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

 

 

October Workshop Information

 

October Workshop 2024

Rings Revival Quilt with Kelly Lautenbach

In this fun workshop Kelly will teach us about the Sew Kind of Wonderful Ruler while walking us through making the “Rings” component of this quilt.  If you are not up to making a quilt, this could be modified into a pillow.  Come learn from OMQG’s own member Kelly Lautenbach! 

Location: Fabric Bash, 10351 Portal Rd. Suite #111, La Vista, NE 68128

Date: Wednesday, October 9th, 2024 -- 5:30 PM - 9 PM

Cost: $25 OMQG Members and $35 Non-Members

   *This workshop is limited to 15 participants

What to Bring: 

• Rings Revival quilt pattern (Online you can purchase either the PDF pattern that you print yourself and/or have on your device for $12 OR a print copy shipped to your home for $12 + S&H + tax.)
  
• Quick Curve Ruler by Sew Kind of Wonderful (Fabric Bash carries this ruler; please purchase it in advance.)
• Sew Square 10 Square up Ruler by Sew Kind of Wonderful (Optional)
• Fabrics of your choice to make the quilt/pillow/learn technique (see quilt pattern for requirements)
• Basic Sewing Supplies (Rotary cuter, cutting mat, scissors, small iron, ironing mat, seam ripper, thread for machine, pins or clips)
• Sewing Machine, power cord and pedal, extra bobbin, extra needle, patchwork or standard machine foot
  

Sign Up 

 

September Meeting Minutes

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

September Meeting Information

 Our next meeting is on Tuesday, September 3rd at the Westside Community Center 3534 S 108th St.

Sarah Ruiz of Sarah Ruiz Quilts (https://shop.sarahruiz.com/) will be providing a lecture about the Modern Quilt Guild and Quilt Math 101.

There will be kits available for the Community Engagement QuiltCon Quilt. Kits will be due in October.

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

Bring your Q3 Challenge Community Engagement Quilts and Show and Tell! 

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! Chris Juliano has donated a 12x12 wooden quilt block hanging, $20 to Mangelsen's and a project bag! Thank you both for your generosity! Tickets are $1 for 1 or 6 for $5. Good luck and see you there! 

Threads Across Nebraska Information

  Threads Across Nebraska

October 4th and 5th will be the 19th Annual Threads Across Nebraska. This event is being sponsored by 

the Nebraska State Quilt Guild and will include a merchant’s mall. Arlen & Susan Brown are the featured 

quilters. This event is being held at the Buffalo County Fairgrounds in Kearney at the Exposition building.

 

The Threads Across Nebraska committee would like to invite your guild to be a part of this event by

providing the following number of quilts for the display.

 10 large quilts – large wall hanging to bed quilts - 64 x 64 or larger

 10 small quilts – miniatures to large wall hangings – smaller than 64 x 64

We ask that only one quilt per quilter be selected, unless they have a quilt that was made in a class 

taught by Arlen or Susan Brown. With Arlen & Suzie being the featured quilters, there will be a 

display of quilts made in their classes. Please select the quilts before September 10th.

The exhibit area will be locked after set-up on Thursday and only unlocked during the show hours. 

No after-hours admittance will be allowed. 

 

Quilt check in will begin on Thursday morning, October 3rd, between 9:00 a.m. and noon at the 

Buffalo County Expo building. Quilts will be hung starting at 10:30 a.m. Quilts will be taken 

down and placed in a secure check out area when the show closes on Saturday. All quilts will go 

through a check out process, so everything is accounted for before release to the owners. 

Please be aware that this process does take time and you may not take any quilts until all are 

accounted for and the check-out process begins.

 

Registration Form to Enter Quilts

 

Classes for Threads Across Nebraska

September Workshop Information

 

September Workshop Information

Collage Cards with Shannon Nelson

Workshop Details: 

Date: Saturday, September 7th 

 

Time: 9am-12pm

 

Location: St Stephen the Martyr Parish Center, 16701 S Street, Omaha.

 

Cost: Free for Members; $10 for Non-members

 

Members check your email for sign up. Non-members - the link will be posted once members have a chance to sign up. Registration closes August 31st.  

 

You will need to bring your sewing machine, usual sewing notions, small embroidery or other fine-point scissors and regular sewing scissors, 4 pieces of muslin or other light-colored base fabric at least 4"x6" each, small coordinating fabric scraps of any design, silicone or other non-stick ironing mat, and your creativity. Additional details about supplies provided and needed will be sent to all registrants after registration closes.

 

August Meeting Minutes

  The August 2024 meeting minutes have been posted to the blog under the Meeting Minutes Tab.

August Meeting Information

 August Meeting Information

Our next meeting is coming up on Tuesday, August 6th at the Westside Community Center (address below). Social time starts at 6pm and the business meeting and program will start at 6:30pm. Phyllis Cullen will be providing a lecture and trunk show called "It's All About the Face" via zoom. Please see below for the items to bring to the meeting. It will be a big show and tell meeting with our Q2 Pop Culture quilts + Show and Tell from the last couple of months. It is also a block lotto month so bring those popsicle blocks! Make sure to bring payment for the events coming up including the workshop and retreat! We will have to r@ffle prizes! The first is our ongoing prize from Haley and Mistletoe Quilting Co for $65 of longarming services. Our second prize is a beautiful wall hanging created by Ellene McClay. Tickets are 1 for $1 or 6 for $5.

 

Fall Retreat Information

Fall Retreat 

Friday Oct, 18th - Sun 20th @ Retreat Center - 110 1st Street Winterset, IA

Cost: $100.00 for OMQG members / $125.00 for non OMQG Members (non-refundable)

Cost includes your spot at the retreat. Meals and lodging will need to be handled separately by you.  The guild will bring in dinner on Friday evening (likely pizza) and baked goods on both Saturday and Sunday mornings. Please note that these food options may not meet all dietary restrictions.  

The retreat center is a few steps from the Piece Works quilt shop and the Iowa Quilt Museum in downtown Winterset, IA.  The area is also known for several covered bridges.

There are several restaurants and a coffee shop within walking distance from the retreat center.  There are several local hotels (see below), VRBOs and Air BnBs available, so you can find the option that works best for you.

     Cobblestone inn & suites (1304 N 4th Ave, Winterset, IA 50273)
     Covered Bridges Inn (1312 Cedar Bridge Rd, Winterset, IA 50273)

Each attendee will have their own table.  There are tall cutting tables, iron stations and some wall display space.

Refunds will be given if canceling 2 weeks prior to the event.

The retreat is currently full.

QuiltCon 2025 Community Engagement Challenge

 QuiltCon 2025 Community Engagement Challenge

It's time for the QuiltCon 2025 Community Engagement Challenge! Please submit your quilt proposals with the theme of LINES and BARS using the Google Form by Friday, August 2. Members will vote on the submitted entries at our August 6 meeting.

In order to encourage members to submit ideas, Stephanie Jacobson will be happy to assist the winning designer with fabric requirements and design planning/execution if needed! (Basically, if you can draw out your design, she can help you figure it out if your design is selected.)

Find all the details here: https://quiltcon.com/community-outreach-challenge/

Enter your designs here: https://forms.gle/z79qMPvmuvZeWWLA6

 

August Meeting and Workshop with Phyllis Cullen

 August Meeting and Workshop

Our next in person meeting is Tuesday, August 6th! Phyllis Cullen will be providing a zoom lecture and trunk show called "It's All About the Face". Following her lecture, we will have an in person workshop on Layered Portraits with Phyllis Cullen on Tuesday, August 20th at Holy Cross Lutheran Church - 4117 Terrace Drive Omaha, 68134 from 10am - 5pm. Phyllis will work with each individual on choosing a portrait and fabric prior to the workshop. The workshop cost is $65 for members and $80 for non-members. Registration will close on July 30th.
Please use this link to register : https://forms.gle/3JojhnnENfWg6URJ9

Here is her website for additional information and images on her work: https://www.phylliscullenartstudio.com/

 

 

July Meeting Information

 No Regular July Meeting - Instead come to the July Sew Day!

We will not have a regular meeting in July. Instead, we will have a sew day on Saturday, July 13th from 9am-6pm at the Westside Community Center. Please RSVP on the link below for our July 13th Sew Day if you are able to come.  It will be a pot-luck event, so bring something to share (guild will provide utensils/plates/napkins).

Sign up for Sew Day

 

 

Wolfe Country Quilt Show

 Wolfe Country Quilt Show & Garden Walk

CANCELLED due to weather. Emily and Sheri will ensure your quilts are returned to the owners.

July 20, 2024, 9 am - 3pm

1709 County Rd 21, Bennington, NE 68007

 

Quilt Show Entry Sign Up due July 1, 2024:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfWOK3JN7s9X3jH2NAtrBG8yR1dgvYnSijAq0HFiC8oKsIVDw/viewform?usp=sf_link

 

1.      Please ensure you are able to drop off your quilt to Emily or Sheri by July 13, 2024.

2.      Detailed drop off and pick up instructions will be emailed once sign ups have closed. 

3.      All quilts must have a label with your name and working phone number either sewed in or secured to the quilt with safety pins.

 

Quilt Show Volunteer Sign Up: In order to make this event possible, we need volunteers to help set up, greet visitors at, and tear down the quilt show. 

 

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0B45A4A728AAF8C61-49970533-wolfe

 

Looking forward to another great show! Questions can be sent to Emily or Sheri this year.

June Meeting Minutes

 The June 2024 meeting minutes have been posted to the blog under the Meeting Minutes Tab.

June Meeting Details and Raffle

 

Our June Meeting is this coming Tuesday, June 4th. Note: The June meeting is at Tent and Event Warehouse 3505 S 140th Plaza for this month only. 

Social time starts at 6pm and at 6:30pm we will have a short business meeting/begin sorting donated fabric for the Community Engagement Quilts. Thanks to a generous member, we will have medium IKEA bags available to take home fabric to complete Community Engagement projects.

We will have NO Show and Tell but we will have TWO Raffle prizes! Raffle tickets are 1 for $1 or 6 for $5.

Bring: 

• If you need a bag larger than a medium IKEA bag to transport fabric, please bring one.

• Kindness for Kennadi Donations - the next drop off will be the end of June

We have two raffle prizes for this month. 

The first raffle prize includes (see photo below):

- sofa buddy for sewing supplies

- Japanese knot bag

- print cork luggage tag

 

The second raffle prize is the ongoing prize from Haley Fetters and is a $65 quilting credit to her shop, Mistletoe Quilting Co.

Thank you to Haley and Susie for the raffle donations!

See you Tuesday!

 

 

 

May Meeting Minutes

The May 2024 meeting minutes have been posted to the blog under the Meeting Minutes Tab.

May Meeting Information and Raffle Prizes

 

May Meeting Information

Our next meeting is Tuesday, May 7th at the Westside Community Center - 3534 S 108th Street. Social time starts at 6:00pm. The business meeting will begin at 6:30pm followed by the program. The program this month is with Rose Mapel with Artistic Innovations NE.  She will be talking about barn quilts and doing a demonstration. Rose Mapel will also be doing our June workshop and you will have an opportunity to create a barn quilt.

 

Here is her website if you would like to see additional information about her.

Rose Mapel's website

 

Bring: Show and Tell; May HST String Block Lotto Blocks

We will have two raffle prizes at the meeting as well as door prizes.

 

The first raffle prize includes:

Riley Blake 6-FQ bundle

Triangles on a roll

4” Log Cabin Ruler

Quilt Addicts Anonymous-Retro Tiles pattern

Zipper pouch 

 

The second raffle prize is the ongoing prize from Haley Fetters and is a $65 quilting credit to her shop, Mistletoe Quilting Co. 

 

Thanks to Cari and Haley for your donation! See you there!

 

 

Barn Quilt Workshop Sign up

Barn Quilt Workshop with Rose Mapel

Workshop Details:

Date: Saturday June 1st, 2024

Cost:  $70+ (please see form for options)

Time: 12 PM - 4 PM

Location: Holy Cross Lutheran Church, 4117 Terrace Dr. (near OPS Morton Middle School, I-680 & Fort St.)  

Barn Quilts Workshop Sign Up

 

SHOP HOP POSTPONED

 The shop hop for tomorrow, April 13th has been postponed. Stay tuned for a new date once it has been decided. Have a great weekend!

April In Person Sew Days

 In Person Sew Days for April

We will have 2 In-Person Sew days for April. On Wednesday, April 17th the sew day will be at the Benson Library from 9am-1pm. On Saturday, April 20th the sew day will be at the Saddlebrook Library from 12:30pm-4:30pm. If you're interested in adding piecing to a sweatshirt at either sew day, please bring the following supplies: sweatshirt with a pocket, fabric to piece for the sweatshirt, seam ripper, sewing machine.

 

April Meeting Information

April Meeting Information

Our next meeting is Tuesday, April 2nd at the Westside Community Center - 3534 S 108th Street. Social time starts at 6:00pm. The business meeting will begin at 6:30pm followed by the program. The program this month is English Paper Piecing with Shauna Smith with Lola and Ellie.

At this meeting, you can pick up your project kit ($10) from a table separate from the check-in table.  You should look for Cari and Tobie and/or Jeanne to pay for the kit.  They will be taking cash, check, venmo and paypal as payment and will have some extra ones if you're wanting an extra or forgot to order.

Please bring cutting tools of your choice: small cutting mat with a rotary cutter with a sharp blade OR (preferably), a good pair of sharp fabric scissors.  Please mark your stuff with your name, if possible so that we can make sure everything goes home with the right person!

Show and Tell this month will include the 2023 Stars over Omaha Block of the Month. Can't wait to see you soon!

All Kansas and Nebraska Shop Hop

In April, the social committee is participating in the All Kansas and Nebraska Shop Hop. We will be planning a day route to shops in Kansas. We will be headed back home the same day. The date for this is Saturday, April 13. Below is the sign-up genius for those who are interested. We will also be looking for volunteers to drive. There are 5 slots for drivers and 20 for participants.

 https://www.signupgenius.com/go/5080A48AFA722A5FB6-48447966-interest