Magic fabric follow up

Using water soluble stabilizer to create fabric is one of the most fun things I do. Not all scrap piece backgrounds need the stabilizer, but when using really skinny strips, it makes things much easier. With that soluble over the top, your quilting foot simply glides over all those edges without getting caught. I started […]

Creating fabric with…magic!

At least it seems magical to me to use water-soluble stabilizer for the creation of new and unique fabric. I gave a quick demo about it at quilt guild and was asked to write a blog with a few more details, so I’m gathering together a few of the blogs I’ve written about it. I’ll […]

Tale of the Delinquent Quilter

Our guild is so very supportive of Safehouse and the quilts we make for them are very much appreciated. It is assumed that we are all contributing with quilts to the cause, but I have been very much a delinquent quilter. My intentions are always good. I want to be a maker of many quilts […]

Two-color binding how-to

by Linda Theil May 24, 2018 GAAQG member Jan Roys taught a very popular demonstration of how to apply a two-color binding to a quilt project at the guild’s May 19, 2018 Quilt Day meeting. She learned the technique from an unidentified magazine article featuring the work of quilter Dorothy Hook. “[Hook] is the one […]

Flying Geese–don’t you love ’em?

Blogger: Kathy Schmidt, Quirks Ltd. This was just posted on my own blog and I thought you might be interested in this Flying Geese method also! I always think everyone knows all the cool shortcuts and tricks and then I’m surprised when I talk about something and get those blank looks of whaaaaaat? So it […]

Show Your True Colors!

Blogger: Nico Laudenberg I figure I’ve always been a color freak, ever since colors have drawn my attention and fascinated me. Is there anything better then assorted crayons, a wool shop, or market tables with macaroons in the south of France? Isn’t that a feast? It is. I read somewhere that colors are like music […]

GAAQG Volunteer Quilt: “Plus” block

by Kathy Schmidt March 21, 2017 Have you made your “Plus” block yet for this year’s Volunteer Quilt? It only takes a few minutes!  However, if you are like me, you are likely to forget all about it by the May meeting. Make it now, while you are thinking about it, and drop it in […]

Join us to sew for SafeHouse on Saturday, March 18

Who:  YOU.  All levels of sewing skills encouraged  What:  To have fun, to socialize with friends new and old, and to sew quilt tops for SafeHouse Time:  Beginning 30 minutes after our regular Quilt Day meeting Where:  Morris Lawrence Building – Classroom TBD How:  With a ‘Quilt Kit’ provided (includes fabric and pattern), or You may […]

Modern AND Improv—Great!

Blogger: Kathy Schmidt, Quirks Ltd. Every year one of the wonderful volunteers in our guild gets a quilt–just for volunteering! Isn’t that fantastic? Something that might seem so easy to you, merely stepping up and doing a job that needs to be done, could result in YOU being the one to receive a beautiful quilt. […]

GAAQG history: First Quilt University 1991

by Kathy Johnnson Feb 27, 2017 The first of Greater Ann Arbor Quilt Guild’s biennial Quilt University events was held on August 9-11, 1991 at Eastern Michigan University’s Hoyt Conference Center. This project was an ambitious undertaking for a guild that was just four-years-old. During my discussions with our guild’s founding https://gaaqg.dev.nsgroupllc.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/006-1.jpgs, many reminisced about the […]