A milestone!

When we started back in September - that isn't that long back - we - Me, Shilpa &Vidya (the brilliant lady behind our new poster!) the ONLY 3 members of IMQG, had hoped of reaching a milestone of 100 members in one year!

Diwali 2012 was my personal target for 100 members.

But today, even before we have seen the end of March 2012, we are nearing that target!

How does it feel?

Awesome.

Proud.

Happy.

Delighted.

Crazy.

and a lot more that words cannot express.

So we're going to celebrate our century (our first one, as much awaited by all our members as much we awaited Sachin's 100th) with a giveaway.

Right now, I mean at the moment I'm typing this, we are at 93 members.

I will unveil the 5 prizes that you can win one at a time, every time a new member is added after 95. (The first one will be unveiled when we have added our 96th member). And exactly 2 days after we add our 100th member, we will draw the winners.

Each image will be replaced by info and image of the prize IN THIS POST.

#One
Revealed March 26
Fox Trails Charm Pack

A beautiful and fun fabric with prints that you'll adore... Includes 25 5" squares!

#Two

Revealed March 28

An Olfa Rotary Cutter (45 mm) along with 2 spare blades.

Yup! You'll get that cute case to keep your blade safe too!

#Three

Revealed March 28

One Yard of Weekends Go By Bike in Gray by Erin McMorris!

You'll be getting one yard of this fabulous fabric!

#Four

A pair of birds on a swing made by me

And the bumper grand prize

#Five

A custom designed wall quilt just for you by me!

You tell me what your likes are and I'll work around them to make a custom quilt for you!

How do you enter?

Try to guess the prizes. Make your wildest guesses. Leave a comment here.

10 guesses per person.

You HAVE to be a member of the IMQG to be eligible.

ONE person for each prize will be chosen by random draw from amongst the CORRECT ANSWERS.

Each person wins ONLY ONE PRIZE. 

If the same name is drawn again, I'll skip it an choose another one. That will be fair to everyone.

Start entering your guesses, right away!

Cheers!!!

The guild grows..

Everybody's excited! The guild is growing by the day! Just a few more new members and it will reach the century mark. Countdown's begun...12...11...

The Guilds's Facebook page is buzzing with activity. AND chatter. Here's a quick round up of the guild's current and proposed activities:

1.Monthly Challenge - Jan and Feb are over, March rules are out.

=>JAN rules - Make anything using ONLY warm coloured solids. Winner:Tina Katwal

=>FEB rules - Make a mini quilt depicting a memorable holiday. Winner: Rashida Juzer.

=>MARCH rules - Make anything using ONLY 2 FQs and nothing else.

2.BOM for Vaani - The first BOM design is out. You are free to choose your colours and play with the placements of your blocks at the end of 12 months. On completion, quilts will be probably exhibited and sold off at a common venue and proceeds given to VAANI. 

=>1st BOM - for March is the windmill block. Also called Pinwheel block.  http://www.edwardssoftware.com/quilts/images/WindmillBlackL.jpg. First work out the size of the quilt you will be making with the BOM and then plan this block. Instructions to make it are on the blog. Pics of completed blocks are to be posted in the FB album.

3.IMQG Block Party - Needs 12 members. 10 already signed up, 2 willing to do 2 spots. Will be happy to accommodate 1-2 participants more. Each member chooses a month and sends out fabric with design instructions to the other 11 members for making a block each which have to be mailed back to the original member on completion. Restricted to Indian residents only. Update - months have been allocated,.. Madhu, of April month, will soon be sending out fabric.

4.Secret Swap - Not yet taken off. Need more people to make it more fun.

5.Cathdral block quiltalong - Will start after the IMQG Meet.

What fun !!

Charity Quilt for VAANI - March BOM

The March Block of the Month for VAANI is the Windmill or Pinwheel block.
 http://www.edwardssoftware.com/quilts/images/WindmillBlackL.jpg. 

1.   Chumkie Mukherjee


I plan to make two identical 12" blocks for this BOM.  Here is a picture of one of them.

Windmill or Pinwheel Block

For more information and a tutorial of the process I used to make this block visit  http://www.chumkieshobbies.blogspot.com/2012/03/imqg-block-of-month-for-march.html.

2.

My Favourite Things: IMQG March Challenge

My Favourite Things: IMQG March Challenge: http://robinquiltsetc.com/files/Snippets_and_Threads_Tutorial_1_.pdf.

Charity quilt for VAANI

For those of you who are not on facebook. We are making a quilt for Charity....this time for VAANI, Deaf Children's Foundation, which i belong to . (www.vaani.in). We are doing it in the form of Blocks for the Month (BOM). This means we will make one block every month with a chosen pattern (which Shruti chooses) and at the end of 12 months we will have 12 completed blocks.   You are free to choose your colours and play with the placements of your blocks at the end of 12 months. On completion, quilts will be probably exhibited and sold off at a common venue and proceeds given to VAANI. We have had discussions on FB and have agreed that we can choose our own size for the final quilt.
Shruti says  'For individual quilt sizes, please refer my post from the ABC of quilting series by Jacquie Geringhttp://www.13woodhouseroad.com/search?updated-max=2012-01-15T09%3A47%3A00%2B05%3A30&max-results=20&start=10&by-date=false'


The first BOM design is out. 
The first block of the month for March is the windmill block. http://www.edwardssoftware.com/quilts/images/WindmillBlackL.jpg. First work out the size of the quilt you will be making with the BOM and then plan this block.


I am quoting Tina here 'IDEA for the BOM charity quilts : Since there are so few of us who are making these, maybe some (or all) of us can do more than one block every month of the BOM. One can play with variations in colour and placement. Or do identical ones if thats easier/preferable. Since it'll be just 2-3 block a month, it shouldn't be too difficult. We can help each other out with the final assembly and quilting maybe. What say, pieceniks?' 


So we leave it to you to decide!
If you are not on FB then leave your comments here and we will try and reply as soon as possible!