The deadline to submit your quilt entry forms to exhibit at the Lakeside Quilting Guild/United Church of Hyde Park annual quilt show has been extended to February 22, 2019.  An entry form and the information/instructions for exhibiting are attached for your convenience.   Please read the information/instructions carefully, since the address to which you send your forms is different this year!  And don't forget to include your check for the entry fees of $5 per quilt (made payable to United Church Hyde Park).

If you have any questions, please email uchpquiltshow@gmail.com.

Thank you and we look forward to your participation!

(The February 12th meeting will be held at the Augustana Lutheran Church at 5500 S Woodlawn. There is a nice parking lot and no stairs. Enter from Woodlawn. Walk west from the parking lot to the door to the church. The meeting room is all the way to the back. It’s the same location that we had our Yours, Mine and Ours presentations. 

We will have a hands-on Workshop on English paper piecing using hexagons, presented by our own Cheryl. . You should bring pins, needles, a pin cushion, dark and light thread and scissors. Fabric hexagons and hex paper templates will be supplied, as well as wool felt backing to complete one coaster. You are welcome to bring your own fabric and felt if you want to. 

6:30PM - snack & chat
7PM meeting starts

Agenda items for the business portion of the meeting:
Treasurer’s report
Update on the Quilt show
Update on the Cook County Display
IQF Entries - 3 Blue & White Guild Quilts
Scholarship
Monthly raffle
Show & Tell
Raffle Baskets for the Quilt Show
Categories this year are
(Batiks, Wine & Cheese, Stationery, Fat Quarters, Yarn, Flannel - new category this year)
​We  need someone to be in charge of each basket to help gather up fabrics and baskets to be used. The baskets will be assembled at our March 12th meeting at the United Church of Hyde Park.

Last Call - please let us know if you made a block for either the Sampler quilt or the Indigo Churn Dash quilt. We are submitting the applications on Saturday, Feb 9 after they are appraised.

This lovely quilt is a collective effort of Lakeside Quilting Guild members. 

​It will be submitted for entry into the Sapphire Celebration category for the IQF show in Houston in fall 2019.  For more information visit ​callforentriessapphire.com/

Our Program Chair has been busy putting together some great events for 2019.  Here is a taste of what's to come.

January 18-21 over a dozen members are headed to Danville to quilt retreat at Threads and Beds.

February 12 our own Cheryl Miller will be demonstrating English paper piecing using hexagons (fondly called "hexies"

March 12 we will be assembling raffle baskets and doing final preparations for the 2019 Quilt Show at UCHP

​May 14 Samantha Clark will be demonstrating her doll making techniques

June 11 Frieda Anderson will provide a special presentation.  Frieda is a well known quilt artist - check out her work at www.friestyle.com/

September 10 Andrea Twiss-Brooks will lead a lesson in basic free motion quilting

December 10 will be our annual holiday party

As you can see, we still need to fill in some program dates, so let us know if you have ideas, leads or suggestions.  And watch for more information on the website or our Facebook page.

We will have our monthly meeting on Tuesday Oct 9th at the Hyde Park Art Center at 5020 S Cornell Ave. 

Karen Musgrave
Creating Connections: An American Artist’s Pilgrimage
Tuesday October 9th 6:30-9PM
SPECIAL LOCATION
HYDE PARK ART CENTER 5020 SOUTH CORNELL AVE
Limited parking is available, please try to carpool or take the #6 bus to Cornell & 51st St. Note: They lock the outside doors at 8PM.
The presentation is free for Lakeside Quilting Guild members and $10.00 for non-members
Snack & Chat 6:30-7PM
Presentation starts at 7PM

Karen Musgrave is a multi-media artist, teacher, lecturer and author. Her development as an artist has
been animated by an impulse to explore different mediums, the study of cultures, interactions with nature
and being blessed with an active imagination.

She was the first person to curate an exhibition of quilts from Gee’s Bend Alabama that traveled outside the
US to Georgia, Armenia and Kazakhstan. She was a consultant for the PBS documentary “Why Quilts
Matter”. Her interest in international connections in Quilting compliment the Guild’s recent
presentations on quilting in Africa, China and, next month, Israel.

Karen will “bring a big suitcase of stuff to share”.​

The management team met to discuss locations for our sit-n-sew Tuesdays (the non-formal meeting weeks) and formal meetings. We are going to try several spots to decide what works for us and what doesn’t until we can find a permanent or semi permanent location. We are not sure when and if we will be able to use the TI location in the future. If the university decides to put a new grocer in, it will take 6 months to a year to open and they may end up having plans for the lower level.

We will be reaching out to several locations in Hyde Park to see if they can host us.

Lakeside Quilting Guild 
Presents

​Shaoling Zhang
My Quilting Life
 
Tuesday September 18th   6:30-9PM
Treasure Island Market, Hyde Park 55th & Lake Park
Lower level, community room.

​The presentation is free.
 
Ms. Zhang  is a member of the China Fashion Color Association, and of the Patchwork Color and Art Research Committee. In 2016 she was named by the Chinese government as Arts & Crafts Master of Yangzhou City. Her pieces have won several awards in China and in foreign countries. She will be visiting from China to give her workshops around the country and will give a presentation at Lakeside Quilting.                                                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

Award winning quilt and textile artist, Wendy Mamattah, will join us this Tuesday May 8, 2018 for a trunk show of her quilts and to share her colorful quilting journey both in African inspired and Western pieces. Included are her Silhouette appliqué works depicting African and dance themes. Wendy will share the inspiration for her quilting journey, the techniques and mediums in which she works to awaken the creative spirit in all of us.
 
Tuesday May 8, 2018
6:30 refreshments
7:00 presentation
  
Join us for an evening of inspiration with our new member Wendy Mamattah.  Wendy will present 
$10 non-Guild Members, Guild Members no charge
 
Treasure Island Market.
55th & Lake Park Ave in the Hyde Park neighborhood
lower level, community room
​

​Mark your calendars for the 28th Annual Quilt Show and Sale
The Show is co-organized by the United Church Hyde Park and the Lakeside Quilting Guild

Date: Friday and Saturday, April 20-21, 2018
Time: 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.

Over 200 handmade quilts, including challenge fabric quilts
You will find quilts and other fabulous fabric items for sale.  Don't forget to visit the sale room before you leave (located to the left when you enter the Blackstone Ave door).

Enjoy some light refreshments before or after viewing the show and shopping in the sale room.  On Friday there will be a coffee bar with desserts and on Saturday light lunch available in the Tea Room

Admission: $6.00
Proceeds for pipe organ and capital fund
United Church of Hyde Park
1448 E. 53rd Street at Blackstone, Chicago, IL 60615
773-363-1620
uchpchicago.com

For information on entering your quilts in the show, along with the Quilt Entry Form (print one entry form per quilt):  

Become a patron and help support this wonderful community event.  For more information, download the Patron Form:

Read the Hyde Park Herald article about the exhibit!

The Lakeside Quilting Guild Presents

Co-operative Creativity
The Journey of a Round Robin Quilt
 
This exhibition celebrates our divergent styles and creative expression. Each round robin quilt is designed and executed by three to four different quilt artists. The quilters have different styles, varying experience levels and different creative expressions. All this complexity comes together to make dozens of beautiful quilts.
The exhibit will display how over the past five years we have cycled through the development of quilts that use all the geometric shapes in perfect harmony. Starting from a small center square, the quilts evolve into works of beauty and function.

The public is invited to view this dynamic display that illustrates divergent styles and magnificent workmanship at this iconic lakefront landmark.  Guild members will be available most days of the exhibition from 1 pm-4 pm to provide additional information about the exhibition.

South Shore Cultural Center Art Gallery
7059 South Shore Drive
November 3, 2017 through November 28, 2017

For hours and directions:
http://www.chicagoparkdistrict.com/parks/South-Shore-Cultural-Center/

OPEN HOUSE - Sunday, November 5 from 1:00-4:00

The Lakeside Quilting Guild was formed in 2012. Their mission is to promote quilting and fiber arts through community service, education and fellowship.  In the past five years they have donated over two hundred quilts to the Newborn Center at Jackson Park Hospital, the Hyde Park Transitional Housing Project, Susan B. Coleman Center and Rush Hospital.

The Lakeside Quilting Guild gathers every Tuesday evening at 6:30 in the Community Room located on the lower level of the Treasure Island in Hyde Park at 1526 E 55th St, Chicago, IL 

CONTACT: Jackie Lipscomb jackielip96@gmail.com