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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]