A Finish, and a MQG Meeting

I've been hoping that the Memphis area would get a Modern Quilt Guild chapter for a few months now to meet other quilters around me and share ideas.  Don't get me wrong, I love the online quilting community and am happy to be a part of it.  I also know that without it, I would never have been brave enough to tackle FMQ, or some of the other challenges I've mastered recently.  For that, I'm really grateful.  Still though, I wanted to be able to have fun with other quilters, talk face to face, and share modern quilting techniques and fabrics.

So, a couple of weeks ago, I was looking at the national MQG website, and lamenting the fact that Memphis doesn't have a chapter, when I clicked on the "find a chapter" button on a whim.  I was absolutely thrilled to find that Memphis quilters had just formed a chapter- yay!!

I attended my first meeting this afternoon.  It was a "sew-in"- FUN!  I just finished the stippling on the Raspberry Limeade Chevron Quilt quilt yesterday, so I prepared the binding (Kona Berry), and took it to work on at the meeting.  I also took the Carnaby Street quilt for the show and tell portion.

What a great experience!  I got to take a peek into the creative process of several talented ladies, all with varying levels of experience, and I got to finish up a quilt of my own- bonus!!

Here are a few pictures of the finished Raspberry Limeade quilt-

                                                         A close-up of the stippling

The label and backing fabric

My mitered corners are getting better!!

All finished!

Now...what to make next?  ;)

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