Posts by MQG

That was an epic and very fun evening with Karlee Porter. Thank you to Karlee for speaking and showing us quilts, Stacie for co-ordinating the event, and everyone who joined us.  Feedback You know we love our surveys! We would appreciate you taking two minutes to give us your feedback on the trunk show.  Ordering…

There is no sew-in today as we are travelling to the  Nanaimo Quilt Show.  See you there, or at our guild meeting on Thursday. We’ll be talking with Karlee Porter about her amazing “graffiti quilting.”

We’ve had the question “can we use neutrals for the background?” the answer is NO but you can use tints and shades of the colours in the colour palette given. Another question! Yes you can use fusible web instead of appliquéing by hand BUT please try to keep the bowl-and-shadows soft and flexible, rather than allowing the rigidity that sometimes…

Fussy cutting is all about carefully cutting your fabric so to feature a particular image. No one likes it when parts of your image get chopped off or sewn into the seam allowance. Here is a very quick how-to about aligning your cuts carefully.  In this exercise, and for the block lotto this month, we…

This month we are trying out a now-classic modern quilt block. This block was all the rage way back in summer of 2012. Googling it will give you loads of tutorials. We think it started HERE, then spread to HERE, HERE, HERE, and HERE and we are sure there are more examples on-line.  But this is here and…

Come join us from 7-9pm at 505 Marigold Road.  We are showing the “Make it Modern” mini-quilt display as well as our usual program. Check out the “meetings” tab for more info. 

Come see our display of modern quilts at the show this weekend!

Show and share was a doozy this month with so many sharing their creativity! Look, it’s Nicole with the block lotto for next month! Sharon C has been away for a few months and had many things to show us… a duffle bag she made and will never make again, a small tote bag which…