From Cami Munk
At our February meeting, we’ll have a sign-up sheet for our notion of the month moment. Choose your favorite notion, purchase one, and bring it to the meeting. You’ll have time to explain why you love it and then one lucky member chosen randomly will win your notion. And the entire guild will learn something new. I’ve purchased at least 10 notions that were shared at our meetings.
Note – the guild will reimburse you up to $20 for your notion purchase. Save your receipt and give it to our treasurer, Andrea Steenburgh.
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Notion of the Month Sign-ups
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Salt Lake MQG Retreat
November 14-17, 2024
Location:
The Quilter’s Lodge Retreat Center
12224 S 900 E
Draper, Utah 84020
Overview
The Annual 2024 Salt Lake MQG Retreat is on the calendar and registration is now open! We will be implementing a new tiered registration system this year in hopes to smoothly prioritize registering all overnight attendees. Please see the Members’ newsletter for registration dates, form and the special offer for early-bird registration!
We love gathering for this tradition before the holiday season is in full swing to spend some much needed time as a guild creating, relaxing, and making new friends! With on-site lodging, a full kitchen, a large sewing space, giant design walls, pressing stations, and cutting stations, they have everything all set up for us! Additionally, the adjoining fabric shop makes last-minute purchases a breeze AND they offer our members 10% off throughout the retreat!
This year, we will be adding a couple of games, an optional project instruction time, and will be hoping to complete a few charity quilts as a group in between our sewing/eating/sleeping/repeating!
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2024 – Guild Challenge
This year the Guild has chosen Modern Traditionalism as our year long challenge.
Modern Traditionalism combines traditional techniques with contemporary design. This style celebrates the craftsmanship and history of quilting and reflects the evolving tastes and creative vision of today’s quilters.
The challenge will be introduced at the March Guild meeting and the parameters are as listed below :
- Overall design is to fit the themed challenge of ‘Modern Traditionalism’;
- Your piece must include one or more shades of blue;
- Projects are to be finished quilts can be of any size from 24″ up to 96″ (wall, crib, lap, throw +);
- Quilt design does not have to be original. Quilts made from patterns are very welcome;
- Quilts will be displayed at a group exhibit in early 2025 (date and location TBD) and must be retained (don’t gift it!) until the exhibit’s close date;
- Quilts must be completed by the November 21st guild meeting.
Modern traditionalism draws inspiration from traditional quilt patterns, such as log cabins or flying geese, but reinterpret them using bold colors, unconventional fabrics, and innovative construction methods.
The Modern Quilt Guild has a great class and a webinar on Modern Traditionalism (see below links).
If you need some further inspiration for our challenge, here are some links you might find interesting.
- Designed to Quilt featuring 10 quilt patterns
- Quilting Daily
- Carole Lyles Shaw
- Sewing Machine Plus
- Amy’s Creative Side
- a bit of a wobbly video, but String & Story talks about the quilts in the Modern Traditionalism category at the 2023 QuiltCon
We look forward to seeing your experimentations and creations at our November meeting.
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2019 Year
Join us every third Thursday of the month!
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- January 17: Homemade Spray Starch / supplies provided
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- February 21: Improv Sew Night / Bring your machine + scraps! / Challenge 2019
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- March 21: Louise demo / Challenge 2019
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- April 11: Trunk Show + Guest
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- May 16: Mini Quilt Swap!
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- June 20: Words in Quilts demo / Challenge 2019
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- July 13: Fabric dye + lunch / Saturday Meeting
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- August 15: Charity Sewing / bring sewing machine + blocks!
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- September 19: Thimble Pincushion / supplies provided
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- October 17: Chunky Hand Quilting- Bring your challenge quilt top + supplies / Challenge 2019
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- November 21: No Show binding demo/ Challenge 2019
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- December 19: Notion Swap + Holiday get together
April 10th- 6pm Special Guest: Sherri Lynn Wood
We will have the opportunity to meet Sherri and learn about her techniques and process as well as a little bit of trying it out ourselves.
Cost: $15 non members | $5 members + signed books available for purchase as well
Pre-registration required to attend: REGISTER HERE
You can get to know her better here:
Her book- The Improv Handbook For Modern Quilters
Meeting info & Additional Activities:
Meeting Dates: 3rd Thursday of each month
Time: 7 pm
Place: Handi Quilter 501 N 400 W, North Salt Lake
Notion share: Each month someone from the group will be sharing their favorite notion and a quick how they use it. This has been fun to adventure into new notions and techniques! During the meeting we’ll have a drawing and the notion will be given away to a member.
Challenge 2019: We’ll be working on an improv quilt from start to finish together. During the year there will be new techniques, sew days and more that directly relate to the challenge.
Quilt Along 2019: We’ll be starting in February / March of 2019 (because we are finishing up the 2018 Vintage to Modern Quilts). The quilt will be laid out so every month we will be sewing part of the whole quilt. By the end of the year, we’ll have the quilt top complete!
Retreat: This happens in the fall (may change this year) and will be a weekend adventure. Still working out the details.
Charity Quilt: This year the charity quilt is being directed by Johnny- a member of the group. He will be sharing the charity and the blocks that we are donating and sewing in January. We also have a charity night sewing later in the year- this is always a fun night!
Make & Takes: We will be doing two this year! We will be making our own spray starch as well as a thimble pincushion charm. All the supplies will be provided for the evening.
Swaps: We have two per year. One in the spring- Mini Quilt Swap and in the winter: Notion Swap. They are always fun and if you aren’t interested in swapping you can still come for show and tell and the meeting!
Dye Day: This happens yearly in the summer- typically July. We move the meeting to a Saturday and have a lunch and dye activity. Some fabric is provided to members, plus supplies. Additional fabric is available to purchase or you can bring your own. This has been so fun to do and is a great early afternoon activity.
Trunk Show + Guest: Every year we invite a guest to do a trunk show for the group. We have had some incredibly talented designers and quilters share their journey in quilting and their quilts.
Hands On Activities: During this year we will have a few hands on activities- where you will need to bring your supplies (list provided before the meeting) so you can participate. We’ll be learning hand quilting and no show binding this year.