March Meeting recap by Sonia.

​What an informative meeting!  How often in our study of colour do we really think about neutrals? Thanks to Jan, we can now look beyond the traditional neutrals of white, black and grey.
 
She explained how the job of the background fabric is to compliment the prints and make them stand out, while still pulling the quilt together. And even though we may not be using a traditional grid layout, we are still using some form of sashing and borders to create the negative space. 

​We experimented with placing our chosen prints on white, black or grey, and then tried Bill Kerr's suggestions of "mud" and "teal". It was really interesting to see the effect of placing the prints on these backgrounds. We should now be able to experiment with other greyed down and tonal colours as neutrals.

Lyndsey's fabrics looked best on the Mud Neutral and Liz's looked best on Navy.

Here you can see two examples of Nancy's fabrics on both the Mud and Teal- which do you prefer?  And Debbie has her 1930's triangles on the Teal, Mud and Green.

​Our goal for the year is to do a block for each month's colour, so a neutral block is this month's challenge but that doesn't mean it can't include prints.
To motivate everyone to complete last month's green block Kristyn did an improv demo on making fabric slabs from scraps. Lots of great results by the end of the day.
 
The April meeting will be brought to you by the colour blue, so start getting your blue scraps together.

​And last but definitely not least, there were three very different but amazing quilts for show and tell. A colour study in HSTs by Lyndsey, a very linear combination of neutrals and colour by Joan and a lovely monochromatic appliqué by Joyce. 

​Here is the upcoming guild business that was discussed at the March Meeting:
 
We are doing our own Riley Blake Challenge with the strip of black and white fabric that was given out.  Use this piece of fabric in your mini quilt- with any other fabric you wish to use.  Please make a mini that is no larger than 24” x 24” and have it finished for the August meeting.  We will display them at the August meeting and vote on the Viewer’s Choice.  Those of you who have the full piece of challenge fabric are still welcome to participate in the official MQG Challenge.
 
Canada 150 Challenge- Guild members will make a mini quilt in the specified colours of fabrics and these quilts will be displayed around London in 2017.  More info to come.
 
The London MQG will have an information booth at the Quilt X show in September and at the London Friendship Quilt Show in October.
The Open Thread Bar workshop is half sold out- $65 for members and $75 for non-members.  This includes lunch and kit fees.