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January 2025
January 2025

Exciting New Programs

Krista Moser Returns

2025 Quilt Show News

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We’re happy to welcome guests and new members to our meetings, which can be held either in-person or online (see the Calendar for details). Whether you’re joining us for the first time or returning, you’re always welcome! (Guest fee is $10.00.) Membership forms are available at each meeting, or you can conveniently join online. We look forward to meeting you!

In Person: Grace United Methodist Church (244 East Center Avenue) in Lake Bluff, Illinois
(enter through the parking lot doors)
Online: via Zoom (meeting info is emailed)
Date: Always on the third Tuesday of the month
Time: 6:30 p.m. social time, 7:00 p.m. meeting followed by the program program

 

Upcoming Programs

Featured
Cotton & Bourbon: Audrey Esarey - “Finding My Voice in Modern Quilting”
Jan 21
Online Program
Cotton & Bourbon: Audrey Esarey - “Finding My Voice in Modern Quilting”
Online Program

Join in to hear award winning Audrey Esarey share her journey and to see her trunk show of amazing quilts! Audrey’s lecture focuses on her path to becoming a modern quilter and how she has applied many traditional techniques in her modern quilts. She will share the progression of her work and show her Radial Quilts, Watercolor Quilts, and a few others too!

Online Program
Annette Kennedy – From Photo to Quilt, and Enhancement for Visual Depth and Details
Feb 18
Online Program
Annette Kennedy – From Photo to Quilt, and Enhancement for Visual Depth and Details
Online Program

Since 2003 Annette has been creating pictorial art quilts that incorporate hand dyed, painted, commercial fabrics, and paint and thread, based on photographs she has taken. Her work focuses mainly on nature, including landscapes and flora, but also includes some architectural pieces. Her goal is to express her personal experience with a place or subject in a way that gives beauty, peacefulness and a sense of awe to those who view it.

Online Program

Upcoming Workshops and Events

Featured
Winter Retreat 2025
Jan 10
Retreat
Winter Retreat 2025
Retreat

Registration opens ast 8:00 am on November 1, 2024.

Retreat
“Ultraviolet Radial” - Online Workshop with Cotton & Bourbon’s Audrey Esarey
Jan 25
Online Workshop
“Ultraviolet Radial” - Online Workshop with Cotton & Bourbon’s Audrey Esarey
Online Workshop

In this Saturday Zoom workshop you will work on your very own Ultraviolet Radial quilt! You will begin several blocks and Audrey will help you refresh your techniques, including precision piecing and making some paper pieced arcs!

More Info and Register →

Online Workshop
Fall Foliage — Krista Moser Online Workshop
Feb 22
Online Workshop
Fall Foliage — Krista Moser Online Workshop
Online Workshop

Krista Moser is BAAACK! After our delightful Zoom lecture with Krista back in February 2024, we’re bringing her back for a whole day Zoom workshop! Krista is the creative force and inspiration behind Krista Moser, The Quilted Life, and we already know just how creative and inspirational she can be! She designed the 60-degree diamond rulers for Creative Grids and has published dozens of patterns using the rulers. She loves symmetry, clean lines and bold colors! Don’t miss it!

Online Workshop
 

From the July 2024 meeting