June Sew Day "Help Meet"
Saturday, June 11th, 2016 from 10:30am-3:00pm
Anyone from the community can bring in quilting questions and get advice/suggestions from our guild members. LMQG members, please feel free to bring your sewing machines and supplies to work on your own projects. Hope to see you there!

Location:
Bernina Sewing Studio
1265 S. Cotner Blvd. #27
Lincoln NE
402-423-3108

April Meeting Highlights and New Meeting Space

Did you know that 8750 tons of textiles go into our local landfill every year? That's a lot of fabric! Our April program focused on upcycling fabric items for quilters. Upcycling means taking an an item that has fulfilled it's useful life and processing it to make something better than the original. Some reasons for doing this would be to keep unwanted items out of a landfill, to express creativity or to make a special memorial keepsake. 

To explore this topic further, we had four demonstration tables set up.

Marsha Conley showed us quick ways to deconstruct shirts to make usable pieces of fabric. Isn't her quilt made from men's striped shirts wonderful?

Roxanne O'Hare had all kinds of different clothing items including pants and linen dresses that she cut up and made into quilt blocks. After cutting up the various textiles, she sorts them into categories by weight so they work well together when she wants to use them.

 Suzanne Rose had many fun creations made from selvages! She showed several ways that selvages can be sewed together to make a made fabric.

Carolyn Garner talked about using t-shirts to make memory quilts. Here she is showing the interfacing she uses to prepare the t-shirt fabric.

We had a great time going around to each demo and learning useful information about upcycling from these ladies!

Our guild has grown rapidly in the last few months! We are now up to 50 members and are bursting at the seams in our current meeting location. We are so thankful to Derek Geise and the staff at the Bernina Sewing Studio for providing the space for us to have our meetings and for hosting our first modern guild quilt show. 

And so, as we have outgrown our original meeting space, we are pleased to announce our new meeting location. The board of directors has accepted a proposal from the International Quilt Study Center and Museum to hold our monthly meetings in their first floor seminar room from 5:30-7:30 on the last Tuesday of each month, beginning in May and continuing through October. This is very exciting for our guild and we are thrilled to be invited to meet in that space! 

May Program:

"Exercise In Design" 

Want to branch out and learn how to design your own modern quilt? Sheila Green, Kristie Jarchow and Jen Van Dyke will help us put the modern aesthetic into practice as we work in teams, creating designs using the quarter square triangle and it's four variations. All supplies will be provided. 

This exercise is an educational offering from Jean Larsen and Pam McCallie of the Chattanooga Modern Quilt Guild.

For more information on upcoming challenges, click on the meeting minutes tab above, links are there in the April minutes.

Visit our Facebook page for the April Show and Tell photos!

April Meeting & Spring Retreat Reminder

Don't forget about our upcoming meeting, Tuesday, April 26th from 5:30-7:00pm at the Bernina Sewing Studio located at 1265 S. Cotner Blvd. #27, Lincoln NE in the Piedmont Shopping Center. We'll be talking about upcycling for quilts, with four fun demonstrations.

Bring your quilts & projects utilizing upcycled/recycled materials for Show & Tell as well:) Hope to see everyone soon!
We have a few spots still available for our Spring Retreat, and would love to have them filled with some quilters ready to sew and have fun!  It will be at the Yellow Barne at 1445 W Burnham, Lincoln, NE the evening of Friday April 29th and all day Saturday, April 30th.  We will be doing a Round Robin for anyone who is interested, and working on personal projects.  A $5 per day donation is appreciated:)

The deadline to sign up is Sunday, April 24th, so email >>> info.lincolnmqg@gmail.com <<< asap!

April Sew Day!

Hot on the heels of our March meeting, is our April Sew Day!  It will be this Saturday, April 2nd from 10:30-3:30pm at the International Quilt Study Center and Museum.  There will be a demonstration at 11am by Shizuko Kuroha who has a solo exhibition at the Museum right now. If you are a guild member and would like to attend this Sew Day, please send an email to <info.lincolnmqg @ gmail.com> to be put on the list.  Because of the demonstration, everyone needs to be finished setting up to sew by 10:45am.

March Meeting Highlights: 
Everyone presented their finished Try-Angles challenge piece, there were 24 quilts in all!  Our youngest guild member, Miss Brooke, was the winner of the popular vote with her very cool quilt!

Sheila Green gave an overview of this year's QuiltCon, giving us a peek of how fun the event is, and showing quilts that won awards, and talking about the different trends she noticed in the modern quilt exhibition.   She brought back lots of fun swag, and I think everyone received a little goodie!

A big thank you to the Bernina Sewing Studio for having our ever growing guild meetings, and thank you to Sew Creative for donating fat quarters for our raffle!

Our show and tell keeps getting better and better, head on over to our Facebook page to check out the whole gallery of Try-Angles Challenge, and all the show and tell pieces.  Tag yourself or your friends if you see them, you don't have to have a Facebook account to look at photos!

March Meeting Reminder

Don't forget about our upcoming meeting, Tuesday, March 29th from 5:30-7pm at the Bernina Sewing Studio located at 1265 S. Cotner Blvd. #27, Lincoln NE in the Piedmont Shopping Center.

Sheila Green will share all about QuiltCon. 

Come join us and learn about the International Modern Quilt show.

Bring your finished Try Angles Challenge piece to show off, every finished piece will have a chance to win some sweet QuiltCon swag that Sheila brought home.  

Can't wait to see what everyone came up with!! 

 

Upcoming Retreat and Workshop Opportunities  for Lincoln Modern Quilt Guild Members:

April Sew Day

Saturday, April 2nd, 2016 from 10:00am-3:30pm.

International Quilt Study Center and Museum

1523 N 33rd St

Lincoln, NE 68503

Must be at IQSCM and set up to sew before 10:45am, demo given by Japanese quilt artist Shizuko Kuroha at 11am.  Please notify us if you would like to be there that day => info.lincolnmqg@gmail.com

Upcoming workshops at the IQSCM:

February Meeting Reminder

Just a quick reminder that the next meeting is coming up soon, on Tuesday, February 23 from 5:30-7:00pm at the Bernina Sewing Studio at 1265 S Cotner Blvd, in the Piedmont Shopping Center.  Quilter and photographer Taura Horn, will be giving a presentation on photographing your quilts.

We will be taking down the quilt show at the end of this meeting, and everyone will be able to take their quilt home.  So if you want your quilt back, it is very important that you come to the meeting to get your quilt, or arrange for a friend to hold it for you.  This also means it's the last weekend to come see the quilt show!  It's all at the Bernina Sewing Studio, hope to see you all there!

Our Sew Day at the International Quilt Study Center and Museum was so much fun, we had several demos on crazy flying geese and on making quick half square triangles.  Head on over to the Lincoln MQG Facebook page to see more photos!  Tag yourself or your friends if you see them, you don't have to have a Facebook account to look at photos.

January Meeting Highlights

Our first meeting of the year was packed full of new guild members, the curious, and lots of information about what's coming up this year!

The first Sew Day for Lincoln MQG members will be this Saturday, February 13th from 10:30am to 3:30pm at the International Quilt Study Center.  Bring your sewing machine, a project you're working on, and sew with friends in the beautiful atrium area of the IQSCM!  The guild challenge “Try- Angles” was explained at January's meeting, the due date for this will be the March Meeting.  At Saturday's Sew Day, there will be some quick and easy demos on actual triangles that you might use in your challenge piece.  Hope to see you all there!

For the National Quilting Day celebration at the IQSCM on Saturday March 19th we are in need of improve quilts to show as examples in the booth and to be used during the Modern Quilting lectures at 11 am and 2 pm.  At the booth, space will be limited, so we are looking for smaller improv pieces that represent work inspired by the Gees Bend quilters, Sherry Lynn Wood and/or have been done during our “Improv at the Museum” sew days.  These quilts will be collected this Saturday, Feb. 13th at our sew day at the Museum from 10:30-3:30 or at our next Guild meeting on Tuesday, February 23rd at 5:30.

We are also still looking for volunteers for our booth at National Quilting Day, for all time slots: 9-11am, 11-1pm, and 1-3pm.  Ultimately we want 4 people at the booth at all times.  Please contact Colleen James if you would like to sign up or have questions: cmcjames10 [at] gmail.com

We also started a bucket list/time capsule, where everyone there wrote down their quilting goals for 2016.  Want to make your quilts more modern?  Bigger quilts? Finish up projects?  It all went in the can and we'll open it in January 2017 to see how we did.

The quilt that our guild members made together for Habitat for Humanity, will be in the new house for the dedication ceremony on Saturday, February 20th at 9am.  Please come and meet the family who will get to love the special quilt for years:)

As the Lincoln MQG is now officially a part of the national MQG, we encourage everyone to sign up with the MQG website to get their newsletters, free patterns and to connect with our own guild page on their site and be a part of the larger modern quilting community.

The next Lincoln MQG will be on Tuesday, February 23rd from 5:30-7:00pm at the Bernina Sewing Studio, Taura Horn will give a presentation on photographing your quilts.

And last but not least, we had another great Show-And-Tell! Here are a few photos, go to our Facebook page and see the whole gallery.  You don't need to be signed up for Facebook to look at the photos.
January Meeting Photos

Opening Reception A Success!

Over the weekend we had an opening reception for our Modern Quilt Exhibition at the Bernina Sewing Studio Gallery, and were so pleased with the amazing turn out!  It was great to see so many people showing up from all the different areas of Lincoln's quilt scene, and it was really fun for the artists to talk about modern quilts.

The next meeting for the Lincoln Modern Quilt Guild is tomorrow, Tuesday, January 26, 2016 from 5:30-7:00pm at 1265 S Cotner Blvd in the Piedmont Shopping Center.  There will be a presentation on the Modern Quilt movement, a new quilting challenge, and of course everyone's favorite - SHOW AND TELL! So bring a project you're working on, bring a friend and come see what Modern Quilting is all about!

Become a member!

See more photos from the opening on the LMQG Facebook page!

Holiday Party Fun and New Challenge for the New Year!

Thank you to everyone who came out and joined us for our Holiday social.  I think everyone had fun, ate some great treats and had at least one good laugh!

Jennifer made a scrappy wall-hanging

Several members had show and tell items to share. 

 Suzanne made her mom a quilt

 Nancy designed and executed this paper pieced flower quilt

 Kris made a variable star quilt

 Sheila made a curling iron carry bag

 Colleen made a sew together bag

Food galore and pretty paper packages of "ugly" fat quarters.

The FQ exchange was a lot of fun. Everyone went home with something worse or better than expected! I already cut mine up and put it in a block! To see a video of our Name that Quilt block Charade game go to our FB page

I think a good time was had by all!  We also had two new guests that might be joining us in the future, Mary's friend Barb and Suzanne's friend Ruvini. 

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The current Leadership Board wants to thank you for a wonderful beginning to our new guild!!!

Mary, Suzanne, Colleen and Kris, 2015

Thank you 

What is coming up in the NEW YEAR??

A new quilting challenge  called "Try Angles" to start the year off.  Challenge is due at the March meeting...have fun!  What kind of angles do you want to try???

Plus ....you don't want to miss out on having a quilt hang in the Bernina Sewing Studio gallery.  Please turn in all quilts before Jan 8th. We would like each guild member to have a quilt in the show. They must have a permanent label with your name on and a written note describing the modern elements used in your quilt. If you are south in town contact Sheila Green and if you are north contact Kris Jarchow.