Please join us for our March 31st 2026 Lincoln Modern Quilt Guild Meeting.

We meet at the International Quilt Museum from 5:30 to 7:00.  You can come a few minutes early to check in and visit with new and old members.

March Meeting will include:

  -QuiltCon recap with winners and trends spotted at Quiltcon

  -Show and tell (especially if you missed showing yours last month please bring to show this month

  - Ad/Color Challenge update by Phyllis due at April meeting

Hope to see you there!

February Meeting Recap - guest speaker

From February LMQG Meeting 

2/24/2026

Featured Speaker was

Bianca Springer

Integrating Pieced Textiles in Garment Making

Find her on Instagram, website and email click here: Thanksimadethem

Bianca uses quilt flimsies and floppsies..ha

Orphan blocks and made fabrics

Yo-Yo pieces never looked so good!

Her requested top that she was wearing during presentation, go to her website for details. 

President Lora gave an overview of guild business and new guild challenge which 

you can review guidelines HERE on our blog. 

We had a new feature: rapid fire Show and share in 4 minutes .....just kidding!

We did only have a few minutes for show and tell and raffle so PLEASE bring your work to next months meeting on March 31st. 

Here is what I was able to capture: 

 

Jane was one of the prize winners!

Liz was also a prize winner and she had many UFO's to share 

Kate showed off her "magic square" quilt from a demo class in 2025

Jan showed off this cool perspective quilt.

The Bee Sew Quilty group hosted our first sew day of the year with many projects honoring our 250th Anniversary of the U.S. See us working HERE

Many projects for veterans were started like these door hangers. 

Stay tuned for the possible guild table at the annual Isles quilters sale in March.

 "Destash"info to come soon. 

Hope to see you all in March!

LMQG Challenge #1

CHOOSING COLORS - DEADLINE: APRIL 28, 2026

OVERVIEW - You are going to use the work of professionals. Ad agencies create their promotions with carefully crafted and color curated advertisements. By using the website below, it will determine the colors and the respective percentages for each color. You will then use those colors and choices to create your quilt.

STEP 1 - Sort through advertisements in magazines to find an ad that you really like.

STEP 2 - Take a screenshot of the ad or take a picture on a phone. You’ll need to upload it to this website - http://onlinejpgtools.com/ (see attached example image below).

STEP 3 – Create a modern quilt using the colors and percentages. Any shape whose perimeter will be equal to or less than 100 inches.

DEADLINE: APRIL 28, 2026