We’re planning a name tag swap. Carolyn will talk about it on Thursday. Have a look at the link for some inspiring ideas.
Category: General
Thursday night – labels
Posting a note from Nicole –
Hi quilting peeps, I’m going to be doing a little demonstration on Thursday night of making hand-embroidered labels for quilts or anything else. I thought I’d do a ‘Canberra MQG’ label as a demonstration. So, if anyone would like to have a go on Thursday and make one with me, you will need to bring a few things:
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Iron on transfer pencil (if you have one)
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Piece of hard, clear plastic (such as a container lid) for tracing against
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Square of fabric approx 8 by 4 inch (pale colour is best)
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Needle
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Embroider thread
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Scissors
Cheers Nicole xo
First meeting for 2014
I hope you’ve all had a wonderful start to 2014 and have managed some time for quilting.
Letting you know that we’re back in business for meetings for the new year. As with last year, we’ll be meeting at the civic library on the fourth Thursday of each month, from 7.30pm.
The first meeting will be on Thursday 23rd January. We’ve had a few enquiries from newcomers. If you haven’t been before, you will see that there is a back entrance to the library – its opposite the main entrance to the library.
We’ll be running our usual ‘share our skills’ workshop at the meeting – more details coming. And there should be lots of great show and tell on the night.
Look forward to seeing you there!
End of Year Celebration
Come along and make merry to mark the end of the year in which we began our Guild. A Guild which could not have been possible without all of you, our amazing members! The people we’ve met, the quilts we’ve shared and the laughs too, a fabulous excuse for celebrating!
From 7pm, Thursday 12 December 2013
Satis Vegetarian Cafe/Bar
Watson Shops, Windeyer Street Watson
Please RSVP in the comments by 8am, Wednesday 11 December
CMQG Meeting Thurs 28th Nov 7.30pm
I can’t believe this month has flown by but I am looking forward to this months CMQG meeting on Thursday 🙂
I will demonstrate an easy technique on making perfect Appliqué Circles.
If you bring along some of your
-fabric scraps 2 -3 inches square
-another square 6 inches square to hand sew some Appliqué Circles onto
-small scraps cardboard (jatz box)
-hand sewing needle, thread & pins
This Thurs will be our last meeting for the year 😦
Civic Library at 7.30pm
I look forward to seeing you all tomorrow night 🙂
Craft de-stash mini market
Canberra Creatives are hosting a destash mini market this weekend! A couple of us will be sharing tables and I know that you guys can find a great bargain or three, riffling through the stashes! There will be paper craft, fabric, patterns, beads, knick knack and more.
Come along from 2-4pm on Saturday 23 November at the Downer Community Centre. See you there!
It’s time for a sewing day!
Before we hit the silly season head-on, we thought it would be grand to get together for a sewing day! Hurrah! Hopefully you will have all seen the announcement on Facebook recently and saved the date.
When: Sunday 3 November, 9 am – 5 pm (or as long as you can stay in between)
Where: Calwell Community Centre (opposite the Calwell shops, corner of Were and Webber Crescents)
What: BYO sewing (or other crafting) project – whatever you like!
Please bring: your lunch, plus something to share for morning or afternoon tea (if you like!)
Also: Bring your own equipment, sewing machine, cutting mats etc. There are plenty of tables and chairs for us to set up and use as we like. Obviously we won’t want twenty ironing boards and irons set up in the room though, so if you’re needing this it might be a good idea for us to coordinate so we can share.
Destash: We’ll have a destash market at morning tea time, so if you’ve got some fabric goodies you’d like to re-home, please feel free to bring them along (and some $ so you can go home with just as much as you brought with you in the first place, maybe. Or is that just me?).
Cost: $20 for MQG members, $25 for non-members (please feel free to invite crafty friends along – make sure you RSVP for them here, numbers are limited to 22).
Please RSVP here on the blog or on Facebook so we know how many people are coming. Payment to the bank account by 31 October would be appreciated. If you need the details, please send an email to canberramqg (a) gmail dot com and we’ll get back to you.
We hope to see you there! (And also tomorrow night at our regular meeting, 7.30 pm at the Civic Library).
September Meeting – Hand Embroidery
Hello! The September Meeting is coming up and this month we are featuring embroidery. Personally, I think quilting and embroidery go hand in hand. I love combining them and relaxing under a quilt with my stitching. Ahh, bliss!
photo: girl on the cherry tree by Aneela Hoey, embroidered by me!
To show you just how fun hand embroidery can be, I have designed a little sampler to show you a few of my favourite stitches.
What you need to bring:
- A square of fabric (white/neutral is best, however a light print such as a dot, stripe or text is fine too) – it should be at least 6 inches square.
- Printed design sheet – FOUND HERE. Spare copies will be available on the night. If you have the chance you can transfer the design to your fabric before the meeting.
- Your favourite embroidery needle. Its got to be sharp and pointy with a big eye to thread the floss through.
- Embroidery floss – Choose your poison. DMC, Anchor, Sublime Floss, Perle 8 etc are all great choices. You can bring as little or as many colours as you wish.
- Transfer pen – I love the Frixon pens, but you can use a pencil, fine pen, blue washable pen. As long as it can be hidden under the stitches or removed.
- Scissors. Nothing fancy, just good old fashioned snippers will do.
Looking forward to seeing you all on Thursday, 7:30 at the Civic Library as usual. Don’t forget to bring your latest projects for show and tell!
Next meeting – Thursday 22 August
We can hardly believe it’s already time for another meeting! This month we thought we’d try out a clever method of hand applique. It’s not quite needle-turned, but is easier and looks just as nicely finished.
We’ll make a little orange peel block like the one in the picture. If you catch the bug maybe you’d like to make a lot more and turn them into a quilt. Or just sew a back on and turn it into a pincushion. Either way, you’ll love it!
We’ll supply the ‘orange peels’, but it would be great if you could bring along the following:
- A square of light or neutral coloured fabric (a light print such as a dot, stripe or text is fine too) – it should be at least 6 inches square (to be trimmed back later).
(On the square, lightly mark with a pencil a 4.5″ square (you don’t need to mark all four sides of the square, just where the corners are). Then mark a little cross in the centre where the two diagonals from corner to corner meet. These marks will be the guides for placing the orange peels.)
- Thread – a neutral colour is best.
- Needles – we recommend size 9 or 10 applique needles (these are also known as straw needles) – available at Addicted to Fabric for around $5 a packet (see picture below – don’t worry if you don’t have any or don’t have time to find some, we’ll have some spare). By the way, these needles are also perfect for English paper piecing!
- A gluestick – a small kid’s gluestick is fine.
- Sharp small scissors for trimming the orange peels.
- Pins – short ones are better.
Looking forward to seeing you all on Thursday at 7.30 at the Civic Library. Don’t forget to bring some show and tell, and your raffle quilt blocks!
Next Meeting (and membership!!!)
Hi All
Next Meeting:
Our next meeting has come upon us so very quickly (or so it seems to me!). We will be meeting on Thursday night at the Civic Library, 7:30pm and will continue same time, same place on the fourth Thursday of each month.
The lovely Clair from Bee and Lotus Textiles has offered to teach us a new skill this month. Clair is a printmaker by trade and designs her own lines of beautiful fabric. This month, she is going to be sharing her knowledge and experience by discussing Creating Your Own Quilt Labels and other custom prints. Some of the areas she will cover include:
- Methods
- Preparing your artwork
- Using Spoonflower
- Homemade Labels
You may like to bring along some of your own sketchbook/journal for taking notes as well as some of your own label examples and any artwork you have questions about.
Do also bring some show and tell, we all love a good nosey!
Membership:
Thank you for hanging in there while the Committee have been finalising membership details. All the information can be found on our new membership page. Head over and check it out!
As always, let me know if you’ve any questions, I look forward to seeing you on Thursday night.
Jules
Canberra Modern Quilt Guild 