Flying Geese, Cathedral Windows & Jacquie Gering; February 2016

The Easy, Modern Cathedral Window Method

Welcome to the Pensacola MQG blog. This month, we had a wonderful presentation given by Janie. She showed us the traditional, time consuming way to make the cathedral window block, followed by the modern, quick way. We've put together a board on Pinterest where you can find many different methods and various examples. See the link below.

Janie's beautiful cathedral window pin-on note board uses fabric from Bonnie and Camille.

Janie's fabulous diamond cathedral window pillow.

Follow our board "Cathedral Window Quilts" on Pinterest.

 Designer spotlight on Modern Quilter Jacquie Gering

Jacquie Gering talks to The Quilt Show at QuiltCon 2015 interview: click here.

Block Lottery Flying Geese

This months block lottery is a Flying Geese block, measuring 12.5" unfinished. Please use Kona white for the geese and "sea glass" inspired colors that read as solid fabric. These colors include turquoise, aqua, sky blue, cobalt blue, emerald green, etc.
Find more inspiration on flying geese on our Pinterest page, the link is below.

Tutorial can be found on That's Sew Creative.

Follow our board Sea Glass Colors on Pinterest.

Follow our board "Flying Geese" on Pinterest.

Fabric Swap

Suzie is heading up the fabric swaps. We are doing up to 2 yards of Kona solid fat eighths. 

Put 8 fat eighths in a bag and label the color with a sticky note and your name. They don't have to all be the same color. The cutting diagram is below. If you want to come early, Yvonne can help with the cutting. Please update the Facebook swap photo album with the fabrics you are swapping. This will help us not get any duplicates.  There is a link to the facebook group in the right sidebar. 

 *Disclaimer- You may not get back a piece of the color fabric that you bring.*

Cutting Diagram 

Charity Quilt for T.I.P. NWFL

We had a wonderful turnout for the charity quilt sew days. Thank you ladies for all your hard work!

Birthday Fat Quarter Cupcakes

Suzie came up with this cute idea of cupcakes. It really makes these fabrics look delicious!

We enjoy seeing everyone at the meetings. We would enjoy meeting you! Details on our meeting dates and place is under the meeting tab at the top of the page.  If you have any questions, feel free to email us. We have a wonderful show and tell every month. Bring something that you have or anything that you are making at the time. 

Happy Sewing!

Yvonne

VP Social Media

Half-Square Triangles; January 2016

Hst's -Half Square Triangles have been around the quilting community forever. They are a major player in quilting. These blocks are very versatile and make quilt design possibilities endless. You can find tons of info on our Pinterest page which is linked below. The quilt blocks shown here in black and white contain many creative blocks using HST's.

Pinned on our pinterest board here

Creative HST design paper drafting

This  design sheet seen below is a complete blank creative space. You can design your very own quilt pattern using colored pencils. There's also many digital pattern design software that you can you as well.

How to make HST's here.

Tips for cutting HST's

This tutorial can be found on Becky's blog here @ Always Sew Busy.

Block Lottery

Becky has chosen a Chevron block pattern for our block lottery. This block  uses the HST technique that  she demonstrated for  us  at our January meeting. This is a nice starter block for you to get your feet wet making  HST's. You can find the block tutorial here. How to make HST's is linked above.

This block calls for a white background and Tula pink fabrics as the chevron.

 These would be beautiful blocks to win!

 

Charity Quilt Event 

Yvonne met with Tip of NWFL charity organizations director Deanna. Where we discussed  her charity and upcoming event that will be honoring first responders called Heroes with Hearts. You can find more information on this event here. They will be having  a silent auction that will raise money for their organization and continue to give emotional support and lend valuable resources to those in need.
We were honored to be invited to create a quilt for this silent auction. The quilt below is a small version of the one that we will be making for this event. We will be meeting February 1st and February 8th in the classroom located in the left building next to A&E. It is right in the same parking lot. Left door, next to the salon from  9a.m-1p.m. Eeveryone is welcome to come and join us in making this quilt.

We put out a call for a donation of modern fabric strips in our newsletter 

 You all answered! Thank you to all of our members for donating. I will be putting up a charity quilts page soon, so you can follow along with our modern quilting journey.

 As always, we look forward to seeing you next month at the next meeting. You can find out details under the meeting tab at the top of the page. We have tons of great programs scheduled this year. You can always contact us by email too. Pensacolamqg@gmail.com

Happy Sewing
Yvonne VP (Social Media)