Missed QuiltCon or just want to spend more time there? Here is a little slideshow of some of the highlights.
Category: MQG
February 2018 Meeting
OCMQG February 2018 Meeting Recap (held on 3/1/18)
Co President, Karen Miller, lead our meeting.
Important Notice about Meeting and Sew In Location Changes
We will no longer be able to meet at Cosmic Quilting starting the March 29, 2018 meeting. New Location will be In Laguna Woods at Club Rooms 2 & 3 in Village Greens (24122 Moulton Parkway, Laguna Hills, CA 92637). You will enter through gate 12. This will be the same for majority of the Sew In’s. The space has lots of parking and holds up to 50 people. Booked through the end of the year for meetings. Sew In’s have also been booked based on availability. When location is not available for Sew In’s, we are looking into having field trips on those days. Sew In times have also changed to 1-5pm to accommodate the new space. Location has Restaurant and Bar there for purchase. However no outside food permitted.
Membership Renewals
Membership fees for the New Year are due. Dues are $50 for the year.
Workshops Update
The workshop chair has become available. However, Julie has volunteered to take position. Thank you Julie!!!
Donations
We took donations for the Thomas Fire Relief effort. The area is still accepting donations of fabric, thread, notions, blocks, finished tops, batting, completed quilts, etc. If you have any donations, please bring to the March Meeting.
Philanthropy Quilt Challenges
We have lined out our Quilt Challenges for the year. We will still be doing the challenges quarterly in May, August and November. More details will become available as we get closer. However, below is a rough outline for the year:
May: May Mini Quilt – tenets of modern quilting and will be no larger than 24 x 24.
Artful August: quilt inspired by a work of art (painting, architecture, etc) and no size limits.
November Storybook Philanthropy Challenge: children’s or teen book theme, minimum size is a baby quilt.
Field Trips
We would like to schedule some field trips for the year! Dawn has volunteered to schedule those. Thank you Dawn! A survey was passed to members before break with different locations. If you have any new locations, please let us know! Some ideas were Super Buzzy, A mid weekday trip to Purl Soho factory store, Visions Quilt Museum in San Diego, Etc.
Quilt Con Recap
Members shared about workshops they took, what their favorite part of the event, how colorful the halls looked with all the Charity quilts. Members were surprised with the variation on colors from the fabric makers. Various members took classes that opened their minds to new takes on creating works of art!
Charity Quilts
We have some Charity Quilt that still needs homes. Still need homes for our 2017 quilt con charity quilt (suggested for a military veteran/family), our 2018 quilt con quilt (already received 2018 received back from quilt con), and our 2016 Christmas quilt. If you have any ideas for places to donate, please contact us!
Directory Update
Our guild would like to get our Member Directory updated. We passed out new forms so we can update your information. If you missed the meeting please fill out at our next meeting.
Next Sew In
March 11, 2018 at Cosmic Quilting 12-4.
Show and Tell
Update on The Thomas Fire Quilts
By Gail: I briefly visited a sew in for Thomas Fire quilts yesterday. I went there to pick up blocks in sets to be sewn into tops. They are overwhelmed with blocks. They no longer need blocks. I picked up sets for 6 quilts. They are now requesting completed quilts, batting or backing. Check out update on Superbuzzy.com. They have so many potential quilts that they can use machine quilters and folks that will do binding also. Just a brief update.
Block Lotto February
Last month we had a Double Disappearing Nine Patch. Using solids – now “modern”!
Gifts and Door Prizes
Thanks to Michele and Suzanna for the homemade items and donations of Art Gallery Fabrics (Ann A.) and Cotton & Steel ( Stacey A.) for the fat quarters. Much Appreciation!
October 2017 Meeting
We had another full house at our May meeting! Thanks for coming!
Quiltcon 2017
Several members discussed their experiences at Quiltcon 2017. Highlights includied seeing OCMQG member Lucinda’s quilt at the show, the Siddi Quilts exhibit, the Angela Walters exhibit, and seeing all of the charity quilts. Including OURS:
Quiltcon 2018
Quiltcon 2018 will be held in Pasadena on February 22-25, 2018. If you are a member, you should be receving emails from the Modern Quilt Guild about the conference. They are recruiting volunteers, see the website for details. The theme for the charity quilt has been announced, it is Modern Traditionalism. We had FIVE people volunteer to coordinate the planning of charity quilt for our guild: Karen M., Gail, Leslie, Julie, and MaryAnne. Karen M. has suggested the Road to California block. Thank you to our volunteers!
Show & Tell
Upcoming Workshops:
Indigo – Shibori Workshop & Lunch with Sandra Johnson
Sandra’s workshop will be held on June 3 from 10-3. The location is in a private home in South Orange County, and will be sent to those who register. It is $75 for OCMQG members, and $100 for non-members. To register, email Sandra at sandrajohnsondesigns@gmail.com
Jackie Gehring Workshop
This workshop is being offered by Santa Barbara Quilting Retreats. It is in Carpinteria, CA and is on 9/11/17-9/13/17. Cost is $775, lunches are provided, and there will be a wine and cheese event. Discounted hotel is at the Holiday Inn Express in Carpinteria. She is going to teach her class “Composing With Lines.” For more info and to register, go here.
Cecile will be offering her workshop again: Playing with Color and Fabric: Making Your Stash Work For You. If you are interested in attending this workshop in June or July, email Cecile and let her know which dates in June or July work for you. customerservice@sewingparty.com
Quilt Shows and Lectures
Kaffe Fassett will be giving a lecture in Glendora in 9/23 at The Sew N Sew. The cost is $50. For more info, go here.
The Flying Geese quilt show is 6/3 and 6/4 at SOKA University in Aliso Viejo. This is a great opportunity to see an excellent show close to home with both modern and traditional quilts. Sewing Party will be a vendor at the show! For more info, go here.
Southern California Quilter’s Run
This will be held over two weekends this year! The dates are July 13-16 and July 20-23. The Quilter’s Run is a great opportunity to visit quilt and fabric shops in the area and get some inspiration from each shop. It’s also an opportunity to win prizes, grow your stash, score some new patterns, and have some fun! This would be a great opportunity for someone to get your feet wet leading a “field trip,” hint hint! For more info on Quilter’s Run, go here and here for more info on Row By Row go here.
Central Coast Quilter’s Run
This one is coming up soon: June 2-4. These shops are located from Ventura to Paso Robles. Superbuzzy, some wine tasting, and a mini buzz-y, anyone? Check it out here!
Scrap Swap
Elise brought four bags stuffed with fabric swaps and four lucky people were chosen via random number generator to take the scrap bags home! If you received a bag, take out the scraps that you want and then add scraps from your stash back to the bag and bring it back next month. Thank you Elise for coordinating the scrap swap!
Handmade Items Raffle
Elise donated several items for the raffle, thank you, Elise! The materials that she used to make her items were donated by Sew Vac Ltd. in Long Beach and the patterns are from the Sew Sweetness blog. The raffle items raised $83 for the guild!
Make It Modern Segment
Gail brought in several of her quilts, some dating back to the 80’s! In addition to sharing her quilts, she also shared some books that have been influential on her quilting including Quilts of Gee’s Bend, and Collaborative Quilting. It was wonderful to see Gail’s progression as a quilter, so thank you Gail for sharing your quilting journey with us! Elise volunteered to bring in examples of her quilting for our June meeting.
Social Break
Several members brought cookies for our social hour—thank you! Julie’s homemade chocolate chip cookies are a Martha Stewart recipe. They were all delicious!
Navigating the Mother Ship (or how to find stuff on The MQG site)
Hi, All – At the last meeting, there was a question regarding where to find links to the latest webinar on The MQG website. And then there were questions on how to navigate through the site…
First some quick links you may find helpful:
Mary Fons’s Webinar, “Definition: Modern Quilting” This was fabulous. Worth at least two viewings
The MQG free Quilt of the Month Patterns (member Mary Anne found inspiration for a surf themed quilt from Nov 2014 QoM Plumage)
Here’s a short How-to-Find-Stuff on The MQG website.
Tip #1: Log in. When you joined the OCMQG, you should have received information on how to sign into The MQG.
Tip #2: When you first “land” on the site, there’s a menu along the top of the site. Hover over the menu word to see what’s included. For example, if you hover over Education, you’ll see Events, Teacher & Lecturer Directory, Blog, and Resources. If you hover over Events, you’ll see QuiltCon East, QuiltConWest, Webinars Future, Webinars Past, and Calendar
Tip #3: Once you’ve clicked a menu item, scroll down. Under Events, the top portion looks like it’s only a list of events. If you scroll down, you’ll see links to past webinars
Tip #4: Be patient and be prepared to click on every menu item to find what you’re looking for….(possibly have your beverage of choice handy)
Tip #5: BE AWARE THAT ONCE YOU LOG IN AND GO INTO COMMUNITY, THE MENU CHANGES.
Notes on The MQG landing page:
- About: Basic answers about what The MQG is all about
- Education: The education landing page shows upcoming events, then past webinars
- Events:
- QuiltCon East: Takes you to the QuiltCon East website
- QuiltCon West: Takes you to the QuiltCon West website
- Webinars Future: Take you to the Events Page
- Webinars Past: Takes you to the Resources Page, but only if you’re logged in
- Calendar: Takes you to the calendar page
- Events:
- Design
- Community: This is where the menu changes, if you’re logged in. See below.
- Sponsors
- Shop
- Join
Notes on the Community Site:
- Home: This does NOT take you back to the MQG site. It takes you to the home page of Community
- Galleries: Photos of pretty modern quilts. 😀
- Events: This is DIFFERENT than the one under Education. This is a list of upcoming events (oddly, from most future event to most near event) and includes webinars and other guild events (if the guild posts their events through The MQG site; OCMQG does not)
- Groups: List of modern guilds
- Forums: Place to ask and answer questions.
- Resources: Links to Quilt of the Month, Past Webinars, Webinars for Businesses, Materials for guild officers, Annual Reports
Benefits of MQG: Webinars
Last week, we posted about MQG’s pattern of the month as one of the “perks” to belonging to The MQG mother-ship. This week, we bring you WEBINARS.
About once a month, the MQG hosts a webinar on a topic related to quilting – Creative and Business. Past Creative Webinar topics have included Social Media, Being True to Your Inner Quilt Artist, Alternate Gridwork, and many others. They are done by people who are involved in the quilting world – business owners and artists – and they share their knowledge about how to start your own quilt related business to tips on color theory.
There’s one coming up in March 22nd, Freedom from Perfection and Procrastination with Amy Marson (publisher of C&T Publishing). 
Find upcoming webinars from The MQG home page under EVENTS. This information can also be found on this blog under MQG Calendar, which is linked to MQG’s calendar (tech magic). To sign up, just go to the event, click on the webinar you’re interested in, and click on the REGISTER HERE! button. Let us know if you’ve tried these and what you’ve learned (at our next meeting, on our FB Group, or in the comments below)
So, now that you want to see what they are all about, how do you know when they are scheduled and how do you get to view past episodes? Why, just log into The MQG site with your user name and password (you should have received instructions on getting these when you initially joined OCMQG). Then click on COMMUNITY. Then RESOURCES. On this page, you’ll see a list of topics.
From here, you can click on Creative Webinars to see the list of creative topics OR click on Business Webinars to see the list of business topics.
Benefits of MQG: Free Patterns!
One of the questions that’s routinely asked by new members (and current ones) is: What are the benefits of belonging to The MQG through OCMQG?
Besides member discounts for QuiltCon (future post), every month a new pattern is released to MQG members. These patterns are designed by active modern quilters, many of whom have their own quilting businesses.
If you remember to sign up for the MQG monthly newsletter, you should also be receiving a link to the latest pattern mid-month. This month’s pattern is Meeting of the Geese by Sylvia Schaefer.
Let us know if you’ve made a quilt using one of these patterns – comment below or post to Instagram with #ocXXXMQGpattern (where XXX is the month – jan, feb, etc).
Didn’t sign up for the newsletter? Forgot to download a previous month’s pattern?
Fear not! Help is on the way…
- Go to the MQG website and login (login is in upper right hand corner)
- Click on COMMUNITY
- Click on RESOURCES
- Under Table of Contents, click on 1. Click Here for Quilt of the Month Patterns
- You should now see a list of links to patterns, newest patterns first. Click on the pattern you want.
2016 Patterns
2014 Patterns - Click on the link to the .pdf file (yes, there’s a lot of clicking involved)
- Et Viola! The pattern should open up in a new page. Once it’s finished opening, you should be able to save it to your computer or other drive (dropbox, google drive, etc). You can also print it out, if you wish.
February 2016 Monthly Meeting
What a great meeting! We had about 25-30 people and a few new members have signed up! Welcome, ladies. We also had a wonderful new meeting space at Charrisse Consign Design in Laguna Niguel – thank you, Charrisse!
Hens and Chickens, an auxiliary of the Golden State College Foundation, came by to show us their opportunity quilt. They are raising funds for the college – past giving has gone to scholarships and campus improvements.
This is the opportunity quilt – It’s 88″ x 103″ and was designed, constructed, and quilted by the members of Hens and Chickens. Tickets on the drawing of this quilt are available through any Hens & Chickens member or can be purchased through the Golden West College Foundation (714) 895 8316 ($1 for 1, $5 for 6)
Helen did a great demo showing us her One Block Wonder (stack and whack) quilts and how she created them. She really enjoys how you don’t really know what the blocks/rows will look like until after you’ve pieced them together. She is sometimes surprised out certain colors in the fabric will “pop” in the quilt when this method of cutting and piecing is used. Thank you, Helen!
Choosing where to cut
Piecing to keep the piecing correct
Pieced blocks
We then moved onto SHOW AND TELL, which lasted the entire night. Pictures are up on our Instagram and Facebook; details will be coming out shortly on each of the photos. Get ready for an overshare on the feeds. Here are a few of the lovelies!
The Splendid Sampler Block Station by OCMQG Member
Block 2, The Splendid Sampler by Kathy S.
Block 4, The Splendid Sampler by Kathy S.
QuiltCon class Making Faces, by Barbara
QuiltCon class Color Theory by Bunnie
QuiltCon Class Sizzix Curves by Monica
QuiltCon class Stretch Hexi and Tumbler by Monica
QuiltCon class Needle Turn Applique by Susan
QuiltCon class Facing East by Janet
QuiltCon class FMQ by Karen M.
QuiltCon class hand applique by Janet
QuiltCon class Block printing by Monica
Other Announcements:
We now have a Facebook group called OCMQG Quilters. This is a closed group for our members only, so please keep what’s in the group in the group. Click on “Join” and you should be accepted within 24 hours.
March 13th: Weekend Sew at Cosmic Quilting. Bring whatever project you’re working on.
March 22nd: The MQG is having a free webinar: Freedom from Perfection & Procrastination. This is FREE if you are an OCMQG member; log into the MQG site and sign up!
June 16th-19th / June 23rd-26th: Southern California Quilter’s Run
QuiltCon 2017: If you’re thinking about going, now is the time to get hotel reservations if you want to be close to the convention center. Please check the website for hotel blocks and room rates. Also note that Savannah is pedestrian friendly, so if you’d like to walk or bike to the convention center, you can do that!
June 1: QuiltCon 2017 Catalog is published. Figure out what classes you want to take and make a list of backup options.
June 15: Deadline for quilt entries. Ontario Museum of Art and History is accepting entries for their “Modern Quilts: Redesigning Traditions” show, which starts on December 1, 2016. Please contact Georganna Hawley for applications and addition information (ghawley@ontairo.ca.gov)
June 25: QuiltCon 2017 Member Registration opens. KNOW WHAT CLASSES YOU WANT TO TAKE. MARK YOUR CALENDAR. SET AN ALARM. Popular classes fill up fast.
Orange County Modern Quilt Guild 
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