December Meeting Show & Tell

The Tulsa Modern Quilt Guild wrapped up 2018 with a holiday potluck. LOTS of delicious food was consumed among plentiful conversation and beautiful show & tell pieces. Several of our show and tell items were gifts items being presented at Christmas. We've had a great year with so many wonderful works of art being made and donation quilts presented to Saint Francis' NICU department. We are looking forward to continuing creating and learning from each other as we move into 2019. The new year will bring with it a new meeting space that is more conducive to Show & Tell. We are really looking forward to that! Without further ado, here are some pictures of our December Show & Tell creations.

Table Runner Swap with OKC Modern Quilt Guild
We love our runners. Thanks OKC!

Commissioned Montessori baby quilt by Jane

In memory of Kathy's brother who passed, she and Jane made quilts out of his grey & black suits and his ties.
Such a special gift honoring him!

NICU donation quilt by Cindy

Adorable pillows by Julie

Beautiful (& huge) quilt made by Jacque as a Christmas gift

Swoon quilt by Julie

100 Days, 100 Blocks quilt by Julie
We love the layout of this quilt!

2700 Pieces (!!!) quilt by Joye

Christmas Domino quilt by Enid

Patti's 2018 President's Challenge creation

Patti took pieces leftover from other quilts to put together this Stipes + X quilt. Some of the low volume is obtained by using the "wrong side" of the fabric as the "right side."

Bob!
A creation of Patti's from a drawing by one of her grandson's

Hexagon quilt by Peggy

Deneisha made several quilts as gifts this year. "Tunnels" is one of them.

Adorable Rudolf quilt by Linda

NICU quilts by Barbara

NICU quilt by Connie

NICU quilts by Crystal

Completed quilt that Lora started at our 2018 Fall Retreat

Lora's Christmas quilt

Three NICU donation quilts by Lora

A quilt for her grand baby by Deb

Alice In Wonderland themed gift quilt by Maggie

A commissioned donation quilt for a chihuahua rescue in Houston by Maggie

NICU donation quilt by Pete that he piece and quilted on a treadle machine

NICU quilt by Pete's wife, Ann

Kim's Bargello quilt top!

Meadowland quilt that Mary gifted at Christmas

NICU donation quilt by Kari

Spicy Spiral Table Runner by Kari

HAPPY NEW YEAR everyone! We'll see you January 3rd for our first meeting of 2019!

Tulsa Modern Quilt Guild Southwood 

Quilt & Fiber Arts Show

January 4-5, 2019

Southwood Nursery

9025 S. Lewis Ave.

Tulsa, OK 74137

Kick off the New Year with the Tulsa Modern Quilt Guild and Southwood Nursery for one of Oklahoma's largest FREE and NON-JUDGED quilt shows!

This Quilt & Fiber Arts show will feature traditional and modern quilts and other fiber arts pieces. Hung inside Southwood Nursery in one of the greenhouses, the natural light helps create a beautiful display that you do not want to miss! 

The Tulsa MQG Southwood Quit & Fiber Arts Show is currently accepting registrations for quilters and artists to show their work. It is free to enter your quilt into the show! The only judging to take place is a Viewers Choice Award that will be gifted to the owner of the quilt with the most votes. To register your quilt, CLICK HERE. 

Entry deadline is December 31st. 

Featured Artist - Ann Olson

The 2019 Featured Artist is Ann Olson of Ann's Quilt N' Stuff. As a child Ann began her journey into quilting in the late 70's when she would visit her grandparents in Coweta, Oklahoma and her grandmother taught her sewing, piecing and other handcrafts. As a teen and young adult, Ann would sew with her mother making clothes and horse dolls to sell at craft shows. On January 28, 1996 she married Pete Olson and made her wedding dress and Pete's tuxedo. In 2001 Ann joined her first quilt guild in Forsyth, Montana. One of the ladies in the guild had a Gammill long arm quilting machine. Ann tried it out and took to it naturally, beginning by free motion quilting charity quilts that the guild had made. She also was able to use a HQ 16 that her friend owned. The quilting group at church had a short arm Juki machine on a Grace frame and Ann had access to that machine as well. The ladies of that church made 50 quilts a year for missionaries and Ann quilted most of them. Eventually she got her own short arm machine on a frame and started quilting for a few people. She had to hold the small sewing machine with one hand from the back and guid it, while in the other hand she held the foot pedal with a potholder because it would get hot.

In 2006 Ann bought her first Nolting long arm quilting machine and boy, did that make a difference! Pete and Ann moved to Oklahoma in 2007 to be closer to her parents and she continued to quilt for several people in the area and for online orders. 

Ann's Quilt N' Stuff really took off in 2011 when she started working at Sew Flakes in Broken Arrow. The shop promoted her quilting abilities and had her begin quilting some quilts for the store. Over the process of time she added another long arm quilting machine and is now one of the busiest long arm quilters in the Tulsa area. She long arm quilts full time, quilting between 400 to 500 quilts per year for clients. 

Ann has also taught many different types of quilting classes at quilt shops in the area and she currently teaches at Sew Much More Fabrics in Broken Arrow. Together Ann and Pete work from home - she quilts and Pete cleans and repairs sewing machines. Quite a few of Ann's quilts that she has free motion quilted for herself, and for others, have received multiple awards and ribbons in Oklahoma and across the country.

To get more information on the show, visit our Facebook page and join the "event" to stay up to date on announcements and reminders. 

September Show & Tell

Hello & Happy Mid-September Everyone!

I'm sorry for the long absence recently. Quite honestly, the pictures I took of our member's wonderful quilts at our August meeting were so terrible I didn't want to post them! If you really want to look, you're welcome to find them on our Instagram feed (@tulsamqg) Don't say I didn't warn you about the poor quality. This month's aren't the best ever, but we switched it up a little and they're at least a step up. Those darn florescent lights are just not kind to this (very) amateur photographer.

Anyhoo... On to our September Show & Tell!
We've got such a talented group in our Guild and I just can't wait until next week to see what projects are going to be popping up at our annual FALL RETREAT!

NICU Quilts! Our members, and guests!, keep cranking out the NICU donation quilts. Keep up the good work everyone!

Crystal, a guest to our guild, brought us more than a dozen NICU quilts this month!
And Robyn's donation (top right) is just beautiful!

Kari brought two donations this month and Carol Ann turned
in the adorable blue, white & yellow checkered number.

Our members aren't just talented quilters! Lora was sent a
collection of fabrics and was asked to create a bag using them. 

Our guild joined up with the NW Arkansas guild and did a mug rug swap this summer. We received our gifts from NW Arkansas and got to open them up at the September meeting. What a treat! They're all so great! Thank you NW Arkansas for joining in the fun with us!

MUG RUG SWAP with NW ARKANSAS MODERN QUILT GUILD!!!

Connie's flying geese quilt. Such a great variety of colors!

Baby Quilt by Kim

Baby Quilt by Deena

Ida's triangle quilt just back from being quilted! 

Another completion by Ida and a quilt top
ready for backing and quilting below.

Love this mini that Melissa put together.

Simply Amazing!
"Symphony of 15,525 Pieces" by Linda

These colors! Such a cool, modern quilt that Glenda made.

Great job Joye

Julie's finished "Medusa" quilt. Such a cool pattern by Malka Dubrawsky

April brought two quilts to show but unfortunately I didn't get a decent picture of her second one.
This Christmas quilt looks great to snuggle up under, though!

Very nice, Holly!

Maggie makes all these as donation quilts for a dog rescue. Such cool techniques, too!

Maggie repurposed vintage sheets for this bright & cheery quilt.

This month's program, in addition to getting to open our mug rug swap gifts and some general announcements, included three demonstration stations of techniques members have been wanting to learn - English Paper Piecing, Flange Binding, and Appliqué. Thanks to Kelli, April & Carol Ann for stepping up and demonstrating these techniques to us! April even put together a handout with 10 easy steps for her flange binding technique.

EPP with Kelli

Flange Binding with April

Appliqué with Carol Ann

Happy (almost) Fall everyone and we'll see you back here next month for more Show & Tell pictures and a retreat re-cap! 

~Tulsa MQG