Can you say Red? White? Blue?

We’re excited to have some more quilts to share with you. We asked for redwhiteblue, or red or white or blue, or any combination of these colors, and it’s been fun to see them come in. They do not have to be patriotic, and we also encouraged you to send in photos of bags, totes, zip cases — in other words — small makes in these colors would be fun to see, too.

Small Make Title: Mini Double-Pocket Bag
Maker: Elizabeth Eastmond

Elizabeth writes: I was perfecting my new pattern for the Mini Double-Pocket Bag, and thought about our RWB makes on this blog. And after the sheep baa-ed at me, I knew I had to use these fabrics. Red, white and blue is always cheery.

Maker: Laura Greene
Quilt Title: Symbol of Freedom
Dimensions: 24″ × 72″
Machine Pieced and Quilted in March 2020

I wanted a quilt that would fit my wall space. It needed to be simple yet modern. I marked the eagle and hearts on meltaway stabilizer on the back use free -motion quilting. I used stencils and a frixion pen to mark the red and white stripes for quilting.

Maker: Debi Gardner
Title: Red, white, and blue table runner

I made this for the top of my buffet. The pattern is in a quilting magazine. I can’t remember which one, though. [Note: This is the Arrow Points quilt block by Nancy Page, 1920-1940.]

Quilt name: Chuck’s Quilt
Quilt Maker: Pat Klassen
Size: 20″ x 32″
My son has a cat named Chuck who sleeps on his pillow every day which was taking a toll on his pillow. So I had these scraps of War planes and patriotic fabric and turned it into a wonderful little quilt Chuck could sleep on.

Quilt Title: Azulejos
Quilt Maker: Elizabeth Eastmond
Quilt by: Cathy Kreter
Dimension: 63″ x 76″

This quilt is based on a tile seen in Lisbon, Portugal, when we visited a couple of years ago.

This last quilt was added in to show you that your quilt doesn’t have to be a patriotic quilt, or even an equal mix of the three colors. Send us your quilts with red, white, blue, or any mix or combo of the three hues.

Housekeeping: We’ve posted the newest Board Minutes up on the Minutes Tab, above. And our VPs of Programs were able to get more Zoom Meeting Dates for us for the rest of this year. They will show on the right in Calendar, but please do mark them on your calendars:

• Saturday, August 1 (submit your Show and Shares by July 29th, to iemodernquiltguild@gmail.com) In addition, please submit photos of your MQGuild Block of the Month Strawberry Blocks. (see info below)
• Saturday, September 5
• Saturday, October 3
• Saturday, November 7
• Saturday, December 5 — our Christmas party
Please submit your Show and Shares by the Wednesday before the meeting.

We’d like to encourage you to take advantage of the resources available on the national Modern Quilt Guild website, so to do that, we’re asking you to create a Block of the Month along with them. Laura writes that the July Block of the Month comes from The Modern Quilt Guild website, and was highlighted during our meeting. The strawberry block pattern, which was designed by Sarah Flynn, can be downloaded from the Modern Quilt Guild, after you log on as a member. Here are some of her creations:

And now for two creations from our guild:

Head over to the Modern Quilt Guild national site, log on and download your free pattern. Send photos of your blocks to our guild email, and at our meeting in August, Laura will coordinate a slide show of strawberry block creations.

Since next week is a holiday weekend, we’ll be taking a break with our next post on July 13, 2020. We hope you have a great 4th of July! Wear your quilty masks! Practice physical distancing! Enjoy some time celebrating our country’s Day of Independence! And submit your REDWHITEBLUE makes and quilts! The show continues through the month of July.