May meeting is approaching quickly.  Tuesday May 26th, 5:30 - 7 p.m.

We hope you join us for our May Lincoln Modern Quilt Guild Meeting. This month we'll have a Make & Take project featuring Hexagons! Shelia Green graciously shared this fun project by the Chattanooga Modern Quilt Guild - glue-baste Hexagons with long stitch hand embroidery and back to front binding! If you'd like to play along, and we hope you do, please bring the items below to the meeting:
Pre-cut backing - 9" x 13" or FQ that coordinates with gray solids
3 2-1/2 candy charm squares
Pins
Large Eye Needle
Elmers washable school glue (if you have it)

We will also have a BabyGo cutter available for use to assist with the Hexagons!

**To cover some of the costs we are asking for a small good will donation at the sign in table.

Join us at the NEW Bernina Sewing Studio:
1265 So. Cotner (Piedmont Center)
May 26th (Last Tuesday of Month)
5:30 - 7 pm

The May meeting will also be the end of our Improv Challenge, so please bring your completed works to share and for a chance to win a prize with your Improv Project!!!
 Read about the Improv Challenge HERE

Coming events:

Grand Opening of new Galleries at IQSCM First Friday June 5th with Sherri Lynn Wood giving a free improv workshop and book signing  More info HERE 

Afternoon at the Improv Sew Day June 13th at IQSCM 12 - 3:30

Victoria Findlay Wolfe workshop June 14th  More info HERE


We LOVE seeing what everyone is working on, challenge or not, so please bring something so we can get inspiration from one another! Hope to see you there!

April Meeting recap!

 

April LMQG meeting: Sheila Green talked about how to make a hanging sleeve for various finishes on quilts.  She shared her experience with us for hanging quilts at the IQSCM and how they make their encased "D" sleeves for hanging.

 

Some of her examples showed us a hanging sleeve on a regular finish, a facing finish and a bound edge finish.

 

 

 

Sheila also talked about tools to hang the quilt so that they keep that flat appearance once hung up.   She also showed us how to use the "Hang it, Dang it" bar which can be found HERE  *has a video tutorial

 

 



 

Next up, Colleen James gave us a recap of her sewing retreat to Chicago for Sewtopia.  Colleen met and took classes from Latifah Saafir, one of the co-founders of the National Modern Quilt Guild and Rita Hodge from Red Pepper Quilts!

 

 

Kristie Jarchow shared a recent blog post by Kathy Mathews -read here: Quilting sewing creating on "The Value and Cost of Making Quilts". 

 

 

**** Mark your calendars for the upcoming June 5th first Friday at the IQSCM to see Sherri Lynn Wood and Leah Sorensen-Hayes. Free admission and starts at 3 p.m.  More info can be found HERE.

 

Thanks so much to all of you that made it out to join us! We wish Suzanne Rose a huge "Get well soon" wish!!!

 

 

Next meeting will be May 26th at 5:30 pm at the Bernina sewing studio. Next "Afternoon at the Improv" sewing day at IQSCM will be June 13th at 12 pm. Hope to see you all there!

 

 

**** Don't forget the Improv Challenge is due in May! READ MORE HERE







Sherri Lynn Wood book signing and performance at IQSCM

 

 



SHERRI LYNN WOOD is an artist working in Oakland, CA. She is a recent recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant for Painters and Sculptors, and a two-time MacDowell Colony Fellow. She has been making and improvising quilts as a creative life practice for twenty-five years, and blogs about it at daintytime.net. Teaching credits include Penland School of Craft, QuiltCon, and numerous modern and traditional guilds across the country.


Sherri Lynn Wood, author of the new book "Improv Handbook for Modern Quilters" published by STC Craft/A Melanie Falick Book,will be stopping at the IQSCM on her X country book release tour.    She will be in Lincoln on June 5th for first Friday  from 3-5 p.m. 

Pre-Order your copy BEFORE April 28, and enter the Pre-Order Giveaway HERE!

Improvise! Ruler-Free Patchwork Performance, -- a 1hr Improv Theater  / Patchwork Mashup with Sherri Lynn Wood. Ruler-free patchwork techniques featured in the Improv Handbook For Modern Quilters, such as basic strip, bias strip, wedge, curve, stack, float, repetition, flow, bleeding, darting, natural fit, approximate measuring, trouble shooting, and composition tips, tricks and techniques will be demonstrated and performed on the spot according to suggestions received from the audience. Attendees will leave with enough knowledge to explore and incorporate ruler-free techniques in their future patchwork.  Attendees are invited (optional) to contribute up to a 1/4 yd of fabric for the patchwork performance - zingers and "ugly" fabrics welcome!

Following her performance: Leah Sorensen-Hayes is a local artist and Quiltmaker who is also a studio assistant for Michael James. Michael’s show, “Ambiguity & Enigma,” will officially be opening that night. She’ll also have a small display of her work up. 

Plus....the new galleries will be opening....well worth a night out at the museum!!

I hope everyone can come out for this great opportunity, right here in our own backyard!!!  If you join us for our "Afternoon at the Improv" sewing days at the Museum, you will be seeing more of the Improv Handbook for Modern Quilters.  Our next sewing day is June 13th at 12:00p.m. at IQSCM.