Area A Meeting

First Congregational Church
5th Avenue West
Hendersonville, NC 28739
Questions? Contact us at
area_a@westernncquilters.org

Come a little early so you have time to meet-and-greet our members. The meeting starts at 10:00 am! Learn about the latest news from the guild and area quilters and share your projects during show-and-tell. Every meeting you will learn something new from a program presented by a local quilter or artisan! 

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Area B Meeting

Beginnings Quilt Shop 

1038 Greenville Highway, Suite C; Hendersonville, NC 28792

All are welcome to attend a fun-filled day of quilting. The day starts with a sew-in from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm. Bring your sewing machine and projects to work on. Socialize while you sew! Don't forget to bring your lunch or munchies!

The official meeting starts at 1:00 pm. During the meeting you will hear about the latest updates from the guild, local quilting news, share your latest projects during show-and-tell, and learn something new when a local quilter or artisan presents a short program. 

Questions? Contact us at
area_b@westernncquilters.org

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WNCQG Board Meeting

Grace Lutheran Church
1245 6th Avenue West
Hendersonville, NC 28791
Questions? Contact us at
info@westernncquilters.org

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The Western North Carolina Quilters Guild board meeting is open to all members. This meeting is a leadership meeting for guild officers to discuss guild business.  Members of the board include the following positions: president, vice president, treasurer, secretary, and area representatives from Areas A, B, C, and D. Individuals holding chairperson positions are invited to participate.  

This meeting is also open to guild members who wish to attend. 

Area C Meeting

Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd
22 Fisher Road
Brevard, NC 28712
Questions? Contact us at
area_c@westernncquilters.org

All are invited to come early to socialize and browse our "donations table" that is chalked full of fabric, patterns, and all things quilting! Guests are greeted and asked to sign the guest book before the meeting starts! You can expect to hear about the latest guild news, local quilting events and community service projects. Members and guests are always share their lovely quilting projects during show-and-tell! No meeting is complete until a quilter or artisan shares their knowledge about quilting through a program or demonstration! 

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Area D Meeting

Grace Lutheran Church
1245 6th Avenue West
Hendersonville, NC 28791
Questions? Contact us at
area_d@westernncquilters.org

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All invited to attend this talented group of quilters who enjoy sharing their projects and knowledge with others! Meetings are a great time to learn about guild news, local happenings, and quilting events! Everyone is encouraged to bring their projects to show off during show-and-tell. Every month a member of the group, local quilter, or artisan shares a brief program about quilting or fiber art.  

Quilts of Valor

Beginnings Quilt Shop
1038 Greenville Highway, Suite C
Hendersonville, NC 28792
Questions? Contact us at
quilts_of_valor@westernncquilters.org

Come and sew with us each month to make quilts for our veterans. Bring your machine, or help cut and press. We sew and chat all day, and love to have new potential members visit.

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Linda Hahn's classes are fun and empowering. Linda has a way of taking a project that looks complex and breaking it down in such a way that's easy to understand. Linda adds her own sense of style while at the same time making it a WHOLE LOTTA FUN! Her infectious passion for quilting shines through her classes. Linda is a high-energy-low stress instructor. 

Linda is the author of 14 books—four of those award-winning books—including:

• New York Beauty Simplified (Bronze Medal, Independent Publishers Living Now Book Awards) and AQS best seller.
• New York Beauty Diversified (Gold Medal, Independent Publishers Living Now Book Awards).
• Rock that Quilt Block Weathervane (Gold Medal, Independent Publishers Living Now Book Awards).
• Quilt Match Up—Cash vs. Stash (Silver Medal, Independent Publishers Living Now Book Awards).

Linda is an iQuilt instructor. Her class—New York Beauty Simplified—is available at www.iquilt.com.

Linda was a National Quilting Association Certified Teacher and was the 2009  NQ A Certified Teacher of the Year. She has been nominated three times (2001, 2004, 2008) for Professional Quilter Magazine's Teacher of the Year Award.

Linda designs quilt patterns which are marketed under the name FROG HOLLOW DESIGNS.

Linda has had her work published in Quilt Magazine, The Quilter Magazine, The Professional Quilter Magazine, Quiltmaker Magazine, Quilt Almanac, Machine Quilting Unlimited Magazine, American Quilter Magazine.  She has designed quilt patterns for RJR Fabrics and Clothworks, Inc., and Elizabeth's Studio, LLC.  She works closely with Northcott Fabrics. Hoffman California and Banyan Batiks fabrics.

Lunch Bunch location: Tequilas (Sign up at Guild Mtg)

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Learn Linda Hahn's unique technique for creating perfect New York Beauty blocks on the first attempt using just one pin. Throughout the class, Linda shows how you can make an optional miniature New York Beauty quilt. Add a modern flair to a traditional quilt block with this design. It goes together so fast, you'll want to try other colorways! There's plenty of open space to have even more fun with your quilting designs using the scraps and the cutaways from the main project. Quilt is 36" X 42".

Kit fee payable to Linda: $25

Please note the change in location.

Diane Vandiver was born and raised near New Orleans and earned her degree in education from High Point College, NC. She later became a flight attendant for American  Airlines and traveled for a decade before starting her family. She settled in Georgia to raise her children where she discovered her passion for quilting while being a homeschool mom.

After making her first quilt in 1997, Diane was hooked. In 2012, and more than 100 quilts later, Diane created a pattern company and website called Butterfly Threads Quilting. She has published dozens of patterns, created templates, and was a regular contributing writer to the Craftsy Quilting website for 5 years. 

Since 2015, Diane has been traveling the country teaching quilting techniques and sharing her love of scrap quilts. Her two books, Scrap Quit Secrets and Strip Quilt Secrets have both been published by C&T. Diane designs fabric for Blank Quilting Fabrics and enjoys longarming on her HQ Amara. 

The lunch bunch is going to Tequilas at 300 Freeman St. (sign up at Guild Mtg)

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Hometown Holidays

Have fun customizing your hometown with your favorite fabrics and embellishments! We will make a sample of each of the blocks and then explore the possibilities for a unique project celebrating any holiday or family event, or even your favorite pet. The pattern includes 3 alternate smaller projects. The full-size quilt is 60.5 x 60.5. We will make a portion of the quilt that can be used as a table runner or pillow.

 A workshop fee of $40 is payable to the guild. The fee for the pattern can be paid directly to Diane.

Back by Popular Demand

The Pizza Girls got their name from the way they package their fabrics. Their specialty is making kits, coordinating fabrics for maximum impact for each project and then packaging them to look like pizzas.

In this Show & Tell Cindy and Patti will present Antique Needlework. They have collected antique needlework for a long time. We will get to look at and touch samples from the 1800s, including lots of white work/Ayshire samples.

The discussion will be the history of cotton manufacturing and fashion trends from the late 1700s to World War I. If you stitch at all, you will appreciate the work in these samples.

Cindy and Patti will also bring fabric collections, patterns, rulers, and kits to sell after the Show & Tell.

The lunch bunch is going to West First at 101 First Ave. W. (sign up at Guild Mtg)

After the guild meeting on July 17th at Grace Lutheran Church, the Boot Camp workshop is just what it says. Beginners will learn skill-building techniques and experienced quilters might unlearn some bad habits. Cindy and Patti will discuss fabric preparation, cutting, pressing, construction, borders and binding. Each student will make an accurate 1/2 square, 1/4 square and a flying goose. Lots of handouts.

The cost of the boot camp is $20. If you take both this workshop and the all-day workshop the next day, the fee to the guild is $45.

You can pay the $6 kit fee directly to Cindy and Patti.

Everyone loves stars, but they need to be accurate. The St. Louis Star looks complicated but there are no Y seams. Focus on accurate piecing and pressing skills.

If you take both workshops (Boot Camp on Thursday afternoon and St. Louis Star on Friday), the cost will be $45 to the guild. If you take just this workshop from the Pizza Girls, the cost to the guild is $40.

You can pay the $6 kit fee directly to Cindy and Patti.

Unleash the Power of Your Sewing Machine

Learn to use machine stitching to create dimension with amped up applique decorative stitches and thread painting. Open your mind to the creative possibilities that can be accomplished with your machine.

Sandy Fitzpatrick of Hissyfitz Designs is an applique quilt pattern designer whose goal is to get as many of the quirky designs that are spinning around in her head, down on paper for you to enjoy!

Using fusible and non-fusible techniques, Sandy will take away the mystery and the dread as you learn how easy the process really is. Learn how to do so much more with the satin-stitching, blanket-stitching, and the decorative stitches on your machine.

Sandy and her Air Force husband moved around the country. She currently resides in Cary, NC.

The lunch bunch will go to Applebees at 1635 Four Seasons Blvd. (sign up at guild mtg.)

Mama Llama Love

Make this fun wall hanging using fusible applique. This will make an adorable gift for a child or grandchild—or your inner child.

The $40 workshop fee is payable to the guild.

The $10 pattern is payable to Sandy.

Color! An Engineer’s guide to color value and color placement in your quilts

This is a return visit for Charles. He so impressed the guild last year that we wanted to invite him back for more color and style inspiration.

As an engineer, Charles approaches color selection and placement in quilts in a very methodical way. In this talk he’ll discuss several strategies for selecting fabric colors and their placement when planning your quilt to add interest and depth. He promises there aren’t any quizzes or mathematical equations!

The talk is in 3 parts: Charles begins with a brief discussion on color theory basics (the color wheel, and concepts: hue, tone, shade, and value). In the second part he shares quilts that he's sewn using other designers’ patterns and discusses different ideas for color placement. In the third part he shares his own original designs, and discusses the approach to how colors were selected to enhance the overall effect and design.

Join the lunch bunch at Sol-Y-Luna, 1715 Brevard Rd. (sign up at Guild Mtg)

Tilted Tiles: An introduction to Semi-improv Techniques

‘Semi-improv’ is a technique for those who want the look and feel of improv, but who aren’t quite ready to give up their rulers.

The workshop will kick off with a detailed overview of the pattern to orient participants. Hands-on instruction will be provided for each step of the Tilted Tiles quilt pattern and classroom time will be allowed for participants to progress toward making a 36” x 36” wall handing or 18” x 72” table runner of your own.

The pattern uses efficient, traditional piecing techniques, and multiple block sizes, each with their own choose-your-own-adventure-style instructions for the creation of a one-of-a-kind masterpiece.

Blocks are made from modular subunits which are mixed-and-matched in interesting color and value combinations to create visual interest and flow. The subunits can be assembled in various orientations and sewn together in numerous configurations. The blocks are constructed larger than required using traditional piecing techniques, then trimmed with a ruler, improv-style to give each block a ‘tilted’ or ‘wonky’ look which adds variety and movement to the assembled quit top.

The $40 workshop fee is payable to the guild.

The $15 pattern is payable to Charles directly.

Bring 4 half yards of fabric in various colors and color values. A 12.5” square quilting ruler is highly recommended.

This meeting will be a social Mix & Mingle after the business meeting. Details will be shared as soon as they are available.

Quilt as Desired

Those three words "quilt as desired" strike fear in many quilters. Cheryl Brickey will share a step-by-step process you can use to help determine which quilt design you should use on your quilts, whether you are quilting it yourself or sending it out to a quilting professional. This helps you decide between allover versus custom patterns, which designs to use, and even quilting density and thread color. She will show many of her quilts and discuss how she decided the quilting patterns for each.

Cheryl is a chemical engineer who loves designing quilts and quilt math. She is the author of Just One Charm Pack Quilts, Just Two Charm Pack Quilts, and Modern Plus Sign Quilts.

Cheryl has had her work published in major quilt magazines and won awards in international quilt shows. She created her company Meadow Mist Designs to bridge her technical background with a love of quilting to deliver classic and modern quilt patterns.

Cheryl lives in South Carolina with her husband, two school-age kids, and four cats.

The lunch bunch will go to Tooley's Cafe at 1729 Brevard Rd. (Sign up at mtg.)

Just Two Charm Pack Quilts

Cheryl is a chemical engineer who loves designing quilts and quit math with her company Meadow Mist Designs. She will present her workshop, the afternoon after the guild meeting on November 20th.

This workshop requires Cheryl's book, Just Two Charm Pack Quilts. The book can be purchased from Cheryl the day of the workshop (with some extra goodies), or before the workshop from a quilt shop or bookstore.

Attendees do not need to pre-cut any fabric before the workshop, but they can if they would like, as cutting will be discussed in the workshop.

The $25 workshop fee is payable to the guild.

The details for our Annual Holiday Party will be shared as soon as they are available.