Octavia (president) opened the meeting at 10:03 on 11/8/2025. 

Presentation Deck:  November 2025 Meeting Presentation.pdf

The account balance as of 10/31/25 is $19,549.06. Financials are posted on the website Here. (https://www.stlmqg.org/2025)

Membership: 202 members

Announcements:

• T-shirt orders available at break
  
• Save the Date 1/14/26
  
• • Virtual lecture with Laura Hartrich
  • More info to Come
• 2026 Annual Quilt Show at Ferguson Public Library
  
• • 2/12, 2/13, 2/14, 2026
  • Registration; opens December 1^st
• December Appreciation Meeting
  
• Board Elections
  
• • President and Secretary
  • 2 Year term
  • Elections held at January Meeting
  • Must be present to vote
• Membership renewals 1/1/26
  
• Quit Con Registration
  
• • Quilt submission 9/1-10/31
  • Class registration 8/20 at 9am
  • Make sure your Modern Quilt Guild log in works to sign up for classes
• Committee Sign Ups
  
• • Quilt Show (leaders)
  • Social, SewMe, Welcome, Programming, House, Charity, Swap/Challenge Quilt Con Quilt
• Jackman’s Coupon
  
• SewHope Closing store 12/13. Shifting their focus towards their charitable work.
  
• QuiltCon 2027 in Atlanta, GA
  

STL MQG schedule: 

• Nov. 15: Virtual Sew (Date Change) 
  

• Nov. 19: Hand Stitchers at Buder Library
  
• Nov. 22: Jackman’s (Creve Coeur location)
  
• Nov. 25: Hand Sew Happy Hour 
  
• Dec. 3: Hand Stitchers at Buder Library
  
• Dec. 2: Art Quilt Meeting
  
• Dec. 13: Members only meeting

Block Lotto for Kitty Cat block:

• Focus: fun, imagery, graphic quality, simple piecing, repeating motif
  
• Modern print background fabric
  
• Solid color fabric for cat
  
• 10.5x10.5 finished block
  
• Guidelines are on the website Here 
  

Committee Announcements: 

Sew Me Committee

October 10-12

THANK YOU!!

• To the Sew Me Committee members!!
  
• To our wonderful vendors!
  
• To our volunteers!
  
• To our members that donated!
  
• Members who volunteered to demonstrate a skill
  
• To Laura Patterson!
  
• To attendees
  

Sew Me Financials

• Special Raffle!
  
• All proceeds go towards Epworth. Raffle ends November 30 and Drawing in December.
  
• • Sewing machine from Warm n Cozy
  • Ergonomic Sewing Table
  • AccuQuilt

Social Committee

• December Meeting member appreciation event: Members need to bring scraps of Solid Colors using the Guild color scheme and white/neutral. Scraps should be between 5- and 10-inches square or larger and be ironed.
  
• Irons not needed.
  
• Cutting kits and rulers will be provided.No Show and Share in December
  
• Jackman’s sew day on November 22^nd
  
• Lunch at Lesters

Charity Committee

• STLMQG has donated over 88 quilts
  
• Congratulations to our October winners of the Longarm Contest!
  
• Robyn Passing and Nancy Dlugosz
  
• Thanks to Lilo Whitener-Fey and Dottie Vaughn for donating their services this month!!
  

Quilt Show

• Facebook event going. Please share and promote.
  
• Sign up to sent out postcards. There is a list for suggested places.
  

Fabric Raffle (Huge thank you to Cotton Cuts for your donation!)

• 2 bundles of 1 yard cuts from Olive Grove by Riley Blake

Quilt Con Quilt Show Quilt!!

• Medallion Quilt challenge but we made it rectangle
  
• Quilted by Dottie Vaughn (Thank you!!)
  
• Designed by Leila Gardunia
  
• We are looking for help for the committee and to design the next one.

Member announcements:

• Selling a treadle sewing machine. See Lynda Drendel.
  
• Nonperishable goods donation for SNAP recipients. See Melissa Eagen.
  
• Susan Muszynski runs the Art Quilt Group
  
• Next Year Spring Trade show in Stl switched to a consumer show for fibers.
  
• • Looking for Volunteers
  • More information on their Facebook page
  • April 10, 11, 12

Stripes Show and Share! Wonderful Quilts, Thank you!

Swap: Favorite Things! Thank you!

Presentation: Quilt Show

• The Quilt show needs your modern quilt.
  
• The show is not judged and the ribbons are audience vote.
  
• Submit your quilts to share your creativity, celebrate modern quilting, and educate the community about modern quilting.
  

Quilt Show Timeline

• Submissions are open Dec. 15-Jan 15
  
• Accepted quilts can be turned in at Feb 14 meeting
  
• Accepted quilts can be turned in on Feb 28 location TBD
• Show is March 14-15, 2026
  

Submission Guidelines

• Must be a current, dues-paying member to submit
  
• Quilt must be pieced by the member-another person may quilt
  
• Quilt must be completed for registration, but binding/sleeve can be done prior to the show
  
• Must fill out a registration form and provide a photo for each entry
  
• Each member may enter up to 9 quilts/items*
  
• Made within the last 5 years
  
• Not displayed at any of the STLMQG’s prior shows
  
• See Guild website for additional rules: https://stlmqg.org/Quilt-Show-Members-Resource
  

Modern Elements & Quilt Show Categories

• Bold use of Color: Strong, vibrant, and unexpected color choices that create visual impact.
  
• High Contrast & Graphic Areas of Color: Strong contrast between light and dark, or between complementary colors, often creating striking, graphic designs.
  
• Minimalism: Simplified design with pared-down elements, lots of open space, and a focus on clarity.
  
• Maximalism: The opposite of minimalism—layered, busy, and full of detail, color, and pattern.
  
• Improvisational Piecing: Creating without a set pattern, embracing spontaneity, asymmetry, and unexpected results.
  
• Expansive Negative Space: Large areas of background fabric that highlight and frame the pieced design and often become a canvas for creative quilting.
  
• Alternate Grid Work: Moving away from the traditional straight grid layout of blocks—using offset, staggered, or irregular placement.
  
• Modern Traditionalism: Reimagining traditional quilt blocks with modern elements like scale, color, or asymmetry.
  

Categories

• Applique & Handwork
  
• • Appliqué – Quilts that include either machine or hand layering of fabric where the quilt’s primary focus is appliqué.
  • Handwork – Quilts that include at least one element of handwork that is the focus of the quilt, including but not limited to hand piecing, hand quilting, embroidery, or cross stitch.
• Art quilts:  An original free-form exploration of a concept or idea, adhering to the modern aesthetic, experimenting with textile manipulation, color, texture and/or a diversity of mixed media. Art quilts quite often push quilt world boundaries.
  
• Bee Quilts: Quilts made by 3 or more people
  
• Improvisation:   The majority of piecing is improvised (i.e., without the use of a defined pattern or templates).
  
• Maximalism:  A more-is-more philosophy is embraced which includes a mix of colors, patterns, and textures that are densely utilized.Often there's very little void or open spaces. The eclectic nature means all of the elements are layered together to create interesting and filled compositions.
• Minimalist design:  Quilts whose design emphasizes extreme simplification of content and form to achieve maximum visual impact.
  
• Miscellaneous: Clothing, Bags, Other quilted Items
  
• Modern Traditionalism: Quilts whose design incorporates the use of an identifiable traditional block pattern and modernizes it by applying design elements such as alternate grid work, asymmetry, color, or scale.
  
• Piecing:  Quilts that reflect a particularly strong or innovative use of machine piecing.
  
• Small Quilts:  measure 36″ or less per side.
  
• Use of Negative Space:  the unoccupied area that surrounds the objects, shapes, or forms in a composition that can be used to create movement, emphasis and interest in a quilt design which is integrated into and/or organizes the composition of the quilt.
  
• Guild Challenges: 2024 Modern Art Challenges, 2024 Scrap Buster, 2024 Row by Row Improv, 2025 Block Lotto, 2025 Stripes
  

How to submit your quilt

• Gather your Information:  A blank form will be sent out after this meeting so you can gather all of the required information.
  
• Help Desk Committee members will be available to help submit after the January 10 guild meeting.  If you would like help, bring a completed form.  You will also need a photo of your quilt on a flash drive or available to email from your phone.
  
• Submissions will be through a Google form, which will require a free Google account. If you have a gmail email address, you already have a Google account.
  
• You will submit one form for each quilt
  
• The link to the form will be sent by email on Dec. 15, 2025. The form will close at 11:59 pm on January 15, 2026.
  
• See the Slideshow for walk through of application.
  

Jurying Process

• All information is removed. Only photos are reviewed by the committee.
  
• Committee members rate each photo according to the qualities of a modern quilt, on a scale of 1 to 5.
  
• Each quilt receives an average score. Quilts are prioritized based on this rating, filling in the available display space. 
  
• Notices are sent to everyone who submitted, whether quilts are accepted or not accepted.
  

Quilt Collection

• Quilts will be collected at the February 14 guild meeting, or on February 28 at a location to be determined. Alternate dates can be arranged. All quilts must be collected by March 1, 2026.
  
• Show time! Quilts will be hung on Friday, March 13.
  
• Quilts will be available for pickup at the end of the show on Sunday, March 15.  Quilters will be responsible for picking up their quilts at that time, or designating an alternate person.
  

Help Needed

• We need everyone’s help to make this work. Members are strongly encouraged to volunteer for two shifts during the show.
  
• Volunteer sign-up will be open before the January 10 meeting.  More details will be provided at the meeting.
  
• Quilt Show Committee will organize the quilt check-in process, and help organize transportation of the quilts.
  
• We need one or two members to store the quilts from February 14 to March 13.

Show and Share! 

Attendance Prizes!

Fabric raffle Winner: Kristina Olson, Barb Phelps

• Huge thank you to Cotton Cuts for your donation!

STRIPES Winners

• 3: Annie Cook
  
• 2: Susan Muszynski
  
• 1: Candice Marshall
  
• Participation: Sheila Acuncius, Margie Murphy, Laura Cox
  

Meeting Closed at 12:49pm

We hope to see you at our members only meeting on December 13th. Until then, happy quilting!

Ander Weis (VP)

Ander, our vice president, opened the meeting at 10 a.m. Some reminders, check out the survey and order a t-shirt! (Links)

The account balance is $26,280, and our membership is at 198! Wow!

There are two board positions open come 2026! Let the board know if you’re interested and would like to run for President or Secretary.

Some housekeeping items:

• Quintessential Quilt Show in U City is coming up, Oct 3-27.

• We are looking for volunteers at the November meeting.

• STL Trans Quilt Project Display - showing at tower grove pride 9/27-9/28 - link out to Insta.

• Check out the calendar for what’s coming up! Link here

• We are sold out for Sew Me STL on Friday and Sunday! This is the first time this has happened!

• Block Lotto information for this month can be found here.

Sew Me STL:

• Cancelation policy is waived because we are sold out! If you’re needing to cancel your spot, please email Gail Luther - lutherfamily@swbell.net

• Volunteers! Check out the Sign-Up Genius here, we would love to have you!

• We ask members to wear their name tags and bring their own rotary cutters.

• If you’re in a group within the guild and want to meet at Sew Me STL, please do! Coordinate amongst your group, if you’re wanting announcements made, let Susan know on Friday morning.

Special Raffle 2025

• They donated a $700 Janome machine for the raffle! The committee discussed, and this raffle will be available through November for the entire guild. You will receive an email for when this will be live.

• Tickets will be $5 per ticket, all proceeds will benefit Epworth Children & Family services.

Social - Open Sew Day on Saturday, Nov. 22nd at Jackman’s Fabrice 10am-5pm. This is free to members but registration is required, register online here!

MQG’s Community Challenge - pick up blocks at Sew Me STL! We will be finishing the blocks at Sew Me STL :) 

Challenge - Stripe It! Any quilted item with stripes, these are due at the Nov. meeting. There will be monetary prizes as well as participation prizes! You can submit more than one item, so go crazy! You can see all the information on the challenge here.

Swap - Favorite Things! Open to all members - an item or items that you like to have next to you when you’re sewing. Do not exceed $10! Include your name within the brown paper bag that you put your favorite things. These are due at the Nov. meeting.

Charity - The Longarm contest is going on for one more month. Please submit your quits here to win free longarming from our members who are longarmers! Winners today are Marie Hill, Laura Cox, and Marne Meredith. Thank you to our Longarming members for donating their services this month! Their information can be found on the meeting’s slides.

• Charity quilts are all due in November! You can bring finished quilts to Sew Me and please bring them to the meeting Nov. meeting! More information on the quilts to be donated here. 

Quilt Show - March 14 & 15! This is Modern.

• Vendor requests are open - deadline is Oct. 31 - contact quiltshow@stlmqg.org if you know someone who would be interested.

• Donations needed of modern fabric for our award ribbons! Contact Kristina Olson.

• Postcard/Advertising! Pick some of our postcards up and help us distribute and get the word out! WE will have a large list for distribution sign-up at the November meeting.

• Charity Raffle Quilts - Guild Quilts from 2023 and 2024 Quiltcons will be raffled at the show. Proceeds will be divvied up between Keyway and Epworth.

• You can find all of the 2026 quilt show categories here.

• Quilt Submissions open on Dec 15 and are due Jan 15! More information at the November meeting.

Today’s fabric raffle is sponsored by Cotton Cuts! Thank you!!

Member Announcements

• If you have fabric cut offs, bring them to Ander at Sew Me STL! They are making cat beds to donate.

• The National Quilt Museum in Paducah has some amazing exhibits in and coming up! If you can, go check it out.

• Candy Grisham is teaching a class called “Weave” on Saturday, Sept. 26 from 3-7 p.m. at City Sewing Room. City Sewing Room is providing the background and the fat quarters - $30ish class. Check out their website to sign up and for more information.

• Artists First - in Maplewood! Artistsfirststl.org Check out this non-profit, they are doing great work!

Committee sign-ups for 2026 are open! If you’re interested you can sign up at Sew Me STL or at the November meeting.

We watched a video from our 2025 charity partner - Epworth!

Sew Me STL Room Raffle - Angie Henderson is the winner!

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)

STLMQG August Meeting 2025 Presentation.pdf

Octavia (president) opened the meeting at 10:03 on 8/9/2025. 

The account balance as of 6/30/25 is $24,726.61. Financials are posted on the website Here. (https://www.stlmqg.org/2025)

Membership: 197 members

Guild Business:

• Quit Con Registration

• • Quilt submission 9/1-10/31

  • Class registration 8/20 at 9am

  • Make sure your Modern Quilt Guild log in works to sign up for classes

• 25% off Longarming with Trace Creek Quilting through August

• • Need to submit quilt to the business before end of month

• Art Elements Quilt Show

• • Quilt submission 7/12-10/16

• Quilted Soiree- Sign up here

• BOM 2026 - Year of doubles

• Board Candidates

Announcements

• Artist’s Statements with Art Quilters

• Volunteers Needed for November meeting

• STL Trans Quilt Project on display at PRIDE fest in Tower Grove

• City Sewing Room FREE books/patterns 

STL MQG schedule: 

• August 20: Hand Stitchers 

• August 23: Virtual Sew 

• August 26: Hand Sew Happy Hour 

• September 2: Art Quilt Meeting (discussing artists statements)

• September 3: Hand Stitchers at Buder Library

• September 13: Regular Meeting 

• October 10-12: SEW ME 

• No October meeting

Block Lotto for 16-Patch Star:

• Solid white background 

• Solid guild logo colors for points

• Guild logo colors for centers, prints are fine

• 6in or 12 in

Guidelines are on the website Here 

Committee Announcements: 

Sew Me Committee: October 10-12

• Retreat registration closes 8/13/25

• • Friday and Saturday are wait-listed

  • Spaces will open up if members cancel

  • Sunday is open 

• Payment is due by 8/13/25

• • If not paid on time, your reservation will be cancelled

• You will be notified if additional hotel rooms open up

• Volunteers are needed (sign up through 9/15)

• • Please sign up through sign-up genius

  • We still need help on Friday, Saturday and with Sunday clean-up

  • Raffle items will also be accepted at September meeting 

  • Check website for Sew Me 2025 room raffle

MQG’s Community Challenge Quilt

• Goal: For guild members to work together to make a quilt that will be given/donated/raffled to support a local charity. 

• Challenge: Each year guilds are given a theme and a color pallet to use. 80 of the resulting quilts are displayed at quilt con

• Theme: Medallion Quilt

• Our design: A minimalist, modified medallion with improvisationally pieced blocks

• See slideshow for instructions. 108 blocks

• Return at September meeting or Sew Me. Must be in the committee’s hands by October 10th. 

• If mailing, mail to address on envelope.

• Contact Leila at September meeting or SewMe with questions

• See video here for tips on inserting strips. 

Swap: Stripes

• Challenge: Stripe It! 

• Due: November 8th, 2025

• Focus: Stripes. Make stripes with fabric, used striped fabric, the PRIMARY focus must be stripes. 

• Top must be finished but it doesn’t have to be quilted/finished

• It can be a quilt, wall hanging, apparel, etc as long as it reads s-t-r-i-p-e-s.

• There will be monetary awards for 1st-3rd and participation prizes.

• Look at pinterest or online for stripes ideas 

Swap: Favorite Things

• Due November 8th

• Place items in a brown paper bag

• Consider things that you like to have near you while sewing

• NOT to exceed $10.00

• This may require some creative thinking, but we want you to have fun with it!

• Put your name in the bag

Charity Committee

• Congrats to August winners of the Longarm contest! Ann Philiph, Irene Kattner-Stuhrenberg, and Marie Hill

• If you didn’t win, you can submit again for the next contest

• Thank you to Dotty Vaughn, Debbie Bouquet, and Lilo Whitener-Fey

• Epworth was THRILLED with the donations. “She is looking forward to September meeting. Also, the kids absolutely looooove the quilts. We only had enough for half of the boys dorm and we definitely need more boy quilts.” It's wonderful to give these kids a quilt hug. 

• A spokesperson here from Epworth Family Services will be at the September meeting.

• Quilts due Nov 8th.

• Post your quilts on instagram and tag the guild @stlmqg 

• Throws or twins for 11-19 year olds. No baby quilts. No specific length requirements. 

• Charity Committee has a package of charity labels that can be placed on quilts. “STLmqg cares”

To be continued with August 9th, 2025 Meeting Recap Part 2 post.

July 12 2025 Meeting Slides.pdf

Octavia (President) opened the meeting at 10 a.m. on Saturday, July 12.

Account balance $12,295 as of the end of June.

The time for Quilt Con class registration is near! Registration begins August, 20 at 9 a.m. Please check out the Quilt Con website for pricing, details on classes, AND to ensure you have access to your Modern Quilt Guild account. Updated pricing and all other details for Quilt Con 2026 can be found here.

The Art Quilt Elements Show has their quilt submissions open now through October 16.

If you have any BOM 2026 ideas, please share with the board! Email Octavia: president@stlmqg.org.

During Member Updates, Octavia shared details on the Quilters Soiree  -  The Quilted Soiree.pdf

Schedule:

• 7/16 - Hand Stitchers
  
• 7/22 - Hand Sew Happy Hour
  
• 7/26 - Virtual Sew
  
• 8/5 - Art Quilt Meeting
  
• 8/6 - Hand Stitchers
  
• 8/9 - August Meeting and Candy’s Dresden Plate Workshop 
  

Block Lotto for August - O Block - details in slides!

Swap & Challenge: Stripes! More information in the slides, the challenge ends in November. The next swap will be for Sew Me STL participants, more information to come in August!

Sew Me STL: October 10-12! Registration begins July 13 - August 13. Volunteer registration also started July 13. Hotel room raffle will be held at the September meeting. Bring retreat raffle items to August and September meetings. Sew Me STL is a members only event! All details can be found on the website here.

Charity: Barbs Phelps, Chelsea Hackbart, Cindy Templin have won the longarm quilting prize! Anyone who didn’t win, can resubmit for the August giveaways. Thank you to participants and the longarmers! No baby quilts please. Quilts accepted are tweens and teens, all genders. It doesn’t matter if it’s modern, any quilts will be accepted. 

Quilt Show Committee: March 14 & 15, setup on March 13. Quilt show categories are listed on the website here. Submissions open on Dec. 15 and run through Jan. 15.

After the August meeting, Candy Grisham is hosting a Dresden Plate workshop: Give a Girl a Wedge. You can register for this workshop on our website here. A sign-up link has also been sent to your email.

Quilt Con Community Challenge quilt block packets will be available for pick-up in August. More information to come!

We then had our 15 year celebration with a panel full of our first board, along with cake, 15 year pins, and a fantastic raffle put on by our social team. Thank you to everyone who helped put on a stellar celebration for our guild.

Panel Slideshow.pdf

STL MQG 15 Years in Pictures.pdf

May 2025 Meeting Presentation.pdf

Ander (Vice President) opened the May meeting at 10:03am.

Financials are posted to the website, account balance is $14,689.76.

Kitty Wilkin is coming to town May 30 - June 1. On Friday, May 30 she is hosting a free lecture and trunk show. There are seats available on Saturday and Sunday’s classes and they are now open to the public, so get your spot booked if you are interested in either of her classes. More information can be found on the website here.

• From Watercolor to Quilt - Saturday, May 31
  

• Improv Mountains - Sunday, June 1
  

Lynda Drendel will be hosting the next Hand Stitchers at the Buder Library on Hampton Ave. In July the group is going to test run meeting weekly; if this goes well, they will see about extending!

Hand Sew Happy Hour to be hosted by Laura Patterson at the Panera on Chippewa.

There will be a Virtual Sew on Saturday, May 24.

The Art Quilt group meeting is June 4, join the distribution list by emailing Susan Muzenski: smuszynski22@gmail.com.

There will NOT be a meeting in June so please do not come, we will not be there.

The next Block Lotto block was created by guild member Leila Gardunia! Check out the pattern here. We are excited to see all of the pies you create.

Committee Announcements

• Swap & Challenge - the Stripes! Challenge is due at the November meeting. More information can be found on the website here or in the slides.

• • Win with Judged Prizes! Yes, you can win money!

  • Tops or finished pieces will be accepted - can be quilts could also 3D item

• Congrats everyone on a great swap last month!! So many cute pincushions were shared. If you have any other ideas for swaps or challenges, please send to the board or the committee! We want your ideas.

• Social Committee

• • July is our 15 year anniversary party!!

  • Member raffle donations were accepted at the meeting, donations will also be accepted at the Kitty Wilkin lecture (not the workshops). 

  • • Your physical tickets will be given to you at the July meeting at the welcome table at check in.

  • You can purchase more tickets on the website, here.

  • Bring your address labels to the July meeting to put on your tickets!

• Jackman’s Sew Day on Saturday, June 28th - 10am - 5pm

• Free to members register on the website, here

• Bring a snack to share! Do not bring anything that needs to be warmed up (please do not bring crockpots)

• Virtual sew day will be moved from June 28th to the June 21st.

• Sew Me STL

• • October 10-12, it will be held at Marriott West as it was last year.

  • We need demonstrations, only 15-30 minutes! If you have something to share and would like to host one of our demonstrations, emailChelsea Hackbart or Diane Grooms.

  • More details to follow!

• Charity

• • Win free longarming for creating the charity quilts, enter the July giveaway online, here.

  • We are accepting youth size quilts! No baby quilts, please. You can create as many quilt tops as you wish to be able to enter into the giveaways each month, as long as they are finished by November.

  • Each month (July-October) is a new giveaway. Finished quilts must be turned in by the November meeting.

  • More info in can be found in the slides!

  • Thank you to our longarmer members who have donated their time and resources!

  • Grab STL MQG Care quilt labels from Laura Patterson next time you see her.

• Quilt Show

• • March 14 & 15, 2026

  • We are back at Queeny Park Greensfelder!

  • Help Needed - Publicity Team

  • • Candace Marshall is heading up this team, if you are interested, please contact Candace! 

    • Quiltshow@stlmqg.org
      

  • Submission timeframe: December 15 - January 15

  • • 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, to be shared in December

    • 9 items per person, made within the last 5 years, not shown in the previous shows

  • Carolyn is handling the vendors, if you are interested, contact her!

  • Details on the website, you can find the categories here!

Member Announcements

• Art Quilters - Open House - Thursday June 12 10am and Saturday June 21 10am (90 minutes)

• • Suzanne Gali Koenen’s Studio - address on slides

  • If you’re interested, please email Suzanne:  Suzanne.galli.koenen@gmail.com

  • Come by and see some amazing quilts!

• Pictures!

• • We want your pictures to show off in the July meeting!

  • Share any STLMQG picture memories over the last 15 years

  • Complete the form here.

• Hearts ‘n’ Hands quilt guild has a show on June 7 & 8 - more info in slides

The quilt guild donated 25 quilts to the Honor Flight, thank you to everyone, we are so proud!

Our programming was with Amy Sueter, for Wellness Wisdom from Your Guildmates and Rich from Sawyer Creek Artistry.

April 2025 Meeting Presentation.pdf

Octavia (president) opened the meeting at 10:04 on 4/12/2025. 

The account balance as of 3/31/25 is $18,158.64. Financials are posted on the website Here. (https://www.stlmqg.org/2025) 

Guild Business:

• Fabric Found- roll of fabric

• Earth Day Sale; City Sewing Room 4/22 

• SLU Denim Day; 4/23-24 

• Save the date: Hearts and Hands Quilt Show 6/7-8 in Belleville, IL

• Save the date: Park Hill Threads of Friendship Quilt Show 6/28

• Save the date: Paducah Quilt Show AQS April 23-26

Kitty Wilkin is coming to visit May 30-June 1. 

• Friday lecture is free for members. 

• Saturday workshop- From Watercolor to Quilt

• Sunday workshop- Improv Mountains

• Registration is open

STL MQG schedule: 

• April 16: Hand Stitchers 

• April 22: Hand Sew Happy Hour 

• April 26: Virtual Sew 

• May 6: Art Quilt Meeting 

• May 7: Hand Stitchers 

• May 10: Regular Meeting 

• May 30/31: Kitty Wilkin

Block Lotto for Lightening Block:

• Focus: curves, MQG resources, controlled improv, reimagining a traditional block

• Palette: Solids; pick two colors from palette (doesn't have to be exact match)

• Log into MQG account to access

Guidelines are on the website Here (https://stlmqg.org/2025-Activities)

Committee Announcements: 

Swap & Challenge

• Challenge: Stripe It! 

• Due: November 8th, 2025

• Focus: Stripes. Make stripes with fabric, used striped fabric, the PRIMARY focus must be stripes. 

• There will be monetary awards for 1st-3rd and participation prizes.

Social

• 15th anniversary party in July. Members only meeting. We will have a raffle. 

• • Members will donate items in May and you will receive tickets to use for the raffle. 

  • Bring modern, new, unused, gently used books, bundled smaller items. 

  • Tickets given out in July.

  • Ticket guidelines on website

• Jackman’s Sew Day! Save the date: June 28th

Charity Committee

• We are trying to get a spokesperson here from Epsworth Family Services. This will be confirmed/announced later.

• Quilts due 11/8/2025.

• Post your quilts on instagram and tag the guild @stlmqg 

• Throws or twins for 11-19 year olds. No baby quilts. No specific length requirements. 

• Charity Committee has a package of charity labels that can be placed on quilts. “STLmqg cares”

Quilt Show Committee

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

• Save the date: March 14th and 15th, 2026

• • Set up March 13th

• Help needed- Publicity team. Email quiltshow@stlmqg.org

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

Sew Me Committee

• Will be held in October at Marriott West.

Pincusion Swap

Upcycling Textiles for Quilts by Octavia Pitts @theeighthchild

• Slides on Website for presentation

• Upcycling

• Knowing what you want to work with and what you love

• Why to Upcycle

• Where to find them

• What to look for and what to avoid

• How to process upcycled materials

• Deconstructing shirts

• • Cotton content

  • Cutting cuffs, collars, buttons, seams, etc

• Sources for Second hand Fabrics

• • Sew Hope, City Sewing Room (Local)

  • Perennial (Local)

  • Feel Good Fibers (online) 

  • A Thrify Notion (online and in person- not local) 

  • EBay and Etsy (online)

• Sheets and thread count

• Felting and processing animal fibers

• Octavia is open to discuss upcycling with any members

Show and Share! 

Attendance Prizes

Bitty Block Lotto Winners: Annamaria Lu and Chelsea Hackbart

Fabric raffle Winner: Diane Grooms, Debbie Bouquet

Huge thank you to Cotton Cuts for your donation!

Meeting Closed at 12:18pm

We hope to see you at our next meeting on May 10th. Until then, happy quilting!

Ander Weis (VP)

STL MQG March 2025.pdf

Octavia (president) opened the meeting at 10:04 on 3/8/2025. 

The account balance as of 1/31/25 is $18,640.98. Financials are posted on the website. 

Guild Business:

• Spam alert: emails pretending to be from board. Do not click on links. 

• Identifying QuiltCon attendees from guild photo

• Calendar update. We are meeting in May, but we are not meeting in June. Website will be updated soon. 

• Volunteers for LitShop quilt. The youth in this program have made blocks from their perspectives on the world today and we need volunteers to help put the quilt together to give a finished quilt to them. Contact Octavia (president@stlmqg.org) to assist.  

Kitty Wilkin is coming to visit May 30-June 1. 

• Friday lecture is free for members. 

• Saturday workshop- From Watercolor to Quilt

• Sunday workshop- Improv Mountains

• Registrations to open soon.

STL MQG schedule: 

• Handstitchers on 1st and 3rd Wednesday at Buder Library 

• March 13th: History Museum Event

• March 16th: Bits and Pieces Quilt show meet up

• March 22nd: Virtual Sew

• April 1st: Art Quilters meeting (Every first Tuesday via zoom)

• April 12th: Regular Meeting

Block Lotto for April: Bitty Blocks

• Focus: tiny piecing, community, tradition meets modern, scale

• Low volume background

• Bright, bold prints/ blenders for image; smaller scale will work best

• Small blocks

Guidelines are on the website Here

Committee Announcements: 

Swap & Challenge

• Challenge: Stripe It! 

• Due: November 8th, 2025

• Focus: Stripes. Make stripes with fabric, used striped fabric, the PRIMARY focus must be stripes. 

• There will be monetary awards for 1st-3rd and participation prizes.

• Pincushion Swap due at April 12th meeting. 

• Put your name and your pincushion in a brown paper bag

Social

• Social Meet up at Bits and Pieces quilt show on March 16th. Social committee will be out front at 11am.

• 15th anniversary party in July. Members only meeting. We will have a raffle. 

• • Members will donate items in May and you will receive tickets to use for the raffle. 

  • Bring modern, new, unused, gently used books, bundled smaller items. 

  • Ticket guidelines on slideshow

Charity Committee

• Laura Patterson and Teresa Grumke are co-chairs. 

• This year will be Epworth family services. This organization supports foster children ages 11-19.

• Twin size and throw size quilts for youth. No specific length requirements.

• Due November meeting 11/8/2025.

• Charity Committee has a package of charity labels that can be placed on quilts. “STLmqg cares”

History Event

• Tess McMahon on “Fabric of History: St. Louis Women & Textiles” at the Missouri History Museum on March 13th from 5-8pm.

• Tess will be at the event representing STLmqg.

• 3 presentations 

• Kristen will be there demonstrating quilt repair.

All Women Honor Flight in June

• They are collecting all red, white, and blue quilts. They need 50 quilts by May. 

• Requirements: 36x36 inches for the laps of the veterans. Needs to be cotton quilts, finished, and with a binding. Can be print, solid, any any combination of fabrics as long as they are red, white, and blue. 

• Contact is Tess McMahon 

St. Louis Cardinals Call

• A marketing team is interested in creating a quilting event at the ballpark.

• Please provide any thoughts on this event to Octavia (president@stlmqg.org).

AI and Quilting by Annamaria Lu

• Generative AI

• Discussed fabric and quilt patterns generated by AI 

• Chat GPT, DALL-E, and quilting math

• Ethics of AI use: Environmental Impact, Energy Generation

• Bias and AI results

• Pattern mills vs person made patterns

• Copy right material used and legal challenges

Show and Share! 

Attendance Prizes

CrossHatch Block Lotto Winners: Annamaria Lu, Marie Hill, Sheila Acuncius 

Fabric raffle Winner: Jami Howell 

Huge thank you to Cotton Cuts for your donation!

Meeting Closed at 12:00pm

We hope to see you at our next meeting on April 12th. Until then, happy quilting!

Ander Weis (VP)

STL MQG February 2025.pdf

Octavia (President) opened the meeting at 10:08 am on 2/8/2025.

The account balance as of 12/31/2024 is 17,260.84. Financials are posted on the website.

Guild Business:

• If you haven’t already, please renew your membership for this year!

• We do have a guild assistance fund for new and current members who could use assistance paying our dues.

• Donations wanted for our new member Welcome Bags! If you are interested in donating please reach out to Nancy Dlugosz or Abbie Stolzer. We do NOT need small scissors or measuring tapes.

• Board transitions/communication

• • Welcome to our new board members:

  • • Vice President - Ander Weis

    • Treasurer - Susan Hoernschemeyer

    • Web Director - Irene Kattner-Stuhrenberg 

  • Thank you to our board members who are stepping down, we appreciate you!!

  • • Susan Muszynski, Jenn Deck, and Gail Luther

  • If you need to contact the board, please use the general STLMQG email or our board emails.

  • • All emails are on the first page of our website if you scroll down to the bottom and are provided here:

    • • President@stlmqg.org

      • VicePresident@stlmqg.org 

      • Secretary@stlmqg.org

      • Treasurer@stlmqg.org 

      • Webdirector@stlmqg.org

• Spam Alert!!

• • If you see any questionable emails or texts in your inboxes from a guild board member, please check with one of your board members before interacting or sending any money.

Kitty Wilkin is coming to visit us May 30-June 1. More information on registration to come to your email inboxes in the coming weeks.

UPDATE TO MEETING SCHEDULE: We will have regular meetings in April and May (second Saturday of each month).

STL MQG Schedule:

• Feb 19: Hand Stitchers at Buder Library on the 3rd floor

• • 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of the month, 5-7:30pm

• Feb 20-23: QuiltCon

• Feb 22: Virtual Sew 10am-12pm

• Feb 25: Hand Sew Happy Hour - 6-9pm - Chippewa Panera Bread

• March 8: Regular  Guild Meeting

• March 22: Virtual Sew 

• March 25: Hand Sew Happy Hour

• April 12: Regular Guild Meeting

Details on any STLMQG meet ups at Quilt-Con will be on Facebook as they come together. There is a public group you can join on Facebook.

Block Lotto for March:

Crosshatch Block!

• Focus: modern design, accuracy, contrast

• Solid background; print for crosshatch

• 1 dark color and 1 light color; quilters choice

Guidelines are on the website HERE!

Committee Announcements: 

We could use some more help for the House Committee. If you’re interested, you can sign up HERE!

Thank you to Candace and Mary Beth for co-leading our 2026 Quilt Show!

• Swap & Challenge

• • The first swap of the year is a Pin Cushion swap!

  • • Don’t buy the Pin Cushion, MAKE the Pin Cushion. Don’t have to be fancy or elaborate, we want everyone who can to participate!

    • This will be a blind swap. Bring them in a paper lunch bag to the meeting with your name and a note so your swap partner knows who made the Pin Cushion.

    • Due TWO months from now at the April Meeting

    • Inspiration websites will be provided.

• Social

• • STL MQG Social Meetup

  • • Bits “n” Pieces quilt show meet up on Sunday, March 16th at 11am

    • Food trucks will be there for lunch.

  • 15 Year Guild Anniversary Party in July

  • • Member Raffle!

  • Lunch Dates will be started again!

• Sew Me Committee

• • We could use at least 4 more volunteers for the committee! Sign up HERE!

  • October 10-12, 2024

  • The first committee meeting will be at the end of April

Member Announcements

• Art Quilters Group

• • Meetings will be the first Tuesday of every month at 6:30pm

  • If you’re interested, reach out to Susan!

  • • smuszynski22@gmail.com

• Suzanne Galli Koenen has an art show at the Webster Groves Public Library with 26 paintings displayed!

Kristy Daum spoke to the guild about her experience as a Quilt-Con judge for our meeting program. 

Our fabric raffle winners are Jenn Deck and Peggy Harris. Congrats and thank you Cotton Cuts!!

Our first block lotto winner is Annamaria Lu. Congratulations!

We hope to see you at our next meeting on March 8th! Until then, happy quilting!

-Abbie Stolzer (Secretary)