Weekly Inspiration

I hope everyone has had a great weekend, and is ready to start something new today. Here are some of the most recent finishes from our awesome guild members! I hope they inspire you!

 

1. Lucky Stars Quilt Along Quilt, 2. We're Better Together Monster Quilt, 3. Swell, 4. Irish chain made with baby clothes scraps finished! I hope she loves it as much as I do., 5. QAYG pillows, 6. Color Me Happy Pillow, 7. color party, 8. 30 Week Wonder Quilt, 9. #JDcolorparty pillow

April Swap - Pillow Fight!

The April Swap will be pillow/cushion covers.

1. PTS 9!, 2. PTS 9, 3. PTS9 back of pillow, 4. PTS9 Pillow Received, 5. fabulous pillow from Kerry, 6. Pillow Talk Swap 9 - Sent, 7. Pillow Swap Talk 9 : Received, 8. Pillow Talk Swap pillow!, 9. Pillow talk swap received!, 10. Pillow talk swap received, 11. Eeek! Stile pillow is done! Thanks again @hehehe922, 12. Oh I just really don't know if I can part with this, 13. Pillow Talk Swap round 10, 14. PTS10 - FInished, 15. Just finished! I didn't want the quilting to detract from the piecing, so I did some in the ditch and echo quilting. Need to get some little goodies together before I send this off on Monday. #pts10 #pillowtalkswap, 16. Pillow Talk Swap 10 finished!

Guidelines:

Size:  16x16, 18x18 or 20x20
Color: Modern Quilting
Challenge: Please place a piece of batting underneath the pillow top.  This allows for the pillow to stand better.

If you choose to make an odd size, please supply the insert.

Tutorials:

Buttoned Up Throw Pillow

Zipper Tutorial

Basic Envelope Pillow Tutorial

Happy Sewing!
Karri

March Swap - Small Items

Needlebooks

The swap for the March meeting will be small items such as a needle book, a mug rug (I love me some mug rugs), a journal cover, zippered pouch...  The challenge is that the item must have some sort of closure on it such as a button, snaps or zipper (if it is something other than a mug rug).  Please remember to use quality modern fabric and great workmanship. Please bring your item wrapped.  This will be a blind swap.  It will be bring one (or two) and take one.

Some Ideas & Tutorials:

Noodlehead's Open Wide Zippered Pouch

Picture credit: Noodlehead's Pouches

Needlebook Tutorial by nanaCompany

Picture Credit: nanaCompany

Mug rug tutorial

Photo credit: Sally Keller

Stitched in Color Journal Cover Tutorial

Photo Credit: Sew Grown

There are no size restrictions but please remember its small items.  You can make whatever you would like.  Please do not feel like you are confined to this list.  As always, if you have any ideas on swaps/challenges, please see me!

Happy Sewing,

Karri

Feeling Blue?

Got the winter blues?  

Come cheer up with the Houston Modern Quilt Guild and you could win this amazing door price of:

10 fat quarters

56 Charm Squares

Thread

Pencil

Blue Scraps

and more!

Approx. value of contents is $60.00 plus!

Fabric bundle includes designers such as: Amy Butler, Joel Dewberry, Anna Maria Horner, Lizzy House, Tasha Noel, Denyse Schmidt, Tula Pink and many more fabulous modern fabric designers.

Our next meeting is this Saturday, February 15!

$1 per raffle ticket.  Proceeds go towards Programming.

February - Modern Mug Rug Swap!

The results are in and our members voted to do more finished items for swaps!

Since this is not much notice, I thought a modern mug rug swap would be a good idea to get our feet wet.

Orange Scrappy Mug Rug - Quilt As You Go

There is a great blog post from Two More Seconds about what a mug rug is.

For this swap the guideline is smaller than 12 inches by 12 inches but the mug rug does not have to be square.  The general rule is larger than a coaster but smaller than a place mat.  If your mug rug is a bit bigger, thats ok.

This is a great tutorial from Jodi at Pleasant Home for a heart mug rug and its a free pattern on Craftsy.

Mug rug was made with 2 inch squares.

A mug rug is a great way to try a new technique or colors that you normally wouldn't try without making a huge investment of time or money.  I am using mug rugs to practice my free motion skills.

Theme:
Any modern quilting theme!

What is modern quilting?
Since there is a whole debate over modern quilting, I am going to refer to Modern Quilt Guild Blog.

Here is a great tutorial on single fold binding from Carol which is a good size for mug rugs.

This is a post with a whole bunch of mug rug tutorials to get the creative juices flowing.

I am working on a calendar of swaps for the year.  Please contact me if you have any ideas.

Happy Sewing!
Karri