• Date: Feb. 15, 2025
• Program: : “Bag It Up – TOTE-ally Fun Creations”
• Speakers: Robin Newton, Derby, KS and Dea Corns, Greensburg, KS

Our February meeting is time to renew your membership for 2025 – cost is $30.  Come at 9:30 for snacks, warm drinks and fellowship–it will also allow you to get your renewal completed before the rush.  Our meeting starts promptly at 10am; come early so we have time for our presentation and questions.

Our February speakers include KLQ President Robin Newton (above) and KLQ member Dea Corns, (left) who both have a passion for bag making and they’re going to “share the love” (Valentine’s!) at our February meeting.

Morning Presentation

PROGRAM

“Bag It Up – TOTE-ally Fun Creations” by Robin Newton & Dea Corns

Dea and Robin have been making bags, totes and purses for several years.  They will be sharing some of the creations that they have made and tips and tricks learned from those projects. 

Topics will include the various pattern designers, zippers, purse hardware, lining those projects, handles, interfacing, stabilizers, and specialty fabrics – they go way beyond quilting cotton. Also, learn how to make a bag on your longarm.  A workshop to make the blue bag below is also going to be offered. Signup will be at the February meeting.

BUSINESS

Regular monthly business presented by KLQ board members.

• Show and Share: Bring your finished quilts and/or works in progress.

• Raffle tickets:  Tickets are $1 each or 6 tickets for only $5. Bring a visitor and you both get one free ticket!  

• Destash Bash: destash: verb. To remove (thread, fabric, equipment, etc.) from one’s collection. Clean those sewing rooms, closets, boxes, totes, and anywhere else you stash your stuff (or stuff your stash). We’re setting up a trade/donate/sell table. Mark each item with your name and price, and have fun with your fellow guild members.

• Date: December 21, 2024
• Program: 2024 Christmas Party and (optional) Gift Exchange
• Location: A-1 Singer Sewing Center, Wichita, KS

Program

There will be no program or Destash Bash; instead, we’re making merry with a carry-in brunch, raffle, games, a gift exchange and show & share!! 

We will meet at our regular meeting place,  A-1 Singer at 1012 Oliver, Wichita, KS.  A-1 opens at 9 AM for your perusing pleasures with our gathering beginning around 10 AM.  Remember, members get a store discount on meeting days.

• Brunch:  “Tis the season to be eating…..” This is a carry-in affair, so don’t forget to bring what you signed up for on the food list at our previousr meetings. If you’re not sure what you wrote down, contact Robin Newton, and she can remind you.         

• Gift Exchange:  This year, the members are encouraged to bring a homemade item, but it that doesn’t work out, a store-bought, $10-$15 gift is just as fun! Please bring your item wrapped.            

• Show and Share: Bring your finished quilts and/or works in progress.

• Raffle tickets:  Tickets are $1 each or 6 tickets for only $5. Bring a visitor and you both get one free ticket! 

• Date: Oct. 19, 2024
• Program: : “From the Beginning to Finding My Passion in Pixels, My Journey in Quilting”
• Speaker: Dee Brouhard, Pixel Quilts, Tulsa, OK

Our October speaker is Dee Brouhard, the driving force behind Pixel Quilts, an idea and business she dreamed up after realizing how much she loved the process of creating this particular type of quilt.

A self taught quilter of 17 years with a background in Marketing and Design, Dee made her first pixel quilt in 2008, a Super Mario quilt for her nephew.

“There is something about the whole process of Pixel Quilts that I love,” says Dee. “From the dreaming up of the project and then the designing of the quilt and putting it together, it enables me to use my creativity to produce something striking, which is visually very different from the norm.”

Morning Presentation

PROGRAM

The morning presentation will explore many of the tips, tricks and techniques Dee has learned the hard way in pixel quilts and the design process.

She will also explain the pitfalls of pixel quilt design, particularly choosing the images that will get the best out of this unique quilting process. Dee will touch on her most popular pixel quilts, including the quilt requested by Queen Elizabeth, along with a trunk show of many other quilts.

BUSINESS

Regular monthly business presented by KLQ board members.

• Destash Bash: destash: verb. To remove (thread, fabric, equipment, etc.) from one’s collection. Clean those sewing rooms, closets, boxes, totes, and anywhere else you stash your stuff (or stuff your stash). We’re setting up a trade/donate/sell table. Mark each item with your name and price, and have fun with your fellow guild members.

• Show and Share: Bring your finished quilts and/or works in progress.

• Raffle tickets:  Tickets are $1 each or 6 tickets for only $5. Bring a visitor and you both get one free ticket!  

• Date: Aug. 17, 2024
• Program: “Binding Perfection”
• Speaker: Sue Heinz, Kismet Quilting, Lino Lakes, MN

In August, we’re excited to welcome Sue Heinz of Kismet Quilting, as she teaches her popular Binding Perfection techniques.

Sue’s passion is teaching and she brings to each of her classes a Fine Arts and Education background, 25+ years of quilting experience, a sense of humor, design expertise and a commitment to help each of her students reach new levels of quilting excellence.

She has authored five books, each brimming with fresh design ideas for free-motion quilting and has also invented several innovative marking tools and rulers – all to delight, intrigue and inspire.

Morning Presentation

PROGRAM

Let Sue Heinz improve your binding skills by showing you a technique that is pin-free, math-free and guarantees show-quality results.

Once that technique is firmly in your mind, she will then take you on a journey from Bland to Grand – as she demonstrates innovative ideas for incorporating into your bindings: lace, beads, zippers, split bindings and more.

BUSINESS

Regular monthly business presented by KLQ board members.

• Destash Bash: destash: verb. To remove (thread, fabric, equipment, etc.) from one’s collection. Clean those sewing rooms, closets, boxes, totes, and anywhere else you stash your stuff (or stuff your stash). We’re setting up a trade/donate/sell table. Mark each item with your name and price, and have fun with your fellow guild members.

• Show and Share: Bring your finished quilts and/or works in progress.

• Raffle tickets:  Tickets are $1 each or 6 tickets for only $5. Bring a visitor and you both get one free ticket!  

• Date: June, 15, 2024
• Program: : “Mosaic/Collage Piecing for T-Shirt, Shadow Box, and Legacy Quilts”
• Speaker: Trish Maxwell, Journey Quilt Company, Oklahoma City, OK

Our June speaker and instructor is Trish Maxwell of Journey Quilt Company located in Oklahoma City, OK.

Trish will talk about her love of quilting and her belief that the transformation of t-shirts and traditional clothing into cohesive, personalized quilts is the foundation of her business, Journey Quilt Company. 

She uses her own personal ‘Mosaic’ style of piecing, which solves a lot of problems encountered with traditional t-shirt quilting methods.  Her method has been revised and refined to artistic precision and will be shared in her presentation.

Trish’s presentation will include a trunk show of T-shirt, Shadow Box, and Legacy quilts using her Mosaic/Collage techniques.

Morning Presentation

PROGRAM

“Mosaic/Collage Piecing for T-Shirt, Shadow Box, and Legacy Quilts” by Trish Maxwell

BUSINESS

Regular monthly business presented by KLQ board members.

• Destash Bash: destash: verb. To remove (thread, fabric, equipment, etc.) from one’s collection. Clean those sewing rooms, closets, boxes, totes, and anywhere else you stash your stuff (or stuff your stash). We’re setting up a trade/donate/sell table. Mark each item with your name and price, and have fun with your fellow guild members.

• Show and Share: Bring your finished quilts and/or works in progress.

• Raffle tickets:  Tickets are $1 each or 6 tickets for only $5. Bring a visitor and you both get one free ticket!