Anna Maria Horner, 3D Snowflake, November Meeting 2016

Program

     The 3D Snowflake was the program this month. It was presented and demonstrated by Yvonne (VP Social Media.) It is a fun holiday no sew project that anyone can do. You can find the whole demonstration below on youtube. They are fun and easy decorations for the holidays. It only takes  about 45 minutes to complete. It is great to do with family or friends. This is the perfect way to familiarize yourself with heat bond. Heat bond is also great to use in your applique projects.

Designer Highlight

Anna Maria Horner was the designer highlight. She makes beautiful, bold, and modern fabrics. She also has been focusing on her embroidery. The video below gives you a short background of her life and inspirations.

Anna Maria Horner's  blog.

Elections

Elections are happening soon. We will be taking nominations for all positions until November 25th. The vote will be going out via google forms by emails to members Nov 27th-Dec. 4th. Please feel free to nominate by email at Pensacolamqg@gmail.com for any position that you are interested in doing. We will announce the new board members at the December meeting.

Block Lottery

The Christmas tree blocks are going to be accepted until December. You can find the tutorial here

Christmas Party

December 17th is our Christmas Party. We will be doing a fun game of passing presents. If you would like to participate, it will be a 10.00 gift of any kind. It doesn't have to be quilting related, and it can be handmade. You don't have to participate. It is just for fun. Also, we will be doing a Potluck. So, bring a fun holiday dish and include your recipe if you would like to share it.

Quiltcon Charity Quilt

We should have all our blocks for the Quiltcon Charity Quilt. A bunch of the members stayed after the November meeting to get to work on it. Thank you for your efforts. I am thinking of a sew day in December. I will email and post what that date will be to try and finish the quilt top. If anyone would like to volunteer to quilt or bind, please send us an email at the Pensacolamqg@gmail.com. Any help would be appreciated. The due date to send quilt to Savannah is Feb 10th. Sorry for the lack of pictures on our top secret project. Pictures coming soon...

January and February Meetings

January  28st and February 18th meetings will be held in the 

         Pensacola Downtown Public Library

239 N Spring St, Pensacola, FL 32502

Meeting times will be 11 a.m. - 1p.m. 

As always, we would love to have you come and visit. The first two meetings are free. January will start next year's membership. I look forward to seeing you all at the next meeting. Bring something to show us at show and tell. We love seeing your work. Betty is always accepting charity quilts as well to take to Favor House. 

Happy Sewing

Yvonne C

VP Social Media

Angela Walters, Orange Peel, May 2016

Our 1st guild birthday celebration was a huge success. I am so happy that you all came and brought wonderful food. You all show so much modern quilting enthusiasm and it makes  this guild learn and grow. Thank you for sharing your modern quilt journey with us. We hope for many wonderful years to come.

ORANGE PEEL PROGRAM

 Liz gave a wonderful program on  different ways that you can do an orange peel block. These blocks would be great for scrap busting. There are many techniques to make orange peels and many different layouts that you can use in making a quilt. We focused on the applique method with fusible interfacing and turning. It gives the orange peel a nice clean curve while the interfacing holds the peel in place to the background while you applique it. You can choose many different ways to applique or hand stitch this block down. This would give you a chance to get to know your machine stitches. Zig zag, satin stitch, or blanket stitch. You can always hand applique as well for a seamless look.

Block Lottery

Picture courtesy of Donna 

                                            Orange Peel tutorial on Sew She Can Quilt's blog

You can check out her Orange Peel turning technique.
We will be using this technique with a few different details. You can find the details of the block lottery here

Designer Highlight

We talked about Angela Walter's. She is a fabric designer, book author and very well known quilter. She has many great video on quilting techniques on Youtube and Craftsy. You can find out more about her on her blog, Quilting is my Therapy .

We always look forward to seeing you at our monthly meetings. You can find the date and location above. You kind find us on Instagram and Flickr too.  Please bring your quilts and things to show off at show and tell. Bring a friend, stay and sew afterwards until 3:00 p.m. If you have any quilts to donate, you can bring them to the meeting. We will make sure that they go to the Favor House which Betty coordinates.

Happy Sewing
Yvonne VP Social Media