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Membership Meeting

06.10.2020

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Welcome!

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TONIGHT!

� 7:00 pm: Short announcements (recording starts, please mute microphones, stop your video if you like)

� 7:10 pm: Introduction of our guest presenter, Cindy Grisdela� 7:15 – 8:00 pm: Cindy Grisdela presents� 8:00 – 8:15 pm: Q&A with Cindy� 8:15 – 8:30 pm: Breakout Rooms for small group socializing

� 8:30 – 9:00 pm: Sew and Tell

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First, some short announcements…

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National MQG Site

TheModernQuiltGuild.com� National news & events� Webinar recordings� Fresh Quilting shows

� Block Study� Patterns & Inspiration� Seattle MQG Circle

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IMPORTANT DATES:

June 2020:Catalog ReleaseJuly 2020:Registration

Online FAQs

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Local Seattle MQG Site

SeattleModernQuiltGuild.com� Meeting announcements,

recordings and notes� Block of the Month

� Workshops & Events� Giving Quilts� Membership Info

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

�Virtual Sew-Ins: five groups going until July 12th, we will start another round then

�Scrappy Gift Swap: deliver/mail by July 18th

#SeattleMQGscrappygiftswap

�#BegoniaQuilt quilt show: coming to our blog soon!

�Inspiring Textile Artists of Color, Online Workshops, and Cool Blogs: coming to our blog tomorrow!

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

� Bluprint: shutting down, details will be sent to subscribers

� Undercover Quilts: downtown Seattle store is permanently closed —shop online at undercoverquilts.com

� Long-Arm Quilters: send your contact info + a photo to be included on our website, we will create a resource page for you

� Giving Quilts: we need quilting volunteers!

� Cascadia Cabin in the Woods: post progress, win prizes!

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Giving Quilts

We need quilting volunteers!� Color Inspiration Challenge:

pam j cole is going to quilt � Black & White Letters #2:

need a volunteer� Improv Aqua Quilt:

need a volunteer� To help, contact:

Matt Macomber mtmacomb@hotmail.comRachel Singh rachel.singh@gmail.com

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BOM 2020: Cascadia Cabin in the Woods

It’s prize drawing time!!!

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Poll #1:Has your quilting time increased under the stay-at-home order?

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Poll #2:Are you mostly starting new

projects, or working on UFOs?

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PLEASE WELCOME:

Cindy GrisdelaArtist, Teacher, Author of Artful Improvwww.cindygrisdela.com

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Improv Intro:Blocks, Stripes, Curves

NEW ONLINE CLASS!

Register on CourseCraft.net

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Questions?

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Thank you, Cindy!

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Poll #3:Do you primarily do your

own quilting, or have someone else do it?

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Poll #4:How many yards of your stash

have you used since the stay-at-home order?

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July Speaker:

Kathy Doughty� Material Obsession

Quilt Shop

� Fabric designer, teacher, author of multiple books including Organic Appliqué

� Sydney, Australia

� materialobsession.com.au

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Tara FaughnanWorkshopsNEW DATES FOR NEW ZOOM FORMAT: Color InteractionSaturday, July 25, 20209:30 – 4:30

Hand QuiltingSunday, August 9, 20201:00 – 4:00

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PossibleAugust Speaker:

Christina Cameli� Still to be confirmed� Quilter, speaker, fabric and

quilt designer, teacher� Known for machine

quilting expertise� Portland, OR� christinacameli.com

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September Speaker & Workshops:

TimnaTarr� Still to be confirmed� Quilter, speaker, teacher

� South Hadley, MA

� timnatarr.com

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October Speaker:

JacquiGuering� Still to be confirmed

� Rethink Quilting

� Author, Quilter, Artist

� Kansas City, MO

� jacquiegering.com

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Poll #5:Would you sign up for

online workshops set up by our guild?

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Poll #6:What is the ideal length of time

for an online workshop?

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� Day RetreatNov. 6–8, 2020 Quilting Mayhem

� Fall RetreatDates TBDCamp Burton

� Maybe a Virtual Retreat???

2020 Retreats

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Poll #7:Which of these tasks

would you rather do?

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Poll #8:Would you be interested in a

"getting started with Instagram" Zoom session for our guild?

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Sew & Tell!

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Terry Peart

Baby Pi, 32" by 45"It is the first of a series of quilts I'm making representing the mathematical number Pi (3.14159...) an irrational number with no end.

In this one, I am using a nine-patch to represent each number, zero to nine. Each nine-patch starts out as a HST square, dark blue and grey, that would represent zero. Then each number will have colored squares overlaying the HST to represent which number it is – i.e. three has three colored squares. Nine has nine colored squares so it is just a solid square of color.

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Terry Peart

I quilted this on my longarm using a computerized program to stitch out each number over each square. After I got it done, I was not happy with the quilted numbers because it's too overt. I'm working on a much bigger version and I will quilt it differently.

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Terry Peart

This quilt started out as the bigger version, but I wasn't happy with the colors, so I discarded the blocks and started over. It seemed a shame to waste the blocks. I'm glad I finished it, now I have better ideas about what I like and what I don't like.

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Rosie Winters

Pattern by Carolyn Friedlander titled BabsonI used an assortment of fabrics for the scrappy look and wool battingMachine Quilted by Dionne Matthias-Buban@dinglebobbins

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Harriet Wasserman

(Harriet will speak)

I have been making gifts and projects in other people's colors. Google ads kept showing me this one print with all my own favorite colors, so I finally ordered two yards.

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Harriet Wasserman

I used patterns from the Patricia Belyea East-Meets-West Quilts book I got at the holiday swap.

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Harriet Wasserman

Hung it from the mantle to show it with the art there. The quilt will live on the couch in that room.

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Jill Bell

Finished! This amazing and colorful panel by Steph Skardal(find it at #honestfabric) was just plain fun to quilt.

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Jill Bell

It's a soft, supple poly fabric, and made a great little throw quilt!

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Jill Bell

This quilt is from a pattern by Allison Harris at Cluck Cluck Sew called Trellis, sewn using ombre metallics fabric, and free motion quilted.

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Jill Bell

The curve quilt uses the mini quick curve ruler from Sew Kind of Wonderful, in a pattern called Color Love from their book, Mini Wonderful Curves, also free motion quilted.

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Debbie Shank Miller

Improv Log Cabin(inspiration from Gwen Marston)33 ½ x 42

Pieced and hand quilted by me.

It’s very much a Covid quilt.The tension between color and grey. Not that grey is all bad, but some days are just more about the greys.

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Bernice Harris

Front and back of a quilt started 4.5 years ago in the Chic Country quilt class put on by SMQG in 2015. I worked on it each fall at SMQG retreat, finished this spring.

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Bernice Harris

Front and back of a Material Obsession quilt pattern called Stargazing that I got off a freebie table. Started in January when the weather was so gray and rainy, and I so needed to make something with bright colors.

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Allison Stotler

Simple patchwork baby quilt finished to gift via mail. Most fabric is from @circa15fabricstudio and quilting lines inspired by Walk by @jacquietps.

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Allison Stotler

Since my quilt labels won't arrive for a bit, I stitched in one of my embroidered labels from @customlabels4u

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Nelle Alexander

This is a wall hanging I recently completed for my daughter and her new husband to commemorate their new marriage. They originally planned a wedding for June 6th for 150 people at a large county park near Eugene. It was cancelled a couple of months ago.

Their eventual Plan B was a ceremony the same day in the forest in central Oregon with only their housemates in attendance. Working on this quilt was my outlet for both my sadness at missing their wedding and all of my joy that they were getting married.

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Nelle Alexander

I embroidered the newlyweds' initials in the same font they used on their original wedding invitation. On the back, I included a strip of canoe paddle fabric, as canoeing is one of their favorite outdoor pursuits.

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Nelle Alexander

I had several sources of inspiration for my design:

� two small tree quilts made by my friend, Ann Marchand,

� the Duluth Trees pattern by Frieda Anderson, and

� our current block of the month pattern for the stars.

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David Owen Hastings

I made this quilt from blocks I put together from our Color Inspiration Challenge, after our Color Fluency workshop with Anna Maria Horner.

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David Owen Hastings

This bright color palette pushed me far outside my comfort zone, but it was fun to do!

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David Owen Hastings

Jana Royal of Reverie Quilting did the long arm quilting using a fun pattern of flowers, bees, dragonflies and butterflies. I will be donating this quilt as part of our giving quilt program, as soon as nonprofits start accepting quilts again.

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Anonymous Guildie

I finished this baby quilt in blues using the Free-Wheeling Single Girl pattern by Denyse Schmidt.

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Anonymous Guildie

I tried out pebble quilting after being inspired by Christina Cameli’s“How Do I Quilt It?” free webinar in May.

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Anonymous Guildie

I finished this baby quilt based on a simple slice-and-shuffle technique of taking 4 different-sized squares, framing them with a solid, then cutting in a plus shape and shuffling the corners.

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Anonymous Guildie

This was quilted on a domestic machine using a walking foot with a very forgiving wiggly-line pattern.

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LeeAnn Decker

Gee’s Bend style, 43 x 60”. Inspired by scraps from a JC Penny bedspread from the 60’s/70’s.

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LeeAnn Decker

Hand quilted using the big fan template from@funwithbarb and pink crochet DMC #10, in the Gees Bend style, with large fans. Back is old Marimekko.

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Louise Wackerman

This is the begonia I made. I was hoping to have the binding app working and be done before the meeting, but it’s having a glitch.

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Louise Wackerman

I love how the quilting turned out!

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Louise Wackerman

I somehow ended up with a pile of extra HSTs, so I made two pillows and then used The rest on the back. THEN... I used more scraps for some potholders!

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Louise Wackerman

This does not have a name yet. It’s my Improv With Amy quilt. Amy from Curated Quilts did an online sew a long early last year and I joined in. I’m loving the colors! Love some of the blocks more than others, but over all I’m pretty happy with it! The quilting intended to pick up the shapes of each block.

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Julia Wachs

Progress has been made on my backlog of completed quilt tops! I quilted my #meadowlandquilt with simple vertical straight lines. I think it gives it a cozy vibe. Can’t wait to start using it!

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Beth Ratzlaff

That’s a wrap! From the Giucy Giuce mini seriessew along. Man, I love how this turned out.

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Beth Ratzlaff

The label on the back is totally appropriate, though.

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Debbie Jeske

Meet "Let It Be”I think I will always remember this as my "stay-home" quilt, the front made entirely of scraps, every other component gleaned from what I had on hand.

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Debbie Jeske

And when I was faced with a wonky shaped quilt top, I just let it be, as trimming off any more than necessary seemed totally unnecessary with this one. The size is 70” x 55” to 67” x 50"

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Debbie Jeske

Somehow, in these times, it makes perfectly imperfect sense.

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Susan Pray

My (modified) Norah quilt top says it’s done. Possibly overdone? 🤷 Dangerously close to fabric vomit but I hope it’s landed just this side of it. 😉 I counted over 80 fabrics. Good grief.

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Susan Pray

This is a quilt top that is going to benefit immeasurably from quilting. I kinda can’t wait to get started which is a change for me.58”x 77” It will end up somewhat smaller as I plan on cutting it down after quilting.

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Susan Pray

I can wait no longer. It’s finished!!!!!I was going to wait until this was gifted but I just can’t.

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Susan Pray

Pattern by @happysewluckyFabrics by @tulapinkWool batting by @quiltersdream

Pieced on my Janome & quilted on my sit down Babylock Tiara.

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Jackie Benedetti

Meet “Self Image”, my finish with the Seattle Modern Block Party. Using an idea (with permission) from @twiggyandopalI asked each Bee member to select an adjective they felt described them, and spell it out using improv Morse Code.

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Jackie Benedetti

Fabulous quilting by @dinglebobbins.

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Jackie Benedetti

Makers are tagged; scan for label describing each code.

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Monica Guckenheimer

Pieced in a Joe Cunningham workshop, long arm quilted by Dionne Mathies-Buban, 59" x 63”

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Chelsey Weber

OMGEEE... I have been making blocks off and on for a little more than 2 years. I am done! It's a quilt for me!

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Chelsey Weber

Paper pieced pattern is free by @whitney_sews

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Chelsey Weber

I quilted my #modernpearlsquilt! It is a quilt that's for me! I have always wanted to make a two color quilt and pink is my fav!

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Chelsey Weber

I love it sew much!!! I quilted "Dahlia" pantograph by LorienQuilting and Urban Elementz.

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Time to wrap it up!Mini by Louise Wackerman

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Poll #9:What did you think of

tonight's meeting?

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“See” you in July!

�July 8th meeting via Zoom�Send sew-and-tell photos and stories any time to:

seattlemodernquiltguild@gmail.com�Tag your work using #SeattleMQGJulyMeeting

on Instagram�Enjoy the virtual sew-ins!�Mail your scrappy swap items by July 18th!

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Next Meeting:07.08.2020Via Zoom

Register early, we are getting close to capacity!

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