Reminders - no meeting and no Open House this month

Just a few reminders about our activities this month.

We will NOT be having a February meeting due to the Quiltcon festivities happening in Austin this weekend.

Also, the Open House originally scheduled for Thursday, Feb. 26 had been canceled due to scheduling issues, and will be rescheduled for a later date. Keep your eyes on this blog for more information soon about when that will be rescheduled!

Wonky Star Block Drive in memory of Stephanie Hicks

It is with great sadness we announce that one of our founding members and dear friend, Stephanie Hicks lost her hard fought battle with cancer this morning. Stephanie was involved with the KMQG from the very beginning, attending our very first meeting and almost every meeting up until the very end. We loved seeing her bright quilts that she enjoyed making for her loved ones and those in need. She helped organize our very first guild retreat and was always excited to attend the next retreat! She served the guild in many ways over the years, volunteering as photographer, secretary and vice-president and coordinating construction and delivery of many quilts that were donated to those in need. She always shared her love of quilting with others and introduced many to our guild! She loved the beach, bright colors, Wonky Stars! and more than anything, her son. Please pray for her family and friends during this time. She will be greatly missed.


In honor of her memory, we will be running a Wonky Star charity block drive.
The stars should be 12.5" unfinished and should be made in Stephanie's favorite, bright colors - solids only, please.
We are so grateful to all those interested in donating blocks.  If you would like to mail your blocks, please contact us at modknoxville@gmail.com for our address.

You can find a tutorial for a Wonky Star block, here (by The Silly BooDilly). 

For your blocks, please use the color swatch below for reference.  Any aqua, green, yellow, orange, and magenta - with cream for a neutral.  The background can be any of these colors as well as the stars.

We will be accepting blocks through April 18, 2015

Here's a button to use on social media:

January Meeting Recap

Thank you to everyone who was able to join us this past Saturday!  We had a great time!

Announcements 

Dana Bolyard Workshop
Sign ups are still open for the Dana Bolyard workshop!  We need three more people to sign up in order for this workshop to happen.  We will be making the cover quilt from Imagine Quilts. (Posy Patrol)  You have until February 3rd to sign up and pay for the class if you are interested.  Use THIS FORM to sign up!  If we cannot secure the minimum number of attendees, you will receive a refund for the workshop.

2015 Dues
Dues are $40.00 for the 2015 calendar year.  If you haven't paid your dues, please fill out this Membership Application and pay your dues via PayPal or by check (details are on the application).  It's not too late to join! 

QuiltCon Charity Quilt
Our QuiltCon Charity Quilt has arrived safely in Austin! We'll be sure to take pictures of it hanging at the show!  We are so thankful to everyone for all their hard work and donations of fabric and time.  Thank you all so much!



Pile O' Fabric Skillbuilder BOM 2015
We have a few remaining coupon codes for Alyssa Lichner's Technicolor Galaxy BOM for 25% off for participating due-paying KMQG members.  E-mail us for more details!




Smoky Mountain Quilter's Quilt Show 2015
Be sure to plan and START your modern quilt for the Smoky Mountain Quilter's Quilt Show!  We're so excited that our local guild's quilt show has a modern category, so please be sure to make something to share with our fellow quilters! You can find the entry form here.  The fee to enter a quilt is $15.00 and this not a juried show, so if you enter, your quilt will hang!  Entry deadline is April 7, 2015.  Please note your quilt does not need to be completed by then.  All that is required for entry is a photo of the quilt top.  So get started on your quilt and make sure to enter this year!

Budget Submission for 2015
The budget for 2015 was created and submitted to guild members for approval.  The 2015 budget was approved unanimously!

Bylaw Amendments for 2015
In reviewing our bylaws to make sure we were compliant, we noted several sections that needed updated wording in order to reflect our current practices.  A rewording of sections 3.2, 3.3 and 7.5 was proposed.  These bylaw amendments were seconded and passed unanimously! We will be sure to post the updated bylaws shortly.

New Years Quilty Resolutions for 2015
We each wrote down 5 quilting relations resolutions for ourselves for 2015.  The secretary is in charge of holding these resolutions until December, at which time we will get to see how well we did at meeting our resolutions!  We will award prizes for those who completed their resolutions!

Anvil Charity Quilt Block
We are collecting more of 'The Anvil' quilt blocks for our charity block drive. Please use ONLY solid fabrics.  The background should be yellow or white and anvil designs can be in any rainbow color.  Here is the tutorial.  Please note this is a 12.5" unfinished block.  Feel free to make as many as you like and bring them to the March meeting.

Yearly Yard Sale & Destash
We hope you were able to find some fun new-to-you fabric to use and to also unload some of your unused fabric stash!  

Freemotion Quilting Demo
Melissa showed us some of her favorite all over quilting patterns!  She showed us all of these designs: Stippling, Swirly Loops, Wavy Lines, Cursive F's, Echo Shells, Leaves, Repeating Mod Squares & more!  Thanks for showing us your (super FAST) quilting style, Melissa!  YOU ARE FEARLESS!

Sew In
We had a sew in following our meeting.  It was great to see what everyone was working on!

Be sure to check our Facebook page for some pictures from the meeting!

Upcoming Events

February 26 - Week Night Open House (This event has been cancelled.  We are open to suggestions for a different type of social event though!  Any ideas? E-mail us at modknoxville@gmail.com and let us know!)

March 21 - Monthly Meeting (T-Shirt Quilts with Julie Callis of Fishtail Designs.  We will also be playing our LRC fabric game!  Bring 3 Fat Quarters of Modern Blenders (small to medium prints comprised of 1 or 2 colors) for a chance to win ALL the fat quarters from everyone! 

Hope to see many of you in March!  Please e-mail us with any questions you might have.

Upcoming Events in 2015!

Good morning friends and fellow quilters, its almost 2015!  I hope everyone celebrated the holidays and are ready for one more -- Happy New Year!  We have been working on our 2015 calendar and want to make sure everyone is up to date on what we have going on this year.  Below I have listed our schedule for 2015.  We will be collecting dues at our January 17 meeting and hope many of you will join us this year.  If you are unable to attend but would like to join, you can mail us a check or we can send you a PayPal invoice plus $1.50 for service fees.  KMQG has a set schedule for the third Saturday of every month and social time begins at 10:15 AM.  Our meetings all take place at Westminster Presbyterian Church located at 6500 Northshore Dr., Knovxille, TN 37919.

Sign-Up for Pile O Fabric's BOM, Technicolor Galaxy, OPEN NOW! 

Email us if you would like to join in and receive the (significant) group discount!

Sign-Up for 'Posy Patrol' Workshop with Dana Bolyard of www.oldredbarnco.com, OPEN NOW!

Email us (modknoxville@gmail.com) if you would like to sign up or for more information.  April 4, 1:00 - 5:00 PM

Patchwork Threads  Will have a Discount Code for MQG Members through January 31.

January 17, 2015: 10:15 Social Time 10:30 Meeting Begins

2015 Dues Collected $40

Annual YARD SALE!  Bring anything you would like to destash and cash to shop for new quilting goodies.

Quilting Resolutions for the New Year

Free Motion Quilting Workshop-Basic All Over Designs (Bring a small, basted quilt sandwich and your machine - prepped with a free motion quilting foot)

Sew-In until 5:00 PM

February 19-22: QUILTCON in Austin, TX

Biannual Conference by The Modern Quilt Guild

We will not have a monthly meeting this month!

February 26:  Week Night Open House

Bring your modern quilts, patterns, fabrics to share with visitors.

March 21, 2015: 10:15 Social Time 10:30 Meeting Begins

T-Shirt Quilt Lecture from Julie Callis of Fishtail Designs

Left Right Center Game (3 FQs needed to participate - theme not yet decided)

April 7, 2015: Deadline for Quilt Entries in Smoky Mountain Quilter's 2015 Quilt Show : Enter those MODERN QUILTS!

April 18, 2015:

Monthly Meeting at regular scheduled time, review and briefing of QuiltCon for those who can't attend.

Fabric Swap

SEW-IN

Also this year"

Quarterly Sew-Ins

Games

Swaps

Challenges (with prizes)

Fall Retreat

Charity Block Drives

5 Year Anniversary Party

I hope many of you will join us for another fun year of modern fabrics and quilting fun.  The Knoxville Modern Quilt Guild is for residents in and around Knoxville who have an interest in modern design and quilting. We hope to provide members with a community where modern quilters can meet, share ideas and and create in an environment that encourages creativity and acceptance. Our guild is a member of the International Modern Quilt Guild. 

KMQG BOM 2012

We just had a MQG contact us (Hi, Central Jersey MQG!) about using our BOM from 2012.  And since we've migrated from Ning (our original website) and our content there is no longer available, we realized it's time to upload all this info to our blog so that it's available for everyone!
 
In 2012, there were very few Modern BOM programs.  But the members of the KMQG wanted to try out some different, modern blocks. Seeing a need, members Robin S. and Emily D. set to work compiling a Block of the Month for our little guild.  These patterns are always free to use. We simply ask that you not charge for the patterns and of course we always appreciate a reference to our guild!  Please don't hesitate to e-mail us if you ever find a broken link or need more information about a block.

One of these patterns IS NOT original:  The "Circle of Geese" block is by piecebynumber.com and we just included it because we loved it so much!  So please refer to her terms of use regarding those templates.
http://piecebynumber.com/circleofgeese.htm (her terms of use are on the actual template, I think)

Fabric Requirements for this quilt 

Dimensions of completed quilt: ~44" x 58"

2 yards - Background fabric

10-12 FQs or assorted prints to equal 2.5-3 yards - for the blocks

1 yard - Sashing

.75 yard - binding

2.5 yard - backing

  

Patterns :

ALL 12 BLOCKS

1.) January - Woven - tutorial on partial seams

2.) February - Chevrons - (Printable Templates)

3.) March -Filmstrip - Tutorial for wonky star

4.) April - Bordered Star -PAGE 1 - PAGE 2

5.) May - Zig-Zag - (Printable HST Templates) 

6.) June - Circle of Geese - Template (by Piecebynumber.com) - Tutorial (by TheSometimesCrafter)

7.) July - Pixels - Inspiration for this block!

8.) August - Raw Edges 

9.) September - Curves

10.) October - Starburst - (Printable Templates- make sure to set page scaling to "None")

11.) November - Diamonds

12.) December - Flying Geese

Make sure to post your completed blocks in our flickr group!!

Screen Printing Workshop Details

Our Block Printing Workshop was so much fun last year that we've decided to do a screen printing workshop!  Our teacher will be Sarah Bailey of Sew What Sherlock .  She will be providing us with step by step instruction on the how to of screen printing!  Sign ups are currently open to members only.  This will be a $20 workshop, June 20, 6:00 PM-10:00 PM.  You will need to provide pre-washed fabric that you would like to print on.  Please contact me if you would like to sign up!

modknoxville@gmail.com

Melissa E.

KQMG Sampler Along

Good morning everyone!  Hope the Easter Bunny brought you some candy.  He definitely stopped at my house.  Just wanted to post info about our Sampler Along!  Remember to post pics and use #KMQGsampleralong on instagram and flickr!  After talking about the trends within the MQG at our last meeting, we thought we would start a quilt-a-long to show off our favorite modern fabrics in a traditional type pattern.

All you have to do is decide on a quilt with blocks like these listed below:
 (but we didn't want the pattern to be restrictive so find one you love! And join in!)

Farmer's Wife
Gypsy Wife, Jen Kingwell
Green Tea and Sweet Beans, Jen Kingwell
Marcelle Medallion, Alexia Abregg
Tula Pink City Sampler
Midnight at the Oasis
Amish with a Twist 2, kit at Mammaw's Thimble
Create your own design with your favorite quilt blocks!


Complete a couple blocks (or rows) each month and bring to our meetings to show your progress, offer tips and  That's it!  Hopefully, by December we will have some gorgeous quilt tops to show off!

Can't wait to see what everyone has started on!

Melissa