Guild Meeting: Tips & Techniques - Members show us methods they use to successfully work their craft.

Row Robin participants will present their finished rows.

Guild Meeting: Speaker Nancy Bavor - Demystifying the Appraisal Process. Certified quilt appraiser, teacher and quiltmaker speaks on the intricacies of Quilt appraisal. Appraisal cost, insurance, what appraisers look for, and even more!

Guild Meeting: Speaker Nancy Sumner - Machine Quilting: The Challenges. Our own guild member will discuss and demonstrate her techniques for getting that twin size (or greater), quilt quilted on her domestic sewing machine.  She will cover the basics from design of quilting ideas to implementation. Yes, it can be done!!

Guild Meeting: Speaker Angie Woolman - The Four Corners of Color: A Square Dance of Value, Tone, Color, and Pattern.

Guild Meeting: Holiday Party (members only) - Held at the Contempo Marin Clubhouse.

Challenge Quilt show - Members present the quilts made using the 2 challenge fabrics. Members choose one for a "Viewers' Choice" award

Block of the Month show - Members share quilts completed with blocks won in any month, any year!

Guild Meeting: Speaker Alice Beasley - It's All About Illusion. Ms. Beasley makes fabric portraits incorporating light, shadow and a realistic perspective using the ordinary quilter's tools of fabric and thread. She builds a composition in the same manner as a painter working on a canvas. Pieces are cut free-hand and machine appliqued.

February 8

Guild Meeting: Speaker Laurel Anderson - The History of Applique. Ms. Anderson discusses the changes in styles and how they changed with the fortunes of our country. She will discuss the progression of appliqué methods and her personal search for the "perfect" appliqué technique.

June 11

Guild Meeting: Speaker Laura Fogg - A Painterly Approach to Art Quilting. Discussion includes: working from the background towards the foreground, the importance of overlapping images, use of color, size and detail to achieve a sense of distance or closeness, use of shadows and shading to achieve a three-dimensional quality to objects, use and/or exaggeration of perspective, the similarities of freehand machine quilting to pen-and-ink drawing.

June 14

Workshop Laura Fogg - Students make their own small landscape collage quilt  Starting with photos of a scene or still life, students will freehand cut and arrange large and small pieces of fabric to create their own interpretation of their scene.  There are no patterns and no “wrong” moves in this workshop.  It is designed to encourage creativity and fun.