Happy New Year!

Happy 2020 Friends!

Just a reminder that it’s time to renew your Guild membership. Remember, your dues also include membership in the Modern Quilt Guild. As such, you have online access to members-only patterns, tutorials, webinars and so much more. 

We’ve got lots of good things in the works for the coming year. We’ll be exploring some of the aspects of modern quilting like color/value and solids, and improv piecing (in which many of you have expressed an interest.) There’ll be swaps, our Queen of the UFO challenge, group charity quilts, sew days and of course, the chance to show your projects at each meeting. 

Dues are $35 and we ask you to please renew before December 31st. You can pay your dues by using the Buy Now button to the right. NOTE: If you're using a mobile device, you'll probably need to scroll to the bottom of the page and choose "view web version" to access the payment button.

Thank you!

Quilt County 2019!

It's September and that means Quilt County is here!

This year our display is at Softstar Shoes in Philomath! Our quilts will be displayed the entire month of September - Tuesday through Saturday from 10am to 4pm. They look so good hanging in this fun space (a former roller rink!) and with that super fun green slide!

Stop by and check out our quilts! Please let us know when you do, and if you have any questions about a quilt or our group!

2020 Board Nominations!

We wanted to take a moment to reach and and remind you of the continued need for members to volunteer for our 2020 executive board!

Here's a run-down of our open positions:

President: primary contact for the guild, runs the monthly general meeting + periodic executive meetings, prepares meeting agenda in coordination with the vice president, responsible for communications within the guild.

Vice President: runs the meetings if the president is absent, responsible for the community service and community outreach including donation request, coordinates + works closely with the president.

Treasurer: responsible for membership payments, maintaining financial records (PayPal and checking account), tax return filing, monitoring the guild budget and maintaining the guild roster on the MQG website.

Secretary + Social Media: runs the meetings if the president and vice president are absent, records meeting minutes (general meetings + executive board meetings), ensures photos are taken at guild meetings + events (sew days + workshops), responsible for posting communications, answering questions + engaging communities on Instagram, Facebook + Pinterest.

Sew Day Coordinator: schedules the space, arranges for key pick up (if applicable), acts as sew day "host" or makes arrangements for a fellow guild member in their absence.

Swap Coordinator: responsible for swaps and challenges, including determining swaps, sourcing free patterns and providing education, if necessary.

Other areas where your skills and talents could add to the guild are: events coordinator, education coordinator (monthly education at meetings and/or workshops + classes), and QuiltCon Charity Quilt Coordinator.

A more detailed list of board member positions can be found here. 

If you have any questions about these positions, or if you would like to nominate yourself or a fellow guild member please email us at: corvallismodernquiltguild@gmail.com We'd be happy to chat and answer questions about these roles!

May Meeting Recap!

Calendar of Events:

ABC House Quilts - Florence (Diana's Mom) will be bringing our quilts back in June! She has also graciously agreed to quilt another round of quilts for us - she'll be collecting them at the June meeting and they will be returned to us to bind them in October. Backing reminder: fabric must be 8" larger than your quilt (aka: 4" extra on all 4 sides), please use a 1/2" seam allowance for piecing your back, and please no selvedge in the seam.

We have a few fun events coming up this summer!

May 25th -- Sew Day at the Consumers Power (CPI) Meeting Room located at 6990 SW West Hills Road from 10am until 5pm! 

If you haven't been to a sew day before - it's basically just a big open sew! The CPI space is wonderful, full of windows and natural light, lots of table space and plenty of outlets so no extension cords are needed. There will be at least one ironing board and iron - but feel free to bring your own if you have a lot of ironing to do. Amber will be bringing her Accuquilt Go if you'd like to try it out. Also, feel free to bring snacks to share (reminder: there is no fridge or microwave)! Sew day is a great opportunity to get things done without the interruptions we often get at home - plus it's always so inspiring being there with fellow quilters working away on our individual projects!

06-14-19 ETA:  The meetup with Eugene was canceled.

June 22nd -- Meetup with Eugene Modern Quilt Guild!

Where: Sweet Earth Vineyards; 24843 Kyle Road, Monroe.

When: Saturday, June 22nd from 12pm to 2pm

What to bring: 

• Quilts to show! Sweet Earth has a wonderful area for hanging quilts and extra clothes line as well. 
• Snacks to share! This will be a very informal potluck. Any snacky food is encouraged.
• Money for wine! Sweet Earth has tastings available, or wine by the glass.
• Fabric baskets to swap! We'll be having a swap between the guilds and the theme is fabric baskets! If you need inspiration, we've got some great idea's pinned here. Please bring the basket in a paper bag for a blind swap!

The winery is pretty easy to find, driving south on 99W go to Monroe, turn right on Alpine Road (I'm pretty sure there is a sign saying Sweet Earth, but it's right after Dairy Mart), drive 3 miles or so to Kyle Drive and take a left. The winery is on Kyle Drive about 1.5-2 miles in. You can also get there taking Bellfountain to Alpine as well. 

The winery has a decent amount of parking, but feel free to reach out if you're interested in carpooling. We'll chat more about this event at the June 13th Meeting.

 

Reminder -- No July Meeting. Our July meeting falls during the week of Quilters Affair and the Sisters Quilt Show.

July 27th -- BBQ Potluck at Pattie's! More details to come!

August 3rd -- Farmers Market! We'll be at the intersection of NW 1st Street & NW Jackson Avenue with a fun morning sharing our love of modern quilting with the community. Several of our members joined us after meeting us at the Market! As we get closer, there will be a call for modern quilts to display in our tent. 

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Show + Tell:

This first photo are a few of the projects created with the one-yard challenge fabric from the April swap:

A cat quilt for April's son:

A couple of Lorna's projects: 

Jane shared her meditation mat:

Diana shared a new quilt for her son, the dinosaur's glow in the dark!:

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Next Meeting: June 13th

No Swap, as we'll be swapping with our EMQG friends at Sweet Earth on June 22nd.

April Meeting Recap!

Calendar of Events:

As we talked about last month, our quilts for Quilt County will be displayed at Soft Star Shoes in Philomath! Pattie toured the space and reported back that it will be a great location with room for large quilts! We'll be forming a set-up/take-down task force and will be setting up at the end of August. We'll put out a call for quilts as we get closer. They will be hanging in the space for the entire month of September. Our QuiltCon quilt will be a part of a landscape themed display at Eats & Treats Restaurant, also in Philomath. We're thrilled to have our guild represented at multiple locations! 

Lattice Charity Quilt - final call for blocks! They are due at the May 9th meeting. We have a piecer (thanks Anne!), a backing provider (thanks Amber!) and a binder (thanks Sarah!), but we're still in need of a quilter. Reach out to Sheila if you'd be willing to quilt this.

We're also exploring a raffle quilt for next year! The quilt would be pieced this year and raffled off January thru October of 2020. Stay tuned for more details!

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This month Caroline shared her zipper knowledge with us! Thank you Caroline!

Show + Tell:

 

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Next Meeting: May 9th
No swap - but bring your finished project that you made with the rip & snip one-yard fabric challenge to show off!

March Meeting Recap!

Calendar of Events:

Quilt County -- Every two years since 1991, Benton County transforms itself into Quilt County during the autumn months. Quilt County honors the art and quilt making of our region with many diverse exhibitions. The next Quilt County will be held during Fall, 2019.
(*excerpt taken from Marys River Quilt Guild website)

This fall, our quilts will be displayed at Soft Star Shoes in Philomath. Pattie will be touring the store prior to the next meeting and will give us an update about the space!

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This month we had a presentation and round-table discussion about pressing + ironing! Amber brought her wool pressing mat and bar, along with her mini iron (great for paper piecing or when you have to iron every seam - you can set up a little station next to your machine!). We talked about steam vs. no-steam, when to press seams open or to one side, different types of starch and pressing sprays (did you know you can use vodka?!) and even different threads to reduce bulk.

Shelia presented our Quarter 2 Charity Quilt - a Lattice Quilt! Blocks are due at the April 11th Meeting. We are still looking for someone to piece the blocks, and to quilt it. Any volunteers? Reach out at the April Meeting!

Show + Tell:

Jan was visiting us for the first time and brought along show + tell! She showed us two bright + cheery quilts using the according half square triangle method.

Kim showed off her sew tiny sampler blocks. They are SO TINY! She also brought along a cute spool of thread mini quilt.

Lorna shared a great bag, a beautiful + huge quilt made from aboriginal fabrics, and a sweet happy camper baby quilt.

Pattie showed us a darling heart baby quilt she made for her new granddaughter.

Chris shared her first sew together bag. We all loved the sushi fabric! She also showed off her new paper piecing skills - learned from Diana at the last Sew Day!

Caroline showed us two beautiful quilts - an amazing tiger lily quilt made using the YouPatch pattern service and this wonderful La Fin Du Monde quilt. She will be donating the heart quilt to our ABC House quilt drive!

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Next Meeting: April 11th
Our swap will be a one-yard fabric exchange! Bring one yard of fabric in bright colors! Make sure you like it, because you'll be going home with a half-yard of it!

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!