January monthly updates from the Toronto Modern Quilt Guild View this email in your browser January 2021 Newsletter Hello TMQG! Happy New Year! We have planned a wonderful year of quilting together! Here's what's coming up from TMQG ... January 2021 Zoom Meeting - Featuring Sandra Johnson   Our January meeting on Sunday, January 31, 3 - 5:30 PM will feature an exciting presentation by Sandra Johnson on Wearable Art. Sandra's website has this to say about her presentation: What is ..read more

March monthly updates from the Toronto Modern Quilt Guild View this email in your browser March 2021 Newsletter Hello TMQG! Spring has arrived along with some great speakers, workshops and new guild projects. Keep scrolling down and reading. There's lots of news this month. We have planned a wonderful year of quilting together! Here's what's coming up from TMQG ... March 2021 Zoom Meeting - Pet Portraits and More!   Our March meeting will be held on Sunday, March 28, 3 - 5:3 ..read more

February monthly updates from the Toronto Modern Quilt Guild View this email in your browser February 2021 Newsletter Hello TMQG! Happy Groundhog Day, again! The strange passage of time continues but we have spring and some great speakers and workshops to look forward to. We have planned a wonderful year of quilting together! Here's what's coming up from TMQG ... February 2021 Zoom Meeting - Getting to Know You and More!   Our February meeting on Sunday, February 28, 3 - 5:30 PM ..read more

Quilts! Quilts! Quilts! and Looking Forward November 2020 Meeting Recap Hello TMQG!   Quilts! Quilts! Quilts! Did everyone enjoy our deluxe Show and Share? What a great way to end an otherwise dark year. Thank you to everyone who shared a picture or two of your fabulous and colourful quilts. Thanks also to Jane Adams, one of our newest members, who volunteered to put together the Show and Share slides. She says she had so much fun working on the slides and at the meeting. You too can have fun and he ..read more

November monthly updates from the Toronto Modern Quilt Guild November 2020 Newsletter Hello TMQG! It is time for the end of year wrap up. Here's what's coming up from TMQG... November Zoom Meeting: Done with 2020 Our November meeting on Sunday, November 29th, 3 - 5:30 PM will feature Fun & Games! Since we haven't been able to meet in person much this year we want to feature YOU - our members! This meeting will follow our "normal" Zoom format with WIP and Welcome,  extended Show and Share, games ..read more

Better late than never - news from the Toronto Modern Quilt Guild October 2020 Newsletter Hello TMQG! Cooler weather is starting to settle in, and our thoughts are tending toward cozying up with quilts and pumpkin-spice-inspired colour palettes! Here's what's coming up from TMQG... October Zoom Meeting: Mary Elizabeth Kinch  Our October meeting on Sunday, October 25th, 3 - 5:30 PM will feature Mary Elizabeth Kinch with her lecture Random Acts of Quilting During the second half of the October meeting, we will be cho ..read more

Members!! Vote now!! October 2020 Meeting Recap Hello TMQG! If you joined us for Mary Elizabeth Kinch's Summerhill Sampler workshop held on October 24 you may have left with a few more skills in your quilting arsenal. Accuracy is key when piecing together 1.5" squares, and achieving it requires investigation and adaptability. Students revisited the basics of quilting with a keener eye, and set their sights on strengthening foundational techniques. There was certainly some seam ripping, but students were elated when everything measured up! At the guild meeting o ..read more

The latest news from the Toronto Modern Quilt Guild September 2020 Newsletter Hello TMQG! Cooler weather is starting to settle in, and our thoughts are tending toward cozying up with quilts and pumpkin-spice-inspired colour palettes! Here's what's coming up from TMQG... September Zoom Meeting: Krista Hennenbury  Our September meeting on Sunday, September 27th, 3 - 5:30 PM will feature Krista Hennebury (aka Poppyprint), with her lecture, "Poppyprint, The Search for Signature Style": In this lecture I share stra ..read more

August 2020 Newsletter Hello TMQG! Shorter days and cooler mornings maybe have you thinking "Oh! Got to savour these precious last days of summer". But here at TMQG we are already thinking well ahead into the Fall with a lineup of workshops and lectures for you, a brand new website, and some very worth while community/charity projects. Read on to find out more … August Zoom Stitch and Chat Sunday, August 30th from 3 to 5 PM.   Members Only: The sewical will focus on sewing CURVES for the Qui ..read more

View this email in your browser July 2020 Meeting Recap Hello TMQG! If you attended our virtual meeting on Sunday July 26th, you already know about the fascinating presentation by quilter/artist/activist Chawne Kimber. If you couldn't make it, here is a recap of Dr Kimber's talk and trunk show. And scroll down to see our July 'Show and Share', as well as info about the August Stitch n' Chat.   Chawne Kimber When the Cotton is High: Social Justice and Textiles ..read more