March meeting is in-person 🙋‍♀️👩‍🎤👩‍💼👨‍🎨🧕👩‍👧🧙‍♀️

It feels like we’ve turned a corner (no sewing pun intended, haha). The days are getting a little longer, the weather is a little better, and the zoom meetings are done for now.

There’s a lot planned for our next meeting, so here’s the rundown:

1. Yard-age Sale
Bring quilt-related things you wanna sell at our pop-up yard sale. Make sure everything is priced and fits in a shallow box or tub with your name on it. Bring a small box or tupperware container with your name on it so people can place their money into it—we’re doing the honour system for payment so everyone can browse what’s for sale at once.

2. Block Lotto Bonanza
Bring your block lotto blocks from Jan—Puzzle Patch, Feb—Love Note, and March—Improv Wavy Curves. We’re drawing for all three!!!

3. WIPs 2023 + 2024
We’re drawing for the 2023 WIP program. Bring your toonies, you can sign up for your 2024 WIPs. More details below.

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.

Donations to the VMQG from your sales are greatly appreciated 😊
Donations for door prizes are also much appreciated!

March Block Lotto—Improv Wavy Curves

Cutting and sewing wavy curves is a popular technique in modern quilting and is easy and fun to do. If you haven’t tried this technique, or are inspired to give it a go, this is your opportunity!

 Block Instructions 

Photo: RedPepperQuilts.com

WIP 2023
We will draw the winner at our March 18th guild meeting 🎉

WIP 2024

Do you have quilt projects that you’ve started and then tucked away? Do you need an incentive to get your Work In Progress finished?

Register your WIPs at both the March and April meetings. You’ll have until February, 2025 to complete them. Each completed WIP is an opportunity to win $$ 🤑

• Projects must have been started prior to March 18, 2024
• Fee per WIP is $2
• You must share a photo of the completed WIP and let Edna know that it’s complete
• Draw will take place at the end of the year.

Email Edna at our WIP email address: wips@vancouvermodernquiltguild.ca

Lily Ashbury wants to know…

Hello fellow quilters and fabric aficionados!

I’m Stephanie Carter from Lily Ashbury designs. I’m a Vancouver based fabric designer that shares your passion for quilting and everything fabric. I’m in the preliminary stages of exploring the potential for a new venture—a dedicated marketplace and community for quilters to buy, sell, swap fabrics, and foster connections. Before advancing further, I’m keen to understand if this aligns with your needs and interests.

Would you be willing to contribute your insights through a brief, 10 minute survey? Your feedback will be the key ingredient that helps shape this idea into a dynamic platform, perfectly crafted to enhance and celebrate your quilting adventures.

If you’d like to participate in the survey, please click here.

Token of appreciation
They will randomly select one participant to receive a $50 gift certificate to Dressew.

Sew Good Quilts

Last year our guild donated more than 30 quilts, divided between Covenant House and the Unitarian Church refugee program. Let’s see what we can do this year. Whether it’s cutting, piecing, quilting or binding, there’s a job for you. 

Interested in participating?
email sewgoodquilts@vancouvermodernquiltguild.ca

Newsletter call for content

We’d like to shine a light on our talented members, celebrate our successes and make meaningful connections among our members

Would you like to be featured in our Member Spotlight? Consider sharing a little about your quilting background if you’re new, or reintroduce yourself if you’ve been a long-time member. 

Have you created a new pattern? Are you featured in a publication? Have you won an award at a quilt show? Perhaps you’re participating in a quilt or quilt-related show, or you’ve done something recently that you’d like to share with other VMQG members. Please fill out this very short form. 

If you have any questions, please email Dianne, communication@cancouvermodernquiltguild.ca

David Owen Hastings workshop

Mini Mid-Mod Quilts
These charming little quilts are inspired by Mid-Century Modern design, and are a great skill-building project to learn a number of quilting techniques.

Here’s your chance to take a D.O.H. workshop!
May 11, 2024
9:00am - 12:00pm
Via Zoom
$70
Maximum 30 participants.
We will open the workshop up to our friends in the Kamloops Modern Quilt Guild

 Register here 

For more about David, you can visit davidowenhastings.com or follow @davidowenhastings on Instagram.

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

This workshop has one more spot available. 

More workshop info

 Map quilt workshop registration 

Reminders 

Retreat: Balance is DUE on March 31st. All participants will receive an email outlining the details.

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

Show n Share Photos: Send us your quilt pics, we’ll post them on our IG. Email photos@vancouvermodernquiltguild.ca