Welcome to our Monthly meetings:
Trinity Lutheran Church, 940 Creston Rd. Paso Robles, CA
6:30 – 8:30 Everyone Welcome!
Monday, October 7, 2024
General Meeting & Guest Speaker – Carol Wilhout
Lecture – Get your Stash Together: Organization for Quilters
Some quilters find that their fabric stash, scraps, quilting tools, and books have become a burden, as they don’t have a good approach for organization and storage of these precious resources. Knowing how to approach the task of organizing quilting supplies makes it easy to transform the dreaded stash into a collection that is a delight to use. This lecture provides many practical ideas for making your fabric, tools, thread, books, and magazines readily accessible. Topics include how to fold and store fabric so that it’s easy to view and locate, labeling, using your computer as a tool, and many ideas for actually using your stash.
As a retired physician, she enjoys bringing her technical mind to quilting. She enjoys figuring out how to make the construction process easier while producing better results. She has also refined techniques for building, organizing, and using a fabric stash that make it a joy to have and to use. She enjoys free motion quilting, quilting with the walking foot, and using metallic thread for quilting.
Carol has been teaching quilting classes for more than a dozen years. She loves sharing her knowledge with others and encouraging students as they try new projects and techniques. One of her favorite aspects of teaching is seeing students succeed at completing a challenging project. Another is seeing students have “Aha!” moments during which they see how simple changes in construction technique can help them create projects that are fun to make and look great.
Saturday, October 26, 2024 – Quilt Auction & Boutique
Here is are some pictures of quilts in the auction
Quail Run Estates – Clubhouse
1:00PM till 5:00PM
Monday, November 5, 2024
General Meeting & Guest Speaker – Donna Paulson
Donna is a guild member and likes to restore antique quilts. She plans to do a trunk show of some of the quilts she has restored and wil also have some close up samples of her work. This program is not to be missed.
Monday, December 3, 2024
General Meeting & Christmas Cake
About our Guild
Our guild membership is open to anyone above the age of sixteen. We also have a Junior membership for those eight to sixteen at a reduced rate. Junior members must have an adult sponsor and be accompanied by that sponsor during guild events.
If you wish to attend a Zoom meeting please leave a comment below and we will work on sharing the Zoom link with you. Currently we are meeting in person but if we have a speaker we try to also have that go out over Zoom.
We are a Guild with members of all sewing abilities. We love the novice sewer as well as those who have many quilts under their belt. We even have room for people who do not sew but love quilts and their making—but be warned, quilting is contagious, you may catch the quilting bug!
Our guild usually meets on the first Monday of the month with a social hour from 6:15-7:00PM followed by a general meeting and a planned program that usually lasts about an hour.
Occasionally we meet on Friday instead of Monday. Usually when there is a quilting workshop Saturday or a holiday conflict.
One of our projects is Community Quilts which meets on the third Saturday in the month. There we work together making quilts to donate to various charitable causes. This is a great opportunity to sew with other quilters on simple patterns and learn/improve your quilting skills.
On Saturday October 26, 2024 we will have our next quilt auction, currently the major fundraiser for our guild. It also provides the funds that we donate to two other local charities. Our members donate quilts, plan and host this event. Here is a link to the auction: 2024 Charity Quilt Auction as it gets closer that page will reflect pictures of the quilts that will be in the auction.
Mission
- Promoting knowledge and encouraging the participation in the craft and art of quilting, patchwork, appliqué, and other aspects of quilt making.
- Being an information network for quilters and promoting continued interest in quilting.
- Supporting local charities
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History
Our guild was founded in July of 1989. It was started by a group who wanted to revitalize the art of quilting. This was in the days before the rotary cutter. Cardboard stencils were state of the art and 100% cotton was hard to find!
We are a 501 c3 approved charity.