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January 2024 Challenge
Ready to Look for More in 2024. Your new Swaps & Challenges chair Sammie Messick is ready! Do you want more swaps? More challenges? More block lotto? Let’s get started with our first challenge in January. If you attended the holiday party in person, you received a...
January 2024 Meeting: Becky Blades
On January 11th, we will begin Looking for More in 2024 with Becky Blades. She believes that creative initiative is both the kindling and blaze of the creative process. Becky calls it stARTistry® — the art of beginning. STARTISTRY® can be learned, practiced, and...
December 2023 Meeting: Holiday Party
December 14, 2024 6:30pm Merriam Community Center Holiday Party and KCMQG Committee Open House Come celebrate the season and learn more about ways you can get involved with the KCMQG in 2024. Bring a snack to share and we'll supply the drinks. Let's wrap up the year...
November 2023 Meeting: My Top 10
Join us for the November meeting- “My Top 10” You’ll hear from four of our KCMQG members and take a tour of their top 10 quilts. Lori Lange, Angel Prisock, Sue Tuttle and Carla Timberlake will inspire you to create quilts that bring joy. You won’t want to miss this...
New Member Sew Day
New Member Sew DayShout out to all our new members since October 2022. You are invited to join us for a new member sew day. This is an opportunity for you to meet other new members and formulate great quilting relationships. If you are an eligible new member,...
October 2023 Schoolhouse: Binding Techniques
Join us for a practical Schoolhouse on binding on October 14th at The Fabric Chic from 9 am to 1 pm. We will demonstrate several types of binding and you will be able to make samples to take home. Struggle with corners or machine binding we will help you master...
October 2023 Workshop: Pixel Quilt Block
Join us at the Fabric Chic for this half day class and learn 2 different techniques you can use to create your own pixel quilt. We will practice techniques of pixel quilt cutting, learn the two different methods for piecing a pixel quilt, using fusible grid...
October 2023 Meeting: Dee Bushrod of Pixel Quilts
Dee Bushrod of Pixel Quilts has become quite a sensation on Instagram in the last several years as she honed and perfected her practice of making pixelated quilts. Join Dee and the KCMQG as she takes us on a deep dive into the tiny squares that make up a pixel quilt...
Fall 2023 Retreat
This is the final retreat for 2023! Don’t miss out on a fun filled fall quilting extravaganza fling. Cost includes 5 meals. Sewing lounge and rooms at Sew Sweet Quilt Retreat & Shop in Brunswick, MO. Just a couple of hours drive east of KC. Thursday, October 5th...
September 2023 Workshops: Mariner’s Compass with Robin Ruth
Have you ever wanted to make a Mariner’s Compass block but were too intimidated? Not a fan of paper piecing or using tedious templates? You’ll love this class for learning how to make 16-point compass blocks in 16 different sizes using Robin Ruth Design’s rulers and...
September 2023 Meeting: Robin Ruth Design
Robin Long of Robin Ruth Design will be joining us in September and introducing us to her amazing line of revolutionary rulers, books, patterns, and technique for making STRIP PIECED mariner’s compass blocks and projects – that’s right, NO PAPER PIECING! Robin has...
2024 QuiltCon Community Outreach Challenge Quilt
Each year our guild participates in the QuiltCon community outreach challenge. We design, create, and exhibit an original quilt at the Quiltcon national modern quilt show in February. The theme for the 2024 challenge is "symmetry" and the color palette is shown above....
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