2026:
September 10 – Hillside Library, Flip Flop Applique with Kathy Dehler
September 3 – Lorelai Kuecker, Lecture & Trunk Show
August 13 & 27 – Hillside Library, Half Square Wonder workshop with Susan Louis
August 6 – Jeff Warner, The Shape of Bargello
July 9 & 23 – Hillside Library, Sit n Sew
July – no general meeting
June 11 & 25 – Hillside Library, QAYG Tote Bag with Dorothy Fleschner
June 4 – Trash to Treasure Auction with Cathy Peterson
May 7 – End of Year Celebration: dinner, raffles, online election of officers (Cornerstone Pub, Mineola) $35pp, cash bar
April 12 – Kristin Echols Workshop, Seminole Piecing (Zoom)
April 9 – Kristin Echols, Seminole Indian Quilts lecture (Zoom)
March 5 – Charity Night (adult bibs and pillow cases), Mineola Community Center
February 21 – Sashiko Workshop with Rachel Harriette Barclay ($40 fee) Held at Coes Neck Park, Baldwin.
February 7 – Star Silhouettes Quilt Workshop (Zoom) ($45 fee)
February 5 – Diane Harris, Scrap Quilt Potluck: Improv and Inspiration (Zoom)
January 10 – Cloud 9 Quilt workshop ($40 fee + $11 pattern, Tucker Trimmer ruler available for sale) Held at Coes Neck Park, Baldwin.
January 8 – Deb Kircheim, Simple Steps for Improving Piecing
2025:
December 4 – Holiday Party: postcard challenge display, opportunity quilt raffle, Chinese auction, cookies galore, and show & tell.
November 6 – Postcard Challenge with Cathy Peterson & Elaine Thibault
October 9 – Clorinda Fresques-Tria, Mixed Media via Zoom
October 11 – Workshop with Clorinda Fresques-Tria, Crayons on Fabric via Zoom
October 21 – Sit ‘n Sew at Shelter Rock Library
September 4 – Margo Krager, Reproduction Fabrics via Zoom
August 7 – Marilyn Gold-Mandell, Exploring Zentangle
August 19 – Sit ‘n Sew at Shelter Rock Library
July 10 – Members Teaching Members: Bowl You Over
June 5 – Diane Rode Schneck, Trunk Show
May 1 – End of Year Celebration & Elections
April 3 – North Shore Quilting & Fiber Arts; Pop-up Shop
March 6 – Charity Sew Night: Quilts of Valor kits distributed, Circle of Hope pillows made.
February 4 – Jane Hauprich, How do I quilt this? (Zoom)
January 2 – Elizabeth DeCroos, Pojagi-Korean quilting which is reversible, (Zoom)
2024:
December 4 – Holiday Party/Potluck, Show Photos, Games, Show & Tell
November 9 & 10 – Harvest of Quilts Show
October 10 – Susan Louis, Trunk Show
September 12 – Karen Miller, Aurifilosophy (Zoom)
September 5 – Show & Tell, Charity Quilts, Members Teaching Members
August 1 – Sewing Room Sale
July 4 – No meeting
June 7 – Laura Rosenspan, Portraits Workshop
June 6 – Laura Rosenspan, Portraits trunk show
May 2 – End of Year Celebration, Elections, Potluck, Year in Review, Guess the Quilter quiz
April 4 – Pam Weeks, Quilt as You Go (Zoom)
March – Charity Sew Night
February – Carole Lyles Shaw, Ankara Fabrics
January 11 – Timna Tarr, Flying Colors Trunk Show (Zoom)
2023:
December – Holiday Party
November 30 – Cathy Peterson, Auctioneer, Trash to Treasure
November 2 – Emily Taylor, Collage Quilter
October 5, 2023, The Light Challenge travelling quilt exhibit, with Liz Dragone
September 7, 2023, Catherine Redford via Zoom
August 3, 2023, Betty Belford trunk show
July 2023 – Susan Deshensky, Quiltworx
June 2023
June 14, 2023 – Sit ‘n Sew
June 1, 2023 – Members Teaching Members (Liz Dragone, Donna Loeven, Cathy Peterson, Susan Louis)
May 2023
May 30, 2023 – Alaska Quilt Focus Group
May 21, 2023 – Spring Luncheon (Poppy’s Place, Floral Park)
May 10, 2023 – Online Sit ‘n Sew
May 4, 2023 – Elections, End of Year Celebration, Ronnie Medina Trunk Show
May 2, 2023 – Dear Jane Focus Group
April 2023
April 25, 2023 – Alaska Quilt Focus Group
April 12, 2023 – Online Sit ‘n Sew
April 4, 2023 – Dear Jane Focus Group
March 2023
March 30, 2023 – Charity Night – Quilts of Valor blocks (in person)
March 11, 2023 – Workshop with Mario Mulea, Classic Curves Ahead (in person)
March 8, 2023 – Online Sit ‘n Sew (Zoom)
March 2, 2023 – Mario Mulea, Modern Quilt Techniques (in person)
February 2023
February 2, 2023 – Eleanor Levie, Rock Your Quilting (Zoom)
February 8, 2023 – Online Sit ‘n Sew (Zoom)
February 18, 2023 – Sit ‘n Sew (in person)
January 2023
January 5, 2023 – Kelly Ashton, Pre-cuts (Zoom)
December 2022
December 2, 2022 – Holiday Party & Show & Tell
November 2022
November 5 & 6, 2022 – Harvest of Quilts XVIII, In-person Quilt Show at Mineola Community Center
October 2022
October 6, 2022 – Steph Skardal, Trunk Show, My Quilting Journey Through the Years (Zoom)
September 2022
September 1, 2022 – Show & Tell, Members teaching Members
August 2022
August 4, 2022 – General Meeting – Guild Auction with Elaine Jensen (In Person)
August 25, 2022 – Eisenhower Park Picnic (outdoor meet-up, raffle drawing, share table, show & tell, Pop-up Shop with Maryellen McAuliffe)
July 2022
July 7, 2022 – General Meeting – Karen Brown, Be the Best Quilter You Can Be (Zoom)
July 14 – Eisenhower Park Picnic (outdoor meet-up, raffle drawing, share table, show & tell, gently used book sale, Pop-up Shop with Maryellen McAuliffe)
June 2022
June 2, 2022 – General Meeting – Lyn Heilman, Batting Super Sale (Zoom)
May 2022
May 5, 2022 – End of Year Celebration (In Person)
April 2022
April 7, 2022 – Lilo Bowman, Love Where You Create (Zoom)
March 2022
Charity Sew Night, online
February 2022
February 3, 2022 – Barbara Eikmeier, Trunk Show: A is for Applique (Zoom)
January 2022
January 6, 2022 – Candyce Grisham, Tools of the Trade (Zoom)
December 2021
December 2, 2021 – We had our Holiday General Meeting online and had a nice Show ‘n Tell, along with some raffles and some trivia games. Click here to view the pictures of quilts submitted by our members.
November 2021
November 4, 2021 – Brenda Gael Smith, located in Copacabana, New South Wales, Australia, talked about quilts and their composition via Zoom. Visit her website: https://www.brendagaelsmith.com
October 2021
October 23, 2021 – Outdoor Quilt Exhibit, Mineola Middle School
This “Plenty of 20s” fundraiser to highlight the guild’s 20 years since inception included a silent auction, children’s scavenger hunt, gently used book sale and fabric sale. 20″ x 20″ quilts were displayed along the school fence and there were tables for book and fabric sales. In addition to the quilts in the auction, there were also some quilts on loan (display only) and several charming larger quilts also on display to highlight the guild’s charitable donations. A quilt featuring mustangs was donated to Mineola Middle School in honor of the school mascot, Mineola Mustangs.
October 16, 2021 – Eisenhower Park Picnic (outdoor meet-up, raffle drawing, share table, show & tell, gently used book sale, Pop-up Shop with Maryellen McAuliffe)
October 7, 2021 – Carla Klop demonstrated efficient methods for using a rotary cutter (Zoom)
Visit her website: https://www.kitsbycarla.com
September 2021
September 2, 2021 – Brita Nelson, Disappearing 9-patch (Zoom)
Visit her website: https://questioningquilter.com
August 2021
August 5, 2021 – Susan Louis (Russia talk) and Maryellen McAuliffe (Long-arm quilter and Island Batik Ambassador (Zoom)
August 26, 2021 – Eisenhower Park Picnic (outdoor meet-up, raffle drawing, share table, show & tell, gently used book sale, Pop-up Shop with Maryellen McAuliffe)
July 2021
July 29, 2021 – Eisenhower Park Picnic, field 3 (outdoor meet-up, raffle drawing, share table, show & tell, gently used book sale, Pop-up Shop with Maryellen McAuliffe & Christine Martinez)
June 2021
June 3, 2021 – Start of our 20th Year!
May 2021
End of Year Celebration, May 6, 2021
March 4, 2021
Kellie Willey presents her Virtual World of Miniature Quilting! You can’t believe everything you hear. For years we have heard that making a miniature quilt is harder than making a large quilt! This is simply not true and Kellie enjoys bursting this myth. Kellie recently started producing her own line of miniature quilt patterns. Please visit her website to see more of her work at www.littlequiltcreations.com
February 4, 2021
Karen Combs explores the world of optical illusions as she shows you some of the wonderful quilts that she has created and shares tricks and tips how to make them.
January 7, 2021
In this fun, surprising, informative talk, journalist and quilter Meg Cox takes us behind the scenes of the $3 billion quilt industry. She’ll reveal the latest trends, share scoops about A-list quilters and talk about her newest writing gig, for Quiltfolk magazine.
December 2020
In case you missed it, here are some things we talked about at our December 2020 meeting.
Evening Star Quilters Show & Tell, December 2020
Tissue Packet Cover
Spool Pin Cover
UFO Challenge 2019-2020
November 5, 2020
RaNae Merrill was our guest speaker for our Thursday, November 5th general meeting. Her lecture, via ZOOM, covered her 4th book, Free-Motion Mastery in a Month.
RaNae also did a 6-hour workshop via ZOOM on November 7 & 8. Members learned how to set-up their machines, find their perfect quilting speed and get even, flowing stitches. Basic shapes, lines, curves, circles, teardrops, s-curves and spirals will be taught.
October 2020
The speaker at our October 1st meeting was Patricia Nicholes, an occupational therapist.
Click the video below to watch her presentation.
September 12, 2020
Artful Couching with Rachel Derstine
“Learn the art of couching with yarns to create texture, flow and extra pizzazz. This class will show you the many ways to use couching for definition and sparkle, by incorporating a variety of yarns and metallic threads in your work.”