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The Calgary Modern Quilt Guild is excited to reveal the upcoming "Blocks for Good" project within our Community Giving initiative. In the...

We're kicking off 2025 with a new block lotto! Slip Knot by Patchwork Square Pattern and Instructions: This month we will make the Slip...

In our November 2024 meeting, we explored foundation paper piecing. As a bonus, the pattern for this cute cassette pouch is available on...

We are thrilled to present an exciting year centered around our theme, “2025 - A Year of Colour and Design.” This year, we will explore a...

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...

Flying Geese blocks are a favourite among quilters. They are versatile, fun to make, and offer plenty of ways to piece together. For...

Get ready for some spooky stitching fun! We're hosting a Halloween Hexie Swap  at our next guild meeting, and we'd love for you to join...

We have a new Blocks for Good pattern this month – Improv Cross blocks, or sometimes called Wonky Plus blocks. We’ll make these over...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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!...

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

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...

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...

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...