The drawing for the Lakeside Quilting Guild Sapphire Sampler was held recently at a sit and sew event.
Watch the video here

 Check out the LQG at the University of Chicago Folk Festival in the Hyde Park Herald photo essay.  Guild members assisted visitors in creating a log cabin quilt block.
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Please join us for a Zoom presentation by Kelly Ashton of Kelly Quilter Designs on January 14, 6:30-9:00 PM. She will present “ Spinners, Spirals & Stars: Hexagons with Movement & Without Y Seams” This event is free to paid members and $5 for non-members. Contact Linda if you know of a non-member that wants to attend.  Details will be sent via email to members and paid non-member guests before the event.

Kelly loves 60-degree shapes and the interesting blocks and quilts that can be made with them.  Kelly also loves sewing “Y-seams” – AND she knows that isn’t true for everyone.  So, she designed a bunch of interesting blocks and quilt settings using her favorite shapes – and NO Y-seams!! – so that everyone could enjoy the pleasure and satisfaction of making 60-degree quilts!  This presentation is based on Kelly’s new book, Spinners, Spirals, & Stars:  Hexagons WITH Movement and WITHOUT “Y-Seams”!  Kelly would love to show you how easy these blocks are to sew…………and to share her no-Y-seam quilts with you!​

The November 12, 2024 meeting will be via Zoom. We will have a speaker Elizabeth DeCroos of Epida Studios https://www.epidastudio.com/ 

This is free to paid members, and $5.00 to guests. If you are not a paid member and are interested in attending, please contact Linda [email protected]

Pojagi – Traditional Korean textile art

In ancient Korea, most women were socially isolated.  Their lives revolved around their homes and families and caring for them.  They worked in the gardens, kitchens and sewing rooms.  
However, just like their western sisters, they used what they had to create beautiful art.  Scraps left over from making the family clothing were stitched together to become pojagi – beautiful wrapping cloths.  These wrapping cloths were used to store heirlooms and valuables.
Today, pojagi is having a resurgence, and not just in Korea.  People around the world are discovering its beauty.  The techniques are being used for many different items and being adapted for other materials.

​My Story
I am not Korean, so I don’t have all the cultural background and understanding that Korean pojagi artists have.
I had the amazing opportunity to learn pojagi when I lived in Korea with my young family. Since then, I have continued to research and learn.
When I returned to Canada, I had limited availability for the authentic Korean materials, so I began to experiment with things that were more available to me. 
Eventually, I developed window hangings. These are made with pojagi-style reversible seams that are sewn by machine. In sunlight, they glow like stained glass. This is what I am most known for today.

Hello Chicagoans! We had a great time at the Chicago Lakeside Quilt Show.  Our Viewer's Choice ribbons this year go to Nik-ki Whittingham - 1st, "Indira Symbols" - Jane Shapiro  2nd, 11 "Moonrise" - Alva Batey Stepancic  3rd, "Lil' Darlings" - Nik-ki Whittingham  Hon. mention  "Library Quilt"  - Jane Shapiro   Hon. mention  - "Migration Both Ways"  Congratulations!   
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Join the Lakeside Quilting Guild on April 9 for a presentation by Carol Wilhoit.

As quilters, we love to collect beautiful fabrics – yet we are often unsure how to put them all together to make quilts that we love. The term “scrap quilt” may bring to mind using leftovers that don’t necessarily look good together. By contrast, while STASH quilts utilize your stash and scraps, they contain thoughtfully selected materials and look BETTER because of the variety – not tired because they were created just to use up fabrics. The lecture addresses several key design principles that make multi-fabric quilts work and includes pairs of quilts to show the impact of incorporating these considerations. Multiple examples of color combinations are provided to give ideas for selecting and using fabrics from your stash to make fabulous multi-fabric quilts.

Place: Augustana Lutheran Church, 55th and Woodlawn, Chicago, IL and Zoom (hybrid)
Date and Time:  Tuesday, April 9 @ 7 pm (gather at 6:30 pm for socializing)
Cost:  Free to LQG members, guests $5

Contact [email protected] for payment and/or zoom info.

Carol Wilhoit
www.carolquilts.com    [email protected]
 
During forty years of quilting, Carol has become interested in making small quilted projects as well as quilts.  As a retired physician, she enjoys bringing her technical mind to quilting.  She likes to find ways to make the construction process easier while producing better results. She has also refined techniques for building, organizing, and using a stash that make it a joy to have and to use.  She enjoys free motion quilting, quilting with the walking foot, and using metallic thread for quilting. 
 
Carol has been teaching quilting classes for more than ten years, including teaching at the International Quilt Festival in Houston and the Great Wisconsin Quilt Show.  She loves sharing her knowledge and ideas with others and encouraging students as they try new projects and techniques. One of her favorite aspects of teaching is seeing students succeed at completing a challenging project.  Another is seeing students have “Aha!” moments during which they see how simple changes in technique can help them create projects that look better while taking less effort. 
 
Patterns for several of her quilts and quilted projects have been published in magazines, including Quilter’s World and Fons & Porter’s Quick and Easy Quilts.
 
 

Kena Tangi Dorsey, is a quilt artist, teacher, designer, mentor and owner of Kena Quilt Studio which was launched in May 2021.  Originally from Pittsburgh, PA, Kena moved to New York City and lived there for 18 years before moving west to Los Angeles, CA in 2006 to go to film school and pursue a filmmaking career.  Kena began quilting 22 years ago while living in Harlem.  Although she still enjoys taking master classes and learning new techniques, She was originally self taught and started out by learning the basic techniques for piecing traditional blocks and patterns.  Early on, Kena was influenced by many of the Harlem Renaissance artists such as Jacob Lawrence, Romare Bearden, Zora Neale Hurston, James Van Der Zee, and Langston Hughes, to name a few. So, it’s no surprise that when she quickly became intrigued with portrait quilts, that she began making raw edge appliqué story and art quilts using images that reflect African American people.  While living in Harlem, New York, Kena had an abundance of access to African shops and boutiques along 125th Street, so she began infusing African wax prints, kente cloth and mud cloth textiles into her quilting projects.  She also loves working with Indonesian Batiks.  Kena teaches both in- person and live virtual classes and workshops at Guilds and Conferences all over.  Kena was the Showcase Presenter at The Quilt Africa Summit in Summer 2022, and her Self -Portrait Quilt “September 23rd” was published in this Summer 2022 edition of “The Art Quilting Studio Magazine” and some of her original quilt patterns using African print fabrics were published in Spring 2022, Issue 88 of “Today’s Quilter Magazine.”  Her Art Portrait Quilt “ Two- Spirit” was featured and Juried in the Pacific International Quilt Festival in November 2022. Another series  of her portrait quilts were featured in the Winter 2023 edition of  “The Art Quilting Studio Magazine.” When not designing and making quilts, Kena teaches filmmaking and television production to high school students and is also an adjunct professor at a local college where she teaches cinema and multi camera television studio production courses every semester.   

Event details:
Tuesday, February 13, 2024
Socializing starts at 6:30 pm, program begins at 7 pm
Free to Lakeside Quilting Guild members, $5 for non-members, payable via Zelle to [email protected] (this email is the contact for Zoom link and more info).