February 2013 Block of the Month

Giving a nod to Pantone's 2013 Color of the Year, February's block is to be using green fabrics and with neutrals being the only other color fabric used.  The block size should be 12.5" square when trimmed and can be any {modern} design the quilter chooses.

Tree block

The above block was made using Jolene's directions for her Tree Quilt in Modern Quilts from the Blogging Universe.  You can find many block ideas and instructions on Flickr and on our Pinterest boards .

Have fun making a block of your choosing.  Bring your block(s) to February's meeting for a chance to take home all the blocks made.

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Orlando Modern Quilt Guild
Meeting Minutes
January 2, 2013
10:00 am until Noon
Sewing Studio in Maitland, Florida

I.     Meet and Greet, Introduction of Guests
16 members and 3 guests were in attendance.

II.    Raffle Basket
The basket was supplied by Terry and won by Beth.

III.   Block of the Month

The colorful Blocks of the Month for January were won by Leslie.

The Blocks of the Month for February are to be made primarily of green with white background fabrics. The 12.5 inch square blocks are to be of any (hopefully modern) design selected by the maker.

III.   Other Business

--Madrona Road (Michael Miller Fabrics) Quilt Challenge

Fabric packets were distributed to members who planned to participate in the challenge.  The guidelines are to use the Madrona Road fabrics provided adding only solids or other fabrics from the Madrona Road line to make any modern style quilt of the makers choice. The completed projects are to be brought to the March meeting for display and photographing.

--January 19th Sew Day is replaced by a Road Trip.

The places to visit in order are:

The Bernina Sewing Center in Lake Mary

Accent on Quilting in Orange City

Lunch in Deland at the Main Street Grill

The Quilt Shop of Deland

Beth has made arrangements with the owner of the Quilt Shop of Deland and Terry is contacting the other two quilt stores.

Participants are to meet in the parking lot in front of the Bernina Sewing Center on Saturday, Jan. 19th at 9:00 am.  Any desired car pooling can easily take place from that location for the balance of the trip.

--Charity Quilts

Jodi brought the items for the Habitat for Humanity so that guild members could see what was being donated by the OMQG.

Jodi gather input from the group about other ideas for charity projects.  Beth reminded the group that recommendations could be made to Jodi who would bring the ideas to the OMQG Board.

--February Quilt Shows

Florida Cabin Fever Quilters show, Quilt Fever 2013, will be held on Friday and Saturday, Feb. 1 and 2, 2013 from 9 am until 5 pm at the Central Florida Fairgrounds at 4603 W. Colonial Drive in Orlando. Admission is $8.00.

The Space coast Quilters show, Quilting from the Heart, XI, will be held Friday and Saturday, February 15 and 16, from 9 am until 5 pm at the Brevard Community College, Titusville Campus.

IV.    Show and Tell

Lunch after the meeting was held at Bahama Breeze.

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Sew Day, December 2012

Well we have such good cooks within our group that the food started to disappear on Saturday faster than I could get a photo.

Elf supervised the small but merry group.

We had many projects in the works throughout the day and that did not stop us one bit with our eating, chatting, laughing and general holiday cheer.

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December 2012 Meeting Minutes

OMQG Meeting Meetings
12-5-2012
10:00 AM to 12 Noon
Sewing Studio in Maitland

I.     Sign In, Meet and Greet
13 members were in attendance
The meeting was conducted by Linda.

II.    Raffle Basket-We are skipping December and the November winner will bring the Raffle Basket to the January Meeting.

III.   For our holiday celebration we had wonderful assorted finger foods through out the meeting and the formal meeting was followed by a social hour.

IV.    Block of the Month

The December Blocks were won by Alejandrina.

Michele showed a sample of the January Block.  It is to be done in Orange, Blue and Purple on a white background; 12.5 inches unfinished.  A tutorial is now available on the OMQG website.

V.     Classes and Other Business

Attendees of the Carolyn Friedlander class discussed the class and Mary showed the blocks she created with Carolyn's pattern.

It was also announced that there will be a class with Ellen Linder on double reverse applique in February.  More information to come.

A suggestion was made that the guild either purchase a sample card for Kona Cotton solid fabrics or perhaps ask if the fabric company would donate a color card to the guild.

The upcoming Modern Quilt Guild challenge using Madrona Road fabric by Violet Craft for Michael Miller was briefly discussed.  We hope to have the fabric available for participants at the January Meeting.

Mary was asked and agreed to do a discussion at the February meeting on her experiences with pattern making/publishing.

V.     Show and Tell

VI.   Optional Holiday Gift Exchange

When possible the gift maker and the recipient were photographed together.

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January 2013 Block of the Month

Our January BOM is the Modern Strings block in blue, orange, purple, and white. You can find the recipe to this block right here. Your trimmed block should measure 12.5" x 12.5". Just add enough white to get to that size. Bring it to the January 2, 2013 meeting and put your name in for a chance to win them all. If you make two blocks, you'll get two chances. Have fun!

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Carolyn Friedlander Workshop

For our monthly Sew Day, we had a paper piecing workshop with the talented Carolyn Friedlander. The project of the day was her pattern "Olive Wall." Carolyn shared new tips and tricks for many of us that have paper pieced before and provided invaluable instruction for those who have never paper pieced. We all learned and accomplished so much. Carolyn has a new fabric collection called "Architextures" coming out very soon. She showed us her quilts made with her new line. Gorgeous!

We wasted no time getting busy (and messy). It was fun to see the variety of fabrics everyone chose. The library patrons were peeking in the window to see what we were up to. Some came in for a closer look.

One onlooker donated her mother's double knit yo-yo's she had been toting around in her trunk. There were plenty of heavy blocks already assembled and even more loose yo-yos. She was happy to see these go to a good home.

We had three tables of yummy food. No one starves on Sew Day. Everyone brings something to share which makes it fun and delicious. From sweet to savory, we cover it all.

Plenty of pretty trees were created. Looks like everyone mastered paper piecing. Thanks, Carolyn for a fun workshop.

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