Monthly Meetings

For our first meeting of 2022 we welcome Zak Foster, a Brooklyn-based artist who made cultural headlines with a quilt that was worn at last fall’s Met Gala. Zak is a self-taught artist with an intuitive style that he uses to make memory and burial quilts. His focus is on repurposing materials with an eye to sustainability. (more...)

Bold and beautiful prints—we love them but they can sometimes seem daunting or even intimidating to use. In this program, Kena shares inspiration and ideas for incorporating vivacious African wax prints into your quilt projects. Using samples from modern, appliqué and traditional patterns, she points out how the fabrics were used to makes quilt shout (more...)

Allie is an artist with a background in marine biology who has recently found her creativity in the quilting world. She will share her journey of learning to use scraps in different ways, out of necessity and exploration. Allie looks at her scraps as if they were paints, seeing fabric for color and value. When (more...)

Sam Hunter is a fiber artist and quilt pattern designer, and she is the Chief Everything Officer at Hunter’s Design Studio. She started sewing when she was 7 and hasn’t really stopped since. She spent a lot of time in her teens sewing with her nana on her trusty Singer treadle machine, and embroidering while (more...)

Lorraine Woodruff-Long is a self-taught quilter with a primary focus on color, improvisation, and recycled/repurposed fabrics. Most recently she has been developing “Commentary Quilts” that serve as a creative outlet for issues that matter most to her. Lorraine will share her evolution as a quilter, and discuss how she is using traditional quilting techniques and (more...)

In a whirlwind of interviews with multiple generations of Japanese quiltmakers, Dana Jones learned a lot about working with Japanese fabrics, from indigo to taupe and beyond. She talked with master quilters Kuroha Shizuko, Yoko Seito, Reiko Kato and Keiko Goke. In this slide show, we’ll learn how each of these women selects and designs (more...)

Becky Goldsmith is an award-winning quilter, designer, and instructor with Piece O’ Cake, which she started in 1994 with Linda Jenkins with a focus on hand sewing. Before Linda retired they published more than thirty books and hundreds of patterns, including seven blocks of the month. You may even have some of their books in (more...)

Carolina’s talk will cover many different aspects of color so you can better choose color palettes for your next quilt creations. She’ll discuss the chromatic circle and the three variables of color, and explore five different color schemes that you can use in designing your color palette. By understanding these and a few other considerations, (more...)

Improvisational quilting is an intuitive way of creating quilts. Fern often starts her quilts by playing with scraps or an idea, drawing a rough sketch or wondering: What if? In this lecture, Fern describes her quilting process and how each decision informs the next, keeping her engaged, focused, and often unsure of what happens next. (more...)

In this virtual trunk show, Canadian quilter Brandon Wulff talks about his quilting journey, his business ventures, his autism, and his unique "Biscotti" process quilt. He will show images from his quilting art business, his collaborations with interior designers and decorators, and his personal works. Learn more at Brandon’s website and Instagram, where he posts (more...)