Welcome to Newsletter #2!
Next Meeting -September 27 - 6pm
Our next meeting is Sept 27th at 6pm at Gentler Times Stitching in Naperville. You should bring any show and tell, your nametag, and ideas for challenges, etc for November and December. We are going to try out another seating set up this time in hopes f finding one that works and doesn't leave people cramped or out in the hall. At this meeting, Faith will be doing a presentation on Modern Quilts.
Gentler Times
476 S Route 59
Suite 152
Naperville, IL 60540
Challenge for October
At the last meeting, we decided our challenge would be a project containing Aqua, Tangerine, and Grey. It can be any project in the modern quilt style. Bags, quilts, pillows, you name it, anything goes. Have fun! The big reveal will be at the October meeting.
Ideas for Challenges/Swaps/Programs
At our last meeting, Cheryl mentioned to be thinking about ideas for future swaps and challenges, and we came up with the color specific challenge first, but we also dropped hints about having presentations, doing "mug rug" or other gift-y type swaps, or specific block challenges too. So get your thinking caps on and if you feel strongly about doing a particular thing, bring it up at the meeting!
Logos
Faith did a great job sending in some logos for the guild to use and after we emailed them around a couple of weeks ago, we decided we liked them all! The website and the Facebook Page have all been updated with the new logos. Thanks Faith!
Modern Mystery Quilt Free Patterns
There's a free Modern Mystery Quilt to follow along with that you might want to check out at http://www.quiltviews.com/modern-mystery-quilt-part-2-of-6 Who knows what it will look like in the end, but wouldn't it be fun in our challenge colors?
What is a Modern Quilt?
At the last meeting, Cheryl read from the Modern Quilt Guild's website the definition of a modern quilt. We're posting it below. We're very excited for this aesthetic, and are glad to have a group locally that focuses on it!
Here's the blurb from the Modern Quilt Guild:
"What is modern quilting?
Modern quilting is a new and rapidly growing movement in the quilting world. A group of quilters applied their current tastes and points of view to this traditional craft and shared their work online. Their fresh approach and new designs attracted sewers and quilters and the modern quilting movement was born.
Modern quilting, like all art, changes, grows and adapts from quilter to quilter as they find their own voice. Modern quilts reflect each quilter’s personality and personal style, and as the movement has grown, a modern quilt aesthetic, a set of principles that define and guide the movement, is beginning to emerge.
Modern quilts and quilters:
• Make primarily functional rather than decorative quilts
• Use asymmetry in quilt design
• Rely less on repetition and on the interaction of quilt block motifs
• Contain reinterpreted traditional blocks
• Embrace simplicity and minimalism
• Utilize alternative block structures or lack of visible block structure
• Incorporate increased use of negative space
• Are inspired by modern art and architecture
• Frequently use improvisational piecing
• Contain bold colors, on trend color combinations and graphic prints
• Often use gray and white as neutrals
• Reflect an increased use of solid fabrics
• Focus on finishing quilts on home sewing machines
Modern quilting has its roots in rebellion, in our desire to do something different, but simultaneously its feet are firmly planted in the field of tradition. Modern quilting is our response to what has come before. We are quilters first, modern quilters second. There are however, characteristics that set modern quilters apart from our traditional and art quilting friends.
Modern quilters are a diverse group of woman and men, young and old, experienced and novice, yet each of us feels the need to differentiate ourselves as modern quilters by how we work, the fabrics we choose, and the aesthetic of our quilts. We create in a way that supports our individual creative needs and our lifestyle preferences. Modern quilters resist the imposition of hard and fast rules for making a quilt. We pick and choose traditional techniques and methods that work for us and at the same time feel free to redefine or reinvent what is possible and allowable in making quilts.
Modern quilters have embraced the new options available in textiles: bold colors, graphic prints, larger scale prints, and Japanese fabrics. Much like the Amish quilting tradition, many modern quilters are also exploring quilt designs made exclusively with solid fabrics or with just a hint of print.
The Internet has played an integral role in the development of modern quilting. Through blogs, online tutorials and social media the modern quilting community interacts, providing inspiration and friendship for each other. This has helped the community grow at an astounding pace, providing feedback and support at a moment’s notice.
In many ways, modern quilting has taken us back to the basics of the early quilters, when women of the day used the colors and styles of their time to express themselves creatively while finding friendship and community along the way. Welcome to modern quilting!"
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