We have another special free Zoom workshop scheduled to help alleviate any winter blues, thanks to donations from members and ArtsWestchester. This workshop is free, open to all NSQG members, and will NOT be recorded. Saturday, January 30th, 10am-1pm, Mary Cannizzaro will be teaching how to make T-shirt quilts from her book, Beyond the Tee, co-authored with her daughter, Jen. Sooner [...]
Pat Harrison - 1/7/23. Saturday 11:00-1:00pm Special Zoom Lecture on details of quilt judging with trunk show. Pat Harrison keeps herself busy being a long-arm quilter, lecturer and workshop teacher, quilt designer, and a quilt judge certified by the National Association of Certified Quilt Judges. Lecturing, teaching, and judging allows Pat the opportunity to share her knowledge of all aspects of the [...]
FULL - NO LONGER AVAILABLE - check with Kathy Tuttle for wait list info David Hornung - www.davidhornung.com In-person Workshop - 4/20 - Investigating Color with Paper and Glue No sewing machine required. David will use the principles of color theory from his book, A Workshop for Artists and Designers, to illustrate the importance of color placement in quilting and [...]
Orphan Block Packs Got orphan blocks? Bring them to Patricia Loquet. She’ll be turning them into packs to be distributed to make into beautiful Comfort Quilts. Lecture - Unlock Your Creative Potential Clara Nartey, a self-taught artist, was born in Accra, Ghana and came to the U.S. for her master’s degree. She then developed her unique artistic style which meshes mark-making [...]
** WAITLIST ONLY ** ZOOM WORKSHOP Unmarked - Contemporary Quilting with your Walking Foot. Marge Tucker - margetuckerquilts.com/about 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, [...]
Members Only - Free Zoom Pop-up - zoom link will be sent to guild members a few days beforehand. MEG MOOAR Saturday, 30 September 2024 11:00 am to 12:30 pm DYEING FABRICS USING NATURE’S BOUNTY Dyeing fabrics from natural resources is an ancient practice.Recipes for extracting color from plant materials was once proprietary, handed down from generation to generation and kept under lock and key. Now, with the the [...]
Comfort Quilts Display and Raffle Admire our summer project display of quilts 'Same Jelly Roll, Different Quilt' and buy a ticket to win your choice! Orphan Block Packs Got orphan blocks? Bring them to Patricia Loquet. She'll be turning them into packs to be distributed to make into beautiful Comfort Quilts. Lecture - Keep it Simple, but Pack a Punch. Rachel [...]
Landscape Quilts: Nature & Architecture Thursday, 19 October 2023 9:00 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. RACHEL DERSTINE - I am an art quilter living in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. My works have been featured in invitational and juried gallery shows and fine art/craft [...]
- 20204 Raffle Ticket packs available Lecture - Anatomy of an Improv Quilt Have you ever wondered how to create an Improv Quilt without a pattern? Where do you start? How do you know when it’s finished? Author and a ward winning artist Cindy Grisdela will share her tips and tricks in this entertaining lecture about the process for working improvisationally [...]
WORKSHOP IS FULL, contact programs@northernstarquitlers.com to be added to a waitlist. Workshop – Fabulous Free Hand Curves Cut large scale curves freehand without templates or patterns. Add dots, skinny lines, wonky triangles and more to give each curve its own personality, then combine them into a fun original design. We’ll talk about color and design to create the composition as [...]
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 - Ann Johnston - Focus on Quilts Artist Statement - The impetus for my work is the world around me—its shapes, patterns, colors and textures. I work toward a goal in each quilt I make, having a particular concept in mind that is sometimes specific, sometimes very broad. I use many different construction techniques, traditional and contemporary–determined by [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]