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Victoria Quilt Guild Show and Sale
Some of our modern quilters are also members of the Victoria Quilt Guild. We wish them all well this weekend, and maybe a ribbon too? There is also a MODERN category in the show for the first time – let’s see what amazing quilts are there. MQG Victoria has an info booth at the show…
Read MoreApril BOM instructions!
Here are the instructions and pictures for making our April block of the month lottery, “Nicole’s Choice”. Thank you Bryan for working out all the math and sizes, and for doing a great demo too. This month our BOM is based off of this quilt: You will need: • One fat quarter of Solid White,…
Read MoreApril Meeting announcements
Hello friends! We had a lot of announcements at our last meeting so we thought we’d put them all here. New Meeting Place!!: our next meeting is at Pearkes Rec. Centre, behind Tillicum Mall. Upcoming Events: – are always listed on our sidebar 241 Bag with Krista Hennebury. Saturday, May 10th 10-4 at a mystery location.…
Read MoreApril Meeting wrap-up
We’re all back from the Easter long weekend so it’s time to finish up the April meeting. We had ANOTHER amazing meeting last Thursday at Satin Moon quilt shop. We set more records this month: largest MQG Victoria meeting ever (59 people), most new members signed up at a meeting (10 new members!), and the…
Read MoreApril meeting, part 1
What an awesome group you are! YOU are what makes these meetings fun, so thank you. Welcome to all you new members – our membership increased by 16% tonight alone. We’ll have a full report and pictures up here early next week, but we just wanted to say thanks again, and that we hope you…
Read MoreIt’s time for the April meeting!
It’s almost the third Thursday of the month which means lots and lots of excited modern quilters will converge on Satin Moon tomorrow night at 7pm. We know it’s getting to be a really tight fit but we think we can do it at least one more time. The usual list of what to bring:…
Read MoreWeekend events!
It’s a busy weekend for MQG Victoria – here are all the details. SATURDAY, April 12th: guided tour of the Carole Sabiston exhibit at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria. The gallery opens at 10am, our tour starts at 10:30. Admission is 11$/adults, 9$/seniors. Please meet in the front lobby. Our tour will be about an hour. Via…
Read MoreShow and Share – March meeting
Here at long last are the pictures from our March meeting last week – our most fabulous, best attended, first trunk show, super awesome meeting! This month’s block: the Burly Quilter Block – won by Marg Shepherd! We had a whopping 52 people at the meeting! Satin Moon was full to bursting but we all…
Read MoreMarch meeting thanks
Our show and share pictures will be coming soon but we wanted to say what an AMAZING meeting we had last night. We beat our record – again! – for attendance with 52 people! And one of those people was the lovely, the talented Marianne Haak. Thank you Marianne for joining us last night and…
Read MoreMarch Block of the Month Instructions
Monochromatic + & X Block- March BOM “Pick your favorite color and represent your love for it in this monochromatic block.” NB: we’re trying something a little different this month – instead of providing step by step photos, we ask that you click over to the inspiration tutorial since that is so well written. The…
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