Hello Quilty Friends and Followers:
Wishing you warm thoughts in the middle of this wintery season.
Wanted to pop on here to let you all know - we have a new website!
This blog isn't going anywhere - but it's unlikely to have many new updates.
Our web presence can now be found at www.maritimemodernquiltguild.ca
Hope to see you on our social media feeds as well!
Take Care,
Social Media Sarah
Monday, 4 February 2019
Monday, 24 December 2018
From our Sewing Spaces to Yours... Merry Christmas!
Well Friends - 2018 has been an incredible year for the MMQG!
Wishing you the ability to take some downtime this holiday season, spending it with the ones you love. And perhaps, getting to sleep before sunrise on Christmas Morning, finishing your last minute gifts.
Stay Tuned for the 2019 Schedule and a little rundown of your 2019 MMQG Executive - hoping that 2019 brings even more quilty goodness to us all.
Wishing you the ability to take some downtime this holiday season, spending it with the ones you love. And perhaps, getting to sleep before sunrise on Christmas Morning, finishing your last minute gifts.
Stay Tuned for the 2019 Schedule and a little rundown of your 2019 MMQG Executive - hoping that 2019 brings even more quilty goodness to us all.
Saturday, 29 September 2018
A Special Event: Trunk Show with Cheryl Arkison!
Hello Quilty Friends:
Hoping you've been doing some #selfishsewing and following our adventures on Facebook and Instagram!
I wanted to be sure everyone local was aware - on October 12th, 2018 we are having a special meeting of the MMQG that will be a Trunk Show with Modern Quilter Cheryl Arkison!
Full Details are on the MMQG Facebook Event
We are beyond excited to welcome Cheryl to the region, and looking forward to our sold out workshop weekend on the two days that follow.
Our trunk show with Cheryl will also be held at a special location (with better visibility to display Cheryl's quilts than our normal meeting space). Join us at Mount Saint Vincent University, in the Evaristus Building, Room 104. Signs will be posted in the building to help you find your way. Otherwise, here's a neat campus map that might help. Evaristus is #12 on the map, the building that is up the hill about half way.
Guests: $5
MMQG Members: Free! :)
Hope to see you there,
Social Media Sarah
Hoping you've been doing some #selfishsewing and following our adventures on Facebook and Instagram!
I wanted to be sure everyone local was aware - on October 12th, 2018 we are having a special meeting of the MMQG that will be a Trunk Show with Modern Quilter Cheryl Arkison!
Full Details are on the MMQG Facebook Event
We are beyond excited to welcome Cheryl to the region, and looking forward to our sold out workshop weekend on the two days that follow.
Our trunk show with Cheryl will also be held at a special location (with better visibility to display Cheryl's quilts than our normal meeting space). Join us at Mount Saint Vincent University, in the Evaristus Building, Room 104. Signs will be posted in the building to help you find your way. Otherwise, here's a neat campus map that might help. Evaristus is #12 on the map, the building that is up the hill about half way.
Guests: $5
MMQG Members: Free! :)
Hope to see you there,
Social Media Sarah
An oldie but a goodie, can we please bask in the beauty that is Susan's scrappy extravaganzaa? |
Thursday, 15 February 2018
Throwback Thursday - QuiltCon East 2017 - One AMAZING MMQG Member Experience
Here's a #tbt for you - also known as Throwback Thursday... in the advent of Quiltcon West in Pasadena, CA next weekend - here's a long time coming post sharing the experience of one of our MMQG members at last year's Quiltcon East 2017 in Savannah, Georgia.
Mary was so generous with her time and provided a great presentation at our March 2017 MMQG Meeting - however, we thought you might want more of the juicy details in a longer blog post. Thank you so much to Mary for her time and willingness to document and share so much of her trip.
*All photos credit to Mary Guildford
**Post is an adaptation of a lovely PowerPoint presentation - hang on to your technology hats, quilt friends!
That's all folks - I hope you enjoyed this little piece of Savannah and Quiltcon East, even if it's a year late. Stay tuned to the MMQG Instagram and Facebook for pics from Pasadena in the coming days... where we will be playing along with #quiltconfromhome.
Mary was so generous with her time and provided a great presentation at our March 2017 MMQG Meeting - however, we thought you might want more of the juicy details in a longer blog post. Thank you so much to Mary for her time and willingness to document and share so much of her trip.
*All photos credit to Mary Guildford
**Post is an adaptation of a lovely PowerPoint presentation - hang on to your technology hats, quilt friends!
Savannah International Trade and
Convention Center,
a short ferry ride across the Savannah River from downtown |
Bling, Katherine Jones of Tasmania,
Australia. Best in show. At 98” square it made a big impact at the entrance to
the exhibit.
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Inside the main room at the convention
centre hundreds of quilts were on display and dozens of industry vendor and
exhibitor booths. Every time I walked around I saw something new.
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Crows Quill Analog, Andrea Tsang Jackson.
I
was very excited to see our guildmate’s work on display.
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Land and Sea, Andrea Tsang Jackson
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Impracticality, Angela Walters.
Walters was the featured quilter this
year.
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Another one by Angela Walters. This one
is nothing but thread, no piecing at all.
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Folksy Fish, Sarah Sharpe.
This is so fun and whimsical. Each fish
has its own
personality.
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Detail, Folksy Fish
She wanted to see if she could paper
piece curves. Mission accomplished.
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I Love a Lobstah, Shelly Brooks.
This was a paint chip challenge for
Shelly’s guild in Maine. She had a year to do it but inspiration didn’t strike
until two weeks before the deadline.
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My Cat is a Jerk, Monica Solario-Snow.
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Lincoln, Kim Soper.
This won the People’s Choice vote and the
Improvised Piecing 1st place ribbon.
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Transparence Quilt 1, Melissa Everett
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Out of the Fog, Rebecca Cronk.
This is small scale improvised landscape.
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Cold Can Experience, Dorie Schwartz.
The text here is embroidered and then
appliqued to a pieced background.
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Tea and Skittles detail.
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Cursive, Paige Alexander.
The letters are done with bias tape
applique. It won second place in the Small Quilts category.
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Cursive, detail.
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Untitled, Jera MacKenzie.
Part of Nine Patch Challenge group.
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Sheri Lynn Wood, Ruler-free Strip
Piecing.
She encouraged us to get grounded, be
brave and let our rotary cutters fly.
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Bonaventure Cemetery
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Forsyth Park Fountain |
Juliette Gordon Low, Founder of the
American Girl Scout movement.
The
house where she was born is run by the Girl Scout organization as a museum |
Hot Pink, Anne Ferrer. Jepson Centre for
the Arts
Not all of the buildings are old. This
beautiful modern building, on Telfair Square, houses gallery and performance
spaces.
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Nick Cave Sound Suits at the Jepson
Centre.
These are wearable performance art
pieces.
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That's all folks - I hope you enjoyed this little piece of Savannah and Quiltcon East, even if it's a year late. Stay tuned to the MMQG Instagram and Facebook for pics from Pasadena in the coming days... where we will be playing along with #quiltconfromhome.
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