The best cure for the winter blues is to join your quilty friends for a 12 hour quilting marathon! As usual, friendship, food and fun was the order of the day (and night!) with members showing off their fabulous quilty projects. Verena seriously impressed us with her mini mini (seriously, it’s mini!) Janine demonstrated her […]
Charity begins… in the sewing room! We are very pleased to announce some new initiatives, allowing interested members to support our charity program. The results of our recent member survey indicated a strong desire for members to contribute to initiatives that support women and children, particularly those in vulnerable situations. With this in mind, we […]
As per usual, our May Sit and Sew Day was a hive of activity, and Show and Tell allowed members to show us their wares, so to speak. Caroline showed of this stunner, with a limited colour palette, which she used to her advantage: Catherine brought a half square triangle baby quilt with vibrant pops of […]
At our recent Super Sewing Saturday, we were thrilled to welcome our guest speaker Jennifer Twitchett-Hyland from A Piece of Cloth. Jen was born into textiles, as her grandmother was a professional dressmaker (who, interestingly, refused to teach her how to sew). She remembers buying her first piece of fabric when she was about 13 […]
Our Super Sewing Saturday was, as always, super! A huge, 10 hour sewing day is not for the faint-hearted, and allows members to make enormous inroads on their works in progress, with the support of caffeine and cake. Our Show and Tell was epic. Alys showed off her quilt top from Procrasticraft’s No Rules, No […]
While the Modern Quilt Guild’s event #quiltcon was taking place in Pasadena, Melbourne MQG celebrated #quiltnon2016 by holding our Sit and Sew Day. We got off with a great start with these sweet treats: Members are working on all kinds of projects. Kristy is chain-piecing […]
It was a full house at our first Sit and Sew Day for 2016. January can be a particularly productive month for quilters, as we uphold our new year’s resolutions and jump into new projects, or find renewed energy to finish our UFOs (UnFinished Objects). There was some serious quilty business going on. A quorum […]
At our penultimate Sit and Sew Day for 2015, the scene was set with goody gifts of Tula Pink fabrics to add to our stash! As always, there were a number of projects on the go, and workstations were buzzing. […]
MMQG’s Social Stitching Evenings offer the perfect opportunity for members to work on their hand stitching projects in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere. Without the need to raise one’s voice above the hum and purr of sewing machines, members can chat freely and show off their serious stitchin’ skillz. Here is just a sample of […]
This month we held our first Sit and Sew event at GJ Discount Fabrics‘ new digs in Fairfield. We spent our day their light filled sewing space, perused their large shopfront downstairs, and got to know the ‘hood. And we did some sewing. And some Show and Tell. Alys showed us group quilt, Bonza, which […]