Fun Day at the Sew In

Thank you to all who came out today. It was our best sew in by far. Little was accomplished but many friend were made. We all got to know each other well (maybe to well) he he

All I can say is thank you ! I apologize for the few that left early and did not make it into our photo.

Looking forward to our next get together this Saturday for our meeting,

Keep smiling quilters.

P.S. we have a new facebook page to the right you can find the link. Feel free to add your comments questions or photos at any time.
Don't forget to add yourself to the page to ;)

Sew-In Saturday

This Saturday Is our monthly Sew-In Over at the Quilt N Sew  quilt shop.

Come on down with your latest project and join us for some mingling, snacking, and sewing.

Starts at 10am and runs through 4pm

Free to join just bring something to work on.

April 9th 2011 Saturday  
Open Sewing Mingle
Location :: Quilt and Sew
3510 Allen Road #102
Bakersfield, CA 93314
(661) 589-8863

Irons and Cutting table are provided, please feel free to bring a snack to share with the group if you would like to. Looking forward to seeing what everyone is working on.

See you all on Saturday

Happy Quilting

Improv Meeting Recap

I apologize for not getting this up sooner, but I just wanted to recap the last BMQG meeting for everyone. The lesson was improv piecing, and might I say we have some pretty spectacular talent among the group. For instance our very own "mini Denyse Schmidt"  Katie; who found improv to just come natural for her at only 9 years old.  I was truly impressed.

The randomness gave everyone a little more clarity on what improv is, and how we attempt to get such randomness in our quilts. We even went as far as experimenting with color combo's that we would usually not think of. I am very excited to see what improv techniques you all will be sharing at the next meeting.

Other discussions that were talked about.

Binding Volunteers:: We still need people who are willing to demonstrate different ways to make, sew, and finish onto a quilt. Needing about three people for this still.

Strawberry Patches is moving:: Yes our regular meetings will still be held there the third Saturday of every months in the new location, just right across the parking lot. The shop opens this Thursday 4/7/2011

Logo/ Name tag challenge:: Looking for people to create ideas on both and have the group vote on what they would like to use for our new logo as well as our name tags. The logo hopefully will be Incorporated onto the name tags.

Idea Sharing:: We are looking for more ideas on what it is you would like us to do within our BMQG group. i.e. Charities, lessons, guest speaker ect.

Contact list:: We are still working the bugs outta this. We are also wanting to plan a generic contact list via email and phone numbers within the group for everyone to use in need of quilty support.

The Officers:: We discussed this a bit and it is in fact needed to move forward if you have any opinions or questions/concerns about this please email me directly. The meeting in May has been cancelled due to a holiday weekend but we will talk about this more at our next meeting in detail. This will be a very good thing for the group to designate things to do and make sure it's divided equally and not put onto one person.

Some wonderful quilts were also shown this round, thank you ladies for all the eye candy.

Looking forward to seeing everyone this Saturday at our next Sew-In over at the Quilt N Sew quilt shop located on Allen road. Everything is provided for us to use just bring your basic  project stuff and we will do the rest. Here is a list of what you might need.

Quilt project/ or other project

Sewing machine (don;t forget the cord)

Scissors

Rotary cutter

Thread

Snacks if you wish

Please visit this link here for address MEETINGS

Have a great week everyone, we will see you Saturday

BMQG Meeting - Introduction to Improv

Image from Jaquie @ http://tallgrassprairiestudio.blogspot.com/

Randomness, is not always easy. The most interesting part about the modern quilting movement is the randomness seen in many improv quilts. Starting a quilt with little or no plan of action and letting it take you away is a skill people share because it brings out utter creativity within a quilter.

This Saturday we will have an introduction to improvisational quilting. A simple technique that once learned you will love it. This is also a great way to use scraps for all you scrap busting quilters out there.

No supplies are needed for this meeting except your smiles and willingness to think outside of the box. We look forward to sharing this part of quilting with the BMQG group.

March 19th 2011 Saturday 2pm - 4pm
Learning Improv Techniques

Location :: Strawberry Patches

6439 Ming Ave # C

Bakersfield, CA 93309-6713

(661) 835-1738

Image from Elizabeth at Oh Fransson

There will also be a discussion of officers at this get together. Please attend if you can it will be a very important meeting and we would love to have everyone attend.

See you all there.

Sew - In Saturday

If you missed the last Sew-In over at the Quilt and Sew, here is your chance to come have some fun with the group. Bring your machine, hand projects (even hexies) or whatever project your working on. I won't name names, but I saw someone hemming pants last time. *wink* *wink*

That is what this day is for! Mingle with the group, get to know one another, and sew anything you want!

Robin our hostess is awesome, she has all the tables set up, 3 irons with boards for you to use as well as a cutting table large enough to accommodate us all. She has also let me know that many bolts of Kona came in last week for us to play with as well as a few new prints to.

March 12th 2011 10am -4 pm  Saturday Open Sewing Mingle
Location :: Quilt and Sew
3510 Allen Road #102
Bakersfield, CA 93314
(661) 589-8863

Hope to see you there

Our next BMQG meeting will be on Learning Improv and will be held March 19th at the Strawberry Patch.

As always, please email me if you have any questions or simply leave a comment.

Announcements for BMQG

Thank you to everyone who made it out last Saturday for our very first Sew-in Day over at the Quilt n sew quilt shoppe. I know that weather came into play that day in surrounding areas for a few of you as well as some sickies. We hope that everyone is feeling back up to par for our next sew in on March 12th from 10 am - 4 pm. I will share an official announcement when the day gets closer.

Robin hooked us all up with complimentary donuts, and had cutting tables, ironing boards, and everything we needed to start sewing, Thank you Robin for the fabulous space that you provided. Everyone was extremely impressed.

A few announcements on inquiries that people asked about::

1. Here is the link for the tutorial on how to sew hexagons without paper piecing them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQG0V42O0fI&feature=player_embedded

For those of you that love the paper pieces (much easier) The Strawberry Patch can order you any size you need at a great price.

2. For those of you who are interested in selling handmade goodies and having your own table at a craft show in October. (we talked about this on Saturday) Please email me for details. The place is here in Bakersfield set up for October selling.

3. Suzanne at the strawberry Patch now has Robert Kaufman's Essex linen in Putty and Natural for those of you who asked her to order it. this is fantastic stuff people !!!

4. Books we talked about at the sew in

Modern Basics

The Practical guide to Patchwork

Quilts Made Modern

These books can also be purchased locally in your quilt shops without shipping charges. If stock is out they can certainly order them for you, they are great books!

If I missed anything that you were interested in please remind me and I will be happy to post about it.

Can't wait to see you all on the 12th

{BMQG SEW IN} February 26th - Come sew with us

I just want to first take a minute and say thank you! Our group so far is amazing. It is important to us that we keep this group not only a get together of talented sewers, but to aquire friendships as well. I think our last meeting was great for just that reason.  Having us break into groups and get to talk in a smaller setting made everyone so comfortable and I am happy to have seen so many smiles throughout the group.

Our next get together for BMQG is this Saturday for our first monthly sew in over at the Quilt n Sew. Sewing starts at 10am and runs through until 4pm. This is our first opportunity to just relax and have a good time, doing what we love so much, and in good company.

Here is a list of what you might want to bring.

Your sewing machine

a hand quilting project

Your hexies project

embroidery

Cross stitch

Or anything that you are currently crafting

I do not promise you will get a lot of work done, but I do promise lots of laughs, and great company. As well as a few surprises I have up my sleeve :)

Can't wait to see you all there

Sewing Mingle

Sat: February 26th 10am-4pm
Location :: Quilt and Sew
3510 Allen Road #102
Bakersfield, CA 93314
(661) 589-8863

Here are some photos from the last meeting. You can view them all here in our flickr group.

We will see you aall on Saturday at the Quilt n Sew quilt shop