Last night we had Cinzia one of the
founding member of the Montreal Modern Quilt Guild come and talk to
us about modern quilting. The first Modern Quilt Guild was founded in
Los Angles in 2009 and there are now over 200 branches all over the
world. The Montreal guild is celebrating it's first anniversary and
is growing. Cinzia talked about the idea of modern quilting and all
the forms it takes. She had a presentation with pictures of quilts
in all the modern quilt categories and then a trunk show of the many
quilts she has made. She works mainly with bright colours, solids and
white backgrounds which make for stunning graphic quilts. One of her
quilts was exhibited at QuiltCon, the first show for the Modern Quilt
Guild in Austin Texas and is now part of a touring show.
We had a Show and Tell with the
beginnings of quilts from our Shelia Wintle workshop. We did paper
piecing of Shelia's “Heart to Heart” quilt. Anna had her
interpretation almost finished, using half a heart, circles and all
the colour gradations from burgundy to bright pink on a grey
background. It was another great example of Anna's out of the box thinking. Debbie, Julia, Linda, and Mary had made some progress.
There were hearts and half a hearts in purple and gold, purple and
cream, green and navy and turquoise and white. Rita as usual,had
another top for a baby quilt all done. It was made of squares, bright
colours and really cute animal prints. Rita is certainly prolific, making baby quilts for everyone she knows. Allison had two challenges
she made for the Beaconsfield Guild, one using scraps from our raffle quilt. Julia had also finished her Halloween cathedral window piece, she used in her demonstration. We all welcomed back Coleen from her winter hibernation.
You can only imagine the lovely works
that were shown as I forgot to bring my camera! So, as no blog posting
should be without pictures, I took these at home. This is my half a heart, so
imagine this pattern in many different colours. Also, an appliqued
maple leaf square that is a part of a group quilt to be raffled at
our golf club cocktail party. I hope to have a picture when it is all put together.
Next week, May 7th we have another meeting where we will be working on our quilts of valour. Then, one more meeting and our closing dinner, June 4th.
Mary
