One of the greatest perks of being a London Modern Quilt Guild Member is that by default you also become a member of the Modern Quilt Guild (MQG). Almost every month the MQG offers a webinar.  This month's webinar will be  Modern Quilting: Know it when you see it!! presented by Jacquie Gering. Many of us had the pleasure of  meeting Jacquie last April when she gave a lecture and held workshops in London.  She is a great teacher!

LMQG Members can check their email for details on how to sign up.  

Don't miss out on this one!

Have you started your LMQG Logo Challenge Block?  Are you looking for some inspiration?

Kristyn completed her block and has posted the process to her blog, Melon Patch Quilts.

Here is her block.  Isn't it fabulous?  If you want to share your block before it is due, feel free to email us a picture or post to our Facebook page.

If you haven't had a chance to look at the guidelines, you can find them here.  Members can bring their block to November's meeting.

Our September meeting was held September 9, 2014.  What started out as a rainy fall day turned out sunny in the end.
We welcomed some visitors this meeting.  Welcome Annette and Linda!  Thanks for joining us.

We started our meeting with the usual reports.  Treasurer's Report, Community Report & The Modern Quilt Guild report.

Our book reviewed this month was Jean Wells, "Intuitive Color & Design".  Sonia reviewed this book and had all of us participate in a great activity.  We were each given a random advertisement from a book or catalog and a piece of tracing paper.  By tracing various elements onto the tracing paper we were able to see the pages in a different way.
We then took our scraps and pieced to create a composition inspired by our tracings.  What a great and inspiring exercise!  Thank you Sonia.

We have a few challenges that are in progress.  

1. LMQG Logo Challenge - In this challenge, each member will create a block to coordinate with our logo.  Blocks are due at our November meeting.  To read more about the guidelines for this challenge, click here.
   
2. MQG QuiltCon Charity Quilt Challenge - Although we will keep this quilt content to our Members only for now, the details and layout of this quilt are still being sorted out.  We will have more details of our Guild's final layout at Octobers meeting.  The Modern Quilt Guild has posted some fantastic articles outlining the quilt requirements, colour,  and alternative gridwork.  There were a lot of questions re: alternative gridwork at our meeting.  We have yet to determine the alternate gridwork of our Charity Quilt.  We hope to have this answered for October's meeting!
3. Mug Rug Exchange - At our December meeting we will be exchanging mug rugs.  The only requirement of this exchange is that the mug rugs need to be modern.  We ask that any member who wants to participate in this exchange sign up.  If you have not already done so, please sign up by emailing us.

As always, we had some lovely work shared at the meeting:

Our next meeting will be held October 11, 2014.  Hope to see you then!

Our September meeting will be held this upcoming Saturday, 10am-12pm, September 13, 2014 at Hyggeligt Fabrics, 515 Richmond Street, Unit 3, London, ON N6A 5N4.

Our Agenda this month will include:

• Welcome & Introductions
• Treasurer's Report
• Community Outreach Report/Fundraising Ideas
• Modern Quilt Guild Report
• Interactive book review of Jean Well's book "Intuitive Color & Design".  For this activity please bring the following materials:
  • Pencil
  • Gluestick
  • Small Scissors
  • A baggie of small scraps
• Show & Share

We will be having another Stay and Stitch after this month's meeting!  Feel free to bring a project to work on!  
 
Hope to see you Saturday!

Our August Meeting was held Saturday, August 9.  We had two new visitors to our meeting.  Welcome Linda & Beth!

Here is some of the work that was shared at August's Meeting.