I'm so glad I found them! I look forward to the monthly meetings & became the self appointed photographer of the monthly Show & Tells. My friend Donna (met her thru an Art Quilt class @ quiltfabric.com) joined & is thrilled more than I am about what being part of this group has done with our art/craft.
These are from the first challenge I took part in. We made a quilt block & placed the block with the remaider of the 4 fat quarters we used in a bag to be blind swapped at the meeting. We then had to finish into a quilt the block & fabric, adding from our own stash as needed & return to gift the owner at the July meeting. It was a BIG challenge for me, since I've never created anything as I went along. It was really fun though & everyone LOVED theirs when it was returned to them at the meeting. The most recent event at the guild was "Iron Quilter". Here's the results at the guilds blog.
http://thechicagomodernquiltguild.blogspot.com/2011/03/iron-quilter-huge-success.html We were divided into random teams, my team ROCKED! Donna, Sarah, & Erika. I'd say we worked really well together & won the judges choice award for creative use of embelishments. It seemed like all our supplies given were really ugly, but it came together in the end. We all had a blast & can't wait to work as a team again.
Next months meeting is a "sew-in" & a strip swap. I'm not sure what that is, I'm sure it'll be fun & interesting!
