Greg and I drove up to Ventura yesterday for the monthly sew-in at our favorite quilt shop, superbuzzy, yesterday. We had a great time catching up with everyone and trying to get some sewing done. If you’re a member of The Modern Quilt Guild, you should join us April 18, 2015 at MAKE Ventura for …
At some point last year, I suggested to my guild that we make an opportunity quilt as a fund-raising project. Since it was my idea, it became my baby. For our first ‘raffle’ quilt we decided to keep it simple. But, simple sounds much more simple than it is. I asked the guild members to …
As part of being Vice President of the Ventura Modern Quilt Guild, I come up with a monthly quilt challenge. Some of the challenges have been demanding, while others have been very simple. Recently, we had the “Crayola Challenge”, and it was pretty straight forward…use the two colors you blindly choose and “screens” of those colors to create …
This last Saturday was Ventura Modern Quilt Guilds first “Modern Meet-Up”. It took several months of planning and many headaches, but I think the event was wonderful. A huge thank you to all who made this day a big success. The door prizes were incredible and everyone went home with at least 2 prizes. Planning has already …
This month’s challenge with the Ventura Modern Quilt Guild is a red, white and blue challenge. Since I love English Paper Piecing I thought it would be fun to make a mini for this challenge. The quilt is supposed to reflect the modern asthetic so I decided to use solids. I really don’t think there …
The next challenge with Ventura Modern Quilt Guild is a half square triangle challenge. We can make anything we’d like but, it needs to incorporate half square triangles. I made a few designs on Saturday and wasn’t too impressed with what I’d come up with. So I just started making HST’s with no design in …
Each month the Ventura Modern Quilt Guild has a challenge for guild members. Most of the time it’s a block challenge and sometimes we have the choice to make something different. Our challenge for February was to design something inspired by packaging or advertising. I found the coolest box of tissues with a graphic I …
March has already been a busy month. As vice president of the Ventura Modern Quilt Guild it is my responsibility to come up with our monthly block challenges. I got out the graph paper and started playing. The block for March, no name as of yet, makes a 18 inch block and you can imagine …
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