2024 Programs & Workshops

Programs Preview

Here are teasers about upcoming programs for 2024:

Program Review from 2024

  • January 17 – Our own Connie Griner shared lots of info about “Quilting on the Cheap!” As Programs Chair, she set us a CHALLENGE – with two options (1) to make a quilt using some of the techniques she shared, and/or (2) to share from your stash or in some way assist another guild member who is making a quilt for the challenge. Show & Tell will be at the May meeting.
  • Get the details of the Challenge from the handout distributed at the January meeting, called “Options for the Cheap Challenge” (Click here to see Connie’s handout on the various ways to participate.)
  • February 21 – Program Speaker was Lynn Christianson of Emerald Falls Quilts, who will enlighten us about the process of making a Laura Heine collage quilt.
  • March 8 (Friday night of the quilt show at 6 PM) – Hollis Chatelain spoke on “The Emotion of Color.” Free to guild members. At Elon Community Church.
  • March 20 – Program Speaker is Charles Cameron, a maker of modern quilts, presented on the topic of “An Engineer’s Guide to Color.” A workshop was offered the same afternoon on his quilt pattern “Crooked Crosses and Bent Boxes.”
  • April 17 – Program Speaker was Lisa Alley. Her topic is “Reclaiming Your Sewing Room.”
  • May 15 – Program was our Mini-Show of “Cheap Challenge” Quilts, including sharing what we have learned!
  • June 19 – Our program topic was “Lucy Boston /Patchwork of the Crosses” quilt, by Mary Widdis from BCQG. She shared the history of this quilt, and demonstrated the English paper piecing technique used to make it.
  • July – NO MEETING
  • August 21 – “First Quilt, Last Quilt.” Several of our guild members told us the stories of the first and the most recent quilts they have made, with a bit of their quilting journey in between!
  • September 18 – Program topic is “Embroidery in Quilts,” by Laurie Kent Designs. Laurie shared her journey and showed us lots of fabulous embroidery and applique items she had designed.
  • October 16 – NOTE: THIS MEETING WAS HELD AT ELON COMMUNITY CHURCH, 271 N. Williamson Avenue, Elon (due to a conflict with voting taking place at Elmira).
  • November 13 – Veteran Celebration and Luncheon. NOTE: THIS MEETING WAS HELD AT BEACON BAPTIST CHURCH, 1622 Kirkpatrick Road, Burlington, NC.
  • December 11 – Christmas Party (back at Elmira Community Center).