It’s been three years since the Boulder MQG’s quilt show An Exploration in Sustainable Quilting. You can see all of the quilts from that here and here.
Eliu and Shelly continue to be a huge inspiration with their commitment to sustainability in quilting and we were lucky enough to talk to them both about their quilting journeys during the February evening meeting.
Shelly and Eliu have both recently appeared on episodes of the podcast Check Your Thread.
The Boulder Modern Quilt Guild and the Sustainability, Energy and Environment Community, CU Boulder, presented An Exploration of Sustainable Modern Quilting from October 4 – December 14, 2018. The show hung at the Albert A. Bartlett Science and Communication Center, CU Boulder and featured 18 quilts selected by a jury panel.
Quilters residing along the central and northern Colorado Front Range submitted quilts that fell within these five categories: repurposed, rescued fabrics; renewable, sustainable new fabrics; scraps, waste, and otherwise trashed pieces of fabric; repaired, restored, and reworked ‘old’ quilts into new quilts; unusual materials. Below we are sharing some of the quilts that hung at the show. Please see PART 1 to view the other quilts.
Katie Arrington Lafayette, Colorado Boulder Modern Quilt Guild
I’ve Got the Blues
cotton scraps, flannel sheet, wool batting
This is a modern improv quilt in primarily blue and white/low volume scraps.
The quilt was made with all scraps. Blocks were constructed improvisationally and then trimmed down to 8.5 inch squares. The batting for the quilt is sheep wool sourced from Montana, and the backing of the quilt is a much loved sheet. The binding for this quilt is also scraps and the quilt was quilted on my machine at home.
category: scraps, waste, and otherwise trashed pieces of fabric
Tracy Buckley Louisville, Colorado Boulder Modern Quilt Guild Ashleigh (9) and Riley (7) Wood
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collection of old Girl Scout bandanas, pieced cotton batting, old sheet for backing
I am introducing my nieces to my quilting hobby. We practiced sewing on a bunch of my old GS bandannas as Ashleigh and Riley got to know their way around a sewing machine and related tools. From a large collection of available bandannas, Ashleigh used a design wall to plan out the pattern. She was insistent on keeping the color scheme simple. Our goal was to make a usable bed size project from some super size blocks so the project could be easily completed. The trickiest part was trimming up and working with bias edges, but both pins and wonder clips came in very handy at this point in the project. We are thrilled to submit this first family made cross-generational quilting project to be part of the Boulder MQG and CU Boulder Sustainable Modern Quilting show to hang at Mom and Dad’s Alma Mater.
The fabrics in the quilt are from my Girl Scout bandanna collection from when I was an Outdoor Skills and Camp Certification trainer for the Commonwealth GS Council of VA. The batting was pieced together from leftover sections from some other quilting projects. The back is a light green bed sheet left over from when I used to buy these sheets 8 or 10 at a time as a member of the online Marine Comfort Quilts group. The group made Memorial quilts for Gold Star family members of soldiers and other service men and women killed during Operation Iraqi Freedom, March 2003-2014. Each unique Memorial quilt was made of blocks that were signed by the quilter and/or contained an inspirational message from a quilter or a veteran. Center blocks included personal information about the person who served and their branch of service insignia.
category: repurposed, rescued fabrics
Betsy Widner Denver, Colorado Denver Metro Modern Quilt Guild Susan Santistevan, long arm quilter
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blue and white everyday kimonos, modern solids and linen
I have always loved working with repurposed fabrics. In fact, the very first quilt I made at age 12 was out of my mother’s sewing scraps and some clothes that were being donated. I can’t say it was very attractive, but I liked the idea of combining many types of fabrics into something purposeful. I still love using repurposed fabrics but hope that my quilts today are more fun to look at. I am drawn to graphic and improv quilts and I have a stash of repurposed fabrics just waiting to become something modern and beautiful.
Years ago I had the opportunity to visit Japan with some Japanese-American friends. Because I was interested in bringing back a variety of traditional blue and white fabrics, my friend took me to a flea market in Kyoto where I purchased many blue and white everyday kimonos. I loved the history of these everyday garments which were well worn complete with stains, holes and burn marks. After washing these kimonos I spent many hours taking them apart so I could use the beautiful fabrics. For this quilt I also added in some modern solids and linens. I love the fact that these everyday kimonos have been made into something beautiful and modern.
category: repurposed, rescued fabrics + renewable, sustainable new fabrics
Claudia Sheehan Nederland, Colorado Boulder Modern Quilt Guild
This quilt was inspired by the Siddi quilters in India. These women of modest means recycle old clothes and sarees into beautiful quilts. The Siddis sew their quilts entirely by hand, and have an interesting method of construction. They begin making the quilts from the outside edges and work towards the center. Thought this quilt is made entirely by machine, it was started at the edges and worked clockwise toward the center in a quilt-as-you-go fashion, emulating the Siddi quilters’ technique. The Siddi quilters stitch their quilts with a running stitch, and I emulated this with bobbin play using a white 12-weight cotton thread in my sewing machine.
The quilt is sustainable in that all materials other than the thread used for construction were salvaged. The cotton material on the front were scraps left over from my previous quilt and sewing projects. The “batting” on the inside is a heavy flannel that I pieced together. This came from the trimmed edges of a long arm quilt project, from a friend. The backing is flannel a friend gave me that was left over from a pajama project for her daughter. The tassels on the corners representing the “fula” decorations with which Siddi quilters decorate their quilts was made from knitting yarn that I had left over from a sock project.
category: scraps, waste, and otherwise trashed pieces of fabric
Rebekah Texer Thornton, Colorado Boulder Modern Quilt Guild
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vintage tea towels, thrift store sheets, leftover scraps from previous projects
A few years ago for my birthday, my mother-in-law gave me a set of vintage hand embroidered tea towels that were made by her mother. I have always loved vintage tea towels and felt so honored to have received such a special gift. However, the towels just sat in my drawer for years because I didn’t want to run the risk of staining or ruining these family heirlooms. These towels have been the inspiration for this sustainable quilt project. My husband’s family has Dutch heritage and I wanted to incorporate that feel into the quilt which is why I choose to add various pinwheel blocks to emulate the characteristic windmills across Holland. The pinwheel blocks are of various sizes, colors and shapes as a few are offset to create a modern approach to a traditional block. The large white negative space also creates a minimalist and modern feel to balance the traditional tea towel blocks.
This quilt is sustainable as it is made with materials that have been repurposed or reused. The tea towels used are vintage, hand embroidered from my husband’s late grandmother. The white background, striped fabric, and the backing for this quilt are made from old sheets found at the ARC. The solid navy are scraps from previous projects and the bright floral print is a scrap from vintage linens.
Sourced primarily from estate sales, I am a collector of vintage and cast-off textiles and the stories that accompany them.
As I gather treasures ranging from the vintage silk kimonos of a Japanese war bride, to exquisitely hand embroidered linen dinner napkins, to piles of fabric carefully pressed or haphazardly jumbled, I muse upon the life and dreams of the person who sewed and crafted and created in a home now open to the perusal of strangers.
The treasures and scraps that were once part of someone else’s beloved stash find a new home in my studio where I cut around the stains and imperfections, deconstruct and reconstruct, and combine colors and fiber content and a myriad of styles to create new purpose and beauty.
I quilt, tuft rugs, weave and felt, carrying on the legacy of generations of makers as I endeavor to create new pieces of functional art…with a past.
All the materials in this quilt were sourced from estate sales: the remainders of projects finished or left undone. If unsold, these materials were destined for a landfill. The design of the quilt is intentional to utilize even the smallest scraps. All materials were washed and dried before being used and the finished quilt is therefore washable. Everyday use is encouraged!
category: repurposed, rescued fabrics
Laura Loewen Lafayette, Colorado Boulder Modern Quilt Guild
This is the second quilt I made in a small project inspired by Colorado’s glaciers, specifically Arapaho Glacier. I chose to piece this quilt with 14 cuts of fabric representing the 14 named glaciers of Colorado. About half of the fabrics used for piecing are linen, there are 2 pieces made from quilter’s cotton, and the other fabrics making up just less than half the pieces are repurposed men’s dress shirts; depicting the over 50% receding of Arapaho Glacier in the 20th century. The quilting design is the topography of the Arapaho Glacier area. It was hand quilted using perle cotton 8. I used a metallic thread to machine quilt a grid inside the boundaries of the glacier, along with a white line of hand stitching around the glacier’s border. Both North and South Arapaho Peaks are visible on the topo quilting.
I chose to use linen on the majority of this quilt top because the growing and production of linen is friendlier to the environment than cotton. I left the selvages on the linen because they were as beautiful as the main portion of the linen fabrics. Typically, a selvage is cut off and thrown away. I also used repurposed men’s dress shirts. For the batting I chose a bamboo/cotton blend because bamboo is a quick growing plant and has a lower environmental impact than other batting options.
category: renewable, sustainable new fabrics + repurposed, rescued fabrics
Barbara Gippe Dacono, Colorado Boulder Modern Quilt Guild
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scraps, materials from the Art Parts Creative Reuse Center and recycled poly batting
The colored fabric strips in this quilt are from my scrap bins. The denim fabric and royal blue fabric were both purchased at the Art Parts Creative Reuse Center in Boulder. The backing consists of extra stripes from the front, extra blue fabric from the front and white curtain fabric leftover from pillows that my sister made for me. The batting is recycled poly.
Scrap fabric, material purchased from the Art Parts Creative Reuse Center in Boulder and recycled poly batting.
category: repurposed, rescued fabrics
Kim Fischer Boulder, Colorado Boulder Modern Quilt Guild Karen Dovala, long arm quilter
Love and Tears
white eyelet wedding dress, vintage handkerchiefs, table cloth, denim, Robert Kaufman love fabric, Kona raspberry solid
This quilt, entitled Love and Tears, is made primarily from my white eyelet wedding dress I wore in 1978 (shown in the picture on the quilt label), vintage handkerchiefs, white eyelet from a tablecloth my mother-in-law made for the table at our wedding reception and denim from my late husband’s jeans. We had been married 34 years when he passed away 6 years ago from cancer. I wanted to make something tangible out of these materials to remember my relationship with Mark and how it was filled with lots of love and some tears.
category: repurposed, rescued fabrics
Special thanks to the Sustainability, Energy and Environment Community, the Albert A. Bartlett Science Communication Center, Faurot Construction and DIV 6 Millwork, the BoulderMQG Show Committee and Jurors, and Stephanie Ruyle of Spontaneous Threads.
On October 4, 2018 the Boulder Modern Quilt Guild opened our first show. An Exploration of Sustainable Modern Quilting hung at the Albert A. Bartlett Science and Communication Center, CU Boulder, through December 14, 2018. In conjunction with the Sustainability, Energy and Environment Community, the BoulderMQG presented 18 quilts made by amazing artists who reside throughout the central and northern Colorado Front Range.
Participants were encouraged to enter quilts that fell within these five categories: repurposed, rescued fabrics; renewable, sustainable new fabrics; scraps, waste, and otherwise trashed pieces of fabric; repaired, restored, and reworked ‘old’ quilts into new quilts; unusual materials. Below we are sharing some of the quilts that hung at the show.
Julie Sippy Thornton, Colorado Boulder Modern Quilt Guild
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mixed cotton fabrics, a mix of leftover batting, perle cotton 8 thread
I felt the symbolism of a flower spreading its petals epitomized the identity of the material used in the quilt. Old, cast-off material has been repurposed and given a new life, just as a flower blooms every spring. In the upper left corner is an abstracted sun with rays of light radiating across the quilt. The flower itself is abstracted and reduced into petals and center, and the background is comprised of randomly sized creamy white and beige scraps resembling stained glass. All of the top stitching was completed by hand, with colors chosen to playfully interact with the fabric and add texture. The center of the flower has been left with a frayed edge to add additional texture and dimension.
This quilt was assembled using cotton fabrics found in a tiny second hand store in Newton, Kansas. “Fill a bag for $1.00.” Some pieces looked like they had been cut from clothing, and a few pieces came from my scrap bin. The batting is “Frankensteined” from remnants of previous quilts.
category: repurposed, rescued fabrics
Erin Amos Denver, Colorado Denver Metro Modern Quilt Guild
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denim, cotton fabric, cotton batting
Inspired by the traditional cathedral window quilt design, I used an updated construction technique to showcase the raw, frayed edges of the denim. This quilt has a lot of meaning to me because the denim is from my husband’s jeans and the “windows” are vintage linens from his mother and grandmother as well as some of my own collection. The recycled materials give it a softness that you only get after dozens of washes. Using recycled and rescued materials (like the scraps of batting used inside the quilt) gives it another layer of meaning and makes it an instant heirloom.
Denim is recycled from my husband’s old jeans, vintage linens from family, batting is from the scrap bin.
category: repurposed, rescued fabrics
Stephanie Ruyle Denver, Colorado Denver Metro Modern Quilt Guild
Sometimes a quilt’s DNA isn’t a mystery and paying homage to its roots is just as important as celebrating its future. “Look at me” became the mantra of this quilt which pays tribute to some unexpected materials including a shirt placket with its original buttons and button holes as well as the shirt’s pocket (which was removed for quilting and then stitched by hand back into place so it remained a functional pocket). The back, which is of co-equal importance, is a vintage card table tablecloth that belonged to my husband’s grandmother. It had a few holes from repeated use, which were reinforced from behind so they they would be stable but remain visible. The stains are original and serve to address the functional origins of the tablecloth and the future functional use of the quilt. The tablecloth had been residing unused in a closet. Its use as “whole cloth” for the back is the epitome of what should happen to much loved family textiles, that have been retired, but long to be part of family celebrations once again.
Sustainability encompasses many aspects of creating, and being able to use all parts of the base materials in this quilt was a personal challenge and a planned design statement. Including the shirt placket with the original button and button holes instead of discarding this portion of the shirt makes it sustainable and a bit whimsical. I could have removed the buttons and reused them, but then the paired opposite side of the placket would have been unbalanced. The same applies to the shirt pocket, which, as it should, remains functional. Being able to use the entire tablecloth on the back, stains and all, celebrates a once loved but up-to-now retired textile in the best possible way.
category: repurposed, rescued fabrics
Stephanie Ruyle Denver, Colorado Denver Metro Modern Quilt Guild
Coastal Modern
clothing (cotton/linen/silk), antique quilt, various threads
This small quilt has a lot to say about the future of quilting as well as its past. Nothing new was used to make this quilt. Improv pieced upcycled old clothes comprise the top. The batting/backing is a rescued (loved-to-death or abused, depending on your point of view) antique quilt that has seem much better days. All the thread comes from nearly empty bobbins yearning to be used again. You can appreciate the kinds of threads and the number of different colors of threads used by studying the quilt back. Most of the thread composition is unknown, but some of the more interesting ones include solar-reactive thread and various metallics. The binding is intentionally pieced to compliment the overall composition. Although I have made several quilts from scrap quilting material, this the first quilt I have made from 100% up-cycled and “unconventional” materials.
{Something OLD, Nothing NEW, Something BORROWED, Something BLUE} sums up the philosophy of Coastal Modern. The clothing used to make this quilt was dated and stained, needing repair, and unsuitable for donation. In addition, using nearly empty bobbin thread instead of discarding the last little pieces keeps all those loose threads out of the landfill. I was especially proud of purposefully using a damaged antique quilt as both the batting and backing. The front of the antique quilt becomes the back of this new quilt- blending the quilt’s future intimately with its past. Careful cutting of the antique quilt (which was really hard for me to do) allowed me to select the least damaged area to use in this project.
category: repurposed, rescued fabrics + repaired, restored, and reworked ‘old’ quilts into new quilts
Rebecca Greco Broomfield, Colorado Boulder Modern Quilt Guild
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selvages, men’s shirts, scraps of linen, sheets, cotton batting
I’ve never sewn with selvages before, but when a friend passed along a huge bag, I knew I wanted to incorporate them into a project. I recently made my first dresden, and I wanted to see if it was possible to make dresden blades with selvages. The thickness of the selvages did make it a challenge, but it worked out. The background fabrics are a mix of thrifted men’s shirts, leftover scraps of linen, and old sheets. The batting is scraps leftover from other projects and the backing is a piece of sheet. For the quilting, I used random bobbins of threads from old projects, as well as almost empty spools or spools of polyester that I have accumulated over the years but don’t use for quilting. I also added perle cotton 8 hand quilting. The binding is scraps of binding from other quilts I have made. I can never bring myself to get rid of the extra binding, even if it’s just a little bit.
As someone who usually works with a lot of color, creating a quilt with so much gray was strange for me. But I love the little bits of color that the selvage brings in, as well as the random colors of threads from old projects. It was a great challenge to creatively make something with items that would have normally been thrown out.
These selvages would have been thrown away, as well as scraps of fabrics from old projects. The men’s shirts were acquired from a thrift store, and the sheets were recycled as well. The batting pieces were all from old projects and even the thread was chosen to use up threads that I wouldn’t normally use.
category: scraps, waste, and otherwise trashed pieces of fabric + repurposed, rescued fabrics
Shelly Sommer Boulder, Colorado Boulder Modern Quilt Guild
Waste Not, Want Not
vinyl, cotton, linen, dental floss
While I often incorporate reclaimed fabric in my quilts, for this challenge I wanted to really push myself to use materials that would be otherwise thrown away or used only as rags. Some of the materials used are nonrecyclable, and most were pulled from trash cans or rag bins. It was technically challenging, but gratifying, to make something of lasting value from discards.
A representation of Morse code, created from worn out clothing, spells the words “waste not, want not” on a background cut from a vinyl poster. The quilt was hand-assembled and quilted with a discarded roll of dental floss using a technique adapted from bookbinding.
This piece was a space for me to meditate on the consumerist habits and throwaway mentality that are prevalent in our society. They stand in stark contrast to the thrifty roots of reuse, reworking, and mending that are embedded in quilting’s origins. I hope that in the future this piece will be impossible to recreate—because a circular economy and lack of single-use materials mean rummaging in trash cans will leave me empty-handed.
The materials used in this quilt are all discards. The background is a piece of vinyl poster. The Morse code letters are created from worn out clothing. The binding is a ribbon of linen sliced from another quilt top as I squared it up. The batting is a piece of an old buffalo plaid flannel sheet pulled from the recesses of a rag bin. The quilting uses a discarded roll of dental floss.
category: unusual materials
Laura Loewen Lafayette, Colorado Boulder Modern Quilt Guild
The Thaw
orphan block units made from quilter’s cotton, thread scraps, silk organza, linen binding, bamboo batting
I first collected orphan block units and small scraps of fabric to make the quilt top background. After improv piecing the top, I layered in thread scraps and tail ends of perle 8 cotton, metallic thread, and 50 weight cotton thread from my handwork sewing garbage that I collected for 6 months. A good portion of the perle 8 cotton thread is from the quilting of my #theglaciertwo quilt so I felt it appropriate to title this piece “The Thaw.” An acknowledgement that every bit and scrap, no matter how small, is affecting the environment around us contributing to the thawing of our glaciers and polar ice caps. This is topped with silk organza, bordered and faced with linen, and I used bamboo batting.
I used orphan block units, small scraps, and portions of throw-away fabrics to piece the quilt top background. All of this would have otherwise hit the garbage can without a second thought. I then layered thread scraps and tail ends of perle 8 cotton, metallic thread, and 50 weight cotton thread from my handwork sewing garbage that I collected for 6 months. The top layer is silk organza. The batting is bamboo/cotton blend.
category: scraps, waste, and otherwise trashed pieces of fabric
Colleen Harvey Nederland, Colorado Colorado Quilting Council
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striped silk suiting, a tan wrapper from a bouquet of flowers, a barnyard feed sack (paper), upholstery samples, a sugar sack (paper), polyester felt made from recycled plastic bottles, fleece scraps, a paper doily, aluminum cans, cotton and polyester threads, and a glass bead
I’m a dedicated hoarder, hanging onto anything that could possibly be used in an art project someday. I can’t resist collecting wonderful treasures that would otherwise end up at the dump. My kids used to tease me for being fascinated with bits of shiny stuff, just like our chickens! It’s gratifying to finally find a use for these things, some of which have been in my stash for over 20 years.
The silk, cotton, and paper materials in my quilt came from renewable, compostable resources. The polyester felt was made from recycled plastic bottles. The aluminum cans used for the hummingbird are recyclable. The fleece scraps and upholstery samples were rescued waste products, and the floral bouquet wrapper was repurposed for use in the quilt. Everything in this project has an element of sustainability except for the polyester thread.
category: unusual materials
Scarlet Sparkuhl Delia Fort Collins, Colorado Fort Collins Modern Quilt Guild
Often times we save beautiful household items for special occasions. Table linens, fine china, select vintage wines. As families age and traditions change, these coveted items are frequently hidden away in cupboards and closets, sadly decaying in darkness. Only when a family member becomes ill or passes, do we occasionally have the opportunity to bring them out again and recall the associated events: dinner parties, graduations, holiday celebrations. In this quilt, the use of my family’s household textiles and discarded interior design swatches gives them new life and purpose.
Materials used in this quilt include a majority of repurposed items. Interior design swatches (textile samples) are a notable source of textile waste. They are designed to represent a larger whole, used to demonstrate the look and feel of a particular fabric in real time. Although an essential part of the design process, these swatches are frequently discarded, further compounding the problem of textile waste. In this quilt the use of discarded swatches, table linens and linen garments gives them new life and a renewed purpose.
category: repurposed, rescued fabrics
Special thanks to the Sustainability, Energy and Environment Community, the Albert A. Bartlett Science Communication Center, Faurot Construction and DIV 6 Millwork, the BoulderMQG Show Committee and Jurors, and Stephanie Ruyle of Spontaneous Threads.
It was wonderful to see so many people join us at our opening reception! We had approximately 75 guests celebrate with us at the Albert A. Bartlett Science Communication Center, University of Colorado, Boulder. The evening was full of joy and emotion surrounding the beautiful quilts hanging in our show, An Exploration in Sustainable Modern Quilting.
Special thank yous to the Sustainability, Energy and Environment Community, Faurot Construction and DIV 6 Millwork, the BoulderMQG show committee and jurors, and special guest juror and maker of the lovely participation ribbons, Stephanie Ruyle.
The show will hang through December 14. It can be viewed on the East Campus of CU Boulder M-F, 8am-5pm. Find more details about show location and parking information here.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
The October Open Sew is Sunday, October 21, 9am-4pm. Join us at Alfalfa’s in Louisville for a fun day of sewing and socializing. The Round Robin quilt tops will be revealed and presented back to their owners after 4 months of additions. We will also be working on finishing the 2019 QuiltCon charity quilt. Bring your own projects to work on and come to help assemble the charity quilt. If you will be attending, please RSVP.
The Community Outreach Committee has prepared quilt kits filled with fabric that was donated to our guild for members to take home and sew at their leisure. Each kit contains all the fabric and batting needed to complete a quilt. However, members are free to choose what they want to sew, i.e. piece a top and or a backing, sandwich a quilt and/or quilt it, prepare binding and/or sew it on, or do all the steps. These kits will be available beginning at the October Open Sew.
The October Block of the Month tutorial is on the blog, find it here. We have big plans for our 2019 BOM so get stitching and catch up with your 2018 blocks! Only 2 more to go.
Our next evening meeting is Thursday, November 1, 6-8:30pm, at Alfalfa’s in Louisville. The presentation will be on UFOs. Rebecca will walk us through steps we can take to prioritize and to finish up our unfinished objects. Join us for a presentation filled with motivation to sew those long lost projects into usable finishes.
In the month of October we will not be having our regular first Thursday evening meeting. Instead, please join us for our Opening Reception:
Friday, October 12 from 6 pm – 8:30 pm
Albert A. Bartlett Science Communication Center
4001 Discovery Drive
CU Boulder
We would like to invite you for refreshments and celebration at the opening reception on Friday, October 12 from 6-8:30pm for our first show, An Exploration in Sustainable Modern Quilting. This event will be held at the university where our show will hang from October 4 – December 14, 2018. Join us in the atrium of the Albert A. Bartlett Science Communication Center, 4001 Discovery Dr, Boulder, CO, adjacent to the gallery for a night of socializing and viewing these beautiful quilts. You can find detailed information on parking and the show location here. Friends and family welcome!
OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS
The November evening meeting will be held on Thursday, November 1, from 6-8:30pm. Rebecca will discuss how to view and prioritize your UFOs. Throughout this past year we have learned what we can do to get some finished projects to come out of our UFO piles. You can read her blog post series to learn more before the meeting here.
Thank you to everyone who came out to help sew during our Community Outreach sew day on September 30. Our small group of guild members worked on finishing up some of the STEAMfest quilts, sorting donated fabrics and making up quilt kits, and starting new quits to be donated in the future. And thank you to the Albert A. Bartlett Science Communication Center for allowing us to use their beautiful space at the university.
If you’ve made your September Block of the Month then you are ¾ finished with our block of the month challenge. Congratulations! You can find the September tutorial on the blog and also get started on your October block. Find the tutorials here. Only a few more months to go! Here are some of the beautiful participant blocks made for September.
Use the hashtag #bouldermqgbom18 and tag us @bouldermqg when posting your blocks on Instagram!
Open sew is Sunday, October 21 from 9am-4pm. The Round Robin participants will be receiving their quilt tops back from the rounds of the last 4 months. Come to see all the hard work revealed! We will continue working on our Quiltcon 2019 charity quilt. Join us for a fun day of working on this community quilt or bring your own projects. Please RSVP.
For our show, any quilt measuring 30” wide or less will require corner triangles. There are tutorials to add them before, and after binding. Read the full tutorial here.
Tips on Photographing a Quilt for Show Submission
Laura L. put together a great tutorial on how to photograph your quilts. Read the full post here.
Even if you don’t submit a quilt, don’t forget to read the other posts on sustainable quilting. There’s a lot of great information and tutorials about making your quilts more sustainable. Browse those here.
