Sign Up for our June Sew In!

The sew-in will be from 4:30-9:00 (or a bit later). Please sign up so we can make sure there's enough room for everyone! The form is below or you can follow this link if there are issues with the form. We can bring food or order in food, so there is a slot for that.

See you soon!

Updates From Other Ohio Guilds

Some quick updates from other sewing areas of Ohio!

First Kara at Me and Elna from Cincinnati is hosting an #OHcraft sewing retreat in Ohio in November 2013 - sign up at this link! If we get enough Columbus Modern Ladies, we can do a four to a room for those that are interested? It's getting full, so sign up quick if you would like to attend!

Second, the NW Ohio Modern Quilt Guild is hosting this fun ArtSpark Challenge and they'd love some participation from Columbus Guild members! Here is the basic overview

The idea behind this challenge is to visit your local art museum and find a piece of art that inspires you. Any piece! A sculpture, a piece of glass, an oil painting, anything! Classic, baroque, modern, contemporary - your choice! You game? 

PRIZES
Winners will be picked randomly from the Flickr pools. Enter as many pictures as you would like but only 1 picture/quilt per person is eligible to win. What do you have to do to win?
- By July 1st, 11:59 PM EST upload a photo to the Flickr Art Spark WIP group- By August 1st, 11:59 PM EST upload a photo to the Flickr Art Spark Finished Projects group

Hope to see all of you at our June 7th Mini-Quilt Retreat Sew-In! There will be chocolate, so what more could you want? Oh yeah, and sewing!

See You This Thursday!

See you this Thursday, May 16th at 7 pm at Quilt Trends for our monthly meeting.  Bring your finished quilts or a work in progress you want to workshop with the group!

We'll be finalizing some of our summer adventures so feel free to bring along your calendars!

Please bring $2 for our guild membership to NQA. Our first request for dues!

Vote for Katie in this Spoonflower Contest!

Katie Paluch entered this gorgeous fabric design into the Fabric8 contest this year sponsored by Spoonflower and Robert Kaufman, and she has made it in the top 100! 

Now it's all about the votes. Please stop by before May 15th to show your support in this cool contest! 

Katie's fabric is called: Geek Circuits by katie_lou_creations - Here's the scoop from Spoonflower: 

100 Semi-Finalists: Who Will Make the Fabric8?Today we're very pleased to announce the semi-finalists in the Fabric8 Contest from Spoonflower and Robert Kaufman Fabrics. The 100 designs up for voting were selected by a team of fabric industry professionals out of a pool of over 750 entries. Between now and May 15th, vote for your favorite Geek Chic designs. The top eight designers selected by voting will be asked to expand their design into a 4-piece collection before the final votes are cast and the next fabric design superstar is announced!

Save the Date: Sew In!

Our next Sew In is scheduled at Quilt Trends for Friday, June 7th after 4:30 PM.  We will have details at our next meeting and we will post a sign up link closer to the Sew In date.

The deadline for quilt submissions to the NQA show is May 10th.  There are still openings  for entries so send something in from your collection!

Reminder: Abbe's Show this Saturday!

We are meeting up this Saturday - April 27th - at 4 PM to see Abbe's quilt show at the Vinyl Frontier. The Vinyl Frontier is located at 51 E. Gay Street (between High St and 3rd St) in Downtown Columbus. We'll meet at the shop, view the quilts, and grab a bite to eat at a nearby restaurant. See you there!

April 2013 Meeting - Madrona Road Reveal!

Madrona Road - What a Challenge Meeting

April 2013

• Cristin had twin girls on April 10th: Summer & Mckenna. Here's the link to Cristin's blog if you want to see one of the sweetest photos ever http://www.peartreestitching.com/
• Lots of bits and pieces were discussed this month...
• We still need to decide if we want to be part of the national Modern Quilt Guild (if you don't have any idea what I'm talking about, check out the meeting notes from last month. Cliff Notes version: the national guild is putting more guidelines around the Modern Quilt Guilds and if we want to join it'll mean dues and (gasp!) by-laws.)
• If you want to give a demo at a future meeting - see Stacey.
• We talked about having a Friday Night Sew In at QT. Stacey jotted down some dates to run past Sue. So more to come on this.
• Everyone who went to the international Quilt show in Cinn. last weekend seemed to have a fabulous time. Check out this link to Pokey Bolton's blog and see if there's a photo of anyone you recognize! http://pokeysponderings.com/author/pokeysponderings/
• Upcoming evets: we're talking about going to Country Fabrics and Door Mouse in the August timeframe and The Dairy Barn July-ish.
• We also talked about becoming an NQA guild. Since we don't have dues, if everyone could bring $2 to the May meeting, we'll take up a collection to join.

OH! And don't forget to check out Abbe's quilt show at Vinyl Frontier Record Shop downtown on Gay Street. A bunch of foks are going down to see it on April 27. See Stacy or Dana if you want more info. And Abbe is officially a professional quilter because she sold one of her wall hangings at the show. Way To Go Abbe!

Madrona Road Challenge - And the winners were (do I hear a drum roll??) Abbe, Stacey, and Erika. Well done ladies!

Here are the pictures (More on our flickr page! 

See you all at the next meeting!