December Meeting

Here's What CAMQG Has Been Up To! What's Coming up? Meeting: Holiday Gathering

Tuesday, December 21, 2021

Sew and Share

Janet made a quilt based on a Weeks Ringle pattern and did her own free motion quilting. 

 

Kristen showed her holiday wall-hangings for fall and winter. 

Gay and her daughter April had a fun time with a new pattern "Rocky Candy" by Jay Bird Quilts. The Sidekick ruler makes quick work of making the pieces. 

These are the same fabrics but with a different background. 

Amazing how much impact one change can make.

Challenge Quilts!

Cordell had challenged the members to make something that showed at least three of the principals of modern quilting.... 

Cordell and her modern placemats

Debbie used a vintage dresden plate and negative space to make a wallhanging.

April used modern fabrics to update the traditional hexagon block.

Gay also used modern fabric and geometric design.

Kyla  made a kimono out of quilt she made. This was her first time using a clothing fabric. Love her enthusiasm to try something she has never done!

Announcement:

    

The Mennonite Relief Sale previews will be held January 20, 2022 9:30AM - January 22, 2022 2:00PM at the Cumberland Valley Relief Center in Chambersburg, PA.  4225 Molly Pitcher Hwy, Chambersburg, PA 17202

Another preview will be held in Ephrata March 3, 2022 9AM - March 5, 2022 2PM at the MCC Material Resources Center, 517 West Trout Run Road, Ephrata, PA 17522

The 2022 Pennsylvania Relief Sale is held Friday April 1, 2022 4pm-9pm and April 2, 2022 6:30AM to 3PM at the PA Farm Show Complex, 2300 N. Cameron Street, Harrisburg, PA 17110.  Admission is free, but parking is $10.00 per car.

for more information visit :https://pareliefsale.org/events 

Program:

   

We celebrate the holidays by playing quilt bingo for fat quarters. It was a lot of fun and the winners of each round took home the fat quarter ante from each player.  Refreshments were provided. 

Upcoming Programs:

January 2022 - Days for Girls - Sharon McTavish, Laura Karlsen, Janet Fisher, Leslie Robinson

February 2022- UFO's - Donna Fireoved

March 2022- Grid Quilting with Maike Beu

April 2022 - Scraps, What the %*#* to do with them - Leslie Robinson

May 2022- Yoga for Quilters - Sharon Farley

Wish everyone a safe and happy holidays! See you Next Year

Membership dues are payable by January 31, 2022 for the 2022 year. Payments accepted by check, cash or paypal. 

Capital Area Modern Quilt Guild New members are always welcome, contact us at CapitalAreaMQG@gmail.com

November Meeting

November Meeting

November Meeting Minutes

Sew and Share

Deb L made her business partner a quilt, called Circuits. She just finished it up last night!

Christina  showed us the  first quilt she ever made, she entered it into the Bloomsburg Fair, where she got third place.  It was an Instagram Challenge , where you made a block a day for 100 days. She arranged the blocks into a rainbow and was happy with her fussy cutting on the front. She was quite please with the back.

              

Sharon made a quilt for a friend using a design with trees. She googled trees and found a design which she reformatted on graph paper. Then she found the blog, marinandcolusa.com where the pattern could be found,  Meandering Pines. She bought all the batiks at Burkholders.

Marla shared her finished Covid project. It was a kit from Pin Wheels using OakShott fabrics which she hand quilted. She also shared a  sashiko sampler which she hopes to cut apart and make it into a wall hanging.

          

Kyla bought the fabric for this quilt at Halfmoon  Handwerks during our guild fundraiser.  The free pattern is Magic Boxes by Jordan fabrics.com. She was having trouble getting the

quilt under her machine and she was given some great advice from our members.

Maike told us she mostly enjoys hand quilting, but decided to get out her sewing machine out now that the weather has gotten colder. She used a “mystery jelly roll” and a pattern she wanted to try, but isn’t sure if she likes it.

Mickie finished a  Covid project, too. The pattern is called Brimfield Revival. It was a good traveling project for her. She has the templates if anyone is interested in them.

Evelyn requested selvages that are 1.5 – 2” wide for a selvage quilt demonstration she will be doing sometime in 2022.

 Capital Area Modern Quilt Guild New members are always welcome, contact us at CapitalAreaMQG@gmail.com

October Meeting

Finally made it to a meeting in person this month and yes, we have pictures of beautiful placemats we made for our local Meals on Wheels and a few quilts from our members.

October Meeting Minutes

Here are pictures of the placemats our members shared:

         

More Sew and Share

Sharon made these flannel quilts for a fundraiser for Days for Girls.

       

Laura made this bed size quilt from a wall hanging pattern. The cats are adorable.

These are 2 tree table runners Sharon shared with us.

Maike made this beautiful wall hanging.

Karen made these quilts. The snowman was made at a workshop at Halfmoon Handwerks.

     

Gay made a modern baby quilt.

Debby M finished these 2 quilted wall hangings.

        

Leslie and Debby M shared a quilt they worked on with some friends for a fund raiser for the York County Literacy Council.

 Capital Area Modern Quilt Guild New members are always welcome, contact us at CapitalAreaMQG@gmail.com

September Meeting Minutes

 

Check out the September meeting minutes to read about what happened at the meeting. 

CAMQG Meeting Minutes from Summer 2021

Below you'll find the minutes from our  May, June, and July guild meetings.

Sorry to say there are no pictures from our programs or Sew and Share. We hope to return to sharing pictures when we meet again in person this August.

May meeting minutes

June meeting minutes

July meeting minutes

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

April Meeting

We continue Zooming for the month of April. We are all hoping for in-person meeting in the near future.

April Meeting Minutes

This month a few of our members participated in our quilted postcard challenge. The postcard was to tell a story.

Here are a couple of them...

Gay raises chicken that lay blue eggs.

Debby M created this postcard from a picture she took in Santa Fa, NM.

Hopefully we'll have more quilts to share in the future when we meet face to face.

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