The Madison Modern Quilt Guild met on November 12th for general business and our usual sew and tell. Upcoming Events February Sewing Retreat We had so much fun at the first MMQG retreat at the Jones Mansion that another retreat is already on the schedule! The second retreat will be February 18 – February 21. Check Facebook for the event page that contains all the sign-up info. Send your deposit to Lori Bartol in order to […]
Year: 2015
Mad Mod First-ever Retreat
Over the weekend of October 23-25, thirteen lucky Mad Mod members attended the first-ever Mad Mod retreat at the Jones Mansion in Mineral Point. It was a blast! There was lots of sewing, advising, eating and some very late nights. The facilities were great; it is a wonderful old home with a wonderful attic workroom and the most fantastic irons! I certainly wish that I had put more thought into the packing….I could have used more […]
October meeting
There was indeed an October meeting! We approved a by-laws change that allows an officer to serve more than two consecutive one-year terms if there is no one to fill the post. Officer elections will take place at the November meeting. Here are the show& tells: We’ll see you in November!
September Meeting Recap
The Madison Modern Quilt Guild met on September 10th for general business and our usual sew and tell. Upcoming Events MMQG First Annual Sewing Retreat Friday, October 23rd through Sunday, October 25th at the Jones Mansion in Mineral Point, WI. Please make you final payment ($58) to Lori by October 1st Community Mending Day at the Monona Library The third Sunday of each month (starting in October) the Monona Library and the Sewing Machine Project will be […]
September Meeting
Welcome back from whatever you did during the summer! A busy week is here for quilters with the Expo Thursday through Saturday and our monthly meeting on Thursday the 10th. If you made logo blocks for our guild banner, please bring them to this meeting as we are ready to assemble the banner! Believe it or not….I have completed blocks for the block lotto; it was a very quick project and I’m excited to […]
August Meeting Recap
The Madison Modern Quilt Guild met on August 13th for general business and our usual sew and tell. Upcoming Events Scrap Swap @ the September Meeting! Please bring a quart-sized bag of scraps to the September meeting if you wish to participate. We will be drawing names to determine swap partners; you will bring home your swap partners’ scraps and create something awesome with them (mini-quilt, pouch, bag, pillow, etc.) You have two months to make […]
Scrap Swap
Attention members!! We are going to do a Scrap Swap! Bring a quart-size bag (or larger) full of your scraps to the September meeting if you wish to participate. We will draw names to determine swap partners. You will take your swap partner’s scraps home and create something awesome with them. It can be anything you want: a mini quilt, pouch, bag, pillow, etc. Just make sure you make something nice, because that same person […]
September Block Lotto – Modern D9P
General guidelines for Quilt Block Lotto: 1. Make one quilt block (or more) following the pattern and color scheme outlined in this post. For every block you make and bring to that month’s meeting, you will get one entry in the lotto. If you are unable to attend the meeting or forget your block on meeting day, but really want to participate in the lotto, you can still enter your block but you must be […]
August Block Lotto – Stashbuster
This lotto block has a nifty tutorial here: http://www.littlemissshabby.com/2010/04/stashbuster-block-2-tutorial/ Colors are solid slate/dark gray and the rest is anything goes (just try to mix it up as much as possible with a wide variety of colors, both brights and lights, warm and cool, etc.). Great block for using up some scraps! You can construct it as shown with two gray ‘borders’ and the rest colored squares or change it up and do two colored square ‘borders’ […]
Quilt Show @ Alicia Ashman Library 2015
The MMQG show @ Alicia Ashman Library is set for September and October. Quilts will be hung on Thursday, 9/3 from 6-9p. A few items of note: The library can accommodate only a handful of large (bed-sized) quilts, so most will need to be wall-hanging size. The general theme for this show will be flying geese, any way you want to interpret that. Feel free to bring a quilt that is not part of the theme, […]