Walking Foot WOW! Workshop with Mel Beach

First of all thanks to Angela O for being an excellent workshop coordinator. The Walking Foot WOW! Workshop with Mel Beach was her swan song as she steps down from a few years of volunteering and takes a well deserved break.

The workshop was held at Grace Lutheran on Saturday (thanks for arranging the space, Mary C!). The task was to learn to use to the walking foot to create a sampler (or two) of several different quilting patterns. Most of the patterns were straight line, but Mel included some gentle curves as well.

Mel was well organized and had obviously worked hard to develop her handouts.

The workshop was organized so that the group would get together to learn information then go to the machines to practice. There was a lot of back and forth, which was great because it encouraged everyone to take breaks.

Mel covered taking breaks and caring for your body in addition to using tape to mark, tips and tricks for pivoting, decorative stitches and much more.

This is a good basic workshop on machine quilting taught by a calm and well prepared instructor.

You can read more about Mel's thoughts on her blog post.

Cargo Duffel Workshop - Saturday

You must be signed up. If you have not paid the fee, contact Angela.

Are you ready?

Location: Grace Lutheran Church
3149 Waverly Street, Palo Alto, CA 94306
(Corner of Waverly and Loma Verde Street)

There is a lot of homework, so if you haven't started drop everything and get started.

News on Cargo Duffel Workshop

Are you excited??? I know that I am!

Just a quick reminder that Jaime will be doing a little talk/demo/Q&A session about the homework after this Saturday's BAM meeting. Please bring your questions and plan to stay for a little while after the regular meeting for the prep meeting. If you cannot make it this Saturday, but still have questions, please use the Ning forum discussion to post them. The Workshop Coordinator, Angela, will also take some photos of her examples and post to Ning after the meeting.

We will be using the Cargo Duffel 2 pattern, which is a rewrite of the original.

For those who are on the wait list, please feel free to join us because who knows, you may get in after all! Contact Angela if you want to get on the wait list.
Member fee: $10
 Non-member fee: $50

Latifah Saafir Workshop OPEN for Registration

 

BAM is super excited to have one of the co-founders of the Modern Quilt Guild, Latifah Saafir, come to the Bay Area to give us a workshop on her Molehills quilt.  Tackle curved piecing and learn a relaxed version of foundation piecing while creating the cool Molehills quilt.  There are a limited number of spots, so sign up soon!

WHEN:  Sunday, June 12, 2016
WHERE:  TBD
HOW MUCH:  $85 (does NOT include lunch) (Non members pay $125, which includes a membership!)
HOW DO I SIGN UP:  Please email Angela or leave a comment here and someone will get back to you.

Learn more about Latifah and her quilts here:  http://www.latifahsaafirstudios.com/

Housekeeping items:  Please note that payment in full is required in order to confirm your spot and get a supply list.  Payment is NOT refundable, but your spot in class is transferable.

Workshop Opportunity

Sherri Lynn Wood is teaching Bias Strip Piecing on the Curve in Concord, CA, on Tuesday, November 17- with the Quilt Guild of Contra Costa County. More details here: http://daintytime.net/event/quilters-county-workshop/

This is the only time that she is scheduled to teach this workshop in the Bay Area this year and next, except at QuiltCon 2016 and that class is full! Please pass this along to your guilds and quilting friends and sign up by October 19 if you want to attend, or it may be cancelled!  The fee is only $75, what a deal!

Please contact Dale Wolf (nancy.dale.wolfe (at) gmail [dot] com) by email at QGCCC to register.

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.

Sherri Lynn Wood Workshop

Join in the fun!

After that fantastic talk at our last 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 me an email or Ning message and I'll add you to the list or waiting list.

Please note that if you have already signed up, but not yet paid, I will contact you once PayPal is set up, or you can bring a check or cash to the next meeting.

B-A-M Demo Series - Finishing Your Quilt

by Rhonda 

It's hard to believe but it's time for the 4th and final installment of the B-A-M Demo Series - Finishing Your Quilt.

I'm looking for one or more volunteers to do a demo on binding or labeling.

Do you have a set of tried-and-true binding tips, tools, and tricks?
Have you tried an out-of-the-ordinary binding technique recently?
Would you like to demo your favorite labeling technique(s)?

Something simple?  Something EXTREME?  We're up for anything!

Send me a message via the Forum if you would like to volunteer to do a demo at the November meeting.

Dyeing Workshop Report

by Angela

 It was another successful first for BAMQG when 11 members joined Joy-Lily on Saturday, July 28th, for a fabric dyeing workshop. All of us had done little to no fabric dyeing in the past, so we were all eager and excited to jump in. We tried our hands at many different types of dyeing thanks to Joy-Lily’s guidance and expertise. We made some solids, clipped all sorts of items to fabric to make patterns and did some shibori, parfait and gradient dyeing. At the end of the day, we used the leftover dyes to make jar dyed fabrics which came out as surprises to us later at home. Joy-Lily packed in so many techniques and fun into one day and we all came out with so much beautiful fabric. Most of all, we all had “buckets” of fun and are “dyeing” to do it again!

Dyeing Workshop Coming Up July 28!!!

Have you been admiring hand-dyed fabrics and wanted to try your hand or use in your quilt creations?  Now's your chance!  Artist, quilter, author and BAMQG member Joy-Lily is going to show us how!

DATE:  Saturday, July 28th, 2012

TIME:  11:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.

PLACE:  Sunnyvale Art Gallery and Café
251 W El Camino Real
Sunnyvale, CA 94087
(408) 737-8188 
http://sunnyvaleartgallery.com

COST:  $60 (includes everything except fabric and lunch)

CONTACT:  Angela, BAMQG Special Events Coordinator, by commenting on this post.  

Try out several different fabric dyeing techniques on fat quarters of quilt fabric including: painting gradations, shibori style wrapping, binding and clamping, layering colors like a parfait, solid and mottled color baths and painting patterns. Discover how easy it is to create your own batik-look fabrics too. All dyes are colorfast. Go home with a stack of one-of-a-kind fabrics and all the information you need to create more. All materials except fabric included in the $60 cost of this workshop.

For more info on Joy-Lily and her art, quilts, workshops and book, visit her web site at:  http://www.joy-lily.com/

For more info on the Bay Area Modern Quilt Guild, visit our web site at: http://bayareamodernquiltguild.blogspot.com

Dyeing Workshop - Space Available!

Have you been admiring hand-dyed fabrics and wanted to try your hand or use in your quilt creations?  There is still space available in the upcoming workshop on July 28. Comment here or contact Angela to reserve a spot.

Now's your chance!  Artist, quilter, author and BAMQG member Joy-Lily is going to show us how!

DATE:  Saturday, July 28th, 2012

TIME:  11:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.

PLACE:  Sunnyvale Art Gallery and Café
251 W El Camino Real
Sunnyvale, CA 94087
(408) 737-8188 
http://sunnyvaleartgallery.com

COST:  $60 (includes everything except fabric and lunch)

CONTACT:  Angela, BAMQG Special Events Coordinator, by commenting on this post.  

Try out several different fabric dyeing techniques on fat quarters of quilt fabric including: painting gradations, shibori style wrapping, binding and clamping, layering colors like a parfait, solid and mottled color baths and painting patterns. Discover how easy it is to create your own batik-look fabrics too. All dyes are colorfast. Go home with a stack of one-of-a-kind fabrics and all the information you need to create more. All materials except fabric included in the $60 cost of this workshop.

For more info on Joy-Lily and her art, quilts, workshops and book, visit her web site at:  http://www.joy-lily.com/

For more info on the Bay Area Modern Quilt Guild, visit our web site at: http://bayareamodernquiltguild.blogspot.com

Dyeing Workshop Coming up!

Have you been admiring hand-dyed fabrics and wanted to try your hand or use in your quilt creations?  Now's your chance!  Artist, quilter, author and BAMQG member Joy-Lily is going to show us how!

DATE:  Saturday, July 28th, 2012

TIME:  11:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.

PLACE:  Sunnyvale Art Gallery and Café
251 W El Camino Real
Sunnyvale, CA 94087
(408) 737-8188 
http://sunnyvaleartgallery.com

COST:  $60 (includes everything except fabric and lunch)

CONTACT:  Angela, BAMQG Special Events Coordinator, by commenting on this post.  

Try out several different fabric dyeing techniques on fat quarters of quilt fabric including: painting gradations, shibori style wrapping, binding and clamping, layering colors like a parfait, solid and mottled color baths and painting patterns. Discover how easy it is to create your own batik-look fabrics too. All dyes are colorfast. Go home with a stack of one-of-a-kind fabrics and all the information you need to create more. All materials except fabric included in the $60 cost of this workshop.

For more info on Joy-Lily and her art, quilts, workshops and book, visit her web site at:  http://www.joy-lily.com/

For more info on the Bay Area Modern Quilt Guild, visit our web site at: http://bayareamodernquiltguild.blogspot.com

Dyeing Workshop

Have you been admiring hand-dyed fabrics and wanted to try your hand or use in your quilt creations?  Now's your chance!  Artist, quilter, author and BAMQG member Joy-Lily is going to show us how!

DATE:  Saturday, July 28th, 2012

TIME:  11:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.

PLACE:  Sunnyvale Art Gallery and Café
251 W El Camino Real
Sunnyvale, CA 94087
(408) 737-8188 
http://sunnyvaleartgallery.com

COST:  $60 (includes everything except fabric and lunch)

CONTACT:  Angela, BAMQG Special Events Coordinator, by commenting on this post.  

Try out several different fabric dyeing techniques on fat quarters of quilt fabric including: painting gradations, shibori style wrapping, binding and clamping, layering colors like a parfait, solid and mottled color baths and painting patterns. Discover how easy it is to create your own batik-look fabrics too. All dyes are colorfast. Go home with a stack of one-of-a-kind fabrics and all the information you need to create more. All materials except fabric included in the $60 cost of this workshop.

For more info on Joy-Lily and her art, quilts, workshops and book, visit her web site at:  http://www.joy-lily.com/

For more info on the Bay Area Modern Quilt Guild, visit our web site at: http://bayareamodernquiltguild.blogspot.com