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June Meeting (June 11, 2012)

I can’t believe that our monthly meeting is already next week!

I hope everyone is enjoying their “Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue” June block challenge which utilizes the fat quarter you received at our May meeting swap.

We can hardly wait to see what you have designed!

Meeting info:

Date: Monday, June 11th
Time: 6pm to 8pm (superbuzzy open at 5pm)
Location : superbuzzy (directions)

Please RSVP by leaving a comment.

We might be short on chairs for this meeting. If you can bring your own portable chair it would be greatly appreciated!

superbuzzy will be open at 5pm to give you a chance to browse and pick up any last-minute goodies!

Hope to see everyone!

Meeting Minutes!

June 2012 Meeting

17 photos

Interesting Quilt-Related Kickstarter Projects

After learning of Generation Q‘s successful Kickstarter campaign to publish a print version of their magazine I thought it would be worthwhile to post about other quilt-related Kickstarter projects. The first (of hopefully many) is Sam Hunter’s campaign to launch new quilt patterns at Long Beach Quilt Festival.

Who doesn’t like Legos?

And here’s a tutorial on how to make a Lego sewing machine.

May Meeting (05/14/2012)

Date: Monday, May 14th
Time: 6pm to 8pm (superbuzzy open at 5pm)
Location : superbuzzy (directions)

Please RSVP by leaving a comment.

We might be short on chairs for this meeting. If you can bring your own portable chair it would be greatly appreciated!

superbuzzy will be open at 5pm to give you a chance to browse and pick up any last minute goodies!

Reminder about our fat quarter exchange:

In May, instead of a block challenge, we will be having a fat quarter exchange. To participate in the exchange (which is connected to our June block challenge) all you need to do is to bring a fat quarter of any quilt shop quality fabric. It should be something that you, yourself would love to receive.

We are finally getting off our duffs and posting the meeting minutes!

Quiltcon Block Challenge

I was excited to see that the Quiltcon Block Challenge blocks are starting to appear! Check out the Flickr Photostream to see the submitted blocks as they come in. I’m pretty fond of this great block submitted by Pamela Flam of the Boston MQG.

Has anyone started work on their Quiltcon block?

Bees, QuiltAlongs and Exchanges

As promised, here is a really short post briefly describing or linking to a more thorough description of the following terms:

Quilting Bee – here is a great Flickr discussion by Erin- Two More Seconds. She does a wonderful job of explaining what a virtual quilting bee is. This could be easily translated to a “guild” quilting bee.

QuiltAlong – here is the link to the Modern QuiltAlong where participants make any quilt from the book “The Modern Quilt Workshop”. After you click on the link scroll down to the “About Modern Quilt-Along” and read the explanation. This could be adapted to any book, pattern or fabric. Any theme.

Block Exchange – A theme is chosen. Each participant makes one block for each exchange member. The blocks are “due” by a specific date and given to a coordinator. The coordinator sorts the entries so that each participant receives one block from each member.

April Meeting (04/09/2012)

Date: Monday, April 9th
Time: 6pm to 8pm (superbuzzy open at 5pm)
Location : superbuzzy (directions)

Please RSVP by leaving a comment.

We might be short on chairs for this meeting. If you can bring your own portable chair it would be greatly appreciated!

superbuzzy will be open at 5pm to give you a chance to browse and pick up any last minute goodies!

new site look!

I hope everyone likes the new look of the website. I’d like to thank our own Becky Haycox for the great-looking banner.

Technology & Sewing

I’ve been getting more excited about the cross-over of sewing and technology lately. (With a physicist for a husband, I guess it might be a desire to find common crafting ground for us.) I was first introduced to the arduino at the very first Maker Faire in San Mateo back in 2006. I didn’t really spend the time to “get it” back then, but since the Faire my exposure to the arduino and it’s applications has grown, and I’m pushing myself to come up with a fun way to incorporate the technology into my sewing. That’s why I was so thrilled to see the winner of the latest Spoonflower Staff Challenge: the Spoonflower World Map.

Spoonflower World Map