Oahu Modern Quilt Guild

Operation Homefront Quilt

Sarah, our vice president of programming, organized an awesome and superfast charity quilt for an Operation Homefront baby shower!

She passed out block kits at the May 20th general meeting, and members sewed the blocks over the next few days. Then Sarah put together the quilt top, worked her longarm magic, and bound the quilt over the weekend so that she could deliver it in time for the baby shower the following week.

The Operation Homefront baby shower was a great success with many other donated presents!

And here’s the beautiful mama who received our quilt! 🙂

April general meeting

At our April general meeting:

Our freebie table continues, and was a big success! There were some really covetable scraps brought and adopted (sparkly Kokka skulls, hehehe)!
We collected blocks for our guild quilt, and they were amazing. The guild quilt blocks deadline has been extended to May 9th at 1pm, and can be dropped off at the sew-in that day.
We reminded everyone that blocks for our Wounded Warriors charity quilt are due at the May 20th general meeting.
Mai did an awesome Instagram 101 presentation.
Megan wowed us with her improv curves presentation.
We gave another QuiltCon goodies door prize away!

Our guild quilt is going to be gorgeous — just look at these wonderful blocks!

Mai’s Instagram 101 presentation was adorably low-tech. 😀 Everyone loved it and learned a lot!

A photo posted by Mai Flourry (@meezie) on Apr 16, 2015 at 2:49am PDT

Megan’s improv presentation was so inspiring that afterwards, some members were talking about using the technique for our next quilt block.

During show and tell, resident machine Jackie shared the photo quilt she was working on for her friend.

And finally, Sarah showed us the ADORABLE smocked baby dress her mom made. 🙂

March general meeting

At our March general meeting:

We had our first freebie table! We’ll have this at all future meetings, as well. People took home some excellent goodies!
We announced our upcoming events, including a May sew-in.
We also announced our first charity quilt for the year and formed a charity quilt committee. We’ll be making up 12.5″ unfinished red, white, and blue blocks (any pattern) into a quilt to donate to Wounded Warriors. In order to be able to present it in July, charity blocks will be collected at the May general meeting.
Sarah T. did a wonderful QuiltCon recap!
We gave away a bag of some QuiltCon goodies that Sarah brought back!

Show and tell was amazing, as usual! People kept grumbling about having to follow the last beautiful quilt, but theirs were always also wonderful!

Trinia brought her finished Hexie Framed quilt, which she pattern tested!

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Jackie (The Machine) showed her in-progress Fletcher quilt. You should have heard the collective gasp when we found out that she did all of that straight-line quilting without a walking foot! :D:D

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Nancy F shared her adorable chocolate heart quilt — the bottom right bit is cross-stitched and the quilting is so clever!

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Megan brought her perfectly pieced Harry Potter-themed baby quilt top. What a lucky nephew!

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February general meeting

Our February general meeting was on 2/18, and the exciting news was that we received our membership cards and adorable pins from the national MQG!

A photo posted by Oahu MQG (@oahumqg) on Feb 18, 2015 at 7:56pm PST

Now we can really make use of the discounts some awesome local businesses have given us:

Hidden Yardage: 20% off purchase
New Home Sewing Center: 15% off Janome accessories, 15% off thread

We also discussed:

March’s weekday sew-in
Future general meeting dates: 3/18, 4/15
Bonnie bucket bag sewalong finishes will be shared at March’s general meeting
Guild quilt blocks will be collected at April’s general meeting
Treasurer’s report

And some show and tell items were shared. 🙂

Trinia made a lovely Flyaway baby quilt.

A photo posted by Oahu MQG (@oahumqg) on Feb 18, 2015 at 9:30pm PST

Ronnie was almost finished with her amazing Preppy Knee Socks quilt.

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And her backing was fabulous!

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Bonnie Bucket Bag sewalong

Trinia‘s first post for the Bonnie Bucket Bag sewalong went up today! We’ll update this post as she moves through the steps. Take as much time as you need and have fun sewing along!

January general meeting

January’s general meeting was a great kickoff for the new year! We discussed our:

Bonnie Bucket Bag sewalong
guild quilt challenge
upcoming weekday sew-in in March

Everyone’s show and tell items were amazing!

Val and Norine made a beautiful Swoon for their friend.

Val also made a fun Road to Hana quilt.

Trinia made her husband his own Ten Squared Too quilt!

Nancy and her family made this absolutely beautiful Starshine quilt for their mom. Her husband quilted it!

Amber showed us her adorable improv baby quilt top…

… and also a totally covetable Cotton & Steel patchwork quilt top.

Alli made a scrappy Hazel Hedgehog quilt.

Sue made an all-solids Follow the Trail quilt.

Jackie made a beautiful Ethel and this “Drinks on the” Patio quilt out of novelty whiskey fabric for her dad. 😀

Norine had so many quilts to share! A block challenge quilt…

… a colorful mystery quilt…

… and a nifty exploding pineapples quilt.

Everyone made amazing things! 🙂

Epically long January sew-in!

We just had our first (properly) epically long sew in this past weekend — it ran from 10am til 8pm! It was wonderful seeing everyone who came, and people got a lot done. There was a ton of food, so we got to munch on yummy things all day long. Norine’s Ritz+Rolos were awesome!

I spaced out and forgot to get pictures of Val’s and Norine’s projects, but I can steal a pic off Val’s instagram feed… during the sew-in, we found out from Mai that our local Fabric Mart was carrying bolts of Cotton & Steel! Val and Norine left right away to build their stashes. 😀

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Emily stopped by for a few hours to work on a beautifully precise star quilt for herself.

Jackie the super sewer finished an entire quilt top for her dad and two dresses for her daughters!

Trinia worked on adorable little boy quilts — many people commented on the cute lobster print!

Mai continued with her seriously gorgeous Aviatrix Medallion quilt. She’s going to have to keep an eye on it when she brings it in for show and tell, cause it could grow legs and walk away (back to my house)…

Holiday Meetup and Mini Swap

Our holiday meetup and mini swap at Ricado’s last night was so much fun! We played a bunch of games, and Trinia donated fat eighth bundles in our guild colors for prizes. We also exchanged our two-color challenge minis, and everyone who participated in the swap went home with something beautiful.

Trinia was a real taskmaster on this challenge; these were the requirements for our minis:

Between 12″ and 18″ square
Minimum of 25 pieces
Quilting cotton
Natural fiber batting
Backing with label (name, date, location, title [if applicable])
Colors: Kona snow + 2 colors (can have different values of each color)

Here are the minis (usually photographed with the recipients)!

Val made an adorable red and blue Norway.

Megan made a fabulous black and white feathers mini.

Sarah made a fantastic fussy-cut pineapple.

Jackie made a beautifully quilted sunset mini.

Ronnie made a super modern improv mini. The title is perfect: Which Way Is Up?

Mai made a terribly cute aqua and coral flying geese mini.

Trinia made a craaaaaazy intricate zig zaggy mini with over 400 tiny pieces! It was inspired by Gently Down The Stream.

Alli made a Bartow mini with matchstick quilting.

Leah made a lovely Christmassey Swoon.

Norine made a wonderful blue and grey mini.

Finally, Nancy missed the swap signup but brought a mini top to show — she made a gorgeous carpenter’s star that we all loved.

Thanks to everyone who celebrated the end of the year with us! 2015 is going to be even more fun! 🙂

Kona Cotton Trunk Show

The Robert Kaufman Kona Cotton Trunk Show is at Kaimuki Dry Goods from now til about December 16th, and then it’s going to move to Sew Special on Maui. I got a chance to visit the other day, and the quilts are gorgeous!

North South, designed by Nichole Ramirez (who apparently works for Robert Kaufman in the marketing department!)

The quilting is beautiful! (The quilting on many of them were amazing, but this is the only one I managed to get a good close-up picture of. :} )

Dear Gunta, designed by Carrie Strine

Smithereens, by Emily Cier of Carolina Patchworks

Metro Area, by Elizabeth Hartman of Oh, Fransson!

Spectrum, by Faith Jones of Fresh Lemons Quilts

Triangulate, by Latifah Saafir of The Quilt Engineer

Bartow, by Carolyn Friedlander

Rock Jetties, by Dorie Schwarz of Tumbling Blocks

Wakefield, by Liz Havartine
(The colors came out really wrong in my picture, sorry!)

Floating Prisms, by Alex Wedgerwood of Teaginny Designs

I’m glad I got a chance to see these in person!

Star Challenge Quilt donated!

Our guild made a complete team effort to put together and donate the quilt made from our August star challenge blocks! Thanks to everyone who contributed!

12 blocks pieced and donated by membership
Sashing fabric donated by Alli
Top pieced by Jackie
Backing fabric donated and pieced by Trinia
Batting donated and quilting done by Sarah
Binding fabric donated by Sue
Bound by Alli
Label designed by Executive Board and donated by Trinia

The finished quilt was donated to the Hale Ola/Windward Spouse Abuse Shelter in Kailua.