March Meeting

Join us for our March meeting this Sunday, March 4th from 1-4pm at

Assemble Pittsburgh
4824 Penn Ave.
Pittsburgh, PA 15224

Shawn Quinlan will be presenting his work.

UFO 2018 Finish Along
For those who were not able to be at the February and want to register their UFOs for our Finish Along, please bring them to the March meeting. UFOs must be at least partially started for this event. As you finish your UFOs throughout the year, you will turn in your ticket(s) and be entered in the fun end-of-year prize drawing.

Pittsburgh Creative Arts Festival Volunteers
We’re still looking for volunteers to support our Guild while hanging out at a fun creative arts festival!  We are looking for volunteers to man a table during the three days of the festival to help us raffle our quilt, show off our minis, and do a hexie pin activity on Saturday. Here are hours we need to cover:
Friday, April 6, 2018 – 12:00 Noon to 7:00 PM
Saturday, April 7, 2018 – 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM
Sunday, April 8, 2018 – 9:30 AM to 3:30 PM

Please mark your availability here or email Michele (pittsburghmqg@gmail.com).  We’ll then make a volunteer schedule with 2 hour shifts. (Volunteers will not need to pay an admission fee.)

Modern Solids Challenge Minis
There’s still space if you want to have your Modern Solids Challenge Minis (the ones we made in the guild logo colors and displayed together at the Mancuso Exhibit) displayed at  Threadbare Maple Festival on March 10^th and the Pittsburgh Creative Arts Festival. Email Michele (pittsburghmqg@gmail.com) to volunteer your minis will be included and you must be able to bring your mini to the March meeting to be included.

January 2019 Meeting Recap

January Meeting Recap


We elected a new leadership team for 2019:

 Nikki Maroon - President
 Courtney Reed - VP of Programs
 Sandra Schott - VP of  Membership
 Amanda Hancock - Treasurer
 Zsofia Molgaard - Social Media

Thank you to Michele Krugh for her hard work as President and to Barbara Cain for her hard work as treasurer this past year.

Our QuiltCon charity quilt bound and complete. Thanks to all who made blocks, helped with assembly, and a big shout out to Nikki for the quilting and Amanda for binding the quilt and preparing it to hang at QuiltCon!

Our guild is working on a quilt for the Tree of Life First Responders. Members are asked to make 6" square (finished) string blocks using yellow, blue, and green with a white stripe in the middle. Blocks are due at the February meeting. Cheralee, Karen and Laurie are in charge of the project.

The Westmoreland Museum of Arts in Greensburg is currently presenting the nationally- touring exhibition : Circular Abstractions: Bull's Eye Quilts
 https://thewestmoreland.org/exhibitions/circular-abstractions/
It's a really great exhibit, and the museum has free admission. It's worth the drive!

The Pittsburgh Creative Arts Festival is held at the DoubleTree Hotel in Green Tree. Show date March 15-17. Members get a coupon code for $5 off if you buy your ticket in advance.

The design inspiration quilt challenge is due in March 2019. The color palette is yellow, blue, red, black, white and gray for these minis, and the inspiration is pop art. The quilts must be 24"tall x no more than 48" wide. The mini quilts will be displayed at the Mt. Lebanon Library in the summer of 2019 and at the Pennsylvania National Quilt Extravaganza in September 2019.

The winner of the 2018 UFO challenge raffle is Courtney! Congratulations!!

Show and Tell

Mark your calendars for our retreat, Friday-Sunday, April 5-7 at the Martina Spiritual Retreat Center. More info coming soon.

We hope to see you at our next meeting on February 3rd. The meeting topic will be blocking a quilt.

September Meeting Recap

On September 23rd we met at the Holy Spirit in Millvale for our monthly meeting. We had a pretty good turnout for the rescheduled meeting.

Michele talked about

• the Toronto Modern Quilt Guild  invited our members to a workshop by Andrea Tsang-Jackson from 3rd Story Workshop in Toronto on October 3rd
• some members signed up for the Michael Miller fabric challenge, they received their bundles to work with

We have a few ongoing challenges

• Modern Minimalist Quilt challenge - due by the October meeting
• nametag challenge - due by the November meeting
• UFO 2018 finish along

Upcoming Programs  

• Improv Piecing workshop with Amanda  (@sewsewlife) on October 13th, 10-4 at Holy Spirit in Millvale. Lunch will be provided. Cost for members : $30, non members: $35
• Judi Robinson workshop in 2019. Date TBD
• continue to send us meeting topic ideas and workshop ideas

We briefly talked about the new Modern Quilt Guild website. You have to re-register to use the site and take advantage of the webinars, free patterns, and to be part of different quilting interest groups.

Also the Modern Quilt Guild is organizing a mini quilt swap for its members around the world if you are interested sign-ups are open in October.

QuiltCon quilt show submissions are open till November 30th 2018.

We had a technique workshop during our meeting. Members learned how to:

• inset circles by Amanda
• sew y-seams / partial seams by Michele
• make / use bias tape by Sandy
• sew zippers by Zsofia

Show and tell

Minimalist Quilt Challenge

We hope to see you on the October 6th meeting. We meet in Millvale at the Holy Spirit Church.

February Meeting recap

Upcoming Programs:
1.  Spring Retreat March 23rd-25th - Registration is open! Let us know if you have a friend
     who isn't a member, but would like to come!
2. Survey - Check your email and fill out the workshop survey! If you have workshop and
     meeting topic ideas let us know!
3. We kicked off our UFO 2018 Finish Along! So far we have 17 members signed up with 85
     projects to finish! Currently the oldest UFO is from 1978 and the member with the
     most has 11 UFOs to finish. Members who weren't at the February meeting can bring
     their UFOs to the March meeting to get registered. Let's make it happen and finish those
     stashed away projects!

General announcements
1. Discussed our April meeting at the Pittsburgh Creative Arts Festival. We will need volunteers to work our table at the festival. Stay tuned for information!
2. Three Rivers Quilt Show applications are open and due by March 21st! Make sure you check it out and enter your quilt. They have a modern category!
3. B collected the blocks for our inchies challenge quilt. She is going to assemble the quilt top. Can't wait to see it!
4. Stacy collected the Hohl challenge quilts
5. We welcomed 6 new members

Show and Tell

Gail had put together a very informative presentation on sewing machine maintenance. She covered:  machine cleaning, tension problems and threading just to mention a few topics.

Our next meeting is scheduled for Sunday March 4th at Assemble

  February Meeting Recap

 We had a great turn out on our February meeting. We welcomed 3 new members, bringing the PghMQG to 57 members!

Nikki had a great presentation about quilt blocking. She explained that during the quilting process a quilt may become slightly wonky, and the process of blocking will return the quilt to the perfect square shape and it will lay flat / hand beautifully.

Our members turned in their blocks for the Quilts for the Tree of Light Synagogue & First Responders Quilt. Cheralee, Karen and Laurie are coordinating a sew day to put the quilt together. Their goal is to have the top pieced before QuiltCon. You can email leaadership if you're interested in helping, and we will put you in touch with them.

The Pittsburgh Creative Arts Festival is in Green Tree, PA this year. They will showcase the 2018 QuiltCon traveling exhibit and Cherrywood fabric Prince exhibit. Show dates are: March 15-17.

Our Inspiration Challenge with POP ART is due by the March meeting. Make sure you have a label with your information on the back and please add a "D-sleeve" hanging sleeve too. Here's a great tutorial for creating a d-sleeve. The mini quilts will be displayed at the Mt. Lebanon library in the summer and at the Pennsylvania National Quilt Extravaganza in September 2019.

We are discontinuing the UFO challenge and replacing it with something new! We would like to encourage members to try new things and step outside of their comfort zones, so we are planning quarterly challenges with varying themes. If you bring your completed challenge quilt to a meeting by the deadline, you'll be entered in a drawing at the end of the year. This year we've decided to raffle off a free entry at our 2020 retreat! The POP ART challenge will be your first opportunity to enter the raffle.

Spring Retreat registration is open to members only. We have limited spaces so make sure you register early! Registration is now open. Contact leadership if you didn't receive an Eventbrite email with the link to register.


Show and Tell!

Our next meeting is on March 3rd, and the topic is Getting Started in Modern Quilting. We hope to see you there!