Quilts Blocks for Quilts for Boston

The Las Vegas Modern Quilt Guild held a sew-in today to make blocks for the Quilts for Boston. We made a total of 20 blocks that will be shipped out to Boston this coming week! Thank you to Bethany for offering up space in her house to let us sew!

Some Rail Fence:

Some Scrappy Trip Blocks: 

 

 

Some Fat Scrappy Trip Blocks:

 

Some blocks using the Lazy Angle Ruler:

 

 

Some almost-rail fences:

  

 

Some improv with left-overs:

 

Madrona Road Challenge Reveal

The LVMQG took part in the Madrona Road Challenge sponsored by Michael Miller fabrics and passed out the donated fabric at our January meeting.  (Full rules posted here) The pictures from our big reveal at our March meeting are below! :)

(dog bed by jess)

(by a desert quilter)

(by andisew)

(by madebycola)

Thank you to everyone that participated!

Quilts for Boston

The Boston Modern Quilt Guild is collecting blocks to assemble into quilts for members of their community affected by the bombing and subsequent events.   You can read all of details here.

Bethany has generously donated space in her house (Henderson area) for a sew-in to make these quilt blocks on Saturday, May 11 @ 11am.  The LVMQG has purchased the fabric to sew these blocks... so come with your sewing machines and supplies needed to make them!  If there's any blue, yellow, gray, or white quilt shop quality fabric you'd like to donate to blocks, you're more than welcome to bring it.

They are asking the quilt blocks to arrive by May 24, so it leaves us with little time to plan as we will not have our monthly meeting by the time these blocks are due. After our sew-in, the blocks will be mailed out the following week to meet the BMQG's deadline.

If you plan on attending, please contact us through the forum or the guild email and we will privately send the you her address. If you'd like to donate blocks outside of the sew-in, please contact us and we will arrange a meeting time! :)

Links:

• Quilts for Boston Announced
• Flickr Group for Quilts for Boston Blocks
• BMQG Update #1
• BMQG Update #2

April 2013 Meeting Recap

April Meeting Recap

Thanks to all you Modern Quilters who attended this month's meeting.  

We had lots of fun.  

Maria gave us the scoop on a Pahrump Retreat.  
*  If we have 20 people (two to a room) the cost for a three day retreat from Friday to Sunday would be $137.50 per person double occupancy.  Price would increase if less than 20 people.
*  This would give us:
            1) Hotel room for Friday night and Saturday night.
            2) Conference room for sewing for Friday, Saturday and Sunday (secure)
            3) Breakfast, lunch and snacks for Friday, Saturday and Sunday (dinner on your own)
Dates to consider are June 14-15-16 or July 12-13-14. Please comment on the forum under retreats if you are interested.

Patti distributed packs of blocks for the charity quilt "Japanese X & +".  Please have your blocks ready and return them at the May meeting.

The May meeting will be the collection of Mug Rugs for the Fort Worth MQG swap.
    The following signed up for this swap:  Bethany, Regina, Nichola, Marilee, Patti, Andrea, Sandy Glynn, Nichol, Jessica, Denise, Patty, Valerie, Ivanell, Darlene, Cheryl, Nancy, Jena.  CLICK for more info.

Instructions for the Bay Area Modern Block of the Month were passed out.

Patty L. was the lucky winner of the Name Tag drawing.

Show and tell was conducted.  Thanks to all who gave us something to aspire to.

And something new for us: The SEW YOU KNOW game!  Lots of MODERN quilting trivia with teams vying for the coveted prizes.  All members of the winning team got rolls of "Smarties" and all members of the loosing teams got "Dum Dum" lollipops. Thanks to all our quilters for an enjoyable evening.

Fort Worth Mug Rug Swap Announced

Announced at our last meeting, we will be doing a mug rug swap with the Fort Worth Modern Quilt Guild!  Details are below:

• Mug Rugs are mini quilts that can be used to fit a cup and snack on
• Rectangle size: 5" minimum width, 9" maximum length
• We'll swap with 20 other members from the Fort Worth MQG
• Mug Rugs are due at the May 2013 guild meeting
• Fort Worth's mug rugs will be exchanged at the June 2013 guild meeting

 For some examples of mug rugs, please see the previous post.

Mug Rugs

MUG RUGS

(Source)

For some great examples of mug rugs take a look at this pinterest page:  

http://pinterest.com/auntpittypat2/quilted-mug-rugs/

Recap of March Meeting

We had a wonderful turnout this month.  

Good to see a couple of faces that have been unable to join us of late. 

 Welcome back!

Our March meeting was fun and interesting.  Thank you to the master chefs among us who never fail to make our group happy and full.  Valerie, Marilee, Ivanell and Maria did their usual bang up job of food prep.  You are the best!

Wonderful to hear that Patty L. made it through her harrowing medical experience last week and we are so grateful that she is still here and looking GOOD!

Nicola welcomed us and then charged boldly into the business at hand:

1) The latest Charity Quilt was discussed and displayed by our committee chair, Patti A.  We started the quilt using donated fabric (thank you Bethany and Patti) at the March sew-in at Fabric Boutique.  We were joined by Cheryl, a lovely lady from the NW Ohio Modern Quilt Guild.  She pressed and trimmed while we chain pieced.  We will be receiving packets at the next meeting from Patti to work on at home.

2) Maria Hedrick, our Retreat Committee Chair, has been working on some options for our next retreat.  The Pahrump Nugget has hotel space available and a Boathouse on the lake.  Maria will have prices and particulars at the next meeting.

3) The Bay Area Modern Quilt Guild's BOM #2 is the feather block and Cola provided handouts for that and some for the Scrappy Trip Around the World for whoever wanted them.  We will show and tell our feather blocks at the April Meeting.

4) Our Mug Rug Swap with the Fort Worth Modern Quilt Guild is on and Mug Rugs are due at the May meeting.  We will package them all and send them off to Texas.  Our Texan counterparts will do the same and we will be spreading the joy at the June meeting!  

5) Cola and Regina provided VERY brief 10-Minute Tips and encouraged everyone to come up with something in the future.  TIPS:  Clean your irons with dryer softener sheets!  Anchor your foot pedals with pieces of refrigerator mats found in the grocery store near the dryer sheets!  Valerie suggested gluing small pieces of mats on the back of your rulers for no-slip results.  Andrea had a great suggestion but our old brain can't remember it.  Someone let me know and I will post it in the forum.

6) The Madrona Road Challenge reveal was stupendous!  What creative and talented ladies we have in this group.  Lots of children, husbands, dogs and walls will be the better for all the great designs we produced.  Our drawing winners were Maria Hedrick, Jena Schotmuller, and Darlene Klackner.  (Hope the spellings are correct.) Congratulations to everyone for their inspired participation.  Pictures will be posted soon.

7) Regina DeMatteo was the drawing winner for the name tag wearer's door prize.  Don't forget  to Make/Wear your handmade name tags for a chance to win $10.00 in Quiltique bucks.

8)  Show and tell proved very interesting too this month.  Carolina showed some creative kid related items.  Her Dr. Seuss inspired wall-hanging was great. She has posted the instructions and templates on her website for anyone who would like to make one. http://www.alwaysexpectmoore.com/

Our next meeting is April 25th, 6 to 8 pm at Quiltique.  

See you there!