August 2025 LMQG Meeting

 

Agenda for Evening

• Announcements
• Program-- Heather Akerberg: “Quilt Design: from Pencil Sketch to Finished Quilts”
• Raffle
• Show & Tell

Reminders!!

• “Scrappy Challenge” due September - https://lincolnmqg.blogspot.com/p/challenges.html
• Fall Retreat (October 24-26), Payment – available through Zeffy or check at the August meeting. https://lincolnmqg.blogspot.com/p/lmqg-2025-fall-retreat.html

Upcoming programs:

• September 30 Program: Robbi Eklow, “Contemporary Fused Art Quilts”
• October 28 Program: Liz Thanel, trunk show

July 2025 Meeting Recap

 

July Meeting Minutes

Our main program for the meeting was Martha Turner and Elisa Salas talking about "Concept to Finished Quilt".

Raffle Time!!!

Show and Tell of pieces for our Lux exhibit, and other finished works.

First Friday Event at the Lux - 2025

Come join us Friday, September 5th from 5-8 pm at the Lux Center for the Arts for the First Friday event to highlight LMQG member quilts inspired by the Color Improvisations 3 exhibit at the IQM. 

Guild members will be in attendance to chat about their pieces!

View the inspiration exhibit - Color Improvisations 3

Save the Date! Heather Akerberg - August 26th LMQG Meeting

Quilt design: From pencil sketch to finished quilt

Please join the LMQG meeting on August 26th at the International Quilt Museum when Heather Akerberg will be our featured presenter as she takes us through her creative design process and shows us some of her works. Meeting begins at 5:30 with general announcements before the main presentation begins. There will not be a Zoom option for this meeting. 

Bottom left: Unboxed or I Want Moiré, Center: Joyous/Mourning (Dialectic No. 1), Top right: Versailles '73, Bottom right: Intersectionality

Heather (a.k.a. Glad Hand Sews), is a pattern designer, award-winning modern quilter and member of the Omaha Modern Quilt Guild. 

Accomplishments:

• Dialectic No. 1, juried into Quilt National 2025
• Intersectionality, selected for Selections from QuiltCon 2024 traveling exhibit
• Multitudes, Honorable Mention, QuiltFest Greenville, 2024
• Color Connection, 1st Place Innovative, QuiltFest New England 2022
• Color Connection, 1st Place Modern, Minnesota Quilters Show 2022
• Color Connection, Best Sewing Machine Craftsmanship, QuiltFest Greensville 2022
• Follow Your Path, quilt pattern featured in McCall’s Quilting, May/June 2022
• Aster, 2nd Place - 2021 QuiltCon Fabric Challenge

Follow:
Instagram: @gladhand_sews
Web: https://www.gladhandsews.com/
View her work: https://www.gladhandsews.com/quilt-gallery

Tammy Hensley Solo Exhibit

If you are free August 11th at 10 am, stop by the opening reception for the beautiful fiber works by Tammy Hensley at the Unitarian Church of Lincoln, 6300 A Street. If you can't make the opening reception, the solo exhibit will be up throughout the month of August. See the details below.

Check out the video preview! 

August 9th Sew Day!

 

SEW DAY SATURDAY at the International Quilt Museum!!!

Join Bee Sew Quilty Bee members to trim and piece together blocks to complete our QuiltCon 2026 Outreach Quilt! OR, bring your own project to work on. We’ll be working 10:15am to noon or 1pm. Plenty of time to get home to watch the Red White Volleyball Sctimmage at 2:30! It’s also East Campus Discovery Days

July 2025 LMQG Meeting

 

Don't miss our July 29th meeting!

Agenda for Evening

• Announcements VOTE for quilt donation Program: Martha Turner and Elisa Salas: “Concept to Finished Quilt” Raffle Show & Tell – challenge Quilt + other
• Color Improv 3 challenge quilts can still be turned in to Jane for the Lux exhibition. Contact Jane if they need to be dropped off after our meeting. Please include your name, the size of your piece, and a brief artists statement about the piece.
• Fall retreat information will be discussed and member payments will be accepted at the meeting. Please read the blog post carefully for additional information. https://lincolnmqg.blogspot.com/p/lmqg-2025-fall-retreat.html