UPCOMING PROGRAMS
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The second meeting of each month typically includes a lecture or demonstration by an accomplished quilt teacher. There is a guest fee of $5 for Program Meetings with speakers.​
Jenny Lyon
Sept 18, 2024 - Zoom Lecture Only - "My Tippy Top Tips for Successful and Joyful Free Motion Quilting"
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Jenny Lyon has been joyfully teaching quilting since 2006. Her energy and enthusiasm is boundless.
She calls herself the Quilt Skipper because once while quilting, she was so delighted by the unexpected beauty of it and what emerged from under the needle, that she found herself cheerfully skipping around the house.
Jenny lives in Northern California with her oh-so-patient hubby. Their two grown sons have left the nest to become men, leaving more room for books, fabric and notions. She uses a domestic sewing machine to do her free motion machine quilting, to create art quilts and wearable art. Her current work is centered around whole-cloth pieces, with intricate free-hand free-motion quilting. Because there is little or no piecing, the story is told through the line of the thread. She considers this work to be “sculpting” the fabric, since the stitches create line and shadow upon the quilt’s surface.
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Jenny Lyon
Sept 21, 2024 - Zoom Workshop - "Easy and Fabulous Straight Line Ruler Work"
In this 3-hour workshop, Jenny will show ways to incorporate straight line ruler work into your quilts using a unique ruler that makes straight line ruler work virtually fool proof. This is a great class for a newer free motion quilter, as ruler work simplifies the process. Straight line ruler work is an ideal way to try this technique without a large investment in rulers - you only need one ruler! This is a great way to get accurate results with less marking and it’s fun! Class size limited to 20 people. Time is 10-1.
3 hours $25 for MQSC Members plus $32 Kit Fee.
Kit includes a quilt sandwich and the 7.5 inch Line Tamer ruler. The unique panel is pre-printed and marks will wash out. Talk with Trina J if you already have the Line Tamer ruler for a reduced kit fee.
Signup for Jenny's class HERE
Read more about Jenny HERE
Audrey Giroux, Trina Jahnsen, & Others!
Oct 16, 2024 - Lecture - "Playing with Color - A Hands on Collaboration Activity"
Have you ever made a quilt and it didn't come out as you expected? It is most likely because of the colors, values and contrast of the fabrics. This meeting will be a group activity exploring color theory by creating fabric swatch worksheets to reinforce color theory concepts. If you are an expert, come and help those who are learning.
Charitable Sewing
Nov 20, 2024 - Lecture - "Giving Back Through Sewing"
Several charities will talk about ways that we can give back with sewing needed supplies for a range of community groups. Members can make these items as part of giving back to our community!
Dana Jones
Jan 15, 2025 - Zoom Lecture Only - "Around the Block: Creating Quilts from Blocks from Traditional to Contemporary"
From traditional blocks to modern blocks, from repeated blocks to one-of-a-kind blocks, from blocks you know to those you’ve never seen — quilters past and present (and likely future) love blocks. This trunk show includes more than 20 quilts from a range of quilting genres, including ones I've designed and ones designed by others and all constructed with blocks. Perhaps you’ll be inspired to join me in becoming a “blockhead” — newly defined as a quilter entranced by the infinite world of quilt blocks. I hope you’ll come away from this presentation proud to be a chip off the old block of our quilting foremothers and our quilting mentors and peers. Plan to join me on this colorful trip around the block.​​
Read more about Dana HERE
Sign up for Dana's class HERE
​​Dana Jones
Jan 18 & Feb 1, 2025 - 10am - 1pm - 6 hours - Zoom Workshop - "Peace Cranes Over Hiroshima"
I designed and made “Peace Cranes Over Hiroshima” after a visit to the peace park that is at the epicenter of the World War II atomic bombing site in Hiroshima, Japan. This foundation paper pieced quilt is based on an Origami folded peace-crane image from the International Crane Foundation in Baraboo, Wisconsin. Experience with foundation paper piecing (machine paper piecing) is needed for success making this quilt. You’ll learn a lot about color value as value is key to creating this quilt’s three-dimensional look.
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The workshop fee will be $50 for members and $60 for non-members.
The workshop requires a $20 kit that includes the pattern in two sizes, full-color cutting chart, full-color cutting labels, multiple handouts, and foundations on foundation paper for the portions of the quilt that will be pieced during the workshop.
