MTQG PROGRAMS AND WORKSHOPS

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2025

Monday January 20,  2025  

SEWLABRATION 2025. Monday 1-20 9:30 -12:00 Tuesday 1-21 9:00- 3:00. This is a celebration for the new quarter century, maybe the first of many.  Come join the fun. Ann Novak, Nadeen Van Dyke, and Nancy Stewart will share their quilt journeys with us via interviews by John Ramsey. Community Quilts will have a huge destashing sale set out. You will be able to start shopping before the meeting, during the break, and after the meeting. 

Tuesday, January 21.

Schedule for Tuesday,

● 8:00: Set-up for those with a Sew Shop Table, Demoers, Chili Cookers, Cupcake Bakers, and Ask the Expert Participants.
● 8:45: Doors Open. Sew Shop Tables (fellow members destashing sale)
open and stay open until 3:00.
● 9:00-11:00: Rotating Demos Start (there will be a list of what the demo
is at the meeting on Monday the 20th. Come and see.

● 11:30-1:30: Chili Cook Off until all the chili is gone. Can’t wait to taste all
the yummy chili!
● 12:30-1:30: Ask the Experts. Did you want to see those prize winning
quilts, a tree skirt, and jackets from our show just one more time? The
makers will be at Sewlabration 2025 to share their beautiful work and
answer your questions.
● 2:00: Chili Champion Crowning
● 3:00: That’s All Folks

Monday, February 17 

Karen Bolan will present Trunk Show and share how to engineer our own quilts. There will be a 1/2 day workshop Monday from 1:00 – 4:00 which will be her Special Effects with Color Workshop. The cost is $30. You will develop color confidence and basic color theory, all while having fun!
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Tuesday, February 18

Karen Bolan Pieced Curves and Play with Transparency workshop will be at 9:00-4:00. The workshop fee is $40.00, plus $15.00 For a Digital Pattern is required.  (Karen will bring a printed copy for you.) You will learn to cut and precisely piece large diameter curves from templates, make a color palette that features transparency, and assemble a quilt top with pieced borders.
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Monday March  17, 2025

 Swan Sheridan

Trunk Show and Lecture starting at: 9:30 am. Lecture will be on “All About the Base”, using basic shapes and heirloom blocks as jumping off points to create more intricate or modern design work. There will be a 1/2 day workshop Monday from 1:00 to 4:00  “Label Making Workshop”.  Workshop Fee: $30
Other Fees: None. Swan is going to teach us a variety of label making methods.
Some of you have had this before, but most of you have not. You’ll be ready for our next quilt show, labels in hand. Swan was a vendor at our last quilt show.

Tuesday, March 18, 2024

Swan Sheridan Threadscapes Workshop Time: 9:00 – 3:00 Workshop Fee: $50 Other Fees: None. This is an introduction to creating landscapes with sky, mountains and desert foreground with a cactus. You will learn to play with
thread on top. Suggested book, Stitched Textiles by Kathleen Matthews. Check out her website, SwanAmityStudios.com for more information and pictures.