Meeting Recap

Kayla led a great discussion about low volume fabrics and quilts. Check your email for her handout she made, and enjoy these links.

Marilyn shared this quilt, and pattern with us a couple years back. Notice her use of low volume fabric in the background. 

Remember, our challenge this year will focus on the use of expansive negative space and the use of low-volume fabrics. The discussion next month will focus on negative space.

A craftsy discussion of low volume:
http://www.craftsy.com/blog/2014/09/what-is-low-volume-fabric/

a Flickr Low volume group:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/1988322@N23/

A color theory post:
http://theelvengarden.blogspot.com/2013/07/colour-theory-101-value-and-low-volume.html

Rossie's discussion on this quilt goes right along with her information in the Mighty Lucky Quilting Club March lesson, and her post from a number of years ago:
http://www.rossiecrafts.com/2010/02/quiet-quilt.html

And Malka Dubrawsky
http://stitchindye.blogspot.com/2009/04/quiet-nod.html

Meeting Recap

We had a great meeting at the Stitchin' Post last week.

It was our Cool Colors challenge due date, and we saw some beautiful quilts! Yesterday, I submitted our group exhibit application for the Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show.


a pile of challenge quilts


most of the members who made quilts made it to the meeting. Don't they look great all together??

We also saw our quilted (Thanks Corni!) QuiltCon charity quilt, which will be taken and displayed at QuiltCon West in February 2016, and donated here locally next year. Kristin has led this project, with the improv feather design tutorial, and assembling the top, and she will attach the binding.


Improv with intent QuiltCon charity quilt.

UFO Challenge
This is the second month of the UFO (unfinished object) challenge. Remember, to participate in this challenge all you have to do is make a list of 10 unfinished objects that you're working on. Feel free to join in at any time! Each month we'll draw a number and that's the project in your list to finish by the next month. We do the reveals for finished projects and the drawing for the next month at the Third Tuesday meeting.

Each finished project will get you a ticket to a final drawing for great prizes at the end of the challenge. Bring your finished project to the grand finale and get an additional ticket.

Due at the Third Tuesday Meeting in November: Project #7. This due date was extended until the Third Tuesday meeting in December. We'll be meeting at Dogwood Cocktail Cabin for this meeting.

Due at the Third Tuesday Meeting in December: Project #5.

2016 Board
The nominating committee met and gathered input and nominations from the guild. We'll vote on these nominations at the First Tuesday Meeting in December.

December Meetings/Sew Days
First Tuesday meeting at Quiltworks in Bend
Tuesday, December 1st, 5pm to 8pm.
We'll start our meeting agenda at 6pm.
Bring your nametag, a handwork project, and show and tell items.

Sew day at Sew Many Quilts in Bend
Wednesday, December 9th, 4pm to 8pm.
Just come for all or part of the time and do some sewing!

Third Tuesday meeting at Dogwood Cocktail Cabin in Bend.
Tuesday December 15th, 5pm to 8pm.
We will enjoy our holiday tradition of gathering at Dogwood in Downtown Bend for our Third Tuesday meeting this month only.
Bring your UFO finished projects #7 and #5, and any other show and tell.

In January we will resume First Tuesdays at Quiltworks, and Third Tuesdays at Stitchin Post. Stay tuned for information about a sew day (or night) in January.

Meeting Recap

We had a great meeting tonight!

So many Cool Colors quilts in progress for show and tell!

Kristin has nearly finished the QuiltCon charity quilt top. Doesn't it look great!

Kim made this for her grandson...

...and she also made this stunner!

And here's her cool colors challenge quilt. Amazing!

...and the back. 

Laurie brought this to share and may use this for her cool colors challenge. This picture doesn't show all the beautiful paisley or the lovely cool blue well at all! 

And Corni made this improv quilt for her cool colors challenge. Can you see the pop of warm color in the sea of cool! Stunning!

Meeting Recap

Last week we had a great meeting!

We had some visitors (we LOVE guests!) and some great show and tell. Thanks to Corni and Kayla for the pictures. 

It looks like a couple of people are working on their Cool Colors Challenge quilts! Janice's quilt and Sara's great log cabin blocks. I can't get enough of the blues and greens in our cool colors quilts!

And Corni made these houses!

And this awesome T-shirt quilt by Sabine. 

Meetings/Potlucks/Fun!

We've been having so much fun this summer and not updating the blog much!

So we're going to have recaps all week long of some of the fun things we did. 

We had a couple potlucks, a pretty horrible performance at trivia at the Lot :), a meetup in the park at the Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show, and a meeting at a brewery. We love the shops that host us for meetings during the rest of the year, but it's nice to give them a break from hosting us during their busy time, and enjoy some other meeting places around Central Oregon. 

Starting in June, Hillary did a demonstration of a set-in circle technique.

Susan hosted a potluck with a great show and tell. This was right after Quilter's Affair, so we got to see some projects from classes people took.

Sonja hosted a taco feed at her house, and show and tell was lovely in her backyard under the shade of the big trees.

Here Kayla's asking for quilting advice for her stitch and flip quilt.

Kat made this with a jelly roll!

Patricia just wow-ed us all with her quilt and her free-motion quilting.

Sarah is working on her cool colors challenge quilt. How's yours coming along?

Quilters at Craft

We had a great meeting last night in the Central Oregon sunshine along the Deschutes River at Craft Kitchen and Brewery.

Some things discussed at the meeting:

--Remember that next month we resume normal meeting schedule so we'll be at Quiltworks on September 1 from 5pm to 8pm for our First Tuesday meeting.

--Susan has organized a retreat for us in Sunriver! Check your email for all the details and how to RSVP.

--Coming up in October, our Gee's Bend challenge quilts will be shown in the Quiltworks Gallery. To show our support and involvement, please plan to attend the gallery reception on First Friday from 5 to 7pm at Quiltworks on October 2nd

We collected the last of the improv feather blocks using Kristin's tutorial! They all look so great! These will go into our QuiltCon charity quilt for display at QuiltCon 2016 in Pasadena, and we will donate the quilt to a local charity. 

Meeting Recap

We all loved Hillary's demo last night. Thank you Hillary!

Reminder about upcoming meeting dates this summer:

June 16th, third Tuesday: meeting CANCELLED

June 30th, fifth Tuesday: meet at the Lot (in Bend off Galveston) from 5pm to 7pm. 

July 7th: first Tuesday, Meeting CANCELLED

July 21st: potluck hosted by Susan. meet at 5pm, dinner around 6pm.

August 4th: potluck and tacos hosted by Sonja. Dinner at 6pm

August 18th: meeting in the park. 

Other COMQG events this summer:

June 10th: the final Scrappy Stash Buster hosted by Christy, 6:30pm-8:30pm.

June 13th: COMQG Sew day hosted by Erin, 11am to 5pm.

July 11th: MQG meetup at Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show, in Village Green Park 11am to 1pm

Meeting Notes

We had a great meeting on Tuesday. If you need more information about locations, or where to sign up for any event, look at your email, sent to members. Or email comqg@hotmail.com with questions. 

Nametags

Action item!

-We distributed fabric with our COMQG logo. Make a nametag with this logo fabric, and wear it to our first meeting in April, and you'll be eligible to win a QuiltCon goodie bag! Trust me, it's pretty awesome!

-keep wearing your nametags at future meetings, we'll have giveaways for people wearing nametags only. 

Challenge

-we voted, and cool colors won!

-due date is October 1st. 

-Challenge requirements: use entirely cool colors. A pop of warm colors is acceptable, but the quilt should be primarily cool colors. The quilt should be lap size: approximately 50-70 inches by 50-70 inches. 

Update from QuiltCon

-recap of QuiltCon. We had 6 members attend and had a great time!

-Kristin's blog has some great recaps: http://kristinshields.typepad.com/

here are the COMQG members at QuiltCon with our charity quilt.

Christy's scrappy stash buster

-Meeting dates are Wednesdays: March 11, March 25th, April 22, May 6, May 27, June 10, from 6:30 to 8:30.

-Pattern we'll be following is the Half Square Triangle Block of the Month by Jeni Baker at In Color Order. 

Link: http://www.incolororder.com/p/block-of-month.html

-check your email for further instructions if you have already signed up. 

Sew day at Erin's in April

-Erin will host a guild sew day and potluck lunch on Saturday, April 4th from 11am to 5pm.

Retreat

-Lindsey will host a retreat May 1st -3rd

BTW challenge for Quilt Knit Stitch:

-we have the option again this year to make a quilt to submit to the juried show at Quilt Knit Stitch. This year's theme is Black to White (BTW, get it?), and the link for all the information and entries is here:

http://callforentriespnwmodernquilts.com/

Save the date, more information coming:

--Meetup at Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show planned

--PNW MQG meetup in Seattle August 20-23

--COMQG 5 year anniversary party at Quiltworks in November. 

Tuesday Meeting Recap

We had a great meeting in Sisters this week! Here's what you missed:

Corni (left) and Kayla (right) were sewing away. 

Here's Kayla's work in progress from a Stitch and Flip class she took from Jacquie Gering at Quilter's Affair in Sisters last summer. 

Keith shared a couple of cool quilts he has quilted recently.

Erin's making a baby quilt for a friend. 

Corni picked these fabric scraps and made a beautiful baby quilt!

A few of us have been working away on our quilts for the Inspired by Gee's Bend challenge. It's due this next week! From the top left, Corni's, Lindsey's, and Kayla's. 

Meeting Recap

Wow, we really had some amazing show and tell at our last meeting!

Some dates to remember: 

the end of January (the 30th) is the day your challenge quilt needs to be finished to be considered for the Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show. Finished means having the quilting and binding finished for photographs that will be submitted to the show on the 31st. 

Our next meeting will be at Dogwood Cocktail Cabin on the third Tuesday, December 16th, at 5pm. Come along for some holiday festivities! 

Kayla brought along the quilt top for our COMQG QuiltCon charity quilt. After this was taken, I sewed on the borders, and it was sent along to Corni for quilting! We shouldn't have any trouble getting it in the mail in time for it to arrive in Austin by the deadline. 

Hillary showed off her finished space invaders quilt. Her 'lightning-bolt-echo' quilting looks amazing!

Susan showed off her finished Starfall quilt. A bunch of us in the guild made this quilt, it has been so fun to see them all!

Another charity project! Susan distributed these block kits to members this fall, and has pieced together the top. Isn't it amazing!

Kristin brought along one of her QuiltCon show submissions and we were all blown away. It's gorgeous!

Sarah is working on her challenge quilt back, and it's all these gorgeous silk scarves. Can't wait to see what she comes up with!

Kayla made this t-shirt quilt for a cousin, and look at that awesome back!

  

Kayla's bed quilt, obviously totally amazing!

Meeting Recap

If you missed the meeting in Sisters we hope to see you in Bend. 

We discussed: 

QuiltCon charity quilt

2015 Challenge

Started accepting 2015 dues

Show and tell from Kim

WIP Wednesday: QuiltCon Charity Quilt

Welcome to the series where we feature works in progress by guild members. Enjoy!

Today we're featuring the charity quilt challenge for QuiltCon. Check out this for more information.

It all started with the color palette given by the challenge. We ordered a bundle from The Intrepid Thread to get us started:

The challenge was to use an alternate grid (this concept is covered thoroughly in this MQG blog post), which is fun, but we also thought it would be fun to use blocks of different sizes. In the past we've done these group projects with random block sizes, but this time we chose certain sizes, but there's three sizes. Blocks will finish at 12 inches, 8.5 inches, and 5 inches. Based on this idea, Kayla drew up this sketch that is just amazing! We are using the cool colors (grey, blue, greens), for the large blocks and the teeny ones, and the warm colors (red, orange, yellow, purples) for the medium blocks. It should look great and really striking! All of our blocks will be a house of some kind. 

then we cut up fabric for bundles, and have been distributing those bundles these last couple of weeks. If you haven't gotten a bundle and still want to make a block, contact Kayla. Bear in mind the due date for the blocks is coming up on the 20th of this month. 

Some people have already made their blocks! We can't wait to see how they all come together.