Lincoln Modern Quilt Guild: September Meeting Recap

What a night!

To start the evening, the board handed out surveys to assist with programming for the 2019 year. They want to know what you, the membership want to see and learn. Please, if you didn't turn yours in, try and do so before the next meeting so the results can be tallied.
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2019 Slate of Board Members

For your 2019 year, the nominees are:

Co-Presidents: Kris Jarchow and Phyllis Higley
Co-Vice Presidents: Rhonda Eddy and Mary Dittenber
Secretary: Nancy Goff
Treasurer: Sheree Brown
Media: Juliette Karjala

The voting will take place at the October meeting so please plan on attending.

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We then moved on to Kris Jarchow and Marcia Dvorak telling us about the modern element Pixelation.

When you enlarge an image so far that the viewer sees the individual pixels that form the image. When standing at a a distance, the full image appears.

I am showing this quilt, made by Kris Jarchow via Craftsy class, first because I happened to catch another member taking a picture with her tablet. It shows you the smaller "photo" image as compared to the larger pieced quilt looking quite pixelated. You can really see the contrast between what the original image would look like and the finished quilt.

Here are some other examples of pixelated quilts. You may have to stand back from your screen to see the image clearly.

Pixelation was created by laying squares on a gridded fuseble piece then folding and stitching along the grid lines to create the seams on the back.

Pixelized images were traditionally done using squares as is seen in the examples above, but such isn't the case anymore. Many different shapes can be used in creating a pixel quilt.

This quilt was made using hexagons

This one, designed by Tula Pink, uses pieced strips

And this one from Quiltcon 2107 was done using a vector program giving some areas smooth edges.

Marcia showed us how quite involved the process can be taking an image thru to a workable pattern.

Taking it from photo, to a grid overlay and then breaking it down into workable blocks or sections.

There are some free programs found online to pixelate an image or if you have a photo editing program, such as Photoshop, you can research how your program can pixelate an image. You might also try and design your own using graph paper and colored pencils.

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We then moved on to the evenings activity given by Liz Thanel called Rounded Out. It was an exercise in value. What are the three things we look for in design, she asked. HSV. Hue, saturation and value.

Hue describes a dimension of color we readily experience when we look at color, or its purest form.

value refers to the lightness or darkness of a color.

Saturation defines the brilliance and intensity of a color.

The members were divided into 3 groups and given stacks of squares and quarter circles. The quarter circles were backed in a fusible mesh so it could be ironed on to a square.

Each group was to take a stack of squares and match up a quarter circle, starting with the lightest value of squares and then onto medium light, medium dark and finishing with dark.

The paired fabrics were then handed to a "presser" to be ironed together.

Once the squares were pressed they were handed off to the "designers" who then placed the squares onto a design wall starting in the upper left corner with the lightest values moving left to right finishing in the lower right with the darkest values.

To really see the difference in value, Liz brought a pair of red glasses. You can also use a piece of red acrylic.

The red viewer is removing the color from the fabric to create a gray-scale of the fabrics which allows us to estimate the values.

You can also take a picture and using a photo editing software, change the image to black and white, thus allowing you to see the value scale. When using a lot of red fabrics, you can use a green filter to obtain your values.

One of the best parts of the evening was that you could purchase raffle tickets and win the result of the exercise to take home and complete, which Mary Dittenber did. Looking forward to see what she does with this lovely composition!

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Update from the Quiltcon Charity Quilt Committee

The top has been completed and is ready for quilting! The theme this year was small piecing and the palette is shown below

The team did a wonderful job on designing the quilt and incorporating small piecing

The Charity Quilt committee with ( Back L-R ) Tom Meyer, Jim Kohler, Jill Straight, Sheila Green and (Front L-R) Mary Dittenber, Linda Gale, Barbara Chestnut, Lora Yardley. Not shown is the committee chair Sarah Maseth.