September Sew Day Reminder

Join us this Saturday for Sew Day! We will be working on our QuiltCon charity quilt. Please bring your sewing machine and white, off white or lt. gray thread.  It would be good if a couple people could bring cutting mats, rulers and rotary cutters.  Julie will give us a tutorial on how to make the blocks and then we will sew sew sew! Hope to see you there!

Sew Days at the Fair Highlights

The Lincoln Modern Quilt Guild held our August Sew Days at the Lancaster County Super Fair this year. What a fun time! It was wonderful to see all the quilts (40!) entered by our members. Thank you to the many members who volunteered their time to help hang/take down the quilts, white glove, demonstrate modern quilting techniques and sell raffle tickets. Special thanks to Kristie Jarchow for organizing the volunteers!

Top L-R: Improv Stripe Quilt Along with Kristie Jarchow, Curved Piecing and Easy Circles with Brenda Wiseman. Middle: Foundation Freezer Paper Piecing with Peg Pennell. Bottom L-R: Spiral and Free Motion Quilting with Liz Thanel, Easy Fusible Transfer with Jen Van Dyke.

We hope you were able to make it out to the fair! Check out our Facebook page for more photos.

June Sew Day Reminder

Join us at the IQSCM on Saturday for Sew Day! Open sew or sew pillow case kits or house wall hangings for Habitat. Bring your modern show and tell to share with the group. Hope to see you there!

Sew Day Reminder

 
Hello Quilty Friends! We hope you will join us for Sew Day! We're looking forward to a fun day of sewing and social time with you. 

Bring your works in progress and if you have a finished project, bring that for show and tell. 

If you are interested in sewing pillowcases for Habitat for Humanity, there will be a few kits available on Saturday. Also, you can bring fabrics you would like to donate from your stash! Remember that we are in need of "boy" fabrics. 

Pillowcases are quick and easy to make. You will need approximately this much fabric to make one pillowcase: 

body=27" x 42"
cuff = 9" x 42"
piping = 2 " x 42"

If you've never made one before, here are a couple links to pillowcase tutorials.

Pillowcase Video Tutorial

Pillowcase pattern PDF HERE

See you on Saturday!

Afternoon at the Improv II- Sewing at the Quilt House

"Afternoon at the Improv II"

Sew Day at The Quilt House Sat. June 13th 12:00 p.m.

Floating Squares Score practice

                                  

Lincoln Modern Quilt Guild would like to invite you to join with us as we learn about improvisational piecing. Using books, tutorials and trial and error, we will explore what improvisational piecing is all about.  Simple techniques will be discussed at the beginning of the sewing sessions and everyone is welcome to share their knowledge and experiences.

****Discussion will start at 12.  There are many activities at the Museum with the opening of the new Galleries so we will not have tables to work on until 1:00p.m.  We will hold our discussion and show and share until the tables are available. 

Session dates:  April 11, June 13, Aug 8, Oct 10, Nov 14, Dec 12

Many of you were able to attend the presentation by Sherri Lynn Wood at the First Friday festivities.  Her new book is:

 Sherri covers many techniques for getting started in Improvisation.  One of the scores from her book is called "Floating Squares".  The large quilt you see below is an example of this score. If you would like to give this score a try amongst friends, bring the supplies listed at the bottom of the photo.

 

If you have Sherri's book then you can read over the first chapter on this score and bring what you would like to work with according to the limits you have set.  If you do not have her book, please bring 2 fabrics in limited quantity (ex: FQ or 1/4th yard) and one other fabric in unlimited quantity (this is the filler piece used throughout). 

Other items to bring: Sewing machine and basic supplies needed for it. Ironing surface and iron to share with others. If you want to have a rotary cutter and mat that is fine but no need for a ruler!!! 

Others that just want to sew will be able to work on any project they would like and please bring things to share and show!

 

 

 

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Anyone is welcome to come and share and learn. If you have questions you can comment below or message me at kristiejarchow@gmail.com.