We are running low on the fat quarters for birthdays/new members. If anyone can bring a few it would be much appreciated. There will be extra door prizes this month and you will get an entry for every fat quarter donated.
Urbandale Public Library
6:30 pm
Topic: Foundation Paper Piecing
and Entries Due for the Show at Gallery in the Round
Thanks!
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
DSMMQG Show Entry Reminder!
This is the week to submit your entries by either email or mail them to Greta Anderson (address on entry form) or giving them to Doris at Thursdays meeting. Forms, Photos and Entry Fee are required by Thursday the 16th.
You will be notified in approximately one week, whether or not your entries were accepted. Therefore, if you don't want to add a sleeve to your quilt unless you have to, there will be plenty of time after being notified of acceptance before you need to submit the actual quilt to sew one on.
The gallery will be installing the show on June 15th, so the quilts will need to be delivered by June 14th... either to the gallery in Ames, or to Doris. NOTE: this date is prior to our June Meeting, so it will be your responsibility to bring items to either Doris' home in Des Moines or to the Gallery in Ames. Additional details will be included in your acceptance notice.
MUG RUGS and MINIs can be submitted without entry fee as the curator plans to create a special display of small items/mug rugs in the gallery.
See you THURSDAY at 6:30 at the Urbandale Library for our monthly meeting!
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Tons of Information!
Okay, my quilting friends, I have some information for you so please read this over carefully and let me know if you have any questions!
1) Sewing Day!
Leila has already posted about our sewing day, but I wanted to remind you all again and add more information. So it will be Saturday, May 11th from 9:00 am to 10:00pm (or whatever times you want to come anywhere in between those times) at the Ankeny LDS church at 721 E. 1st St.
As a part of our sewing day, we will have a Give, Swap, Sell of fabric. I think I have some fabric that I might want to swap or sell and I'll post pictures on our Flickr group. Feel free to do the same if you'd like!
2) Our Show at Gallery in the Round!
Doris emailed the forms a while back and I passed out pages 1 and 2 at the meeting before last, but I think that I may not have passed out page 3, which contains important information! I have sent out an email to everyone whose email I have with the attachment again. If you did not get the email and would like to, please notify me by sending an email to dsmmqg@gmail.com. I will check that email regularly.
3) National Modern Quilt Guild Membership
I intended to share the information on the blog, but I think it will be easier if I give a brief slide show and answer questions at the next meeting. I will explain why the National Modern Quilt Guild is offering membership, what the benefits are, and let you think on it for a while before we vote about it in June. I hope to not take up too much time so that Jill has time to show us about foundation paper piecing.
4) Victoria Findlay Wolfe, who won Best in Show at QuiltCon, will be presenting in Clear Lake, Iowa! There is a small group of modern quilters starting things up there and they have Victoria coming to show quilts and talk to the group. Since they are a very small group (I think like 3 people right now!), they will be charging $20 to attend. Space is limited, so if you are interested, let me know at dsmmqg@gmail.com. There is a facebook event for it, so if you are on facebook, I can send you an invite.
5) The placemats that were made and donated by this group went to Heartland Senior Services. They were very pleased to receive them and the timing was perfect because they were having a special meal for all the people they bring meals to and were so happy to send them each a placemat! Thanks for your help!
Okay, I think that covers it for now, but there might be a couple other things coming up soon.
Emily V.
1) Sewing Day!
Leila has already posted about our sewing day, but I wanted to remind you all again and add more information. So it will be Saturday, May 11th from 9:00 am to 10:00pm (or whatever times you want to come anywhere in between those times) at the Ankeny LDS church at 721 E. 1st St.
As a part of our sewing day, we will have a Give, Swap, Sell of fabric. I think I have some fabric that I might want to swap or sell and I'll post pictures on our Flickr group. Feel free to do the same if you'd like!
2) Our Show at Gallery in the Round!
Doris emailed the forms a while back and I passed out pages 1 and 2 at the meeting before last, but I think that I may not have passed out page 3, which contains important information! I have sent out an email to everyone whose email I have with the attachment again. If you did not get the email and would like to, please notify me by sending an email to dsmmqg@gmail.com. I will check that email regularly.
3) National Modern Quilt Guild Membership
I intended to share the information on the blog, but I think it will be easier if I give a brief slide show and answer questions at the next meeting. I will explain why the National Modern Quilt Guild is offering membership, what the benefits are, and let you think on it for a while before we vote about it in June. I hope to not take up too much time so that Jill has time to show us about foundation paper piecing.
4) Victoria Findlay Wolfe, who won Best in Show at QuiltCon, will be presenting in Clear Lake, Iowa! There is a small group of modern quilters starting things up there and they have Victoria coming to show quilts and talk to the group. Since they are a very small group (I think like 3 people right now!), they will be charging $20 to attend. Space is limited, so if you are interested, let me know at dsmmqg@gmail.com. There is a facebook event for it, so if you are on facebook, I can send you an invite.
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| Victoria's Winning Quilt |
5) The placemats that were made and donated by this group went to Heartland Senior Services. They were very pleased to receive them and the timing was perfect because they were having a special meal for all the people they bring meals to and were so happy to send them each a placemat! Thanks for your help!
Okay, I think that covers it for now, but there might be a couple other things coming up soon.
Emily V.
Thursday, April 18, 2013
Don't Forget Our April Meeting Is Tomorrow!
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| By Michelle via Flickr - link |
Don't forget! No meeting tonight! We will meet tomorrow night, Friday, April 19th at At the Heart of Quilting at 6:30 pm. Vanessa Christensen, author of Make It Sew Modern and designer of the fabric lines Simply Color and Simply Style will be speaking to us. She will talk about using traditional blocks in modern quilting. Be there or be square!
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
Sewing Day!
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| Photo by Natalia Rosin via Flickr |
Don't forget to mark your calendars and set your alarm clocks! We will be having another Sewing Day on Saturday, May 11th from 9 am to 10 pm. It will be at the Ankeny LDS Church, 721 E 1st St, Ankeny.
I moved the time back to 9 am because, honestly, who wants to get up too early on a Saturday? If anyone really wants, we can start it at 8 am like last time. Let me know.
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
AQS Modern Quilt Challenge
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| Quilt from the AQS Modern Quilt Challenge website |
Have you heard about the AQS Modern Quilt Challenge? There are tons of quilt categories and prizes! Check out all the details here.
And don't forget about our next meeting! Friday, April 19th at 6:30 pm at At the Heart of Quilting.
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