July Meeting
Holy Smokes! Our LA Modern Quilt Guild Meetings are always soooo dang GOOD! I really hope those of you hosting your own MQG meetings have as much fun, inspiration, & support flowing as we do!
To kick things off Latifah and Lori passed around a few pieces of LA MQG merch they already picked up from our new Cafe Press Store! Fabulous! I am still trying to make up my mind about what I want to get!
This was our last meeting we will be having in Jenny’s cozy & welcoming Home Ec. space. :( BUT we are not loosing Jenny, that is the important thing! She will be closing her brick and mortar store but still keeping her online presence. More about her decision, here.
In honor of her being the hostess with the mostest since The Guild’s inception, we presented her with a gift certificate to a local spa & 30 or so blankets made by Guild Members to donate to the Pasadena Humane society where she volunteers! Oh, and we also celebrated with champagne and sparkling cider, because after all we are the modern quilt guild! ;)
She was pretty darn excited about it!
And LOOK! The second of our charity quilt tops is finished, thanks to Leslie.
And the back is equally as fabulous, I LOVE it!
Lori, our super fab Secretary, gave a great talk/rundown on her experience learning how to use a long arm quilting machine at The Sewing Arts Center! I have to say after listening to her talk in detail about the process, how the machine works, and how simple it is to mount your quilt I am DIEING to try! But as I told Mr. K… there really isn’t any place to do it locally… that I know of… and I am intentionally not going to make an effort to seek it out. Dangerous I tell you, DANGEROUS!
Aaaaand while in Austin visiting her family a couple weeks ago, Leslie got together with the wonderful Laurie Wisburn over coffee and she sent along some journals and fat quarter stacks of her yet to be released Urban Circus line to giveaway! How great is that!? Here are the randomly chosen winners (minus one who did not want to have her picture shared).
THANK YOU LAURIE for your thoughtfulness and generosity! The winners were SO EXCITED!
And what would a meeting be without a fabulous show and tell??
Leslie swiped a few quilt tops from her mom’s house when she visited Austin a couple weeks ago that her Great Grandmother made! How cool, right??
I’m even in here this time around, with some Wonderland goodness! But you’ll have to hunt for me…
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ummm, could we be any cooler?
Hot off the press thanks to our fabulous in house graphic artist, we now have our OWN official LA MQG logo– complete with a Cafe Press Store filled with more shirts, sweatshirts, and odds and ends than you can shake a stick at! Check it out, and support us!
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for Leila!
In the same week that I made Peyton’s bag I also made this one for Ms. Leila Ann, another sweet little girl who just turned one!
This time I cut into my fat quarter stack of Joel Dewberry’s Modern meadow, and I went a bit more pink than I usually do becuase I knew that Ms. L’s mamma would like it best. I also interfaced the outside just as the last bag, and I STILL love how it helps with the linen wrinkles!
And the inside… still no label… but I do like the pink magnetic clasp!
Aaaaaaand I just so happened to have a couple sweet pics of my kids with Leila when they were over last just after they all woke up from their naps drinking their milk in bed. Leila didn’t quiet know what to think of her new bed buddies!
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for Peyton!
I haven’t made a bag in a suuuuuper long time, and STILL my kids don’t have one. I really DO need to get on that! But in the mean time a couple of my friend’s little girls turned one in May, so I just HAD to make a couple. It seems to be a pattern of mine… at least for baby girls. (see Carly’s and Haislea’s)
Anyway, this was for Ms. Peyton! Her momma reeeeally LOVED the Alexander Henry (“lola”) print that I used in the drag along blakie I made for Corinn’s baby shower. So getting started was easy, no analysis paralysis this time!
I used the same measurements I posted for Haislea’s bag a couple years ago, it really does seem to be the perfect size. Maybe I should just name this The Haislea Bag! Whatdaya thing? Also, for the first time on a tote bag, I used pellon interfacing on the entire outer part of the bag just like I did with the buttercup bags since I LOVED the way they turned out! This will definitely be what I do from now on if I am using linen! I love linen, but OH HOW I HATE how quickly is wrinkles!
And here is the inside complete with a sweet white magnetic clasp I found someplace. I really do need to start labeling my stuff better. Any suggestions for labels out there!?
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June Meeting
Our June meeting was ACTION packed, and since I know most of you are here to catch a glimpse of all the mini quilt goodness from our swap, lets kick it off with that!
Jake Finch, managing editor of Quilter’s Home, the one that wrote the article on the Modern Quilting movement in this month’s issue, and the one that featured Alissa’s quilt on the cover… YEA, THAT one! She came to our meeting! How exciting, right!?
And if that were not enough of a treat, Kaari Meng from the WONDERFUL French General came to talk to us about her passion for French textiles, her line of fabric with MODA!, how her shop came to be, aaaaaand her adventures & travels in the south of France!
It was fascinating to learn about her journey into creating fabric, how the process works, and more about MODA’s philosophy. Thank you Kaari for joining us, it was a treat!
AND LOOK! The first of the two quilt tops for our charity/raffle quilt! Thank you Nicole for so skillfully putting this together for us!
There were a few newbies as always, I hope they all come back!
And last but certainly not the least exciting, SHOW AND TELL!
… and just a few more actions shots for good measure!
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