Latest News – 12/22

• Guest Speaker – Meg Cox
• Invitational – to be announced soon!
• The Quilt Raffle is happening now – benefitting Sparrow’s Nest – holiday gatherings are a great opportunity to sell tickets for this stunning quilt!
• Quilt Registration begins in January – are you working on your entries?
• Additional Event Raffles will feature a BERNINA Sewing Machine and more!

Comfort Quilts to Maria Ferari NICU

Projected Comfort Quilts dates for the rest of 2022:

– Dec. 7
– Dec 21 (special holiday gathering,12-2pm, contact Patricia Loquet for details)

We meet at North Salem Volunteer Ambulance Corps, 14 Daniel Rd. North Salem, from 10 to 2pm.
Bring lunch or a snack if you’d like a food break at your seat.
(All recommended vaccinations required.)
Last minute cancellations do happen, so if in doubt or coming for the first time please check.
Contact Karen Carlson or Carol Auer for information.

CQ November Quilts

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Hi everyone,

We look forward to seeing you in-person this month before our winter zoom meetings begin. New name tags are available for new members as well as for anyone who would like a replacement for their old one. For those of you who weren’t at the November meeting, the new badges can be clipped onto a jacket or you can attach your own ribbon and hang it around your neck; no more pin holes to damage your clothing!  Please email  membership@northernstarquilters.com or place your name on the request list that will be on the Membership table at the December meeting.
Don’t forget that this will be your last chance to pick up your badge before the next in-person meeting in March.

If you are a new member and haven’t picked up your NSQG Welcome packet, please stop by the Membership table to pick up yours. We’d love to meet you!

The PDF version of the 2022-2023 Membership Directory has been emailed, check your Spam folders if not received.

As we approach the last NSQG meeting of 2022, we want to wish each and every one of you happy holidays and a new year filled with peace, hope and joy!

Joanne Visovsky and Carol Sterk, membership@northernstarquilters.com

Bring your own project – Have a UFO? –  Sit N Sew with Nancy.

Do you have a project on which you are stuck?  Or maybe you have a photograph that you want to make into a quilt, and you don’t know how to start.  From how to make a quilt lie flat, how to make mitered corners, putting on a binding the correct way – Nancy can help you.  Nancy has been a member of the Guild since 1985 and taught quilting at The Country Quilter for almost 20 years.

Each participant will complete a simple Japanese Rice Bag. Then the students will choose a more complicated bag to make in the second half of the class.

We will learn the steps to start a portrait from a photograph that you will bring with you. No sewing machine for this class!

This is a technique workshop where you learn a way to piece curves and all shapes into pictures. Our picture will be MOON RIVER out of Sharon Schamber’s book, Piec-lique.  This technique can be used in several different ways in quilting.

Learn to cut, sew and press free-form quarter circle units to compose an improv drunkard’s path quilt. We will be experimenting with multi cuts, squiggly cuts and “cogs”. A sewing machine with a knee or auto lift presser foot is required.

Arabic Lattice is a traditional pattern and is perfect for confident beginners as well as more advanced quilters.  The pattern makes large 11” blocks.  The finished size of the quilt is 53″X64″ including borders.  The block consists of a 4-patch around which the lattice triangles are sewn.  A template is used for the lattice pieces and a partial seam is used to sew the four lattice triangles to the 4-patch.   The template is large and very easy to use.  The template will be supplied by me.  You may not think you want to use a template but believe me these blocks go together very quickly.  And partial seams are very easy, especially with such large pieces.

Have you ever considered working with transparent fabrics?  Whatever your style is, adding transparent areas to your work can add magic, softness, and interest.
In this workshop we will learn different ways of creating transparent areas in your quilt.  They can be within the quilt, or at the edges.  We will create a sample piece that has an inner transparent area as well as transparent extensions.