Our speaker this month is Mary Ramsey, who is a teacher at Lyons Quilting. Come hear Mary’s unusual take on color by using simple arithmetic to achieve balance and interest in a scrappy quilt. She will also be speaking on the Top 10 Misconceptions about Modern Quilting and will bring several quilts to show.*
*Guests are welcome to attend but will need to pay a $5 fee.Please contact us if you have any questions about this.
OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS
#6 project for the UFO challenge is due at the October evening meeting. To leave as much time as possible for our guest speaker, we will only be doing UFO show and tell, and it will be extremely quick. Please save any other show and tell projects for the October open sew.
The next open sew will be Saturday, October 19, 9am-4pm. We will be sewing at Sister Carmen Community Center, 655 Aspen Ridge Drive, Lafayette. If you plan to attend, please RSVP. Please remember that RSVPing is important because it ensures we have enough space set up, but also allows us to better plan for shared supplies.
The jury selection emails for Unoccupied : The Importance of Negative Space quilt show have gone out. Thanks so much to everyone that entered. The opening reception will be the evening of November 15 and we hope everyone will be able to come see this new show! If you’d like to make sure to receive information about the show, sign up for our newsletter. (There is a form at the top of the page and the blog sidebar).
The September evening meeting will be held at our new location:
Thursday, September 5 from 6 pm – 8:30 pm
Sister Carmen Community Center 655 Aspen Ridge Drive Lafayette, CO 80026
We will be conducting our annual membership survey at our September evening meeting. Please come with your ideas and requests for 2020 guild events, activities, and education programs. Following the business meeting we will be serving snacks, playing games, and giving out some great PRIZES!!! There are some additional ways you can earn a chance to win a prize; make and wear your quilty name tag (see the blog post here), bring in swap items for the free “garage sale” table, and consider what purse/bag you carry for our quilty edition of “Let’s Make a Deal-ish”.
OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS
UFO
In August we pulled the next number for the UFO Challenge. Please be working on UFO #6, due at the October evening meeting. Share with #bouldermqgufos or email photos of finished projects before the October meeting.
QUILT SHOW
The deadline for the Negative Space quilt show has been extended and we will be accepting submissions until the website link is removed in the first week of September. If you have not submitted yet GO HERE.
COLOR STUDY
Don’t forget to keep sewing along with the color study quilt. Monthly blog posts are available HERE. You can catch up at any time. Tag your posts #bouldermqgcolorstudy19
POSTCARDS
Please make sure you have mailed your postcards to anyone you received cards from. If you did not get any cards in the mail please contact Laura L. for more information. Also, please email or post on Instagram photos of the postcards you received and sent!
KONA CHALLENGE
If you are participating in the Kona COTY mini quilt challenge, please make sure you are working on a quilt 36” or smaller. We will share these quilts at the October open sew.
OPEN SEW
The next open sew will be Saturday, September 21, 9am-4pm. We will be sewing at our new location, Sister Carmen Community Center, 655 Aspen Ridge Drive, Lafayette. Our QuiltCon Charity Quilt Committee will lead us in sewing letters for our charity quilt entry. If you plan to attend, please RSVP.
The open sew will be Saturday, August 24 at JVA Inc. Training Center at 1319 Spruce St., Boulder, CO. We will be doing an Instagram tutorial if anyone has been wanting to get started with an account. If you plan to attend, please RSVP.
The September 5 evening meeting with be a Carnival Night with tons of games and prizes. We’ll be giving more details soon, but if you haven’t made a nametag yet, make sure to get that done before the meeting. And if you’ve already made one, make sure you wear it!
Unoccupied : The Importance of Negative Space a juried gallery show open to BoulderMQG members and the deadline is coming up soon. All submissions must be in by September 1, 2019. 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.
MEETING RECAP
August was a UFO checkin meeting so we saw a lot of finished projects for show and tell.
The next UFO due at the October meeting is number 5. We are getting towards the end, only one more after this!
We also had two new members at the meeting, and Eliu showed off his amazing reclaimed denim quilts.
Laura L., Rebecca, and Julie Y. presented on Quilt Design Software. Laura L. discussed Adobe Photoshop, Rebecca covered Adobe Illustrator, and Julie Y. talked about EQ. They compared the different software and discussed the pros and cons of each for quilt design. The PDF of the presentation is available in the Member Section.
Please note that the August evening meeting will be in a new location:
Thursday, August 1 from 6 pm – 8:30 pm
Sister Carmen Community Center 655 Aspen Ridge Drive Lafayette, CO 80026
Laura L., Julie Y., and Rebecca will be presenting on Quilt Design Software. They will be covering Photoshop, Illustrator, and EQ. They will be comparing each of the programs and exploring their strengths and limitations.
Please bring your finished quilted postcards to the meeting, we will be distributing postage for the swap. Also, please bring the postcards you have received.
August is our next UFO check in for project number 3. Due to the high participation in the UFO challenge, we will only be doing show and tell of the UFO projects. If you will not be able to attend the meeting but want to have your project counted for the giveaway, make sure you either email it or post it to Instagram using #bouldermqgufos
OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS
The next open sew will be Saturday, August 24 at JVA Inc. Training Center at 1319 Spruce St., Boulder, CO. There will be a member email with more information regarding the location. If you plan to attend, please RSVP.
The open sew will be Sunday, July 21 at JVA Inc. Training Center at 1319 Spruce St., Boulder, CO. There will be a member email with more information regarding the location. If you plan to attend, please RSVP.
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.
MEETING RECAP
The meeting started with show and tell and seeing lots of great projects.
Katie presented on Improv Quilting. She began her presentation by discussing the roots of improv quilting in Gees Bend.
Katie also showed off many of her quilts and discussed her process of improv.
Finally, she completed the presentation with a demonstration of her improv technique.
Katie answered a lot of questions and simplified the improv process. Hopefully she inspired some people to go home and try it out! If you did, make sure to tag your photos on Instagram using #bouldermqg so we can see it.
Community Food Share 650 S Taylor Ave Louisville, CO 80027
This Thursday BMQG member Katie Arrington will be presenting on improv quilting and piecing. Most of the quilts Katie makes have some degree of improvisation, either in block layout, or block construction, or the overall quilting of the piece. If improv techniques make you nervous, or you just want to learn more, this is a meeting not to miss. Katie will be bringing examples of many finished quilts, and will be demonstrating her usual method of improv piecing.
OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS
Starting in August, our evening meetings will be located at
Sister Carmen Community Center. 655 Aspen Ridge Drive Lafayette, CO 80026
More information will be given next month in regards to the actual location inside the building. But we are excited to have meetings booked here through the end of 2019.
The open sew will be July 21 at JVA Inc. Training Center at 1319 Spruce St., Boulder, CO. There will be a member email with more information regarding the location. If you plan to attend, please RSVP.
At the August evening meeting postage will be distributed for the postcard swap. Some members have already begun receiving their cards from the Bloomington-Normal MQG. If you have gotten a postcard already, please bring it to the July evening meeting to show off and so we can take a photo of it.
If you are participating in the 2019 color study, make sure you’re posting your blocks using #bouldermqgcolorstudy19. Below are the May Tertiary and June Complementary Color blocks. The July prompt is Split Complementary Colors, read the full post here.
