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FWQG Programs 2024
Upcoming Programs December Program Annual Christmas party and potluck is always a great fun time for all—lots to look forward to and more news to come. Look forward to upcoming announcements! Past Programs November Meeting Annual Quilt of Valor presentation. We will be giiving Quilts to some distinguished service personnel. It’s always a beautiful ceremony and you will enjoy the opportunity to share and learn about their experiences. October Meeting October brings Becky Goldsmith owner of Piece O’Cake shop. She will give a program titled “Quilting on a Quilt- The Secret Lives of Thread & Needles”. Becky Goldsmith pieceocake.com We will also have a selection of items on the Free table that were given to the guild by Debbie Miles's family. September Meeting - No Program We will be inducting the officers for the 2024-2025 term. We also will have a potluck and visiting, Please bring something yummy! Officers 2024-2025 Thank you to all who agreed to serve on the board for the upcoming year. I am pleased to present the slate of officers for the coming year. The guild will be having a ceremony to induct these newly elected board members. President Lynda McGee President-Elect Cecilia Buckholz VP - Programs Janet Swords & Yvette Richie Treasurer Pat Wagers Secretary Becky Alrubaiie Members at Large Dave Beers August Program - Lisa Thorpe Photo to Fabric: Design in the Palm of your hand -ZOOM MEETING Lisa will be zooming from Little Rock, AR Lisa teaches creative workshops throughout the country. She has been invited to lead workshops for quilt guilds, church groups and friend groups and been honored to teach at national creative conferences such as Craft Napa, IQF Houston and more. Lisa has also published technique articles in Quilting Arts, and Cloth Paper Scissors magazines and was a feature artist in the 2024 season of the PBS Quilting Arts TV show and on The Quilt Show in 2022 (episode 3002). August Workshop 8/24/2024 - Workshop with Lisa Workshop with Lisa 9:00 am - 12:00 pm ZOOM from home! - Backyard Birds Collage Workshop – “Fall in Love with Collage” I hope you will join us via Zoom for this awesome workshop! ZOOM WORKSHOP! Kits are $25.Kit contains the materials to make your multi-media quilted art! Class fee is $35 for members - Invite friends - Class fee is $45. for non-members. Lisa Thorpe is an artist and educator. In the workshop, she will lead us through a mixed media workshops leaning into surface design, composition and layered collage with a lot of kindness and encouragement sprinkled in. Many different birds to choose from! If we have a group that wants to meet up for this, please let Dorene know. JULY CELEBRATION EVENT! Ice Cream Social & Jelly Roll Challenge I Scream - You Scream... We all Scream for Ice Cream! Bring a topping you love to share and come prepared to eat some Ice Cream! YOU are the program in July, and we are looking forward to seeing all your Jelly Roll Quilts. To enter the quilt in the show, we will need a write up of the Pattern, when made, for who etc. and we will let you tell us the information in a small 3-5 min. per quilt. After the show of Jelly Rolls, we'll roll the dice in a game of Left, Center, Right. Please bring 5-Red, White and Blue - 2-1/2" x 42" strips to play with or purchase 5 for 2.00 at the meeting. (Money goes in our guild fund for activities. Left, Center, Right is a dice game that may be played anywhere. It is a game of luck and strategy, where players take turns rolling three dice that have L, R, C, or dot symbols on them. For each L, players pass a STRIP to the left; for each R, they pass a STRIP to the right; for each C, they put a STRIP in the center; and for each dot, they keep a STRIP. The last player that has STRIPS, wins the game! Donate to Quilts of Valor or make one of your own! June 2024 Program - Sharon Wilheim & Loren Wilhelm Lecture: Sashings Bold and Dangerous Sharon is an award-winning quilter, teacher and entrepreneur, successfully running Country Collectibles and Sharon's Quilt Depot retail stores. After retiring from the retail business, Sharon became the co-owner of Quilt Ideas with her husband Loren. June Workshop on Saturday, June 22, 2024; 9:00am – 3:00pm. We will be making a Barn Quilt using Crayons & Embroidery with a Barn Quilt in Summer pattern. Join us with Sharon Wilhelm to make your barn quilt picture on a nice sized quilt block. Sharon will guide us in using Crayons to create a barn quilt picture. May 2024 Program - David Owen Hastings ZOOM & In Person! Don't Miss this talk! Members will receive the Zoom link in the May Newsletter. David Owen Hastings Lecture: Minimal Design, Maximum Impact This talk ties directly into my Modern Abstract Quilts workshop, giving an overview of my process for coming up with simple graphic quilt designs, starting with stitched paper models (called maquettes). I show examples of how to translate an architectural photo into a quilt design, and have many samples of mini quilts I created using this process. The techniques I present are also great for making unique modern quilt block designs. I also talk about walking foot quilting and how to break free from stitch in the ditch. April Program - Join us for a fast and fun activity to learn more about color theory. Led by our very own member Jonquelle Jone. March Program - Jackie Lehto - Trunk Show 03-19-2024 Workshop- March 16th, 2024 See Workshop Details for more information. Registration at the February & March meetings. Jacqueline Lehto is the featured speaker for our March meeting. Jackie has been quilting for over 23 years and has taught hundreds of people how to quilt in project classes, beginning to quilt classes, in junior and senior high school classes and she has taught 23 quilting camps in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Texas. You will be sure to enjoy the evening at our March meeting as she shares her wide array of quilts, which range in style from traditional to modern, and from realistic to abstract art quilts. The one thing that all her works have in common, however, is her love of bright colors. Her work has been juried into the American Quilters Society Des Moines, Iowa, The Road to California Show, The Great Wisconsin Quilt Show, and the Hoffman Fabric Challenge Traveling Exhibit. She has won Viewer’s Choice on two occasions and received the Best Use of Color award. She was awarded 3rd place in the Bed Quilt Category at the 2023 Great Wisconsin Quilt Show in Madison. We know you will be inspired and motivated as Jackie shares her wonderful and colorful trunk show and her love of quilting with us. January Program - DELAYED due to Inclement Weather Officer Dwayne Kelley Personal Safety Officer Kelley has over 30 years of law enforcement experience with twenty years at Arlington Police Department and 12 + years as Tarrant County College District Police Department Training Coordinator. He has extensive experience and training in law enforcement and holds many honors and training certificates, such as:
2023 Programs11/12/2023 December program - FWQG Annual Christmas Party We will celebrate with a festive atmosphere including Christmas Carols in various forms, along with a fun game and some Quilty and fun Christmas Crafts! We have gifts all around and special prizes for the game winners. Bring a long-lost Quilt Guild member and a quilter friend along! Dress up if you want or come as you are! Let’s Party! Link to the Hand Warmers Online - Heart & Snowman versions:https://www.thescrapshoppeblog.com/workshop-wednesday-homemade-hand-warmers/Annual Guild Christmas Party! You are invited to our annual Christmas party for the December guild meeting. This year we will be celebrating Christmas together with a host of fun activities. Come enjoy a hearty meal of Baked Potatoes with all the best toppings including brisket, chili, sour cream, cheese, bacon and more! We can’t wait! Please bring along your favorite Christmas Candy, cookies and treats to share! Hand Warmers Tags
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December Program - Christmas PartyNovember Program: Quilt of Valor
You are sure to enjoy our November program as we honor Veterans at our November Quilts of Valor presentation. The Quilt of Valor Quilts we will be awarding were made by our own Fort Worth Quilt Guild quilters. Imagine how meaningful it will be to honor our local veterans who served in the U.S. military. You will find this to be a truly proud moment to celebrate Veterans by awarding them a Quilt of Valor. It is so awesome to hear about these heroes and help us to celebrate their service to our country. Members of FWQG have made the blocks and contributed quilting and binding of these quilts – a gift of respect and honor. Remember to bring a snack to share with our guests and members! Bring a friend and invite a FWQG member to join you in honoring our Vets! October 2023 - Mendie Cannon Brazilian Embroidery The October program will feature a program by Mendie Cannon on Brazilian Embroidery. Come see her beautiful work, and quilts with this embroidery on it. September 2023 - Officer Installation & Potluck Supper Come meet the new board members and also enjoy some fellowship and food. Bring a dish, dessert or other food to share! August 2023 - Zoom Business Meeting Due to the North Texas Quilt Festival there will be no regular meeting this month. A guild business meeting will be held online in Zoom. Please see the August 2023 newsletter for more details. July 2023 - Our Quilting Journeys The July program, Our Quilting Journeys, will be presented by FWQG members Judi Janes and Grace Stroud. We will tell you how we got into quilting and show you the very first quilts we ever made. Then we will show some of our favorite quilts and tell you about our favorite designers, patterns, techniques, tools, etc. Learn how we’ve evolved (or not) as quilters in our twenty plus years as members of the Fort Worth Quilt Guild. We promise to be entertaining and maybe even funny. June 2023 - Booth -North TX Quilt Show Preparation We will be working on items for the booth. Please bring basic sewing supplies, as well as the goodies you've already completed for the booth. May 2023 - Living Color Our own, Jonquele Jones will be our presenter. Some color combinations are more exciting or calming or elegant than others. Learn a little about the properties of colors so that your next quilt speaks what you want to say. There will be a workshop. April 2023 - All about the Show We will have several speakers telling us all about
March 2023 - Scrap Magic and Scrappy Quilts We are welcoming Connie Sliger She will be giving us ways to control the scraps and ideas for using them. February 2023 - Hollis Threads Hollis Threads will be presenting Qulted Hearts: an interactive program. January 2023 - Lilo Bowman We will be welcoming Lilo Bowman to our meeting. She will be sharing her expertise in organizing. This will be quilting/sewing organizing ideas! December 2022 - Annual Christmas Party
We will having our annual Christmas gathering at the meeting. The Guild will be serving a Taco Salad Supper. The meal, including all the fixings for the taco salad and drinks, will be provided by the Guild. If you have a favorite dessert you would like to make and bring to share, that would be awesome! We will have a couple of crafts for you to make and we will be playing Left, Right, Center for a chance at a stack of fat quarters. Please bring a fat quarter of your choice to play the game! November 2022 - Quilts of Valor Presentations October 2022 - Schoolhouse Presentations September 2022 - Officer Installation & Potluck Supper August 2022 - Online only - Officer Election North Texas Quilt Show 2022 July 2022 - We will have a trunk show by Kathy Groves, a certified Judy Neimier paper piecing teacher. You can choose whether to feel encouraged by her or totally daunted!!! June 2022 - We will have our giant garage sale!!!! A full 6' table will be $10 rent, a half table $5. All we hope to do is to cover our cost for using the space at the church of $75. So, dig around in that quilting room and decide to part with things you know you will never use again...and in return you can pick up some things that maybe you will actually use!! The church will be open at 5:30 for set up and we will have a meeting sometime in the midst of all the fun!! Be there or be .....you know! May 2022 program brings Debbie Sommer to share with us her journey from regular quilting to wool applique. Hint: one reason she likes it is that there aren't any points!! April 2022 Program - FWQG member Dorene Joyce (Augustyn) as she shares her program: Joy in the Journey – Get Your Creative Hat On! Dorene has won artistic awards and her quilt "Jumping for Joy'' won 1st place in the Art Quilt Tahoe student challenge. Jumping for Joy is now on tour with Hoffman Media for their Best of North Texas 2021 Exhibit. Dorene will share how quilting has brought her much joy in her journey. In the program she will share quilts from her trunk show and talk about finding her Artistic Voice in quilting. She will share tips and techniques and she will discuss the methods and materials she has used in her art quilts. This talk will center around learning & growing as a quilter no matter what your favorite type and will encourage quilters to let go of their fears and try a little creativity! Dorene's Undersea Creatures Workshop will be available on Sat. April 30th from 9 am to 2 PM. We'll discuss fabrics, adhesives, stitching & painting techniques. This class covers a lot of fun and useful information, all while creating an Underwater Sea Creature. Once you learn the basics your creations will be limitless! The class incorporates applique and other artistic mark making methods. This class is a creative, crafty and expressive style of Art Quilting, where you will learn a variety of easy and fun ways to create your very own Art Quilt! Supply list to be sent upon paid registration. Cost of the workshop is $35. A list of materials that you will need to bring will be supplied with your registration. You will get to try some fun methods for creating your sea Creature. Select from an assortment of animals. (Breaching Humpback Whale, Sea Turtle, Blue Crab, Whale Shark, Manta Ray and others available at the workshop.) March 2022 Program - We will have a live and in person program by the world renowned Texas quilter Barbara McCraw!!! I first met Barbara at the Houston Quilt Show where she had her own display. I was totally captivated by her work, which has such a personal quality. Some of you may have taken her Baltimore Album classes some years ago; the classes were based on her own very personal Baltimore Album Quilt that depicts events and places in her grandparents lives. She is a marvelous presenter and now her husband participates since he has taken up quilting himself. This is a Do Not Miss presentation! It's also one that we would love to have you bring your friends! Because she is a nationally known quilter there will be a $5 fee for guests and I feel quite certain that they will say it was worth it!! February 2022 Program - "Running with the Big Dogs," a hilarious account of Sherri Worley's experience being part of a very competitive quilting bee. Come to our next meeting on the 18th to learn how things could be much worse in your life!! In February, quilter Terry Mosher will present a lecture called the History of Male Quilters, based on his touring exhibition of quilts by men. Terry has a 30 year history of quilting and other forays into fabric manipulation including teaching sashiko, the Japanese method of decorative surface stitching and his perfection of the millefiore method of English Paper Piecing. Terry will teach this at our February workshop on Saturday, February 19. He promises that, depending on your interest, you can make a table topper or a king sized quilt! Sign up for the workshop at our January meeting!! |
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