Hello everyone! Our guild has grown a fair bit over the past few years. To reflect our growing group and to better serve the other geographical areas of San Diego, we have suggested the addition of a new board member. At today’s guild meeting, we moved to add an official board position for outreach to Central, South and East San Diego. This position would be open to anyone in the guild. The person would attend board meetings and guild meetings, like any other board officer. Their focus would be to extend programming to the other regions of San Diego. Next…
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Join us at our meeting this Sunday, June 3 at 11am at Quilt in a Day in San Marcos! Bring your rummage sale items marked with a price and your name for our sale! Kim will be doing a Misty Fuse applique demo! See you there!
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We still have a few spaces left for our Violet Craft workshops and trunk show! See the link here to register! We welcome anyone from the quilting community to join us! Violet Craft is a paper piecing guru, in both English Paper Piecing and Foundation Paper Piecing, so if you have ever wanted to give these a try, but didn’t know where to start, we have the answer. Violet doesn’t travel very much, so we are very lucky to have her come and visit us. Be sure to take advantage! Supplies lists: Atomic Starburst FPP Class (Saturday): Fabric: Diamonds: (30)…
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Our SDMQG member Dori recommends this article. This article is about a quilt received in a Care package 70 years ago. It meant everything to people who lost everything in WWII. I though it meaningful to share, as we never know how our donations will affect the recipients.
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The National Quilt Museum in Paducah, Kentucky, USA invites YOU to enter the 26th Annual New Quilts from an Old Favorite competition. The 2019 competition is open to quilts that are innovative interpretations of Oak Leaf & Reel patterns. This is an excellent opportunity to share your work with people across the country. The quilts selected as finalists receive awards and make up a traveling exhibition. The exhibit opens at The National Quilt Museum and then travels to other museums and venues. If you have any questions or would like to submit your application online instead of through the mail…
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Are you interested in joining the San Diego Modern Quilt Guild? Here’s the easy two step system! 1. Please complete the 2018 registration form. 2. Dues are $50, or $25 after July 1 and can be paid by Venmo (@sdmodernquiltguild), PayPal (jill@leinenweber.com), check (San Diego Modern Quilt Guild, in person to a board member [email sdmqgtreasurer@gmail.com for mailing address]), or cash in person at our meeting.
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Here’s our latest newsletter! SDMQG Newsletter May 2018 I hope to see your sunny faces at our next meeting on June 3, at 11am!
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Check out our events calendar! Our May meeting is cancelled for Mother’s day, but we still have a sew in! 11-4 at QIAD. Our June meeting is moved to June 3 at 11 at QIAD! I hope to see you there!
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We are very excited to have Violet Craft present two workshops and a trunk show in a couple of weeks. Book your spot today! Atomic Starburst Workshop This Foundation Paper Pieced (FPP) quilt is speckled with mid century-inspired paper pieced stars laid out in a modern diamond pattern. The simple, light background makes the colorful Palm Canyon fabrics and coordinates pop. Ten square friendly. A generous lap size at 62 x 66. Cost: $100: When: Saturday, June 16 9am-4pm. Register at https://goo.gl/forms/kt3NpXPK84qZJ9wo2 The Peacock EPP Workshop The Peacock is an English Paper Piecing (EPP) project that finishes at 20″ square;…
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If you’ve visited our website before, you may notice that we’re in the process of changing some things around. We’re hoping to get forums back in place and to get back to blogging regularly as well. Stay Tuned!