17 September 2025 VALERIE MASER-FLANAGAN Using Line as a Design Focus in Composition Valerie Maser-Flanagan uses self-created hand-dyed fabric to design abstract sewn constructions.  Her work is influenced by both the rural setting she currently resides in, her exposure to urban structures from working in Boston for thirty years, and her attraction to ethnic design.  Maser-Flanagan has exhibited throughout the United [...]

Comfort Quilts Display and Raffle Admire our summer project display of quilts and buy a ticket to win the quilt of your choice! 15 October 2025 PAT PAULY Traditional Meets Contemporary: A Look at the Heritage of Traditional Quilts and their Influence in Contemporary Design From her background as a curator of the exhibition “Quilts Uncovered: Treasures from Genesee Country Village [...]

Doors open early so you can shop at the Batik Blowout! Thanks to a huge donation of batiks to Comfort Quilts, we have a bonanza to share with guild members. Hundreds of yards of batiks at amazing prices so bring $$$ and a shopping bag because you don't want to miss out. 19 November 2025 BETSY HABICH Thread Painting: It's all [...]

21 January 2026  ZOOM CHRISTINE BARNES Color! Color! Color! Luster! Luminosity! Transparency! 1) Being “good with color” is more about practice than talent! This program begins with a look at the three color characteristics common to all quilts and garments: value, temperature, and intensity. These terms sound academic, yet they, as much as color itself, are the key to making [...]

18 February 2026 ZOOM SUSAN AVISHAI Among the Garbage and the Flowers    How Susan came to fibre art, specifically using cast-off clothing, reuse and creativity.  Techniques for creating sculpture from deconstructed, discarded clothing to evoke awareness of the exploitative nature of garment manufacture and the paradoxically enormous problem of textile waste.   BIO Susan Avishai creates sculpture from [...]

Tie Challenge will 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, [...]

Challenge Quilts displayed and voted on! 15 April 2026 ELLEN BLALOCK Art, Artists and Activism: Quilts This lecture gives a brief history of artists that use the quilt medium to produce art quilts that address social, political and current affairs in their community and the world. I discuss the story development of several quilts I produced from two or more [...]