Come join us in person for our Annual Board Meeting!

We will start the evening at 6:00 pm with a potluck dinner.

Sign up here to bring a salad, and the board members will provide the desserts and beverages.

Highlights of the evening:

• Voting and Installation of new Board Members

• Budget presentation and vote

• Show and Tell

Diane Harris of "Stash Bandit" teaches how to cut and sew large, gentle curves while paying attention to value and scale for smashing results. She’ll cover many ideas for adding machine quilting details and hand-stitched embellishments. The day will end with Diane showing how to finish the piece using facing as an alternative to binding.

Join us as Diane Harris presents her "Make Extraordinary Scrap Quilts" lecture.

Diane is a scrap quilt specialist who loves to help quilters bust through their stash. She believes having fun and breaking the rules is more important than perfection or tradition. We will learn her best tips and secrets during this trunk show of over 50 scrap quilts.

Join us for a fun-filled day using your 60-degree or 60-degree diamond ruler.

Pick your favorite pattern, bring some fabric, and stitch up a beautiful quilt. There will be no formal instruction for the day; we will look to each other for any needed help.

The cost to attend is FREE.

Join us as Krista Moser of The Quilted Life presents her "Diamonds Are a Quilter's Best Friend" program. Krista tells her story of how she started very young and went on to design quilts and patterns. She will discuss design concepts and color theory while showing different quilts.

DO DA HUSTLE…Brown Bag Hustle…That is
Join us for our annual Brown Bag Hustle. The Brown Bag Hustle is Village Quilters' auction of items (fabric, books, partially-finished quilts, craft supplies, etc.) donated by members. So raid your stash and make way for new treasures; out with the OLD, in with the NEW.

Winter is coming! And with it, the HOLIDAYS!! Please mark your calendar and join us for our Village Quilters holiday party on Tuesday, December 19th, at 6:30 p.m.

Let's play Poker! Join us in a fun night of "Quilters Strip Poker." Using fabric as an ante, Players roll the dice to see who goes home with some newly acquired stash or who goes home empty-handed.

NOTE: Due to Thanksgiving, the meeting is changed to Tuesday, November 14th.

Join us as local quilter Carol Wilhoit of carolquilts.com speaks about using your stash to make beautiful quilts. Carol will discuss several key design principles that make multi-fabric quilts work.

Join us as Deanne Eisenman teaches wool applique. The workshop's primary focus is the tips and techniques of wool appliqué on a fabric background. This includes preparing the wool appliqué pieces and stitch demonstration.

Join us as Deanne Eisenmann of Snuggles Quilts speaks about her quilting history and love of appliqué and scrap quilting. She will share tips and techniques for successful "scrapping"!

Bargello quilts are colorful and stunning quilts made by joining various strips to create a tapestry-looking quilt. Since the method only uses straight seams, even a beginner quilter can create a beautiful bargello quilt. In this workshop, Nancy will guide participants in making a wall-hanging-sized bargello quilt.

Join us for an informative and entertaining evening with Nancy Roelfsema of OnPoint-TV and Quilting with Nancy. During her program, Nancy will discuss the basics needed that help with the quilting process while dazzling us with a trunk show of her beautiful quilts.

Come join MJ Kinman as she introduces students to the technique of traditional piecing using freezer paper as a template. During class, she'll also share gossip about the gems being created and their owners.

Join us as MJ Kinman talks with us about how she creates her beautiful Gem Stone Quilts. This slide lecture and trunk show will chronicle her 25-year adventure learning how to create the biggest diamonds in the world in the softest medium of cloth.

Come join us in person for our Annual Board Meeting!

We will start the evening at 6:00 pm with a potluck dinner. Sign up here to bring a salad, and the board members will provide the desserts and beverages.

Highlights of the evening:

• Voting and Installation of new Board Members

• Budget presentation and vote

• Collection of the quilts for Ukraine

• Show and Tell

Join us for an inspiring, informative and entertaining evening as Catherine Redford presents her program, The Language of Flowers. It includes a wide variety of quilts featuring flowers, many of which are beaded and embellished. Learn the meanings our ancestors ascribed to different blooms and consider why the giving and receiving of quilts is so special to many of us.

At Eye of the Beholder Quilt Design, Margaret Brewster Willingham specializes in teaching hand and machine reverse appliqué using her non-traditional methods… Trace, Baste, Snip & Stitch for Reverse Appliqué. You will be amazed how simple it is to make her beautiful reverse appliqué designs. And so much fun.

The class project will be the Woodland Fern Table Runner. The main focus of the class will be on Machine - Reverse Appliqué with a short session on Hand - Reverse Appliqué.

Join us as Margaret Brewster Willingham of Eye of the Beholder Quilt Design talks with us about the art of creating Reverse Appliqué quilts.

What is reverse appliqué? What is the difference between appliqué and reverse appliqué? When was it developed and by who? How do you do it? Can you do it by machine or by hand? Is it hard or easy to do? How do you quilt reverse appliqué? What is hidden will be revealed!

Have you ever found a quilt pattern you loved, but it was too small or too large? Maybe you'd like to see what it would look like in a different color way. Want to design your own quilt, but don't want to deal with the math? EQ8 and/or Blockbase+ may be just what you're looking for. In this workshop you will explore the possibilities while making a small wall hanging of your own design using one or both of these programs.

Note: This workshop will be held over two days – Saturday, January 21 and Saturday, January 28.

We cheerfully accept any and everything you can donate from your stash that someone else might treasure or even want to buy!

Watch for more information in the newsletter as we get closer to the date.

Learn 10 different ways to construct one of the foundations of quilt construction ~ the half square triangle.

UFO's, Orphan Blocks and what was I thinking??!! Fresh ideas for stale projects.

Many of us have silk treasures from trips abroad, neckties or prom dresses that are too special to cut up so we leave them tucked away in a drawer or box. It’s time to get them out and make something beautiful!

This workshop has three elements: You’ll begin by determining the fiber content of your fabrics by using the burn test. We will then cover two very different ways to work with silk: First, a very free, improvisational piecing technique I call ‘Pieces, Pairs and Panels’ and second, a foundation piecing method that gives stability and ultra-precise results, even with the lightest weight silks.

Working with your stash, you’ll construct elements in these two techniques that can be combined into a small, pillow-sized finished piece.