DAVID TAYLOR Hidden Hand Applique Thursday, 21 November 2024 1 pm to 4 pm $30 members Plus a $10 kit fee paid directly to David Live, in-person at the Millwood Firehouse on 100 Millwood Road in Millwood, NY 10546 Learn David's technique for applique, resulting in stitches that are hidden from view. In this hands-on workshop and working on a [...]
2025 - Quilt Registration February 14 - April 1 possibly ends earlier if space filled www.northernstarquilters.com/quilt-show/quilt-registration
At this month's meeting, be sure to hand in your challenge quilt for display and voting at next month's meeting. You can review the Challenge Rules HERE. Please be sure you follow all the guidelines.
DON'T FORGET YOUR QUILT CLAIM CARD!
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 [...]
VALERIE MASER-FLANAGAN - Designing Without Rulers Thursday, 18 September 2025 9 am to 3:30 pm Live, in-person at the Millwood Fire House $ 55 member ($80 nonmember) The focus of this one-day workshop is to free up from using rulers and measurements. Participants will use a rotary cutter to cut simple lines and shapes to create a small composition or [...]
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 [...]
PAT PAULY - Within the Frame: Center Medallion - Bold Graphic Prints; Color, Scale, & Value Thursday, 16 October 2025 9:00 am to 3:30 pm Live, in-person at the Millwood Fire House $ 55 ($80 nonmember) With simple methods for scrambling fabric, we’ll make a center that will be supported by a framework for a center medallion composition. Work with [...]
Our first retreat for next year is scheduled for Monday November 3 - Wednesday November 5 at the Center at Mariandale, Ossining NY. It’s a wonderful opportunity to immerse yourself in what you love and be surrounded by others who love the same. A two night, six meal stay costs $250. There is also an option to be a “commuter” and forgo [...]
Shop at the Batik Blowout! Doors open early - 5:30 $4/yard - 1/2, 1, and 2 yd + cuts 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. ***** [...]
BETSY HABICH - Thread Painting 101 Thursday, 20 November 2025 9:00 am to 3:30 pm Live, in-person at the Millwood Fire House $ tbd Kit Fee $30 (Betsy’s image) / $35 (your own image) Kit Fee paid directly to Betsy during the workshop Intensive thread-painting gives you the freedom to make a very realistic, tapestry-like image entirely with thread, [...]
Holiday Meeting! Boutique - Handmade Items for Sale by Members - more details to come. Finish up that holiday shopping! TAMAR DRUCKER Trunk Show As long as I can remember I was always excited about creating art. Meir Moses, who was my mentor after school hours taught model sketching, etching, and woodcutting in our community center. In 1986 I was introduced [...]
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 [...]
CHRISTINE BARNES - Special Effects with Color: Transparency! Luminosity! Luster! VIRTUAL via Zoom - This is a multi-day Zoom workshop of three 3 hour color study sessions $75 members Zoom 1: Thursday, 22 January 2026 Time: 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm ET --- TRANSPARENCY—the illusion that one color is lying on top of another and where they cross, there [...]
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, [...]
GYLEEN X. FITZGERALD - Trash to Treasure Pineapple Quilts PLUS Fabulous Finishes: Boarders, Binding/Facings, & Sleeve 19 March 2026 9 am to 3:30 pm Live, in-person at the Millwood Fire House $ tbd Okay isn't it time to clear the clutter in your life? Oops, too much? What about using up all those bits and pieces stuff in [...]
The Spring retreat will be Friday 3/20/26-Sunday 3/22/26. 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. Contact Jody Sullivan [...]
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 [...]
Quilt Show Catalog - 2025 Winners List - 2025 Thanks to All who Helped Make Our 2025 Show a Success! Stay Tuned for 2026 Info... WORLD OF QUILTS XLV Our show of around 300 quilts displays the many facets of the art and craft of quilting: traditional to modern to improvisational to fiber art and includes [...]
GIUSEPPE RIBAUDO (aka Giucy Giuce) -Keynote speaker at World of Quilts Controlled Chaos Tuesday, 5 May 2026 9:00 am to 4:00 pm with an hour break for lunch Live, in-person at the Millwood Fire House $75 members Improv meets foundation paper piecing meets mystery quilt. Need I say more?! Join Giucy Giuce as he demonstrates his improv sewing to his foundation [...]
GIUSEPPE RIBAUDO (aka Giucy Giuce) - Keynote speaker at World of Quilts RE - Modular Foundation Paper Piecing Wednesday, 6 May 2026 9:00 am to 4:00 pm with an hour break for lunch Live, in-person at the Millwood Fire House $75 members Students will learn modular foundation paper piecing with RE Quilt, a uniquely customizable pattern PATTERN FEE: $10/student for [...]
NO Show N Tell, NO Free Table, and NO Raffle Table at this meeting due to time constraints. 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) - Bring your $$$ and go home with some treasures! Please start gathering your [...]
Supper Meeting - Early start We look forward to our end of the year celebration, our Salad Supper. Let’s celebrate together all that we have accomplished as a guild this year! 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 [...]