For our June meeting our guest speaker/trunk show was the incredible Karlee Porter. She lives in Utah and we’re in Victoria so we used the fabulous technology available to us to see her quilts.  This is Karlee on our screen. Her background is a painted version of one of her quilts. The current block lotto,…

We hear over and over that show and share is the best part of our meetings. We applaud how prolific and creative you all are.   Ursula? Love the solids in these cushions. Chris S and a wonderful triangle quilt. Back of Chris’s quilt. Laura with a sample piece trying a technique. Ruth is our…

Earlier this year we were invited to have a display at the Victoria Quilters’ Guild show. We gave our members the following guidelines: size to be between 18″ and 25″ square, only use solids, and re-interpret a traditional block in a modern way. This is what our members came up with. Anne, “The Big One,”…

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.