Blueberries for Sal - lead by Sherrill Ryan
Make a small wall hanging size quilt depicting your interpretation of a page from this delightful book.
Sign up with Sherrill to let her know your interested. This activity will begin in the Spring 2023.
QuiltCon 2023 Community Outreach Challenge -
POC Jayne Holt, Design Team: Carole S, Lenore L, Lois S, Jann W,
Due Oct 2023
The theme is Color Shift
Design Sew Day - Saturday, August 6, Fruitville Library - more info on Groupworks
The Design Team met, organized and cut fabrics for all. Packets available at June meeting or by mail (contact Carole Shaw on Groupworks). All blocks due back at the July preferably or August meet at the latest. Sew-in to assemble blocks after August meeting.
QuiltCon Community Outreach Quilt - 2023!
2022 Guild Blocks are Curved Piecing - Improv Circles
Update-The April and May meeting afternoons are Sew-ins for the Improv Circles, bring your blocks or make more. Bring your sewing machine and supplies! Fabric and batting will be available each session.
The February program kickstarted this year's block making with the curved pieced blocks presented by the Gifting Team of Jodi G, Lenore L, and Christine R. Fabrics will be available for all to use. Later in the year, we'll gather all these beauties and design/sew tops for our Gifting recipients.
Past Activities
Wonky Star Blocks - Join a Block Party - 2021The program after the Sept meeting was to piece the wonky stars into quilts! There were over 200 blocks! Many quilt tops were pieced! 
Wonky Star Blocks - Join a Block Party - 2021
The program after the Sept meeting was to piece the wonky stars into quilts! There were over 200 blocks! Many quilt tops were pieced!
One-Block Quarantine Creation - aka Wonky Lob CabinFrom Terri Morgan - "We are all missing that physical connection to one another and do not want to lose those special pieces of our guild that are on hold: creating together, staying connected, and charity. Thus we are hoping that you will participate in a one-block charity quarantine creation. We are asking everyone to create one block.Guidelines:- 10.5" unfinished block- the uneven 4-sided center should be a black and white print -- parallelogram, trapezoid...you get it- sort of a wonky log cabin- have fun and create- due date and the making of the quilt top will be determined when we can once again meet
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| Terri Morgans block |
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| Nan Ryan's block |
QuiltCon 2021 Community Outreach Quilt Challenge - Congrats to Kay Farrimond! the winner of the raffled quilt.
"Riding the Waves" our groups' entry into the QuiltCon Community Outreach Quilt is finished!
Many thanks and kudos to the group lead - Lenore L.! Thank you to all in the group who made blocks! Also to Lenore L., Jan Warfield, Nan Ryan, Linda Hitchens, Sheila Weidel, Terrie Morgan, and K Kotovsky for layout and piecing. Also Robin Kriegs for her innovative quilting, K Kotovsky for facing the quilt, and Carole Lyles Shaw for designing the label and photos.
Modern Mystery Quilt - Reveal at the October meeting.
Jodie G and Christine Ravish are coordinating a modern mystery quilt. Follow along on Groupworks...
Block Lottery--Winners are...
33 blocks were created by members and the two winners are Sheila Weidel and Jodi G. Congrats and we can't wait to see the quilts made with these blocks!
Hello Sewing Sisters. Yes, It's true. We are having our first ever on-line block lottery. Everyone enjoyed making the wonky log cabin blocks for charity, so how about we make a block, or 2 or 6 for a chance to win enough to make your OWN improv curved block quilt.
A few parameters:
-Improv curved block
-All solid fabric
-9" or larger unfinished block
Below are some examples: I started with 2 or 3- 11" squares to get 9" or larger unfinished blocks and found that it is easy to make two at the same time. The blocks are quick and fun and do not need to be square just at least 9" on each side. Each time you make a block, post the pic on our Groupworks site (or one pic with a number of blocks as below) and I will add that to your tally. We are hoping to have 2 or 3 winners and it only takes one cool block to win!
Winners will be drawn on August 15. We will have all of the tallies then.....Have some fun! Miss seeing all that creative talent and I hope you will participate. Stay safe!
Coordinators - Terri Morgan and Nan Ryan
Sew Days 2020 -
Sew Days are cancelled with the Library closing due to Quarantine. New dates will be announced when Library reopens. See the Groupworks post by Jayne Namerow for more information.Block Lottery--Winners are...
33 blocks were created by members and the two winners are Sheila Weidel and Jodi G. Congrats and we can't wait to see the quilts made with these blocks!
Hello Sewing Sisters. Yes, It's true. We are having our first ever on-line block lottery. Everyone enjoyed making the wonky log cabin blocks for charity, so how about we make a block, or 2 or 6 for a chance to win enough to make your OWN improv curved block quilt.
A few parameters:
-Improv curved block
-All solid fabric
-9" or larger unfinished block
Below are some examples: I started with 2 or 3- 11" squares to get 9" or larger unfinished blocks and found that it is easy to make two at the same time. The blocks are quick and fun and do not need to be square just at least 9" on each side. Each time you make a block, post the pic on our Groupworks site (or one pic with a number of blocks as below) and I will add that to your tally. We are hoping to have 2 or 3 winners and it only takes one cool block to win!
Winners will be drawn on August 15. We will have all of the tallies then.....Have some fun! Miss seeing all that creative talent and I hope you will participate. Stay safe!
Coordinators - Terri Morgan and Nan Ryan
Bonus Charity Quilt - is finished and donated
A successful block drive gave the group many extra blocks and a second quilt a made by Carole Lyles Shaw and Christine Ravish. Quilted by Carol Byrnes. We voted at the Jan 2019 meeting to donate it to the Sarasota County Healthy Start Program. It will be auctioned off at their yearly Fundraiser on January 31, 2019. A big thank you to all !!!
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| Bonus Charity Quilt |
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| Bonus Charity Quilt Close up |
Charity Quilt for QuiltCon 2019 - is finished!!!
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| SMQG Charity Quilt 2019 |
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| stitch details |
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The MQG Charity Quilt Top #1 is complete and at Robin Kriegs to longarm. A second quilt top is forthcoming as there were enough blocks for a second quilt. Many thanks to Carole Shaw for leading this effort and for her amazing design skills!
The Charity Quilt Committee post dated May 7 on MyGrove has all of the instructions for the block that members are to make for the Charity Quilt for QuiltCon 2019. (I found the pdf download instruction pages 3 and 4 to be most helpful).The August and September the afternoon program time was used to design the challenge quilt layout. Many thanks Kathie Hayes for her beautiful piecing of the side panels. Robin Kriegs will longarm quilt the finished top. And thank you to the committee and the many design helpers. It's going to be an awesome modern quilt!
FABRIC DISTRIBUTION: Packets of fabric were available at the MAY meeting. These fabrics are the colors that we are using and you can add your own fabrics according to the instructions.
NEED FABRIC MAILED?: If you were NOT be able to attend the May meeting, email Carole Lyles Shaw through MyGrove and we will send the fabric to you by regular mail.
Your Charity Quilt Committee,
Carole, Susan, Christine, Jayne, Terrie, Jodi, Leslie
The QuiltCon 2019 Charity Quilt Challenge theme is small piecing. Members of our Guild can join in by making blocks, helping with design decisions and more. Planning and discussions will be done via video conference so Snowbirds can be part of this fun activity. For more information see the MyGrove "QuiltCon Charity Quilt" posts dated April 12th and April 27th or contact Carole Lyles Shaw
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| Charity Quilt planning - QuiltCon 2015 |
