Program Schedule

Come see what your friends made with ugly fabric from other guild members!

Make sure you are dressed in your best beach clothes to be entered to win a prize for hilarious participation!

Find out about My Handmade Space, a bag making shop in Methuen, MA. Anabelle Delgado will be sharing her story and shop with us!

Free

Applique. Do you love it or hate it? Maybe hand applique scared you off. A new approach may be the fix!

I hope to give many approaches to applique by machine--Turned-edge-(glue stick or starch),Raw edge (fusible or not -upside down), Reverse, Broderie Perse. One of these techniques may become your favorite and add to your skill resources. Applique has too many benefits to pass up.

I have been appliqueing for over 45 years. I started with hand applique and needle turn. Over the years I have learned I will not live long enough to finish all I want to do this way and have resorted to the sewing machine. I love the look of hand applique, so that is what I try to duplicate by machine. My work has garnered many ribbons from Vermont Quilt Festival , the Quilters Gathering, NE Images, Nebraska Sate Fair., and NQA shows. I look forward to helping you acquire the skills to do applique any way.

$40 Members / $50 Non-Members

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Free

Come help us make batches of pillowcases

Free

A fast moving, fun lecture & demo on a wide variety of topics. Always the newest notions so this talk is always changing. From sewing machine aids to specialty rulers, appliqué tricks to perfect flying geese, what markers work and why do we need different sizes & types of pins, plus so much more… We’ll solve problems, learn to save time, eliminate trouble and make sewing more enjoyable. 

$5 Members / $10 Non-Members

After a few basics to get everyone started, then the fun begins! It’s like bowling with “bumpers”, the rulers keep you on track as you create many classic designs. We all can quilt like the pros.  Ruler work is the first step to regular free-motion – it’s the training wheels for your free-motion future. Great for new or review students.  From attaching your ruler foot, adjusting it for proper height, set-up tips and recommended products. Then we explore some of the different patterns available with your Westalee Sampler Set. Leave with a confidence and knowledge base to start quilting real quilts without the hours of practice!  Review students have the option for different designs if they’d like. A good foundation for all ruler-work students. Many take this more than once to absorb all the info and increase their design library. 

$40 Members / $50 Non-Members

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Free

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$5 Members / $10 Non-Members

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$40 Members / $50 Non-Members

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6pm, Fratello's Restaurant, Manchester

TBD

Welcome Back!

Free

EPP is a little bit of magic; you can create blocks and motifs from most any shape with ease. It is easy to take EPP projects along with you on trips and errands. This class will give you the confidence to move on to more challenging designs and explore all that EPP has to offer! 

$40 Members / $50 Non-Members

Our featured speaker this month is Janet Elia.  Janet's quilts have been on display at local quilt shows, and juried into the Images Quilt Show, the Quilter's Gathering, Mancuso World Quilt Shows, Home Machine Quilt Show, Road to California, Houston International Quilt Festival and the AQS Quilt Weeks in Paducah, Syracuse, Chattanooga and Des Moines.

$5 Members / $10 Non-Members

Teacher Ruth Beland will be teaching you the wall hanging of your choice from two patterns. This is a welcome time to get together with friends and just enjoy a nice sewing day creating something that is simply nifty!

$30 Members / $40 Non-Members

What’s a fashion show?  Well you know…  It will be a night where we get dressed up in anything we’ve sewn ourselves that is clothing.  Go ahead, I dare you to cut up that quilt and make a jacket.  Sew some patches on your pants or wear a shirt you made.  Whatever it is that you have made from sewing – go ahead and wear it.  Don’t forget those bags too!  And remember to bring your sense of humor.  Nothing better than strutting your stuff and your Sew-Jo on the runway! 

Free

In this workshop, you will learn a bit about the history of the Mariner's Compass Block, and then practice drafting a block of your own.  The instructor will provide a pattern, directions, and guidance for you to use to piece a compass using a foundation paper piecing method.  You will bring home a block that can be the starter for a new quilt, or it can be made into a pretty throw pillow or project bag. 

Workshop is sold out and on waitlist status

$40 Members / $50 Non-Members

Our annual holiday celebration including a gift exchange. This is also the night for the Ruby Red Challenge Reveal

Free