Board Meeting – November 2015
Date: Tuesday, November 3, 2015
Time: 6:30pm
Location: Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, 4360 East Main Street, Ventura (map)
RSVP: Please RSVP to Georganna with your topic.
Ventura MQG Members may attend. Due to time constraints, only items on the agenda will be discussed.
September Ventura MQG Member Meeting
Date: Monday, October 12, 2015
Time: 6pm to 8pm
Location: Ventura Masonic Center, 482 E. Santa Clara St., Ventura (map)
Building Entry: Refer to your email for the code for the front door.
September Ventura MQG Member Meeting
Date: Monday, September 14, 2015
Time: 6pm to 8pm
Location: Ventura Masonic Center, 482 E. Santa Clara St., Ventura (map)
Building Entry: Refer to your email for the code for the front door.
Board Meeting – September 2015
Date: Tuesday, September 1, 2015
Time: 6:30pm
Location: Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, 4360 East Main Street, Ventura (map)
RSVP: Please RSVP to Georganna with your topic.
Ventura MQG Members may attend. Due to time constraints, ONLY items on the agenda will be discussed.
Information reprinted with permission from Scott G’s Kept in Stitches blog. Go to Scott’s blog for lots of other interesting quilt-related stuff! And see more tutorial from our members on our Tutorials page.
Supplies
Eight 10″ squares of two different colors (total 16 squares.) High contrast is key to making this block work.
Step 1:
On each light square, draw a diagonal line, from corner to corner. I’ve lightly drawn the line using a pencil, but you could use any type of fabric marker.
Step 2:
Match one light 10″ square with one dark 10″ square, right sides together, and sew a scant 1/4″ seam on each side of the drawn line. Repeat step 2 with all of the sets of squares.
Step 3:
Cut each of the sets of squares on the diagonal line you drew in Step 1. Step 3 should yield 16 half-square triangles (HST). Press each of the sets with the seam allowance to the dark fabric.
Step 4:
Join two of the HSTs as illustrated. Repeat with all pairs, yielding 4 sets. Notice the orientation of each of the squares…they should all go the same direction.
Step 5:
Join two pairs of HST units to make one large four patch. Repeat with other pair yielding two large 4 patches.
Step 6:
For the next step, use the center of the block as the “mid-line”.
Step 7:
Using the mid-line, make 3 cuts of varying widths across one side of the block.
Step 8:
Repeat Step 7 on the other side of the mid-line of your block. This will yield 7 strips of varying widths. Repeat Step 7 and Step 8 on the other blocks.
Step 9:
Rearrange each set of 7 strips until you’re happy with the design. Note: The previous mid-line of your block doesn’t need to stay in the center…move all the strips around until you like it.
Step 10:
Sew each of the 7 strips back together to re-assemble your blocks. The blocks will no longer be square.
Step 11:
You will have 4 different large blocks. Sew each of the blocks together to make you’re finished quilt.
Step 12:
All done!
Congrats to the 2015 Opportunity Quilt winner Jeanne Snodgrass, who lives in Little Rock, CA. She bought $5 in tickets at superbuzzy during the Central Coast Shop Tour in May. The drawing was held at the Ventura MQG’s regular Member Meeting on August 10, 2015.
Ventura MQG’s Patrice (left) stands in front of the Opportunity Quilt with its winner, Jeanne (right).
Suggested donations for opportunity quilt tickets brought in over $1500 to the Ventura Modern Quilt Guild. Thanks to all who bought and sold and talked up the Quilt. Stay tuned for info about our next Opportunity Quilt.
Ventura Modern Quilt Guild presents…
“Boxing It Up”
Our Premier Opportunity Quilt
65″ x 75″
…and it’s a beauty! Ventura Modern Quilt Guild Members created their responses to a “Rectangle in a Rectangle” block challenge using only cotton solids and Kona white — and the results were so great, our then-VP Scott got inspired to design our first Opportunity Quilt using the blocks. With a lot of help from Ventura MQG members at various Saturday Sew-Ins at superbuzzy, and even more work by Scott, a tip to the left, and voila! The completed top got passed on to Georganna Hawley for long arm quilting, and after six days, it was ready to bind and finally be presented to the world.
View the quilt online: See whole photo album here
Photo credits: G. Palmer
Date: Monday, August 10, 2015
Time: 6pm to 8pm
Location: Ventura Masonic Center, 482 E. Santa Clara St., Ventura (map)
Building Entry: Refer to your email for the code for the front door.
Bring your quilt block for show and tell at our next Member meeting on August 10!
This month’s challenge is all about your imagination! Make a block inspired by architecture. That’s the whole structure or an interesting feature-tile floor, carved door or interesting shaped window perhaps. Let your eye roam and your fabric fly! Those of you who were lucky enough to go to Carolyn Friedlander’s class, you have at least two amazing house blocks, right?
SPECIAL DATE
Date: Tuesday, July 28, 2015
Time: 6:30pm
Location: Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, 4360 East Main Street, Ventura (map)
RSVP: Please RSVP with your topic, below
Ventura MQG Members may attend. Due to time constraints, ONLY items on the agenda will be discussed.
Date: Monday, July 13
Time: 6pm to 8pm
Location: Ventura Masonic Center, 482 E. Santa Clara St., Ventura (map)
Building Entry: Refer to your email for the code.
RSVP: None needed
