Meeting Tomorrow! Saturday December 1

NOTE NEW LOCATION FOR THE MEETING: LOS ALTOS LIBRARY

The Holiday Party is tomorrow. We hope that you have already RSVPed, but if not, please click on the link to RSVP.

You are invited to the Bay Area Modern Quilt Guild December Meeting and Holiday Party!

Date: Saturday, December 1st, 2012 

Time: 1pm - 3pm (plus sewing time)

Address: Los Altos Library Community Room (left side of the foyer), 13 S. San Antonio Road, Los Altos, California, 94022

     Please RSVP via the link

 *** NOTE THE CHANGE OF VENUE ***

In order to avoid the parking problems we experienced last December in Redwood City, this year's December Meeting and Holiday Party will be held at the Los Altos Public Library  located at 13 S. San Antonio Road, Los Altos, California, 94022.

SCHEDULE

10 am to 1 pm - Early Bird Sew

 1 pm to 3 pm - Meeting and Holiday Party

 3 pm to 11 pm - Sewcial

SNACKS

The BAM Party Committee will provide a variety of tasty snacks and drinks for the Holiday Party.  No need to bring anything but your appetite.

WHAT TO BRING

- Name Tags

- Sewing machine and sewing stuff if you plan to sew before or after the meeting

- Fat Quarters for Fat Quarter Swap

- Quilts for Show & Tell *

- ABC Quilt Finished Tops *

- Charity blocks*, tops*  and finished quilts*

- Cat beds*

* These items are KLIPPIE-Eligible.  Last chance to pick up KLIPPIES before the

Door Prize Drawing  (Read on!)

DOOR PRIZE DRAWING

Everyone who attends the December meeting will get one entry in the hat for a chance to win a fabulous Door Prize.  In addition, you will receive one more entry for every 5 KLIPPIES you turn in!  So don't forget to BRING YOUR KLIPPIES!

Don't miss it!  This will be a very fun meeting and a good chance to mingle with all your favorite quilters and spread some holiday cheer! Non-members are welcome and should RSVP. First meeting is free, additional meetings are $5 (you really should just join. ;-)   )

If you will be attending the Holiday Party, the fabulous party planners need an RSVP from you. Please click on the link and let us know to look for you.

Intrepid Thread Brick & Mortar Opening

by Kathleen

IT'S TIME FOR A WONDERFUL MODERN QUILT SHOP AND JULIE DUECK IS MAKING IT HAPPEN!

It is really happening!  Julie is opening her brick and mortar quilt shop and we are all invited to share in her amazing new adventure.

Here's the details:

The shop is located at:  1709 S. Main St., Milpitas, CA 95035

                                     

Her hours of operation are:

Mon-Thurs 10 AM - 6 PM

Friday 10 AM to 7 PM

Saturday 11 AM to 5 PM

Sundays Closed

Soft Opening is 12/3 (you can come and see the fabric but most everything else won't be in yet)

Grand Opening 12/8 or 12/15 - we'll let you know the details as they solidify.

Julie will have fabric including:

• Quilting Cotton
• Select Japanese Fabrics
• Select Fashion Fabrics such as Voile
• Select Home Dec Fabrics

She will also have patterns, essential notions (starting small but will be building inventory), and classes.

Julie also plans to have sewing studio time available if you would like to come and use any of our studio tools like the Go! Baby.

Julie will also continue to sell fabric on line - so many ways to purchase/hoard fabric!

I know we all wish her the best!

Meeting: Saturday December 1, 2012

NOTE NEW LOCATION FOR THE MEETING: LOS ALTOS LIBRARY


If you will be attending the Holiday Party, the fabulous party planners need an RSVP from you. Please click on the link to RSVP.

You are invited to the Bay Area Modern Quilt Guild December Meeting and Holiday Party!

Date: Saturday, December 1st, 2012 

Time: 1pm - 3pm (plus sewing time)

Address: Los Altos Library Community Room (left side of the foyer), 13 S. San Antonio Road, Los Altos, California, 94022

     Please RSVP via the link

 *** NOTE THE CHANGE OF VENUE ***

In order to avoid the parking problems we experienced last December in Redwood City, this year's December Meeting and Holiday Party will be held at the Los Altos Public Library  located at 13 S. San Antonio Road, Los Altos, California, 94022.

SCHEDULE

10 am to 1 pm - Early Bird Sew

 1 pm to 3 pm - Meeting and Holiday Party

 3 pm to 11 pm - Sewcial

SNACKS

The BAM Party Committee will provide a variety of tasty snacks and drinks for the Holiday Party.  No need to bring anything but your appetite.

WHAT TO BRING

- Name Tags

- Sewing machine and sewing stuff if you plan to sew before or after the meeting

- Fat Quarters for Fat Quarter Swap

- Quilts for Show & Tell *

- ABC Quilt Finished Tops *

- Charity blocks*, tops*  and finished quilts*

- Cat beds*

* These items are KLIPPIE-Eligible.  Last chance to pick up KLIPPIES before the

Door Prize Drawing  (Read on!)

DOOR PRIZE DRAWING

Everyone who attends the December meeting will get one entry in the hat for a chance to win a fabulous Door Prize.  In addition, you will receive one more entry for every 5 KLIPPIES you turn in!  So don't forget to BRING YOUR KLIPPIES!

Don't miss it!  This will be a very fun meeting and a good chance to mingle with all your favorite quilters and spread some holiday cheer! Non-members are welcome and should RSVP. First meeting is free, additional meetings are $5 (you really should just join. ;-)   )

If you will be attending the Holiday Party, the fabulous party planners need an RSVP from you. Please click on the link and let us know to look for you.

Pincushions Sent

Pincushions made by members of the Bay Area Modern Quilt Guild

Top Row: Adrianne, Cheryl, Deborah, Peggy, Annemarie
Middle Row: Michelle, Cynthia, Jaye, Buff, Lizzie
Bottom Row: Kathy, Jen A., Rhonda, Jen J., Kelly

These pincushions are on their way to Kansas City for a pincushion swap with fellow modern quilt guilds, Austin, Wichita, Indianapolis, Northern Virginia and Kansas City. What a wonderful variety of shapes, sizes and designs. I'm excited to see what pincushions we get back and where they are coming from.

Happy pinning from the Bay Area!! : )

Visit our flickr page to see any of the pincushions larger.

Holiday Party RSVP

If you will be attending the Holiday Party, the fabulous party planners need an RSVP from you. Please click on the link to RSVP.

You are invited to the Bay Area Modern Quilt Guild December Meeting and Holiday Party!

Date: Saturday, December 1st, 2012 

Time: 1pm - 3pm (plus sewing time)

Address: Los Altos Library Community Room (left side of the foyer), 13 S. San Antonio Road, Los Altos, California, 94022

     Please RSVP via the link

 *** NOTE THE CHANGE OF VENUE ***

In order to avoid the parking problems we experienced last December in Redwood City, this year's December Meeting and Holiday Party will be held at the Los Altos Public Library  located at 13 S. San Antonio Road, Los Altos, California, 94022.

SCHEDULE

10 am to 1 pm - Early Bird Sew

 1 pm to 3 pm - Meeting and Holiday Party

 3 pm to 11 pm - Sewcial

SNACKS

The BAM Party Committee will provide a variety of tasty snacks and drinks for the Holiday Party.  No need to bring anything but your appetite.

WHAT TO BRING

- Name Tags

- Sewing machine and sewing stuff if you plan to sew before or after the meeting

- Fat Quarters for Fat Quarter Swap

- Quilts for Show & Tell *

- ABC Quilt Finished Tops *

- Charity blocks*, tops*  and finished quilts*

- Cat beds*

* These items are KLIPPIE-Eligible.  Last chance to pick up KLIPPIES before the

Door Prize Drawing  (Read on!)

DOOR PRIZE DRAWING

Everyone who attends the December meeting will get one entry in the hat for a chance to win a fabulous Door Prize.  In addition, you will receive one more entry for every 5 KLIPPIES you turn in!  So don't forget to BRING YOUR KLIPPIES!

Don't miss it!  This will be a very fun meeting and a good chance to mingle with all your favorite quilters and spread some holiday cheer! Non-members are welcome and should RSVP. First meeting is free, additional meetings are $5 (you really should just join. ;-)   )

If you will be attending the Holiday Party, the fabulous party planners need an RSVP from you. Please click on the link and let us know to look for you.

Slideshow: November '12 Meeting

Take a look at all the great quilts shown at the last meeting. Please bring your quilts to show and tell so they can be admired!

Sew Day Tomorrow!

We're having another Sew day tomorrow, 11/17 from 10am-11pm (yes, 13 hours of sewing goodness!)

This will be an open sew day, but you can also do Charity Sewing.
 Please RSVP in the forum if you are coming, so we can get a head count.

The Charity Coordinators had us working on building a group quilt,
the Strip and Flip Baby Quilt from Cluck, Cluck Sew:
http://www.cluckclucksew.com/2012/07/tutorial-strip-and-flip-baby-quilt.html at the last Charity Sew Day and you are welcome to work on those as well as your own projects.

Location:
Los Altos Library
13 S. San Antonio Road, Los Altos, California, 94022
http://g.co/maps/kvpkt
Note: This is not the same location as our regular Sew Day meetings.

Shout out if you can bring these items to share:

    Light/non-messy snacks
    Irons (need 3 total)
    Ironing Boards (need 3 total)
    Large Cutting Mats (need 2)
    Design Walls (need 2)


Plan to bring your own:

    Extension cord and/or power strip
    Sewing machine
    Cutting tools/mats (you might want a personal one)
    Night-owls may want to bring an iron and cutting mat if an
early-bird needs to take theirs home.


We will be in the Community Room of the Los Altos Library. It's the
large room on the side of the library nearest San Antonio Rd. There
are two sets of double doors on the outside of the library - both lead
into a foyer area, and the Community Room door is on the left part of
this foyer, the checkout desk is on the right.
If you arrive late (after 6pm when the library closes), knock on the
doors closest to the Community Room, and someone should be able to let
you inside.

We will need to set up and take down tables and chairs, which are
available at the library. Please plan to help with this. Also please
try to keep your floor area clean.
Coffee and other light snacks are available in the foyer of the library.
People often pick up meals from a local restaurant. There are many
places nearby, or you can take San Antonio to El Camino and find many
restaurants and markets there.


Here's the link to my Forum page:
http://bamodernquiltguild.ning.com/forum/topics/sew-day-november-17

Hurricane Sandy Donations

When our group started the charity project, we had a goal of 25 quilts. We, as you may know have dozens and dozens - many more than 25 - quilts to donate. We never know what our fellow human beings will be facing, but the charity quilts are there for the planned donations as well as unexpected needs.

Most of you have seen the images of the devastation wrought by Hurricane/Superstorm Sandy. Again, your generosity of time and spirit by making quilts is enabling us to provide some comfort to some of those victims. The Charity Girls, Deborah and Jennifer, explain below:

by Deborah and Jennifer


Jen and I are collecting monetary donations for shipping fees so that we can send about 10 or so charity quilts made by the guild members this year to victims of Hurricane Sandy.  We currently have $50 in donations, and need $17 more to cover shipping. Any overages will be used to further support the guild's charity project

Here's the info posted on the forum:

"If you'd like to make a contribution, please send the funds through Paypal.  Here is the info:

From your PayPal account select the 'send money' tab. 

Enter bamodernquilt@gmail.com in the 'TO' tab and the donation amount in the 'AMOUNT' tab. 

Click the 'PERSONAL' tab right below the USD drop down menu. 

Select 'OTHER' option.

Click CONTINUE.

Enter 'Sandy Postage' as the subject

Click 'SEND MONEY'

Please leave a comment here if you make a contribution through Paypal so that Sara can track funds sent for this relief effort.

Thanks in advance for your generosity!
-Deborah and Jennifer"

Sew Day November 17

We're having another Sew day on 11/17 from 10am-11pm (yes, 13 hours of sewing goodness!)

This will be an open sew day, but you can also do Charity Sewing.
 Please RSVP in the forum if you are coming, so we can get a head count.

The Charity Coordinators had us working on building a group quilt,
the Strip and Flip Baby Quilt from Cluck, Cluck Sew:
http://www.cluckclucksew.com/2012/07/tutorial-strip-and-flip-baby-quilt.html at the last Charity Sew Day and you are welcome to work on those as well as your own projects.

Location:
Los Altos Library
13 S. San Antonio Road, Los Altos, California, 94022
http://g.co/maps/kvpkt
Note: This is not the same location as our regular Sew Day meetings.

Shout out if you can bring these items to share:

    Light/non-messy snacks
    Irons (need 3 total)
    Ironing Boards (need 3 total)
    Large Cutting Mats (need 2)
    Design Walls (need 2)


Plan to bring your own:

    Extension cord and/or power strip
    Sewing machine
    Cutting tools/mats (you might want a personal one)
    Night-owls may want to bring an iron and cutting mat if an
early-bird needs to take theirs home.


We will be in the Community Room of the Los Altos Library. It's the
large room on the side of the library nearest San Antonio Rd. There
are two sets of double doors on the outside of the library - both lead
into a foyer area, and the Community Room door is on the left part of
this foyer, the checkout desk is on the right.
If you arrive late (after 6pm when the library closes), knock on the
doors closest to the Community Room, and someone should be able to let
you inside.

We will need to set up and take down tables and chairs, which are
available at the library. Please plan to help with this. Also please
try to keep your floor area clean.
Coffee and other light snacks are available in the foyer of the library.
People often pick up meals from a local restaurant. There are many
places nearby, or you can take San Antonio to El Camino and find many
restaurants and markets there.


Here's the link to my Forum page:
http://bamodernquiltguild.ning.com/forum/topics/sew-day-november-17

Sew Day November 17

We're having another Sew day on 11/17 from 10am-11pm (yes, 13 hours of sewing goodness!)

This will be an open sew day, but you can also do Charity Sewing.
 Please RSVP in the forum if you are coming, so we can get a head count.

The Charity Coordinators had us working on building a group quilt,
the Strip and Flip Baby Quilt from Cluck, Cluck Sew:
http://www.cluckclucksew.com/2012/07/tutorial-strip-and-flip-baby-quilt.html at the last Charity Sew Day and you are welcome to work on those as well as your own projects.

Location:
Los Altos Library
13 S. San Antonio Road, Los Altos, California, 94022
http://g.co/maps/kvpkt
Note: This is not the same location as our regular Sew Day meetings.

Shout out if you can bring these items to share:

    Light/non-messy snacks
    Irons (need 3 total)
    Ironing Boards (need 3 total)
    Large Cutting Mats (need 2)
    Design Walls (need 2)


Plan to bring your own:

    Extension cord and/or power strip
    Sewing machine
    Cutting tools/mats (you might want a personal one)
    Night-owls may want to bring an iron and cutting mat if an
early-bird needs to take theirs home.


We will be in the Community Room of the Los Altos Library. It's the
large room on the side of the library nearest San Antonio Rd. There
are two sets of double doors on the outside of the library - both lead
into a foyer area, and the Community Room door is on the left part of
this foyer, the checkout desk is on the right.
If you arrive late (after 6pm when the library closes), knock on the
doors closest to the Community Room, and someone should be able to let
you inside.

We will need to set up and take down tables and chairs, which are
available at the library. Please plan to help with this. Also please
try to keep your floor area clean.
Coffee and other light snacks are available in the foyer of the library.
People often pick up meals from a local restaurant. There are many
places nearby, or you can take San Antonio to El Camino and find many
restaurants and markets there.


Here's the link to my Forum page:
http://bamodernquiltguild.ning.com/forum/topics/sew-day-november-17

November Meeting Notes

As usual, the meeting was great. Lots of people, quilts and a good demo. For some reason, your editor's camera does not want to take photos when am out and about. The battery (not fatal) ran out  and I forgot the spare at home, so I only took a few photos with my phone. I'll try to do better next time.

Pincushion Swap

Vintage Modern Pincushion

The pincushion swap was successful. There were a lot of really great pincushions. Kelly wins the big *ss pincushion award. She likes big pincushions and she made one for the swap. There were probably a dozen that were given in. It will be interesting to see what the Kansas City Quilt Guild sends us back. Thanks to Adrianne for organizing.

Donation Quilts

Yellow & Pink Donation Top

More donation quilts floated in. The word on the BAMQG street is that we have collected/made/produced 99. More went out to be quilted and finished, so I am sure we will break 100 at the next meeting.


Jennifer and Deborah had kits and cat beds available and people took the kits to make more.

Cross/Plus charity quilt

Peggy made this Cross/Plus quilt for the charity effort as well. The colors in the photo don't do it justice. The quilt is a really nice combination of turquoise and scarlet. I believe that Kathleen made a quilt like this in a swap earlier this year. These may be the leftover or reject blocks from that quilt. If they are rejects, they are perfect in this quilt- definitely a lemonade from lemons situation.


Show & Tell

Sparkling Cider by Mallory

There was a lot of great show and tell in addition to the pincushions. One of the quilts that I really liked was a from a pattern called Sparkling Cider by All Washed Up quilts. The fabrics used for the pattern's packaging doesn't do the layout justice. Mallory used Tula Pink's Plume Collection from a few years ago. Mallory does a great job using these fabrics to best effect in this quilt. One thing I like about the Sparkling Cider pattern is that the blocks are large, but the quilt design is not boring. There are some nice renditions of the pattern on Flickr, too.

Adrianne's Modern Amish

Adrianne saw an advertisement for modern Amish quilts that were needed for a book. The deadline was very short and since publishers require that a quilt not be published anywhere else, including on a blog (So many of us who participate in social media are so totally screwed on this front) that many quilts people had already made were ineligible. Adrianne got inspired and started work on this quilt. She said she didn't make the deadline, but she finished the quilt and it is a really great piece. The negative space is a really interesting shape. This could be made with the Fons & Porter Pyramid ruler.
I know you can see it, but the quilting is horizontal lines across the whole quilt, which looks great.

Alison's baby quilt

Alison brought a baby quilt made from fabric from a Malka Dubrowsky's first hand-dyed looking line, A Stitch in Color. It came out really well. It sounded like she said she did  a sort of Jelly Roll technique, but the description sounded like she managed the design process more than the directions for a Jelly Roll Race quilt usually suggest. She added in the parallelograms to break up the fabric motifs. I like those parallelograms; I think they add a bit of stability to the design as well.

Sew Time
A few of us stayed until the bitter end. Only Alison was doing anything remotely related to sewing. The rest of us were chatting and socializing. If you are not sure what to do at sew time, it is a great time to baste quilts or cut out projects, especially things like bags and other accessories.

December meeting will be on December 1. Remember to bring your FQ Swap fabrics.

November Meeting Tomorrow!

AGENDA (subject to change)

-Sign up for Fat Quarter Swap

-Show & Tell
-And Rhonda is back with the BAM Demo Series on binding! The demo agenda and stars are: 

1. Rhonda will show how she joins the end of the binding on a placemat.
2. Ruth will show her tip for joining the binding ends.
3. Kelly will do a demo of how to sew the binding on by machine, using a quilt as a sample.

-Sewcial (Yes, we’ll have that too!)

WHAT TO BRING

-Name Tags
-Pincushion for Pincushion Swap
-Aurifil Whole Cloth Challenge Project, if you just finished or weren't at the last meeting
-Quilts for Show & Tell
-ABC Blocks (catch up)
-Snacks to share
-Charity blocks, tops and finished quilts
-Cat beds

NEW MEMBERS
If you’ve never been to a meeting before this will be a great meeting to see a lot of new projects and meet our members. Your first meeting is free and you can read about becoming a member here. We want to see your projects too, so bring them along! If you have any questions, ask any officer. We’re happy to talk with you.


Check out our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/BayAreaModern

See you Saturday,