Jinny Beyer Secrets: Color for Quilters

Color confidence is the number one fear of many a quilter. Join Jinny Beyer is this short effective lesson as she shares easy tips you can use instantly and introduces tools that will give you more confidence in using color in your quilts and other projects. Other videos are available by Jinny as well including Jinny Beyer on Fabric Design where she shares the secrets to fabric design and Jinny Beyer Border Prints where she shows how you can use border prints to add character and movement in your quilts. Click here for the video.

Holiday Party - December 8, 2009

Note - I will add names as time permits ... Agnes

Our 2009 Holiday Party featured Food, Fun, and Friends.

Show and Tell - December 8, 2008

 

Kathy Edwards explains her "sticky quilt" which she made in an online class with Ellen Lindner (www.adventurequilter.com)

Gigi Corbin created Naptime to practive her machine quilting skills.  She used Stitch in the ditch.

 

Gigi used Sweet Dreams as a practice quilt for diagonal line quilting.

 

 Carolyn Paden made "Broken Dishes" as a Christmas gift.

 

 Kathy Kahaczewsky with "Pumpkin."  Kathy purchased the quilt top at the auction.  It was made and donated by Barbara Dove and finished by Kathy.

 

Joan Peake made a Santa Pole and a Santa wall hanging.

Joan created this Christmas Walhanging.  It is one of four quilts with the same blocks set differently in each quilt.  She used a Marianne Urban Batik Fractions kit in black and earth tones which was bought on MVQU's first trip to the Philadelphia area show.

 

  Mariane Urban made this quilt.  She used the fabric provided for he backing to add the border to enlarge it to bed-sized.

Sonia Gondol created this "Santa Surprise" table runner.

Show andTell - Novenber 24, 2009

Carolyn Paden displays this handsome quilt made with Asian fabrics

                                

Who will be the lucky recipient of these 3 beautiful quilts Carolyn made with Thimbleberry fabrics?

Wondering what to do with cat fabrics?  Look what Carolyn did with hers.

Gail Franchi made this top with fabric from a group who swapped batches and batches of batiks.. She finished this up at their retreat... WOW!!

                        Andrea Gribble designed and made this banner along with a friend for their churches.

Pat Alfredson presented a dogwood banner made from an art deco book from which Pat has made quite a few other quilts and wallhangings.

 Using batik fabrics bought from this year's fundraiser, Pat made this quilt for a cousin.

Mary Mazzuchi’s pretty Christmas tree skirt got lots of ooohhhhs and ahhhhhs from the group.

Ellen Patton showed several quilts in various color palettes made from her stash using the pattern from the Lone Star class. All looked so different!

Anne Marlin used Charm packs to make 3 Christmas quilts for her daughters using the traditional Bow Tie pattern

                             Then she created the Yellow Brick Rd quilt with leftover fabric from the quilts above

Kay Brill made this amazing quilt in Red, White & Blue fabrics for the Quilts of Valor project.  
Bert Garino did extensive quilting on it.

Bert Garino displays a machine appliqued purple flower  wall hanging made from class in Houston with Philippa Naylor.  Bert inserted swarovski crystals in the piece and showed the group what the tool she  used to attach them... absolutely stunning, Bert!

                   

12 Days of Christmas panel was cut apart and then surrounded with star patterns

 

Joan Bingman’s sweet "Tree of Life" baby quilt was machine appliqued

This is a Pat Sloan pattern Christmas quilt.   Kathy Edwards has been working on this for the past year and a half

 Anne Berard created this quilt top using a traditional pattern and reproduction Civil War fabrics

Marianne Urban made Big Brother and Little Brother quilts (quilted with blue stars with fish and party streamer borders) for her son's namesake.  Marianne's internet group calls this star pattern "Marianne's Star" as she uses it often.

Beverly Dasch... Beverly bought this completed top from Pat Sloan who needed to clean out her studio... Bev added borders and had it quilted by Ellen Patton.  She presented it to her husband on his retirement from the Army this month... he named it "Thirty Years and 10 Days"

 Some lucky child is about to receive this sweet baby duck baby quilt from Rhonda Adams

Agnes Purcell made Theresa’s Teal quilt.  The full sized quilt was quilted in pieces and sewn together using Marti Mitchell’s techniques.

Presidents’ Message

Last week I had one of those special warm your heart moments. My seven year old granddaughter’s class is practicing public speaking, and each child will have a chance to bring in something special to “Show and Share”. Mackenzie chose the first quilt I made for her and asked me to tell her why I like to quilt so she could tell her classmates. With all the electronic games, toys, etc in the 21^st century, I was so touched that this quilt was her most prized possession. Just as many of us talk about our mothers, grandmothers and aunts passing down their love of quilting, I hope each of us will be an inspiration for generations to come. And, please remember how important it is to document the quilt by putting on a label.

November was a very busy month for us at MVQU. I would like to thank everyone who attended the fundraising workshops, donated, stored, bought, organized and participated in this year’s fundraiser, with a special thanks going to Barbara Tucker and Ro Coller. It was the most successful fundraiser we’ve had and the money made will go a long way in our ongoing efforts to host wonderful programs and events.

I hope to see you at our Annual Holiday Luncheon hosted by Gigi Corbin and Barbara Zygiel on December 8th, 12:30pm Hollin Hall Senior Center. This will be a wonderful opportunity for us to gather and kick off the holiday season while getting to know each other better. We’ll have show and tell…be sure to bring in your holiday quilts to share before they get wrapped up. This year we are also helping Fairfax County with their “Adopt a Family” program. Please bring a gift card in any amount from an area retailer (or cash) to help those having difficult times this holiday season.

Happy Holidays everyone and no matter which holiday you are celebrating, may it be filled with family, friends, food, fun and harmony.

Smiles,

Bert

Holiday Luncheon

We'll be celebrating the Holiday Season on December 8th with a potluck luncheon beginning at 12:30 p.m. For those participating in the voluntary gift exchange, please bring a wrapped gift (approx. value $10.00).

Volunteers are needed to assist with set up starting at noon.

New Member Q&A Chocolate Social

January 5, 2010, 12:30-1:30
 

All new members are cordially invited to attend our first ever New Member Question and Answer Chocolate Social on Tuesday, January 5, 2010, 12:30 – 1:30pm at Hollin Hall Senior Center. We are setting aside time for you to come and ask all those questions you’d love to know the answers to about MVQU and Big QU, but were afraid to ask. What is Big QU? When are our programs? What committees does MVQU have? What’s the Blog? Where and what is the Quilt Show? How do I enter my quilt? Chapter Challenge..what’s that? Where do I find out about all the programs put on by other QU chapters? What are those assignments about on the QU matrix etc, etc. etc. So whether you are new to the guild experience all together or just new to MVQU or feeling overwhelmed by the amount of information passed on during our meetings please plan to join us. MVQU Board Members and some of our Committee Chairs will be on hand, so…you ask, we’ll answer! .

Plus there’ll be chocolate!! Hope to see you there.