Holiday gift ideas from our members! 

Microwave Bowl Potholder

Journal Cover Tutorial

Casserole and Pie Carrier

Fold and Stitch Wreath

Crayon Monster Art Tote

Rope Bowl Tutorial

LMQG Gift Ideas on Pinterest

Nancy Goff, Kris Jarchow, Phyllis Higley, Linda Gale, Jen Van Dyke 

Sheila continued her Make it Modern exercise from our October meeting. Liz and Kris sewed and slashed and came up with some cool modern pieces! 

Show & Tell: Linda Crump, Linda Gale, Kris Jarchow, Julie Karjala

We are so excited to share news about our Habitat for Humanity of Lincoln Raffle Quilt!  

The quilt raised $3950 for Habitat of Humanity, thanks to our $2,450 in ticket sales and cash donations and $1,500 in matching funds.  

The drawing was held at the International Quilt Study Center & Museum during our Sew Day.  

The Winner is Rennie Austin of Lincoln! 

 Rennie purchased her raffle ticket during National Quilting Day last March at the IQSCM.  She is a quilter and a former 4th grade teacher (taught the history of Nebraska in her classroom). Congratulations, Rennie!  It was a pleasure to meet you and know that our quilt has a wonderful new home.

The quilt was our QuiltCon Charity Quilt for 2017 and hung at QuiltCon in Savannah, GA last February.

January Meeting Highlights

From the Meeting

January Program: Story Board

Incoming board members showed their quilts and talked about their quilting journey. We were missing Kristie Jarchow (Secretary) and Mary Dittenber (Co Vice President).

Top L-R: Liz Thanel (Treasurer)  Linda Crump (Co Vice President)

Bottom L-R: Sheila Green (President) Jennifer Van Dyke (Social Media)

QuiltCon Charity Quilt: "Celebrate Nebraska 150" 

 Sheila presented our finished QuiltCon Charity Quilt. 

Thank you to the quilt committee: Ronda Eddy, Kristine Morrow, Barbara Kitsmiller, Michelle Raphael, Sarah Maseth, Diane Wilson, Susan Wick, Kristie Jarcow, Liz Thanel, Sheila Green and Mary Dittenber. 

After the quilt is shown at QuiltCon, Rhonda Eddy will be the Quilt Mom. Beginning in March, we will raffle this quilt, with the proceeds to benefit Habitat for Humanity.

Special Committees were introduced.

Social Media assistant: Sarah Maseth

Blog Calendar: Julie Karjala

EQ7 Group: Nancy Goff

Habitat for Humanity pillowcases/wall hangings: Cindi Pape

National Quilting Day Up Cycling: June Pederson and Marsha Conley

Quilt Show/Exhibitions: Sheree Brown

Raffle Quilt Mom: Rhonda Eddy

Sew Days: Nancy Goff

Upcoming Opportunities

Sew Day: February 11 at IQSCM, 10:30am-3pm- curves and circles with Deanna Larson, Mary Dittenber and Kris Jarchow

February 28th Meeting: Design Workshop "Curves Ahead"

National Quilting Day: March 18th at IQSCM we will demo/display Upcycling. We will be needing volunteers to help in our Upcycle booth as well as other areas of the museum all throughout the day. We are very excited for LMQG to be able to contribute to this event and want everyone who can be there to sign up to help in some way. Please contact June Pederson or Marsha Conley to volunteer.

March 28th Meeting: Peg Pennell on what judges look for and entering contests.

Dyeing Workshop: April 8th at Bethany Park Shelter with Mary Dittenber. Contact Deanna Larson to register. Details HERE

Road Trip to Kansas City Regional Quilt Festival: June 15/16. Laura Simpson will handle sign up at meetings. Contact Sheila Green for hotel accomodations. Details HERE

At the IQSCM

Feb. 4, 9-4  Creative Design Workshop-Joe Cunningham $85 members, $100 non-

March 4, 9-4 Log Cabin: Infinite Variation-Luke Haynes  $85 members, $100 non-

March 10-11 Printmaking 101- Sheila Green  $45 members, $55 non-members

Please consider becoming an IQSCM member!  You’ll save money on classes!

On Instagram

Follow us on Instagram! If you haven't yet, post a selfie or a favorite quilt and introduce yourself using the hashtags #HelloLincolnMQG and #lincolnmqg. Click on the hashtags to see who has posted!  

The third Sunday of every month is a MQG Sew Day. Post a photo of a project you're working on with #MQGSewDay on February 19th. Click on the tag to see what other people are sewing. 

Not able to go to QuiltCon this year? Look for updates on the hashtag #QuiltConFromHome during QuiltCon. 

Did you participate in the MQG quilt swap? Check out #mqgswap for lots of fun inspiration. 

From the Modern Quilt Guild 

The MQG website has a new Resources page where you can find tools, webinars and resources for members.  

National Quilting Day March 19 and Feb. recap

Saturday March 19th is National Quilting Day at the International Quilt Study Center and Museum  from 9 - 3. Our guild will be on the second floor demonstrating improv piecing and cutting throughout the day. Nancy Goff will be demonstrating tessellations and Sheila Green will be giving a talk at  11:00 and again at 2:00 on What is Modern?  Lots of fun activities and admission is free so bring your family and friends!!!!



Feb. meeting highlights:
---Taura Horn gave us information about photographing your quilts. What to do and what not to do to have successful quilt photographs. Once you master a few tricks you can enjoy prints of your works, share them or keep them in an archive. You might even be interested in entering a contest or show with your beautiful quilt photograph!

---Our wonderful exhibition of members works hanging at The Bernina Sewing Studio slowly came down. We had a huge turnout as far as visitors to our show. Great big "Thank You" to all who participated to make this happen!!! 
---Photos from Show and Share

--- Hmmm, needing some lessons in photographing happy children? ( I just had to stick this one in here of a member taking a pic of our Taura Horn).

---and finally....Habitat for Humanity family received the quilt our guild made. This was such a wonderful experience to see our quilty hard work go to a lovely family! Thank you again to all who participated in the making and sharing of this quilt!

Reminder that the Try Angles challenge will be due at the March 29th Meeting! I hope you gave this a TRY and made something with some type of angle and maybe you tried some of the Modern elements to make this come together?  Prizes will be awarded so it is not to late to get started!!! Any questions contact us at info.lincolnmqg@gmail.com

March Meeting: Sheila Green will share all about QuiltCon. Come join us and learn about the International Modern Quilt show. Don't forget about the Riley Blake Challenge "Sashing Stash" fabric. If you have some to share see if anyone else wants to do the challenge. 

Exciting event coming up: Victoria Findley Wolfe will be here on June 9th and is teaching a class at  Quilt House. If you would like to sign up you can read about it in my link and call the IQSCM to sign up. 

Thanks for stopping by!

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