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Hosting Our First Virtual Meeting
And tips for how you can do it too! Our first ever virtual guild meeting was a great success! On Thursday, March 12, we hosted 33 members of our guild via a Zoom meeting in place of our normal in-person guild meeting. We maintained nearly all the same elements of our regular meeting program including:…
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Big Stitch Hand Quilting with Tara Faughnan
We finished out 2019 with a 1/2 day workshop on Big Stitch Hand Quilting taught by Tara Faughnan. Tara started out by showing us her own beautiful hand quilted work. She discussed her technique with regard to both stitch size and quilting design, and how she incorporates these to add depth and interest to her…
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Graphic Design & Triangles with Rebecca Bryan
Rebecca Bryan, of Bryan House Quilts, visited our guild in September to deliver a lecture on graphic design in quilts and teach a class on Design Improv with Triangles. Rebecca is well known to MQG audiences for her beautiful and graphically striking quilts as well as her two books, Modern Rainbow and Modern Triangle Quilts.…
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A Visit from Giucy-Giuce
This month our guild was thrilled to host Giuseppe Ribaudo (aka Giucy-Giuce) at our monthly meeting and weekend workshop. First, Giucy-Giuce came to our monthly meeting to share about his personal creative journey from learning to sew to working at Andover Fabrics to releasing his own fabric collections! As he spoke, he went through…
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2019 Retreat Recap
For our 5th annual sewing retreat we gathered at the St Francis Retreat Center in San Juan Bautista to sew, dine, socialize, and maybe even do a little dancing. The retreat center is set back in the mountains and was a peaceful and beautiful place to spend the weekend. Members were welcomed with guild-themed goodie bags…
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MPD Appreciation Quilt
For the past 2 years, our guild has been hosted at the Milpitas Police Department Community Room for our monthly guild meetings and open sew days. Mid-2016, we lost our meeting space at a local quilt shop, and we struggled to find a venue that met our size, location, and schedule requirements, as well as…
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QuiltCon 2019 Charity Quilt
This year’s theme from The Modern Quilt Guild was Small Piecing. We found this theme to be very open-ended, which was both difficult to nail down and completely freeing. The quilt committee considered many options, from improv two-color blocks to an intricate all-over pattern. We always try to tie our annual charity quilt to our…
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A Visit from Anna Maria Horner
What a great way to kick off the new year! Anna Maria Horner first led a Workshop on “Color Fluency” where we discussed the color wheel and then curated a random set of fabrics into a coherent color palette. Anna Maria discussed how to use prints and, while some combinations may seem random, the different…
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2018 Year in Review
This was a busy year for our guild. We continued to grow our membership, share and learn new skills, and give back to the community. Founding member Tricialyn led the guild in informative lectures focusing on Design Elements, including Texture, Color, and Scale. These topics were discussed as a group and integrated into guild challenges…
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Our First Quilt Show!
We were thrilled to have been invited to put on a Special Exhibit at the Piecemaker’s Quilt Guild Annual Quilt Show this month. Our exhibit focused on showcasing key elements of modern quilting: Use of bold colors and prints High contrast and graphic areas of solid color Improvisational design Minimalism Expansive negative space Alternate grid…
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