Knoxville Modern Quilt Guild

Thursday, November 24, 2022

November 2022 Meeting Recap

Recently finished charity quilt for The Restoration House

The Knoxville Modern Quilt Guild met on November 19 for our monthly meeting. Here's the news and what happened!

Upcoming quilting events

Currently: QuiltCon 2023 member registration discounts (for lectures, workshops and the free 4-day show pass) end Nov 30. QuiltCon is February 23-26, 2023. https://quiltcon.com/
Currently: Sign up for QuiltCon 2023 volunteer positions. https://quiltcon.com/
Wed, November 23, 2 pm: Textile Talks -- Interview with Bonnie K. Hunter. Register at https://quiltalliance.org/events/textile-talks/
Wed, November 30, 2 pm: Textile Talks -- Sacred Threads, Expressing Life’s Journeys. Register at https://quiltalliance.org/events/textile-talks/

Election News

Nominations are open for our December election. Positions are: Chairperson, Secretary, Treasurer, Education Coordinator, Programming & Special Events Coordinator. Interested members should contact modknoxville@gmail.com.

KMQG Block of the Month 2022

We revealed the final block in our 2022 series, the Mosaic block. Information has been sent to members and is also available here.

KMQG Show 2023

A reminder and call for quilts for our Quilt Show which will showcase modern quilts by Knoxville Modern Quilt Guild members and will run March 3-31, 2023 at the Emporium in downtown Knoxville.

KMQG Charity Quilt

We will be collecting the latest charity block, Almost an Echo, again at the December meeting. Tutorial here. Please use the following color palette.

Quiltcon 2023 Community Outreach Quilt Challenge

The guild's entry for the next Quiltcon Community Outreach Challenge is complete! Watch the blog for an exclusive post, but we agreed on a name for the quilt at this meeting: Radiata. The inspiration for the quilt design was a Radiated Tortoise (species name Astrochelys radiata) at the Knoxville Zoo.

Mug Rug Swap

We'll swap mug rugs at the next meeting/holiday party. Members should bring a completed mug rug to participate.

Mystery Purple Mini Quilt Challenge

Members are asked to make a 20-x-20-inch mini quilt using the purple solid provided by the guild and featuring at least one MQG-specified characteristic modern quilting. Minis are due February 18 and will hang in the quilt show.

Show & Tell

A bunch of members brought their blocks from the Block of the Month series:

Christy

Erin

Jane

Nancy

Annie and Jo shared their mini quilts for our Mystery Purple Mini Challenge -- all quilts will hang in our quilt show in March 2023:

Annie

Betsy and Pat shared their quilt coat progress:

Betsy

Pat

There were also a lot of finished and in-progress projects to admire:

Pat & Annie

Christy

Elizabeth

Erin

Sandy

Sherry

Next meeting: Saturday, December 10 @ Westminster Presbyterian Church (10:30 am)

Sunday, November 20, 2022

KMQG Block of the Month 2022: Block 10, Mosaic

Congratulations to everyone who has been quilting along with our 2022 block of the month series -- we've made it to the final block! We're keeping things nice and easy with the Mosaic block, which consists of just 16 HSTs!

If you would like to make 8-at-a-time half-square triangles, you can follow this tutorial. The HSTs need to be trimmed to 3 1/2" before assembling the block. If you would rather make 2 at a time, cut 4 1/8" squares to start with and you'll have enough extra to trim the HSTs to size.

If you're following the two-color prompt, the only adjustment you'll make is in how you position the HSTs to get the opposite layout.

Saturday, October 15, 2022

KMQG Block of the Month 2022: Block 9, Geese in a Row

We're finally approaching the end of our block of the month series, and the penultimate design is Geese in a Row. This block is unique in that the geese are pieced in rows the width of the block, with no half-square triangles.

***When sewing this block, it's important to take care with your seam allowances. They should be a scant 1/4" -- and if you're really worried, I'd shave another scant off of that! There is no excess built into the vertical measurement of this block, although you will have a little extra width to trim it to 12.5" unfinished at the end. You may want to sew two practice strips and piece them together, making half a block, to check your seam allowance and sizing.

Cutting Instructions for ONE BLOCK:

Color A: Four pieces 3.5" x 6.5" -- these are the center geese

Color B: Eight pieces 3.5" x 7" -- these go on either side of the geese

Piecing Instructions

1. Lay out the 4 color A rectangles and position 1 color B rectangle perpendicular on the right-hand corner, and extending up as pictured. Draw a line from upper right to lower left where the two pieces intersect, as pictured.

2. Sew on the line and then trim the corner off with a 1/4" seam allowance.

3. Open and press toward the color B strip.

4. Flip the pieces around so that the color B strip you've just sewn is on the left. Position the other color B strip on the opposite corner of the color A strip, perpendicular but extending down this time. *** It's important to get the positioning correct or else you won't achieve the flying goose shape. Draw a line from upper left to lower right where the two pieces intersect, as pictured. You can start to see the goose shape at this point.

5. Sew on the line and then trim the corner off with a 1/4" seam allowance.

6. Open and press toward the color B strip to reveal your 4 flying goose strips.

7. Fold each strip in half to find the center and finger press. Then align the centers and sew the strips together. Press seams toward the top of the block, as pictured.

8. Your block should be 12.5" x 13-ish". Trim the width for a 12.5" square unfinished block.

KMQG Block of the Month 2022: Block 8, Circle in a Circle

This post is a little belated (sorry!), but September's design for our block of the month is a circle in a circle, or a ring, or whatever you want to call it! This block can be cut using templates (if you have them) and pieced in quadrants, appliqued onto a solid background (like shown above), or created using any other method you may like. Choose your own adventure!

We've provided some instructions for the pieced method here, but you will need to buy or make your own templates.

October 2022 Meeting Recap

Knoxville Modern Quilt Guild met on Saturday 15 October at Westminster Presbyterian Church.

Upcoming Quilting Events

Tuesday October 18^th 6:00 – 8:30pm: ‘History Under the Covers’, our member Merikay Waldvogel will show antique quilts from the Museum of East Tennessee History’s Quilt Collection at the East Tennessee History Center, South Gay St, Downtown Knoxville.

Free to attend in person or online,

Currently: Registration is open for QuiltCon 2023 (Atlanta). QuiltCon is February 23-26, 2023. https://quiltcon.com/

You can also sign up for the MQG Mini Swap! Participants may elect to swap in person at QuiltCon or by mail in February. Sign up via link at https://www.themodernquiltguild.com/

Wed, October 23, 2 pm: Textile Talks -- Laura Petrovich-Cheney: From Threads to Splinters. Register at https://quiltalliance.org/events/textile-talks/

Wed, October 26, 2 pm: Textile Talks -- Interview with Suzy Williams aka Suzy Quilts. Register at https://quiltalliance.org/events/textile-talks/

Charity Quilts

Three more quilts - one finished, and two just waiting for their binding.

Two of these are collaborative quilts using blocks pieced by a number of members, and one uses blocks donated by Liz Upchurch and pieced by Elizabeth.

We will start on another charity quilt using 'Almost an Echo' blocks which will be collected in November and December meetings. Details of the block pattern and color palette will be sent out by email.

KMQG Block of the Month 2022

The 9th and penultimate block was revealed - 'Geese In a Row'.

Details will be sent out by email and will appear as a post on this site.

KMQG Show 2023

A reminder and call for quilts for our Quilt Show which will showcase modern quilts by Knoxville Modern Quilt Guild members and will run March 3-31, 2023 at the Emporium in downtown Knoxville.