Category: Miami Valley QG

  • Glorious quilt challenge, part 2

    Glorious quilt challenge, part 2

    It’s just before 11 PM on Sunday night and I just finished paper piecing the outer ring for the “glorious” yellow quilt I’m making for my guild’s quilt challenge for this year. You may notice I changed the background color for the outer ring. In my original design, I was planning to use charcoal gray.…

  • Glorious quilt challenge

    Glorious quilt challenge

    I finally started the “glorious” challenge for my quilt guild, the Miami Valley Quilters’ Guild. Yeah, the one where I have to use the solid gold cotton fabric and gold lamé. It must be done by September 13, and I’ll be gone three of those days ๐Ÿ™‚ First I procrastinated by buying a bunch more…

  • What’s wrong with this picture?

    What’s wrong with this picture?

    There’s something really wrong here… These are the fabrics for my quilt guild’s 2011 challenge. Where’s the blue??? Actually, I like participating in quilt challenges because it forces me to move outside my comfort zone. For this challenge we each received a fat quarter of gold Kona cotton and a fat eighth of gold lamé.…

  • Give away: pattern and Debbie Maddy workshop

    Give away: pattern and Debbie Maddy workshop

    Tuesday and Wednesday my guild had Debbie Maddy do two workshops and a trunk show. She brought seven suitcases full of quilts! Wow! I suspect every quilt I’ve ever made could have fit in juast one of those suitcases. Most of her patterns use her method for making diamonds with no “Y” seams. This lets…

  • Demo night at my quilt guild

    Demo night at my quilt guild

    Tonight was demo night at my quilt guild, the Miami Valley Quilters’ Guild. Somehow, I agreed to do one of the demos. After a lot of thought, I decided to show how to quilt a portrait. I did two workshops for my quilt guild earlier this year and many people have been afraid to quilt…

  • Ten days until demo night

    Ten days until demo night

    I’m feeling rather indecisive lately. My quilt guild is having a demo night for the next meeting. This is where five members of the guild volunteer to show some product or teach some skill. The rest of the members will divide up and rotate around the room, spending about ten minutes at each station. Somehow,…

  • Can this studio be cleaned in five days?

    Can this studio be cleaned in five days?

    My quilt guild is collecting items for an upcoming auction, so now is the perfect time for me to clean my studio. It’s a wreck, of course. I’m great at organizing something initially, but I’m awful at maintaining that organization. As a result, I pull out everything for a project and when I’m done with…

  • MVQG Best of Show Tie

    MVQG Best of Show Tie

    The Miami Valley Quilter’s Guild had their quilt guild meeting last night and the Best of Show winner was announced. Actually, it ended up being a tie between a terrific wholecloth quilt and an amazing hand appliqued quilt. There are some really amazing quilters in this guild!

  • Captivated Wins!

    Captivated Wins!

    My quilt guild, the Miami Valley Quilters’ Guild, had their show this past weekend. It was so much fun seeing all the quilts! At this show, instead of having a judge, each viewer is given a ballot so they can choose their favorite in each category. I was thrilled when “Captivated” won the viewers’ choice…

  • Miami Valley Quiltersโ€™ Guild 2010 Show

    Miami Valley Quiltersโ€™ Guild 2010 Show

    Today and tomorrow my quilt guild, the Miami Valley Quilters’ Guild, is having their quilt show. We hold a show every two years. We have a lot of terrific quilters in our guild, so the show is usually very well attended. Yesterday I got to help receive the quilts that were going to be in…