July Sew In Day

A glorious sunny Nova Scotia Saturday....In a lovely, bright room..sewing machines were humming, fabrics were being cut, ideas were being exchanged at a furious pace...and then it was lunch time all of a sudden.  After that, out came the Creamsicles and more sewing and more inspiration.  A great time was had by all!

Anja was sewing up a storm with her awesome South African fabrics. 

Getting advice on quilting designs

Betsy was doing some awesome straightline quilting on her Michael Miller challenge quilt

A very organized quilter



This cute little block will show up on our guild banner very soon

Adrienne worked on some Bee Blocks

We didn't get many photos because we were just too dang busy sewing!

Hope you will join us next time.  Please get in touch if you need more info.

July Meeting Highlights

Our July meeting was well attended on a lovely warm evening  and  started off with a prize drawing for the nametag challenge.  Everyone who made and wore a nametag was entered and Sandra was the winner of a lovely fat quarter.

Since there were a few new faces, everyone introduced themselves and told a bit about themselves.  We had a surprise guest too!  M-R Charbonneau from Ottawa, who blogs at Quilt Matters, dropped by to say hello.  M-R is an amazing modern Canadian quilter and if you don't already know her, check out her blog and you will fall in love with her talent, plus she has Maritime roots!

Left to Right - Linda, M-R,Anja,Adrienne,Karen and Ann

L-R  Dominique, M-R, Anja, Linda, Karen and Ann

Our guest speaker was Chris, the owner of Patch-Halifax, a new modern quilt shop opening in our city in August.  Chris told us about her plans for her new shop on Robie Street and about all the amazing modern fabric lines that she will carry.

Members who are making 6 1/2" blocks that will be used to surround our banner center, received their packs of Kona solids that are required.  Also, a signature block from each member participating  will be included in the  backing design of the banner.  Karen did such an amazing job on making the centre and once the blocks are added to the design we will have the most wonderful banner to display, starting with at the Nova Scotia Fibre Arts Festival in October.

Then, Show and Tell.  Everyone's favourite part!  Unfortunately, there was a snafu with Adrienne's camera and  most photos were messed up.  Just a few came out well enough to show but be assured we saw some wonderful projects.    Sorry! 

Karen's applique quilt

Dominique's improv quilt

Aimee's awesome Cosby quilt!

 

and the back of Aimee's Cosby quilt.

Tomorrow is our July Sew-In day.  It will be held at 1 Prince St., Dartmouth from 10 am until 5 pm.  Bring your machine and your lunch and a project or two to work on.  Hope to see you there!  Please get in touch if you need and further info. 

Sewing In

Well kids, it was a hot one! Summer has finally arrived and while the sewing was a little hot, we had a great small group of quilters gather for the June Sew In this weekend. We met our newest member Julia, who drove in from Yarmouth, and this was Crystal's first Sew In.

I just love hanging out with chicks who like to talk fabric and rotary cutters!

Crystal was on a Rainbow Rug Mug expedition

Karen was into some serious basting with tiny bias tape!

You never know what you will run into at Sew In. Sometimes it's is a giant tomato pincushion

Adrienne was into more Union Jack Pillows - she is not tired of them yet!

I also found this cute piece of handy work

and...Jennifer made some Christmassy cushion covers. Presents!

There were lot's of other fun projects underway too, but I must admit that the heat sucked the picture taking right out of me :(

July sew in - fans and popsicles people. Fans and popsicles.
Hope to see you there

July 12th
1 Prince Street, Dartmouth
10:00 am to 5 pm


QuiltCon Registration Open Now!

Registration opens today! At 8 am PDT/11 am EDT you will find all the discount codes, training videos, and the link to register right on the Community site!

Community Site!

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QuiltCon Dates to Remember June 23  Acceptance letters for Super Volunteers sent June 24  Registration open for all MQG members 8 am PDT/11 am EDT July 1     Registration open to non members July 30   Last day to cancel QuiltCon registration and receive a full refund

June Meeting Recap

Last night, the June meeting of the Maritime Modern Quilt Guild was held in Dartmouth, N. S.  It was so nice to see a few new members! 
There are new and wonderful things going on for our new guild.

We discussed making our new guild banner.  Everyone will be involved in this project.  You will have to wait and see.  It will be unveiled in time for us to display it at The Nova Scotia Fibre Arts Festival.

Also,

We have been invited, to share a trunk show of our guild members quilts, by the Mariners Quilt Guild in Dartmouth. We are looking forward to this and it will probably happen after our show at the Fibre Arts Festival.  We have lots of time to get a few more projects finished up to show.

Guild member Aimee of Candy Coated Quilts, creator of many pixel quilts, gave us all a little tutorial on how she makes these wonderful quilts which use many hundreds of tiny squares. 

Aimee showed us how she keeps everything intact while sewing....she doesn't clip the threads between adding rows! Genius!

                                                                        Our Pincushion Swap

 

 

Our pincushion swap was a big hit. Looks like one or two pincushions may have been missed during photo taking.  We plan on doing another swap of some sort in the future.

                                                                               Show and Tell

 

We are now looking forward to getting together for our next Sew-In Day. Hope you can make it!  Please get in touch if you need further information. 

June Sew In
June 28th 10 am - 5 pm
1 Prince Street Dartmouth

MMQG Very First Quilt Show

Yesterday was the official launch of the 7th Annual Nova Scotia Fibre Arts Festival.

We are happy and excited  to announce that our lovely little guild will be part of this wonderful festival, the Largest Fibre Arts Festival in Atlantic Canada.    On October 17 and 18, 2014, we will being having a display of the works of our guild members.  The display will be located in Festival Headquarters, Amherst Town Hall, Victoria Street. 

If you need any information or would like some brochures, please get in touch with guild member  Linda at Scrapmaster.