Guild Programs
Safety First
PieceMakers Quilt Guild will continue to comply with all required church, local, state, and federal Covid-19 requirements.
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Our meetings begin at 6:30 with a social time to chat and catch up with our guild friends. The business portion of the meeting begins at 7:00. Included in the business portion of the meeting are brief reports from the board and community service project chairs. We present a new donation basket loaded with quilting supplies each month. The proceeds from the basket are donated to a different charity after each meeting.
Each meeting features an interesting and informative program. Nationally recognized quilt teachers and artists offer lectures and trunk shows highlighting the many and diverse styles of quilting. Workshops are offered several times a year. We also showcase the talents of our many gifted members with demo nights. Following our speaker is the ever popular Show & Tell to end the evening on a remarkably high note. All guest program speakers are free to members; guests are charged a $5.00 fee which can then be applied to membership if you choose to join the guild that evening.
The guild also holds an annual auction as the primary fund raiser for the guild programs, a picnic, and an end of the year winter festival.
Upcoming Programs:
May
Wednesday, May 24, 2023
In-Person Meeting
Lecture and Trunk Show: "What If . . ."
Jane Frenke, from Berkeley Springs, WV, is a weaver, quilter, and teacher with a passion for fabric dyeing. She will join us at our May meeting for a trunk show and lecture called "What If . . . ." What if I make a mistake? What if something you start does not turn out like you thought it would? What if you do not like something after you have put some time working on it? Mistakes happen, and it is okay to make them. It is what you do with your mistakes that matters.
Thursday, May 25, 2023
In-Person Dancing Log Cabin Workshop
Join Jane to learn her technique for the Dancing Log Cabin quilt in an interesting class in breaking the rules. Taking her basic technique, each student will end up with blocks that are completely individual. No cookie cutter blocks here! The class is limited to 15 students. Workshop fee is $45. An $8 pattern fee is to be paid prior to the class. Please contact Evelyn Hunt for additional information and the pattern.
June
Wednesday, June 21, 2023
Orange Peel Challenge and Picnic
6:00 pm
The challenge: curves and the color green!
June
Wednesday, June 28, 2023
Orange Peel Challenge and Picnic
6:00 pm
The challenge: curves and the color green!
Dave Sirota
What Makes a Quilter Tick?
Thursday, July 27, 2023
In-Person - Workshop
July
Wednesday, July 26, 2023
Lecture and Trunk Show
What Makes a Quilter Tick?
with David Sirota
Dave Sirota
What Makes a Quilter Tick?
Thursday, July 27, 2023
In-Person - Workshop
July
Wednesday, July 26, 2023
Lecture and Trunk Show
What Makes a Quilter Tick?
with David Sirota
A Fun-Filled Look in the Mirror
Join Dave for a laugh-out-loud and interactive look at ourselves as quilters. We’ll examine the little quirks, passions, idiosyncrasies, and obsessions we all share.
We'll hold a mirror up to ourselves and to help us see what others see when they look at us. So, bring your friends and family along and maybe “What Makes a Quilter Tick?” will help explain to you and to them why they look at us the way they do.
Are you curious about paper piecing? Do you and paper piecing already have a love/hate relationship? Do you love the accuracy you achieve, but hate the process of getting there? Well, this class will change that to a LOVE, and kind of an addictive relationship. We’ll be using the versatile, graphic, complex, quite simple Storm at Sea pattern to learn Dave’s “No More Tears” © method of paper piecing. Although we won’t be finishing the entire project in class, you’ll have a good start, and the tools you’ll need to finish it at home, in half the time you’d expect from paper piecing. Don’t believe me? You’ll just have to come and see for yourself.
Location: Epiphany Lutheran Church
1100 Colonial Road
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17193
Time: 9:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Cost: $45:00
For additional information please contact Evelyn L. Hunt at Jordon291@juno.com
Thursday, July 27, 2023
Workshop
Storm at Sea in 2 or 3 Colors
