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 [...]
Marge Tucker – Workshop 1 Walking Foot Quilting Thursday, 9/17/26 9:00am to 4:00pm Millwood Fire House Cost $90 You can do so much innovative quilting JUST with your walking foot! I will show you my method of quilting with your walking foot that involves little or no marking but still results in spectacular quilting. I start with the basics, such [...]
Marge Tucker Workshop 2 - Dresden Plate Piecing 9:00 am to 4:00 pm Friday, 9/18/26 Millwood Fire House Cost $90 Learn how to piece improvisational Dresden Plate blocks! In this is technique class, you will learn how to piece the substrate, so the wedges are varied in length, different ways to cut the wedges and how to piece the wedges together [...]
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 [...]
Slow Stitch, Strong Style: Mastering Hand Applique 10/21/26. 9:00 am to 4:00pm. Millwood Fire House, Millwood NY Cost $65 Kit $20 or $25 Folk Art Bunny- $20 Baltimore Album CT-$25 Baltimore Album NY-$25 What you will learn: Learn the art of freezer-paper and needle-turn appliqué while discovering how to build “off the block” for [...]
Holiday Boutique – Handmade Items for Sale by Members By popular demand, our member-to-member boutique returns at the 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 [...]
MARIA WEINSTEIN – Jacket Making The same workshop will be held both November 19th and 20th, 12 people max per workshop. Be sure to specify which day when you signup! November 19th OR 20th, 2026 9:00 am to 4:00 pm Millwood Fire House $72.00 + materials fee In this class, you'll upcycle an old quilt or make a new one [...]
NOTE - This Zoom meeting is THURSDAY not our usual Wednesday. LECTURE: Backing, Binding, Batting, Beauty Thurs. 01.21.2027 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm ET via Zoom Lecture: Backing, Binding, Batting, Beauty: designing a quilt from back to front Presenter: David Owen Hastings Learn how convenient and smart it is to design and construct a modern quilt, starting from [...]
David Owen Hastings ZOOM Workshop Layered Walking Foot Quilting Saturday 1/23/2027 PLEASE NOTE Zoom Time: 12:00- 6:00 p.m. Cost $75 Break free from traditional machine quilting using your walking foot and a domestic machine. Leave behind previous notions of stitching in the ditch or overall quilting. APPROACH MACHINE QUILTING IN AN IMPROV STYLE, WITH A LITTLE PLANNING! 6 hours: [...]
Lecture: Color My Quilt - Dee Christopher In our time together we will be taking a look at the color wheel and the language of color to give as a base for choosing the fabrics for your quilt. We will move on to the fundamentals of designing or choosing fabrics for your project, the fun part. We will look [...]
Dee Christopher ZOOM Workshop Using the 3 & 1 Tool to enhance colors in your quilt. Saturday 2/20/2027 10:00 am- 4:00 pm Cost $45 The 3 & 1 tool will help you choose fabrics based on value (light, medium, dark) as well as choosing a color palette for your quilt. It takes the guesswork out of coordinating your fabric [...]
Challenge Quilts Due! Remember to bring yours, wrap for secrecy. 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 [...]
Lisa Shepard - Ankara Strings 3/18/27 Millwood Fire House, Millwood New York Workshop cost $85 Fee for kit of Ankara Strips $55 and is enough for 2 people to share. Lisa will bring the kits to the workshop. Ankara String Quilt The classic string quilt becomes a work of art with Ankara! Learn to mix the colors & patterns with [...]
Challenge Quilts to be displayed and voted on!