Interested in joining us? We’d love to have you!
As part of membership in the Silicon Valley MQG, you get access to…
Monthly Meetings via Zoom
- Featuring Guest Speakers, such as
- David Owens Hastings: Minimal Design, Maximum Impact
- Allie McCrathen of Exhausted Octopus
- Patricia Balyea: The Alluring World of Japanese Yukuta Prints
- Audrey Essary: Getting Started with Hand-Dyed Fabrics
- Andrea Tsang Jackson: Here and Elsewhere Bee (about a community quilt)
- Linda Sullivan: Got Color?
- Jennifer Sampou: Light your ombre fire
Other Monthly Events
- Special Topic Thursdays:
- Quilt Design and Layout
- “How Do I Quilt This?”
- Group crafting projects
- Free Motion Quilting with Rulers
- Surface Printing on Fabric
- Sewing Machine Maintenance
- Small Group Meetings, for example
- Bag Sew-along
- UFO busters
- Sustainable quilting
- Quilt design
Workshops (~4/year) – Additional fees
examples:
- Inspired by Architecture with David Owen Hastings
- Color Fluency with Anna Maria Horner
- Modern Quilt Photography & Branding with Giucy Giuce
- Improv with Triangles with Rebecca Bryan
- Hand Quilting – Big Stitch w/ Tara Faughnan
Challenges & Swaps
- Block swaps
- Block-of-the-Month
- Fabric and Color challenges
- Design challenges
Charity Activities
- Quilt donations
- Group projects
Sew-cializing
- Online group Sew Days
- Slack-based member groups
Annual Sewing Retreats – Virtual and In-person – Additional fees
In addition to the benefits of our guild, you also have access to…
The Modern Quilt Guild (MQG) Benefits
- Quilt Patterns and Block Studies
- Creative Webinars
(Color Wheel Basics, Fabric Dying, Appliqué…) - “Fresh Quilting” technique classes
- QuiltCon annual modern quilt show
- Free show pass
- Early registration and discounted classes
- Fabric challenges and swaps
And on top of ALL of these lovely things, you get to hang out and share ideas with some awesome like-minded quilters, sewists, and makers too!
If we sound like a group you’d like to be a part of, please join us!