Past Programs and Workshops
2024
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April 15, 2024 Cynthia England England Designs Website , will present Picture Piecing a trunk show and lecture of her unique picture piecing method.
Following the meeting will be a workshop,
Roadrunner Landscape, 1:00-4:00, set-up at 12:40, $30, kit fee $43 Kit includes everything you need for the top including pattern and binding. Supply List
Tuesday April 16 there will be a workshop called Small Landscapes. There are 2 choices – Old Grist Mill or Southwest Splendor. The class is 9:00-4:00, set-up at 8:40, $38 plus a kit fee of $58. This kit includes everything you need to make the top of the quilt including the binding. The first half of the class will
focus on making the small 15” x 18” landscape quilt. The second half of the day
will focus on turning your own photos into a picture piecing pattern. All supplies for this are included in the kit. Signups begin at the January 15th meeting.
Includes pattern and fabric for top, complete with borders and binding and all design supplies. When signing up, please indicate design choice.
Cash preferred for Material fee. I will have credit card capabilities and will
have change for any other purchases. Click here for the supply list
www.englanddesign.com cynengland@englanddesign.com
March 18, 2024 – Ann L. Petersen, better known as The Obsessive Quilter (https://obsessivequilter.weebly.com). Ann will provide information on “What the Judges are Looking For.” Monday, March 18, 2024
Half day workshop on “Beginner Free Motion Quilting Using Your Domestic Machine”, from 1:00 – 4:00, set up 12:40. What you will learn in the Beginner Free Motion Quilting workshop:
● How to tackle your quilts on a domestic machine with the fundamentals of free-motion quilting. We will cover machine set-up, including how to adjust tension, and dive right in with a series of beginner-friendly stitches. Find out how to create lovely loops, spirals, pebbles, and wiggles to fill lots of different shapes, corners, focal points, and borders. You can customize and combine motifs for a classic or modern look. And find techniques that work for you. Setup time for machines at 12:40. Cost is $20. Click Here for the Supply list
Tuesday, March 19, 2024 – “Curves Again” This is a full day workshop from 9:00-4:00, set up at 8:40, what you will learn in The Curves workshop:
● How to cut arcs using a variety of templates, tools, and methods
● How to pin and sew a simple, gentle curve–the essential technique used in this class project and other curved quilt blocks
● How to make custom, reusable templates out of plastic sheets or freezer paper
● Step-by-step process of constructing blocks using curves, paper piecing, and templates
● How to paper piece blocks with curvy motifs using reusable freezer paper templates. This method eliminates the tedious tearing paper of traditional paper piecing Cost is $30, from 9:00 – 4:00. Setup begins at 8:40. Supply lists will be available on the website in January. Signups will start at the January meeting. Click Here for the Supply List
February 19, 2024 is Patsy Kittredge will do a Trunk Show. She will also do an ECHOS demo for us called, “Playing with Watercolors”. Cost for the ECHOS is free, but signups will be needed at the programs table. There is a supply list for those that want to stay after her demo and continue playing with what Patsy taught us. Programs will have some of the supplies.
Trunk Show
Fun Painting Demo with Patsy
January is TOAD reveal month!! Be sure to come see what the Treasured Object Almost Done participants completed based on your votes earlier this year. Hopefully there will be lots of smiles and relief at finishing up something special. If not, they will each get a chance to beg your understanding as they explain what went wrong. Come cheer for their efforts!
T.O.A.D. was fantastic! Great Job everyone!
December is our Guild Holiday Party !! Come, Dress up and have some fun and enjoy some good food. Bring one fat quarter in a bag.
November 20-21: Gail Shannon will be presenting a trunk show on Monday, November 20. Immediately following the meeting will be a half day workshop on how to select colors and take the fear out of choosing fabrics. Cost is $40. Book needed is: A Fiber Artist’s Guide to Color & Design: The Basics and Beyond by Heather Thomas. You will need to order the book online, so you have it for class. Tuesday, November 21, will be a full day workshop with instruction on how to use Sew Kind of Wonderful’s Quick Curve Rulers. Workshop is $50. You will need either the large (12”x7”) and/or QCR Mini rulers. Order your rulers online if you don’t already have them. Click here for the supply list.
October- 16-17 This month brings us Karen Miller of Red Bird Quilt Co. On Monday, October 16, her lecture is on Aurifilosophy followed by a ½ day workshop on Creative Chaos playing with different weight threads. Cost $25, plus a kit fee of $39.91. On Tuesday October 17, she will be presenting a full day workshop, Wren in Spring, on wool hand applique. Cost $50, plus optional kit fee of $25 (includes pattern). If not purchasing a kit, you must purchase the pattern at class $5. A few limited spots left in each. Click here for supply list
Program Pictures
Class Pictures
September- September 18, 2023 meeting will bring Coco Alaniz, another Guild member and also a fiber artist. Coco will be doing a Trunk Show followed by a workshop on Tuesday, September 19 titled How to Make a Deep Pocket Apron. Cost is $45 which includes the pattern.
August- August 21, 2023 meeting, Janet Nieuwenhoff, MTQG
member, lecture and trunk show titled, “How I Do What I Do.” No workshop on Tuesday.
July- . We will also have our long-awaited Speaker Heidi Pridemore from Whimsical Workshops lecturing and selling her merchandise. The following day Tuesday, July 18, 2023, she will be teaching an all-day class on her “Chain Reaction” pattern.
May Guild Meeting brings back an all-time favorite Jean Impey of “Sew Jean”, she will be doing a lecture at the Monday Guild meeting on “Creativity-Has Someone Stolen Yours?” along with an all-day class the next day, Tuesday, May 16th, 2023, featuring her pattern “Basket Case”. The class remains SOLD OUT, but this could change! Click here for the supply list and you can go to her website for inspiration! click here.
April
April brings two different things for our Guild Members. On Monday, April 17, at 8:30AM the doors open at the Elks Lodge for a Rummage Sale of items we already have in over abundance. The sale will go on until 10AM being followed by the regular meeting, show and tell, and possibly more sales if time allows. Payment for items at the Rummage sale should be cash. Checks over $10 will be accepted. CC may be used only if purchase is over $25 dollars. There will be a special SILENT AUCTION for a beautiful Wool Quilt top during this sale! Due to space constraints, there will be NO snacks at the April Meeting. The Snack
Ladies will contact those who are on the April list and advise them. The following day on Tuesday, April 18, is our Bi-Annual Fun Day, all information has already been distributed to the members that are taking part in this event.
March will bring Rona the Ribbeter (Rona Herman) to the Guild, her lecture for the Monday Guild Meeting is titled “Traditional to Modern” and she will also have a Tuesday class titled “Perfect Points, signups for her class are ongoing and will be available at the December meeting. Here is her website: https://ronatheribbiter.com/
February’s Program is Treasured Object Almost Done or TOAD. Twelve members have volunteered to share two unfinished (maybe not even started) projects. The audience will participate by voting as to which project they should finish by January/February next year. If you missed out on signing up let me know and I will try to make room for you. Come prepared to question the volunteers as to why they have dilly dallied on finishing this special TOAD. Maybe all they need is a bit of encouragement and a DEADLINE! Contact your TOAD Queen, Susan Perry with any questions.
November will be a catch-up Meeting with not only our business portion but discussion about several other Guild related topics and upcoming events!
October 17, 2022 Program will be our Guild Member Elizabeth Phinder. Here are some of her beautiful quilts.
She will be teaching the amazing “Appli-quick” tools, for those that love the look of needle turn applique but hate doing it (ME) these are a game changer. Class to follow the meeting. 12:30-3:30 kit provided cost $25.00.
September 2022 Jean Impey or Sewjean.
Internationally known to the Quilting world as “Sew Jean” will be lecturing and teaching a 3-hour class on Raw Edge applique on Monday and Teaching a full day on Tuesday, “Faces” click here for her website. Sign up at the General Meeting.
August 2022 Program Penny Sturges , from Quilts Illustrated, Trunk Show Click her name to view her website.
July 2022 Trish and David Charity Guest Speakers “2 Artists One Studio”
June 2022 Board Hosted Luncheon with the installation of new officers and Spring Luncheon
May 2022 Quilt Show Preparation, New Board Proposed, Community Quilt Panel Challenge winners to be announced
April 2022 Our very own Guild Member Carolyn Wright of “The Wright Fabric” will be doing a lecture and Trunk show. Thank you Carolyn
March 2022 Tips and Tricks by Members Click Here for Pictures
February 2022 will be a very interesting Lecture from Deb Gansberger with her EZ Piecing Methods, she will also be teaching a full day class Tuesday, February 22, 2022, following the meeting, more information to be announced and shown and signups taken at the November meeting. Here is her piecing website: https://www.ezpiecing.com/about and her Gallery Picture website: https://www.debisdesigns.com/
Deb Gansberger’s Program Quilts
January 2022 Rummage Sale
December 2021 Holiday Party !!! (Click here to see pictures)This years luncheon will be held at the Elks Lodge 6245 E 2nd St. Prescott Valley, AZ 86314. The guild will provide a meat, cheese, and vegetable platter along with plates, silverware, napkins and drinks.
If you wish to participate in a white elephant game please bring a yard of fabric. The fabric should come from your stash, which you wondered why you ever bought it or I will never do anything with this. Wrap it up as festive as you’d like. It will be revealed at the end of the game.
November 15, 2021 Swan Amity will be speaking on her applique technique. She brings to us 18 Years of quilting experience, with a background in piecing, applique, fusing, machine quilting, hand quilting, thread painting, art quilting with decorative machine work, and pattern design. She worked in a local quilt shop for 3-1/2 years, giving her hands on experience with customer service and the business side of quilting.
November 16, 2021 Swan Amity will teach a class. Decorative Stitches are for Everyone
This 4–5-hour class is designed to show students how to fuse a simple project and then use their decorative stitches to complete the applique of the piece. Students will learn how to evaluate their stitch options, resize them, and use the various machine functions to mirror them and improve their quality. Students will also find out about how to stack different types of stitches to create wider stitching samples. For those students with machines that make many decorative stitches this is the perfect class to explore what their machine can do and how to approach future projects with those abilities
in mind. $35
October 18, Suzi Parron click here for more information “Barn Quilts” Program and Workshop.
All images copyright 2016 Suzi Parron. CONTACT: suzi@barnquiltinfo.com
August 16, Program brings us the exceptionally talented Cindy Lohbeck out of Scottsdale, AZ
She will be lecturing on: “I Like Big Backs!” This visual and entertaining journey answers the question,” if I can dye it in a fat quarter and a yard, why not a quilt back?” Come and see what happens when Cindy tries! As always, there will be a lot of eye candy and an unveiling of something new at the end.
Program and workshop will be at the Miller Valley Baptist Church, 815 Whipple St., Prescott AZ
Workshop will be after the meeting a half day on the 16, the full day on August 17 has been canceled.
Click here to view Cindy’s website
July 19, This meeting (picnic) was cancelled due to weather.
June 21, 2021 Program Leslie Peacock speaking on “From wearable to walls and beyond”.
May 17, 2021 Speaker Marcia McMullen Speaker and Trunk Show
April 19, 2021 Speaker Diane Stockhaus (Our Past President) Trunk Show on one of her favorite quilting methods
March 15, 2021 Swan Sheridan Speaker and Workshop
February 15, 2021 Barb Janson, Speaker
February 16 , 2021 Landscape Workshop, $45.00 with Barb Janson
January 18, 2021 MTQG Board will be hosting a “Board Trunk Show”
November 16th, 2020 – Program –Drunkard’s Path Quilting Group
October 19, 2020 Program Gail Shannon – with Modern Quilting Sharing her “Stitching with Attitude” Workshop: Wall Hanging “Dresden Neighborhood”
September 21, 2020 No Speaker – Planning for our “Windfall Rummage Sale” Mountain Park 8401 E Loos Dr., Prescott Valley, AZ 86314
August 17, 2020 Kay Wentworth Lecture “Every Quilt Tells a Story” at Mountain Park 8401 E Loos Dr., Prescott Valley, AZ 86314
Postponed July 20, 2020 Gail Shannon – with Modern Quilting, Wall Hanging- Dresden Neighborhood
Postponed June 15, 2020 Summer Luncheon and Presentation of Ribbons from the Quilt Show
May 18, 2020 Quilt Show Prep/discussion and voting on Community Quilt Challenge
Postponed April 21, 2020 Catherine Redford Quilting with a Walking Foot and sharing tips and techniques on how to embellish a quilt with stitches, beads, ribbons, ect
Postponed April 20, 2020 Catherine Redford will present a lecture and all day class. https://Catherineredford.com/
March 16, 17 2020 Nancy Fuller presenting photos on fabric and Thread Painting $40.00 includes a panel of your choosing
February 17, 2020 Suzi Parron Slideshow/program “Following the Barn Quilt Trail”. Click here for more information.
February 17 & 18, 2020 Two Barn Quilt Painting Classes on Wood (Identical classes) $50.00; Monday 12-4:40 Tuesday 10-3. Click Here for Class Pictures
January 20, 2020 T.O.A.D. Selection day! “Treasured Objects Almost Done “, Marcia McMullen the Toad Queen will Present the 20 Participants who have signed up to reveal their finished or unfinished projects. Click Here for Pictures
January 21, 2020 Fun Day 9:30-4:00 A supply list will be sent to you if you are signed up. Lunch will be included.
December 16, 2019 Holiday Luncheon Click here
November 18, 2019 Reeze Hanson Program Click here for more information.
November 19, 2019 Reeze Hanson Workshop 9:00-4:00 Cost $45.00 for a kit with material included or $30 Click here for more information.
October 21, 2019 Kathleen Bond trunk Show with a 1/2 day class, 1:00-4:00 Cost $20.00, on English Paper Piecing. Click her to see pictures
September 16, 2019 Jill Finley from Jillily Studio Program Click here for more information.
September 17, 2019 Jill Finley Workshop 9:00-4:00 Cost $45.00, Click Here for Details
August 19, 2019- Program Janet Davis Trunk Show
August 20, 2019 Workshop 9:00-4:00 Cost $40.00 Janet Davis will be teaching Paper piecing with Freezer Paper
July 15th Patti Pearce Repurposed Vintage Table Runner Class
June 17, 2019- T.O.A.D. Selection day! “Treasured Objects Almost Done “, Marcia McMullen the Toad Queen will Present the 20 Participants who have signed up.
May 20, 2019 Meeting & Program- Program : LeAnn Heilman from Phoenix, Trunk show, her photo to quilt pieces and her collage pieces. Workshop 1:00-4:00, $50.00, Class is a day and a half cont. on the 21st.
May 21, 2019- 9:00-4:00 LeAnn Heilman teaches a Laura Heine collage workshop. Click here for pictures https://www.fiberworks-heine.com/
April 15, 2019- Meeting & Program- Gina Perkes from Payson https://thecopperneedle.com/ Trunk Show
April 16, 2019- Gina Perkes Ruler Work Machine Quilting workshop: 9:00-4:00 . $50.00 Need: a ruler foot for your machine
March 19, 2019- Carolann Small teaching a small landscape workshop. See Class Pictures
March 18, 2019- Meeting & Program: Carolann Small from Tucson landscape trunk show.
February 18 No program due to Snowpocalypse
January 21, 2019- Meeting & Program- Tips and Tricks
December 17, 2018- Holiday Luncheon-9:30-12:00
November 2018 Program Martha Walker Trunk Show
October 2018 Program Joan Carrell
October Workshop Rosemary Carr-Featherweight Maintenance
August 2018 Program Jackie Kunkle