Melbourne Modern Quilt Guild

This year's Fabric Challenge category, brought to you by our friends at Windham Fabrics, features a gorgeous new line of cross-weaves designed by Tara Faughnan. This crisp palette, chosen by 2027 Featured Speaker Steph Skardal, is going to look 💯 sewn up into modern quilts designed by you.

Handloom is hitting stores now! Check out our website for more details on the challenge rules.

https://www.quiltcon.com/quilt-show-landing/challenges/fabric-challenge

Looking forward to visiting this week in Melbourne 😍

The QuiltCon 2026 Travelling Exhibition brings the best of modern quilting from Raleigh, North Carolina to AQC. Presented by the Modern Quilt Guild, see all 25 award-winning works up close.

Australasian Quilt Convention | April 9 - 12, 2026 | Royal Exhibition Building, Carlton Gardens, Melbourne

Get your tickets now at www.aqc.com.au

This looks like fun!

✨Let’s use some fabric, shall we?✨ Join us for our 4th annual MQG Sew Along! Sign ups are open and the first official email goes out on April 16. Ideal for scraps and stash fabrics, the Falling Stars pattern designed by Jessica Plunkett is also perfect for swapping fabrics and blocks with other participants. Open to all active MQG members, sign up today. 💫
https://community.themodernquiltguild.com/member-resources/mqg-sewalong

UPDATE: We now have a couple of spots available in this workshop - open to non-members of the MMQG

Sarah Hibbert is an award-winning modern quilt designer from the UK and
has been a quilter for more than 35 years. She has exhibited in many countries across the globe and her book ‘From Collage to Quilt’ has boosted her reputation internationally.

“From Collage to Quilt” is a fun two-day workshop where participants learn to turn paper collages into unique quilt designs.

Day one - students create original paper artwork using recycled materials like magazine pages, wrappers, and labels. They explore colour, balance and composition while developing a personalised design.
Day two - students transfer their paper design to fabric, learning various piecing techniques such as inserting circles, skinny strips and curves to recreate the design as a quilt (approximately 20 inches
square). The class also covers enlarging designs, adding texture and scaling projects to a larger format.

Suitable for both beginners and experienced quilters.

Ticket Price includes lunch on both days.

MMQG Members $280 - plus merchant fees - Early Bird tickets will go on
sale to members on Sunday 15th March 2026 at 12.01pm

Note: Members are required to enter a password to access the ticket sales between 15th March and 21st March. Password has been emailed to members and posted on Members page.

Non Members $305 - plus merchant fees - any remaining tickets will go on sale to non members on Saturday 21st March 2026 at 12.01pm

Important information regarding refunds: There are no direct refunds for tickets. You will be able to transfer your ticket to another participant who agrees to undertake the transfer with you. Any requests for ticket transfer to another participant must be made in writing to
[email protected]

If the event is cancelled, all tickets will be refunded.

Venue
GJ's Discount Fabrics
31 Steane Street
Fairfield, Vic 3078

More MMQG winners at the Modern Quilt Show Australia 2026 in the Improvisational category -
1st Grace with Protea 2 and Judges Commendation for Linda for Citrus Zing. Congratulations!

Modern Quilt Show Australia 2026
Best of Show to Pip for 'Hot Flush' and Viewers Choice awarded to Tara for 'Fragmented'. Fabulous work and worthy winners :)

Our winners in the Modern Traditional quilt category -
2nd Simone , 3rd Caroline and Judges Commendation Tara

Congratulations to our Members on their success at the Modern Quilt Show Australia 2026
Pip (1st) & Tamara (2nd) in the Minimal or Negative Space Quilt category

QuiltCon 2026 - Use of Negative Space & Small Quilts, winners.