Rossie Hutchinson, Paint Chip Improv Technique; March 2016

       Cindy showed us the ins and outs of the Paint Chip quilt technique in the book Stack, Shuffle, and Slide. The paint chip blocks gives you the freedom of color. Improv is a huge part of modern quilting, and this is a nice place to start with this block because it is improv within guidelines. It is a great way to play with solid colors. Cindy also brought paint chips from Home Depot to demonstrate color combos which was a fantastic tip.

     This year we have really integrated all areas of modern quilting into every meeting. Becky (President) has done a fantastic job of making our programs flow with designer highlights, incorporating swaps, and our block lottery. Our Kona solids fat eighth swap will be excellent to use in making these blocks. Our block lottery's have become a great place to start your journey with modern quilting, one block at a time.

You can find this book here.

Podcast with Crafty Planner and Rossie Hutchinson

Crafty Planner Pod cast by Sandy Hazelwood here

http://www.rossiecrafts.com/2010/05/process-pledge.html

Here's several other places where you can find modern quilts and follow Rossie Hutchinson.

https://www.flickr.com/groups/freshmodernquilts/pool/

https://www.pinterest.com/rossiecrafts/
https://www.instagram.com/rossiecrafts/

Block Lottery for this month. We found a stack and whack that gives you plenty of photos for some fast improv. You can find the tutorial over at From the Blue Chair.

Birch Fabric Bins Our First Workshop

Our first workshop is happening!  Suzie (our treasurer) will be hosting a Birch Fabric Bins workshop at her house April 17, 2016 @ 2:00p.m. If you would like to sign up, send an email to  Pensacolamqg@gmail.com. It is going to be a fun get together, and you get to make some fabric bins that are very useful. You can bring your fabrics, sewing machine, and a drink and snack.
Once you sign up, Suzie will send out an email with a supply list
and further details of what you would need to bring.

1st Birthday Party 

We are having a birthday party at our May 28th. meeting. Pensacola MQG is almost a year old. We have come so far in this year, and we couldn't do it without all of our wonderful members. It is great getting together with other quilters and talk about quilting. It is fun learning together and sharing this one thing that is such a huge part of our lives. I never imagined such a wonderful group of women to move forward and grow in quilting together! We will be celebrating with a potluck and a gift exchange. We would like members to make a small handmade item for the gift exchange or you can  bring 1 yard of modern designer fabric to exchange instead.
Please bring the gift wrapped or in a gift bag.
  Happy PMQG birthday!

42 Members!

Guild Resources Page

We are starting a member resources page. If you are a current guild member and offer a service, have a store (online or brick & mortar), or a blog, let us know by emailing us a link and description.
We would love to add you to the page. Show us where you shine!

We would love to see you at our meetings. Please bring in some of your work and show it off. You can find us at the top of the page under Meetings. If you have any questions, you can contact us by email at pensacolamqg@gmail.com

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)

Introduction to Tula Pink; December 2015

     Our December meeting was a quick introduction to Tula Pink. She is a modern fabric designer, author, and quilter. Becky shared a video at the meeting, in which she talked about her process of designing fabric.  Then, we showed off many of her fabrics. Below are some links to her videos and other social media where you can find out more about Tula Pink.



Tula Pink has her own website at here. Picture is from google images.

Tula Pink has a Facebook Group here.

 Instagram @ TulaPink and has a hashtag.

#tulatroops

Here is a great YouTube playlist of Tula Pink videos that Becky put together for our meeting.

 Tula Pink Video Playlist 

Our first Fat Fat Eighth Fabric Swap is here!!!

 The fabric swap is for 1 yard of any Tula Pink fabric cut into 11"x18" pieces.

   Yvonne has put together a cutting diagram here on her blog. This link has also been posted in our Facebook group. You can post a photo of the yard of fabric that you are bringing for the swap in the Facebook album. If you are having difficulties posting a picture, let me know here or in the FB group. Also, there's an email here on the blog that you can use to contact us.

Riley Blake Challenge 

 A lot of our members signed up for the Riley Blake Challenge at the December meeting. A&E does have a small selection of Sashing Stash that you can buy if you need more fabric for your design. We will notify members when the fabric comes in the mail and have it at the meeting.  You can find further  details on this challenge  here.

Membership Renewal

It's time for membership renewal. We are so excited about this New Year to bring you some awesome programs that Becky (president) and the board and members of the guild have expressed interest.  You are welcome to come and visit. The  info is at the top of this page under meetings. We will have membership forms and cards at the meeting. It is $25.00 for the year.

We look forward to seeing you. Please bring something that you are working on or a quilt to Show and Tell. It is one of my favorite parts of the meeting.

Happy New Year
Yvonne VP



Fabric Post Cards; November 2015

     We had a great program this month on making Fabric Post Cards presented by Katy and Barbara. They brought many examples of the fabric post cards. Also, showing us how to put them together and encouraging everyone to use their creativity to implement all kinds of different techniques. The post card is small and easy to complete for all skill levels. There are many different types of applications such as applique, fancy machine stitching, or add embellishments. We thought it sounded so fun that we decided to have anyone that wanted to participate make one and exchange it at the December meeting.  

You can find more examples on our Pinterest page here.

Examples of Fabric Post Cards

30 Block Lottery Trees

Thank you ladies for bringing all the beautiful tree blocks. We love your participation!

Quilt of Valor

We are really excited to be so close to finishing this quilt of valor.  It should be ready to be presented at our December meeting. Thank you to all the ladies that made this quilt possible.

Becky (President on the left) and Yvonne (VP on the right) with our first QOV.

Becky mentioned  the Mighty Lucky Quilt Club. It involves many great modern quilter's and skill builders.

Christmas  Party

Our December meeting is going to be a Christmas Party. Please bring a dish and recipe to share. We will be having a fabric post card exchange for those that would like to participate. Your post card will be put in a brown paper bag and each person will pick one up off the table. Also, there's will be a dirty Santa gift exchange. If you want to participate, bring a $10.00  gift. It doesn't have to be quilt related. All gift exchanges are fun and optional. Please bring what you are working on to show and tell.

Becky will be giving us a short introduction to Tula Pink.

As always, we would love to see you at the meeting. You are welcome to stay and sew until close at 3pm. For more info on where we meet, please see the top of the page under meetings.

Have a great holiday!

Yvonne VP



3 Stitchettes Templates Demo, Improv Christmas Trees; October 2015

Our program for October this month was how to use  Martelli's templates by the 3 Stitchettes. Juliette, Suzette, and Janie are sisters that we are happy to have as charter members. They do videos tutorials for Martelli's on you tube. Martelli's has been very generous sponsor to our guild. Here is a video of what you might have missed at the meeting. They shared lots of information about different templates, thread holders, and roundabout cutting mat. After the break, they brought tons of amazing giveaways for the members as well. We thank them for their generosity 

 September Block Lottery Wonky Modern Log Cabin

Tutorial found here.

Due Renewals $25.00 and Official Buisness Cards 

October Block Lottery Christmas Trees 

Bring your Block Lottery blocks in for a chance to win all the  blocks or participate in the giveaways. Bring 3 or more blocks and get a bonus participation ticket.

Tutorial found here.

Modern Fabric Postcards will be November Program

You can find tons of examples on our Pinterest page here. Follow us!

Bring your own fabrics to make some after the meeting at the sew day. 

We enjoy having you all at the meeting and seeing your lovely quilts in the show and tell. Please come be our guest, we would love to meet you. Once you are a member, you can access our Facebook page. December is our Christmas Party and $10.00 gift exchange. We will be doing a potluck with informal recipe exchange. It is going to be so much fun.  You can find scheduled meetings and location here.

Have a great day!

Yvonne 

1st Vice President 

QAYG and Piecing Method, Nametag Challenge; September 2015

Our program this month was given by Sharon on the Quilt as You Go (QAYG) flip and sew method. She also showed a great method to piece the quilted blocks together using strips. There are several methods. Everyone enjoyed the presentation, and there was great interaction with the members.