Staying Connected During COVID-19 with the Valley MQG The Valley Modern Quilt Guild, a guild representing the San Fernando Valley, in Los Angeles, California, holds their board meeting on the second Tuesday of the month. We meet at our sponsoring quilt shop, Quilt Emporium. When we met on March 13, 2020, we discussed postponing our meetings as Los… Read More
Sustainability is More Than Using Your Scraps We all know the story of quilts being born out of necessity. Savvy women took clothing and other textiles that were no longer useful and created utilitarian bed coverings. Quilts for luxury and art came later but to this day it remains true that the need for warmth and rest… Read More
Member Spotlight: Andrea DiOrio Trigger warning: this article talks about infant death. Andrea DiOrio was sewing baby blankets on the late summer evening before expecting her daughter, Gabriella Grace, to arrive. The family had decided to sell their home and live with Andrea’s mother as they waited for a deal to close. They expected… Read More
Member Spotlight: Carolina Oneto For Carolina Oneto, constructing a quilt using the composition of a song was one of her dream projects, and as an engineer, she created the formula to make it happen. She invented a mathematical model in which every musical note had a color quality. With this formula, she completed her… Read More
Member Spotlight: Sophie Zaugg When Switzerland began a three-month nationwide lockdown, Sophie Zaugg was sewing. As a stay-at-home mother of two young adults in the quiet valleys of the countryside, quilting was already central to her routine, but with all activities canceled, there were no longer distractions to pull her away from her creative… Read More
Modern Fundamentals: Flying Geese In each issue of the MQG Journal, Yvonne Fuchs will teach us the Modern Fundamentals of quilting. In this first issue of the MQG Journal, we will explore the many ways you can make Flying Geese quilt blocks. Learn to make the versatile Flying Geese block with ease using the stitch and… Read More
STEM & Quilting with Kids: Geometry Introduction There is a fresh new energy in our country, and it is displayed in the arts in a profound way. Science, technology, engineering, and math intersect with and have found their true expression in the arts. Young artists are learning to manipulate line, shape, color, texture, and form with… Read More
Introducing Create and Sustain Every year, millions of tons of textiles end up in landfills around the globe, making the textile industry one of the largest polluting industries in the world. As makers, we love fabric and fiber which makes understanding the textile industry’s impact on Earth’s rapid decline a pretty tough pill to… Read More
Making a Difference in STEM in 2021 “One Small Step” was created by the Gulf Coast Modern Quilt Guild in 2019 for the MQG’s annual Charity Quilt Challenge and was displayed at QuiltCon 2020 in Austin, Texas. GCMQG draws from the Clear Lake area of Houston, Texas, and surrounding towns. We have many members and friends who… Read More
Member Spotlight: Esther Frenzel As a young girl in the Netherlands, Esther Frenzel color-coded her belongings. For Frenzel, color-coding provided order in her world and began a relationship with storytelling. By applying visual logic to her items, suddenly, they gained meaning and awakened an emotional response. Even at a young age, Frenzel intuited color… Read More
