December - CAMQG Group Projects

 At the December meeting (annual Christmas party) of the CAMQG, several of the group projects worked on throughout the year were shared with the group.

 First, Jamie shared progress on one of our paper pieced charity quilts.  The binding just need to be hand sewn, and then it is ready to donate!

Next, Mary Ellen shared our Wonky Star Quilts of Valor quilt.  It also just needs the binding hand sewn.






























Finally, the Pick Up Sticks blocks were raffled off, and Jamie won!

If this looks like fun, join us!  New members are always welcome, contact us at CapitalAreaMQG@gmail.com.

CAMQG November Meeting

The last meeting of CAMQG was on November 21, 2017.  Review the meeting minutes, and get ready for the holiday party on December 19!

Pat showed us 1 of 6 quilts she is sewing for her grandchildren.

She also shared several quilts she made for a dear friend who lost a son to cancer at a very early age.

Cordell is trying to get rid of her Aunt’s cotton by creating quilts that she will thenbeing donating to the Red Cross in her home state of Wisconsin.

 She also put together 2 small quilts for dolls.

Janet used a pattern from the Modern Quilt Guild with a few adaptions to make this bed size quilt. MaryEllen did the quilting.

Lois made a quilt top on point from the Midnight Quilt Show on Craftsy using a jelly roll.

 Sigurd made a beautiful zebra pillow

She also put together a gorgeous quilt top using Moda Modern quilting blocks

Donna made a great apron


















Debbie was very busy with the following winter themed quilts:

Leslie is making baby quilts for the Linus Project.
















 

Debby made a lap quilt using Moda Merrily fabric from Gingiber.











 
Gay put together a Camelle Ross Kelly pattern

A fantastic Sew and Tell this month. Come and join us and see more great Sew and Tell each month. New members are always welcome, contact us at CapitalAreaMQG@gmail.com for more information.

CAMQG October Sew And Tell Highlights

 Beth shared her orange and green charity quilt which she is considering sending to Las Vegas as the Las Vegas Modern Quilt Guild asked for donations.

Amy's mother knitted a beautiful pair of socks for Mary Ellen.

Mary Ellen showed us one of three T-shirt quilts she is making for a family of one of her Girl Scouts whose father passed away. 

Mary Ellen also showed us 2 projects she made at Quilt Camp.

 Debby enjoys the Advent season and made an Advent calendar for her granddaughter.

Leslie made a postage stamp quilted pillow while attending the Latort Quilt Retreat.



Join us!  New members are always welcome, contact us at CapitalAreaMQG@gmail.com

CAMQG October Group Project Updates

 Great progress has been made on this year's group projects! 

The top of the wonky red, white and blue star charity quilt is finished this will be given to a local Veteran through the Quilts of Valor quilt program. Pat reports she has blue fabric for the back. She needs someone to provide the batting and then quilt and bind it.

 The top of the paper pieced modern block quilt completed by the guild is finished. Pat is looking for someone to purchase batting for the quilt and then for someone to quilt and bind it. This will also be donated when completed.

Our third group quilt project will be a "Pick-Up Sticks"quilt which will be raffled off at the December meeting for members who participated in the guild quilts. Pat demonstrated how to construct the modern block and provided a handout for sewing this modern block for our 3rd quilt. Each block should be 12.5 inches. The group agreed to not trimming the blocks to the final size but to trim any long tails. Blocks should be brought to the November and December meetings.


The full October meeting minutes can be found here.  CAMQG meets on the third Tuesday of the month in the community rooms in the Camp Hill Giant.  Please email CapitalAreaMQG@gmail.com for more information.

CAMQG September Meeting Updates

The minutes from the September meeting are available here.

Our members have been busy this month!  We saw many projects in the popular Sew and Tell section of our meeting:

Pat says that this is her “standard donation quilt”. It is made from five pinks and four grays, and is quilted with a breast cancer ribbon pattern.  She also recommends checking out the teal mini-swap, which she participated in this year. Look for it on Facebook and think about participating next year!

Barb says that she really likes to embroider, and many of her quilts include embroidery. She bought this Red Riding Hood pattern a few years ago, and made a few changes including taking out some outlining, and added some embellishment.

Amy says, “I showed this partially done, but now it is actually done!”

Mary Ellen made this small art quilt when the hurricane was coming, saying that she did it to keep busy and not be worried.  She saw this pattern when she was taking a class at a quilt show, and this was a class next door.  The mosaic shapes are made from a variety of fabrics and 2-sided adhesive.  There is a tulle overlay that you quilt over the top.

Marla made this quilt for her 8-year-old grandson, with fabric ordered from Japan.  The fabric is special because it features characters from Japanese books he likes.  She thought the fabric was pretty busy, so she added gray to tone is down.









Debbie was in Alaska for three weeks this summer.  Her tradition is to pick a souvenir of either yarn or fabric. On this trip she selected these laser cut salmon and then made two table runners because two salmon came in the package.

Gay just took this Halloween quilt off the longarm.  She says that she is all ready for Halloween, she just needs a broom!

Melanie says that she loves Atkinson Design patterns because they are so fabric efficient.












Does this look fun? New members are always welcome to join us, contact us at CapitalAreaMQG@gmail.com for more information.

CAMQG August Updates

The minutes from the August business meeting can be found here.  Barb also shared some ideas for how to create modern quilts from jelly rolls.











Our members have been busy sewing this summer!

Up first Amy shared a lovely quilt that started last October.  She says that it involved a lot of precision sewing...and lots of ripping!  She plans to give it to her mom for her 80th birthday.












Mary Ellen shared her improv sampler.  It is quilted and almost finished!  She also shared a t-shirt quilt she made for the son of a friend for his high school graduation.  She used interfacing to stabilize the t-shirts, which made the quilt very heavy.

Lois shared a lovely leaf quilt that she made from a quilt.  The leaves are raw edge applique, and she used paper-backed fusible and cut the center out, then machine blanket stitched.  She says she is glad to finally have it done!











Sigrid shared a paper pieced zebra pillow that will go on her gray couch.  Everyone oohed and ahhed over the bright colors!

Karen made a bag that feature inside pockets and straight line quilting.  The fabric features a bunny hopping through the tulips.

Marla shared two paper piece blocks, and says that she likes how they turned out.













Cindy shared a Row by Row made from a kit from a quilt shop in Virginia.  She says she's surprised that she actually finished it!

Dawn went to longarm certification and shared a sample of her quilting that she made from a pantograph.  She did a great job for her first time, and you could see her improvement as she got a little practice!  She also shared a jelly roll quilt and says that she will practice quilting on it.

Gay says she is on a roll with table toppers.  She shared several of these - one was made from a charm pack, another from a mini-charm pack, and another featured hexagons that had different quilting in each hexie.











Ann shared a mini-quilt that she didn't get done in time from the Riley Blake Challenge, which is why she started it.  It features all Riley Blake fabrics.















 Does this look like fun to you?  New members are always welcome!  Contact us at CapitalAreaMQG@gmail.com for more information.

June CAMQG Sew and Tell

What have our members been up to this summer?

Jamie is new to paper piecing, but made two paper pieced blocks. She also created several microwave bowls made some out of a layer cake.  She made several table runners and says she still needs to work on binding technique!

 

Cindy made two paper pieced blocks for the guild sew-along - she likes how the colors on one turned out, but not other other one.  

 

Mary Ellen share the second of 3 memory quilts for a family that had parents that died.  The quilts are made out of the parents' old clothes – some of the cotton with spandex was challenging to work with!


 

Pat, Donna and Debra each made paper pieced blocks for the guild sew-along.  Debra is pictured here with her block.


 

Karen showed a wallhanging of lotus flower for minister that is leaving to go to another church.  She also made a baby quilt – for her grandson that will be born on Monday! She told us she's going to miss the July meeting because she’s going to be taking care of the baby.

 

Nancy showed a customer quilt because it is beautiful and unusual.  What you can't see in the picture is that the black fabrics are a variety of tone-on-tone prints that adds lovely detail. 

 

Sarah (Nancy’s friend) showed a quilt she made from a Craftsy pattern.  There was a mistake in the pattern, so she told the story of how she had to call the company to resolve the issue.  Her quilt still has a "mistake" in it, but we couldn't tell!
 







Members are reminded to bring their fundraising ideas and paper pieced blocks to the next meeting.


 Are you interesting in quilting with us?  New members are always welcome, contact us at: CapitalAreaMQG@gmail.com