Making A Difference

The Modern Quilt Guild Announced their 3rd Annual Make-Difference-Challenge. The theme of this year’s challenge is BIODIVERSITY. Let’s celebrate the different kinds of life that make up the natural world, including animals, plants, fungi, and microorganisms.

Submissions will open for entries on July 17, 2023, and close on July 30, 2023. One submission is allowed per member. Every quilt submitted will help fund real, measurable change for sustaining the biodiversity of our world, from helping protect threatened species like Asian elephants and trees in the Selva Maya rainforest in Belize to gorilla conservation in Central Africa. As in past years, members who don’t submit a quilt but still want to support Wild Earth Allies will have the opportunity to make a donation only.

MQG members will have the ability to vote for the winners of the challenge from July 31-August 4, 2023.

We’ll announce the fantastic prizes available from our sponsors soon.

Making a Difference in our Community

Those smiles say it all - there’s really no words I could add that would explain why we do Community Quilts better than the picture.

Spring Happenings

March BOM below is a 12.5 x 15.5 quick sew. Use a RED center and various blues for the surrounding strips

SPARROWS QAL/SAL

Several members have decided to join Pen + Paper Patterns (https://penandpaperpatterns.com/) for the Sparrows Sew Along. It started March 10th, so there’s still time to join us if you’d like. Going to set up a Sew Along Support Group this week - the instructions come out on Fridays, but will push the support group Zoom Meeting out to Wednesday evening 7-8. And you do not have to be doing the Sparrows Sew Along to join us, any Sew Along will do.

PANTONE COLOR CHALLENGE

And a color challenge with prizes!! Check out the post by Sarah Ruiz with all the details https://saroy.net/2023/02/announcing-the-2023-pantone-quilt-challenge/ The challenge will run from March 20 – May 15, 2023, with the linkup open for 1 week from May 8-15. Winners will be announced approximately 1 week later, on/around May 22, 2023. We could put together a check in Zoom meeting if we have enough people interested. Let us know at the March meeting this week.

HOLLAND DUFFLE SAL

Kristina over at Center Street Quilts is having a Sew Along for her new pattern the Holland Duffle Bag. https://www.centerstreetquilts.com/blog/ here is the blog post talking about it. She has a link to her shop for the pattern and a Sign Up button. Starts on the March 20th and will have small assignments every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday until March 31st when we should all be finished.

Latifah Saafir is teaching a set of three classes that will show us seven different ways to use our Clammy rulers beyond patterns.  This starts on March 20th (along with everything else). We will also get first access to the very limited number of Special Edition Giant Clammys at the end. You can sign up here https://view.flodesk.com/pages/63f1c1c0a48787c3c5ff61ff

TRINKET SEW ALONG

And for all you Paper Piecing Enthusiasts out there, you know who you are!! It’s the Trinket#2 Sew Along. Read all about it and sign up here https://alisonglass.com/trinket-sew-along/

MAY DESTASH

“ WHAT WAS I THINKING” AND “WHERE DID THIS EVER COME FROM” ARE GOOD CANDIDATES FOR DONATION

Now is the time to start spring cleaning the sewing room and finding items to donate to the TMQG destash. This is our primary fundraiser for the year. It will be held at the May 18th meeting.

That’s all for now….keep on Sewing

JANUARY 2023 BOM – Support Group Bra Block

Happy 2023 to all of us! We are all in for some exciting new quilt projects. In preparation for the Relay for Life in May, the January block of the month is the “Bra Block” designed by Lori Holt for Bee in my Bonnet Co. This block is looking for a Captain.

 The pattern is copyrighted and sold through the Fat Quarter Shop https://www.fatquartershop.com/stitch-support-group-quilt-kit. Duplication of any kind is prohibited. However, Fat Quarter Shop sent us 20 copies of the pattern. They will be distributed (at the December meeting) to 20 guild members who are willing to make the block/s. Email tacomamqg@gmail.com if you won’t be at the meeting and would like a pattern.

There are 4 style variations of the bra pattern. You can choose which pattern to use. The colors will be pinks and marigolds. The background fabric will be off-white or cream. Each block measures 11 1/2” x 13 ½”. Please do not trim. We will need 12 blocks for one quilt. Extra blocks will be used for the second Breast Cancer Awareness quilt in September.   

Blocks are due by the end of February and Quilt to be finished by April 2023.            

Donation Quilts!

Thank you to everyone who pulled together and made quilts. In total, we donated 17 baby quilts and 15 large quilts. 3 newborns have already taken ownership of the baby quilts and the larger quilts went to many families in need at CJK Community Homes.

Additionally, 15 large quilts have been donated to The Wishing Well Foundation of Washington.

In total, for 2022, as a guild, we’ve donated 47 quilts!

Thank you to everyone who generously donated your fabric, time and expertise to help create these beautiful and well received quilts.

Click HERE to see the current gallery of quilts. This gallery of photos is updated as new quilts are completed.

TMQG May 2022 Destash, Sew and Tell and Celebration Meeting!

We’re finally meeting in person!
Join us on Thursday, May 19th, 2022 for the

Destash, Sew and Tell and Celebration Meeting

Environmental Services Building,
9850 64th St. W. (by Chambers Bay Golf Course)
University Place, WA

(see directions below)

Social starts at 6:30 p.m.
General Meeting starts at 7 p.m.

Destash is the guild's only fundraiser this year. You are welcome to donate fabric, books, notions, patterns, etc. and then shop the destash items for new things to take home. Coffee, tea, and store-bought cookies will be on hand.

Do you have quilts and projects that you've finished during the pandemic and would like to show? Bring them and there will be a sew and tell of all sew and tells.

Plus, we have COMPRESSION PILLOWS to stuff and sew, and committees to sign up and participate on (check out the website for descriptions).

Bring your completed BLOCKS OF THE MONTH for February, March, April and May to the meeting. The captains will gladly take them off your hands.

And of course, there are quilting friends, new and existing, to get reacquainted with! We've reserved both rooms, so there will be lots of space to spread out!

For those who can't join us in person, a Zoom link can be provided. (Please be patient with us as we try to take these meetings to a hybrid format.) As always, guests are welcome to come to the in-person meeting or join via Zoom. Please send an email tacomamqg@gmail.com for the Zoom link so we know who to let into the meeting.

Hope to see you Thursday, May 19th.

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Click here for a map and directions. 

FROM I-5 NORTH OR SOUTH – ALLOW APPROXIMATELY 20 MIN TRAVEL TIME FROM THE 56TH STREET EXIT.
Take Exit 130 (South 56th Street) off of Interstate 5 and follow South 56th Street West to Orchard, where it becomes Cirque Drive. Follow Cirque Drive to Grandview and then go south (left) on Grandview to the Environmental Services Building located at 9850 64th Street West in University Place.