We hope you can join us for our March meeting!

In addition to our regular show and tell, we will be showing off what we’ve made with our Madrona Road fabric.

Tuesday, March 5
6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Villa España Clubhouse
Corner of State St. and Constance St. (map)

Directions and other information available on the meeting page. Questions about getting involved? Send us an email at contact@santabarbaramodernquiltguild.com.

Our February meeting is tonight!

Tuesday, February 5
6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Roxanne’s A Wish and A Dream
919 Maple St, Carpinteria, CA (map)

• If you were not at the January meeting and you would like to participate in the Madrona Road challenge, there is a small amount of fabric available.
• Show and Tell
• Bring $1 or so to help cover the cost of mailing the QuiltCon charity quilt to Austin.
• Let’s start talking about some new guild projects now that our QuiltCon quilt is completed!

The Santa Barbara Modern Quilt Guild is participating in the Madrona Road Fabric Challenge! We distributed the fabric at the January meeting, so if you picked some up it’s time to get started.

For our challenge, you have two options:

1. Make a finished item of your own choosing
2. Make a block or blocks at least 12.5″ on one side to contribute to a group quilt

Only add solids or other fabrics from the Madrona Road collection to your pieces. Bring what you have completed to the March meeting. That’s it!

If you would like to participate in the bigger Modern Quilt Guild contest, see the details here. This contest ends on January 31.

We hope you can join us for our first meeting of the new year!

In addition to our regular show and tell, we will be introducing a new challenge using the Madrona Road fabric from the Modern Quilt Guild and checking out the progress of the QuiltCon charity quilt.

Tuesday, January 15 *note new meeting date*
6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Roxanne’s A Wish and A Dream
919 Maple St, Carpinteria, CA (map)

Directions and other information available on the meeting page. Questions about getting involved? Send us an email at contact@santabarbaramodernquiltguild.com.

Miss the last meeting? Check out the photos from our December meeting on the Facebook page!

One of our guild members, Virginia, is working on a remembrance quilt  in memory of the victims, survivors, and families of the Sandy Hook Elementary School murders in Newtown, CT. She will be giving away the Star Quilt of Remembrance to one randomly selected participant in her GoFundMe fundraiser. All proceeds benefit the 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization Educational Fund to Stop Gun Violence.

Visit her blog to learn more about the quilt and her process.

We hope you can join us for our December meeting!

In addition to our regular show and tell, we will be playing with our blocks for the QuiltCon Charity Quilt project and plotting a quilt top or two. We will also have the big reveal from November’s fabric swap. We can’t wait to see what everyone has created with their partners’ fabrics!

Tuesday, December 4
6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Villa España Clubhouse
Corner of State St. and Constance St. (map)

Directions and other information available on the meeting page. Questions about getting involved? Send us an email at contact@santabarbaramodernquiltguild.com.

We had a big turnout at our November meeting, which also happened to coincide with election day. We saw lots of finished quilts and other sewing projects and some works in progress. We also swapped fabric to make a surprise gift for another member.

First up is a bag made by Annemarie. She also made a collection of cute kid’s bags, which I didn’t get a picture of!

Annemarie also showed us this in progress quilt.

Alissa is putting together these Thanksgiving blocks for a table runner.

Judy made this cheery, soft edge applique flower quilt.

Amisha, a first-time attendee, showed us this bright blue disappearing nine patch quilt.

Paige finished this modern New York Beauty pillow.

Susanne put together this colorful baby quilt.

Irelle finished this charity quilt with blocks made by our members earlier this year. The block designs were part of Alissa Haight-Carlton’s Modern Block of the Month.

That’s it for this month! We hope to see you in December for some more show and tell, the reveal of our fabric swap challenge, and the design of our QuiltCon charity quilt.

Over the past month, we have been putting together blocks to help fill out our QuiltCon charity quilts. Here are some of the finished products!

Well, look what came in the mail yesterday! The eagerly awaited bundle of blocks for the QuiltCon charity quilts! Hooray! Since we just had a meeting, here is a sneak peek of the blocks. As most of you know, the SBMQG signed up to create two twin size quilts that will be displayed at QuiltCon. Once the show is over, the quilts will be donated to the Austin Children’s Shelter in Austin, Texas. The following blocks were submitted to the Modern Quilt Guild as a part of the QuiltCon Challenge. We will use these quilt blocks as the foundation for our charity quilts. Check out this fantastic quilt that will be raffled at QuiltCon!

It looks like there is a theme with all of these blocks, so I think they will play nicely with all the of the blocks that have been made so far.

Ok, here are the requirements:

• 68″ x 88″ twin bed quilt (No smaller than 68″ x 88″ and no greater than 72″ x 92″.
• Quilts can be constructed in many different ways: adding blocks, adding negative space, or some combination of the two.
• Due date for the quilts to be at QuiltCon is February 1.
• Quilting must be no farther than 2″ apart.
• Include a 4″ hanging sleeve to the back of each quilt. The sleeves will be removed prior to donating to the Austin Children’s Shelter, so it is ok to have large stitches. Do not sew the sleeve into the binding.
• Wash the quilt before sending, preferably with a color catcher.

We hope you can join us for our November meeting — we have a lot planned!

In addition to our regular show and tell, we will be getting our first look at the blocks for the QuiltCon Charity Quilt project and trading fabric for a project swap for the December meeting. Here are the instructions:

Bring about a yard’s worth of fabric in a bag with your name on it that you would like to be made into something fun. We will put the bags in a big pile and randomly draw from them. You will then get to make something (bag, pillow, mini-quilt, placemats, etc!) for your partner from their fabric. Bring your finished project to the December meeting to give back to your partner.

Tuesday, November 6
6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Villa España Clubhouse
Corner of State St. and Constance St. (map)

Directions and other information available on the meeting page. Questions about getting involved? Send us an email at contact@santabarbaramodernquiltguild.com.