Monthly Meetings

Did your grandmother make quilts using scraps left over from the clothes she made for your family? While today we buy many of the fabrics we use in our quilts, we’re also excited to use found and recycled textiles, from a thrift store, garage sale, or Free Table. Blair is most inspired when using fabric (more...)

Join us for a fascinating Zoom presentation about design and technique in modern quiltmaking by the multitalented David Owen Hastings, whose works ranges across graphic design, printmaking, textile arts and creative coaching. Members will find the Zoom link under the Members Only tab and will also receive the link via eBlast. Nonmembers may pay a (more...)

Join us on Tuesday June 15th for Valerie Goodwin’s presentation, A Dialogue Between Quilting and Architecture. As a practicing architect, a professor at Florida A & M University’s School of Architecture, and a renowned fiber artist, Valerie explores elements common to both practices, including shape, composition, ordering systems, color, texture, and pattern. Her quilts are inspired (more...)

Tune in as Mel Beach shares her love of free-motion quilting and her guilty pleasure of watching reality television! She’ll share her real-life adventures of learning to free-motion quilt, plus her fear factors, extreme makeover story, and myth busting tips and tricks for quilting on a domestic sewing machine. She’ll also show some of her (more...)

Giuseppe Ribaudo of Giucy Giuce regales us from Portland, Maine, with the story of his journey from quilter to fabric designer. With a modern-traditional aesthetic drawn from his childhood learning to sew in his grandmother’s home to his love of sci-fi, he’ll discuss his unique approach to design, tell stories about his years working professionally (more...)

Learn how to take a photo from your smart phone or tablet, manipulate it in an app and print the image onto fabric on a home printer. Lisa Thorpe shows art quilts she’s created with simple images as a central theme, as well as quilts that “tile” multiple images for a collaged effect. She has (more...)

Marty Ornish takes on the sometimes contentious question “How can you cut up a vintage quilt?” in a lively talk that explores controversies in the world of quilting. Marty-O, as she’s known, delves into past and current debates, ranging from social justice to politics, sexual identity to censorship. Learn more about Marty on the web and (more...)

Inspiration abounds in Cassandra Ireland Beaver’s journey through quilts that combine modern, traditional, and art aesthetics. Hear the stories behind the creation of her many award-winning quilts, and leave inspired to try something new! Cassandra looks for inspiration in her surroundings, and her life as a theatrical scenic and costume designer strongly influences her quilt (more...)

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...)