NW Ohio Art Spark Challenge

"The NW Ohio MQG is excited to kick off our first challenge of the year! And because we are so excited about this challenge we want to welcome all of our quilty friends to participate.

The idea behind this challenge is to visit your local art museum (or gallery....) and find a piece of art that inspires you. Any piece! A sculpture, a piece of glass, an oil painting, anything! Classic, baroque, modern, contemporary - your choice! You game?

There are a few simple rules and prizes! Did we mention there are prizes??! Check our blog and Facebook page for details and share with your guilds and all your quilty friends.

Our first random drawing for prizes will be July 1st - visit our blog and check out the Art Spark Challenge Sponsors.

http://www.nwohiomqg.com/2013/04/art-spark-challenge.html
https://www.facebook.com/northwestohiomodernquiltguild

Art Spark Challenge

Welcome NW Ohio guild members and friends! Today we kick off our first challenge of the year! Yahoo! And because we are so excited about this challenge we wanted to welcome all of our quilty friends to participate.

The idea behind this challenge is to visit your local art museum and find a piece of art that inspires you. Any piece! A sculpture, a piece of glass, an oil painting, anything! Classic, baroque, modern, contemporary - your choice! You game? Now for the rules:

RULES

- Must be quilted and consist of 3 layers
- No embellishments
- Minimum perimeter of 48" (any shape!)
- Grab a picture of your inspiration. Please note museum, artist, medium, and title of piece**

PRIZES

Winners will be picked randomly from the Flickr pools. Enter as many pictures as you would like but only 1 picture/quilt per person is eligible to win. What do you have to do to win?

- By July 1st, 11:59 PM EST upload a photo to the Flickr Art Spark WIP group
- By August 1st, 11:59 PM EST upload a photo to the Flickr Art Spark Finished Projects group

The following shops and designers have graciously provided prizes:

 

 

We hope you will join us for this exciting challenge! Feel free to grab our button and contact us if you have any questions at mqgnwohio [at] gmail [dot] com

**Please be sure to verify it is okay to take pictures at your museum as well as post your pictures online. For example, the Toledo Museum of Art has this policy."

Oklahoma Tornado Relief Effort Update

From the Oklahoma City Modern Quilt Guild:

"WEDNESDAY, MAY 22, 2013

Oklahoma Tornado Relief - Moore Love

Thank you to everyone who has offered their help and have been so patient with us as we try to devise a plan.  Many wonderful ideas were sent to us, our guild members had many fabulous thoughts, and we discussed them all at our meeting last night.

We know you want something tangible to go to the victims of these horrific tornadoes.  We have had many offers of completed quilts, and due to limited man power on our end, we have decided to ask everyone to send completed quilts to our guild rather than blocks.  It could be a quilt you have waiting for a good home, a new one you want to make special just for someone in need, it can be modern, traditional, any size, any colors, made by an individual or a group.  You send us your completed quilts and we will get them to those in need.

Quilts will be due to the OKC Modern Quilt Guild by June 30th.  If you e-mail us at okcmqg@gmail.com we will get an address to you.

Our guild will also be creating two quilts to raise money for two charities in the form of a drawing, as money is a big need for that area right now.  That post should go up about mid June so please stay on the lookout for that one!

Thank you for your outpouring of support, love, positive thoughts, prayers... and quilts!"

Wonky Pinwheel Blocks: A Tutorial

Here's the link to the tutorial I found.
http://greenleafgoods.wordpress.com/2012/08/31/wonky-pinwheel-blocks-a-tutorial/

Lynn

National MQG Events Closer to Home News

"We heard from you, our members, that you wanted MQG events closer to home. We are very excited to announce the instructors for the first of five regional events, SewDown Philadelphia from September 6-8, 2013. SewDown Philadelphia is an all-inclusive weekend quilting getaway in the beautiful luxury Loew’s Hotel. Learn mad sewing skills, have fun with old friends and new and much more! Hotel, meals and all workshops are included in the registration fee. Mark your calendars, registration opens June 10! Philadelphia is the birthplace of America and has outstanding national historic sites, top-notch museums as well as a thriving cultural scene. Stay an extra day or two and do some site seeing of one of America’s most historic cities. Our SewDown Philadelphia line-up is:
Beyond Quilting Cotton  Alexia Abegg	Mini-Sample Texture Quilt Liesl Gibson	Perfect Quilted Totes Elizabeth Hartman	The Meadow Block Lizzy House
Can’t make the entire event? We’ll be selling tickets for our lunch and dinner lectures, stay tuned for those announcements soon! For workshop descriptions, schedule and pricing, please visit the SewDown Philadelphia website. See you in Philly!"

Blocks for Boston

Details are as follows for the blocks to bring to the meeting tomorrow:

Quilts for Boston is a relief effort by the Boston Modern Quilt guild to make quilts for those that have been directly affected by the bombing and subsequent events. 

Our goal is to make bright and modern quilts that will bring cheer to those who need it most!  This summer we hope to distribute at least 50 quilts to those who could benefit from a token of our love and support.  To achieve this goal we are asking the modern quilt community to support our efforts by sending us blocks for these quilts. 

We would like to have the quilts ready to deliver to those in need as soon as possible, so we ask that you send your blocks to us by May 24, 2013.  Be creative with your blocks, and make any pattern or design that inspires you! 

Thank you all so much for your support! 


Please follow these guidelines when constructing and submitting your blocks:

• To give these quilts a cohesive look we chose the colors of the Boston Marathon: blue, yellow, gray and white.  Both print and solid fabrics are welcome.
• All blocks should be 12½” tall x the width of your choice. That could mean 12½” x 7”, 12½” x 12½”, or anything wider, more narrow, or in between. 
• Please machine piece your blocks in any style you would like.
• Please use only “quilt shop quality” 100% cotton or cotton/linen fabrics. 
• Our preference is white or light gray 100% cotton thread, but any coordinating thread of good quality will do.

Please mail all blocks by May 24th, 2013 to:

Quilts for Boston

P.O. Box 79225

Belmont, MA 02479

Craftsy - Free Class Day

Craftsy has great online classes and today you can sign up for a free one.   See this link for more info ==> http://www.craftsy.com/clp/free-class-day?ext=20130518_Free_Class_Day_button&utm_source=Craftsy-General&utm_medium=FTB&utm_campaign=Craftsy%20Emails%20and%20Promos

Quilts for Boston

The Boston Modern Quilt Guild is gathering to make quilt for bombing victims.   Read all about their progress here.

http://bostonmqg.blogspot.com/2013/05/gathering-to-make-quilts-for-boston.html

If you have a block you'd like to donate… bring it to our May meeting and will make sure it get there in time.

Our next CFMQ Guild Meeting is Monday May 20th @ 10am

May Meeting Highlights:

Program speaker & trunk show - Maggie Earley, quilter

Spoonflower Trip report

Fat quarter exchange – Red, White, and Blue

Traditional to Modern Block challenge – Basket

Self round Robin block: Star

Note:  We will also be collecting any quilt squares that you have for the Boston bombing victims.   See our blog for more information (post by Lynn).

Hope to see ya there.

Wonky Curves Tutorial

http://www.thequiltingedge.com/2013/05/wonky-curves-tutorial.html

Sew Happins - Anniversary Sale (5/10--11)

My favorite word.  S-A-L-E
http://www.getresponse.com/archive/sewhappins/Anniversary-Sale-May-10-11-11104609.html