2026 QuiltCon Community Quilt Challenge is Here!

The community challenge for QuiltCon 2026 has been announced. We will talk more about it in our May meeting!

Community Outreach Challenge QuiltCon 2026

Gather your local MQG or team of Individual MQG members and start planning your design with the theme of medallion quilts! Choose ONE of the color palettes below and use it in its entirety. Medallion quilts are a fun way to work as a group and experiment with different repeating shapes and secondary patterns.

The Community Outreach exhibit will be capped at 80 entries. Submissions will open on October 15, 2025 at 12:00 a.m. ET.  A quilt top or rendered quilt design is acceptable to hold a space in the exhibit. (Pictures of fabric will not be accepted.) Entries will close when the exhibit reaches 80 entries, and a waitlist will open. If the exhibit does not reach 80 entries, submissions will close December 15, 2025. Palette #1 - Brights

Palette #2 - Blues

Read the full rules/details here - https://www.themodernquiltguild.com/quiltcon/quilt-show/community-outreach-challenge

Check out all of the 2026 QuiltCon Challenge categories here: https://www.themodernquiltguild.com/quiltcon/quilt-show/challenges Bookmark the 2026 QuiltCon home page for all the details about the show: https://www.themodernquiltguild.com/quiltcon/quiltcon-home

June 14 - Save the Date! Hand Applique Class

Come join the LMQG on June 14th, from 10:30 - 1:00 at the International Quilt Museum when Bonnie Kucera will be leading a Hand Applique Class for our Sew day. Bonnie will provide the fabric and the pattern. All you need to bring is yourself and the following supplies!

Supplies needed:

• Straight Pins and pincushion
• Small scissors
• Red thread and white thread
• Preferred #11 Sharp needle with big eye if you can find it.
• Or next size bigger but still a ‘Sharp’
• Optional – Thimble and needle threader

April 2025 LMQG Meeting

 

Come join our meeting this month. We will start off with the standard announcements and challenge reminders, then cover the cofirmed programs for the remainder of the year. Our main program for this month will be a tour of the Improvisation Color 3 display in the IQM gallery led by Sheila Green. This will help provide inspiration for our second challenge of the year. These challenge pieces will be displayed at the Lux in September. We will also have our usual raffle and as time permits - show and tell of this month's challenge to turn a traditional block modern. If you are still needing to complete your piece, here are the details - https://lincolnmqg.blogspot.com/p/challenges.html.

April Meeting Presentation - Color Improvisation 3

 “Color Improvisation 3”

42 quilts by 38 artists from the US, Canada and Australia, curated by Nancy Crow

Lincoln Modern Quilt Guild members and first time guests are free.

Join Sheila Green as she leads us on a private tour of this spectacular exhibition!

Tuesday, April 29, 5:30 pm (right after general meeting announcements are finished).

For guild members, this is one of the building pieces for the year for our challenge that is due in June/July for the Lux display. See the challenge page for the details!

April Challenge Pieces Due Soon!

Don't forget about our challenge pieces due at the April 29th meeting!

Phyllis Higley gave a presentation illustrating some features of modern quilting using her own quilts as examples, then she explained a new challenge due in April. See the images below of the traditional "starter" block Phyllis showed and the variations created to make it more modern.

Due April 29 Meeting
Make a traditional block with modern characteristics
Incorporate any blue fabric and up to 2 more colors (prints and/or solids)
Bring 1 or more blocks (they will be kept and made into a quilt)
Size of block: 9 ½, or 12 ½, or 15 ½ inches (unfinished; so it can be sewn into a quilt; then the finished block sizes will end up as 9, 12, or 15 inches)

https://lincolnmqg.blogspot.com/p/challenges.html 

March 2025 Meeting Recap

 

Meeting Recap Notes

Check out the full meeting notes linked above. Highlights of the meeting were continued discussion of the two challenges that are in progress, a call for ideas for 2026 programming, requests for 2026 LMQG exec board nominees, the treasurer report (more to come at April's meeting), show and tell, and a great recap of QuiltCon 2025 from Sheila Green, Janeese Olssen, and Deb Ebke.

Here's what you visit the page for - show and tell images!

Jane kicking off the meeting with the announcements.

Sheila, Deb and Janeese presented their QuitCon 2025 impressions.

Everyone loves the raffle!!

Bonnie brought several show and tell items.

The backside of Follow your Path.

Jennifer McKitrick turned in some blocks for our first challenge - make a traditional block modern.

Another quilt by Jennifer.

Jean Cotton

Albie Osborn

Tom Meyer practicing his freemotion skills on charity quilts made from various fabrics. 

Sheila Green showing the QuiltCon 2025 Make a Mini-Make a Friend piece she received. 

Come Join Our April 12th Sew Day!

 

The April 12th Sew Day will feature a skill building session on half square triangles (HSTs). We’ll step through tips and techniques for making one or two at a time up to 32 at a time using fabric strips, fabric tubes, squares and fat quarters. There may be some easy math to do if you want to figure out other sizes, and web resources and links will be provided to help find HST info online to follow up on your own after our session.  If you just want to take notes and draw along with the examples, bring some paper and pencils/pens and a ruler to try and keep your lines straight, otherwise bring your machine and fabric.

Below are suggested pre-cut sizes that will result in 4-½” unfinished HSTs. The 12” square will be cut into 32 2-½” unfinished HSTs. You will be able to turn these HSTs into a project of your own so choose coordinating fabric, or if you are looking to do a little scrap busting, dig through those leftovers! Remember Kris’s charity quilt information at the last sew day? These HST techniques are a perfect way to make a big impact in a short amount of time.

We would like this to be interactive and know that most sewists have their favorite way to make HSTs, so please feel free to share your process or best tip during our session. We will have a few tools that you will be able to try out that may not be in your own sewing room. If you have a project made from HSTs that you would like to show, bring that along!

Pre-cut fabric suggestions (all measurements/cuts assume two colors of fabric, right sides together):

• 4-½” strips, width of fabric (WOF)

• 4” strip, WOF (4-½” unfinished)

• 5” square (2 @ 4-½” unfinished)

• 7-¼” or 7-½” square (4 @ 4-½” unfinished)

• 11” square (8 @ 4-½” unfinished)

• 12” square (32 @ 2-½” unfinished)

• 14” square (16 @ 4-½” unfinished)

• 15” x 20” rectangle (24 @ 4-½” unfinished)

Additional tools you may want:

• One or two different color fabric marking pens

• Rulers with ¼” markings

• Rotary cutter and cutting mat

• Some sewing pins

• Don’t forget your power cord if you bring your machine,and the basics like thread and scissors!