach, Slice of Improv Workshop is Sunday, August 30 from 10 am till 4 pm.

See more about Mel at See her work at https://melbeachquilts.com.

Community Outreach Quilt Challenge – QuiltCon 2021

The Modern Quilt Guild announced its 2021 Community Outreach Quilt Challenge! This is one of the MQG’s largest scale charity projects, formerly known as the QuiltCon Charity Quilt Challenge. It’s an opportunity for guilds or teams of MQG members to create a quilt to be donated to a charity.

Theme: Curves

The design focus for this challenge is on curved piecing.

Color Palette:

Details on the Challenge:

https://www.quiltcon.com/community-challenge-2021

We need volunteers:

Be a part of the fun. Email us if you’d like to participate.

Block Lotto – August 2020

The challenge for August is IMPROV! You can create any shape or design you like. Let the fabric inspire you. However, if you are stuck some inspiration and online tutorials follow.

IMPROV TRIANGLES

https://www.instagram.com/quiltsfromtheattic/

Improv Triangles—Perfectly Pointless

https://www.shecanquilt.ca/2015/12/improv-trees-tutorial.html

IMPROV CROSSES – Inset an “X” or criss-cross slices into your block.

https://www.stitchedincolor.com/blog/2019/1/21/improv-cross-block-tutorial

Choose your background fabric square. Next, choose two cross fabric strips. Cutting with a ruler or cutting freehand, slice a straight line through your background square. The line can be going in any direction and at any angle. Next, sew a fabric strip in the opening you’ve cut. You’ll simply sew the strip to one side of the opening and then to the other. Press seams. Again, cut a straight line through your background square. The new cut should intersect your first strip at some point.

GENTLE CURVES

https://www.yoansewingstudio.com/quilting/scrappy-improv-quilt-free-piecing-gentle-curves

http://elainequehl.blogspot.com/2014/12/tutorial-making-improvisational-curved.html

https://sewtakeahike.typepad.com/sewtakeahike/2010/10/modus-operandi.html

RINGS

https://aquilterstable.blogspot.com/2020/03/improv-rings.html

OTHER

https://aquilterstable.blogspot.com/p/tutorials.html

http://sew-unsew.blogspot.com/2013/11/improv-stripped-geese-tutorial.html

https://themodernquiltguild.wordpress.com/2012/01/15/100-days-week-of-color-tutorial/

MQG Pattern Challenge – August 2020

SUBMIT YOUR ENTRY Submissions due by midnight on August 31.

For August 2020, the Orange County Modern Quilt Guild challenges its members to create a quilt using one of the five free patterns shown below. These five are among the 84 free patterns that the Modern Quilt Guild has offered to its members. There is a new one offered every month. You will need to log in to the Modern Quilt Guild to view and download the patterns, links provided below.

The August Challenge: (1) select one of the five patterns, (2) create it as shown OR modify it per your own creative impulses, minimum size 24 x 24 inches, any fabrics–solids or prints (3) piece the top, quilt, and bind, and (4) submit it for the Challenge due August 31.