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    • 04/17/2024
    • 9:00 AM - 3:30 PM
    • Trinity United Methodist Church, 587 Haywood Rd., Asheville, NC 28806
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    Registration opens January 17, 2024 for AQG members and February 17, 2024 for non-AQG members.  

    Tired of sewing alone?  Bring your project and join the group!  Get sewcial!  Do hand work, or bring your machine, or both!!  Have fun and share your ideas and enthusiasm!  Remember to bring your lunch.  Dessert will be provided.  

    Please note:  The $10 registration fee for this event is NOT refundable!  

    • 04/18/2024
    • 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
    • A B Tech Conference Center, 16 Fernihurst Drive, Asheville, NC 28801


    Have you ever wondered how our wonderful guild was 'hatched?"  What were the catalysts that brought several quilters together to create what has grown to be an amazing quilt guild?   What inspired them and what made them think twice?  Charter member Barbara Swinea will tell us her story.  Maybe then we will finally know what came first, the chicken or the egg!

    Please note:  Our meeting is on THURSDAY night in April due to a scheduling issue at AB Tech.  

    • 04/25/2024
    • 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
    • North Asheville Community Center, 37 East Larchmont Rd, Asheville, NC, 28804
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    Are you new to quilting?  Have you tried learning by watching videos?  Still confused?  Join us for some hands on, in person instruction.  

    Measuring, Rotary Cutting, Rulers, 1/4" seams, Pinning, Pressing, Squaring up, Color/Value and more.  All will be discussed, demonstrated and tried while we make blocks for a Community Quilt.

    This is an entry level class for AQG members only.  Please note registration fee is non-refundable.

    The supply list can be found here: Methods Class Basic of Quilting.docx

    • 04/30/2024
    • 12:15 PM
    • 05/09/2024
    • 2:15 PM
    • Ira B. Jones Elementary School, 544 Kimberly Avenue, Asheville NC 28804

    Do you have 2 hours a day to share your love of quilting with children? Then this opportunity is for you. We are looking for 6 volunteers a day to work with the 3rd grade students at Ira B. Jones Elementary School from Tuesday, April 30th through Thursday May 9th.  (Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday each week from 12:15 pm to 2:15 pm)

    You can sign up to volunteer through the link below.

    Sign up for Kids Sewing

    The first week the students will be making a small pillow they will take home. The second week they will be making blocks for an Immigration Quilt that will hang in the School.

    All supplies will be provided so no need to bring anything. You are welcome to sign up for just one session or all 6 -- whatever you can manage will be appreciated.

    Many thanks for considering volunteering for this fun and rewarding opportunity.  If you have any questions, please contact either me or Joan Tolley.

    Sian Brunton

    Guild Projects Chair

    Projects@AshevilleQuiltGuild.org

    • 05/15/2024
    • 9:00 AM - 3:30 PM
    • Trinity United Methodist Church, 587 Haywood Rd., Asheville, NC 28806
    • 6
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    Please note:  This workshop is the week before the regular meeting.

    Registration opens on February 15 for AQG members and March 15 for non-members.

    Learn to use traditional batik (beeswax resist dyeing) tools like Indonesian tjanting tools, metal Malaysian stamps, and hand carved Indian woodblocks to print, drip, draw, and paint with natural beeswax on cotton cloth.  Discover the beauty of a single layer batik dyed in the low-water immersion (LWI) style with fiber reactive dyes.  Each participant will make 1 yard of fabric.  During the workshop, you will wax and dye your fabric.  Each student will learn to apply the wax with a variety of tools, then learn to create a LWI dye bath for a single-color dye bath that has varying shades in it.  Instructions for dye washout and wax removal will be given for students to do at home.  Or, for $20.00 per yard, Waxon Studios will handle the removal for you.  This is an exciting and hands on workshop that will have you wanting to make lots more batik fabric!!

    Supply list:  Batik supply list pdf3.pdf


    • 05/21/2024
    • 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
    • AB Tech Conference Center, 16 Fernihurst Drive, Asheville, NC



    Have you ever wondered about where all those quilts we make for Project Linus go?  Who gets them?  Who decides who gets them?  How do they get there? How many do we make locally?  Nationally?  Well, Ellen is the one who can answer all those questions and more for us.  She works tirelessly for Project Linus.  Ellen runs our monthly workdays at Nativity Lutheran in Arden and is the Coordinator for our Western North Carolina Chapter.  She is a hardworking, delightful and always cheerful person and I am sure you will enjoy her program!

    • 06/18/2024
    • 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
    • AB Tech Conference Center, 16 Fernhurst Drive, Asheville, NC

    Marcia Layton is a pattern designer and quilt teacher from Tampa, Florida. Marcia began her adult life as a preschool teacher. She began making hand print quilts for school fund raisers and they sold well.  This was the first step of her very successful quilting and pattern-making career.  Marcia is a wonderful designer and teacher.  I know you will enjoy hearing about her journey! 

    • 06/19/2024
    • 9:00 AM - 3:30 PM
    • Trinity United Methodist Church
    • 10
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    This workshop opens for registration on March 21, 2024.

    Marcia Layton  is a pattern designer and teacher from Tampa, Florida.  She uses yo-yos, rickrack and other items in delightful ways to embellish her quilts and wall hangings.  Her patterns often include distinctive and creative boarders using various embellishments.  In this workshop, we have the choice to make either a Christmas wall hanging called Simply Sparkly or a sunflower wall hanging called Simply Sunflower.  Patterns will be available at the workshop for $10.00.  Kits will also be available by preorder.  The kits include the pattern and fabric for the top and binding, buttons, ribbon and rickrack trims for $45.00.  Kit does not include optional crystals for Simply Sparkly.  Preorder kits through Jean Zabel by May 25.  

    Here are the supply lists:

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    Simply Sunflower Screen Shot 2024-02-08 at 11.01.30 AM.png

    • 07/16/2024
    • 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
    • AB Tech Conference Center, 16 Fernihurst Drive, Asheville, NC

    Our July Program is by Cindy Page and Patti Cline of the Quilter's Gallery. They are also known as "The Pizza Girls," a nickname they picked up because of the way they package some of their fabrics.  They will show us roughly 50 quilts and tops, some from current patterns and some that are original designs.  As they display the quilts, they will discuss color usage, fabric choices and border treatments. We will also hear some tips and tricks they have picked up over the past 25+ years!  Patti and Cindy are both a lot of fun and I am sure their program will be very entertaining!

    • 07/17/2024
    • 9:00 AM - 3:30 PM
    • Nativity Lutheran Church, 2425 Hendersonville Road, Arden, NC 28704
    • 25
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    Please note:  this workshop is at Nativity Lutheran Church in Arden

    This workshop opens for registration on April 16, 2024.

    Cindy Page and Patti Cline of The Quilter's Gallery, also known as the Pizza Girls, will show us how to "Embrace Our Curves!"  Everyone loves the look of curved seams in quilts, but it is often a technique that challenges us.  This class will cover the curves found in Rainbow Curves, Wheel of Mystery and Winner's Bouquet blocks.  A kit with a block of each type is available at the workshop for $9.00.  

    Supply list:Supply list Quilters Gallery.pdf

    • 08/17/2024
    • 9:00 AM - 3:30 PM
    • Nativity Lutheran Church, 2425 Hendersonville Road, Arden, NC
    • 25
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    Please note this workshop is at Nativity Lutheran Church in Arden.

    This workshop opens for registration on May 15, 2024.

    Sharron Armel has created a technique class titled " New Tricks."  She describes it as an easy way to make Card Trick blocks.  She says it is easy because: 

    • Some of the fabric can be precut to 2 1/2" strips
    • No marking is required
    • Very few bias seams
    • There is a little room for error

    I'm always open for a new, improved way to make a block and this method sounds like a big improvement!

    Supply list:   NewTricksSupplyList.pdf

    • 09/17/2024
    • 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
    • AB Tech Conference Center, 16 Fernihurst Drive, Asheville, NC


    Cheryl Brickey's day job is pretty impressive!  She is an engineer and patent agent for a private textile and chemical company!  Somehow, she found the time and energy to take those skills and combine them with her "craftiness" to create her own quilt pattern company, Meadow Mist Designs.  Cheryl's story reminds us that sometimes it's those little things we do that set us off on an entirely new and rewarding path.  I believe you will enjoy the story of her journey!

    • 10/15/2024
    • 7:00 AM - 9:00 PM
    • AB Tech Conference Center, 16 Fernihurst Drive, Asheville

    We welcome Candy Grisham back from Missouri!  Her program for us this month is about our "Tools of the Trade" for quilting and sewing. Have you ever needed something on a Sunday and your quilt store wasn't open?  Did you know that some of the tools we use are available at Big Box stores near you that are open 7 days a week?  Candy will tell us about what she has found out there and where it is.  This information could certainly come in handy and could even save us some money!


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