At each meeting, we enjoy presentations by speakers on a wide variety of quilting-related topics, coordinated by our Programmes Team. Questions? Contact Programmes.

2024 Programmes

May

Our guest speaker is Bettina Matzkuhn, a contemporary fibre artist based in Vancouver.

photo Y.Hachkowski

April

The program for our April Meeting is members teaching members.

We have two members that have volunteered to teach a technique or small project and we need more. If you have something that you have learned and would like to pass on, please let us know. The demo would be 10-15 min. and we will do two sessions with 3-4 each session.

March

We have Carola Russell for an in-person presentation, “Circles/Stripes”. She will also be bringing her wonderful pop up shop.

Registration for the UFO has closed but you do have until the March meeting to finish the quilts so hope you are working hard!

February

We have Brandy, Quilter on Fire, presenting via Zoom “A Quilter’s journey”. If you have a chance prior listen to her podcast, she has many interesting interviews.

January

We are excited to have Kathy Wylie present via Zoom to speak about “The Art of Applique”.

2023 Programmes

November

November was the last chance to sign up for the UFO. Finished quilts can be shown up to March 2024 meeting at the break. At the end of the March 2024 meeting the winner (or winners) will be drawn.

October (includes EPP links)

Krista Hennebury presented her new program called “Mini Quilt, Major Inspiration”: Nurturing small projects into spectacular quilts. In this lecture, Krista looks at the design concept of a maquette, or model, to test ideas, colours, and substrate combinations before committing to a big project. She shared photographic and real quilt samples and fun ideas for expanding one’s quilt practice without breaking the bank or depleting your precious stash before you’ve tested your ideas.

A small EPP project was handed out for members to try, with links for instructions and ideas for some small projects.

The first link is from Molly and Mama. They have cute patterns and the free bookmark that Connie made if you sign up.

The second is from The Last Homely House on YouTube. She has a video titled Back to Basics where she goes over her favourite method for EPP.

Molly and Mama use glue for their hexies and Kate at The Last Homely House uses a more traditional basting stitch.

See which method you prefer and bring your finished projects to the guild to inspire others!

September

Dragonfly Quilting gave a presentation on notions and set up a pop-up shop for members to enjoy!

June

No guest speaker, but join us for our annual spring social before the summer break.

MAY

Karen Johnson

Karen has been focused on the use of line, often forming an abstract grid formation. Seeing a tile wall hanging in Oaxaca inspired her to explore combining a variety of grids in one art work. It wasn’t until later that she realized that instead of an abstract grid, she was using a formal grid structure yet one that was still created by the usage of line.

APRIL

Join us for talk with Ushi Greiner of Woolies on the Coast

MARCH

FABRIC.STITCH.COLLAGE

Lorna creates unique conversation Pieces for your living space. Her pillows, blankets, mirrors and wall art burst with color and joyful pattern, inspired by people, places and the beauty of nature

INSPIRATION

The colors and climate of British Columbia have inspired Lorna to replace the luscious silks she used in the 90’s with warm, wool melton, cotton and linens. The people and cultures she encountered on her travels in Turkey, Borneo and South Africa, have inspired her whimsical colorful stitched portraits. Also, inspired by the beauty of nature, You will find queen bees, leaves and an explosion of florals in her collection.

Techniques

Lorna fuses traditional embroidered appliqué techniques with her own style of fabric manipulation to create her signature stitched and collage surfaces on pillows, blankets, mirrors and purses.

She takes mosaic-like pieces of fabric, bonds them onto a wool Melton background and then with mostly a straight stitch, she stitches over and around the shapes in a sketch-like , hand drawn style. The stitches not only hold the design together but create a sense of movement and energy over the surface, defining the composition and adding intricate details.

FEBRUARY

Our February speaker is Sandy Fitzpatrick of Hissyfitz Designs. Sandy will be “Zooming” in from Cary, North Carolina. She is an applique quilt pattern designer and national teacher. Her fusible applique patterns are full of whimsy and will certainly bring a smile to your face. She strives to make her patterns easy to follow and fun to make.

Her early days of sewing included making clothing for herself and her three children. As often happens, Sandy’s love of sewing transcended into quilt making. She found that stitching quilts was “sew” much easier since there are a lot of straight seams and a quilt will fit anyone.

Sandy’s topic is “Why Didn’t I Think of That” and is full of tips and tricks to make our quilting lives easier.

I hope you will all join in for what I think will be an interesting and entertaining presentation.

JANUARY

Phyllis Cullen of Phyllis Cullen Art Studio. Phyllis gets to live in beautiful Hawaii and is a more or less retired physician, multimedia artist, art quilt teacher and author who loves to make faces! After making a few hundred portraits, one of her students convinced her to write a book. It’s called “It’s All About the Face” and she has a series of classes, workshops and a fun lecture/slide presentation to go with it.

I personally have taken a series of classes from Phyllis and found her to be always patient, entertaining and a great instructor.

Please join me for what promises to be a very interesting presentation.

2022 Programmes

NOVEMBER

Our November speaker was Julie Faulkner. Julie is a Quiltworx certified instructor and has made over 150 Quiltworx designed quilts. She will present a trunk show of various quilts. For her day job, Julie is a Portfolio Head, Project Management in the Cardiovascular Medicine field. She has been quilting since she was about four when her grandmother taught her how to English Paper Piece. Her first quilt was made by hand using a hexagon template made by her grandfather which he drew around onto cereal packets and a slightly larger one for fabric. Julie loves all needle crafts and has spent many hours sewing, knitting, crochet, cross stitch and needlepoint.

Originally from the UK, she was transferred by her job to the USA where she discovered the world of machine piecing and quilting. In 2004 she immigrated to Canada and now lives in New Westminster.

Julie loves to “piece a memory – one patch at a time” and share her passion for quilt design and colour while making beautiful quilts with others.