PEI Modern Quilt Guild April 2020 Meeting

Well supposedly it is spring here on our beautiful island, however, we appear to be vacillating between winter, spring and just a hint of summer.  We have seen snow and hail along with rain and sunshine.  We are mindful of how fragile life is and are thinking of our friends and family in Nova Scotia following the tragedy last weekend.  Check out the efforts of our colleagues in the Maritime Modern Quilt Guild to support the families of the victims and first responders on their social media platforms.

We are still practicing physical distancing and we gathered together last Thursday evening to connect, laugh and celebrate accomplishments virtually.  Our president tried some different things with Zoom this time, including having some fun muting everyone and playing with the system settings!  🤣  So lesson learned, removing the ability to have the participants unmute themselves is not conducive to people answering you when you call on them to speak!  She collected pictures of all the items for show and share to be able to share on her screen so we could get up close and personal with the quilts visually.  All in all, there were 16 members in two provinces, who were able to join and have fun.

First up, we celebrated the winners of the President's Block Challenge Viewer's Choice.  You can read the background and see all the fabulous creations here. The top 3 blocks had 53% of the votes. So without further ado, here are the winning blocks, their ribbons and prizes (thank you Soak for your contribution - love Canadian products):

1st place, with 22% of the votes, Linda's block:

2nd place, with 19% of the votes, Dawn's block:

3rd place, with 12% of the votes, Janice's block:

We held our block lotto using pictures to count the blocks made and one of our members held the draw to pick the winner with guild members as witnesses.  Heather won the 91 blocks made.  Here's a sample of a few.  I see porch drop offs or visits in the near future to collect...



After sharing the block proposed for June's draw, we moved onto the show and share item on the agenda.  Here are the pictures of the quilts shown by the members.

Anna's had the appearance of a stained glass window.  Radiant.

Janice couldn't make the meeting, but had these three lovelies to share.  The two postcards were sent to Edmonton, AB for the Quilt Canada 2020 postcard challenge - inspired by nature.  Sew realistic!

Janice's circle quilt was one she finished a few years ago and she had just got it quilted.

These flowers are a project from a quilt along by Helen Godden, a quilter from Australia.  It is called Flower Power and is great for free motion quilting practice.

Cathy does love a rainbow!  She is doing the Atmosphere quilt following along with freshlypieced.com and her mum!  Check out Cathy's fabric choices.  Cannot wait to see this one finished.

Heather shared her quilt where the quilting was something to behold by longarmer Amber Arsenault.  Here is a sneak peek at the quilt as Heather wants to submit this stunner into a few quilt shows...

 Jean collected all her blue and green scraps (and she said nary a dent has been made) to make this gorgeous quilt last year at our 2019 Spring Retreat. Recently quilted on her very own longarm!!

Linda finished her variegated spools quilt - a class taken with Krista Hennebury a few years back. She quilted it with gentle wavy lines.  Yea!  A UFO finish.

Lucinda won all kinds of charm squares at our guild retreat in 2019 playing Left, Right, Centre.  As we are missing retreat this year, here is her flimsy from her winnings.

 Roberta had a number of tops quilted while i"sew"lating.  Here are 2 versions of the popular snowflake quilts.

 Roberta also created this winter wonderland...

 and "Ombre Carnivale" using V &Co. Ombre blooms.

 She is also hoping for the beach and warmer weather...

Velda has been on a mini streak, this is her latest creation for the month of April.  Sweet.

Velda has also created a Sugar Skull quilt inspired by Paul Leger's when he was on the island a couple of years ago and this is the back of the quilt, showing the skull motif creation by fellow guild member and longarmer Colleen.

Marritza shared these photos, post meeting to share what she has been sewing...she modeled one and it was the bees knees.  You'll have to use your imagination based on these photos!

Well, that's it folks!  We will continue to practice physical distancing and will hold our May Sew-in and guild meeting virtually.  Can't wait to see what the members have created when we come together in a few weeks time.

Attention Members!!!

Don't forget these upcoming VIRTUAL events with the PEI Modern Quilt Guild:

May 9th:                   Virtual Sew -In: Drop into the Facebook Event to share your Sew-in day photos!!  9 AM - 4PM  (if you would like to join us for a Facebook messenger video chat, we will be setting up a group chat for lunch at 1 PM)

May 28th:                 Zoom meeting: Be sure to join the Monthly Meeting Event on  FB or find the link in the agenda via email.

Hope to see you there!!

Don't forget we love making new friends!! Reach out to us via email: peimqg at gmail.com or on IG @PEIMQG.

President's Block Challenge 2019

At the December 2019 meeting/potluck, the President issued her second block challenge, this time based on the 2019 Colour of the Year (COTY).  A fat quarter of either the Pantone COTY  - Living Coral or the Kona COTY - Splash was placed in a paper bag with a number on it for the members to pick one.

The brief :

• Theme - Summer!
• Must use solid colours and the COTY fabric in the bag.
• Block sizes must be in a multiple of 6.5"; to a maximum of 24.5" square.  Could be a square or a rectangle (e.g. 12.5"x18.5").
• Return by the March 2020 meeting.

Well, due to physical distancing, we had a virtual meeting.  In preparation for the meeting, the blocks were dropped off in the bag on the front porch of the President's home or in between the front doors.  No contact allowed and the President had fun finding these bags after a message saying basically - go look!  👀

So, for about a week, in the days leading up to the March meeting, the President pressed blocks and took pictures to show the members at the meeting by sharing the screen over zoom and having a fabulous slide show.  Eighteen (18) blocks were returned!

So now it is over to you, the reader to have your say!  We want to hear from you, your friends, family, quilty peeps and maybe your fur babies (if, they have their own IP address)!  Feel free to share this post widely.  This is one social activity you can undertake while physically distancing.  👍😃

Please take our poll and vote!  The block with the most votes will have bragging rights and a prize.  There will be 2nd and 3rd ribbon winners too.  Please note, there were a few rectangular blocks which did not fit the voting picture frame format, so you will see the design wall in the background.  We would love to know what catches your eye.

The votes will be tallied and the winners announced at our April 23, 2020 meeting so this poll will be open until April 23, 2020, 12 noon, EST.  Presentations will be made to the winners at a future date when we are all together again.