Programs - Linda Stern -

Get a preview of next season’s lectures and workshops on the website and signup anytime.

Emails with details and reminders about workshops as well as any extra events are sent regularly, be sure to watch for them.

Zoom lecture links are sent out a couple days beforehand, recording links for those lectures that can be recorded are sent out a couple days after.   Workshops are not recorded.

Elizabeth Eastmond
Criss Cross Quilt Workshop

Using a sashed four-patch and a Lattice block from the 1930s, this quilt makes up fun and fast, especially if using Layer Cake precuts. It’s also a good scrappy quilt, if kept to limited palette of colors.

June 16, 2021, 9am-3:30pm – online via Zoom

Followup one hour zoom – June 23, 2021, 10am

The cost of a workshop for NSQG members is $50.00, non-members are welcome (based on availability) for a fee of $70.

To signup and pay via credit card:
click here.
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To signup and pay by check:
email programs@northernstarquilters.com with your workshop choice and mail your check to
Linda Stern, 26 Lake Drive, Somers, NY 10589
(check payable to Northern Star Quilters’ Guild)

Class confirmation and supply list will be emailed when payment is received.

Questions can be sent to programs@northernstarquilters.com.

The Criss-Cross Quilt pattern is required;
a downloadable pdf may be purchased for $10 HERE or contacting programs@northernstarquilters.com.

Feel like just doing a whole bunch of sewing, without fussing with tricky patterns? Then this is the class for you! We make sashed four-patches, and slashed diagonals, mixing up the pieces to create a lively quilt.

The class will meet together for the first two hours (Synchronous Instruction), where we’ll trouble-shoot technology, get everyone set up to sew and to access the instructional videos.

The next ninety minutes are Asynchronous Learning, which allows students to sew and work at their own pace. It can also be a time for lunch break, but the focus is still on the workshop and its content. It can be a good time to review the class videos or download any class instruction sheets as well. This is roughly 11-12:30 p.m.We return for more Synchronous Instruction, addressing issues in late-stage construction, quilting ideas (if needed), and, if a lot of progress has been made, a group discussion where we talk about any challenges in the day’s work. This runs roughly 12:30 – 2:30 p.m.
Then solo-sewing by students on Zoom in the company of their guild friends. This has been quite popular as it allows for social interaction, sort of like a group sewing experiences. This end time block can be adjusted to individual Guild needs, but runs until to 3:30 p.m.

One Week Later:
10-11 am: Follow-up Class to show off your quilts! If you send me a photo the day before, I will put them into a Show and Share Slide Show which can then be forwarded to your Guild for their Online Guild Meeting.

Supply List:

  • Purchase pdf pattern.
  • In addition to the downloadable pattern, basic sewing supplies are all that are needed:
    sewing machine, fabric, rotary cutter/mat, larger square ruler (10 1/2 or similar), thread, needles, access to a computer or hand-held digital device (one per student), sense of humor, iron and ironing surface.

Charitable Activities - Dee Plouffe -

2021 Raffle Quilt –

Congratulations to SHORE/ ICARE…this years charity raffle raised $9000 and a check will be presented to them at our June Guild meeting. Thank you to everyone that sold tickets to support this great cause. Special thanks to Pins and Needles for sending their customers an email that resulted in additional sales.

Comfort Quilts

All members are welcome to contact comfortquilts@northernstarquilters.com with any Comfort Quilt requests.

In addition to all our quilt making efforts, Comfort Quilters find ways to to help defray our expenses and support the guild by raising funds from excess items donated to us with quilt raffles, tag sales, fabric sales, and kit sales, .  Click for the latest summary since we started keeping track.   Good work all around, thank you!

There will be an outside Comfort Quilt quilt drop-off and distribution on June 9th from 10:30 to 11:30 at NSVAC.  If you would like any batting or fabric, please let Karen Carlson or Carol Auer know ahead of time. You can also pick up the Summer Project, “Feelin’ Plaid All Over”

Dee Plouffe’,  charitable@northernstarquilters.com

Membership-Carol Sterk -

Hi everyone!

It’s hard to believe, especially given the cool, rainy weather this Memorial Day, that summer is just around the corner. Another guild year is nearly behind us, and it’s already time to renew your membership for 2021-2022! (For those of you who may not be aware, the guild year begins in July and ends the following July.)  Nineteen people got a jump on things, and renewed at the Spring Fling!

If you live too far away to come to a live meeting, and joined this year in order to attend the guild’s online lectures and workshops, we hope you will join us, again, in the coming year. The meetings and workshops will be held online from September-November 2020 and for the months of January-February, 2022.

As an incentive to register early, those members who renew their membership before September 1st will be eligible for a drawing at the September meeting. Two members will win a gift certificate for a free workshop.

The registration fee is $45. There are two ways to register. You can click on the link in this message to open the registration form. Fill it out, pay by credit card, press send and you’re done. If you would prefer, print out the form and mail it with a check to Northern Star Quilters’ Guild, PO Box 232, Somers, NY  10589.
*Note:  an additional fee of $3.00 is added to credit card purchases to cover the cost of processing.

R e n e w  N o w !

Wishing you a great summer!
Carol Sterk, membership@northernstarquilters.com

Member Notices:

Jody Sullivan is offering to connect any interested members with a collector of antique quilts who is selling several of her antique quilt tops (photos available, prices negotiable, $45-$125).  Contact Jody at jodysull@optonline.net.

Keep updated with Nancy Hantman‘s latest ‘Road To . . . ‘ , a list of quilting events and websites.

Area Quilt Events and More

Area Quilt Shops

Whether you’re a new or renewing member, check out our Buddy Program if you would like a ‘buddy’ to show you the ropes around the guild.  Be sure to pick your name pin button or make your own NSQG fabric name badge, pattern HERE.

If you know any member of the guild who is in need of a little ‘sunshine’ for illness, sympathy, or any other reason, please contact secretary@northernstarquilters.com so the guild can send a card.

Requests on how to make a donation to the guild to honor a member or support an activity are occasionally received. Such requests may now be accomplished via our website, where we have set up a Donate box on our home page, click on Make a Donation.

Guild bylaws and policies are available to members online or by request to the secretary@northernstarquilters.com.
Guild financial reports are available to members by annual email or by request to the treasurer@northernstarquilters.com.

Send Guild newsletter updates and photos as well as info on local quilt activities and shows to news@northernstarquilters.com and photos for Instagram and Facebook are always welcome at social@northernstarquilters.com.

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