Holiday Ornament Swap at the The Christmas Party!

We will be swapping handmade Christmas/Holiday ornaments made out of whatever medium you please.  These can be made out of felt, glass, fabric or anything else you want and they must be handmade.

Christmas Ornament Ideas from Flickr

We will be trading at the Christmas party and not have assigned partners.

You may include your favorite notion/sewing item/charm pack with a spending amount of around $5 to $10.  Please wrap your package.

Happy Holidays!

October Swap - Buntings!

October Swap - Buntings!

A bunting is some sort of flags sewing to a rope for decoration.  Their use can be traced back to the 17th century where they used for the Royal Navy.  We are going to swap fabric buntings.

Tutorials:

Make It, Do It.

Scallop Bunting Tutorial

The Small Print:
Guidelines:  Please use quilt shop quality fabric.
Buntings must be 9 feet with no raw edges (from flag to flag).
Please do not make a no sew bunting.

Interguild Swap with the Emeral Coast Modern Quilt Guild

At Stash Bash, I met Wendi who is the swaps coordinator for the Emerald Coast Modern Quilt Guild.
The Emerald Coast Modern Quilt Guild covers the Floridia Panhandle and the Gulf Shores.
We arranged for an interguild Modern Pin Cushion Swap for August.

Basic Pin Cushion Tutorial 

Sign ups are on our guild page through the Modern Quilt Guild.  Please sign up by May 31st and you have to sign up to participate.

Below are a few more tutorials.  Amy uses rice to fill hers and they are nice and weighted.

Patchwork Pincushion

Mini Hexi Tutorial

Apple Pin Cushion Tutorial

Pin Cushions are due to Karri by July 31st.


Pin Cushions will be passed out at our August meeting.

Happy Swapping,
Karri

The Untied Colors of the Houston Modern Quilt Guild

The Houston Modern Quilt Guild's annual Designer Solid Swap will be in May.  Please bring fat quarters of designer solids and label them with the color/designer.  The Sign up for a color is on our webpage through the Modern Quilt Guild, the particular shade is up to you.  You do not have to sign up - I put that there so we trading a rainbow of colors.

Acceptable:
Hawthorne Hues
Robert Kaufman Kona (sold at Hobby Lobby/JoAnns)
Michael Miller Cotton Couture
Bella
Free Spirit (Sold at Painted Pony)
Pat Bravo - Pure Elements
and many other designer solids.  More and more seem to be launching their own lines.

Hawthorne Threads is sponsoring a prize for the swap which is a fat quarter bundle of their Hawthorne Hues.  For every 4 fqs, you get one entry.  The Hawthorne Threads solids are so soft!  This shop was featured in Star Store of the Month for Art Gallery fabrics.
See their rainbow.

Lets keep this swap colorful so no white/ivory/black or navy.

Happy Swapping!
-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

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