June Guild Meeting

Monday, June 9th, 6:30 p.m.
OSU Extension Office
2500 NE 63rd St in OKC
 

Deep Dive into the OKCMQG Fall Quilt Show

The Quilt Show committee will share details to help us all prepare for the up-coming quilt show.  We will learn more about how each of us can participate, build a successful fundraiser, grow as a community, and have a great time.  Lela O'Dell will do a historical quilt presentation and we will share our Its Hip to be Square member challenge as well as those stylish shoes.

 

Words April Member Challenge

Member Challenge   A Challenge Mini is a small quilt inspired by the suggestion of a monthly prompt. “Small” being approximately 12”x12”, but we are modern, so whatever works for you is perfect. The prompt, a single word, or set of guidelines, is announced at our monthly guild meeting. A day or two afterward it can be found on the OKCMQG Facebook page. The minis offer opportunities to experiment and expand creative quilty horizons. Participation in any given month is optional. Jump in - or out - as life allows. The Challenge Mini prompt for May is:   Create a quilt or block inspired by paint chip colors representing your initials Choose 3 paint chips whose color names begin with your initials.  Match the chips, as closely as you can, to fabric.  Add other fabrics as you like.  Create your mini using one or more of the following guidelines:  1.  Use only existing scraps  2. Work from the center of your piece, building outward  3. Use improvisational cutting and piecing  4. Use only one shape repeatedly  5. Explore minimalism

 

May Guild Meeting

Monday, May 12th, 6:30 p.m.
OSU Extension Office
2500 NE 63rd St in OKC
 

NOT NOTHING, Negative Space with Sarah Atlee

What is "negative space" and what does it have to do with quilts? In her presentation NOT NOTHING, Sarah Atlee will explore the roles that "emptiness" can play in your quilting practice. Sarah will introduce negative space as a design element and share examples of its use in other art forms. She will also give you strategies tor using negative space as a tool for moving from traditional to more modern quilt designs. We will share our Paint Chip Initials member challenge and learn more about the upcoming Quilt Show.

Welcome home to all our amazing members who attended QuiltCon 2025! We can't wait to hear your stories, see your fabric finds, and relive the inspiration with you.

For those who missed it on Facebook, feast your eyes on this! Our very own guild quilt, 'Inspiration Found at Home! Skydance Bridge,' proudly hanging at QuiltCon 2025. 🎉 A huge congratulations to everyone who contributed their creativity, skills, and passion to bring this vision to life. What a moment to celebrate!

Mark your calendars now for our next meeting:  

March 10, 2025 at 6:30 pm

Oklahoma County OSU Extension Center

2500 NE 63rd St.

Oklahoma City, OK 73111

Until then, keep quilting, keep creating, and keep the inspiration flowing! 

September 2024 Meeting

Monday, September 9th, 6:30 p.m.
OSU Extension Office in OKC
2500 NE 63rd St.

Featured Speaker: Beverly Huggins Kirk 

From Quiltfolk Magazine:

"Beverly Huggins Kirk’s journey of self-discovery weaves together moments of loss, growth, and cultural identity. From commemorating her father’s memory with a tie quilt to reclaiming her passion as an empty nester, Beverly embraces her own unique voice and empowers other women through her Scissor Tales Quilt Guild, shaping narratives that celebrate triumphs and confront historical complexities with grace and honesty."

Join us on Monday, September 9th, as Beverly shares her quilting journey to our guild with a lecture and a trunk show. 

Bring along your Oklahoma edition of Quiltfolk Magazine and have her autograph it for you as well!

We'll see you on the 9th!

April 2024 Meeting

NEW LOCATION 

Monday, April 8th, 6:30 p.m.
OSU Extension Office in OKC
2500 NE 63rd St.

Collaboration is Fun

Whether you’re a seasoned collaborator or brand new to collaboration, we invite you to sit back and enjoy a candid discussion on the topic with Karen Bolan. At the April meeting you’ll get to view over 25 stunning collaborative quilts while Karen shares tips on how to successfully design, manage, and participate in collaborative quilting projects.

Get ready for a discussion on different types of collaborative quilt projects, as well as how to deal with difficult situations. We’ll see you on the 8th! 

Meet the Speaker

Karen Bolan is a quilter living in Northern California. Drawn to the layers of design and expression possible in quilting, she loves the learning that comes from experimenting and endeavors to find efficiencies in both processes and use of materials.

Karen's designs are out-of-the-box, and integrate a love of geometry, experimentation, interconnection, depth, and texture. Her work has been featured in multiple magazines including Curated Quilts, Modern Quilt Guild Journal, Make Modern, and Modish Quilter, and her quilts have been exhibited at several local and international shows including QuiltCon, Pacific International Quilt Festival, and the de Young Museum.

Round Robin Kickoff

We'll be kicking off this year's Round Robin at the April meeting and can't wait for everyone to sign up!

We'll share what it's all about, how it works, and answer any questions you have before getting started. 

March 2024 Meeting

NEW LOCATION 
Monday, March 11th, 6:30 p.m.
Northwest Library (Room A)
5600 NW 122nd St.
OKC, OK 73142 

What Happens When We Die?

No, we're not talking about the philosophical question. We're talking about something much more important...

Like most sewists, quilters, and crafters, Amy Jo Garner has accumulated an ample supply of fabric, notions, and other materials. And as someone who often acquires stashes of secondhand textiles and supplies, she has spent a lot of time thinking about the people who once owned the fabric, patterns, notions, and sewing machines that she ended up with.

Did they know that their families would abandon their treasured stash in a storage unit? Did they expect it to get dumped in a thrift store donation box? Did they realize that whoever had to empty their sewing room would put a large portion of the contents in a dumpster?

Amy Jo Garner is a sewist and fiber artist who found herself starting a small secondhand textiles resale business more than a year ago when she found that she was ending up with more textiles, patterns, and other sewing items than she could possibly use in her own art practice. 

Amy stores these unwanted materials in her home, her studio, and in a climate-controlled storage facility, because the world is already overrun with textiles destined for the landfill or the incinerator.

Join us on Monday, March 11th, at 6:30 at the Northwest Library in OKC. Amy wants to start a conversation about how we - as creative people - can make a plan for what should happen to all of our cherished textiles, tools, notions, patterns, and machinery once we pass from this world.

Let's call it 'Crafty End-of-Life Planning.' We'll see you on March 11th!

QuiltCon 2024 Recap

Several of our members attended QuiltCon last month in Raleigh, North Carolina. For those of us with FOMO, we'll get to live vicariously through their recap at the March meeting. We can't wait!