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.