January Sew and Share

We started 2019 off with a great round of Show and Share!

Evelyn brought some quilts that her friends made – the first one was made modern with black polka dot, and the second with brights paired with chocolate. 

Cindy announced that Greensburg (this side of Pittsburgh) Art Museum also has a quilt exhibition, brought materials to share – the exhibition ends March 10.



Beth made with a mini pack of jelly roll strips (she thinks she got them from MaryEllen), and plans to donate the quilt for the NICU quilt donation project.  The second quilt she showed needs binding, but will be giving this one away as a gift before the next meeting.






Gloria was doing an experiment with some blocks and made them into a table runner.



















Cordell shared a story from the Susquehanna Art Museum about other patron’s comments on machine quilting and got a response from Nancy Crow, which she read to the group.

Cindy made her first foray into modern quilting.  She was inspired by the hexies shared at the guild.  Her project got an ooh from the audience.   “I do love color!” she said.  She downloaded instructions for a pillow making the rounds on Instagram and adapted it to be a quilt.

 Melanie shared her Hoffman Challenge quilt that had just finished making the rounds of quilt shows with one of the Hoffman touring exhibits.  She also showed a small wallhanging that she had started at a class in Houston and finished quilting at home.










Sigrid showed a hipster bag that she made with a “Dog Under My Desk” pattern.  She also showed a grocery bag with snaps made with another pattern by the same company.



















Lois shared a beautiful leader/ender (Bonnie Hunter) project that turned out to be at least a queen size!










MaryEllen went on quilt retreat and finished 7 projects. She made a bag for her niece in school titled "You Can’t Take It With You".  A woman who died had her stash donated to York Guild, so MaryEllen bought the top that was not quilted, then practice “quilting it to death”.  She also finished piecing her improv project and was still in “quilt it to death” mode.













Karen was away for most of the holiday but finished her improv quilt – tried different types of quilting that included both free motion and straight line.














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