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We zipped into the new year!

The January meeting of the Chicago Modern Quilt Guild was “zipping into the New Year,” and here’s what we did – little zippered pouches! In addition to bring a variety

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Stitched on NPR

Stitched Listen to Hollis Chatelain Textile Artist and Stitched director Jena Moreno talk about the film at Noon EST tomorrow, Tuesday. Please tune in if you live in NC, WUNC

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Call for submissions

The International Quilt Festival is hosting a special exhibition of modern quilts in 2012. What an exciting opportunity! See the excerpt below about submissions and click here for all the

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Sew Mama Sew

Sew Mama Sew is looking for contributors. Interested? Check it out here: http://sewmamasew.com/blog2/2012/01/do-you-want-to-be-a-part-of-sewmamasew-2/ (just to be clear, that Beth is not this Beth)

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Our Nov/Dec meeting will be a pot luck sew day. Bring whatever you are working on. Scrap Swap – bring a lunch bag of scraps to swap. Don’t forget to

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Modern Quilts Illustrated

Hop on over to Craftnectar to read all about Weeks Ringle and Bill Kerr’s new magazine, Modern Quilts Illustrated.  The launch party will be December 4th (the same day as

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October Meeting and a Survey

Our October meeting is next Sunday, October 23rd.  We will be making Mors bags with Donna.  See Bigtent to RSVP.  This is very important as Donna will be providing materials

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September Meeting

Robbi Eklow presented her quilts at the September meeting.  Robbi shared many beautiful quilts with us and talked about her design and fabric dieing process.  It was amazing to see

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Photo: Triangles quilt by Erika Mulvenna