We have a winner!

 The members of the Mountain Laurel Quilt Guild are so appreciative to everyone who supported this year's quilt raffle. 

We are excited to announce that Joy C. is the winner!

 

Ellen presenting the quilt to Joy

Mr. Lovejoy representing the Tioga Masonic Lodge drew the lucky ticket.

A close up view of the lovely quilt.

Stay tuned to this blog for exciting news about our next raffle quilt. 😀

MLQG 2020 Exhibit Committee Meetings

The 2020 Exhibit Chair, Anna Wales (Gmeiner Director) has scheduled exhibit committee meetings every month starting in January through the exhibit. The committee will meet at 6:30 PM before the monthly guild meetings at the Gmeiner. If you are on the committee, please mark your calendars. The first meeting will be on Monday, January 20th.

Call for Entries -- MLQG Exhibit 2020

Have you started working on your quilt(s) for MLQG's next exhibit?

Click here for the timeline, guidelines, and entry forms (including for the charity art quilt category).

The forms will also always be available on the "2020 Exhibit" tab on the top of this blog.

MLQG 2020 Exhibit Outreach Quilts

For MLQG's 2020 exhibit, the guild outreach project is to make mini-quilts for a local charity, the Humble Bumble Project. The mission of the Humble Bumble Project is to alleviate financial burdens faced by pediatric and young adult cancer families so parents and caregivers can focus on family rather than finances. To read more about the Humble Bumble Project, click here for the website.

An outreach charity is chosen for every MLQG exhibit. These mini-quilts should be no larger than 12 inches by 12 inches, with a label and hanging sleeve on the back. The quilt should reflect children's struggle to overcome and cope with cancer. The quilts will be hung in the Atrium Gallery of the Gmeiner Art & Cultural Center during the MLQG 2020 exhibit and will be sold for $25, with all proceeds going to the Humble Bumble Project. There will be a separate entry form for these small quilts.

All MLQG members are encouraged to use their creativity to come up with some lovely mini-quilts for a good cause!

If you have any questions, contact Grace S. Her contact info can be found on the guild's roster.

MLQG 2020 Exhibit Challenge Info

MLQG's raffle quilt for 2020 is made of strings and strips of all sorts of fabric. Many members have worked together to created real beauty out of scraps!  The raffle quilt will be revealed soon, but in the meantime...

Now it’s your turn. Our Challenge Category for the 2020 Exhibit is "2020 Strings and Things". The challenge is to create a quilt 20 inches by 20 inches made entirely of strips of cloth that are 2 inches or less in width when cut.  They may be long and narrow strings or short and narrow strings. You might sew several similar color strips together to cut a larger piece. You might do something totally improvisational (There’s a workshop coming in October on improvisational quilting.) You could adapt a traditional pattern. 

Let your imagination run. Go find some fun strings in your stash! It’s a challenge! Let’s have a bumper crop of challenge quilts for our 2020 exhibit!

MLQG 2020 Exhibit Challenge Announcement

The next MLQG exhibit is just about a year away, so it's time for our members to start working on their challenge quilt. We're making it simple this year, with a theme that fits our 2020 raffle quilt. You don't even have to buy any new fabric; just use your leftover fabric strips of all sizes from other projects and let your imagination go! Swap with friends and get even more variety in your challenge quilt!

Theme -- 2020 Strings and Things
Dimensions -- challenge quilt MUST BE 20" x 20"

To refresh your memory of what the guild's 2020 raffle quilt looks like, click here to read about it in a previous blog post. Your challenge quilt DOES NOT have to look like the guild's raffle quilt, but should be made of leftover fabric strings. We all have plenty!

READY, SET, SEW!!