VMQG Yard-age Sale

We’re having a yard sale at our March meeting!

Here’s your opportunity to go through your stash of quilt-related items that you no longer want or need, things like fat quarters, usable scraps of fabric, quilt tools (rulers, cutting tools, etc.), notions (thread, needles, pins, bobbins, etc.), quilt books, even orphan blocks could be of use to another member.

Please gather your items and organize them into baggies or bundles and price them. If you have lots of usable fabric scraps, please organize them by colour. We suggest pricing items for $1, $2, $5 and $10, depending on the item. 

Put your items into a box or small bin with your name on it, and bring a box or tin for your sales. We’ll set up tables and anyone who wants to participate can place their boxes/bins on a table. The Yard Sale will take place over our meeting break. We’ll also have our usual free table too. Whatever isn’t taken/sold, we ask that you collect your items after the meeting.

VMQG inventory time

Heartfelt thanks to any member who is storing materials on behalf of our Guild, things like fabric, tools, Showcase materials, meeting or workshop supplies, etc. If you have anything, please email Hillary with an itemized list so we can inventory and organize the items, president@vancouvermodernquiltguild.ca

If anyone has VMQG digital files, such as spreadsheets, documents, photos, etc., we’d like to inventory and organize that too! If you have any files, please email Hillary president@vancouvermodernquiltguild.ca

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.

This workshop has three more spots available. 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 

February Block Lotto—Love Note 💌 ❤️ 💌

This sweet quilt block was the February block lotto a number of years ago and was very popular. With so many new guild members it seems worth repeating, plus, isn’t February a love note kind of month?!

The following instructions are a merger of a couple of patterns. In some of the samples a text—or directional fabric—was selected but this is not essential. 

Read the instructions beforehand, Love Note sews up very quickly.

 Block Instructions 

Photo: You’ve Got Mail wall hanging by Kelly Liddle.

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