September Meeting Notes

Once again, it was a great meeting!

Minutes of the Board Meeting will be available on the Ning Forum (members only) soon.

Board Positions
Volunteers are needed to run for Board positions. The guild is as wonderful as it is because we all do a little bit. Many hands make light work and we don't want to burn out any of our fabulous volunteers.

Positions Available:

• President: run meetings, create meeting agendas, make the guild what you want, delegate to and encourage other volunteers .
• Asst. Treasurer: provide backup to Claire

Board members are available to answer questions.

How will you contribute?

Opportunity quilt
Make sure you talk to Amanda about your free tickets.

Volunteers still needed for white glove duty and to sell tickets at PIQF. Check the information on the blog and the Ning and talk to Amanda. Remember that you need to fill your spot if you end up not being able to volunteer.

Charity
Next Charity Sew Day will be on November 7 at Peggy's Community Room. Look for details on the Ning.

Some larger quilts need to be quilted. See Peggy or Michelle.

Meetings
NO MEETING IN OCTOBER. We will all be at PIQF. If someone wants to organize a get together there, please do so, otherwise stop by the table.

Next meeting will be in November on November 21.

Quilty Happenings

On Sunday, September 20, 2015, 2-4pm, the San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles presented Fiber Sunday in Pacific Grove! Join fellow fiber enthusiasts to see and learn more about recent acquisitions including quilts by Michael James, Jane Sassaman, fiber art by Flo Oy Wong and more. Shown by Curator of Collections Nancy Bavor. Location: Back Porch Fabrics at 157 Grand Avenue, Pacific Grove. Please RSVP to Debbie Aguirre at 408-971-0323 or debbie@sjquiltmuseum.org
Quilting in the Garden is at the end of this month on September 26 and 27, 2015 at Alden Lane Nursery, 981 Alden Lane - Livermore, CA 94550 - (925) 447-0280

Modern Patchwork is partnering with MQG to produce a magazine. Proposals and articles are due by September 29, 2015. More information is available on the MQG blog.

The Pacific International Quilt Festival is coming October 15-18, 2015. Have you gotten your badge yet? I ordered mine and got a 'nice' letter saying they wouldn't mail it to me this year, that I would have to visit the registration desk. New Quilts of Northern California is a juried exhibit (purported to be an annual favorite) at PIQF. NCQC says you can view the work of Northern California’s most well-known and upcoming quilt makers. This amazing exhibition of recent works is presented by the Northern California Quilt Council and curated by NCQC Board members. 

The Monterey Guild is having a thread painting workshop with Barbara Shapell on October 3,4. Cost is $120.


Judy B. Dales' solo show "Ahead of the Curve" is currently on exhibiti at the Shelburne Museum through October 31. There is an article about getting an exhibit in a museum on the SDA Vermont blog.

Quilting in the Garden, September 26-27 in Livermore.

Artistry in Fashion, Canada College, September 26

November 30: last day to enter quilts into QuiltCon

Improv Round Robin
This guild wide round robin started at the meeting with some sewists adding to starts and others taking pieces home to work on.

The above is just one of a number of great starts.

Small Groups

• Handwork: no report
• Tula Pink City Sampler: no report

Start a new group; there are no limits on who can start something.

Challenge
The low volume challenge projects will now be due at the November meeting.

Winter Extravaganza Swap 
Joy-Lily took names and requests and will send out assignments soon.

Gifts will be due at the December meeting. Contact Joy-Lily if you cannot attend the December meeting so that your gift can be given out there. It is a disappointment not to receive something at the meeting if you have brought a gift.

Some ideas for projects were posted at the meeting, but there are numerous other sources, including the One Yard Wonder book and a list on the Flamingo Toes blog.

Los Altos Library Exhibit 

Peggy is organizing this event again. The exhibit will be in January. You need to fill out the entry form and return it by November 30. Theme is Improv. Quilts should be 50"w x 60" l max.

New Members 

Welcome Marilyn!

See you at PIQF!!!

Meeting Tomorrow!

WHAT: Bay Area Modern Quilt Guild Meeting!!!
WHEN: Saturday, August 15, starting at 1:00 pm 
WHERE:  we'll be meeting at the Redwood City Library, in the upstairs community room. 

WHAT things to bring:

*Round Robin bins and bags 

*Checks for Round Robin Workshop

*Show 'n Tell

*Your name tag

*Finished Hawaiian quilts!!

*Charity blocks and quilts

*Small Group projects (and ideas for new Small Groups!)

*Information about local/national quilty happenings

*Non-messy snacks

*Enthusiasm and a positive attitude! 

 

Prepare to sign up for a shift at PIQF!

 

Prepare to sign up to volunteer for 2016

 

Please note: this list is not necessarily all-inclusive. It's quite likely there's something important that's been left off, so if you think of something that should be added, please speak up! 
 

There will be lots of time to visit, too, especially after the meeting. Plan to stick around and have some fun! Meet new friends, chat with old friends, and eat some yummy snacks!

 

If you have any questions, please reply here, or see an officer at the meeting. 

Members can visit the BA Modern Ning site. Join to become a member!!!

The "Yes, And" Improv Round Robin (IRR) - Ready, Set....

The "Yes, And" Improv Round Robin (IRR) was mentioned at the last meeting and will start at the September meeting, which is Saturday! You can find a thread on the Ning. We are providing some information here.

Supplies:
-Fabric (see page 43)
-a piece of your 'signature' fabric
-Bag or bin labeled with your name
- BSK
-Sewing machine in good working order
-etc

Sherri Lynn Wood has written a book on improvisational quiltmaking. We will be using her information to work on a guild-wide round robin. In this exercise, each person will be taking the piece you have been given by someone else, and adding on- conversation style. We are modifying this to fit into a once-a-month exchange round robin for the guild rather than the one day workshop as described in the book.

 Note: that anyone participating in this round robin must have a copy of Sherri Lynn Wood’s The Improv Handbook for Modern Quilters as we will be referring to this book (and out of respect for the author’s original, hard work).

You can certainly work on this at home, but we are a social group so we would like to encourage people to stay after the meeting and do their rounds together. This means that we can time each round, do the centering together, etc. Remember, it’s only 20 minutes!

 So, get your fabrics selected and let’s do some improv!

The Score:
1.       Select a group of fabrics: see page 43 in the book for suggested amounts/types. These will be the building blocks of your quilt that everyone will use to build with. Place in a bag or bin with your name and email address on it to keep everything together.

2.       Choose your “signature” fabric that you will add to everyone’s quilt. You will keep this fabric.  Don't stress too much about this because it's impossible to choose a fabric that will "go" with everyone else's fabric choices.  Don't worry, it'll work out, just choose something you like!

3.       Read page 43 for the rules, techniques and mind-clearing methods. Remember that this is a ruler and template-free process!  Center yourself right before beginning each round.

4.       Round 1: using your own set of curated fabrics from #1, begin the quilt “conversation.” Suggested time limit: 20 minutes. Place your starter and your curated fabrics into your bag or bin and bring to the next guild meeting for exchange with other members of the round robin! Keep your signature fabric.

5.       Round 2 and beyond: after receiving someone else’s piece, add to the conversation using their fabrics, adding your own signature fabric, and using the same rules, techniques, and mind-clearing methods as before. As pieces get larger, the time limit can increase (30 minutes suggested) but don’t spend hours agonizing!  In fact, it's encouraged to NOT look at the piece at all until right before you start your 30 minutes. Remember, this is improv and is a "yes, and conversation"! The number of final rounds will depend on the number of participants.

6.       When you get your final piece back after the rounds, do any final additions to the piece that you feel it needs.
(Draft) Timeline (subject to change):
August 2015: Introduce IRR. Sign-ups at meeting and on ning
Sept 2015:  Starters due, exchange of first bins amongst members
Nov 2015:  Round 2 due, exchange
Feb 2016: Round 3 due, exchange
April 2016:  Round 4, or final exchange, or take your final piece home to finish up
…Continue as needed…

NOTE: this is meant to be FUN and FREEING. While we would like to keep the rounds going at a reasonable pace, if you must miss a month don’t worry too much. We do not want people to be afraid to participate.

Find Sherri Lynn's website at: http://daintytime.net/

Sherri Lynn Wood Workshop

Contact Angela to be on the waiting list or sign up for the workshop!
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Join in the fun!

After that fantastic talk at our September meeting, we are all excited to try out the scores from Sherri's book, so we are having a workshop with her!!!

Here are the details:

What:  Improvising From a Score with Sherri Lynn Wood (http://daintytime.net/)
Date:  Sunday, October 11, 2015, 10am-4:30pm now at
9:30am-4:30pm!!!
Location:  Always Quilting, 4230 Olympic Ave, San Mateo
Cost:  $80 per person (does NOT include lunch)

With jazz music, a score, or lead sheet, indicates basic chord changes and arrangements of a song without specifying how the song should be performed. Now imagine a score written to perform a quilt!  In this ruler-free improv workshop participants will explore the FUNDAMENTAL concept to flexible patterning and improvisational process: How to set limits that support your creative flow. This is the KEY principle for creating and following your own patterns. Finding your flow not only feels super good, it actually replaces the need of having to work from a plan.

There will also be a separate guild-wide round robin using this book. Please purchase it.

If you're interested in attending, there are still a very few spots left.  Please reply to this post or send Angela an email or Ning message and she'll work with you on signing up.

Please note that if you have already signed up, but not yet paid, you need to pay ASAP. Contact Angela.

September meeting is Saturday!

WHAT: Bay Area Modern Quilt Guild Meeting!!!
WHEN: Saturday, August 15, starting at 1:00 pm 
WHERE:  we'll be meeting at the Redwood City Library, in the upstairs community room. 

WHAT things to bring:

*Round Robin bins and bags 

*Checks for Round Robin Workshop

*Show 'n Tell

*Your name tag

*Finished Hawaiian quilts!!

*Charity blocks and quilts

*Small Group projects (and ideas for new Small Groups!)

*Information about local/national quilty happenings

*Non-messy snacks

*Enthusiasm and a positive attitude! 

 

Prepare to sign up for a shift at PIQF!

 

Prepare to sign up to volunteer for 2016

 

Please note: this list is not necessarily all-inclusive. It's quite likely there's something important that's been left off, so if you think of something that should be added, please speak up! 
 

There will be lots of time to visit, too, especially after the meeting. Plan to stick around and have some fun! Meet new friends, chat with old friends, and eat some yummy snacks!

 

If you have any questions, please reply here, or see an officer at the meeting. 

Members can visit the BA Modern Ning site. Join to become a member!!!

See  you there!