Author: OCMQG

Welcome to a new year of the OC Modern Quilt Guild! 

We had a lot of new faces and returning faces that included 10 Guest! Big welcome from OCMQG and Thank you for coming! 

Ice breaker: We asked members why do they Quilt? Members said to be Creative, its artistic, they don’t want to garden, enjoy creating art, the love for fabric, creates perpetual motion, stress relieving and creating calmness, tradition/family affair, and Community. 

Guest Speaker: We had a guest speaker tonight, Natalie Barnes, from Beyond the Reef. She took us on a journey on a reference of color. She shared 4 color schemes. The Hallmark Color Scheme is an opposite colors of each other: red/Green, Orange/black, Orange/blue. The monochromatic color scheme is different shades of the same color that creates designs. Allegis color scheme are adjacent on the color wheel. Teriadic Color scheme is comprised of 3 colors evenly spaced on the color wheel. She shared that if you throw in an “ugly” color into your project, it adds contrast to your work. You also need contrast on your quilts with color and scale. Its not always about being a light and a dark but can be a difference in color or scale. Color in terms of binding is to always finish or stop your concept of your quilt. Thank you Natalie for sharing your knowledge of color! 

Membership Update: Membership dues are due ASAP. Please submit your dues to Kaylin. 

Workshops: Next workshop is Play with Color with our very own Cecile Choi! April 4^th, 10-4pm in Laguna Woods at Clubhouse 6. The class is $50 for members and $60 for non-members! Please contact the Guild email if you want to sign up! 

Quilt Con Update: Virginia shared our Quilt Con Charity Quilt. Thank you for all the members that made blocks! Our charity quilt is ready for display at Quilt Con. Tag #ocmqg if you see our quilt! 

Quilt Con is February 20-23 in Austin, Tx. Tag #ocmqg in all your post to keep all us at home up to date! We will have a time at our next guild meeting! 

Raffle: Handmade Item was a lovely table runner donated by Susie J. Thank you for all your hard work! 

Block lotto: Thank you Kelly for a fun fussy cut block. Cant wait to see what members have come up with! 

April Challenge: Theme is opposites. Members get a ballot and can vote for 3 entries, Members Choice, Best use of Theme, and Best Modern Design. Entries must be a minimum of 12×12 inches and finished quilt. 

Upcoming dates 

• QuiltCon is February 20 – 23. Look for our quilt. 

• Quilt with Color – San Diego’s Quilt Shop Hop 3.6 – 3.14, Register online for coupons 

• Southern California Quilt Run “Party on the Run” 6.16 – 6.19 & 6.23 – 3.26 

• International Quilt Festival Long Beach 7.9 – 7.11 (Class list available in March) 

Next monthly meeting – February 27th, 2020 

2020 Membership – Membership Renewals are due.  The dues will stay the same at $50 for the year.  We are not asking for new membership forms unless information has changed.

2020 Workshops – We will have 2 Work Shops for next year!  

New Sew In will be January 26^th – All Day Sewing Retreat.  More information will be out later with directions and what to bring!  But plan to spend all day sewing with other guild members cause we have the location from 8am – 8pm!

New 2020 Budget was motioned and passed.

2020 By-Laws was motioned and passed with the amended changes for guest fees.

Thank you to our last year’s officers and chairs.  You have a tremendous part of our team and we cannot thank you enough!

Welcome to our new  2020 Officers

For January’s for our Block Lotto, we will have a Show and Tell of all Block Lotto Quilts!  So bring those quilts!

Holiday Party,  will be held on December 8^th from 12-5.  An evite will go out with all the details.  We will be having a Yankee swap of 5 Fat Quarters of quilting fabric.  We will be creating our traditional Charity Quilt as well. See evite for details!

We had a fabulous turn out for our Annual Children’s Book Challenge.  We had 19 submissions! All quilts will be donated to Orangewood Foundation with all their books!  Congrats to our winners, Julie M for Members Choice, Barbara K for the Best Modern Design and Jeri P for Best Use of Book Theme! Below you can see our winners. To see all of the submissions click here.

Show and Tell

Upcoming Events

December 8^th – Holiday Party from 12-5pm

January 23-26 – Road to California

January 26^th – All Day Sew In from 8am – 8pm

January 20^th – OCMQG Meeting Day at 6:30pm

Our Meeting Topic this meeting was Modern Cream of the Crop.  We had a discussion about different modern quilting designs. We broke into 4 groups and discussed what makes a quilt a Best in Show at Quilt Con.  We had some great opinions and opened a lot of different perspectives! Thank you to all

Quilt Con Charity Quilt Con Update – We have a top!  Thank you to everyone that were able to help create over 100 blocks!  We are making progress on the text portion of the quilt and have selected with the word Balance.

Challenge – Remember the Book Challenge is due at the November 21 meeting: to participate please bring a book to donate to someone aged 0 to 24 along with a quilt that expresses that book.  Awesome prizes will be awarded for Best Modern Design, Best Book Theme, and Members’ Choice.  Books and quilts will be donated to our guild’s designated charity, the Orangewood Foundation, for foster youth in our community.   If you are interested in supporting foster youth further, please see https://orangewoodfoundation.org/ways-to-give/ or the service item wish lists attached.

New Officer Elections – Thank you to our nominating committee on their work on their slate of officers and committee chairs (attached).  We will be voting at our November meeting.

Budget Update – We also had a preview of the budget proposed for next year.  We also re-discussed the guest fee after 2 meetings for a flat fee.  We’ll be also voting on both of these at our November meeting.

Holiday Party will be on December 8^th from 12 – 5 at Cheryl Higley’s house.  We will be having a Yankee swap of 5 fat quarters.  We will also be having a potluck. We will be sending an Evite will be sent out later.

Show and Tell

Opportunity Quilt – from Brach Cities Guild

Sew In – Nov 10^th  last one of the year.  January will be starting a new schedule and our first one will be January 26^th

November meeting is moved a week earlier to November 21

Helene and Barbara won last month’s block lotto.  This month’s blocks are improve pieces in fall colors.  Can wait to see how it turns out!

Quilt Con Charity Quilt

Virginia Lucas talked about the QuiltCon Charity Quilt Challenge and asked for ideas on design concepts and the organization to which we will donate the quilt, since that could influence the design.  The committee is still open to members’ ideas on these and will begin their work at the next Weekend Sew on August 11.  If you have an idea, please email ocmodernquiltguild@gmail.com and include a simple sketch and description.  There’s still time to get involved.

Quilters Journey

Lisa Hanley gave an excellent presentation of her Quilter’s Journey.   She started in the traditional quilting world and made a LOT of quilts using a log cabin design but her first inspiration was crazy quilts.  While she is still very fond of log cabin, she has evolved into modern designs and enjoys improv.  In addition to a number of quilts Lisa also shared books she likes and has found instructive as well as enjoyable.   Being a longtime scrapbooker, Lisa has scrapbooks she has made of each quilt she created.  Included in each entry is a photo of the quilt, some fabric swatches, and thank you notes from those to whom she gifted the quilt.  Her favorite part of quilting is planning – she keeps a notebook of ideas with details on fabrics selected and inspirations.  Lisa is a very organized and creative quilter.

LBMQG Info

Jeff Warner, president of Long Beach Modern Quilt Guild joined us a special guest.  Our sister guild is creating a series of quilts as a philanthropy project for OC High School for the Arts.  The 36” by 36” quilts will be used for the school’s stage production of Quilters, The Musical.  Most of the blocks are being created by LBMQG members but Jeff brought along several that our members volunteered to complete.

Survey

Dana won this month’s quilting book drawing for completing our online Member Survey.  If you complete the survey before the August 29 meeting, you will be eligible for next month’s final drawing.

Block Lotto

Ruth Bailey presented a new Block Lotto for next month using the Six Minute Circle by Dale Fleming.  Ruth assured the group that they are rather quick and easy, just as the title promises.

Quarterly Challenge

Asymmetry Challenge Quilt is due at the next meeting, August 29.