FWQG Programs 2024

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 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!

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Sharon Wilheim & Loren Wilhelm
Lecture: Sashings Bold and Dangerous
June 2024 Program

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.
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​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 - 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
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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

 March Program   03-19-2024
Jackie Lehto  - ​Trunk Show
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.   

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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:

• Advanced Concepts for Predicting Violent Behavior
• Violence Reduction Through Open-Source Intelligence
• Threat Assessment and Rampage Shootings
• Victim Privacy in the Digital Age
• Active Shooter: Four Pillars of Prevention & Responses

In January he will be presenting a great program on Personal Safety!