Dec 2024 Meeting Minutes

 The December 2024 meeting minutes have been posted to the blog under the Meeting Minutes tab.

 December Meeting Information

Our last meeting of 2024 is coming up Tuesday, December 3rd. Reminder - Bring your Q4 Challenge - create something "For Your Sewing Space" to participate in our white elephant gift exchange at the meeting. Make sure to wrap it! Also a reminder to bring your 2025 Dues ($50)! Time permitting, there will be a limited show and tell. Details on time/location below! See you there!

 

January 2025 Workshop

 January 2025 Workshop

David Owen Hastings - Inspired by Architecture

January 11, 2025 (Saturday)
Time - 10am-4:00pm (CT)
Zoom
Cost - $75 OMQG Members, $95 non members 
**no refund if one cancels within 2 weeks of event**

David will guide you through a creative process for designing your own modern abstract quilts, taking inspiration from architectural photos to develop dynamic and unique quilt designs.

Monumental inspiration with unlimited possibilities

6 hours: Using photos of architectural elements, David will guide you through the steps to design a mini fabric quilt. We will use the quilt-as-you-go method, sewing the top pieces, batting and backing simultaneously. David will demonstrate facing your quilt, to give a more modern finish than traditional binding. Your mini quilt can be the final product (frame it, hang it, or make a pillow cover later), or it can be a test for a larger quilt. 

This workshop is a 6-hour live-stream event, conducted on Zoom, consisting of live instruction (no recording, please). You should have the current version of Zoom installed on your computer or laptop. Guidance for getting started will be sent in advance of the workshop.

Zoom Workshop Details

• Experiment with different elemental geometric shapes, including gentle curves
• Explore spare, simple compositions for a modern look
• Think about figure and ground
• Consider the sewing lines as a key design element
• Select 1-2 photos, and break them down into elemental shapes with tracing paper and pencil
• Assess which compositions work well, and choose one to translate into fabric
• Discuss color and value choices and decide on a palette
• Map out pieces for one composition
• Label and cut out cardboard pattern pieces, or cut pieces improv style
• Audition colors and placement
• Translate pattern pieces into fabric, leaving a generous amount of extra fabric for seam allowances
• Build composition with the quilt-as-you-go method, trying out multiple fabrics, stepping back to assess the effect of each
• Discuss surface design options: stitching by machine or hand, painting, drawing
• Watch a demo of facing a quilt for a modern look and joining finished quilt blocks

 

Sign Up Link

February Block Lotto Information

 

February 2025 Block Lotto - Wonky Stars

Due in February 2025

Link to Directions for Wonky Star

Details are also posted under the Block Lotto Tab. 

November Meeting Minutes

The November 2024 meeting minutes have been posted to the blog under the Meeting Minutes tab.

 November Meeting Information

Our November meeting will be on MONDAY, November 4th. The meeting will be at the Westside Community Center 3534 S 108th Street. Social time starts at 6:00pm and the business meeting and program will start at 6:30pm. We will have a program via zoom with Carolina Oneto called "Befriending Colors". This meeting will have a $10 fee for non-members. Members, be sure to bring Show and Tell, November Block Lotto, November Workshop Payment, and we will begin collecting 2025 dues ($50).

 

We will have 3 raffle prizes for our November meeting. Our on-going monthly prize with Haley Fetters with Mistletoe Quilting Co. is worth $65 of quilting services! Our second prize is valued around $99 and donated by a generous member! This prize includes Soft and Stable, Running with Scissors Pattern, a Jelly Roll and Charm Pack! And lastly, Millard Sewing Center has donated a certificate for 10 French Fat Quarters. A French Fat Quarter is 18x27 - approximately 25% larger than a US fat quarter. Thank you all for your generosity! Tickets are $1 for 1 or $5 for 6! Good luck to all who enter!

A Quilted Planet - OMQG Exhibition 2025 Information

A Quilted Planet

Modern Quilt Guild Inclusion Statement:
The Modern Quilt Guild (MQG) seeks to foster a vibrant and inclusive
organization built on encouragement and mutual respect, where all
feel welcome. We support the participation of ALL interested in the
growth and development of modern quilting and we value the diversity
arising from differences that make us who we are.

 

Venue: Tri-Faith Initiative, 13136 Faith Plaza, Omaha, NE

Tri-Faith Initiative brings together in permanent residency a synagogue, church, mosque, and interfaith center on one 38-acre campus in America’s heartland. From this intentionally built, religiously diverse space in Omaha, we bridge divides among three faith communities, neighbors throughout our larger local community, and, increasingly, people across the U.S. and around the world. Since 2006, we’ve been imagining and growing an unprecedented interfaith initiative that transforms lives and communities.     Tri- faith strives to be a best practice model, resource, and trainer forsuccessful interfaith relationships and understanding.

When: April 4th-6th, 2025
● Friday night reception for OMQG members
● Saturday and Sunday public viewing 

Quilt Submission Information

Quilts for the show will be selected from member submission by the quilt show committee.
Size guidelines: No minimum size, maximum is 376” total perimeter, with no single size larger than 94”.

● Modern Traditionalism
● Transparency
● Negative Space
● Alternate Grid
● Minimalism
● Maximalism
● Scale
● Improvisation
● OMQG - any quilt constructed during 2023 or 2024 in conjunction with the OMQG block of the
month, quarterly challenge or guild workshop

Quilted Planet Theme Challenge

Create a quilt to showcase the theme of the show:
● Celebrate our commonality or our diversity or representing inclusion
● Explore the quilting traditions of a culture or country
● Share your interpretation of “A Quilted Planet”
All quilts to be turned in 2 weeks before the show.

Note that the Exhibitor sign up is due November 30th, 2024.  

You will have to have your quilt completed and turned in by March 22, 2025. 

Volunteers Needed

We need you!!! Volunteer to assist with a show committee!
● Develop digital material for marketing and advertising
● Collect quilts previous to show set up and/or close of show
● Create signage for individual quilts
● Distribute marketing materials throughout community
● Set up and/or take down exhibition
● Staff the event for Friday evening, Saturday/Sunday morning or afternoon
● OMQG Raffle Quilt designing, creating, ticket sales
● Hands-on quilting activity for show guests
● Facilitate quilt sales for members (10% donation of sale to Tri-Faith Initiative)
 

If you plan to exhibit a quilt, we strongly encourage you to assist with the exhibition in some way. Thank you!

A Quilted Planet Exhibitor Sign Up 

A Quilted Planet Volunteer Sign Up

 

 

 

November Workshop Information

 

November Workshop Information 2024

Creative and Colorful Improv Piecing with Carolina Oneto

 

In this workshop the attendees will learn about color theory and how to use color to create a
transparency effect using color, shapes and fabrics. Then the attendees will make a mini quilt top, where they will design it from scratch to use the transparency effect. They will learn how to cut fabrics with complex shapes and how to sew these curved shapes by machine.

 

We are delighted to be hosting a improv piecing workshop by Carolina Oneto on Saturday, November 9th.  The workshop will run from 9-3:30 with a lunch break from 12-12:30.  It will be delivered by zoom to you in your own sewing space.  The cost of the workshop is $60 for members and $75 for non-members (plus $3.50 for fees if paying with PayPal).  

 

Registration closes on and must be paid for by Monday, November 4th - the date of her lecture at our guild meeting. 

 

Materials List:

• Masking tape
• Pencil
• Pins
• Fabric marker (erasable)
• Rotary cutter
• Quilting ruler
• Threads for sewing
• 16 fat quarters (solids or monochromatic printed fabrics) in 4 different analogous colors and 4
different values per color (4 colors x 4 different values = 16 fat quarters)
• Notebook and pencil for taking notes 

 

Sign Up Link 

 October Meeting Information

Our next meeting is on Tuesday, October 1st at the Westside Community Center 3534 S 108th St.

Our very own Kelly Lautenbach with It's Just Sew (https://itsjustsew.com/) will be providing a lecture about Three Kinds of Quilters and Finishing Projects. She will also provide a Trunk Show. 

Social time starts at 6pm with the business meeting and lecture beginning at 6:30pm. 

Bring your Completed QuiltCon Community Outreach Blocks, Show and Tell, and your payment for the October workshop.

We will have two r@ffle prizes and door prizes at the meeting. Our on-going monthly prize is donated by Haley Fetters with Mistletoe Quilting Co and is worth $65 of quilting services! For our second prize, a member has generously donated a 66x36 cutting mat valued at $199! Thank you for your generosity! Tickets are $1 for 1 or 6 for $5. Good luck and see you there!

4th Quarter Challenge

Make "Something for Your Sewing Space" for our White Elephant Gift Exchange at the December meeting. Think scraps bin, pin cushion, project bag, etc! Wrap it/put it in a bag and bring it to the December meeting to participate in the exchange. Can't wait to see your creations!

Due: December Meeting