May 10, 2019 | Evening Meeting, Events
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.
Apr 28, 2019 | Evening Meeting, Events, Fabric Selection, Negative Space Quilt Show
The May evening meeting is:
Thursday, May 2 from 6 pm – 8:30 pm
Alfalfa’s Market
785 E South Boulder Rd
Louisville, CO 80027
Please note: this will be our last evening meeting at Alfalfa’s. Due to changes to their room rental policy, we will be moving locations of our meetings. We are working out the final details of the new location in the Louisville area and will inform everyone soon.
If you signed up for the Kona COTY challenge, we will be distributing the fabric at the meeting.
The May evening meeting will be a little different. This is a hands on presentation, so members must bring a pair of paper scissors, and a work surface (clip board, piece of cardboard or any lap size sturdy surface. We will study the use of negative space in quilting. This is to start your creative juices flowing in making a quilt for our end of the year quilt show “Unoccupied: The Importance of Negative Space”.
OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS
The May open sew will be on Saturday, May 18 at Alfalfa’s Market. If you plan on attending, please RSVP.
We will be doing a giveaway for anyone who has finished their 2018 BoulderMQG quilt top by the May 18 open sew. Make sure to bring your finished tops for show and tell.
The BoulderMQG will be presenting “Unoccupied : The Importance of Negative Space“, a quilt show sponsored by the The Collective – Community Arts Center. The show will run from November 14, 2019 – January 6, 2020 and is open to any BoulderMQG member to submit quilts to be juried. Submissions open May 1, but you can read the full call for submissions here.
March was the first month of the Boulder MQG fabric pull challenge. Every month there is a new fabric pull prompt on Instagram. You don’t need to actually make anything, we just want to see how you interpret the prompt and the fabrics you choose. But if you are inspired to make something with the fabric pull, we’d love to see that too! The first prompt was “Hoarded Fabric” and here are the fabric pulls that were posted. For April the prompt is “Spring Pastels” and Karla wrote a fantastic blog post about her process for choosing fabrics, make sure you read that here. So play along and post your fabric pulls on Instagram using #bouldermqgfabricpull We’d also love to have you write your own post explaining how you choose fabrics, if you’re interested in sharing your process, you can submit a blog post in the member area.
Apr 16, 2019 | Evening Meeting, UFOs
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Remember that the April open sew has been canceled. The next open sew will be Saturday, May 18. If you plan to attend, please RSVP.
Signups are still open for the BMQG 2019 Kona COTY challenge. The last day to sign up will be Sunday, April 21 and fabric will be distributed at the May 2 evening meeting. Read the challenge rules and guidelines and sign up here.
Over on Instagram we have the #bouldermqgfabricpull challenge going on and we’d love to have you join us. Each month there will be a new prompt for a fabric pull. You don’t have to make anything, but we’re hoping you’ll be inspired to!
April’s theme is “Spring Pastels” and Karla put together a great post explaining her step by step fabric pull process. Make sure you read that here.
MEETING RECAP
April was the second UFO check in for the year, so we started off the meeting with show and tell. It’s been great to see all the projects being finished!
Claudia and Karla presented on Modern Quilting. They explored modernism in art, the evolution of quilting styles leading up to modern quilting. They explained the design elements surrounding modern quilting and showed examples of these elements in action.
The presentation PDF is available to download in the member area.
Our next evening meeting will be Thursday, May 2 from 6-8:30pm.
Apr 1, 2019 | 2019 Block of the Month, Evening Meeting, Events
The April evening meeting is:
Thursday, April 4 from 6 pm – 8:30 pm
Alfalfa’s Market
785 E South Boulder Rd
Louisville, CO 80027
The April meeting is a UFO check in for project #5, bring your finished projects for show and tell! Due to the amount of participation in the challenge, we will only be doing show and tell of UFO challenge projects. We’d love to see your new projects at the next meeting!
Claudia and Karla will be presenting at the April evening meeting on modernism in quilting. They will present the aesthetic philosophy behind modern quilting, and will give examples of the major design points that the MQG seeks when accepting quilts for Quiltcon exhibitions.
OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS
The April Open Sew has been canceled due to a scheduling conflict. The May open sew will be on Saturday, May 18. If you plan on attending, please RSVP.
The color theory prompt for March was Secondary Colors. Here are some of the blocks that have been made.
In April we are looking at Rainbow Colors, get the prompt here. Make sure to share your blocks using the hashtag #bouldermqgcolorstudy19.
Sign ups for the Kona Color of the Year Challenge are open. The mini quilts will be due at the October evening meeting, we’d love to see what you make!
Mar 19, 2019 | Evening Meeting, Events
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Join us for our next open sew on Saturday, March 23 at Alfalfa’s in Louisville. To guarantee a spot for your machine, please make sure to RSVP. For our afternoon challenge project Laura L will present a learn something new topic on needle turn applique.
MEETING RECAP
The March meeting opened with show and tell. We love seeing what everyone is working on whether you are new to quilting or are an expert. Here are some of the great projects that we saw at our meeting.
Please remember that general show and tell will be shown at evening meetings every other month (May, July, Sept) when we are not having our UFO Challenge show and tell (April, June, Aug, Oct, Dec). You can also bring general show and tell to any of our open sew days. We typically have our show and tell just before lunch around 11:30am. If you can’t join us for the entire sew day, join us to see what our members have been working on and to eat lunch with us!
Laura L presented on different fabric selection methods and how you can apply those to your fabric pulls. Members and guests learned how to take inspiration from many things like photographs, fashion, and even other quilts, as well as others. Members can get the full presentation in the member area. We also introduced two challenges, Kona color of the year mini quilt, and Instagram fabric pull challenge.
Members will have the opportunity to sign up for the Kona Splash color of the year challenge at the March and April guild events. Read more about the rules and sign up here. The Kona challenge will provide members with a piece of Kona Splash to use in a quilt that takes advantage of a fabric selection method from our March presentation. Members are also encouraged to use a design that showcases a feature from the April presentation “What Makes a Quilt Modern.” Everyone participating will receive their fabric beginning in May and will share their mini quilts at the October evening meeting.
Our second challenge does not require participants to actually sew anything. It is designed to help you practice your fabric selection skills. Our Instagram fabric pull challenge will present a monthly prompt for a theme and then participants will share their fabric pulls with the hashtag #bouldermqgfabricpull. Follow us on Instagram for the latest updates and challenge prompts @bouldermqg.
Claudia will be presenting “What makes a quilt modern” at our April 4 evening meeting.
If you have any specific questions, please get in touch and let us know!
Mar 5, 2019 | 2019 Block of the Month, Evening Meeting, Events
The March evening meeting is:
Thursday, March 7 from 6 pm – 8:30 pm
Alfalfa’s Market
785 E South Boulder Rd
Louisville, CO 80027
Laura L. will be presenting on ways to select fabric for a quilt. She will be talking about options like choosing based on a fabric collection, color scheme, a main fabric, and more. Laura L. also attended QuiltCon and will be showing off photos from her trip.
OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS
The color theory prompt for February was Primary Colors. Check out the great variety of blocks exploring this color harmony.
In March we are looking at Secondary Colors, get the prompt here.
We will also be doing a Color of the Year mini quilt challenge and a postcard exchange, so keep an eye out for sign ups!
