Lincoln Modern Quilt Guild

January Meeting

Welcome!

Welcome to Lincoln Modern Quilt Guild in 2020. Let’s start this decade with an eye towards expressing our creativity, learning new skills, and making friends. Your presidents this year are familiar faces. Phyllis is continuing as co-president. Mary, who was co- vice president last year, is sharing the presidency with Phyllis this year. Together with the LMQG membership we plan to explore new ideas in quilting,
strengthen the skills we already have, and build new ones. This year our focus will be Back to Basics and Beyond. We will learn how to make traditional blocks modern, explore social media, nail down our quilt making techniques, and experiment with surface design. We have ideas to help our members make friendly connections, promote co-mentorship, and build our sense of community. If you have ideas to help us meet our goals or if there is something you’d really like to explore, please let us know. There’s
always more to try and do in quilting; let’s learn together.

Phyllis Higley
Mary Dittenber
LMQG Co-presidents 2020

Agenda

A big THANK YOU to Michelle Raphael and NSEA for being such excellent hosts for our 2019 Holiday Party!  

Activity: Make it New Again 

Bring your old and/or traditional blocks, scissors for a modern make over, just in time for the new year. If you submitted one from last year, we still have it and will bring it for the meeting. We'll have some solids for you to use, but you can also bring your own. We'll cut them up, rearrange, and tack them down or glue them on a paper. Bring your piece home and sew away.

This year's theme is, "Back to Basics, and Beyond" Join us as we explore our monthly modern techniques that review the basics, but push our boundaries.

Dues: 

Please remember to pay your dues. This year it's $40, payable to LMQG. With your dues,  you'll have access to our Pop-up Workshops, Sew-In dates every other month at the International Quilt Museum, and be members of the Modern Quilt Guild with web access to their patterns and tutorials.

Bring in and show off your Art Quilt. One of the lucky people who completed theirs will win a prize!

Bring your Big Blue Quilt. 

**New this Year**: Bring in solid color fat quarters (limit of 2), and get 2 free raffle tickets for our monthly raffle prizes.

In short, the to bring list is:

• Art quilt
• Big Blue quilt
• Dues
• Name tag
• Orphan block supplies: a block to modernize, solids you'd like to use (if any), scissors, pins

Upcoming

Next meeting: February 25th

Sew Days: Every other month at the IQSCM - February 8th, April 11, Jun 13th, August 8th: 10:15 am to 3 PM. October date pending.

Quilt Con: Austin, Texas. February 20-23rd. Find out more here.

March 2019: National Quilting Day at IQSCM - See Sheila Green for details

Pop up workshops: Long Arm Quilting with Mary Dittenber. This amazing opportunity  is space limited, so Mary kindly offered 2 classes. Chose one of the following (space limited to 5 for each session): Saturday, February 22nd 9-11AM OR February 26th 6:30 to 8:30 PM. Follow up with Mary Dittenber for more details.

For information on current challenges, see our Challenges Page.

For more information on local quilt projects and event, see our Community Page.