Come join us for our next virtual workshop with Karie Jewel on May 15, 2021. Registration closes on May 9th!

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Comfort & Joy:  2021 CVAMQG Quilt Challenge

+ Conversations on Modern Quilting

Traditional blocks and quilt designs are the comfort foods of quilting.  When we look at one, we feel happy, and lately, comforted.  We cravesnuggling up under one and feeling safe and warm.

Modern quilts make us happy, too.  We look at them and feel energized and optimistic.  In our first CVMQG challenge of 2021, we invite you to celebrate a traditional quilt block or design with your own modern take.  Reimagine the block with your own twist, or maybe focus on the meaning or origin of the design.  Keep in mind the modern quilting elements of negative space, asymmetry, improvisation, scale, contrast, etc. (We will have conversations about these throughout the year.)

A few possibilities:• Recreate a traditional block with modern colors or prints.• Use a traditional block as inspiration for your own block or quilt design.• Change the size – think log cabin and Carolyn Friedlander’s Rayquilt• Reflect on the origin or meaning of the block as inspiration for your quilt.  (For example, the Log Cabin represents “hearth and home.”  What does hearth and home look like to you?)• Combine traditional designs in a fun new way: how about a Drunkard’s Path through a Friendship Garden?• Turn a block on its head.  (What if a Pineapple Block were a PeachBlock? Or a Carmen Miranda fruit hat? What if the mariner’s compass gave bad directions?)

A sampling of traditional block patterns:

Log Cabin	Friendship/Sampler Quilts
Courthouse Steps	Fan
Nine Patch (and variations)	Sunbonnet Sue
Ohio Star	Garden of Eden
Bear Paw	Hole in the Barn Door
Lady of the Lake	Old Maid’s Puzzle
Economy Block	Texas Star
Pineapple	Crown of Thorns
Flying Geese	Roman Coins
Mariner’s Compass	Pinwheels

More ideas here:  https://www.quiltingdaily.com/traditional-made-modern-fresh-take-traditional-quilt-patterns/

Victoria Findlay Wolfe: https://vfwquilts.com

The plan:• All year:  Conversations about elements of modern quilting, led by Kat & Candy• All year: Contemplate your Comfort & Joy design & quilt; share your ideas and progress• December:  Final reveal (or close to final reveal)• January:  Submit quilts for Mid-Atlantic Quilt Show CVAMQG display

Any size.  But we do like to say, “Go big or go home!”  The Mid-Atlantic Show loves larger-size quilts, and who are we to disappoint?

Share your ideas on Instagram #comfortandjoy

All activities will be via Zoom until further notice.  You will receive Zoom links prior to each event.

**All business meetings and Sewcials begin at 7:00 pm

Tues. 2/2/21

February Business Meeting** 7:00 – 8:30pm

Maria Shell workshop discussion & sharing

Share Folksy photo shoot photos, Ray quilt Show & Tell

Comfort & Joy Challenge & Modern Quilting Conversations introduction:  

Modern Traditionalism, CVAMQG Buddies

Tues. 2/16/21

February Sewcial** 7:00 – 8:00pm

Pattern sharing (Have a pattern you are finished with?  Need a pattern?  

Show & share patterns and finished quilts)

Tues. 2/18-2/22/21

QuiltCon Together https://www.quiltcon.com

Fri. 2/19/21

QuiltCon Cocktail Party (on Zoom) 7:00 – 8:00 pm

All are invited, not just QC attendees!

Tues. 3/2/21

March Business Meeting

Share QuiltCon takeaways

Modern Quilting Conversations:

Tues. 3/16/21

March Sewcial

Sat. 3/20/21

Open Studio 1:30 – 5:30pm

World Quilting Day!  Open studios are just a chance for us to sew together from our home studios, using Zoom.  Come as you are able. Stay as long as you like.

The more, the merrier!

Tues. 4/6/21

April Business Meeting

Tues. 4/20/21

April Sewcial

Sat. 4/24/21

Open Studio 1:30 – 5:30pm

Tues. 5/4/21

May Business Meeting

Tues. 5/18/21

May Sewcial

Sat. 5/22/21

Open Studio 1:30 – 5:30pm

Tues. 6/8/21

June Business Meeting

Tues. 6/22/21

June Sewcial

Tues. 7/6/21

July Business Meeting

Sat. 7/24/21

Open Studio 1:30 – 5:30pm

Tues. 8/3/21

August Business Meeting

Tues. 9/7/21

September Business Meeting

Tues. 9/21/21

September Sewcial

Sat. 9/25/21

Open Studio 1:30 – 5:30pm

Tues. 10/5/21

October Business Meeting

Review & approve new by-laws

Tues. 10/19/21

October Sewcial

Sat. 11/2/21

November Business Meeting

Tues. 12/7/21

December Business Meeting and Holiday Celebration

Gift exchange

Comfort & Joy Reveal