What's Sewing On - Longmont Quilt Guild

Mini-Groups

Need a new project? Got some spare time? Mini-Groups are a great way to make some new friends, finish some of those works in progress or just sit and swap stories! Many meet regularly and new groups are forming every few weeks. If you'd like to join one of the Mini-Groups, form a new Mini-Group or have questions, contact Mini-Groups Chair Martha Jurey at quiltinghappily@hotmail.com or 303-485-6681.

A Wool Group meets at Cottonwood Quilts the 4th Thursday of each month from 10:30am to 12:30pm. Cottonwood Quilts is located at 198 2nd Avenue in Niwot, Colorado.
For more information, contact Melba Redwine at 303-485-6187.

A UFO (Unfinished Fabric Objects) Group meets at The Presser Foot the 4th Friday of each month from 5pm to whenever. The Presser Foot is located at 1125 Francis Street in Longmont, Colorado.
For more information, contact Martha Jurey at 303-485-6681.

Block of the Month

Block of the month is a fun and easy way to learn a new block each month, win lots of blocks to make a quilt top or even make a block to donate to the Community Outreach quilt projects!

Click here for Block of the Month information and rules.

August's Block of the Month is
"Friendship Star"

This month we're dedicating our blocks to the Sew for the Cure. Help us increase breast cancer awareness with this wonderful Friendship Star block.

If you picked up your special background fabric at the July meeting, you'll use your own pink fabric to complete this block. Please remember to bring your finished blocks to donate at the August guild meeting.

We'll have special Sew-Days coming up to assemble the blocks into quilt tops which will be given to breast cancer fighters and survivors that guild members nominate to receive a quilt.

If you need a copy of the instructions, click here to download.
(This file is 476 KB)

	Community Outreach Quilt kits for the Community Outreach quilts are available for you to take home and put together. Pick one up at the next Guild meeting you attend. We had such a great time and we hope you'll join us on our next Sew Day. Our next Sew Days will be Friday, July 25 from 10am to 2pm at the Longmont Public Library, and August 16 from 10am to 2pm at the First Evangelical Lutheran Church. Bring your sewing machine, notions and supplies and join us! We'll be cutting kits for our Community Outreach quilts that we donate to the Longmont Police Department, and we'll be putting some quilts together. We'd love to see you there. Upcoming sewing dates will be posted in this section regularly. If you would like to come and sew with us, we welcome you! We also have projects you can take home and finish if you prefer to sew at home or just can't join us on our sewing dates. Click here more information on the Community Outreach projects, or contact Community Outreach Committee Chair Janet Mason at janetmason@longmontquiltguild.org. Back to top
(left to right) Cindi Anderson, Alex Hughes and Deanna Velie sewed Home of the Brave blocks donated at March's Guild meeting to sashing at the Sew Day on March 15.

Beth Purkett (center) gave a demonstration on how to sew the binding onto a quilt entirely by machine. Dawn Hunter gave a demo on how to attach continuous double fold binding, and Sue Ellis gave a demo on how to make bias binding. Thanks for the great tips and techniques, ladies!

Summer Mystery Quilt: "Dots and Dashes"

This is a fun, easy four-part mystery quilt that anyone can enjoy for summer!

The finished quilt size is 37 1/2" square without the borders, so you may want to buy extra fabric to add a border or two to increase the size to a lap quilt.

Part Two: Cutting
Here's a hint: It's helpful to label each stack of patches with it's letter and store them flat in a box!

From Fabric One (Background) Cut:
Patch A: 52 Squares cut 3 1/2" by 3 1/2"
Patch B: 12 Squares cut 2" by 2"
Patch C: 24 Squares cut 3 7/8" by 3 7/8" - then cut these squares once diagonally to yield 48 triangles.

From Fabric Two (Dark) Cut:
Patch D: 52 Rectangles cut 2" by 3 1/2"

From Fabric Three (Focus) Cut:
Patch E: 24 Squares cut 3 7/8" by 3 7/8" - then cut these squares once diagonally to yield 48 triangles.

From Fabric Four (Medium Light Accent) Cut:
Patch F: 48 Squares cut 2" by 2"

From Fabric Five (Medium Dark Accent) Cut:
Patch G: 61 Squares cut 2" by 2"

Next, Step 3: Making Triangle Squares
Take 48 each of patches C and E and make 3 1/2" triangle squares (sew the triangles right sides together along the diagonal edge). Press to focus fabric (patch E).

Now, Step 4Now, Step 4: Making Accent Pairs
Take 48 each of patches F and G and sew into pairs. Press to darker fabric (patch G).

Next time in the 3rd Clue, we'll complete one of the blocks.
The 3rd Clue will be available at the August guild meeting! Join the fun!

If you have questions about the Mystery Quilt, contact Sharon Powis at sharonpowis@longmontquiltguild.org.

Journal Quilts

This new addition to Longmont Quilt Guild's growing list of fun projects to participate in is a great way to jumpstart your creativity and use your imagination!

Challenge and motivate yourself with these small 8"x10" Journal Quilts, and you'll not only be amazed at what you start to "rescue" from your discard pile—so will everyone else!

Click here to download a PDF with Journal Quilts details
and suggestions. (This file is 137KB)

For more information, contact Christine Broers at cbroers@comcast.net.

Links to Other Sites

These are other sites we think are really great—local businesses who support the guild and have websites, other area guilds you might want to check out and Longmont Quilt Guild members who have websites. If you're a current Longmont Quilt Guild member or advertiser and would like us to post a link to your (quilting-related) website, please email our Webmaster at webmaster@longmontquiltguild.org.

Click here to view links to other sites.