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Hi Everyone, I hope you all are enjoying FALL! Happy Halloween, Mickey Here’s your NOVEMBER NEWS! November 1 - International Scrap Sorting Day November 4 - Sip & Stitch November 15 -Tara Faughnan Workshop –Registration open through November 8th November 22 – Sew Day – 1 st Scrap Sorting Day Bring your quilts for Show & Tell and any for The Jundt Exhibition to get photographed, measured, and documented 2026 DUES – Collecting now through December Sew Day Saturday, November 1 – International Scrap Sorting Day – START YOUR SORTING!!!! Check out my ...

Hi Everyone, First of all, I’d like to welcome our new members!!! We’re so happy to have you join us and look forward to creating alongside you! Katy in August Teresa, Angela, Tristan, and Abby in September Happy Fall! (right? maybe?), Mickey Here’s your OCTOBER NEWS! Sip & Stitch – October 7 Sew Day – October 11 WSQ Show – October 17-19 – Volunteer information below BRING YOUR QUILTS THIS SEW DAY FOR OUR WSQ BOOTH Community Outreach Quilt submission opens October 15 – we’ll continue sewing at Sew Day Bring your quilts for Show & ...

There are just a few months until the QuiltCon entry deadline of October 31 - it'll be here before you know it! (Don't worry-the entry form hasn't opened yet. Look for instructions and a link near the end of August. Entries open Sept. 1 every year.) As you're preparing your entries, take note of these t wo important updates for this year: The maximum width and length for any entry is 90" In 2025 we lowered this from 100" to 94" to eliminate the need for 12' high pipe & drape. We found that at 94" the quilts were still just grazing the ground. The new limit of 90" will ensure clean quilts and safety for staff. We don't anticipate lowering ...

We are delighted that we will be welcoming Suzanne Campion to join us on 12th April 2025 to show us how to make her fabulous Cathedral window pattern. As well as talk through some of her exquisite work with Liberty fabrics . The event is open to non members and will be held at Shipley Art Gallery in Gateshead . Please contact us for more information and availability.

By Karen Cooper Board Member Needed for Region 6! Due to Melanie Rudy’s resignation, the Region 6 (all of Canada) Board Seat is open for election. Applications are due March 14, 2025, and the new board member will take office during the July 2025 board meeting. Please contact NomCommittee@themodernquiltguild.com with questions. Download the MQG Board Job Description Please login with your MQG member login to fill out this form.

Here is your opportunity to win an award-winning quilt! Pandemic Reflections was made by the Modern Fusion Group, a group of individual members of the Modern Quilt Guild from across the US, Canada and Asia. Our group has not met in person. We started meeting by Zoom in November 2020 and decided to make a quilt "together" as a way to process all of the emotions and inspirations coming from our individual experiences during the pandemic. We selected a color palette moving from darker to lighter to reflect our emotions from the start of the pandemic and moving towards hope of its end. Emotions working through a traumatic time can also be reflected in the ...