The 10th Anniversary celebration with the biggest show and share, ever!

We had a good turnout for the celebration with many members in our new tees. We enjoyed a well-researched presentation by Jane Austin on how our guild was founded. There were photos from events throughout the years, with the people who made them happen, and fabulous quilts made, and all kinds of techniques learned. We enjoyed an ice cream and toppings bar. 

As a new member, I think I speak for many others when I say we are grateful to those founding members for getting the ball rolling for the modern quilters of Lincoln, keeping this organization growing, and inspiring us with projects and speakers and friendship. Thank you!

Here's Jane giving her talk which covered 10 years of the LMQG.

For the Lancaster County Superfair, Martha Turner won the LMQG sponsored "Best Modern Quilt" award.

Show and Tell featured many former challenge pieces brought in by our LMQG members that they had completed over the years. The quilters who are regular quilt label makers definitely had an edge on remembering the details of the challenges! 

Colleen James showing her piece for Try-Angles.

Brooke James with her challenge, Try-Angles. The challenges used to be voted on at meetings and she was the winner of this challenge.

Sheila Green with Banner Color Inspiration challenge from 2014.

Bonnie Kucera with the 2019 Art Challenge.

Martha Turner with the Cindy Cindy Grisdela Challenge.

Charrye Olberding with Curves Ahead. 

Jeni Kuszak Ehlers with Scrap Challenge.

Vicky Beezley Bedell with Curves Ahead. 

Mary Dittenber with Try-Angles.

Debby Ebke with Cindy Grisdela Challenge.

Nancy Goff with Curves Ahead.

Marilyn Rembolt with a Minimalist Challenge.

Chris Taylor with Oh-Scrap.

Tom Meyer with Bias Tape Challenge.

Kris Jarchow with Floating Squares, a quilt made on a LMQG sew day.

10th Anniversary Mini Swap 

Each participant met with their partner over the summer if they were able, and many shared a color preference or an interest as a point of inspiration. The unveiling was lots of fun!

Jean Cotton holding the quilt she made in colors Jennifer likes, and Jennifer McKitrick holding a maximalist mini quilt she made for Jean.

Jan Stevenson holding a trees quilt made for her by Sheila Green. Jan knew that Sheila loves purple and aqua, so she worked with those colors.

Vicky Beezley Bedell and Jeni Kuszak Ehlers chose a spring garden theme and then surprised each other by both making bouquets.

Albie Osborn was assigned an acid green and purple improv. Mary Dittenber chose a design with flowers and butterflies, because Albie is always in the garden.

Kara Sheil made a tiny version of the Sincerely quilt by Eudaimonia Studio, and Debby Ebke chose a palate of blues and whites for her mini for Kara.

Kate Honeyman and Tom Meyer had no parameters! Tom’s quilt used ice-dyed fabrics. Kate was inspired by a Victoria Findlay Wolfe pattern. 

Martha Turner showed a child’s quilt she made with a Charley Harper pattern, “Feed me, carry me.”

Nancy Goff and Martha Turner used Charley Harper designs as their inspiration, with Nancy’s featuring her own cicada and Martha’s featuring a pheasant.

Angela Dutton’s rainbow spiral quilt for Sarah Maseth, and Angela holding Sarah’s quilt.

Rhonda Eddy’s quilt made for Tammy Hensley.

Sue DeWitt holding the green and red inspired quilt with tiny improv squares made by Kris Jarchow, and Kris holding the one Sue made for her with a black and white palette.

We concluded the evening with a group photo to commemorate this night in 2024: