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Jun 17
2 min

Help Us Design the 2025 QuiltCon Community Challenge Quilt!

The Calgary MQG has a long-standing tradition of designing and creating a quilt for the QuiltCon Community Outreach Challenge. It's a...

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Jun 13
2 min

Summer challenge: modern landscape

Hard edge painting is a technique in which solid colours sit next to one another with a defined edge. That crisp edge can be achieved...

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May 16
1 min

Blocks For Good - Round 8

Scrappy String Blocks It's time for scrappy String Blocks. Foundation Paper String Blocks - unfinished at 8 1/2 inches Collection at...

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May 12
3 min

Block Lotto - May 2024

As the warm weather comes, we start to think about all the wonderful spring and summer activities: road trips, drinks on the patio,...

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Apr 24
1 min

The Calgary MQG Goes to the Museum!

Back in February, as a guild we arranged a field trip to ᖃᓪᓗᓈᖅᑕᐃᑦ ᓯᑯᓯᓛᕐᒥᑦ Printed Textiles from Kinngait Studios . Calgary doesn't have...

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Apr 19
2 min

Calgary MQG - Annual General Meeting Minutes

Calgary Modern Quilt Guild - Annual General Meeting Held April 18, 2024 at the Wildwood Community Association In attendance: 36 Members...

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Apr 18
2 min

Block Lotto - March 2024

A-Tisket, A-Tasket, a lovely Easter basket! For this month's Block Lotto we will be drawing inspiration from a basket of pastel Easter...

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Feb 15
3 min

February Block Lotto: Keyhole Blocks

Taking a page from February's focus on all things Valentine, we seek the key to your quilty heart with a variation of the keyhole block!...

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Feb 15
1 min

Blocks For Good - Round 7

Economy Blocks to the Max Our January programming on Maximalism in Modern Quilting inspires our next Block for Good. Economy Block -...

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Jan 19
2 min

Block Lotto - January 2024

We are kicking off 2024 with a fun transparency block as a block lotto! What is a transparency block? They are designs in which blocks of...

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Jan 17
2 min

Calgary MQG Basics

It's the start of a new guild year! If you're looking for a progressive quilt guild that focuses on the modern aesthetic, and want...

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Jan 7
2 min

Our 2024 QuiltCon Community Challenge Quilt

Each year the Modern Quilt Guild sets out a challenge for all member guilds or groups to create a quilt using a defined colour palette...

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Oct 19, 2023
1 min

December Swap 2023

The December swap is a fun guild tradition where we each make something and then have a blind swap of our hand-made items at the December...

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Oct 19, 2023
1 min

Blocks for Good - Round 6

Our Blocks for Good program has been producing so many great quilts! We thank everyone so much for their continued involvement in this...

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Sep 21, 2023
2 min

Block Lotto - September 2023

Wonky Curves Your next lotto block involves wonky curves, so relax, release those ruler restrictions and freely cut those curves without...

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Sep 7, 2023
2 min

Where did our past Block Lotto winners go?

As you likely know, we offer out block lotto approximately 4 times per year. This is a chance for you to make one or more blocks,...

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Sep 1, 2023
2 min

Check out our Community Giving updates

We've revisited our community giving program so that there are fewer, but more defined projects being worked on. This means less...

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Aug 16, 2023
2 min

It's almost time for the Calgary MQG 2023 Fall Retreat!

Want a couple of days away in the mountains with like minded quilters? A flexible style of retreat that accommodate the needs that you...

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Aug 10, 2023
2 min

2024 QuiltCon Community Challenge Update

If you're anything like me, you eagerly look forward to the promise of summer - long days and warm weather, only to find a time/space...

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Aug 3, 2023
1 min

Welcome to our new look at the Calgary MQG!

It's hard to believe that our first guild logo contest was eight years ago! The stylistic cowboy logo was designed by Louise P, and...

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“Modern quilting is like porn, hard to define, but you know it when you see it.”

Shelly Sutton

We meet the 3rd Thursday of the month, 7pm at Wildwood Community Assoc.

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