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Thursday, February 13, 2014

Valentine candy - quilter's style

Hello my MQG friends,
in the love mood already? I bet you are loving all this winter, huh? Not....
Or if you are like me, you just look at this sweet face every day that is soooo happy with all this wintery stuff and really can't complain...

 Speaking of HAPPY - had a happy, wonderful, inspiring last Friday with Sew Kind of Wonderful sisters, Jenny Pedigo and Helen Robinson, masterfully hosted by our own Karie! Robi and I had so much fun, got inspired and even resisted shopping for fabric! Can you believe it??  Well, we did not resist SHOPPING of course, but we didn't buy fabric...
Jenny and Helen are creative, innovative, passionate and so inspiring. I did get my Quick Curve ruler a while ago of course, but didn't get to play with it yet and now I am so itching to try it! (read - tonight! I am doing it tonight!)
So for all of you who had to miss this great event, here is a photo-alternative:



 I really liked this one:


 Curved half-square triangles anyone? Well, of course!!
 This one is another favorite of mine:
 Modern rendition of DWR? You bet...
If you are already admiring amazing quilting on all of these, you ain't seen nothing yet! Take a look here:





Or here...








Inspired yet?? Thought so. Now let's go and quilt something!!
Have a wonderful Valentine's Day,
Marija

Thursday, January 30, 2014

January meeting photos

Hi everyone,

well, it would be good to see January meeting photos while it is still January, right? Yeah, still in a catching-up mode here...
Anyway... we had our January meeting in Threads of Time quilt shop in Amherst, and had great time.
It was just wonderful to have several new potential members this time and really amazing Show and Tell!
 Just look:
Pam already finished her Riley Blake challenge!

Some cool back and inside details:



My own daughter visited us too, and here is her very own quilt (one that she designed, sewed and was ready to quilt!):

In the meantime she did quilt it - some awesome, first-time free-motion - and bind it too!





Here are several of Linda's beautiful creations:
 Scrap-quilter's dream - window (as in Attic Window pattern) with a view on - SCRAPS! What more can you want? :)

And works in progress - You Got Mail quilt that uses Layer Cake pre-cuts:
 and more ways to use even the tiny scraps - they turn into amazing blocks!
And look at this beauty, made by Stephanie (with block contributions from quilters all over, including Robi!)

Karie wow-ed us with her latest finish - this beauty in neutrals with quilting that simply sings! Now my daughter wants to learn to quilt something like that - YAY!



Devon made this super-cute, super-cuddly quilt with minky on the back - we all need one of these!

Here is Rebecca's rainbow beauty, made just because, and with such a great backing fabric too:

Although, she already did have another backing for it...so now this is...a new quilt? :)

Our own VP of Events, Anne, had a great tutorial for everyone on how she makes her feather blocks, for the Feather Swap we are all doing. Somehow I didn't take photos of Anne working hard, (hey, I was busy paying attention to the tutorial!)  but just look at this beautiful feather block:
And just as all of you who couldn't join us this time are thinking how much fun we had, I have to add a bit more... Just look at these out-of-this-world cookies that we enjoyed and took some home! All made by amazing Pam Wilde!! AAHHH-MAZING!!!
Yeah, you saw that right - we had our very own, WNY MQG cookies!! I am still keeping one all nicely wrapped! (even though they are really delicious to eat too)
This time we also had a great sew-in day in Threads of Time classroom space, but unfortunately I had to leave early, so no pictures from me... if any of you girls who stayed and had fun have any more photos, please send them over and I will update this post! Otherwise - visit our Flickr page (see link on the right!) to see even more photos!
All together, yet another great meeting and fun day! We hope all of you still thinking to come and visit, and maybe even join, will do it next month:
 February meeting is on Feb. 23rd, Sunday, at 1pm, in Orchard Park Library (see the calendar on the right too!)

Stay warm everyone and keep stitching! :)
Marija

PS - for all the official stuff, January meeting minutes coming soon!


Wednesday, January 29, 2014

February Activity: Craft Clean Out!

Ok everyone, in the name of starting fresh for the new year lets clean out our craft spaces and give that junk we don't use a new home!

So here's the plan. At he February meeting we'll have a table set up for everyone to put put their crafty, quilty, sewing stuff that you don't want for someone else to take for free. But please, don't bring things to sell, just the stuff you want to GIVE AWAY. (Though a crafty "garage sale" isn't a bad idea, and we'll do a version of this where you can sell things at a future time!)

So, all that stuff that you don't want anymore but can't bear to throw away, and you want it to go to a good home for free... bring it to our February meeting (Sunday Feb 23 1pm, Orchard Park Library) and let someone else take it!

And if you want to post a picture of what you've got to our flickr group so people can get some ideas of what will be there, even better!