14th Annual UPwithART London's best arty-party silent art auction fundraiser celebrates culture, compassion and community in support of Unity Project for Relief of Homelessness and Museum London! DATES & TIMES Online bidding begins Thursday, April 25 at 7pm EST View the exhibit (admission is free) at Museum London Friday, April 26 - Friday, May 3 Get your tickets to join the live arty-party event on Saturday, May 4, 2024, 6:30 - 11pm LMQG is collaborating with MuseumLondon to assemble a quilt during the UpWithArt Gala fundraising event on May 4th. UpWithArt is a social fundraising event that involves tours of the art gallery, silent auction of various items, food and drinks and an opportunity to draw on prepared fabric squares using fabric paints. MuseumLondon is organizing the making of those painted squares. |
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Our LMQG Monthly Meetings will include MQG study topics, sew-ins, quilt whispering and a collaborative UpWithArt Project with Museum London. Check out the details here. Guests are welcome at our meetings for a $5 guest fee for a regular meeting or $10 guest fee when we have a speaker. BOM our Block of the Month program. More Details and to participate are here. Check out the designs. #lmqgbom2024 Presentations by fabulous quilters:
Paola Machetta on April 6, 2024 at 1 pm - more details Charles Cameron on June 26, 2024 at 7 pm - more details Émilie Trahan on September 11, 2024 at 7:30 pm - more details Carolina Oneto on December 4, 2024 at 7 pm - more details Mary and her daughter went to Ghana, Africa in January to work with a group of women who are part of the Global Mamas. This international organization helps Ghanan women learn to sew, make items to sell to support their families. They do have a website selling clothing and other items. Mary shared how they were able to teach quilting and sewing techniques, share and experience fabric painting and dying. They were able to take 200 lbs of donated quilting supplies and purchase sewing machines that were shared with Ghanan women. What an amazing 3 days! Set up started Thursday morning with many eager guild volunteers and over 130 quilts. There was a line up at the door first thing Friday morning as we welcomed local quilters and quilters from neighbouring cities to our show. Inspiration was everywhere to be found by show guests, who were both quilters and non-quilters. Goodwill on Horton was our modern (with an industrial feel) venue and quilt show guests enjoyed the delicious cooking from the lovely staff at Edgar and Joe's Cafe. Vendors and guild members presented different themed demos and lectures throughout both days. And we ended the Friday night with a lecture and trunk show presented by Debbie Grifka. Debbie also had a display of a few of her Lines to Design quilts as well as one of her 100 Days series. There was a nice selection of fabric and notions from our wonderful vendors- Kallisti Quilts, The Quilt Kitchem, Fibre Magic, Quiltatious, My Fabric Dresser and Stache Fabrics and Notions. We saw many brimming shopping bags in quilter's arms! Debbie Grifka taught both a Saturday morning and an afternoon workshop, with many of her students learning a new technique called Improv Applique and almost finishing their class project by the end of the class. Minutes before the show closed on Saturday afternoon, Viewer's Choice ballots were counted and Tammy from The Quilt Kitchen won a special ribbon from the Canadian Quilters Association. Tammy's quilt is a detailed foundation paper pattern called Colour My World by Wendy Williams. Before we knew it, the show was over. Months of hard work by our volunteers, hours of sewing and quilting by our members both came together for a very successful 2023 Quilt Show. Thank you to everyone. And now photos of the quilts! Here are some overview shots of the show and at the top right of the webpage is a slide show of individual quilt photos.
In addition to all the exciting quilts and vendors and demos at our quilt show, we are also offering a Friday night lecture and 2 Saturday workshops by Debbie GrifkaDebbie is an Ann Arbor, MI based textile artist, teacher and author whose work focuses on the power, elegance, and serenity of the line in a minimalist style with a limited color palette. Her work has been exhibited at Quilts = Art = Quilts, Art Quilt Elements, QuiltCon and the International Quilt Festivalin Houston and has been published in many books and magazines. Debbie’s work, Canterbury #2, won First Place in Appliqué at QuiltCon 2018. Her book, Lines by Design Quilts (Fons and Porter), was published in 2016. She is a Juried Artist Member of Studio Art Quilt Associates. |
Please support our advertisers belowLondon Modern Quilt Guild CanadaWelcome to the London Modern Quilt Guild Canada blog! 2023 Quilt ShowOur Next Meeting:Upcoming:
National Quilt Day - Saturday March 16 - in person at East Lions Community Centre, 1731 Churchill Ave, London, ON Next Meeting: Saturday April 13 at 11 am In-person only at East Lions Community Centre, 1731 Churchill Ave, London, ON. Topics: Preparing for UPwithART, BOM, Quilt Whispering and sew-in. Archives
March 2024
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