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Showing posts with label 2016. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2016. Show all posts
Pixelated Heart QAL
Did you join?
This is officially week two, but as Kelly wrote Monday, "This is definitely a work at your own pace kinda thing."
After seeing the IG post the day after our January meeting, and knowing one of Kira's goals for 2016 was a QAL, Cindy asked who might be interested. .
The pattern is free and can be found here.
Cindy's using her Heather Ross stash; Suzie and Kim are cutting their Bonnie & Camille stashes; Debbie's cut into a stack of Color Me Retro, Jenni Baker's first fabric collection; Wendi utilized her scrap bins; Candace chose solids; Whitney cut into a pile of purples and pinks. Betty's still deciding, and Bobbi said she'd pull out her batiks.
All in all, there are going to be some pretty quilts coming from our guild!
This is officially week two, but as Kelly wrote Monday, "This is definitely a work at your own pace kinda thing."
After seeing the IG post the day after our January meeting, and knowing one of Kira's goals for 2016 was a QAL, Cindy asked who might be interested. .
The pattern is free and can be found here.
Cindy's using her Heather Ross stash; Suzie and Kim are cutting their Bonnie & Camille stashes; Debbie's cut into a stack of Color Me Retro, Jenni Baker's first fabric collection; Wendi utilized her scrap bins; Candace chose solids; Whitney cut into a pile of purples and pinks. Betty's still deciding, and Bobbi said she'd pull out her batiks.
All in all, there are going to be some pretty quilts coming from our guild!
It's Good to Have Goals
We asked, you answered.
This is the list of individual and group goals for 2016. Now to plan and implement these ideas. We'll need your help.
Some could be short presentations. Some will be months long projects. Others will could be done as sew-a-thons or sew-ins. We are open to ideas and suggestions about how and when to make these goals reality.
Some will be easier than others, just as some will interest you and some won't. As a group, we'll learn together.
ECMQG 2016 Goals
- label ALL donated quilts (Mary and Natalie)
- make more collaborative quilts (Cindy)
- donate quilts to chemo centers (Dee)
- make a quilt for Sacred Heart Children's Hospital (Whitney)
- make the Emerald Coast Hospice Memorial quilt (Natalie)
- participate in the Million Pillowcase Challenge (Elaine)
- start a guild-only quilting bee (Wendi)
- host a QAL (Kira)
- swap mug rugs or mini quilts (Whitney)
- continue swapping fabrics and small items (Donna)
- keep ECMQG Anniversary Swap (Kira)
Individual 2016 Goals
- Improv play. Complete 10 scores from Sherri Lynn Wood's book (Natalie)
- learn bindings, paper piecing, and how to cut (Eliana)
- make a Double Wedding Ring quilt (Nona)
- learn/improve FMQ (Anne Marie)
- learn/improve hand quilting (Betty)
- learn/improve AMH Quilting/Improv Hand Quiliting (Kira)
- learn EPP (Susan)
- make drawstring backpacks (Pam)
- complete Elizabeth Hartman's Patchwork City quilt (Kira)
- make a Patchwork Death Star (Cindy)
It's going to be a great year!
Natalie, Cindy, Wendi, & Nona
ECMQG Board 2016
Tell Us!
So you've been a member of ECMQG for awhile now. You've had the chance to dip your toes into the modern quilting pool.
Some of you catapulted off the high dive into the deep end without fear, while some waded in from the shallow end, but all of us are in.
One way or another, your time with us has made you a modern quilter. That is exciting!
How did you grow as a modern quilter in 2015? Did you have a personal goal or accomplishment that ECMQG helped you achieve?
It doesn't matter what size this accomplishment was - losing your fear of zippers; participating in a class that was totally out of your comfort zone; facilitating a presentation or workshop; sewing with the majority of your stash; relishing in the quiet satisfaction of slow sewing and handwork such as binding a quilt by hand or EPP; or did you enter a swap for the first time ever?
We are here to encourage and support your sewing goals.
So tell us the next time we see you (Saturday, hopefully), what you are most proud of from this past year.
Yep, stand up and tell us.
Then, think about what you want to accomplish in 2016 and tell us that too.
We're listening.
We'll be there to pull you further into the deep end, or throw you a life ring.
Here's to a creative 2016!
Natalie, Cindy, Wendi, & Nona
ECMQG Board 2016
Some of you catapulted off the high dive into the deep end without fear, while some waded in from the shallow end, but all of us are in.
One way or another, your time with us has made you a modern quilter. That is exciting!
How did you grow as a modern quilter in 2015? Did you have a personal goal or accomplishment that ECMQG helped you achieve?
It doesn't matter what size this accomplishment was - losing your fear of zippers; participating in a class that was totally out of your comfort zone; facilitating a presentation or workshop; sewing with the majority of your stash; relishing in the quiet satisfaction of slow sewing and handwork such as binding a quilt by hand or EPP; or did you enter a swap for the first time ever?
We are here to encourage and support your sewing goals.
That 's one of the.best.things that comes from gathering regularly with a group of like-minded sewists - camaraderie and encouragement.
So tell us the next time we see you (Saturday, hopefully), what you are most proud of from this past year.
Yep, stand up and tell us.
We're listening.
We'll be there to pull you further into the deep end, or throw you a life ring.
Here's to a creative 2016!
Natalie, Cindy, Wendi, & Nona
ECMQG Board 2016
2016 Quilty Wishes
Wishing all of you, our quilty friends near and far, a wonderful beginning to the new year.
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Natalie, Cindy, Wendi, & Nona
ECMQG Board 2016
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