Nov 3, 2019 | Events, Negative Space Quilt Show, Quilt Show
We invite you to join us for an Opening Reception the evening of Friday, November 15 at The Collective – Community Arts Center. The opening reception will run from 6pm-8pm, light refreshments will be served.
Friends and family are welcome.
The Collective – Community Arts Center
201 N Public Rd
Lafayette, CO, 80026
The show will be available to view from November 14, 2019 – January 6, 2020. The Collective is open 10 am – 5 pm Tuesday – Thursday & Saturday; 10 am – 7 pm Friday; noon – 5 pm Sunday; closed Monday.
Note: There will not be a November evening meeting due to the opening reception event.
Aug 30, 2019 | 2019 Block of the Month, Color Theory, Evening Meeting, Events, Negative Space Quilt Show, Quilt Show, UFOs
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.
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 26, 2019 | Negative Space Quilt Show, Quilt Show
Unoccupied : The Importance of Negative Space is a juried gallery show of “modern quilts”, as defined by The Modern Quilt Guild. The vision for Unoccupied : The Importance of Negative Space is to challenge quilters who are members of the Boulder Modern Quilt Guild to create functional, modern quilts with a focus on the importance of using negative space in the quilts’ design.
Members of the Boulder Modern Quilt Guild will be able to submit up to 3 quilts to be juried and we will also be accepting several 3D pieces.
Negative space should be featured as a main design element:
Negative space is an essential design component in the world of modern quilts. Negative space is an area of the composition that is left blank or appears to be left blank. It is common practice in modern quilting to use the area of negative space created by the fabric to feature a special quilting design (by machine or hand quilting). The use of sashing, borders, or background as negative space is seen often. Secondary negative space is a more advanced concept in which the negative space itself takes on a design of its own. The creative use of negative space is an important characteristic of modern quilts.
Negative space allows a place for the eye to rest away from the subject of the quilt. Keeping negative space as a feature of any quilt brings more focus to the subject while allowing the viewer to continue appreciating the work because of the area provided for the eye to rest.
Just as negative space in modern quilt design is important, it is important to have negative space in our lives and community. Rather, the importance of open space within our surrounding environment gives our eyes, and bodies, a place to rest. Open space is an asset in Boulder and the surrounding communities. Quilters submitting to this show are called to consider the importance of Open Space in our environments while designing and making their quilts.
