{"id":37706,"date":"2017-08-29T07:00:39","date_gmt":"2017-08-29T14:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=37706"},"modified":"2017-08-28T15:28:24","modified_gmt":"2017-08-28T22:28:24","slug":"august-bamaqg-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/august-bamaqg-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"August BAMaQG Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you want the full, official minutes of the meeting, check the BAMaQG blog<\/a>. This will just be some impressions of things I liked or inspired me.<\/p>\n

\"Informal<\/a>
Informal Pedicure Challenge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Three of us were chatting and admiring each other’s pedicures. I took a picture and posted a photo\/joke up on IG<\/a> about the latest BAM challenge. I wasn’t 100% joking though I don’t know if I have time to make something. We’ll see what people say.<\/p>\n

I was invited to do a trunk show next month. Gerre<\/a> had spoken to me about it several months ago and I had completely forgotten, so I was a little stunned when she announced it. Of course, I am extremely flattered. Since the meeting, I have been thinking about which quilts to bring. I can’t bring them all, because I don’t have them all. Also, there are too many even of the ones I still own. I am going to focus on my older quilts. I haven’t, for the most part, showed them at guild and I think they will be the most interesting. In preparation for this exercise, I am preparing some Throwback Thursday posts. Look for those.<\/p>\n

Gerre is starting to talk about projects that can be made out of all of our merit hexies. She has started to collect ideas on a\u00a0Pinterest board<\/a> and there are some fun ones there. I am not sure what I will make. I don’t want to sew them all together like a Grandmother’s Flower Garden. I have enough EPP with the Half Hexie Star project<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"BAMaQG<\/a>
BAMaQG Charity Monkey Wrench Blocks<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Charity Girls have some interesting blocks. I have never really been interested in the Monkey Wrench block. Of course, all blocks have beauty in their own way blah blah blah.<\/p>\n

I think I must have missed the call for these blocks. I saw them laying on the table as I was wandering around and found them to be the most exciting Monkey Wrench blocks I have ever seen. I particularly liked the top one. I took pictures of it in detail in case I want to make some like it – for the charity project, of course.<\/p>\n

\"Monkey<\/a>
Monkey Wrench – charity<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I think all of the MW blocks use fabric cleverly and that makes them much more interesting than just using two colors\/fabrics. My favorite is particularly interesting, not just because of the fabric, but also because of the reversal of foreground and background. I am not an eye researcher so I don’t know the particulars of how the eye sends information to the brain, but I think that I was looking at it more. My eye was moving around the block more because of the foreground\/background switch. My brain was trying to make sense of the information the eye was sending to it. I am VERY tempted to try making a few of these.<\/p>\n

\"August<\/a>
August 2017: Charity Quilts Available to Quilt<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Charity Girls still have a lot of quilts available to quilt. This makes me nervous because I always bring quilt tops. I barely quilt for myself and quilting for charity might send me over the edge. I was pleased that someone had taken the Stars #2 Quilt<\/a> right away to quilt. Another thing I don’t have to worry about.<\/p>\n

Most of my info seems to be about Charity. There is a lot of interesting work going on with Charity right now. A lot of people stayed until the bitter end, but not a lot of people sewed. There wasn’t a lot I could photograph, as a result.<\/p>\n

\"Reminds<\/a>
Reminds me of Renewed Jelly Roll Race Quilt<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The last Charity effort I saw reminded me of my Renewed Jelly Roll Race Quilt<\/a>. The colors in the fabrics are little bit dustier than my quilt, but this is still a very cheerful and attractive quilt.<\/p>\n

It was a great meeting, as usual. The Board is doing a great job.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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