It's been awhile...come sew with us! 

Work on challenge (GO Geo) or anything you choose. See what others are making!

Share your show and tells or anything you would like help on or suggestions.

There is a kitchen if you bring a snack or drink. 

Would you like to help plan the Christmas party? let Kris or Jennifer know. 

Are you interested in helping plan next years programs? talk to Sue, Lora, Phyllis, Jan or Kris at the sew day.

Reminder our next meeting is one week earlier on August 18th. The presenter is Marilyn Rembolt on Quilt edge finishes

Our Go Geo Challenge has extended due date of Sept  29th. Don't forget to label it and send lmqg a written artist statement and dimensions of your entry piece. 

Let's Sew!!!

 

April 28th LMQG Meeting highlights with Karen Sullivan

 

Karen Sullivan joined us from KC to talk about "Preloved to Relove: the Future of Upcycling"

Karen uses all kinds of textiles from curtains and sheers, to table linens, bedding and of course denim. You can read more about her projects and mission HERE

One other thing she talked about is correct sewing posture so you can sew for longer and not be tensed and sore. 

We brought our pieces in for show on the Ad/Color Palette Challenge. 

We had seven takers and some of us tried twice!!

Winners of the raffle:

And finally some show and tell! 

Ros 

Deb's heartfelt memory piece

Martha had 2 finishes

Elisa made something wearable

Kara

Bonnie's front and....

back

So thankful we had so many visitors to the night. 

We hope to see you next month when we are given a tour of the Boro Exhibition at the IQM. 

April 28th LMQG Meeting

 

This month join us for an informative meeting presented by Karen Sullivan of Sully's Upcycled!!!

Visit Karen's website HERE

FB HERE

INSTAGRAM HERE

ETSY HERE

We meet at IQM and meeting starts at 5:30 but you can come a few minutes early to visit.

Program: Karen Sullivan

               Ad/Color Challenge pieces due

               Show and Tell

*****Sign up for "Upcycled Hoodie" class taught by Sheila Green using Karen's pattern on June 6th. Space may be limited so sign up by end of meeting or Contact Sheila More info HERE

Hope to see you all there!

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!

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

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.