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.

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.

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.

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

March 4: TBA

April 1: FANCYNANCYQUILTS What does your program chair do? How fitting that April fool’s day is my Trunk show?

May 6: TBA

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. 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.