✨ New year, new executive ✨

Happy New Year everyone! Let's hope 2024 is a good one, filled with love and lots of sew days.

Your 2024 Vancouver Modern Quilt Guild Executive

President: Hillary | president@vancouvermodernquiltguild.ca

Vice President: Nancy | vicepresident@vancouvermodernquiltguild.ca

Secretary: Helga | secretary@vancouvermodernquiltguild.ca

Treasurer: Liz | treasurer@vancouvermodernquiltguild.ca

Membership: Sheila | membership@vancouvermodernquiltguild.ca

Programs: Linda | workshops@vancouvermodernquiltguild.ca

Communication + Social: Dianne | communication@vancouvermodernquiltguild.ca

We thank those who have served before us 💕

Want to connect? Have any suggestions? We’d love to hear from you!
You can email us at hello@vancouvermodernquiltguild.ca
The Executive team can be reached as a group at executive@vancouvermodernquiltguild.ca

2024 VMQG meeting dates

Add ’em to your calendar 🗓️

Monday, January 15 >> virtual (zoom meeting link sent via email)

Monday, February 19 >> virtual (zoom meeting link sent via email)

Monday, March 18

Monday, April 15

Monday, May 20

Monday, June 17

Monday, July 15

August >> no meeting

Monday, September 16

Monday, October 21

Monday, November 18

Monday, December 16

Sew Good Quilts 💕

TWELVE quilts shown at our December meeting for our Sew Good Quilts program—some destined for Covenant House Vancouver, some destined for refugee families supported by the Unitarian Church—hope they give a little comfort and joy. Fabric, supplies, time, and talent donated by VMQG members. Thanks Megan, VMQG member, for coordinating.

👉 VMQG workshops open to non-members 

We have opened up our Kawandi and Map quilt workshops to non-members,  please share the news by email, on social and with friends, in fact, bringing a friend would be great! Registration forms have been updated to accommodate non-members, so please share the workshop registration links below.

Kawandis are created improvisationally with small scraps of fabric stitched from the outside toward the centre in such a way that you piece and quilt simultaneously. In this workshop you will make a mini quilt incorporating the design elements of a traditional Kawandi. Creating these hand stitched quilts can be relaxing and meditative, so pack up your hand sewing tools, your favourite scraps, and join Arita over a few hours for a creative and relaxing experience.

Map Quilt Workshop with amy dame

Saturday, March 23, 2024
10am to 5pm
Croation Cultural Centre, Room C
3250 Commercial Drive, Vancouver
$65 for members + $45 supply fee paid directly to amy
$75 non-members + $45 supply fee paid directly to amy >> bring a friend!
The supply fee covers the map base fabric, tulle, wash-away stabilizer, 12 weight thread, yarn, 505 adhesive, a Schmetz 18/100 needle, printouts for your individualized map pattern, and the grey, green, tan, and blue fabrics used for the maps.

For this workshop, we’ll be using techniques from the map quilts shown above to create smaller personalized maps. A combination of raw edge applique and confetti applique will be used to create a map that showcases a special location in your life. Home can literally be where the heart is!

More workshop info

 Map quilt workshop registration 

👉 Retreat: 2nd payment due

Note that the second payment of $200 was due on January 1, 2024.
If necessary, contact workshops@vancouvermodernquiltguild.ca

January Block Lotto

 Block Lotto will continue in January and February while we meet on Zoom.   Get your blocks on — we'll have three block lotto draws at our March meeting, a Block Lotto Bonanza!!! 

This month we are using a MQG pattern Puzzle Patch Block Study by Vasudha Govindan. Block size has been reduced to 6 /12" x 6 1/2" and the colour palette is yellow/orange/pink/red/purple. Solid fabric values should be from light to dark.

 Block Instructions 

WIPs Update

We’re nearing the end of the WIP year; how are you doing on your finishes??!

The draw for the ✨pot of gold✨ will be held at our Zoom meeting on February 19. You must email your completed WIPs to Edna by February 12 to be entered in the draw.  

If you’re not sure what projects you entered as WIPs, please email Edna, at the wips email address below.👇

Reminders 

WIPs: Let Edna know when you finish a registered WIP, email wips@vancouvermodernquiltguild.ca

Show n Share Photos: Send us your photos so we can post them on our socials, email photos@vancouvermodernquiltguild.ca