membership meeting march 10, 2021
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Membership
Meeting
March 10, 2021
Welcome!
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TONIGHT!
• 7:00 pm: Short announcements (recording starts,
please mute microphones, stop your video if you like)
• 7:10 pm: Introduction of our guest speaker
• 7:15 – 8:15 pm: Cheryl Arkison, “Make Time for Play”
• 8:15 – 8:30 pm: Breakout Rooms for small group socializing (not
recorded)
• 8:30 – 9:00 pm: (recording resumes) Announcements, Salsa BOM, Sew
and Tell
Membership Update
Thank you for renewing and/or joining us
We currently have 175 members!
New Members This Month!
Tom Keller, Seattle
Holli Sisson, Seattle
Tien Johnson, North Bend
Myra Kohn, Seattle
Cindy Wilson, Anchorage
Lorinda Davis, Arlington
Local Seattle MQG Site
SeattleModernQuiltGuild.com
• Meeting announcements,
recordings and notes
• Block of the Month
• Workshops & Events
• Giving Quilts
• Membership Info
Get Notified re: Blog Posts
National MQG Site
TheModernQuiltGuild.com
• National news & events
• Webinar recordings
• Fresh Quilting shows
• Modern Monthly
• Patterns & Inspiration
• Seattle MQG Circle
Membership Cards
TheModernQuiltGuild.com
● Log into MQG site
● Navigate to “My Dashboard”
● Link to Membership Card is under
the Welcome banner
Poll #1:What did you think of the virtual Quiltcon Together?
Tonight’s Speaker:
Cheryl Arkison• Quilter, writer, teacher
• Alberta, Calgary, Canada
• cherylarkison.com
• @cheryl_arkison
Make Time for PlayAdding a spirit of play back into our
creative pursuits
Thank you,
Cheryl!
PinwheelBy Cheryl ArkisonPhoto by Kate InglisPattern in A Month of Sundays
Pause Recording
Architecture Mini
Katie Sprugel
from a workshop with David Owen Hastings
Time for Breakout Rooms!
Quilt:
Debbie Shank Miller
Welcome Back!Restart Recording
Announcements
• Guild Library
• List of library holdings on our website
• Contact Kae Eagling to arrange a meet to pick up/return books [email protected]
• Online class resource for individuals: Global Quilt Connection
• http://www.globalquiltconnection.com/
• Events of interest outside the guild:
• Documentary
• Webinar
• Quilt show
• Podcasts
Kantha in Bangladesh: From Hidden
Corners to Public View
• Documentary Screening
• Sunday, Mar 14
• $10
• Eventbrite link for tickets
The Siddis of Karnataka
• Thurs, Mar 11, 2021,
• 2:30pm PST
• Interview/discussion
between historian, artist,
and scholar on Siddi history,
traditions and quilts.
• Donation
• Eventbrite link for tickets
Okan Arts Chats: Sheila Frampton Cooper
• Mon, March 15, 2021,
• 1 pm PST
• Interview/discussion
between Patricia Belyea
and art quilter Sheila
Frampton Cooper
• Free
• Registration Link
Lair of the Amethyst Deva, Sheila Frampton Cooper
QA Virtual Quilt Show
Virtual
Sew-InsAre ongoing
Sign up now for dates through March 31 (links in email sent Jan 14)
Contact Elizabeth Burstad-Morgan with any questions: [email protected]
Fiber Art
Group
Meet once every month for
a new prompt and to show
your art from the previous
prompt.
Contact Debra Flanagan
with any questions:
Special
Interest Group
Art prompt was “Gift”
I Give of Me to Thee
D Flanagan
Art prompt was
“Creation”
Chromosomes for a
Down Syndrome boy
D Flanagan
Art prompt was
“Self-Image”
What Keely thinks she looks like!
D Flanagan
Poll #2:Are you interested in the Fiber Art Special Interest Group?
Programs Preview
Upcoming Speakers and workshops
April Meeting:
Meg Cox
Learn how to explore amazing online resources, such as● Metropolitan Museum
● International Quilt Study
Center & Museum
● Library of Congress, the
oral history project
● Quilt Index (more than
60,000 quilts)
“400 Years of
Quilts at the Click
of a Mouse”
Meg will provide the story behind some of the amazing quilts, and gives ideas for taking inspiration from quilts without breaking copyright laws.
Workshopwith
Cheryl Arkison
March 13th
10:00 to 4:00
There a few spots left.
Sign up link is on the website.
Take a traditional block and change it up!
Play with technique, scale, color, value, and more
Jenny
Haynes
Lecture: Note the Date!
Saturday, June 12
10:00 to 12:00
“Evolution of a Curve”
Free to all members.
Workshop:
Skinny Inset Strips
Saturday, June 19
9:00 to 1:00 $55
Currently full, but put your name on
the waiting list if you are interested.
Giving Quilts (Rachel Singh, Jana Royal)
• First quilt of 2021- Scrappy
Houses!
• Make a house block
from your scraps.
• Any style, any size
• Blocks to be mailed or
dropped off by March 15Block by Katie Sprugel
SMQG Giving Quilt
“Alphabet Soup”
Assembled by Erica Johnson
Quilted and bound by Chelsey Weber
Poll #3:How long has it been since you cleaned and oiled your
sewing machine?
More Inspiration!
•Improv Star Storm
•Designed and pieced by Victoria Findlay Wolfe, 2018
•Quilted by Karlee Porter•Part of Victoria Findlay Wolfe special
exhibit at Quiltcon 2020
JAN• Ideas!• Planning!• Fabric Selection!
FEB• Make some parts
based on prompts
MAR• Make parts based on
prompts
APR• Make focal block
MAY• Add word or applique
JUNE• Assemble so far
JULY• Make parts based on
prompts
AUG• Make parts based on
prompts
SEPT• Assemble top
OCT • Quilt it
NOV• Bind it
DEC• Keep it or gift it!
How will this work?
Month 3 Prompt- TRIANGLES
● Use TRIANGLES to create designs in each block, or aim for the effect of triangles around your center block
● Ideas for blocks utilizing TRIANGLES are offered, but you can always go independent and make whatever block suits your fancy this month
● How many to make? How big should they be?○ It depends….○ See the blog post for more info
● Hint: Do not stitch your blocks into borders yet. You’ll appreciate the flexibility for play when your central block is done and you can put everything on a design wall.
Block Ideas- MildHSTs and Variations
Flying Geese
Border Ideas- Medium
Rally (MQG site)
Spiky Triangles and Variations
Equilateral Triangles
Border Ideas- SpicyPinwheels
Friendship Stars
Vector block (MQG site)
MARCH: TRIANGLES
Mild• Pick a block style that
doesn’t intimidate or stress you
• Make a few blocks
Medium• Play with improv• Make blocks that
require more piecing• Make more blocks
Spicy• Play with a new-to-you
method or do a border that requires more piecing
• Make enough blocks to make a full border
Look at the blog post for all the details!
Sew
& Tell!
Linda Kucera
Charity Quilt
Linda Kucera
Finished in February, head start for next Christmas!
Linda Kucera
Pattern by Stacey DayFun use of Heather Ross fabrics
Grace Kim
First quilt ever!
Pieced and quilted by Grace
Faced binding
Holly Anselm
Baby quilt for a lucky neighbor
Alexandra Immel
Terry Peart
“Improv Daisy” from workshop with Sherri Lynn Wood
Julia Wachs
“Bracken”
Foundation paper piecedQuilting by Sarah of Stitch Mode Quilts
Second published pattern!
Marja van Zeijl
Round Robin style quilt started with Quilters of the Hudson Highlands in 2017
Machine quilting progress!
Trish Norberg
“I Heart You”
Pattern by Then Came June
There’s a story behind that raindrop background….
Chandra Wu
“Molly’s Moon”
Improv quilt made in April and May of
2020
Goal: use all the solid scraps without
making new ones
Hand quilted with perle cotton, using a
tapestry needle before realizing that a sashiko needle would have been way
easier (because it is sharp!)
Marianne Anderegg
Marianne Anderegg
Katie Sprugel
“Whoosh”34” x 34”
Hole Punch Hoops pattern by Jenny Haynes, made in Twice Cut Drunkard’s Path workshop, 2020
FMQ inspired by Christina Cameli, HollyAnne Knight and Mel Beach
Time to wrap it up!
Quilt by Amy Steed
“See” you in April!
• April 14th Membership Meeting via Zoom
• Send sew-and-tell photos and stories any time to:
• Tag your work using #SeattleMQGApril2021 on
• Before you go…
Poll #4:
What did you think of
tonight's meeting?
Next Meeting:
04.14.2021Via Zoom
Register early!
