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SUMMARY:Meeting+Lecture-Valerie Maser-Flanagan
DESCRIPTION:17 September 2025 \nVALERIE MASER-FLANAGAN \nUsing Line as a Design Focus in Composition \nValerie 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 States and received numerous awards for her work.  Her Work has been purchased by the Chandler Arts Council in Arizona\, Visions Art Museum\, The International Quilt Museum\, and by private collectors. Examples of her designs are published in Quilting with a Modern Slant by Rachel May\, Dyeing Alchemy by Diane Franklin\, and Art Quilts International Abstract and Geometric by Martha Sielman\, and Color a Workshop for Artists and Designers by David Hornung. Maser-Flanagan began as a traditional quilter but transitioned to contemporary design through studies with Nancy Crow\, David Hornung and Carol Soderlund. \nClick here to learn more about Valerie Maser-Flanagan \n\nBusiness meeting generally starts at 6pm\, arrive earlier for sign-in\, refreshments and socializing\, with any lecture generally at 7pm.\nGuests are always welcome\, there is a guest fee\, $10\, which can be credited toward membership – click HERE for more information. \nOur Hospitality team provides coffee and tea along with a few cookies at in-person meetings.\nPlease bring your own mug or water bottle.\nMember contributions of home-baked treats or other simple snacks are requested!
URL:https://www.northernstarquilters.com/event/lecture-1/
LOCATION:Fox Lane High School\, 632 South Bedford Road\, Bedford\, NY\, 10506\, United States
CATEGORIES:Guild Meeting,Lectures
ORGANIZER;CN="President":MAILTO:President@northernstarquilters.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251015T180000
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SUMMARY:Winner's Choice Raffle + Meeting+Lecture-Pat Pauly
DESCRIPTION:Winner’s Choice – Comfort Quilts Display and Raffle\nAdmire our summer project display of CQ quilts and buy (many) tickets ($5 each) to win the quilt of your choice while supporting Comfort Quilts.\nSuper Saturday Signups Starting – signup at the meeting or online.\n\n \n15 October 2025 \nPAT PAULY \nTraditional Meets Contemporary: \nA Look at the Heritage of Traditional Quilts and their Influence in Contemporary Design \nFrom her background as a curator of the exhibition “Quilts Uncovered: Treasures from Genesee Country Village and Museum”\, “Parallax Views” and “Quilts 20/20” Pat Pauly gives an expansive look at the long history of quilt making\, and its change and rebirth in the twenty-first century in art quilts. Presenting over 400 images in the span of an hour\, she takes a fast-paced look at the craft that has endured in America for nearly 250 years. \nPat Pauly is a nationally and internationally recognized fiber artist\, known for her improvisational technique\, use of bold color and graphics and her unusual juxtaposition of printed and painted fabric.  Her work is featured in numerous exhibitions and publications.  She is also in high-demand to lecture and teach.  Her surface design workshops are highly energized\, spontaneous\, and ils \nClick here to learn more about Pat Pauly \n\nBusiness meeting generally starts at 6pm\, arrive earlier for sign-in\, refreshments and socializing\, with any lecture generally at 7pm.\nGuests are always welcome\, there is a guest fee\, $10\, which can be credited toward membership – click HERE for more information. \nOur Hospitality team provides coffee and tea along with a few cookies at in-person meetings.\nPlease bring your own mug or water bottle.\nMember contributions of home-baked treats or other simple snacks are requested!
URL:https://www.northernstarquilters.com/event/lecture-2/
LOCATION:Fox Lane High School\, 632 South Bedford Road\, Bedford\, NY\, 10506\, United States
CATEGORIES:Guild Meeting,Lectures,Member Activities
ORGANIZER;CN="President":MAILTO:President@northernstarquilters.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251119T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251119T210000
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SUMMARY:Batik Sale + Meeting+Lecture Betsy Habich
DESCRIPTION:*** Update – Late start for meeting – doors not open til 6pm\, all activities start after that ***\n\nWe will NOT have a Show and Tell\nWe will NOT have a Free Table\nLibrary Services will NOT be available except to return books\nThe November 19th Batik Sale will begin at 6:30\nThe December 10th Holiday Boutique will begin at 6:30\nOur Speakers will begin at 7:15 pm for both meetings\nWe will have refreshments\n\nShop at the Batik Blowout!\nSale starts 5:30pm\n$4/yard  –  1/4\, 1/2\, 1\, and 2 yd + cutsThanks to a huge donation of batiks to Comfort Quilts\, we have a bonanza to share with guild members.\nHundreds of yards of batiks at amazing prices so bring $$$ (cash or check) and a shopping bag because you don’t want to miss out.\n*****\n\n\n \n19 November 2025 \nBETSY HABICH \nThread Painting: It’s all about the Details \nSlide & trunk show talk.  A short introduction to my pieced and appliqued pictorial quilts shows the quilting style I developed to support the images\, a bridge to thread painting. Then you see how to make a photorealistic thread painting: selecting the right photo\, printing it on fabric\, seeing all the colors in the piece\, selecting threads\, different stitches\, blending colors smoothly\, representing texture\, and paying attention to detail. The third part follows a landscape thread-painting from start to finish\, to show how a painting actually develops. Q&A and opportunity to look at the quilts follow. \n  \nBIO Betsy Habich’s quilts have been juried into national and regional  shows\, including International Quilt Association (IQA /Houston)\, American Quilters  Society (AQS/ Paducah)\, Machine Quilters Expo (MQX)\, and Quilters Gathering\, and  her work has been awarded at regional quilt shows including the Vermont Quilt Festival\,  The Gathering\, and the Machine Quilters Expo (MQX). In addition\, she has had several  one-woman shows at local shows\, shops\, and libraries. She is a self-confessed  fabricaholic and cat person\, though she has also been known to play with dogs. She lives  with her husband\, cats\, and fabric in Beverly Farms\, MA. \nClick here to learn about Betsy Habich Quilts \n\nBusiness meeting generally starts at 6pm\, arrive earlier for sign-in\, refreshments and socializing\, with any lecture generally at 7pm.\nGuests are always welcome\, there is a guest fee\, $10\, which can be credited toward membership – click HERE for more information. \nOur Hospitality team provides coffee and tea along with a few cookies at in-person meetings.\nPlease bring your own mug or water bottle.\nMember contributions of home-baked treats or other simple snacks are requested!
URL:https://www.northernstarquilters.com/event/lecture-3/
LOCATION:Fox Lane High School\, 632 South Bedford Road\, Bedford\, NY\, 10506\, United States
CATEGORIES:Guild Meeting,Lectures,Member Activities
ORGANIZER;CN="President":MAILTO:President@northernstarquilters.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260121T180000
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SUMMARY:Meeting+Lecture (Zoom)-Christine Barnes
DESCRIPTION:This is a Zoom event.\nThe zoom link will be emailed to registered participants a few days before.\n\n \n21 January 2026  ZOOM \nChristine Barnes \nColor! Color! Color! \nLuster! Luminosity! Transparency! \n1) 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 great quilts. Learn how to use the color wheel to create fresh\, unexpected color combinations. See how color affects texture and pattern. Images of quilts from nationally known quilters are followed by my quilts and a digital mini fashion show of wearables. \n2) Put simply\, “magic fabrics” give a quilt light and vitality. Some suggest light coming from below the surface (luminosity) or bouncing across the surface (luster). Others imply that see-through colors overlap to create new color mixtures (transparency). They typically display variations in value—light areas among darker areas\, or light-to-dark gradations—and they often contain warm colors. A digital trunk show of fabrics\, quilts\, and wearables brings the concepts to life. \nBIO My quilting life began when I was eight or nine\, with a doll quilt made on my crank Singer sewing machine. I asked my grandmother what was inside a quilt\, and she said “cotton.” I stuffed my little quilt with cotton balls—and wondered why it was lumpy. \nFast forward through teenage years happily spent sewing clothes. Degrees in Design and Journalism segued into a full-time job for Sunset Publishing. In 1980 I wrote Quilting\, Patchwork & Appliqué\, a best seller\, thanks to the input from renowned quilter Roberta Horton. I went on to write books on soft furnishings\, decorating\, and remodeling. I loved my job. \nLater\, as a free-lance writer\, I was assigned to write a chapter on color for another Sunset book. Through exercises and observation\, my uncle\, an artist in Mendocino\, taught me how color works—and ignited a lifelong love of color. \nThat chapter laid the foundation for two books on color theory for quilters\, plus articles for quilt magazines and decades of teaching. My main takeaway? There are classic color concepts—and they work. Whether it’s choosing fabrics for a new quilt\, fixing one that’s not working\, or attempting an effect like transparency\, it all boils down to the basics. What may look like magic is grounded in classic color theory. \nRetired from traveling to teach\, I do lectures and classes via Zoom. I feel so fortunate to live a life that connects me to quilts and quilt makers worldwide. And now\, my best creative time is spent in my light-filled sewing room\, where I am always happy. \nClick here to learn more about Christine Barnes \n\nBusiness meeting generally starts at 6pm\, arrive earlier for sign-in\, refreshments and socializing\, with any lecture generally at 7pm.\nGuests are always welcome\, there is a guest fee\, $10\, which can be credited toward membership – click HERE for more information. \nOur Hospitality team provides coffee and tea along with a few cookies at in-person meetings.\nPlease bring your own mug or water bottle.\nMember contributions of home-baked treats or other simple snacks are requested!
URL:https://www.northernstarquilters.com/event/lecture-4/
LOCATION:Online – Zoom\, United States
CATEGORIES:Guild Meeting,Lectures
ORGANIZER;CN="President":MAILTO:President@northernstarquilters.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260218T180000
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SUMMARY:Meeting+Lecture (Zoom)- Susan Avishai
DESCRIPTION:This is a Zoom event.\nThe zoom link will be emailed to registered participants a few days before.\n\n\nBusiness meeting generally starts at 6pm\, arrive earlier for sign-in\, refreshments and socializing\, with any lecture generally at 7pm.\nGuests are always welcome\, there is a guest fee\, $10\, which can be credited toward membership – click HERE for more information. \nOur Hospitality team provides coffee and tea along with a few cookies at in-person meetings.\nPlease bring your own mug or water bottle.\nMember contributions of home-baked treats or other simple snacks are requested! \n\n\n \n18 February 2026 \nZOOM \nSusan Avishai \nAmong the Garbage and the Flowers     \nHow 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. \n  \nBIO Susan Avishai creates sculpture from deconstructed\, discarded clothing. Her work evokes awareness of the exploitative nature of garment manufacture and the paradoxically enormous problem of textile waste. Susan has mounted 18 solo shows\, won many prizes in national and international juried exhibitions\, and is represented in several large corporate and museum collections. She was elected to the Ontario Society of Artists in 2015.Originally from Montreal\, Susan has a BFA (1971) from Concordia University\, studied as well at the Ontario College of Art in Toronto\,and the Académie Julien in Paris. She received an MA (2002\, Hollins  University\, VA) in writing and literature. Toronto is now home\, after years in Jerusalem\, New York\, Boston\, and Ottawa. Her new work has been included in the book Dimensional Cloth\, Sculpture by Contemporary Textile Artists by Andra Stanton; profiled in Fiber Art Now; and the SAQA Journal\, and she was a featured artist in Australia’s Textile Fibre Forum. She was a presenting artist at the 3rd International Textile Symposium at the Mark Rothko Centre in Daugavpils\, Latvia\, was chosen for the 2016 Gardiner Museum’s Twelve Trees Christmas program\, and has guest curated a show of 11 artists who also work with up-cycled  textiles\, exhibited in 2023 at the Mississippi Valley Textile Museum in Almonte\, Ontario. Recent work was shown at the Mary E. Black Gallery in Halifax\, NS and she participated in Fiberart International 2019. She was chosen twice for Excellence in Fibers and once for Excellence in Quilts organized by Fiber Art Now. Most recently she was invited to be a featured speaker at the 2023 SAQA Conference in Toronto. \nClick here to learn more about Susan Avishai
URL:https://www.northernstarquilters.com/event/lecture-5/
LOCATION:Online – Zoom\, United States
CATEGORIES:Guild Meeting,Lectures
ORGANIZER;CN="President":MAILTO:President@northernstarquilters.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260318T180000
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SUMMARY:Meeting - Gyleen X. Fitzgerald
DESCRIPTION:Business meeting generally starts at 6pm\, arrive earlier for sign-in\, refreshments and socializing\, with any lecture generally at 7pm.\nGuests are always welcome\, there is a guest fee\, $10\, which can be credited toward membership – click HERE for more information. \nOur Hospitality team provides coffee and tea along with a few cookies at in-person meetings.\nPlease bring your own mug or water bottle.\nMember contributions of home-baked treats or other simple snacks are requested! \n\n\nChallenge Quilts Due!\nRemember to bring yours to be collected at this meeting.\n\n \n18 March 2026 \nGYLEEN FITZGERALD \nMake Mine with Scraps \nFocus 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. \nBIO 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. \nBibliography \n\nThe Queen’s Court\, FPI Publishing\, 2023\nIn Search of Dragon Eggs\, The Legend of the Black Knight in the Land of Delphia\, 2023\nPolygon Series: Simplicity\, Book I; Elegance\, Book II; and Evolution\, Book III\, 2019\nBricks\, Cobblestones and Pebbles\, FPI Publishing\, coming fall 2015\nPolygon Affair…So Easy You’ll Fall in Love\, FPI Publishing\, 2013\nTrash to Treasure Pineapple Quilts\, FPI Publishing\, 2010\nQuilts: Unfinished Stories with New Endings\, FPI Publishing\, 2009\nIn the House\, If Walls Could Talk\, FPI Publishing\, 2008\nThe Dream: A Magical Journey in Colourful Stitches\, FPI Publishing\, 2005.\nPoetry and Patchwork\, Co-Author\, James W. Pryde\, Jr\, FPI Publishing\, 2005\n\nClick here to learn more about Gyleen X Fitzgerald
URL:https://www.northernstarquilters.com/event/lecture-6/
LOCATION:Fox Lane High School\, 632 South Bedford Road\, Bedford\, NY\, 10506\, United States
CATEGORIES:Guild Meeting,Lectures
ORGANIZER;CN="President":MAILTO:President@northernstarquilters.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260415T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260415T203000
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SUMMARY:Meeting+Challenge - Ellen Blalock
DESCRIPTION:Business meeting generally starts at 6pm\, arrive earlier for sign-in\, refreshments and socializing\, with any lecture generally at 7pm.\nGuests are always welcome\, there is a guest fee\, $10\, which can be credited toward membership – click HERE for more information. \nOur Hospitality team provides coffee and tea along with a few cookies at in-person meetings.\nPlease bring your own mug or water bottle.\nMember contributions of home-baked treats or other simple snacks are requested! \n\n\nChallenge Quilts displayed and voted on!\n\n \n15 April 2026 \nELLEN BLALOCK \nArt\, Artists and Activism: Quilts \nThis 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 quilt series that address violence\, racism\, identity\, trauma and mental illness. The narrative of these quilts show connections to my life as a journalist and documentarian. For quilt groups I cover my journey to adapt quilting techniques to my work. I pick several quilts and explain construction and problem solving with a theme. \nBIO I am an artist with a mission. I believe my job is to be a conduit to listen and tell the stories of people that need to be heard and represented; the ones whose lives and experiences have been marginalized. I am particularly interested in the African American experience in the United States. Through my art I have dealt with issues around African American teen fathers\, slavery\, female identity and power\, LGBTQ families\, “Deaf” children\, mental illness and trauma\, and the ancestors. My job is to listen\, to record\, to make available the voices and stories of what is missing. The Fathers’ Project\, Beyond Boundaries in Ghana\, The Quilt Project\, Know Me\, the WHOLE Me and CAGE have all grown out of  my need to help give voices to people and communities that need their stories told. I work in many media. The main ones are photography\, video\, drawing\, and fiber. Some of my projects have been collaborations with other artists for performance art and installation pieces. I have taught courses in art\, art history and photography at several colleges and universities. My signature studio course is The Visual Narrative. I have a BFA from Tyler College of Art\, Temple University and a MFA from Syracuse University. I am originally from Philadelphia\, PA and live in Syracuse\, NY. \nClick here to learn more about Ellen Blalock
URL:https://www.northernstarquilters.com/event/lecture-7/
LOCATION:Fox Lane High School\, 632 South Bedford Road\, Bedford\, NY\, 10506\, United States
CATEGORIES:Guild Meeting,Lectures,Member Activities
ORGANIZER;CN="President":MAILTO:President@northernstarquilters.com
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