May 2015 WestSide Modern Quilt Club Meeting

Announcements

• The Bridges of Portland quilts that have been on display at the Portland International Airport are coming down and will be delivered to The Pine Needle. Come and pick them up! They will be available after May 29th.  The quilts have created the most activity out there with people taking photos, sending emails and calling in.

• The Portland Modern Quilt Guild will be having a Sew-In Mod-Squad on Sunday, June 28, 2015 (12 noon to 4 pm). We will be sewing for the Cares program. Let us know if you would like to participate!

• The Row-by-Row 2015 Experience is coming up. It begins on June 21. Quilt shops from around the country are participating as well as shops all across the city.  Check it out online at: http://www.rowbyrowexperience.com/start-here.htm. The Pine Needle's row is "Perfect Pines". So cute!

• The Sunshine and Stitches Shop Hop begins June 13 and goes through June 27th. Be sure to come in and either pick up our "Sailing Away" block or our Table Topper kit.

• Quilts by the Sea - 2015 Quilt Show (August 7 and 8), Newport, Oregon.  Check out: www.oregoncoastalquilters.org for more information

Quilt Market 2015- Minneapolis

If you are interested in trends, check out the Quilt Market online at their FaceBook page. (https://www.facebook.com/QuiltMarket).  There were fabulous fabrics: whites and brights, modern and vintage. Very creative and fun!

Portland: The Pearl (theme for WestSide exhibit at NW Quilt Expo)

For more information about our quilts or if you are interested in submitting one, click HERE.

Reminders: Finished size =  32" x 44", Due date: We will have a pot-luck "reveal" that everyone is invited to in Mid August. The "drop dead" due date is September 1.

Resources: Need a little help with your mathematical computations?

Superior Threads: They have a huge selection of helpful FAQs, tutorials, and advice. For a helpful guide to reference when planning a quilt using your own design and blocks, click HERE.

Robert Kaufman: Robert Kaufman Fabrics and Quilter's Paradise have joined forces to bring you this collection of essential quilting calculators. Designed by quilters, our calculators allow you to quickly convert between yards and inches, meters and centimeters; work out how much fabric you need for backing, batting and borders; and see how many rectangular pieces can be cut from a larger piece. There are even calculators for square-in-a-square, set-in and corner triangles. A link to download the app on your smartphone is found HERE.

Online Quilt Calculators: 

Fabric Measurement Conversions: Convert between inches, yards in decimal form, yards in fractional form, and centimeters.

Backing and Batting Calculator: Determines how much yardage is needed to make a backing or calculates batting needed.

Binding Calculator: Calculates the binding length and the amount of fabric required to bind your quilt.

Border Yardage Calculator: Calculates the amount of fabric required to put a border around your quilt.

For additional calculators, click HERE.

Show and Tell

Susan Dottarar
Quilting by Lisa Cavenaugh

Marlene Fox
Go small!

Liz Mitchell
Jan's Wonky Log Cabin class

Sally Hass
Made from granddaughter's dresses

Cathy Erickson
Acquired this 1860 "Modern" quilt

Sharon Rauch
Made with prints of
friend's hand-made cards

Sandy Vick
Made in Pam Raby's class

     

Sandy Vick
Grays and Whites

     

Sandy Vick
"Sunset over Sedona"

                          

                               Kathy White
                                   Studio 429 - Innovative Round Robin

        

Carol Parks
Quilted this "Umbrella" Quilt

Guest Speaker: Carrie Tasman

Carrie is an artist and graphic designer and has been showing her artwork for 15 years at various shows and galleries. Since everyone may not be able to afford paintings, she also makes cards and prints. This is how P&B Textiles found her.

Carrie's first collection, "Florianna" has just come out and it is based on her paintings from the garden. P&B selected various prints they liked and they proceeded to email back and forth, refining the designs for the fabrics.  This collaboration took about 1 1/2 years.

P&B also designed a quilt pattern using this new line which inspired her to design her own quilt pattern (with Pam Raby's help) called "Flora & Dot". You can find this free pattern on her website: www.tasmanstudio.com.

Q&A:

Q: Will you continue designing more fabrics?

A:  Yes! I really enjoyed the process. We will be working on more lines.

Q: Was it challenging switching from fine art to designing a quilt pattern?

A: I really like graphic design and have done graphic design work, but I definitely needed quilters' input on the pattern design. For example, I had too many curves at first which would have made the pattern extremely challenging. Pam was a great help with this.

Q: Does every fabric line have to have a quilt pattern to go along with it?

A: A lot of designers now do like to also design accompanying quilts to highlight their collection.

Q: How do you choose all the colors that go into the collection?

A: For this process, we designed the main print first, and then all of the colors for the other fabrics were drawn from that.

To check out Florianna at The Pine Needle, click HERE!

Florianna - Vase Flower

Florianna - Scrolling Vine

Florianna - Dots on a Line - Red

Florianna - Dots on a Line -Yellow

Florianna - Paintbrush Dot Green

Florianna - Paintbrush Dot BW

Florianna - Flowers and Dots Pink on Green

Next Meeting: June 24th, 2015 (6:00 pm)

Guest Speaker: Shelly Figueroa, Author and local expert on teaching children how to quilt. Shelly will be talking about her soon-to-be-released book and other topics. 

Fat Quarter Exchange: Bring one / take one!  Theme: REDS AND YELLOWS