Eastern Long Island Quilt Guild

Connect with the guild and have a chance to show off and vote for your favorite Boy Quilt from the challenge issued earlier this year.   Procrastinators can review the details and rules in the Challenges section on the bottom of this page.  

All quilts from this challenge will be presented in a slide show.  Please email photos of your finished quilt to Karen Nicholson no later than October 11.  

knicholson25@optonline.net

A link to the Zoom meeting and instructions on voting will be sent to all members with email closer to the meeting.

 We hope to see many of you on our LEAP into the Future!   Please keep your eyes open for further Details.

The Theme is “A Quilters Quarantine”
 

Requirements: Make a 10.5” house block
 

We’d like to invite each member to create her own version of a House Block that measures 10.5” square. You choose the design of your house block and the colors that mean the most to you- all to reflect your time at home during this shelter-at-home period.
 

We decided it would be great to see each of your unique interpretations of the common House Block - in your own way.
 

If you do a search in Pinterest and type in - "Quilt house blocks patterns" - many come up to choose from and most are free.
 

The only requirement is it should finish at 10.5” square. You may make more than one block if you’d like to.
 

Turn in completed blocks at November Guild Meeting.
 

Some House Block Patterns to inspire you:
https://www.mybluprint.com/project/free-house-quilt-block-pattern
 

https://www.allpeoplequilt.com/quilt-patterns/house-block-quilt-patterns
 

https://www.thesprucecrafts.com/easy-twelve-house-quilt-block-pattern-2821182

We hope you are as enthusiastic about the challenge as we are! 

We regret to inform everyone that our 2020 Quilt Show scheduled for November 2020 has been cancelled due to Covid 19.  We are now focusing our efforts on a November 2021 show and will keep everyone informed as our plans go forward.  Stay safe and hope to see you next year!

January 5, 2020 

Happy New Year! Can you believe it is the beginning of a new decade! I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday and enjoyed some time with family and friends. Were you able to find some time to sew? There have been some good rainy days to work on those projects! It always amazes me during show-and-tell what a talented group of quilters we have in our guild. 

There are still many things in the planning and learning stages for the new board members. Please be patient with us as we begin scheduling for the upcoming year and learning what needs to be done. The February meeting is in the planning stages and I will post the date, time and place by the end of the week. 

Our first event will be on Saturday, January 25h at the Old Steeple Church in Aquebogue from 9:30- 4:00. We will be working on Charity quilts. I will be posting the supplies needed (if you want to participate in the scrap quilt challenge) or you are welcome to bring your machine to sew a quilt you are already working on. It will be a fun day. Hopefully, I will see you there.  

I’m looking forward to a great year of sewing, learning new techniques and sharing with my ELIQG members and friends! 

Cheers to a New Year, Karen Nicholson l