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!

 

June 14th Sew Day!

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! If you haven't contacted Bonnie about this class, you still have a couple of days!

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

May 2025 LMQG Meeting

 

Don't miss out on our May LMQG meeting! At the top we'll cover a short section with an update on programs, information on the QuiltCon Community quilt for the 2026 show, Lux challenge, Christmas party and have a sign up reminder for our June Sew Day activity.

 
The main program for the night will be a Zoom session beginning at 5:45 with Peter Byrne called Behind the Seams. Peter Byrne is a published, national and international award-winning, modern quilter and teacher with a deep passion for innovation and design. There will be a Q&A session to follow. Behind the Seams with Peter Byrne is made possible with a grant from the Nebraska State Quilt Guild.

April 2025 Meeting Recap

 

Meeting Recap Notes

Please view the meeting notes linked above for all the 'happenings' from the meeting. Highlights included a budget update, program planning discussion and a note that planning is in progress for the next guild retreats. 

Don't forget that the due date for Color Improvisation 3 challenge #2 is coming up. If you haven't started, the details can be found here.

We have great programs coming up this year. In May Peter Byrne will give a virual trunk show via Zoom, June is a scrap bash event and challenge #3 will be announced, and July will be a member spotlight with Martha Turner and Elisa Salas.

Don't forget to contact Bonnie Kucera to sign up for her applique session she will be hosting at the June 14th Sew Day. She needs to know how many will be coming so she can bring enough supplies for all. 

Here are the images from our meeting!

Sheila Green gave us a video highlight of the Color Improvisation 3 exhibit in the IQM gallery, and then we all went upstairs to be inspired for our Lux challenge!

Our members also brought in their finished blocks from our first challenge of the year to take a traditional block and make it modern.

And - we also had some show and tell mixed in!

Another great show and tell finished project!

What a good looking quilt!