The Quilters’ Guild of Arlington meets on the second Tuesday of each month at:
Bob Duncan Community Center in Vandergriff Park
2800 South Center Street, Arlington, TX 76014
Workshops are held on the Wednesday following the Tuesday General Meeting from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm.
Our NEW workshop location is Traders Village RV Park Recreation Center, 2602 Mayfield Road, Grand Prairie, TX 75052. The Recreation Center is beside the Convenience Store. Map
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2022 Programs and Workshops
November 8 – KATIE LEWIS – Scrappy Applique
Katie Lewis is a quilter and teacher. She is passionate about helping quilters to explore their creativity through fabric and sewing. She will be providing a program and workshop on Scrappy Appliqué, a raw-edge appliqué technique developed by quilter and author Shannon Brinkley. Scrappy Appliqué is fun and easy, freeing quilters to play with fabric and color to create unique quilt mosaics. Perfect for beginners and advanced quilters alike, Scrappy Appliqué is also an excellent scrap-buster!
During the program participants will be inspired to play with color and fabric during this interactive program and trunk show. Learn about this Scrappy Appliqué method and be inspired to use these techniques in your own projects. Katie will provide lots of examples using her own quilts. We’ll discuss fabric selection, the Scrappy Appliqué technique, and finishing options.
November 9 – WORKSHOP – Scrappy Applique
The Scrappy Appliqué workshop is perfect for both beginner and advanced quilters. It is so much fun because it takes the pressure off piecing perfectly and allows us to explore color and pattern in a fun and easy way. The templates give just enough direction to give students confidence in their finished quilt, but the freedom to create a quilt that is as unique as they are. It’s perfect for brand new quilters and experienced quilters wanting to think outside the box. Participants will learn how to take fabric scraps and turn them into gorgeous appliqué pieces. Participants choose their favorite pattern (available for purchase at the workshop) and learn the Scrappy Appliqué technique step-by-step. Trust me, you’ll see appliqué in a whole new way.
December 13 – Catherine Redford – The Language of Flowers
Catherine taught at Pieceful Heart Fabrics in Lisle, IL for ten years, then at Quilters Quest in Woodridge for three years before becoming a full-time traveling quilt teacher in 2013. She teaches internationally and has taught for AQS and Quilts, Inc. at their shows. Her trunk show will include a variety of quilts featuring flowers, many of which are beaded and embellished. We will learn the meanings our ancestors ascribed to different blooms and consider why the giving and receiving of quilts is so special to many of us.
2023 Programs and Workshops
January 9 – WORKSHOP – Binding Perfection
Let Sue Heinz improve your binding skills by showing you a technique that is pin-free, math-free and guarantees show-quality results. Once that technique is firmly in your mind, she will then take you on a journey from Bland to Grand – as she demonstrates innovative ideas for incorporating into your bindings: lace, beads, zippers, split bindings and more.
January 10 – SUE HEINZ – You’ve Got a Friend Named Elmer
Sue’s passion is teaching and she brings to each of her classes a Fine Arts and Education background, over 25+ years of quilting experience, a sense of humor, design expertise and a commitment to help each of her students reach new levels of quilting excellence. She has authored five books, each brimming with fresh design ideas for free-motion quilting and has also invented several innovative marking tools and rulers – all to delight, intrigue and inspire.
Sue lives in Lino Lakes, MN with her husband Tom. They have two wonderful daughters, two awesome sons-in-law and two beautiful grandsons.
In her lecture, You’ve Got A Friend Named Elmer, you will imagine a world where every seam you stitch is perfect…every block true to size. Can you also imagine precisely matching stripes, accurately piecing circles (with ease!) and eliminating bias stretch forever? Wanna dream even more? Imagine never having to rip again! Sue Heinz guarantees you will achieve your wildest piecing dreams when you use this simple technique that requires no pins, clips or gadgets. A MUST-SEE lecture that will ROCK your piecing world!
January 11 – WORKSHOP – Caffeinated Quilting
Sue Heinz has brewed up energy-infused, organic designs that will look stunning on your next quilt! Based on her latest book, this class will leave you filled to the brim with new grid, block and linear designs that are easy to master – especially with Sue’s one-on-one teaching style. So, what are you waiting for? Come play – leave caffeinated!
February 14 – MICHELLE PARKER – Success With Small Piecing
Michelle began quilting in 1997, then started working at The Old Craft Store in Carrollton, where she started teaching a beginning quilting class. She also facilitated Moda U for several years. Over the past few years, she has been drawn to small piecing, stating that it’s funny how, as her eyes and fingers don’t work as well, that’s when she decided small piecing was her love.
Michelle started a longarm business in 2019, Sew Many Quilts, offering longarm quilting, custom t-shirt and memory quilts, and one-on-one classes.
March 14 – SANDY FITZPATRICK – Why Didn’t I Think of That? (Lecture via ZOOM)
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! Her fusible applique patterns are full of whimsy and will certainly bring a smile to your face. Sandy strives to make her full-sized patterns easy to follow and fun to make. Having lived in many places as she and her husband moved around with the Air Force, Sandy currently lives in Cary, North Carolina.
Her lecture, “Why Didn’t I Think of That?,” will present tips, tricks, and shortcuts to make your sewing and quilting easier and more enjoyable, such as how to sew a sleeve to your quilt quickly and easily, tricks to add dimension to your quilts, and organizational tips. Also included are ideas for small group projects and to do with friends or bee members.
April 11 – LISA ERLANDSON – Northern Lady or Southern Belle?
Lisa Erlandson is a compulsive quilt collector, with an extensive collection of antique quilts, whose habit has led to several quilt-related specialties. She is an AQS Certified Appraiser of Quilted Textiles, lecturer, quilt show judge, teacher, and quilt historian. She also owns LeRetreat House in Gainesville, Texas.
She learned to sew as a child, re-discovered sewing in the mid-1980s as a drama teacher, and made her first quilt in 1991. She taught junior high school, high school and college before deciding to focus on the quilt world.
She has spoken internationally and teaches and lectures at venues from small local guilds to national quilt shows. She also judges quilt shows ranging from county fairs to statewide shows. She is a past president of the American Quilt Study Group.
In her lecture, she will explain that here was more than just the Mason-Dixon Line that divided the North and South. This program compares and contrasts quilts from the 19th century in design, style, and fabric to examine the regional differences of our quilting ancestors.
May 9 – LINZEE KULL McCRAY – The History of Feed Sacks
Linzee Kull McCray has been an art teacher, a bartender, and a book publicist; she has taught childbirth education to expectant parents and magazine writing to journalism undergrads. As her checkered background indicates, she’s got the perfect writer’s temperament: she’s curious about everything.
And curiosity has led her to pursue other unexpected opportunities—to curate museum exhibitions, give talks and teach workshops at libraries, quilt guilds, and textile research centers in the U.S and Europe, and design feed-sack inspired fabrics for Moda and patterns for Clark Street Quilts.
People’s stories and the opportunity to share them get her up in the morning and keeps her up far into the night. She is constantly inspired by the art, textiles, and crafts she encounters through her writing, and the people she meets through her work.
Long before “sustainability” was a household word, people reused the fabric bags that once held everything from animal feed and seed, to sugar and flour, to ballots, hams, and even laxatives. Based on her book Feed Sacks: The Colourful History of a Frugal Fabric, her lecture will share both the beauty of feed sacks and their importance in the social and economic history of the times in which they were made and used. The lecture features historic photos, vintage advertising, and fabric patterns, as well as actual sacks and the clothing, quilts, and other items made from them.
May 10 – WORKSHOP – To Be Determined
June 13 – Christina Cameli – Lecture
Christina Cameli has been sewing since she was a child. In 2003, she fell in love with quilting. Since then, she has authored five quilting books, filmed multiple online classes and designed quilt patterns and fabric. But she is also a nurse-midwife, a mom and a paddle boarder. She lives in Portland, Oregon with her blended family, their rescue lab mix, and a ton of houseplants. Quilting is where she puts herself back together. She loves teaching and creating and sharing the incredible journey of being human.
June 14 – WORKSHOP – How to Love Free-Motion Quilting
This is a lighthearted look at free-motion quilting and how to have a great relationship with it!
July 11 – Ronald McDonald Quilt Challenge and Past QGOA Presidents Quilt Trunk Show
August 8 – MARGARET WILLINGHAM – Reverse Applique: Revealing Beauty
What is reverse appliqué? What is the difference between appliqué and reverse appliqué? When was it developed and by who? How do you quilt reverse appliqué? What is hidden will be revealed!
September 12 – DEBBY MADDY – Indigo Shibori Dyeing from Itajime, Arashi, Nui, Kumo, and Beyond
In her combination slide presentation and trunk show, Debby will explain the concept of Shibori and show examples of many of the different techniques. The slide presentation will illustrate Debby’s Shibori experiences in Japan, England, and the US, where she has done extensive studies. She will also show a
collection of hand dyed fabrics and quilts made from Shibori fabrics.
October 10 – TERESA DURYEA WONG – Lecture TBD
November 14 – SALLY BROWN – Dear Jane Trunk Show
