QuiltCon!

Each year, the Modern Quilt Guild hosts QuiltCon, the largest modern quilting show of its kind. An exciting part of QuiltCon is the Charity Quilt Challenge! The Modern Quilt Guild choses a theme and color palette and then guilds + individual members from around the world work to create quilts that are displayed at the show. The quilts are then sent back to the makers to be gifted to a local charity. 

This year the theme was "small piecing", which the MQG defined as incorporating fabric pieces that are smaller than 1" in either width or length. 

For our quilt, we were inspired by Marys Peak - the highest point in Oregon's Coast Range, and prominent feature of our Corvallis skyline. Members contributed tiny pieced 4-inch blocks which were sewn to form her silhouette.

One of our members, Amber, attended QuiltCon and sent us these photos from the show! So fun to see it hanging up with all the other amazing quilts. Thanks for tracking it down, Amber

We're looking forward to showing this quilt off at various events throughout the year, before we gift it to a local organization. We haven't chosen our recipient yet so if you have any suggestions on a local charity or organization that would benefit from this gift - please reach out!

Nice work CMQG Members! 

February Meeting Recap!

Calendar of Events:

Our ABC House quilt drive is in full swing! REMINDER: Diana's mom, Florence, has once again graciously offered to quilt ABC House quilts for us! Diana will be taking quilts to her in March - please have your tops + backs to her by the March 13th Meeting. Quilts will return to us in June and be distributed back to each maker to bind. 

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This month our member, Nancy, gave an excellent presentation on batting! She gave us a great hand-out along with a baggie of batting samples. Any members that missed the talk and would like a copy of the hand-out, please reach out to Sarah at the next meeting (she has extra copies!). I think we all learned a lot about all the different types and when + when not to use each kind. Thank you Nancy!!

Show + Tell:

Our meeting fell on Valentine's Day so our swap was heart themed mini (10-inch) quilts using either the decorative stitches on our sewing machines, or hand stitching! They were all so great!

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Next Meeting: March 14th
Our swap for March will be bookmarks! Make any size or shape you'd like.

January Meeting Recap!

Happy New Year Quilters!

Calendar of Events:
The 2nd annual Willamette Valley Quilt Festival will be held on February 1st & 2nd at the Linn County Fair and Expo Center in Albany, Oregon. The hours are from 10am to 5pm, both days. CMQG will have a table and we're looking for members to sign up to help each day. Please contact Pattie, if you'd like to help out!

(edit: this blog post is being posted after the Quilt Festival - big thanks 

to everyone who volunteered at our table this weekend!)

 
We're excited to announce that we'll be hosting a free motion quilt class with Christina Cameli in October - more details (date, cost, location) to come!

The members present at the January meeting also voted YES! to continue with our ABC House quilt drive! This will be our 3rd year donating quilts to ABC House - we'll be collecting them all year to gift to ABC House in December. We love supporting this amazing organization! NOTE: Diana's mom, Florence, has once again graciously offered to quilt ABC House quilts for us! Diana will be taking quilts to her in March - please have your tops + backs to her by the March 13th Meeting.


New Years Goals:
Our January meeting usually centers around our individual goals, plans, quilting/sewing skills we'd like to learn and patterns we hope to accomplish in the coming year. As we went around the table, there were a couple of common themes - finishing projects (UFO's!) and learning/further developing our free motion quilting skills. 

Some other goals were: learning how to quilt on a long arm, cleaning + organizing our craft/sewing spaces, learning needle turn applique, piecing triangle quilts and improv quilting.

Show & Tell:

Caroline shared two table runners and a couple of quilts:

 

Diana shared four pillow covers she's made recently: 
 

Karla has been working on her free-motion skills and shared this great sampler:
 

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Next Meeting: February 14th
Our swap for February will be 10" mini quilts featuring decorative stitches - with a heart theme, of course! It's a chance to try out a few of the many decorative stitches that come with our sewing machines (or get creative with hand stitches, if you prefer). This will be a blind swap - so bring your finished mini in a brown paper bag. As always, feel free to add other little goodies to the bag, if you'd like!