We just got a brand new Modern Quilt Guild!! It started off with a few quilter friends got together to sew and decided to form a Valley Modern Quilt Guild in the San Fernando Valley of the greater Los Angeles area. Scott Griffin is the president of the guild. You can read about this new exciting event in his blog here.
These quilters are all seasoned and excellent quilters. I'm honored to be included into this group and looking forward to contribute to the guild in any way I can. I was asked to help with the monthly challenge which I'm happily accepted even though it means I have to step out of my comfort zone. I'll do my best. Our challenge for the October meeting is to make a piece inspired by water. The piece should reflect the modern aesthetic and may be any size. You can check out the Valley Modern Quilt Guild website here.
These quilters are all seasoned and excellent quilters. I'm honored to be included into this group and looking forward to contribute to the guild in any way I can. I was asked to help with the monthly challenge which I'm happily accepted even though it means I have to step out of my comfort zone. I'll do my best. Our challenge for the October meeting is to make a piece inspired by water. The piece should reflect the modern aesthetic and may be any size. You can check out the Valley Modern Quilt Guild website here.
I decided to make a mini quilt, about 18"x20", for the challenge and I'm going to use the Faux Rag quilting technique. What is Faux Rag Quilting technique? For those of you who's reading my blog for the first time, it's a new twist on a traditional Rag quilt technique. I came up with this idea a few years ago. The AQS is publishing a book of this technique and it's scheduled to come out in March 2016. I'll be talking more about it in the near future. I'm planing a lot of fun things to do for the book release. There will be prize giveaways and hopefully a blog hop for the book review. I'm very excited about this book and I think quilters who love rag quilts will love this Faux Rag Quilting book.
When I thought about the design for the challenge, several thoughts came to mind about water. Top of the list are rain and ocean. I thought of rain because we are having a drought here in California. Our water supply is at the critical level and it's more urgent than ever for us to conserve water. We have many beautiful beaches here in California, thus came the ocean idea.
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| More rain, please mini quilt |
After I finished the first quilt, I decided to made another quilt.
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| Summer Waves mini quilt |
I still have about 2 weeks before the meeting to work on these two ideas.
What is your designing process? Do you actually make a sample of your design?
Have a great week!
I don't spend too much time in the design process I usually just follow patterns. Designing is something I'm interested in and I hope to do more of it someday. I'm especially interested in improv quilting. Congrats on the upcoming book. I'm quite interested in your faux rag technique. I host a new Saturday linky party called WHOOMP There IT Is! I'd love for you to link up sometime or every week if you want. I hope to see you soon Margo.
ReplyDeleteThanks a bunch, Zenia. I'll check out your linky party soon. I may not have many quilts to share. I can't seem to produce as many quilts as some quilters do. Have a great day.
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