August Meeting Minutes

Lots of great info during this meeting. Click into the meeting minutes for the full recap. Highlights include:

• Reminder - Scrappy Challenge pieces due at the September meeting.
• Raffle winners: Pat Kant Modrell, Jeni Kuszak, Charrye Olberding.
• QuiltCon quilt is finished and being bound.
• Fall Retreat update. Reach out to Elisa Salas/Mary Dittenber to see if there are still spaces available!
• October 11th Sew Day is an open sew to work on any projects, ask for help solving a project problem, or help on a technique.
• Membership dues for 2026 will be accepted via check at our September meeting ($50)
• Yearly member survey will be available after our October meeting.
• Registration for the All-Star Sampler Platter workshop was purchased and an email with the link/information was emailed to all members. Check your inboxes!!
• Dates are Saturday September 27th and Sunday September 28th from 2-5 CT.
• Workbook is available at the provided link two weeks before the workshop date.
• A recording of the event will be available for seven days after the workshop. 
• The link cannot be shared outside of our guild membership.
• September program: Robbi Eklow: "Contempary Fused Art Quilts"
• October program: Liz Thanel: trunk show

Our August program was Heather Akerberg:  “Quilt Design:  from Pencil Sketch to Finished Quilts”. Enjoy the pictures!

And of course we had some great member show and tell!

Vicky Bedell

Vicky Bedell

Martha Turner

Martha Turner

Bonnie Kucera

Bonnie Kucera

Kathi Schmitter

Jo Goertzen

Maggie Copple

Maggie Copple

Maggie Copple

September LMQG Program with Robbi Eklow

Please join us for our September 30th meeting when the featured program will be Robbi Eklow as she talks about her process and shows us some of her beautiful work. Robbi Joy Eklow has been making quilts for about fifty years. Her quilts are art quilts, usually using fabrics she has dyed herself, appliqued by fusing and then freemotion quilted.

Robbi wrote a column for Quilting Arts Magazine, under the byline “Goddess of the Last Minute” for twelve years. She has also written articles for several other quilting magazines, including the AQS Journal, the SAQA Journal, Quilter’s Newsletter, and her work has appeared in several magazines in other countries.

Robbi has been teaching other quilters to freemotion quilt, and to make fused art quilts, beginning in the late 90’s. She continues to lecture and teach occasionally. 

Robbi and her husband Brian both graduated from Purdue University in 1980. They have two children, her daughter Samantha Kruse and her family live in Council Bluffs, Iowa, and her son and his family live in Omaha, Nebraska. Brian and Robbi spent most of their lives in Illinois, until 2017, when they started moving to Nebraska to be near their family. They now live in Mills County, Iowa in a house with a walkout basement that is now her studio. For years she had a studio at the Hot Shops Art Center in Omaha, but moved everything home in 2024 to be able to work in the middle of the night, or take naps in between quilting sessions.

Robbi’s work has appeared in many major quilt shows in the US, including Quilt Festival in Houston, AQS shows all around the country, and most of the Mancuso quilt shows at one time or another. She has had work in Quilt National twice.

August 2025 LMQG Meeting

 

Agenda for Evening

• Announcements
• Program-- Heather Akerberg: “Quilt Design: from Pencil Sketch to Finished Quilts”
• Raffle
• Show & Tell

Reminders!!

• “Scrappy Challenge” due September - https://lincolnmqg.blogspot.com/p/challenges.html
• Fall Retreat (October 24-26), Payment – available through Zeffy or check at the August meeting. https://lincolnmqg.blogspot.com/p/lmqg-2025-fall-retreat.html

Upcoming programs:

• September 30 Program: Robbi Eklow, “Contemporary Fused Art Quilts”
• October 28 Program: Liz Thanel, trunk show