QuiltCon Community Outreach Quilts
The Seattle MQG participates in the QuiltCon Community Outreach Challenge each year. See below for a description of each quilt the guild has submitted for the challenge.
2026 (Medallion)Quilt Name: In With the Rain Our love letter to Seattle, where rain is not simply endured; it is part of the city’s identity. It shapes our culture, energy, and creative spirit. Look past the shroud of our weather to find a city both innovative and resilient, moody and vibrant. From our morning coffees to our bustling markets, life glistens in shifting blues, while Mount Rainier stands watch over it all. Designed by Lindsey Berres Quilt Size: 65" x 80" |
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2025 (Lines and Bars)Quilt Name: Thomas and Dexter Pieced, assembled and quilted by Seattle MQG members Quilt Size: 65.5" x 85.5" |
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2024 (Symmetry)Quilt Name: Our DNA This abstract symmetrical design appears to be random, and is inspired by DNA sequencing. It is an abstract representation of the DNA of the people who contributed to it.Designed by David Owen Hastings |
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2023 (Color Shift)Quilt Name: Double Radiance The front and the back of this quilt provide dual interpretations of the color shift.Designed by Louise Wackerman and Debbie Jeske |
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2022 (Angles)Quilt Name: Mosaic Mosaic - a picture or pattern produced by arranging together small colored pieces of hard material, such as stone, tile, or glass - in this case fabric. It is as if the fabric shattered into pieces and then came together again with striking brilliance. The work of many hands that have each contributed in their own unique way to build it back up again.Designed by Rachel Singh |
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2021 (Curves)Quilt Name: Resilience The Resilience quilt design is meant to represent how we as guild members rely on each other in times of tension. Designed by David Owen Hastings |
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2020 (Text in Gray Scale)Quilt Name: Typography Typography is the art of arranging letters and text in a way that makes the copy legible, clear, and visually appealing to the reader. Typography involves font, style, appearance, and structure, which aims to elicit certain emotions and convey specific messages. In short, typography is what brings the text to life. This quilt aptly titled Typography represents the collective contribution of Seattle MQG members. The variations and characteristic fonts and typefaces are representative of the artistic diversity and individuality of the members in the guild. They routinely come together for seemingly simple tasks of the current day quilt making process. However, it is this process that ultimately binds them together as they share the finished quilts and in turn the stories behind them with one another.Designed by Erica Johnson and Rachel Singh |
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2019 (Small Piecing)Quilt Name: The Last Hurrah For our quilt, we jumped right into the small piecing and between the two Seattle MQG Giving Committee Chairs, 18 yards of fabric was cut into 1-inch by 6-inch strips! We shared those strips with the guild in little baggies of 18 pieces each. Guild members sewed them back together into 185 rectangles. Then the Giving Committee Chairs cut the rectangles into diamonds and pieced them into hexagons! The design for The Last Hurrah was inspired by an antique quilt made of hand pieced diamonds from guild president Matt Macomber’s antique quilt collection. With the design taking inspiration from the antique quilt, the color inspiration from the MQG, and the design goals of small piecing, we created a truly modern quilt. Designed by Louise Wackerman |
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2018 (Modern Traditionalism)Quilt Name: Frannie’s Flashy Fans Our guild started with a design competition. Out of the awesome submissions, the Giving Committee chose a modern take on the Grandmother’s Fan block, or a Modern Dresden. All the members were troopers, with some attempting improv quarter curves for the first time! Block design by Cecelia Lehman
Quilt Size: 68” x 87” |
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2017 (Scale)Quilt Name: Scaleline This quilt was inspired by a line doodle where lines of varying thicknesses were arranged in block-like shapes with the lines overlapping at different angles. A limited range of colors was selected from this year’s charity quilt color palette, using light gray as the background and three colors of cross weave cotton for the piecing and bias tape applique. Guild members pieced together strip sets at our annual guild holiday party that were then assembled into sections and overlaid with bias tape of different widths. The quilting was kept to a simple straight line design that echoed the piecing and bias tape to keep the focus of the quilt’s minimalist design and on the shapes and depth created by the blocks of overlapping lines. Designed by Matt Macomber
Quilt Size: 70” x 90” |
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2016 (Improv with Intent)Quilt Name: Flame of Inspiration Blocks made by Seattle MQG members Quilt Size: 66″ x 84″ |
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