Join us for "Curves Ahead," a group design activity featuring curves. Our meeting will be held at the IQSCM in the 2nd floor reception hall, which is a change from our usual meeting room. 

If you have not paid your dues yet, now is the time! Liz Thanel will collect them, $35 for the year.

Raffle tickets for our QuiltCon/Habitat for Humanity Quilt will be available for purchase at the meeting. 

Sign up for the dyeing class with Mary Dittenber ($35), National Quilting Day and the KC road trip.

Bring your finished projects for show and tell. Please be mindful of the amount of time you share, we usually have many members waiting in line!

Looking forward to seeing you on the 28th!

February Sew Day Highlights

We had a full house at the IQSCM on Saturday with 25 LMQG members in attendance. Sewing alongside us was the Quilts of Valor group, which was pretty fun! We were mingling back and forth, seeing what everyone was working on. It was one big quilting party!

The focus of the day was sewing curves. Three of our members demonstrated a few different ways to sew them. 

Top Row: Kristie Jarchow demonstrated how to use the Quick Curve Ruler and had a completed pillow to show one of many possible designs.

Middle Row: Mary Dittenber stacked fabric and cut it with a rotary cutter to make wavy curves.

Bottom Row: Deanna Larson showed how to cut and sew a traditional drunkards path block using a template. 

Several of us then tried sewing something curvy. Here are some of the results!

A few members had  Show and Tell

Top L-R: Sarah Maseth, Carol Friesen

Bottom L-R: Carol Friesen, Julie Karjala

Thank you to Kristie, Mary and Deanna for helping us build our confidence with sewing curves!

Our next Sew Day will be April 8th, 2017 at the IQSCM. 

February Sew Day Reminder

Our first Sew Day of 2017 is this Saturday at the IQSCM! We will be learning about different techniques for sewing curves with Deanna Larson, Mary Dittenber and Kristie Jarchow. 

If you want to get your curve on, bring contrasting fabrics, rotary cutter, mat, scissors, straight ruler and sewing machine. 

Kristie will be demonstrating the Quick Curve Ruler and you will need to bring at least two 7.5" squares of contrasting fabric to try it. 

Mary will be demonstrating a stack and slice technique. 

Deanna will show a traditional Drunkards Path block.

As always, bring whatever projects you want to work on and if you have a finished project, bring it for show and tell!

Hope to see you Saturday!