Jul 3, 2019 | Evening Meeting, Events
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Due to the 4th of July, our July evening meeting will be the second Thursday of the month. The meeting will be July 11 at Community Food Share and the presentation will be on Improv Quilting.
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.
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 June evening meeting was a UFO checkin date so all the show and tell projects were UFOs.
The next UFO project will be number 3.
Terri presented on Focusing on UFOs. Focusing is a technique that enables us to get in touch with body wisdom to allow you to get projects going again.
Her handout from the presentation is available in the Member Section.
Thank you so much Terri for helping us on our yearlong UFO completion goal!
Jun 3, 2019 | Evening Meeting, Events
Please note that the June evening meeting will be in a new location:
The June evening meeting is:
Thursday, June 6 from 6 pm – 8:30 pm
Community Food Share
650 S Taylor Ave
Louisville, CO 80027
June is our next UFO check in for project number 1. 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
The June topic is Focusing on UFOs. There is a way to get your worst UFO off the to-do pile and into the ta-da pile. Terri Thayer, Focusing trainer, will teach a method to tune into the body’s wisdom. Using innate knowledge, you can find a way to finish what you’ve been putting off. Please note: this is not therapy. We will be doing experiential exercises with others but there is no need to say anything uncomfortable. The method works within you. You chose the level of sharing.You can also do this process on your own. Bring to the meeting the UFO that is dogging you (or bring a piece of representative fabric or the pattern or just the mental image of it). We will learn how to connect with your inner knowing, leading the way to becoming unstuck. Learn how to find your way out of procrastination and overwhelm.
Please bring along those hard to finish UFOs, paper, and a pen.
OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS
The next open sew will be Saturday, June 22. This will also be located at Community Food Share. If you will be attending, please RSVP to ensure we have enough space.
Signups are open for the postcard swap. Read Laura L’s tutorial and sign up here.
If you are participating in the 2019 color study, make sure you’re posting your blocks using #bouldermqgcolorstudy19. Below are the April Rainbow blocks. The June prompt is Complementary Colors, read the full post here.
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!
