Central Virginia Modern Quilt Guild

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National Quilting Day 2023!

Central Virginia Quilt Guild Celebrates National Quilting Day on March 18, 2023!

The CVAMQG will celebrate National Quilting Day on March 18 at the Gayton Branch Library, 10600 Gayton Rd, Richmond, VA 23238, from 10:30 am to 5:30 pm.  We will have coffee, tea, muffins, etc. for breakfast.  Lunch will be on your own. Please feel free to bring your lunch with you, or have lunch at a nearby restaurant. 

As part of the celebration, we have a group project for members, the Reversible Fabric Basket by Svetlana Sotek. Please take a look at the You Tube video for the instructions and requirements.  (Pellon SF 101 Interfacing is suggested, but you may want to use something else.  You should have all other supplies.)  We will have irons for use, but feel free to bring your own.  This is an easy project, and would qualify for our 2023 challenge using scraps.   Of course, you are not required to make a fabric basket to participate in celebrating the day.  You are free to bring your own project to work on on Saturday! 

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Virtual workshop with Sujata Shah

We are over-the-moon excited to offer the “Stories in Stitches” online workshop with Sujata Shah. Participants will learn how to make a Siddi kawandi. (“Kawandi” means quilt.) Natalie took her workshop last month at the Vermont Quilt Festival and loved it so much, she contacted Sujata about teaching our guild. The only available time she has is Friday, September 17th 6:00 – 9:00 pm. The cost to each member is $50; nonmembers $60.

Here are 10 reasons why you need to take this workshop.

  • Sujata is an amazing teacher.  Gentle, wise, extremely knowledgeable, and an exciting artist.
  • The class connects quilting and life in ways I hadn’t thought of before.
  • To make a kawandi, you don’t need scissors, rotary tools, irons, or sewing machines.  Just needle and thread and a thimble.
  • When you make a kawandi, you do the binding, piecing, and quilting all at once!  When it’s done, it’s done.
  • You won’t know what your quilt really looks like until you sew on the final piece.  Surprise!
  • Making a kawandi is a terrific use of scraps.
  • But if you don’t want a scrappy look, Sujata has made some beautiful kawandi using solids for a totally different look.  (Visit her web sitehttps://therootconnection.blogspot.com ). Also, Margaret Fabrizio is crazy amazing, too: http://margaretfabrizio.com/quilts/index.html
  • If you are new to hand quilting, this is a fun and “safe” place to start.  Sujata talks about how our stitching, in all its “imperfections”, is really telling our story. The learning process is part of our story.  Kawandi stitching is relatively small, not larger stitching as you may have seen in kantha quilting.
  • Sewing a kawandi is addicting, and it feels glorious as you add more and more rows of stitches.
  • If you don’t believe me, here is a blog post by a woman who took Sujata’s class: https://aquilterstable.blogspot.com/2020/11/kawandi.html


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Sherri Lynn Wood Workshops Excellent Learning Experience.

The Central Virginia Modern Quilt Guild hosted Sherri Lynn Wood for a weekend of Improvisation on Saturday, February 1, 2020, for Patchwork Doodle, and on Sunday, February 2, 2020, for Grid Busting Mashup. The classes were full and we all learned so much.

The classes started with a centering meditation exercise and then 30 minutes of sewing, no talking. Amazing how much work we all got done in those 30 minutes and many of us have made this a regular practice before sewing. From there, Sherri Lynn demonstrated techniques, walked us through several Evaluations, and told us the positive way to approach “mistakes”–Whoopie! During the free lecture Saturday, February 1, 2020, entitled Ruler Free Mashup, Sherri Lynn had us pick any fabric from the scrap pile and then crafted a wonderful quilt top before our eyes. And, yes, we did select the ugliest fabrics we could find in the bin.

Workshop Descriptions:

Patchwork Doodle:

1-day 6hr / intermediate / all skill levels welcome

Doodle with your scrap stash! Let go of expectations and build patterns with simple shapes and negative space. Learn ruler-free patchwork techniques. Collaborate with your patchwork with a YES AND as you affirm and respond in the moment to the pattern as it unfolds. Discover a responsive approach to composition and design that lies somewhere between randomness and planned.

Featured in The Improv Handbook For Modern Quilters. Her book will be available for purchase at the retail price, $27.95, during the workshop and lectures. She will be available during the lecture to sign her book.

Grid Busting Curves:

1-day 6hr / intermediate / all skill levels welcome /

Discover the freedom and ease of piecing template free curves. There are no mistakes here! The goal of this layered curve improv workshop is to bust out of the grid.


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Sherri Lynn Wood Workshop Registration opens August 16, 2019

The Central Virginia Modern Quilt Guild is excited to host Sherri Lynn Wood for a weekend of Improvisation!

Join us Saturday, February 1, 2020, for Patchwork Doodle, and on Sunday, February 2, 2020, for Grid Busting Mashup.

We are also happy to provide a free lecture Saturday, February 1, 2020, 6:00 to 8:00 p.m., entitled Ruler Free Mashup.

Registration opens to the public on Friday, August 16, 2019, at 7:00 p.m. Eastern Time. Non-members are invited!!!

Location:

DoubleTree by Hilton Richmond Midlothian, 1021 Koger Center Boulevard, Richmond, VA, 23235. Room rate is $109 per night. Provide our name when making reservations. Room reservations are separate from the workshop registration.

Workshop Descriptions:

Patchwork Doodle:

1-day 6hr / intermediate / all skill levels welcome

Doodle with your scrap stash! Let go of expectations and build patterns with simple shapes and negative space. Learn ruler-free patchwork techniques. Collaborate with your patchwork with a YES AND as you affirm and respond in the moment to the pattern as it unfolds. Discover a responsive approach to composition and design that lies somewhere between randomness and planned.

Featured in The Improv Handbook For Modern Quilters. Her book will be available for purchase at the retail price, $27.95, during the workshop and lectures. She will be available during the lecture to sign her book.

Grid Busting Curves:

1-day 6hr / intermediate / all skill levels welcome /

Discover the freedom and ease of piecing template free curves. There are no mistakes here! The goal of this layered curve improv workshop is to bust out of the grid.

Cost?

BOTH WORKSHOPS which will include a free signed book ($27.95 retail) and free lecture:  $300

INDIVIDUAL WORKSHOP:  $145 (includes lecture but not free book)

Return to our website on August 16, 2019 to register and pay for the workshops using PayPal. Space is limited so it will be first come, first served.

(Refund of half the fees if cancelled before December 1, 2019. No refund after that date. To cancel, send us an email at cvamqg@gmail.com)