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.
Group Discussion
Weds Sept 17, 2025 - Dining Room - What Motivates You? Decluttering & Organizing
This will include a sharing of ideas
Global Quilt Connection Sampler Platter
Sat & Sun Sept 27 & 28, 2025 - Virtual Event - Link to be provided - Noon - 3:00 pm
Open Sew & Share Fabric Sale Stories
Wed Oct 15, 2025 - Zoom ONLY
Open Sew hosted by Petaluma Quilt Guild - "Sew, Sleep, Repeat Retreat"
Sat & Sun - Nov 15 & 16, 2025 - Petaluma Community Center - 320 N McDowell Street, Petaluma - 9am - 7pm
$60 / person includes lunch. Watch for eBlasts with details.
Patricia Harrison
Weds Nov 19, 2025 - Zoom Only Lecture - Coloring Your Quilts
Patricia Harrison - Strippy Scrappy Quilt
Sat Nov 22, 2025 - Zoom Only Workshop
Join us and bring your scraps to life in a fresh modern composition!
Members $50. Open to Public on Oct 19 for $60
Purchase of pattern required. Discount code will be provided.
Create a striking modern quilt, as featured in Quiltfolk #25 – Rhode Island, while making the most of your fabric scraps! This workshop explores the art of asymmetrical design, value placement, and gradation to achieve a bold and dynamic look.
In this class, you’ll learn:
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Value & Gradation – Enhance your design by working with light-to-dark transitions
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Scrap Utilization – Transform leftover fabric into a cohesive, modern masterpiece
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Basic Quiltmaking Techniques – Reinforce foundational skills for precision piecing
With plenty of demonstrations, abundant samples, and hands-on practice, you’ll gain the confidence to successfully execute this stunning quilt.
Length of Workshop: 6 hours
Number of Students: 20
Michelle Trimble
Weds Jan 21, 2026 - Lecture - Adventures in Improv - Zoom and In Person
Michelle will share her personal journey of discovering the joy and freedom of piecing without a pattern. She’ll walk you through her creative process, from the first hesitant stitches to the bold quilts incorporating swaths of negative space that followed. This lecture is all about exploration, choosing which rules to embrace, and finding fun in the unexpected twists of improv quilting.
Michelle Trimble - Stunning Improv Sunburst
Saturdays Feb 7 & Feb 28, 2026 - Zoom Only Workshop
Members $50. Open to public on Nov 21 for $60
Working with improv can be wonderfully freeing, yet the outcome can seem overwhelming to the senses. Choosing constraints at the outset of an improv project can not only lower the decision-making burden that can seem overwhelming, it can also ensure your composition finishes with dramatic flair. In this class, you will explore several different variations of improv triangles, and experiment with variables that will alter the look of each variation. You will then incorporate these blocks into a large wedge layout to make a 24" square wall hanging.
NOTE: this is an INTERMEDIATE class.
Weds Feb 18, 2026 - Round Robin
Valery Goodwin
Weds Mar18, 2026 - Zoom Only Lecture
Valery Goodwin
Saturdays March 28 & April 4, 2026 - Zoom Only Workshop
Sew Day Camp
Friday - Sunday April 10-12, 2026
Weds Apr 15, 2026 - NO MEETING
