On Saturday, May 17th - 10 am to 5 pm - Flying Geese Fabric in Tustin is hosting their Annual Tea and is featuring Modern Quilts. This will be a gallery showing of modern quilts from some of their favorite quilters and customers. There will be tea, coffee, punch and an array of homemade goodies to choose from. They also will have tea favors for everyone and a chance to win a door prize.
I gave them 4 of my quilts to display and am encouraging any of you that want to do the same to bring a couple of your quilts to the store in the next few days to be included in the gallery. I am particularly keen on this because Flying Geese has been very generous in giving us 2 gift cards each month for the drawings at our monthly meetings.
The address of Flying Geese is 307 El Camino Real; Tustin 92780. If you would like to put a quilt or 2 in their show but can't get to the store, let me know and I will try to arrange to pick them up from you and take them for you. Our participation would be great publicity for our guild and also for modern quilting in general.
Hope to see you there.
Bunnie
bunnie@dbmsoft.com
A place for modern quilters to connect, share and create.
Friday, May 9, 2014
Tuesday, April 29, 2014
Shibori Scarf Dyeing Workshop with Joy-Lily
On Thursday May 22 Joy-Lily will
be teaching a Shibori Scarf Dyeing Workshop in a backyard in Los
Angeles. There are still a few spaces available. $50 includes all
materials and your first scarf. To sign up, contact Stephania at quiltwizard1024@gmail.com or call at
310.503.7989!
310.503.7989!
Friday, April 25, 2014
Philanthropy - Let's make it another great year!
I'm excited to make my first post on our new blog as Philanthropy Chair.
First, I want to thank Janet for all of her hard work over the last 18 months. Not only did she lead us to donate 25 quilts to Casa Teresa in March but organized the process. I am indebted to her as she hands over the reigns.
Our future opportunities as a guild are endless. The leadership would like our next donation to go to a Domestic Violence Shelter benefiting women and children in need. There are 4 shelters in Orange County. Over the next few months I will be contacting each of them, doing some research on their organization and seeing if we are a good fit. I will put my finding on our blog and we will then vote as a group to determine who our quilts will go to. Our target to donate our quilts is the holiday season.
How can you help?
Contact me anytime to return, donate, or pick up projects. Let's continue to give back to our communities with our beautiful quilts.
Thanks for your help in advance.
Lisa Handley
Lisa@h2family.com
First, I want to thank Janet for all of her hard work over the last 18 months. Not only did she lead us to donate 25 quilts to Casa Teresa in March but organized the process. I am indebted to her as she hands over the reigns.
Our future opportunities as a guild are endless. The leadership would like our next donation to go to a Domestic Violence Shelter benefiting women and children in need. There are 4 shelters in Orange County. Over the next few months I will be contacting each of them, doing some research on their organization and seeing if we are a good fit. I will put my finding on our blog and we will then vote as a group to determine who our quilts will go to. Our target to donate our quilts is the holiday season.
How can you help?
- Donate fabric, batting, orphan blocks, batting (yes, I listed that twice)
- Attend our quarterly philanthropy sews (next on is May 18th at Cosmic Quilting)
- Take Projects Home
- Do scrap projects at home
- A basket to accept all donations
- Pre-cut kits with pattern and fabric
- Blocks to be sewn together
- Tops that need to be sandwich and quilted
Contact me anytime to return, donate, or pick up projects. Let's continue to give back to our communities with our beautiful quilts.
Thanks for your help in advance.
Lisa Handley
Lisa@h2family.com
Wednesday, April 23, 2014
SewDown Nashville: Anna Maria Horner Studio Tour
Wow, what a way to start SewDown Nashville. Anna Maria opened her home and studio for a small gathering and pop up shop. See more at:
http://themodernquiltguild.wordpress.com/2014/04/22/sewdown-nashville-anna-maria-horner-studio-tour/
http://www.annamariahorner.com/
Wow, what a way to start SewDown Nashville. Anna Maria opened her home and studio for a small gathering and pop up shop. See more at:
http://themodernquiltguild.wordpress.com/2014/04/22/sewdown-nashville-anna-maria-horner-studio-tour/
http://www.annamariahorner.com/
Monday, April 21, 2014
Call for Entries!
Becky Navarro
www.twitter.com/QuiltFestival
Would
you like your quilt or quilts considered for exhibit at International
Quilt Festival in Houston, Chicago, and at our new Quilt!
Knit! Stitch!™ in Portland, Oregon? Maybe you didn't know that many of
the thousands of amazing quilts and textiles we display every year come
from our various calls for exhibit entries and our contests. And we're
always looking for more amazing quilts. .
.maybe yours!
We
would like to encourage you and members of the OCMQG to consider
entering your work for possible inclusion in one (or many) of
our upcoming exhibits.
You can find our most current list of calls for entry at http://www.quilts.com/home/
We
would also like to keep you and your guild members up to date on any
future Quilt Festival contests and calls for entry. If you
are interested in receiving emailed updates, please send Becky your
name and email address.
Wouldn't it be great to see OCQMG represented at the shows?
Special Exhibits Department
Quilts, Inc.
7660 Woodway Dr., Suite 550
Houston, TX 77063
Tel. 713.781.6864 ext. 129
Fax 713.781.8182
spexhibits4@quilts.com
www.quilts.com
We're Quilts!™
Quilts, Inc.
7660 Woodway Dr., Suite 550
Houston, TX 77063
Tel. 713.781.6864 ext. 129
Fax 713.781.8182
spexhibits4@quilts.com
www.quilts.com
We're Quilts!™
Monday, April 14, 2014
Sunday, April 13, 2014
Weekend Sew
Laguna Hills
Our wonderful new space for our weekend sews is at Cosmic Quilting. Our host, Karen Miller, is super cool and learned to sew as a child from her mother. She's held many positions within the garment industry including making wedding dresses and costumes. Her long arm career began when she made a gigantic king size quilt for a gift and decided her domestic machine wasn't the best tool for the job. Moving recently from the east coast, she started Cosmic Quilting in January 2014 when she took delivery of her Gammill Optimum Plus Statler Stitcher. She's got a technical background too so she can stitch to perfection.
The work space is awesome – big tables, super nice chairs, a cutting and iron station. We had 10+ people at the sew this weekend with some just dropping in to say, "hi" and others staying to work on their quilting projects - including some of the challenge projects coming up. Janet brought a tin of delicious fresh baked cookies and Kathy C. brought a huge basket of oranges from her own fruit trees. I took a few home and had one for lunch today. YUM! and thank you ladies!
Speaking of challenges, if you still need your Michael Miller fabric, please contact Janet Crothers or come to our Monthly Guild Meeting on April 24th at Hoffman Fabrics in Mission Viejo.
If you're in need of Karen's services, you can contact her at 949-281-7728 for a quote.
See ya soon!
Susan
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