Membership
As part of membership in the Silicon Valley MQG, you get access to…
- Monthly Meetings via Zoom
- Featuring Guest Speakers, such as
- Luke Haynes: Art-Quilt-Texture: Minimal Design, Maximum Impact
- Carolina Oneto: Limits and Creativity
- Timna Tarr: Flying Colors
- Audrey Essary: Getting Started with Hand-Dyed Fabrics
- e bond: A Curious Spark: Ideas are Everywhere
- MJ Kinman: Gems and Joy
- Kena Tangi Dorsey: The Big, Bold, and Beutiful – Using African Prints in Quilts
- Featuring Guest Speakers, such as
- Other Monthly Events
- Small Group Meetings, for example
- Experimenting with Color
- UFO Busters
- Quilt Kits and Precuts
- Improv Round Robin
- Small Group Meetings, for example
- Workshops (~2/year) – Additional fees apply
- examples:
- Inspired by Architecture with David Owen Hastings
- Sea Glass Quilt with Allie McCathren
- Giant Nested Curves with Daisy Aschehoug
- examples:
- Challenges & Swaps – Throughout the year
- Block of the Month
- Fabric and Color challenges
- Design challenges
- Fun mini quilt prompts
- Charity Activities
- Quilt donations
- Group projects
- Sew-cializing
- 4 Online group Sew Days per week
- Slack-based member groups
- Sewing Retreats – Additional fees apply
- 3 in-person retreats
- 1 virtual retreat
- Biennial Guild Quilt Show
In addition to the benefits of our guild, you also have access to…
All the benefits of membership in the Modern Quilt Guild
- Regular Educational Programming
- Access to the MQG Resource Library, featuring quilt patterns, block studies, on-demand videos, and articles
- Various member activities, like the MQG Mini Swap, MQG Sew Along, and Quiltcon challenges
- Access to the online MQG Community, a dedicated space for our 18,000 worldwide members to connect
- Member access to QuiltCon, the largest modern quilt show in the world
- Submit quilts
- Register early
- Member-only discounts
- Digital membership cards
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!


