Continuation of August 9th, 2025 - Monthly Meeting Recap (Part 1) post....

Quilt Show Committee

• Mary Beth Oberlin and Candice Marshall are the chairs on the committee

• March 14th and 15th, 2026 at Queeny Park

• • Set up March 13th

• Public event on STLMQG.org

• Vendor Requests are Open

• • Contact quiltshow@stlmqg.org or Carolynn Vasel

• Help needed- Organizer for demonstrations. Email quiltshow@stlmqg.org

• Send information on vendors and vendor experiences at quilt show email 

Quilt Show Submissions

• Quilt Submission Dates

• • Submission opens December 25th

  • Deadline January 15th

  • Notifications will be sent prior to February meeting

• Quilts must be finished by submission date except for binding and sleeves

• Submit one photo and a description of the quilt

• Submission will be through a web form. There will be a demonstration at a future meeting

• Seek out Mary Beth if you have concerns with submitting online. 

• Description of quilt is needed and it will be used on sign for quilt. See art quilt meeting for help with descriptions and statements. 

• • Include basic description/artists statements. (statements can be simple)

  • Who quilted it

• 9 entries per person total. 

• Acceptances will be announced prior to February meeting. 

• Quilt show categories: Guild challenges, applique and handwork, art quilts, bee quilts (including traveling quilts) improvisation, maximalism, minimalist design, miscellaneous, modern traditionalism, piecing, small quilts, use of negative space.

• Tutorials for sleeves will be presented in the future. Dimensions in website description.

• Postcard for publicity is currently being printed and the committee will ask for assistance in presenting. If you are doing the Illinois shop hop, please reach out to committee for postcards. 

• The committee has a stack of postcards with destination shops to be distributed. Reach out to committee to volunteer to go to different shops on the Missouri and Illinois shop hop list. 

• Consider bringing to Missouri quilt guilds. 

• Promoting the show helps everybody!

Member announcements:

• GraceWay Quilt guild Hillsboro Missouri show 8/9

• Circle in the Square Quilt Guild. Show in entire month of October

• • Tickets 

  • Alice Ridge presentation

• City Sewing room has a long arm to try out free motion quilting

• AQS World Wide quilt parade entry deadline September 24th for Digital Show

• Hand Stitchers are working on Gel Printing on fabric and are a resource

• AFSP quilt raffle for suicide prevention and awareness

Presentation: Candy Grisham, If you give a girl a Wedge…

• Taught herself how to make dresden blocks without needle turned applique

• Trunk Show includes Friends in the Garden at Midnight

• Blocks fused, glued, or quilted to background. 

• Made a pattern for Friends in the Garden at Midnight at icandyfiberart.com

• Book: Dresden quilt blocks Reimagined by Candy Grisham in 2019

• In 2020, shifted to virtual presentations and reached guilds all over the country. 

• Presses seams with cut banister rail for flat, open seams

• 5 different plates

• • Straight edges

  • 20 points 

  • 10 points (Serendipity)

  • Three Sided wedge (the coffin)

  • Dresden 201 blocks

  • • Sawtooth

    • Cogwheel Block

    • Split Wedge

    • Bull’s Eye 

• Plates can be 

• • Layered

  • made into a pillow

  • make squares

  • paper pieced pieces like flying geese

  • improv blocks

  • art quilts

  • Group quilts

• Background and layout considerations

• • Quilting background first and adding dresdens

  • Adding blocks in layers

  • Adding additional elements

  • Still life quilts (vases, flowers, etc)

  • Wedges in straight rows

  • Using the same fabric as the background for floating effects

• Contact

• • icandyfiberart.com

  • @icandyfiberart

  • creativespark.com

Show and Share! 

Attendance Prizes

O block Lotto Winner: Sheila Acuncius

Fabric raffle Winner: Carol Koboldt, Sheila Acuncius

Huge thank you to Cotton Cuts for your donation!

Meeting Closed at 12:22pm

We hope to see you at our next meeting on  September 13th. Until then, happy quilting!

Ander Weis (VP)