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November 2024
November 2024

Your Color Story

Quilt Show 2025

Holiday Party

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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

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Reframe Your Color Story
Nov 19
In-person Program
Reframe Your Color Story
In-person Program

Join Amy Struckmeyer, QuiltCon 2024 speaker, as she shares how to build color palettes for your quilts that create a specific mood, are dynamic, and that tell a story… YOUR story.

Amy will end with a trunk show of her quilts, examples of her continuing experimentation with design and color.

In-person Program
Holiday Party
Dec 17
In-person Program
Holiday Party
In-person Program

Get together for an evening of food and fun with your fellow guild members.

NOTE: The meeting will start at 6:30pm.

In-person Program
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

Upcoming Workshops and Events

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Make. Quilt. Tote.
Nov 16
In-person Workshop
Make. Quilt. Tote.
In-person Workshop

PLEASE NOTE: Due to the Thanksgiving holiday, this workshop will be Saturday, November 16th before our monthly meeting on Tuesday, November 19th.

Take your quilt to the next level of utilitarian awesomeness by creating a practical and beautiful bag! You’ll come to class with two mini quilt tops ready to turn into a one-of-a-kind quilted tote! You’ll learn how to add straight quilting lines to create a durable tote bag shell; how to box corners; how to make and add both a slip pocket and a lining with a zipper pocket; and how to construct a basic lined tote including tips for securely attaching straps/handles.

More Info and Register →

In-person Workshop
Winter Retreat 2025
Jan 10
Retreat
Winter Retreat 2025
Retreat

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

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

From the July 2024 meeting