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SUMMARY:September 2026: How Do I Quilt This?
DESCRIPTION:Have you every finished a quilt top and then gotten stuck on the next step: how do I quilt it? Perhaps you have a few WIPs that are at the quilting stage\, but you’re just not sure if you want to hand-quilt them\, machine-quilt them\, or send them out to a longarm quilter. Or maybe you’re unsure of how to approach the design of the quilting itself.  \n\n\n\nAt our September meeting\, we’ll have a panel of member experts and a moderator to provide ideas and perspective about quilting designs\, approaches\, and methods. Bring your completed quilt tops and let our panel offer suggestions for how to quilt them. Wondering about how to prepare a quilt for longarm service? Alternate ways to baste a quilt? How to approach hand quilting? This is the opportunity to ask all sorts of quilty questions. Panel members – and the audience – will be invited to share input and ideas!  \n\n\n\nBring your unquilted\, but otherwise finished\, quilt top or just your curiosity!
URL:https://chicagomqg.com/event/september-2026-how-do-i-quilt-this/
LOCATION:Rush Oak Park Hospital\, 520 S. Maple Ave.\, Oak Park\, Illinois\, 60304\, United States
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SUMMARY:Workshop: The Perfect Fabric Pull with Melissa de Leon Mason
DESCRIPTION:Do you ever wonder why quilts don’t come out looking the way you envisioned when you chose the fabrics? Join Melissa de Leon Mason\, award winning modern quilt designer and instructor\, for a full-day color mastery workshop that re-trains your brain and eyes for confident fabric pulls — and then puts that mastery straight to work. \n\n\n\nThe morning is a hands-on color intensive covering interaction\, harmonies\, and relationships. The afternoon turns ideas into art: using the Glass Garden pattern\, you’ll use your new intuition to choose a confident palette and get hands-on instruction in the curve-piecing techniques that bring the blocks to life. You’ll leave with a completed palette\, a stack of started (or finished!) blocks\, and a color brain that finally trusts itself.
URL:https://chicagomqg.com/event/october-2026-guest-speaker/
LOCATION:Quilter’s Quest\, 7305 Lemont Road
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SUMMARY:October 2026: Quilting Is Your Therapy with Melissa de Leon Mason
DESCRIPTION:“Quilting Is Your Therapy” with Guest Speaker: Melissa de Leon Mason\, award-winning modern quilt designer\, instructor. \n\n\n\nQuilting is a lot of things: fun\, expensive\, a great way to spend all your waking hours. But did you know it can do wonders for your mental health? Join therapist and quilter Melissa de Leon Mason to understand the links between quilting and well-being. Learn about mindful practice and get inspired to unlock your own creativity while taking care of yourself.  \n\n\n\nListeners will learn how quilting can boost mental health and be given specific skills and techniques that pair modern quilting with mental wellness. They will be guided in mindfulness practices that have been shown to increase creativity. Everyone will walk away with knowledge about the therapeutic benefits of quilting as well as skills they can practice in their own lives.  \n\n\n\nMelissa is on Instagram as @quiltallthethings_
URL:https://chicagomqg.com/event/october-2026-quilting-is-your-therapy-with-melissa-de-leon-mason/
LOCATION:Rush Oak Park Hospital\, 520 S. Maple Ave.\, Oak Park\, Illinois\, 60304\, United States
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SUMMARY:November 2026: Small Gift Demos
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URL:https://chicagomqg.com/event/november-2026-small-gift-demos/
LOCATION:Rush Oak Park Hospital\, 520 S. Maple Ave.\, Oak Park\, Illinois\, 60304\, United States
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SUMMARY:December 2026: Holiday Swap and Potluck
DESCRIPTION:Bring a sweet or savory dish to share and a small sewn item for a blind swap! Make sure your handmade swap item does not take more than two hours to make. This is a fun casual meeting with plenty of time to chat and meet new quilty friends.
URL:https://chicagomqg.com/event/december-2026-holiday-swap-and-potluck/
LOCATION:Rush Oak Park Hospital\, 520 S. Maple Ave.\, Oak Park\, Illinois\, 60304\, United States
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SUMMARY:January 2027: Member Trunk Show
DESCRIPTION:A select group of four members will showcase their quilts in our annual mini trunk show. As they tell their story\, you will see their progression in skill and the development of their own unique style. They will share their work\, their accomplishments\, and things they’ve learned along the way. You’ll be sure to be inspired at this yearly favorite meeting for many!
URL:https://chicagomqg.com/event/january-2026-member-trunk-show/
LOCATION:Rush Oak Park Hospital\, 520 S. Maple Ave.\, Oak Park\, Illinois\, 60304\, United States
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