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

June 2025 Meeting Recap

 

June Meeting Minutes

Phyllis Higley, Jen Van Dyke, Kristie Jarchow led off our Scrap Bash Exchange program with some great examples of pieces made with scraps followed by more show and tell pieces from our members.

 

Our activity for the night was sharing our scraps for the next challenge.

The first member challenge of the year is all bound and finished! Thanks to everyone for making it happen. It will be displayed with the rest of the Color Improv pieces at the Lux in September.

We finished the evening with some show and tell of our Color Improv 3 challenge pieces plus some extras!

Lancaster County Super Fair Deadline this Sunday!

Lancaster County Super Fair quilt entry deadline is midnight, July 20, 2025. 

You can find the registration and entry location at https://superfair.org or https://superfair.org/quilts/.

Entries can be delivered to the fair grounds Tuesday, July 29 from 1:00 p.m. To 6:00 p.m

Upcoming QuiltCon Dates!!

 Don't forget these upcoming dates!

QuiltCon 2026

• QuiltCon 2026 Member Registration opens on August 20, 2025, at 9 a.m. CDT/2 p.m. GMT. The registration link will be on the main landing page of the QuiltCon home page: https://community.themodernquiltguild.com/quiltcon/quiltcon-home, and the waiting room opens one hour before registration starts. Make sure to check your membership login well ahead of time!
• Find the QuiltCon 2026 Interactive schedule (https://quiltcon2026.eventscribe.net/index.asp) and everything else you need on the QuiltCon web site - https://community.themodernquiltguild.com/quiltcon/quiltcon-home
• QuiltCon Challenges - https://community.themodernquiltguild.com/quiltcon/quilt-show/challenges 2026 Windham Artisan Cotton Fabric Challenge American Patchwork & Quilting Diamonds Quilting Challenge QuiltCon 2026 MQG Member Special Exhibit - MQG Resource Library Quilts of 2016 Community Outreach Challenge
• Volunteer sign-ups will open in September.

What is a Modern Scrap Quilt?

Here's what AI says when asking for Modern Scrap Quilts:

Modern scrap quilts often feature bold colors, high contrast, and minimalist designs, with an emphasis on negative space and innovative piecing techniques to create unique and visually striking pieces. They can also reinterpret classic quilt patterns in a modern way, or utilize improvisational piecing for a more free-form aesthetic.

Here are some key characteristics of modern scrap quilts:

Bold Colors and Prints:

Modern scrap quilts often embrace a vibrant color palette and incorporate a variety of prints, sometimes with a focus on high contrast to create a dynamic visual impact.

Minimalist Aesthetic:

Many modern scrap quilts feature a minimalist design with clean lines, expansive negative space, and a focus on a few key design elements.

Improvisational Piecing:

This technique allows for a more free-form and spontaneous approach to quilt construction, where shapes and blocks are pieced together without a predetermined pattern.

Reinterpretations of Traditional Patterns:

Classic quilt blocks can be updated with modern fabrics, colors, and layout choices to create a fresh, contemporary look.

Negative Space:

Modern scrap quilts often utilize negative space (the unpieced background) to create visual breathing room and highlight the pieced sections.

Innovative Piecing Techniques:

Modern scrap quilts may incorporate unique piecing techniques like gradients, ghost blocks, or interspersed improv blocks within the negative space to add depth and texture.

Some popular modern scrap quilt patterns include:

Pixelated Heart Patchwork: A fun and modern take on a traditional heart design, often using a two-color contrasting palette.

Flying Geese: A classic pattern that can be used in a modern way with bold colors and interesting layouts.

Scrappy Log Cabin: A traditional pattern that can be modernized with a variety of fabrics and colors.

Improvisational Quilts: These quilts are created without a pre-determined pattern, allowing for a unique and artistic expression.

Rail Fence: A simple yet effective pattern that can be easily adapted for use with scraps.

Chunky Rail Fence: A variation of the Rail Fence pattern with thicker strips of fabric.

Starburst: A dynamic design that can be created using a variety of colors and fabrics.

Half-Square Triangles: A versatile block that can be used to create a variety of designs.

Modern Flowering Snowball: A modern interpretation of the classic snowball block.

Tic Tac Toe: A playful and modern design that can be created using a variety of fabrics.

June 2025 LMQG Meeting

 

Come join us on June 24th for our next LMQG meeting. Highlights of the agenda are general announcements, raffle, show and tell, and our special Scrap Bash Event.

This event is a scrap exchange, so please bring a ziploc bag of your wonderful scraps (any color strips, remnants, anything big enough to piece) to share. You will bring home as many scraps as you bring. Then we will have a scrap quilt challenge (due September) for you to use the scraps in. If you have a finished scrap quilt that would help inspire people to make their own scrap quilt please feel free to bring it to show to our members.

Color Improvisation 3- inspired quilts are also due at the June meeting (we can accept last minute quilts at the July meeting at the latest). We'd like to see your challenge quilts at the June Show and Tell!

May 2025 Meeting Recap

Don't forget to check out the Guild Programs/Calendar page for the featured programs for upcoming meetings. More information will be published soon, but Robbi Eklow has been added for our September meeting!

Meeting notes are still pending. 

Raffle winners!