Meeting-Lecture Marge Tucker
2026-09-16 18:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Fox Lane High School, 632 South Bedford Road, Bedford, NY, 10506, United States
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!

Marge Tucker – Lecture Antique Quilts
9/16/26
Marge Tucker is an international award-winning quilt artist with a focus on abstract improvisational design. She pieces her quilts without a definitive image of what the finished piece will look like. Marge starts with a general concept and color palette then sees where she is led. Marge made her first quilt over twenty-five years ago for friends expecting their first child. At that time, Marge didn’t know that quilting would become her passion and profession.
Marge has received numerous awards for her quilts, including “Best Machine Quilting” at QuiltCon 2019 and “Best Sewing Machine Workmanship Award – Modern” at the 2019 Pacific International Quilt Festival. Marge shares the tradition of quilting with her students. She teaches in person and online in her Rockland, MA, studio, and travels for in-person workshops throughout the United States.

Winner's Choice Raffle-Meeting-Lecture Stacey Murren
2026-10-21 18:00 - 20:30 | Fox Lane High School, 632 South Bedford Road, Bedford, NY, 10506, United States
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!

Winner’s Choice – Comfort Quilts Display and Raffle
Admire our summer project display of CQ quilts and buy (many) tickets ($5 each) to win the quilt of your choice while supporting Comfort Quilts.
Super Saturday Signups Starting – signup at the meeting or online.
Stacey Murren – Lecture
The Poetry of the Needle: An Applique Journey
10/21/26
Stacey brings over 30 years of quilting expertise and a lifelong passion for the craft to every class she teaches. After a distinguished career in higher education, she returned to her true calling — sharing the art of quilting with students of all skill levels, from curious beginners to seasoned advanced quilters.
Born and raised in California, Stacey has devoted each of the past three decades to learning and perfecting an extraordinary breadth of techniques. Her repertoire spans collage, paper piecing, story quilts, memory quilts, appliqué, crazy patch, thread painting, free motion designs, whole cloth trapunto, improv designs, and fiber art and mixed media — a testament to her belief that creativity has no boundaries.
Her dedication to the craft has earned her numerous professional awards, honors she attributes directly to the transformative power of creative quilting. In recent years, Stacey has channeled that creativity into designing and selling her own original patterns, making her artistic vision accessible to quilters everywhere.

Holiday Boutique-Meeting-Trunk Show Maria Weinstein
2026-11-18 18:00 - 20:30 | Fox Lane High School, 632 South Bedford Road, Bedford, NY, 10506, United States
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!

Holiday Boutique – Handmade Items for Sale by Members
By popular demand, our member-to-member boutique will return at the December 10th guild meeting. Items handmade by members may be sold at this event. There will be a charge of $10 per half table. If you are interested in vending at the Boutique, please email me with the type of item that you wish to sell.
Rona Spar, activities@northernstarquilters.com. Finish up that holiday shopping!

Maria Weinstein – Lecture and Trunk Show
11/18/26
Having loved threads, beads, and fabric since childhood— although some people outgrow that sort of thing, clearly, I did not. After studying fashion design and spending a short time in the industry, I took a detour and worked as a bookkeeper for 15 years. Later, I married, moved to the suburbs, and raised two children as a stay-at-home mom. Eventually, I found my way back to sewing and discovered art quilting. Before long that creative spark grew into a passion which led to teaching. Since then, I’ve won about 50 awards, including a Judge’s Choice, a sewing machine, and cash prizes. My work has been published twice, and in November 2025, I had a one-woman show at the prestigious Dwight Englewood School. Today, I work and teach at The Quilt Tree in Nyack, New York, one of the few remaining quilt shops in the region.

Meeting(Zoom*THURSDAY*)-Lecture
2027-01-21 18:00 - 20:03 | Online – Zoom, United States
NOTE – This Zoom meeting is THURSDAY not our usual Wednesday.
This is a Zoom event.
The zoom link will be emailed to registered participants a few days before.

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.

Meeting - Lecture (Zoom)
2027-02-17 18:00 - 20:30 | Online – Zoom, United States
This is a Zoom event.
The zoom link will be emailed to registered participants a few days before.

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.

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Meeting-Lecture Lisa Shepard
2027-03-17 18:00 | Fox Lane High School, 632 South Bedford Road, Bedford, NY, 10506, United States
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.

Lisa Shepard – African Textile Trunk Show
3/17/27
Lisa Shepard Stewart is a writer and designer based in New Jersey. In her books, African Accents: Fabrics and Crafts to Decorate Your Home and Global Expressions: Decorating with Fabrics from Around the World, Lisa encourages others to express themselves creatively through culturally relevant techniques and materials. She published her third book, African Accents On The Go! Designing Accessories with Cultural Style in June 2007, and in 2011 began publishing FABRIGASM magazine, for Lovers of African Textiles.
Lisa offers classes and events internationally, and travels to Ghana to source artists, fabrics and materials. She also organizes and hosts SewJourns to Ghana, Colorado, New Mexico and other fun destinations., serving a readership of over 450,000 at the time.
She opened CE’s first studio location in downtown Rahway, NJ in December 2017. The space combines retail and event space for classes and private parties.
Lisa’s obsession with African textiles began in 1986, during a trip to Senegal, West Africa. In addition to sewing and fabric collecting, she is a part-time vegetarian whose other interests include travel, entertaining, holistic health, and yoga.

Challenge-Meeting-Lecture
2027-04-21 18:00 - 20:30 | Fox Lane High School, 632 South Bedford Road, Bedford, NY, 10506, United States
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 to be displayed and voted on!
