Just a quick announcement : Our December Board Meeting will be held Tuesday, December 18th, 6pm at superbuzzy. Our board meetings are always open to VMQG members. If you are not a board member(2012 or 2013) and plan on attending please leave a comment on this post. Thank you!
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Another VMQG member makes it into the paper!
Click on the picture above for an article in the Ventura County Star about the great charity work done by the Camarillo Quilters Association. The CQA member featured in this picture is our own 2013 VMQG vice-president Robert Morin!
The Modern Quilt Guild’s Winter 2012 Challenge: Madrona Road
Update: please visit the Modern Quilt Guild’s post for more information about the Michael Miller challenge, as well as the new, exciting Violet’s Choice prize! I am thrilled to see 10 of our VMQG members excited to participate in the Madrona Road challenge! All participants should now have their fabrics in hand. Your quilting assignment isContinue reading “The Modern Quilt Guild’s Winter 2012 Challenge: Madrona Road”
Solar System Quilt
Check out this cool solar system quilt from 1876! The quilter, Ellen Harding Baker of Cedar County, Iowa, used it as a teaching tool for her astronomy classes. Click HERE for more info.
Free Tula Pink patterns
To celebrate her new fabric line, Salt Water, Tula Pink is giving away free downloads of some of her patterns. Click HERE to be taken to the download page.
And the winner of the PANTONE 2013 Color of The Year is…
Emerald! (Pantone 17-5641) And don’t forget last year’s winner: Tangerine Tango (Pantone 17-1463) Anybody want to take a stab at what would be the closest solid fabric color to Emerald and Tangerine Tango?
Meet Your Candidates!
These are your candidates for the Ventura Modern Quilt Guild‘s 2013 executive board. Voting will take place during our December 10th, 2012 meeting. 1. Maureen Timmons – President 2. Robert Morin – Vice-President 3. Becky Haycox – Communications Administrator 4. Andres Rosales – Communications Administrator 5. Susan Leech – Treasurer 6. Misty Revell – Secretary Please clickContinue reading “Meet Your Candidates!”
How to Bind 120° Angles Tutorial
Anybody else thinking of working with hexagon edges on a quilt like I am? Julie Herman of Jaybird Quilts posted this tutorial on how to bind hexagon edges. Click on the button above to check it out.
Better start planning!
“Boots, Barns and Banjos” will be the theme for the 2013 Ventura County Fair, which will run from July 31 to Aug. 11 2013, officials for the fair said. Doesn’t this scream MODERN to you? I see this as a challenge to our creative members to interpret in the modern aesthetic.
VMQG featured in this week’s VC Reporter!
The Ventura Modern Quilt Guild is featured in this week’s issue of the VC Reporter (page 18 for print edition). Congratulations to Andres – our much-photographed quilter – for patiently posing and sewing whilst photographer Heber Pelayo snapped away. Despite the misnomer reference to members’ “blankets” on exhibit at the California Oil Museum in Santa Paula,Continue reading “VMQG featured in this week’s VC Reporter!”