Programs and Workshops

2025 – 2026 Program

September 3: Helen Garland

https://www.instagram.com/piece_by_piece/?hl=en

Helen’s quilt journey traces the two paths she alternates between, complex design and piecing and her explorations with modern/traditional using a variety of fabrics and how one has impacted the other. Please see Helen’s Trunk Show here: Show and Share – September 2025 General Meeting

October 1: Cristina De Miranda

https://shipsandviolins.com. How to Grow a Design Idea This lecture will provide practical strategies to help creatives grow a single design idea into a series of work. Cristina De Miranda of Ships & Violins will demonstrate how to unlock an idea or project into a multitude of design studies by exploring various techniques, by shifting project parameters, and by challenging some of our inherent assumptions about quilts and quilting. Discover just how much wonder rests in a single idea. Please see Cristina’s Trunk Show here: Show and Share – October 2025 General Meeting

November 6: Elaine Theriault

http://crazyquilteronabike.blogspot.com/

Fresh off her own exhibit at both Quilt Canada and Buckhorn Quilt Show. We welcome one of the coolest quilters Nancy knows. Please see Elaine’s Trunk Show here: Show and Share – November 2025 General Meeting

December 3: Grantham Books and Christmas Lunch, unless the weather is bad then I’ll make up something wild. Pray for clear skies.

January 7: Demo Days

February 4: Quilts From Our Cupboards Favourite Quilt

Sign up to show us your favourite quilt. Show us and tell us a bit about why it is so special. Please see pictures here: Show and Share – February 2026 General Meeting

March 4: Presentation by Shannon of Sewing Machine Magic from Cobourg

Shannon will also bring some blades, cutters and snips to sell. Cash or debit/credit cards accepted. Great prices and quality from a Canadian owned company.

Sewing Machine Magic

April 1: Presentation by Sandy Lindal of Scrappy Gal Quilt Co. In her profile, Sandy says she has had a lifelong interest in all things needle and thread, She loves all things quilty; teaching, designing and longarm quilting.

Scrappy Gal Quilt Co.

May 6: FANCYNANCYQUILTS

June 3: Kawartha Quiltmakers Famous Trunk Sale, bargains and savings galore. Plus our end of session luncheon.

WORKSHOP – Machine Quilting Workshop

Friday, October 10, 2025 from 10:00 to 3:00. Registration Fee – $15.00.

Nancy will lead the workshop and we will cover various methods of how to prepare and quilt a top with your domestic machine. Bring your lunch, supply list available when you register.

HELPING HANDS CHRISTMAS CHARITY SOCIAL

Thursday, November 20, 2025 from 8:30 – 4:00 – Free

Come to help our own Helping Hands charity – cutting, kitting, sewing. Donations of fabric or batting greatly appreciated here and at every meeting. Bring your lunch and any Christmas treats if you want.

This year Nancy will teach basic paper piecing as you create a seasonal block which you can keep or donate. Walk away with a good warm feeling and maybe some prizes and snacks.

Supplies for foundation paper piecing

Basic sewing supplies and machine and including:
Fabric and paper scissors
Ruler with clearly marked quarter inch section. Not too big.
Pins or glue stick
Seam ripper
Red, green, brown, white, cream fabric scraps to use and share

See samples at sign up table.

For photos of this event please see: Christmas Charity (Helping Hands) Sewing Social – November 20, 2025

SLEEP AT HOME RETREAT

Book these dates: Thursday May 21 and Friday May 22, 2026. Details will follow. Sign ups begin in January.

BLOCK OF THE MONTH

Our Program Chair continues to lead (for the second year) the Block of the Month Project entitled “Nearly Insane”. Nancy advises that this Quilt, made up of 98 blocks, is a reproduction of Salinda Rupp’s masterpiece from the mid-1860’s. The collection of blocks share many traditional patterns and many that combine elements to make completely unique blocks. Piecing and foundation paper piecing are the predominant method of construction.

Nearly Insane Block of the Month (Congratulations on Progress To Date)