NOTE - This is the SECOND not the third Wednesday. - Holiday Cookie Swap - Bring one dozen cookies to share at the meeting and a container to take home some extras. Email your recipe (if you’d like to share it) to hospitality@northernstarquilters.com. We will be include it in an eBook cookie recipe collection to be shared with members in our [...]
Lecture - How Would I Quilt This Teri Lucas - Teri is the Chief Creative person at TerifiCreations, and the author of Color, Thread & Free-Motion Quilting Learn to Stitch with Reckless Abandon. I’m an accidental free motion quilter, staring after working on a hand quilting project for several years, and just wanting that quilt done. I offer [...]
TERI LUCAS - Free-Motion Quilting: Choose Your Own Adventure (Zoom) Saturday, 20 January 2024 9:00 am to 3:30 pm (Zoom) $50 members / $70 non-members Do you remember the Choose Your Own Adventure books? They were such fun and, like our quilting, endlessly unique. In this workshop you get to choose your free-motion quilting adventure. Choose the well-traveled [...]
Lecture - Yukata Quilts Meet Okan Arts’ Patricia Belyea. Mesmerized by the beauty of Japanese textiles, she is a maker of creative quilts, teachers, and speakers. Her West Coast business imports vintage textiles from Japan, runs quilting workshops, leads tours to Japan, and offers quilts by Patricia in its online gallery.
Super Saturday Classes $25 (Deli Lunch Included) A wonderful opportunity to sit and sew and mingle with fellow members in a smaller sociable setting. Any class specific questions, contact the teacher. Any general questions or possible guest attendee options, contact supersaturday@northernstarquilters.com Signup and pay by check (payable to Northern Star Quilters Guild) at the guild meeting – OR – Signup [...]
Challenge Dropoff Remember to bring your black and white Challenge masterpiece and give it to Constanze Toplansky for our April display. Lecture - My Creative Journey Daisy has been quilting for over 30 years, making her first stitch in 1992. It all started when she and her mother signed up for an afternoon “Introduction to Quilting” class. Daisy never expected to [...]
Jody Sullivan has arranged for our guild’s quilt retreat at Mariandale Retreat Center, Ossining, NY. The cost is $250 per person which includes two overnights, six meals and lots of sewing time! There is also the possibility of being a “day commuter” for $65 a day which gives breakfast and lunch. A minimum of ten people for the two nights is required [...]
DAISY DODGE : A Day With One Of NSQG's Own Saturday, 23 March 2024 9 am to 3:30 pm EDT Members $50 / Non-Members $70 Live, in-person at the Millwood Firehouse on 100 Millwood Road in Millwood, NY 10546 Trying to stay creatively inspired during the early days of the pandemic, Daisy Dodge studied the Bauhaus Movement and discovered compelling [...]
- Display and Voting on Black and White Challenge - Lecture - Cristina Arcenegui Bono, Creativity: Artificial Intelligence for Quilters
CRISTINA ARCENEGUI BONO - Pictorial Whole Cloth Thursday, 18 April 2024 9 am to 3:30 pm EDT In-person, location: Millwood Fire Co#1, 100 Millwood Road, Millwood, NY 10546 Members $50 / Non-Members $70 We will make a small pictorial whole cloth quilt based on a vintage illustration. You will learn where to look for public domain illustrations and what [...]
Please review Quilt DropOff Procedures prior to dropping off your quilt(s). NO QUILTS WILL BE ACCEPTED AFTER DROP-OFF. If you are not able to bring your quilt to the scheduled Drop-off, please make arrangements with another guild member to do it for you or contact the registrar for possible alternatives.
Quilt Show Catalog - TBA Winners List - TBA May 4, 2024 - Saturday 10am-5pm ***** May 5, 2024 - Sunday 10am-4pm Purchase College Gymnasium 735 Anderson Hill Road Purchase, NY Standard Admission - $15 Click for Advance Purchase Discount Tickets Irene Roderick My artwork is currently grounded in the textile arts, [...]
Don't forget your signed Quilt Claim Card! Please review Quilt Pickup Procedures prior to picking up your quilt(s).
IRENE RODERICK Dancing with the Wall: Improv Irene-Style Quick-Step Monday and Tuesday, May 6-7, 2024 9:00 am to 6:00 pm each day with an hour for lunch Members $150 Live, in-person, 2 days at the Millwood Firehouse on 100 Millwood Road in Millwood, NY 10546 Come spend two days with Irene and learn how to let your sub-conscience and creativity [...]
- Annual Meeting - Voting for next season's Board along with any By-law changes. - Drawing for our Charity Raffle Quilt - Ugly Fabric Auction - one quilter's trash is another one's treasure! Please start bringing your UGLY FABRICS (quilting fabric, quarter yard or more) to the meetings starting in September. You can give the fabrics to Rona Spar or Linda [...]
We look forward to our end of the year celebration, our Salad Supper. Please bring an appetizer or entree/salad big enough to feed 6 people, serving utensils, and a card listing all the ingredients. Be sure to mark any items you want returned with your name and collect them before you leave. Coffee, hot tea, ice tea, and lemonade will be provided, [...]