ANNOUNCEMENTS
The next open sew will be Saturday, May 18. If you plan to attend, please RSVP. If you’ve completed your 2018 BOM quilt top, make sure you bring it to open sew to be entered into a giveaway. If you signed up for the Kona COTY challenge, Laura L. will have your fabric at the open sew. You can read the rules for the challenge here.
Submissions are open now through September 1, 2019 for Unoccupied : The Importance of Negative Space a juried gallery show open to BoulderMQG members. The show will run November 14, 2019 – January 6, 2020 at The Collective – Community Arts Center in Lafayette. We hope all members will submit something, read the call for submissions here.
We are also taking sign ups for a postcard swap we will be doing with an Illinois modern quilt guild. Laura L. put together a great tutorial on how to make them, read the tutorial here. If you’d like to sign up, you can do that here.
MEETING RECAP
The meeting began with show and tell. We saw a lot of great projects!
Last month Claudia and Karla presented on modern quilting and we explored what makes a quilt modern. If you missed the meeting, you can find the full presentation in the member area. In May Claudia focused on negative space in modern quilting.
Claudia explained notan, a Japanese design concept involving the placement of light and dark elements. We did some hands on exercises with paper to work seeing how the shapes compliment each other and trying to achieve balance with light and dark.
The full presentation on negative space in modern quilting is available to download in the member area.
