We are having a general meeting On September 19, 2018 at the Aiea Public Library meeting room from 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm. Come and join us and learn more about quilting and meet people who are passionate about it. We talk about quilt ideas, have a show and tell to highlight our work, and in general have fun.
Women’s Expo September 2018
We will be at the Women Expo at the Neal S. Blaisdell Exhibition hall on September 7-9, 2018. We will be showing a bunch of fabulous quilts sewn by our members. Come by to come see us and our quilts and talk to us about our experience in the wide world of quilting. You can also sign up as a member (Special discount of $25 during the Expo).
Book Club Begins
We’ve talked about it for several months now. We have our book. And finally, we have a plan. The Oahu Modern Quilt Guild Book Club is official.
Fourteen intrepid members signed up for the inaugural group. We all voted and chose Rebecca Bryan’s Modern Triangle Quilts as our first book. Now, for the next few months we’ll be reading, practicing our triangles, and participating in a super-fun sew along.
If you missed the sign-up, but find yourself intrigued by this scintillating blog post, it’s not too late to join. Best of all, it’s free for guild members. You just have to purchase your own book.
For more information, contact the moderator, Amy Cook, at programming@oahumodernquiltguild.com.
Hope to hear from you soon.
Jacquie Gering is coming to Oahu!!!
Jacquie Gering, an amazing modern quilter, author of many books, and former chairwoman of The Modern Quilt Guild (!!!) will be teaching a workshop and giving a trunk show here in December!
Workshop: Creative Quilting with a Walking Foot
Jacquie has written a book and taught a Craftsy class on this topic, and this workshop will go even beyond those with improved tips and Jacquie’s invaluable personal guidance!
- December 9th, 9am – 4pm
- Aliamanu Community Center large activity room
- Fee: $100 Oahu MQG members, $140 non-members
- 20 student maximum
- Registration dates: Oahu MQG members from October 9, non-members from November 1
For more information about the workshop, including the materials list and how to pay, please see our workshop event listing.
Trunk show and lecture: Modern Quilting – You’ll Know It When You See It
Come and listen to this passionate modern quilter’s perspective about modern quilting and stay to see her amazing quilts! There will also be a question and answer session at the end.
- December 10th, 1pm – 2pm
- Aiea Public Library meeting room
- Free!
For more information about the trunk show and to rsvp, please see our event listing.
We hope we’ll see you there!
August 25-27 retreat
Our very first retreat was amazing! We stayed at the beautiful Windward Retreat Center, and meals were deliciously catered by Gourmet Day Catering.
Our retreat swag was beyond wonderful, with patterns generously donated by Elizabeth Hartman and Alison Glass!
We spent all of the daylight hours and most of the night sewing — there were only a few hours in the night when someone wasn’t at a machine.
Val taught us to make fabric beads and shoe-holders that look like shorts!
We also snacked, chatted, snacked, and laughed a lot! For more pictures from our retreat, take a peek at #oahumqgretreat on instagram. 🙂
August 19 baby futon sew-in
Our wonderful guildies Andrea, Donna, and Ellen taught us how to sew baby futon at our August sew-in! They were such patient and knowledgeable teachers; everyone who started a baby futon finished theirs that day!
August 16 general meeting
Business was:
- Announced our October 27-29 retreat!
- Holiday swap item will be an iron cozy
- Hawaii Woman Expo planning
Alli showed a few ways to join batting.
Dari demonstrated how to make wonky Christmas tree blocks.
Nancy F. brought her amazing Pixel quilt — it will be hanging in our booth at the expo!
Annie made a Giant Vintage Star for her auntie.
Dari shared her quilting journey — she considers herself a new quilter, but she’s sewn many wonderful quilts!
March 18 sew-in
Our sew-in tonight was fun! Some generous members brought a lot of food, which the rest of us enjoyed munching on. Although tonight’s sew-in was only four hours long, people got a lot done!
Five members made our free project: a Japanese-style cross-back apron.
I forgot to take a picture of the backs of their aprons, though! >_<
March 15 general meeting
Business was:
- We welcomed more new members and one guest!
- Upcoming dates:
- March 18 sew-in at Aiea Library
- April 15 weekender bag workshop
- April 19 general meeting
We collected pincushions for our swap with the Great Lakes Modern Quilt Guild. Everyone made wonderful pincushions!
Our next charity quilt will be using Elizabeth Hartman’s Cat-vent quilt tutorial.
Dari did a presentation about batting, and Mai shared information about our designer of the month: Elizabeth Hartman!
During show and tell, Annie shared some quilts she made for friends.
Ronnie showed her in-progress baby quilt for an early arrival!
Sue shared her quilt made using Kaffee Fassett fabric.
February 15 general meeting
Business was:
- We welcomed many new members and guests!
- Upcoming dates:
- Looking for a guild historian
- Restarting the programming committee
We’ll be offering a cross-back apron project at the March sew-in.
Mai did a great designer-of-the-month presentation on Jeni Baker of In Color Order. We shared a quilt made from her fabric and her Giant Vintage Star tutorial to introduce her work to our members.
Sue sewed a sample of MQG‘s block of the month.
Dari did a really neat demonstration of how to make fabric washi tape!
And Sue demonstrated Crazy Mom Quilts ticker tape quilt.
During show and tell, Connie brought out her fantastic quilt that she made from a kit she won at our holiday party! Fabric from the kit was donated by Kilauea Kreations.
Then Sue showed us her wonderful Postcards quilt made with Carkai fabric.
Sue also shared a patriotic quilt and a Moda quilt.
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