March Meeting Recap

Our March meeting was held last Saturday, March 8th, 2014.  We had a great turn out and had one new face join the group.

Mary gave an update on our Community Outreach Project.  It was great news to hear that the interest in quilting in increasing and the participants will be moving to machine quilting in the upcoming weeks.  A request for materials, supplies and sewing machines were made.  You can read more the request and the Outreach Project here.

At February's meeting we decided as a group that one of our programming activities would be to have a monthly book review.  This month Sonia kindly shared two books by Yoshiko Jinzenji.  

The first book...

The second book...

It was extremely fascinating to here about this artist and how she got her start in quilting.  Sonia even demonstrated some of her own work inspired by Yoshiko Jinzenji. 

Using a large apple print fabric, Sonia selectively cut the leaves in the fabric.

Large print apple fabric.

The leaves were arranged in the centre and surrounded with a large amount of negative space (white fabric) and accented with coordinating green fabric.

Here are some additional samples of selectively cutting and arranging...

We have two separate challenges that will be coming up.  The first challenge is being held  by  The Modern Quilt Guild and sponsored by Michael Miller Fabrics.  The challenge is open to London Modern Quilt Guild Members.  We are hoping that we receive the fabric in time for our April meeting.  The turn around time for this challenge is very quick! June 23, 2014 to be exact.  For more details, click on the image below.

Our second challenge is our very own London Modern Quilt Guild Logo Challenge.  To celebrate and to show off our new logo, we have decided to each create our own 12"x12" block.  Rather than have a member create an exact replica of the logo, we will have it printed via Spoonflower and each member will create their own modern block using the logo colours.  More details on the challenge will be discussed at the April meeting.  

Here is an example of the Vancouver Modern Quilt Guild's own logo quilt.

Vancouver Modern Quilt Guild (VMQG) Logo Colours Group Quilt by VMQG photo by Terry Aske. Image source: CQA/ACC Website.

Some fantastic quilting resources and events were brought up during our meeting:  

• The Ailsa Craig Community Quilt Festival will be holding a Quilts of Great Britain Trunk show at The Arts Project in downtown London from March 17-March 22, 2014.  For more information, click here.
  
• Mary mentioned that the Quilt Show website offers some free quilt shows.  Episode 1202 features Jacquie Gering.  It may be a grerat preface for those that are attending the Jacquie Gering wokrshops and lectures.
• The Burlington Arts Centre is holding an exhibit of "Quilts by John Willard: A 40 Year Retrospctive" until March 30, 2014
• Miceala shared a quilt inspired by the book "Colorific" (My apologies as I did not get a picture of this work in progress.  For more of Micaela's work see our Show & Share below.)

As always, we had some inspiring work shared by our Members.

Kristyn's "Jacquie Gering" inspired quilt.

Chantal's work in progress.

Mary's quilted and embroidered "Inchies"

Micaela's work in progress using snow dyed fabric. If you look at it closely you will see that Micaela has mimicked the large piece of fabric on the left by piecing similar a similar colour arrangement on the right.

Micaela's spectacular hand-quilted quilt (Front)

(Back)

Sheilagh's Baby Quilt