Lincoln & Omaha MQG Mini Swap

Don't forget to sign up for the mini quilt swap between sister Modern Quilt Guilds of Lincoln and Omaha! After the sign up deadline of April 30, 2018, you will be assigned a partner from the sister guild and sent your swap partner's email to share ideas and preferences. Your completed mini quilt needs to be finished and delivered by July 14, 2018. The swap is limited to dues-paying guild members, but everyone is welcome to come sew at the Ashland Public Library (1324 Silver Street in Ashland, NE) on Saturdy, July 14 from 10am-4pm. (If you're coming to the Sew Day, please RSVP so we know we have enough room for everyone.)  Bring your sewing machine and sew the day away! Bring a brown bag lunch or eat in Ashland on your own. Around 2pm, swappers will enjoy an ice cream sundae bar for a sweet afternoon treat while we enjoy the exchange. The link with all the details and the sign-up form can be found here! We hope to see you there!

#quiltsforpulse

The Omaha Modern Quilt Guild will be sending completed ‪#‎quiltsforpulse‬ to the Orlando Modern Quilt Guild.We will be collecting quilt blocks, scheduling sew-ins to make blocks and assemble quilt tops, and looking for volunteers to quilt and bind. Stay tuned for details! More information about this effort can be found at the Orlando Modern Quilt Guild's blog. If you would like to start making blocks (bright color hearts with low-volume background), there are instructions for a simple 10" heart block here at Cluck, Cluck, Sew.

Raffle Quilt!

The Omaha Modern Quilt Guild has been given the opportunity to sell tickets for a raffle quilt at the Douglas County Fair happening July 21-23, 21016! This is short notice, but we have such awesome members that we can have a beautiful quilt done in time.

We will be making a bright, scrappy, modern quilt like this one...

All of the details on what we're doing and how you can help can be found here!

Pilger & Beaver Crossing Quilt Deployments

On Sunday, May 11, 2014, a tornado hit Beaver Crossing, Nebraska. 16 homes were destroyed and 22 homes sustained major damage. The Omaha Modern Quilt Guild began our effort to collect quilts for the residents of Beaver Crossing. On June 16, 2014, twin tornadoes caused extensive damage in the town of Pilger, Nebraska, and our guild extended its efforts to also collect quilts for Pilger residents. Many quilt shops generously served as drop-off sites for quilts. AccuQuilt let us use their amazing design studio to hold sew-ins to make quilts and allowed us to store donated quilts in their warehouse. Over a period of approximately 4 months, we collected over 600 quilts and afghans.

On Friday, September 12, 2014 and Saturday, September 13, 2014, members deployed to Pilger, Nebraska to sort and distribute quilts to residents.

On Saturday, October 25, 2014, we deployed to Beaver Crossing to distribute quilts to those that had been affected by the May 11 tornado.

Quilts ready to be distributed.

Just a few of the residents with their new quilts.

There is a long list of individuals and organizations to thank for their help with our efforts including the members of the Omaha Modern Quilt Guild, Lincoln Quilters Guild, Cottonwood Quilters Guild,Omaha Quilters Guild, AccuQuilt,Quilts for Kids, Quilts from the Bluffs,Omaha Project Linus, Nebraska State Quilt Guild, virtually every quilt shop between Omaha and Grand Island and countless quilters from several states who donated time, materials, support and quilts to make this all happen!

A HUGE thank you to Omaha Modern Quilt Guild President Lori Bain for her efforts in coordinating so many individuals and groups to make these deployments a huge success. We greatly appreciate the time and effort you put forth for this cause!

National Quilting Day 2013

National Quilting Day 2013 is Saturday, March 16 and the International Quilt Study Center & Museum in Lincoln, Nebraska is offering a free day at the museum from 9am to 4pm. There will be continuous lectures, demonstrations, and gallery tours.

Lectures:

• 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. - "Not Your Grandmother's String Piecing" by Shelly Burge, quilt designer and author
• 10:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. - "Indigo Dyeing" by Jay Rich, fiber artist
• 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. - "The Making of 'Posing with Patchwork'" by Marin Hanson, curator of exhibitions
• 11:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. - "Contemporary Quilted Textiles" by Molly Anderson, textile artist

Demonstrations (from 10am-3pm):

• "Document Your Quilts," "You Use THAT for Quilting?" and "Discover Nebraska" on the second floor
• Demonstrations by Handi Quilter and Bernina Sewing Studio of Lincoln
• "Let's Learn How to Piece a Quilt" and "Hand Work" demonstrations on the third floor

More information about these events can be found here.

QuiltCon quilt blocks

We received a set of 10 quilt blocks from The Modern Quilt Guild and they are beautiful!

Our job is to turn these 10 quilt blocks into a twin size quilt which will be donated to the Austin Children's Shelter.  We can do this by making additional quilt blocks, adding negative space, or a combination of the two.  The quilt must be machine quilted, bound, washed, and shipped to Austin before QuiltCon--the due date is February 1, 2013.

How can you help?

• Be a part of the group that will be piecing the top and backing.
• Donate your fabric scraps!  We need to provide all the materials to complete the quilt.  If you have solid scraps in the colors of the QuiltCon logo (plus gray and white) or larger pieces for the backing, we would love to put them to good use.

• Share your ideas for piecing the top by leaving a comment on this post, in our facebook group, or in our flickr group.  Nine of the blocks measure 12.5" square and one block is 12.5" x 5.75".  The completed quilt will need to be no smaller than 68" x 88" and no larger than 72" x 92".

In playing with some possible layouts I realized how bad I am at this!

Help us out with your suggestions!