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.
Take a stroll down memory lane with VQ Guild Historian Kearstie Grenier. Her PowerPoint presentation will feature photos from the last 40 years of the Village Quilter’s quilts and activities. Select photo albums will also be displayed for members to view.
Quilting has certainly evolved in the last 40 years, and we will explore the way those changes have affected the guild and its members. Those of you who have been with us for many years will have a chance to reminisce together, and new members may gain some insight into our shared passion for quilts and quilting. As we prepare for the next decade, it’s good to look back at our beginnings and have a clearer understanding of this journey we are taking together.
We will be demonstrating how to set up the stands and the quilts at our September meeting. This is a good review for those who have done it before and also a perfect learning time for those who are new to our system of hanging.
We still need two more team leaders who would be willing to lead a group of people to set up and take down. Each team needs to have two people who are willing and able to climb ladders. Currently there are only 3 people signed up to climb ladders and we really need at least 10 people. The quilts cannot be hung without ladder people. Please sign up for this important job.
We will need wagons to help with transporting supplies and quilts to the areas that you will be hanging. We will also need 4 ft. ladders, 6 ft. ladders, and (2) 8 ft. ladders. Please make sure that any ladders and wagons are well marked with your name so we can make sure everyone gets their items back.
Please remember that if you complete a job like check-in you need to come and see Sue Minster for another assignment. Boutique set up will start after the quilts are hung. Lunch will be provided for all workers on Thursday.
See you soon!
Sue Minster
This will be a creative session to make items for the upcoming Quilt Show Boutique.
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
The Spring Quilt Retreat will be held March 24-26.
Registration opens January 1, 2023.
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!
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Board members and Committee members can be found under Leadership.
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Unless otherwise noted:
Meetings are either online or in-person.
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 to members)
Date: Always on the third Tuesday of the month
Time: 6:30pm social time, 7:00pm meeting followed by the program
Guests and new members are always welcome. Currently, a guest may attend a meeting by paying the guest fee. There is a limit of 3 meetings per year for guests.
Unless otherwise noted: Members of Village Quilters have priority seating at all workshops until two months before the workshop date. Open enrollment begins two months before the workshop date. At that time, any interested person may sign up for the workshop.
Register online, at a guild meeting, or download the workshop registration form to register by mail. Registration is complete when payment is received.
Unless otherwise noted:
Date: Wednesday following the Tuesday program
Workshops are either online or in-person.
Time: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Supply lists: See the workshop's description
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