As a follow-up to last night’s jam-packed and super-fun meeting, I thought I would post up a quick list of zipper pouch tutorials.
This first one is the one that I used to make the pouch and samples that I showed you all at the meeting last night. This one has very good instructions for doing the little fabric tabs at each end of your zipper.
Make It Perfect Easy Peasy Zippered Pouch Tutorial
However… the internet is full of online tutorials for lots and lots of really cute zip pouches, so I’ll include those here as well, for your perusal.
Design Sponge Sewing 101: Zippered Case
It’s A Pretty Modern Life Fully Lined Zippered Box Pouch
Sew Delicious Baby Gift Zipper Pouch
Michelle Patterns Let’s Make Dumplings! Free Zip Pouch Tutorial
Swim, Bike, Quilt! The XOXO Zippered Pouch
Gussy Sews – Tutorial: How to sew a zippered pouch.
The Adventures of Bluegirlxo – Zipper Purse Tutorial
So Sew Something! Lined Zipper Pouch Tutorial
Skip To My Lou Pleated Pouch Tutorial
Sew Together – How to Draft a Pattern and Make a Zippered Purse with a Flat Bottom.
Happy pouch sewing and swapping, guildies!
Our next meeting is 7:00pm, Thursday, May 17th
What: Vancouver Modern Quilt Guild Meeting
When: 7:00-9:00pm, Thursday, May 17th, 2012 (doors open at 6:30pm, come early and socialize!)
Where: Room C509, Langara College, 100 West 49th Avenue, Vancouver (on W 49th between Cambie and Main)
What to bring:
- member card, dues for 2011/12 ($25 for remainder of year) or guest fee ($5)
- a mug
- your name tag
- a modern quilt to share
- your finished silk tie block/s
Contact: Email president@vancouvermodernquiltguild.ca if you have any questions.
See you there!
The Details
When: 12:00-5:00pm, Saturday, May 26th, 2012
Where: Parish Hall, Holy Trinity Church, 1440 West 12th Avenue at Hemlock Street, Vancouver. Enter through the main doors on the south side of West 12th and go up the elevator to the second floor.
Parking: There is a small parkade off of West 12th Avenue with about ten spaces however most of them are marked small car only. Parking is limited on street. There are three spaces in the alley behind the church and they access the Parish Hall through the kitchen.
Please contact Karen (vicepresident@
See you there!
Our April meeting was held on a classic rainy spring evening in Vancouver. Isn’t this photo of our banner by the rain-streaked window just perfect?
To continue our series on binding that we kicked off at our March meeting, Janet and Terry gave two great presentations. Janet explained how she attaches her binding by machine. Read her Tips for Machine Applied Bindings to find out her ultimate secret weapon! Janet was full of tips and you can head on over to her lovely blog, What Comes Next?, for a clever tutorial on how to join your binding strips without having any dog ears to trim! Janet has kindly made a printable version of the tutorial that you can download here: Binding Tips (pdf)
Terry explained her facing-style binding that she prefers for art quilts. It creates a clean edge and Terry had great tips on how to reduce bulk in the corners. Terry’s pdf tutorial entitled “My favorite quilt facing finish“ walks you through the process step by step. We hope Janet and Terry’s tips will encourage you to try a new way of binding your quilts!
Guild Business
- Our next sew-in will be 12:00pm-5:00pm on Saturday, May 26th at Holy Trinity Church at West 12th Ave and Hemlock St.
- We will start prorating our membership fees in May. Our membership year runs from November 1st to October 31st. Memberships purchased after May 1st will cost $25 and expire on October 31st, 2012.
- Kalin will be coordinating a Vancouver MQG-Portland MQG pouch swap and you can sign up using the online registration form (as of May 8th, partners haven’t been assigned quite yet, so you may still be able to sign up if you ask Kalin nicely!)
- Felicity will teach her Easy Going Modern quilt at our very first VMQG workshop! Details to come soon.
- There will be a Vancouver-Seattle-Portland MQG meet up in Seattle over the August 10-12th weekend. Plans are in the works for a shop hop, show and tell and sew-in.
We had visitors from the Langley Quilters’ Guild who shared their raffle quilt for their upcoming “The Threads That Bind Us” quilt show happening on Friday, May 11th and Saturday, May 12th at the George Preston Rec Centre in Langley.
Our April challenge is a re-use challenge in honour of Earth Day. We will be using silk ties that were donated to the guild to create wonky strip-pieced blocks. We’re planning to create a group quilt to raffle off and we’ll share the proceeds between the guild and an environmental charity.
Show and Tell
Anna’s Habitat Challenge Quilt
Berene’s winged heart block for a quilting bee
Berene’s memory quilt
Close up of a photo from Berene’s memory quilt
Jo Ann’s stunning “Running in Circles” quilt made with Denyse Schmidt’s Single Girl pattern
Label of Jo Ann’s “Running in Circles” quilt
A mug rug that Paul received in the VMQG-FVMQG swap
Paul’s Classic Winnie the Pooh baby quilt
Jean (visitor for Langley) brought a hexagon Habitat Challenge quilt
Another visitor from Langley shared the Ugly Block Award that she’d won with her wonky star
Heather shared the owl quilt she made for her daughter using Boo Davis’s pattern.
We look forward to seeing you at our next meeting on Thursday, May 17th!
All photos by Sonja Callaghan.
Here is our long-overdue March meeting recap post. I’m hoping you believe in better late than never!
In March, we started our series of binding tutorials given by talented Vancouver Modern Quilt Guild members. Sheila started us off with a talk about the benefits of bias binding complete with great props showing how to create continuous bias binding. Sheila created the following handout for our members to help you calculate how much fabric to use to make your binding.
Bias Binding Instructions by Sheila Wex (pdf)
A tip that Sheila learned from another member at the meeting is that the strips can be cut using a ruler, without marking the 2″ strips. Just pass the tube over the ironing board and place a small cutting board underneath. Using a ruler and cutter, cut and move the cylinder.
Felicity gave the next tutorial filled with great tips about how to use fusible thread to attach your binding and how to join the ends of your binding neatly and without bulk. Many thanks to Sheila and Felicity for sharing their knowledge with our members!
Our guild business was full of fun announcements:
- The Modern Quilt Guild has announced that QuiltCon will happen in February, 2013 in Austin, Texas. QuiltCon is the inaugural conference and show of the Modern Quilt Guild! There will be a quilt show, lectures, workshops, a block challenge and much more!
- The Montreal Modern Quilt Guild is just getting started, hooray for a new Canadian modern quilt guild!
- Members of the Vancouver, Seattle and Portland MQGs will meet up in Seattle in late summer 2012, stay tuned for more details
- There will be a Vancouver MQG-Fraser Valley MQG meet up at the sewing and craft show on March 24th
- We had a small but happy group of quilters at the first Friday night sew-in at Holy Trinity Church on March 9th. There won’t be a Sunday sew-in in March. VMQG members are welcomed to register for the FVMQG sew-in on Saturday, April 21st in Abbotsford (I apologize that this notice came out after the sew-in had happened).
- We’re happy to announce that planning has started for VMQG workshops.
- Kalin is working on our application for a booth at Vancouver’s second Mini Maker Faire and we’ll hear by May if we’ve been accepted.
- We will start prorating our membership fees in May. Our membership year runs from November 1st to October 31st. Memberships purchased after May 1st will cost $25 and expire on October 31st, 2012.
Amy was the first person to piece Sonja’s new VMQG logo pattern
- Sonja has created a paper-pieced pattern of the VMQG logo and made it available to all. See the VMQG logo pattern blog post for more details. Thanks, Sonja!
We were happy to present the wonky star baby quilt to Stacey at our March meeting. It was a collaborative effort by many members of the VMQG over several months. Luckily, Stacey was able to come to the March meeting just two weeks before her baby was due to accept the quilt! We have since heard that Stacey had a healthy baby boy. Congratulations, Stacey!
After seeing an example of a finished wonky star quilt, we set a wonky star block as our March challenge. Someone will win all the blocks at our April meeting!
Here’s a small selection from our March Show and Tell:
Felicity’s completed Crane Star pillow using Laurraine’s pattern
Stacey with another paper-pieced masterpiece
Elsie’s modern orca quilt
Terry’s arbutus quilt
Paul shared several transparency blocks
All photos by Sonja Callaghan.
Here at the Vancouver Modern Quilt Guild, we are very lucky to have many talented members. Sonja Callaghan of Artisania.ca is one of those amazingly creative individuals and she designs all sorts of paper-piecing patterns. She recently created a pattern for the VMQG logo and has generously shared it with all of us for free. Our logo was designed by Cynthia Frenette of Green Couch Designs (Cynthia is another super-creative person who is co-leader of the Fraser Valley Modern Quilt Guild). Sonja tells us that ever since she saw the wonky shapes of the VMQG logo, she’s been meaning to create a pattern for it.
Amy was the first one to piece the logo! (image by Amy)
Here it is! VMQG Logo Pattern (pdf)
Suggested Robert Kaufman Kona cotton colours:
As a finishing touch, we suggest that you use white perle cotton or embroidery floss to add the stitches from the logo. If you’re a perfectionist like Amy, you can even count the stitches to make sure they match the logo!
With this pattern and some knowledge of foundation paper piecing, you’ll be able to create your own ten-inch version of our logo in fabric! If paper piecing is a new technique for you, you can find both photo and video tutorials on Sonja’s blog. If, in the process of making our logo, you get hooked on paper piecing, check out Sonja’s shop for more of her quirky patterns!
It’s Earth Day this weekend and we thought a reuse challenge would be the perfect way to combine quilting and environmentalism! The guild received a donation of silk ties from a businessman who was retiring and we’re going to upcycle them into an improv quilt. Here’s what you need to know to get started:
Materials you will need:
Using your sheet of paper as a foundation, alternate the ties and white cotton to create stripes that run lengthwise on the paper (11 inches long). Leave your edges a little larger than the paper to allow space for trimming. Your tie stripes can either be made from one tie, or several pieced together. Please leave the sheet of paper attached.
Tip from Amy: use lots of pins, and UHU glue to tack it in place.
All the finished blocks will be assembled into a group quilt. This quilt will eventually be a fundraiser with a portion going to the guild and a portion going to a charity that will be chosen over the next few months.
From Suzanne Gray of Portland, Oregon who made our inspiration quilt:
My piecing style was quite liberated– I alternated wonky strips of white with whole and pieced tie sections, then trimmed them down…. It was really easy!
Photos of Suzanne’s Tie Quilt: http://www.flickr.com/photos/60856884@N02/galleries/72157629839598015
Photos in this post by Sonja Callaghan.
We are very excited to do a second swap with another modern quilt guild. This time we are going international, but staying west coast, and swapping with the Portland Modern Quilt Guild!
Please read over the guidelines carefully before committing. Then fill out this form by Friday, April 27th to register. You will be assigned your partners in early May.
Kalin will coordinate the Vancouver end of the swap so please contact her at kalin@vancouvermodernquiltguild.ca if you have any questions.
Krista (Poppyprint)’s Mosaic for a recent pouch swap
Guidelines:
Our next meeting is at 7:00pm on Thursday, April 19th, 2012. We’ll be hearing some great binding tips from Janet and Terry. We’ve got an Earth Day-themed challenge for you as well!
Directions: Click to view Langara College’s campus map and Vancouver map. Room C509 is in Building C (link to map of Building C) which also houses the bookstore. From the parking lot, walk east towards the main campus, and turn right immediately past the bookstore. Go in the next set of doors on your right and take the elevator straight ahead of you up to the fifth floor. (Ignore the set of elevators on your left as they don’t go up to the fifth floor). Turn left out of the elevator and you’ll be at Room C509!
Parking: The parking fee is a $3 flat rate after 5pm. The entrance to the parking lot is off of W 49th Ave, just west of the campus. (the entrance is marked by the little red triangle at the top left corner of this campus directory). You pay for parking in the lobby of the library (Building L), not in the parking lot, so be sure to remember your parking spot number. There is limited street parking in the area but you may be lucky enough to find a free spot!
See you there!
With all the Quilt Shows and events in our area we decided to make a Google Calendar that everyone can access to see these Quilt related events, along with the guild meetings and sew-ins (& workshops!) we organize. Please visit our Calendar page to view the current month, or if you’re a regular Google Calendar user, add it to your profile.
If you view the event details we will include locations, agendas and other details depending on what kind of event it is. If the event is longer than 1 week, we have only marked the first and last date of the event.
Know about an event that you think should be included? Send Kalin or Holly an email.
