QUILTS IN THE PARK

 I met with some of members of the Seattle Modern Quilt Guild this morning.

We brought quilts to display and admire and talk about.

I brought the books I'm donating to the guild and passed them off to the librarian.

SEAMQG PROJECT

 I volunteered to help sew together the blocks for a Seattle Modern Quilt Guild's community giving quilt.  They sent the blocks and a plan on how to put them together.

I got the top third of the quilt.

It went together quite quickly and easily.

It's a bit too pink for my taste!

GATHER SHOW AND SWAP

 The Seattle Modern Quilt Guild had a Gather, Show and Swap meet-up at View Ridge Playfield in NE Seattle.

This year they changed it to start at 10am instead of noon.  I was able to make it for the first time.

It was fun.  I took three quilts to show, Cincinnati, Blissfully and Eddy.  We were in the shade, so not too hot.

We laid plastic or something out on the grass and put the quilts on top of that.  I brought a lawn chair.

LAST ROW ON BEGONIA

This month we added the last row on the Begonia Quilt.  

She said that maybe next month there would be options - I don't know what that will be.

SEPTEMBER BEGONIA

I finally got around to adding September's rows to the Begonia Quilt.

I love September.  Summer is coming to a close, but the weather is just perfect.  The dogs know how to relax.  Lazy Jax.

JULY BEGONIA

I got all of the half-square-triangle squares made and the borders put on for SeaMQG's Block of the Month for 2019, Begonia.  The rest of the months will be easier with just borders to make.  Hopefully, I've gotten all of the HST squares made properly!

It just keeps getting better and better.

[It's still really hard to photograph that dark Kona Regal color.]

All done!

We spent the afternoon at the hospital today, he had a colonoscopy.  Being the designated driver, I was required to hang around.  I took my sketching and watercolors with me.  

JUNE BEGONIA

It's so exciting when the next set of instructions for Seattle Modern Quilt Guild's Block of the Month, Begonia come out.  

I added the next rows today after making a bunch more Half-Square Triangles.

BEGONIA FOR MAY

This month's instructions for the Seattle Modern Quilt Guild's Block of the Month, Begonia, came out last night.

I was so excited to get out to the studio this morning to get to work on it.  I love this!

It's really difficult to get a good picture of this Kona Regal (dark purple).  

And then there were all of these extra HST squares to make.  We're front-loading for the months to come.

BEGONIA MONTH 4

We got the next set of instructions for Seattle Modern Quilt Guild's Mystery Block of the Month, Begonia.

This is such a fun project, I can hardly wait to see what comes next.

Lots of triangles - we made more than needed for this month's borders.

 

BEGONIA MONTH TWO

Here is the second installment of Seattle Modern Quilt Guild's Block of the Month for 2019.

It's basically a bunch of half-square-triangle squares and we are making them eight at a time.  Easy-peasy.  I like it.  You put two 8" squares together, then make a diagonal X on the back, sew a quarter inch on each side, then cut on the lines and also in the other two directions to make eight squares.

Then you square them down to 3-1/2" squares.  

BEGONIA BLOCK OF THE MONTH

Seattle Modern Quilt Guild's block of the month for 2019 is called the Begonia quilt.  It's going to be mostly half-square-triangle squares.

First month's assignment is to pick fabrics and make the center.

I'm using the fabric I got at the recent Love of Stitching meeting the CQA guild arranged that got the CQA the SeaMQG and the Seattle SAQA together for an afternoon.  It was fun.  We traded fabrics at the end.

This yard of fabric is definitely not something I would have bought on my own.  But it's going to be a great jumping off point for this project.

Wow, right?

Here's my ten fabrics and my Swatch Panel to keep them straight.

And then here's the first month's assignment, the center square and a few small square-in-a-square blocks to be saved for later.  

The fabric used for that bigger center square was directional, so I cut it into four triangles and sewed them together in such a way as to make them more uni-directional (is that a word?), more bud-like (as in, the center of the flower).

The main fabric for this project, the dark purple, is a Kona called Regal.  I love it.