For our July meeting, we have a Challenge due!
Celebrate the 250th anniversary of our nation by creating a RED, WHITE AND BLUE project!
You may use any shade, tone, hue or color of Blue, Red or White/Beige.
All quilts, bags, mug rugs, placemats, table runners, or other quilt items will qualify!!
Just a reminder that we will be meeting a week earlier than our normal time See you on July 14.
We met for our annual picnic. Unfortunately, due to rainy weather, we held the meeting indoors.
Rainy weather maybe. Damp spirits never! We enjoyed a great potluck dinner!
Several people participated in the May Challenge – creating a nametag from selvedge letters. One lucky winner took home a fabulous prize of quilt and sewing goodies.
Next month, we will be spotlighting one of our own for a Quilted Clothing program (June 16) and workshop (June 17).
Ready for a picnic? It’s time for our annual event! We’ll meet at Memorial Park Pavilion, 2203 NE Memorial Park Square in Bentonville at 6:00 on Tuesday, May 19, 2026. In case of rain, we will meet at the church.
Don’t forget our Selvedge Letter Name Tags challenge is due at the meeting. A prize will be awarded to one lucky person!!
This month’s program was attended via Zoom as our speaker was from Norway! We really enjoyed Daisy Aschehoug’s presentation for using curves in quilting.
Daisy is an award-winning quilter, designer and author of two books (Quilt Modern Curves and Bold Stripes (with Heather Black) and Quilting with Curves).
Our guild also celebrated a belated Valentine’s Day or Galentine’s Day gift exchange. This was a fun challenge. Everyone put their heart into their gift.
This year the QuiltCon 2024 Community Outreach Challenge issued a theme of symmetry and a set colorway as depicted below. Participating groups could use any interpretation of symmetry they desired and could only incorporate colors from the designated selection (as few or as many as they wished).
The auction for our All Modern Quilts Show 2024 will be comprised of the quilts made for the 2023 Birthstone Challenge. Each quilt should be an original design, no kits or commercial patterns, although you may use a design element or inspiration from someone else. Your challenge quilt should be between 12"-20" per side. The following chart shows the approximate color for each month's birthstone. A minimal amount of neutral color may be incorporated in your design. Prints may be used that include other colors, but all fabric should read as your birth month's color. Quilts must be finished, including the quilting and binding, by the October 17th meeting.
The committee for this year's Community Quilt has met and here are the instructions for the block.
We are inviting members to participate in our quilt by making 5" blocks involving prints that mostly "read as" a single color or in slight varying tones of a single color from the warm ombre, eggplant purple to pink.
Colors https://quiltcon.com/
Using some print fabrics (no solids) take strips at least 5 1/2" long and sew together the long edge until your block is at least 5 1/2" wide. Do NOT trim your block. We will die cut to 5" for uniformity.
Some examples:
Bring blocks to the September 20th meeting or mail to Tessa Davis (email nwamqg@gmail.com for the address).
Thank you so much for participating, can't wait to work these into the final design and share with the guild and at QuiltCon.
We are in the summer of challenges. Locally we have the Very Peri - Pantone Color of the Year Challenge. Any size, any design...just use the color of the year, periwinkle. Due at the October Meeting.
Through the Modern Quilt Guild parent organization, the Make a Difference "Oceans" challenge is winding down. Deadline is Aug 8th. Registration is now open: $12. The Windham Fabric Challenge requires 6 specific Windham Solids; check the website for exact colors required. The design challenges, Log Cabin and X, are also going on. All of these challenges will be registered during the open QuiltCon registration during Sept. and Oct. Any size is fine, but no larger than 440" total perimeter with no one side longer than 110". Check out The Modern Quilt Guild website for any further details.
