Hey gang! For those of you who missed our June Madison Modern Quilt Guild meeting or if you want to relive the fun, this post is for you! General Housekeeping DUES: We’re collecting 2018 dues in October so be ready! MQG Charity Quilt Challenge: We need a committee and a chair person. If you’re interested and a Mad Mod QG member, join the charity Facebook group. Learn more about the MQG Charity Quilt Challenge. BLOCK […]
Year: 2017
June Meeting
Remember that we are now meeting at Blue Bar Quilts, 6333 University, Middleton (see the Blue Bar website for advice on the area construction.) Our program will feature Brad Miller and Color. Remember your name tag, show and tell, charity donations and any contributions to the Free Table (sewing related items that you no longer want). Hope to see you soon!
May 2017 Meeting Recap
Hey Gang! Thank you to those who attended our May meeting. For those of you who were away we happily moved to our new home at Blue Bar Quilts this month! If you haven’t heard of Blue Bar it’s a brand new quilt shop town. Check it out! In May we talked about… MQG Charity Quilt – Sign ups for the committee and committee chair were gathered. It’s not to late to join! The Modern […]
May Meeting
The day has finally arrived…..Thursday we will be having our first meeting at the brand new Blue Bar Quilts!!!! Please join us for this festive occasion! 6333 University, Middleton, 6:30. Remember all the usual items: name-tag, charity donations, show and tell, free table donations….PLUS a shopping list for all the wonderful new fabric!!!!
April 2017 Meeting Recap
VERY IMPORTANT notice about the May meeting: Join us at 6:30 p.m. on May 11 for the next MMQG meeting at Blue Bar Quilts (6333 University Ave, Middleton, WI 53562). Blue Bar Quilts will officially open for business on April 24. Yep, this was our last meeting at the Hyvee on Whitney Way. So long, Hyvee…thanks for the space and the memories! Check out the detailed minutes from the meeting on the Meetings page. The charity quilt was […]
March 2017 Meeting Recap
Hello and welcome to the March 2017 Madison Modern Quilt Guild Meeting Recap. Please read on if you’d like to relive the fun or see what you missed. As always, the full meeting minutes can be found on the meetings tab of this blog. Challenge Quilts: This month, members shared their Pantone Color of the Year quilt challenge finishes: Check it out: [slideshow_deploy id=’2368′] Sun Prairie Quilt Show: The Sun Prairie Quilt Show is March […]
We meet tomorrow!!!
Have you completed your “Greenery” quilt-project? Keep working! It will be fun to see what 33 of us did with that color! Wendy will be guiding us through the MQG website; there is so much there for us to use….our dues pay for this site! Remember to bring: Show and tell Greenery quilt charity donations name tag donations to free-table See you soon!
February 2017 Meeting Recap
Hello and thank you for stopping by. The February meeting was a particularly special treat and we covered a lot. Please read on if you’d like to relive the fun or see what you missed. As always, the full meeting minutes can be found on the meetings tab of this blog. Local Happenings: Blue Bar Quilts is on track to open this April. You’re welcome to stop by and peek in the windows: 6333 University Ave. […]
It’s meeting time!
It is time for the February meeting, Thursday the 9th ,6;30 in the Whitney Way HyVee Community Room…..please join us for some quilting fun! Our program will be a presentation by member David on his quilting process. His quilts are fabulous and it is NO accident! If you are interested in being part of the fabric “challenge” featuring the Color of the Year, Greenery, please sign up on the Facebook page. You’ll be […]
Show us your sewing space | David Armour
Hello Mad Mod! We’re so excited to tell you that the super talented David Armour will be speaking at the February 9 meeting! What to expect from David: This presentation covers an overview of the design and construction process I use to make abstract, modern pieced quilts. These techniques allow me to come up with unlimited designs and render them with precise piecing detail. Often as quilters we stick with regular shapes such as squares, […]
