Early each year, MLQ presents a “Challenge” which members may respond to over the course of the year. Completed objects are anonymously presented at our December meeting. Members then vote for their favorite quilted object.
2023 Challenge – “Seasonal Inspiration“
Quilters are asked to create a quilted item that calls to mind a special time of year that you love, your one favorite season.
Tables for Membership, Door Prizes, Basket Raffles, Small Quilt Raffles, Member-created Boutique, Fabric Sale, Books and Patterns, and Display of our Charity Work — Pieces of Love.
MLQ’s special donation to the Navajo Nations’s sewing initiative is providing some basic sewing tools for use in sewing classes taught in a community center in New Mexico. One of our members, Maureen Lok, coordinated our involvement and helped teach classes.
Ten lucky MLQ members enjoyed a beautiful spring day at the Dupont family’s Wintertur Museum & Garden in Wintertur DE:
Linda K
Abra
Alison
Isabel
Clara
Maureen L
Marie
Lori
Jody
Kathy
The tour of quilts on display on the 7th and 8th floor, only available to view by special aarrangement, was fabulous. The tram tour through the spring gardens was just beautiful. And some members stayed to go through the self-paced tour of the 4th and 5th floors — the galleries that are the standard public tour.
View a slideshow of some of the items on display on our private tour:
View a slideshow of some of the beautiful grounds and gardens:
We dedicate at least one meeting each year to meet and work on the various stages of creating our Pieces of Love (POL) quilts. We enjoy a long day – 10am to 3pm – in fellowship while cutting, pressing, sewing, and binding quilts for our charities. And of course, Show and Tell.
The MLQ 2022Challenge is to design and fabricate a quilted object folllowing these guidelines:
The object does not have to be a quilt. It could be a piece of clothing or a purse, for example.
Participants will be assigned a color and will receive a color card that will be mailed via USPS.
Your quilt pieces must be one or more colors that you select from your assigned card. You may also use pieces that are solid black, solid white, or black & white fabrics.
You may also use a small piece of complimentary color, as defined on the back of your card, as an accent or focal point of your piece.
You will be limited to a maximum size of a perimeter of 144 inches (36” x 36”).
ENTRIES:
WINNERS
AND OF COURSE, SHOW AND TELL — Enjoy the Slideshow
Karen Dever, “Three Faces of a Quilter”
“A trunk show of Karen’s quilts and stories of her travels through the
quilting world. Karen loves all types of quilting and flips back and forth
between traditional and contemporary works. She will start with her first and
end with one of her newest pieces to show how one can use lessons learned along
the way to improve and stretch their skills.”
Karen’s Presentation and MLQ Members Show and Tell:
First Place
Second Place Tie
Second Place Tie
Third Place
Honorable Mention
Main Line Quilters - celebrating 50 years! 
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