Wednesday, June 12, 2013

It's All About Mary!

Meeting Date: June 8th, 2013
Members in Attendance: 7 (8, if you count Zuri)


OK, not really. But, Mary did seem to be the star of Saturday night's meeting. She volunteered to give us a demo on wonky kiss blocks.


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If you missed it, there's a similar tutorial here, just make the inset strips more diagonal rather than side to side. I might give it a try today!

Mary also rocked the show and tell, bringing her almost finished scrappy trip quilt and three quilt tops she's finished this month. Three!


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(Zuri seems to like it.)

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Aren't they all just amazing?

We did discuss a few things other than Mary and her awesomeness.

1. Flyer report. I haven't seen any around town, yet. If you have some, please hang them up somewhere! Let's spread the word.

2.The Boise Basin Quilters Quilt Show is September 28th and 29th. We discussed the possibility of putting together some carpools and heading up together. There was some definite interest.

3. We're going to have a picnic! We settled on Saturday, July 13th. That's the first weekend that worked for all of us at the meeting. It also happens to be our regular meeting night. Instead of the meeting we'll head to an as yet undecided park (any recommendations?) with our families and have a potluck picnic. The guild will provide paper products and a main course. It's up to everyone else to bring the rest. There will be more details as the time gets closer. I'm also going to try and still sneak in a late night sew in July. There's no way I can go a month without it!


So, that's it. See you all next month!





Tuesday, May 14, 2013

The Glories of the Nine Patch Block


Can I just start by saying that I love Nine Patches. Truely, I do. Let's just take a little walk through my own personal quilting history, shall we?


Scrappy Nine Patch

Scrappy Nine Patch

Irish Chain Quilt

Irish Chain Baby Quilt

Perfectly Pink Quilt

Girly Nine Patch Baby Quilt

Blue Irish Chain Quilt

Lone Gnome Irish Chain

Disappearing Nine Patch

Disappearing Nine Patch

The Birds and the Bee Irish Chain Quilt

Irish Chain Wedding Quilt

Bug Quilt- Full View

Bug Irish Chain Quilt

Chloe's New Quilt

Cousins Irish Chain (actually 2 quilts- one for each girl)


Scrappy Nine Patch

Scrappy Nine Patch #2

I'm a little shocked. I had forgotten some of those. That's 10 Nine Patch based quilts in the past 7 or so years. So, is it any wonder that I've choosen the Nine Patch for our next block swap? Here's some tutorials, links and whatnot to get you started. Make any sort of Nine Patch that strikes your fancy- traditional, wonky, disappearing, whatever. I'm excited to see what you all come up with.

Tutorials-
Basic Nine Patch Block
Strip Pieced Nine Patches
Disappearing Nine Patch
Missouri  Star Quilt Company Disappearing Nine Patch Video
Crazy Nine Patches
Double Trouble Disappearing Nine Patch
Framed Nine Patch Quilt Block
Double Disappearing Nine Patch

Inspiration-




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Source: flickr.com via Trina on Pinterest


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Source: flickr.com via Trina on Pinterest








Well, did that make you as excited about Nine Patches as I am? Email any questions to magicvalleyquilts@gmail.com.

May Meeting Recap


1. We have some lovely new fliers to post around town(s) to hopefully draw in new members. Let me know if you would like some to post.

2. Our next block for the block exchange is Nine Patch. Big detailed post about that soon.

 3. We toured Jenele's lovely sewing spaces. Thank you again, Jenele, for letting us invade your home.

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4. There were some amazing show and tells. Here's just a quick sample.


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Things I forgot to talk about at the meeting, so we will definitely be discussing them next time-

1. Quilt Guild tshirts?

2. Guild picnic in the park with our families.

Our next meeting is June 8th. I hope to see everyone there!

Thursday, May 9, 2013

Reminder

Just a quick reminder (because I've already posted this on Facebook and sent out an email and I'm getting tired of typing the same thing), our next meeting is this Saturday, May 11th. We meet, as usual, at The Quilt Barn at 6 pm. Check your email or the Facebook page for more details! Email magicvalleyquilts@gmail.com if you have any questions.

Monday, April 8, 2013

Meeting Recap- April 6th



Another amazing meeting and late night sew. You ladies are so fun to hang out with.

Anyway, here's the basics of the what we discussed.

1. Members in Attendance- 10

2. I passed out Meeting Reminder Cards made by the amazing KZ and took information for an updated member list. I should have copies of that for everyone next month.

3.The Desert Sage Quilt Show is this weekend at the fairgrounds. Saturday 10-6. Sunday 10-4. KZ and I are working on a flier to post in the Quilt Barn's booth to advertise our guild. Lots of members have quilts in the show- go and talk loudly and enthusiastically about them in front of the other attendees!

4. Our next meeting will be Saturday. May11th. It might begin with a tour of the lovely Jenele's sewing room. I'll send an email out when it gets closer with definite plans and directions.

5. We exchanged log cabin blocks. A couple of people wanted to but had forgotten. So, we'll do it again next month. Bring six log cabin blocks (or the two left over from this time if you participated) and we'll trade again.

6. Heather demonstrated a lovely hand quilted pincushion project. There are still kits left if you'd like to stop by the Quilt Barn and buy one. Only $5 and everything you need is included.

7. At next month's meeting, we'll be discussing a Guild and Family get-together. Start thinking of ideas of something we could all get together and do with our families. You know, that's not quilting.

That's all I have to share. Because, what happens at late night sew stays at late night sew. Hope to see several of you at the Quilt Show and everybody at the next meeting!

Tuesday, March 12, 2013

The Mighty Log Cabin


So, the next block for our funky Mulligan Stew/Kitchen Sink crazy block exchange is the Log Cabin. I love this block, I truly do. It has so many possibilities!

 It can be classic and traditional.


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Or funky and modern.

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I counted and I've made 9 quilts that involve log cabins in some shape or form since I started seriously quilting six years ago. I won't picture them all here, but if you're curious the links are here- tummy time quilt, bright baby, there's no place like home, cars quilt, cheeky monkey, Sam's quilt, birds and trees, doll quilt, and lawson's quilt. That's a lot of log cabin love.

Saturday night, I demonstrated a simple, jelly roll friendly log cabin block.


Simple Log Cabin Block

I won't go into too much detail here but here's a quick and dirty diagram of the block.


Log Cabin Diagram


The measurements of each of the nine pieces are listed. You sew #1 to #2. Press. Sew on #3. Press. And on and on. If you wanted a really traditional block, #1 would be red, #2, 3, 6 and 7 would be either light or dark. #4, 5, 8 and 9 would be the opposite. For a square in square look, #2, 3, 4, and 5 would be all the same fabric or color. #6, 7, 8, and 9 would all be a different fabric or color.  Does that make any sense at all?

I know that's not much of a tutorial, so here are a lot of others!
Trim As You Go Traditional Block
Scrappy Log Cabin
Picture Frame Log Cabin Block Video
Wonky Log Cabin
Hexagon Log Cabin
Strip Pieced Log Cabins

And if that doesn't keep you busy enough, here's a ton of inspiration-










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Well, if that doesn't send you racing off to your sewing machines, I don't know what will. Just remember, if you want to participate in the block exchange you will need to bring six finished log cabin blocks to our meeting on April 6th.