Elections are coming!
On November 1st, you will receive an email from Erinn Shirley at erinnshirley@gmail.com. She is conducting our elections. Do your research and read the bios of our wonderful nominees. Make sure to cast your ballot by November 11. 

Virtual Workshop: Inspired by Art with David Owen Hastings 

Date:Saturday, November 16th, 2024
Time:12:-00 PM - 6:00 PM
Location: Your own home!

We are pleased to welcome back David Owen Hastings this time for his "Inspired by Classic Art" workshop: showing you how to choose a favorite work of art, develop your own unique modern quilt design. Be inspired by shapes, colors, structure, or the feeling you get and design a block or whole quilt with an eye on modern minimalism. This virtual workshop will be held via Zoom on Saturday, November 16th. For more information and to purchase tickets via the DCMQG online shop.

2024 DCMQG Quilt Show   -   Nov 2-14, 2024
Coping with Quilting

Quilts for the show need to be delivered by October 27th! Make sure to coordinate drop-off with coordinators by email at dcmqgshow@gmail.com.

Dates: November 2-23, 2024

Opening Reception: Saturday, November 2, 2024 | 12 – 2 PM

Artist Talk: Thursday, November 7, 2024 | 5:30 PM – 7 PM

Location: Creative Art Center, 914 Silver Spring Ave, Silver Spring, MD


More details at https://createartscenter.org/coping-with-quilting-the-therapeutic-art-of-stitching-stories/

Hope to see you at the Reception. Bring a friend!

2024 Community Quilt Raffle!

This hand made, one-of-a kind quilt -- designed by our own Megan Haidet! -- was made as part of the 2024 QuiltCon Community Quilt challenge. Each year thenational MQG challenges local chapters to create a “community” quilt together: a quilt inspired by a set theme and color palette, but communally designed and completed by local quilters. DCMQG sent our "Reflections" quilt to the national modern quilt show at QuiltCon Raleigh in February 2024. We are raffling this quilt to raise money for recent hurricane recovery efforts. Please send the link to any interested friends and family! Questions? Reach out  to dcmqgtreasurer@gmail.com.

Bid on this awesome quilt!

Every year at QuiltCon showcases quilts made by guilds as a team. MQG designates a color palette and we all work together to create an amazing quilt. Diana Owen has volunteered to manage this project (thanks Diana!) and has designed a beautiful quilt. Block kits were distributed at the meeting last week and members are busy sewing.

A huge thank you to Diana Owen and the community quilt committee for their quick work! Block kits were distributed at the September meeting and members are busy sewing. Please return your finished blocks by October 31. Haven't finished them yet? Bring your machine to the October sew-in!

Get ready to swap some quilts!
DCMQG is participating in a cross country mini quilt swap! The theme will be abstract art, inspired by the Tate museum. The South, East, West, and North (SEWN) mini swap will kick off in early January and mini quilts will be due in April 2025, but sign ups are open now! For more details, please see the swap flyer. Ready to sign up? Great! Please complete the participation form.

QuiltCon Registration Restarts Tomorrow, October 16, 2024, at 10:00 AM EDT, 2:00 PM UTC

QuiltCon Registration Link

The QuiltCon 2025 registration system reopens in full tomorrow, October 16, at 10 a.m. EDT. If you've been waiting to purchase single lecture tickets, now is your chance! Everything that has space in it will be listed in the system, so you will also be able to purchase seats in open workshops, lecture passes, and tickets to the special presentation from Tara Faughnan. 

Be sure to log in and register before November 30, 2024 if you want to take advantage of MQG Member Pricing. No discounts will be given after November 30, so login and get your schedule settled.

We've made a step-by-step guide that is linked below that will help you move through the registration steps. If you wish to add to an existing registration, make sure to look at page 4 of the registration walkthrough for instructions.

If you have already registered for your items, you don’t need to do a thing!

We’re so excited to see you all at QuiltCon in Phoenix, AZ!

Print a PDF Guide to QuiltCon Registration

Moving into fall meaning planning for next year! The 2025 MidAtlantic Modern (MidMod) Quilting Retreat will be Thursday, April 3rd through Sunday, April 6th. As a sponsoring guild, DCMQG is allotted 10 guaranteed spots for our members. Those spots are assigned via lottery. 

Lottery winners and a waitlist chosen randomly on Friday, October 4th. Lottery winners must pay a non-refundable $35 registration fee to DCMQG by Sunday, October 6th at 7 pm. Lottery winners must also register with MidMod and pay a remaining retreat fee (approximately $320) by Monday, October 14th at 7 pm ET.

DCMQG members who are not selected for this lottery can try to register for the MidMod general registration on Sunday, November 3rd. If you have any questions about the DCMQG MidMod lottery, please email 

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We need you 
Our next Wrapped in Love for Justice quilt is LGBTQ pride-themed (recipient TBD). We need people to make blocks! The blocks are small (6.5" x 6.5”) and easy to make. You can traditional piece it or we can provide the FPP pattern.The instructions are here. In that same page, there is a link to the sign up sheet to let us know you are making blocks. We need ONE HUNDRED blocks for this quilt, so please sign up!

The finished blocks are due at our August meeting or they can also be mailed if you won't attend the meeting.

Looking for our next Instagram Queen!

DCMQG is looking for a new Communications Coordinator. Carolyn Giunco has held this post for several years, ensuring beautiful and timely Instagram posts as well as monitoring our private Slack channel. If this role interests you, please email dcmodquilts@gmail.com.

Charity Quilt Bundles!

Diana, Enid and Bia prepared 40 bundles of coordinating quilt fabrics from a large donation from Dolores Goodson (thank you, Dolores!) These bundles will be available tonight on the DCMQG Instagram account for members to claim and enjoy making charity quilts.

Here’s how it works! Please comment on the post with the bundle number(s) you would like. Fabrics are intended for DCMQG members to use in charity quilts for the DC Diaper Bank or Inova Health. If you use a bundle, feel free to keep leftover scraps and leftovers, add more fabrics from your stash, or omit fabrics that don’t work for you. No limit per person but — like an all-you-can-eat buffet — take what you want but try to use what you take! The bundles will be at Saturday's meeting. Let us know if you can’t make it and we’ll make arrangements for you to pick up.

Do you have orphan blocks? Don't we all?

Do you have orphan blocks laying around with no purpose? If you do, bring them tothenext meeting and we will put them to good use while creating charity quilts! If you prefer to mail them, send an email to dcmqgcharity@gmail.com for address.

When we collect enough we can have a fun DCMQG sewing afternoon designing and sewing the quilts.

This month we collected and donated 17 quilts! 
 

Special thanks to Julia Triman and Elly Smith for your large donations!


We have donated 266 this year!