Business meeting generally starts at 6pm, arrive earlier for sign-in, refreshments and socializing, with any lecture generally at 7pm.
Guests are always welcome, there is a guest fee, $10, which can be credited toward membership – click HERE for more information.
Our Hospitality team provides coffee and tea along with a few cookies at in-person meetings.
Please bring your own mug or water bottle.
Member contributions of home-baked treats or other simple snacks are requested!
Challenge Quilts Due!
Remember to bring yours to be collected at this meeting.
18 March 2026
GYLEEN FITZGERALD
Make Mine with Scraps
Focus on traditional utility quilts. Use up, cut up or recycle what you have on hand to make stunning quilts. Learn to harmonize exchange and friendship blocks or clear your clutter with strips and squares.
BIO Gyleen Fitzgerald makes quilts that blend color, pattern and texture to provide a contemporary essence to traditional quilting. A true renaissance woman, she embraced all the needle arts before becoming obsessed with quiltmaking and design in 1981. It is an understatement to say she loves color and is willing to incorporate as much fabric as possible to achieve a rich color blend. Her strength as a quilt artist is demonstrated by the infusion of engineering tools and innovative techniques to simplify visually complex quilts. She shares her enthusiasm for quilting through exhibits, interactive lectures and workshops. The avid quilter, Gyleen has earned Best of Show honors.As a writer, Gyleen centers on quilt design project books, magazine articles, haiku poetry and children’s books. As a publisher, she is a repeat Gold Medal winner for Quilts: Unfinished Stories with New Endings; Polygon Affair…So Easy You’ll Fall in Love; and Bricks, Cobblestones and Pebbles.
Bibliography
- The Queen’s Court, FPI Publishing, 2023
- In Search of Dragon Eggs, The Legend of the Black Knight in the Land of Delphia, 2023
- Polygon Series: Simplicity, Book I; Elegance, Book II; and Evolution, Book III, 2019
- Bricks, Cobblestones and Pebbles, FPI Publishing, coming fall 2015
- Polygon Affair…So Easy You’ll Fall in Love, FPI Publishing, 2013
- Trash to Treasure Pineapple Quilts, FPI Publishing, 2010
- Quilts: Unfinished Stories with New Endings, FPI Publishing, 2009
- In the House, If Walls Could Talk, FPI Publishing, 2008
- The Dream: A Magical Journey in Colourful Stitches, FPI Publishing, 2005.
- Poetry and Patchwork, Co-Author, James W. Pryde, Jr, FPI Publishing, 2005
Click here to learn more about Gyleen X Fitzgerald