Welcome to the Coachella Valley Quilt Guild
Our Purpose
Guild Meetings
Centrally located in the beautiful Coachella Valley of Southern California. The Guild shall be a non profit organization established to promote appreciation of quilting, to share and to uphold the heritage of a timeless folk art, and to further the education and skill levels of the members of the guild.
2025 Opportunity Quilt
Whimsical Leaves
Inspired by Pinterest Nancy Lou and Carole Gold's Quilted Art
Pieced and Appliquéd by Paul Reiss
Quilted by Treese Pflum
Winning ticket will be drawn Saturday, December 13, 2025.
Second Saturday of the month
Check out our Hybrid (In person and Zoom at the same time) meetings!
Meeting Times:
10AM to Noon
Doors open at 9:30AM
Membership: 2026 membership is $40 and includes 2 books of raffle tickets for 2026 Opportunity Quilt to be revealed January 2026. Click here to join.
Guests are welcome at all meetings: $10.00 guest fee
Location:
We are holding hybrid meetings -- in person at UCR and Zoom January to May and September to November.
June, July, and August are Zoom only.
University of California, Riverside
Palm Desert Campus
Auditorium Building
75080 Frank Sinatra Drive
Palm Desert, CA 92211
For Directions Click Here
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Tony DeZego's President Quilt -- President from 2022 - 2024
Join or Renew Here for 2026!
Click here to go to Membership Page to join or renew for 2026!
October Meeting -- Saturday, October 11, 2025
Linda Sullivan
Successful Machine Applique
Hybrid Meeting -- Speaker In-Person
Meeting starts at 10:00am
Program starts at 11:00am
Linda and Carl Sullivan of Colourwerx are intensely passionate about bold bright colors, midcentury modern art and contemporary pattern design. Always searching for a twist on the traditional, their fabric designs and quilt patterns are well known for their modern look, spontaneous movement and fearless use of color. Through the years, they have designed three fabric collections, authored two books and have been featured in several national quilting publications.
In this lecture, Linda will share her over 20+ years of experience for successful machine applique – from prepping your shapes, to setting your machine up for
success, to her favorite notions to explaining different threads and weights and how they embellish the edge of your appliqué to emulate hand
needle turn appliqué but using your machine. It’s the ultimate machine appliqué
lecture!
October 11 -- Linda Sullivan Lecture Guest Fee
$10.00
- Available
- Ships within 1-3 days
October Workshop -- Sunday, October 12, 2025
Linda Sullivan
Applique
Stitch Lab
In Person
9am to 3:30pm
Boost your appliqué IQ! Loaded with super practical tips and tricks, this workshop is a great way for students to learn or brush up on easy fusible web
machine appliqué. Students will learn a variety of methods to prepare their shapes for appliqué and perfect their own “unique machine appliqué stitch” during class. Along the way, they’ll also
learn how to use a variety of fun decorative stitches to texturize their appliqués and gain the confidence they need to appliqué the day away!
October 12 Class Fee Members -- Linda Sullivan
$45.00
- Available
- Ships within 1-3 days
October 12 Class Fee -- Non-Members -- Linda Sullivan -- Includes Saturday Lecture
$55.00
- Available
- Ships within 1-3 days
SAVE THE DATES
All Star Sampler Platter
September 27 & 28
12pm to 3pm
Click here for more in!formation!
Watch for it in the email blasts to members!
December Quilt Retreat -- Dec. 8 to 10, 2025
Interested in a few days of interruption free quilting with some other members of our guild?
Showcase Entry Form for Desert Guilds Quilt Show
Any member of the Coachella Valley Quilt Guild may enter a quilt in the Showcase Category of the show. Our guild is able to have 40 members enter a quilt -- one per member -- ranging from wall hanging to full size bed quilt. You do not need to be juried into this show. It is the first 40 entry forms from our guild that will be in the show.
The entry form and instructions are available below.
Information on the 2026 Challenge Quilts and the Miniature and Miniature Art Quilts can be found on Desert Guilds Quilt Show 2026 page by clicking here.
QuiltCon Bus Trip 2026
Kristi Parker from Chicken Soup Designs is planning a bus trip from Washington,DC to Raleigh, NC and QuiltCon. It will go through Amish Country, PA and Colonial Williamsburg, VA among other places before getting to QuiltCon.
For more information click here:
Watch for next bus trip!!
Wednesday, November 19, 2025
All Day Bus Trip to LA Fashion District and
Textile Creations!
SIGN UPS IN SEPTEMBER.
Bus Trip to Hoffman's Fabric
Members' entries
Riverside County Date Festival -- Feb 13 to Mar 2, 2024
WATCH FOR ENTRIES INFORMATION FOR THE 2026 RIVERSIDE COUNTY DATE FESTIVAL
Ronald McDonald Camp with Quilting For Good Times -- La Quinta
A warm welcome to our new families at Family Camp! A huge thank you to Quilters for Good Times for your endless love and support—each family leaves with a beautiful quilt, a symbol of comfort and care. We’re beyond grateful to have you with us this weekend and hope to see you again soon! 💖
SAVE THE DATE!
Next SewWhat Table
Saturday, December 6th
Sew What Table
Saturday, May 31
What a wonderful event we had this past Saturday. For the third time our Quilt Guild and the Knitting Guild held a joint event! We were so happy to welcome back several of our members who had been on the injured/reserved list last time. We are sad that some of our regular volunteers are recuperating from ailments.
With the help of our 20 volunteers, we opened the doors at 9:00 a.m. Our greeters, Kathy Pratt, and Joan Kiening welcomed 71 people (including our 20 helpers). Our shoppers donated canned goods and $109.75 in donations for the Joslyn Center.
The crew that staffed the tables: Marcia Ulrich, Lizette Dalquie, Cindy Snyder, Mimi Rivera, her son Josh, Dolores Abelardo, Holli Hainer, Linda Bucknam, Rhonda Gowdy, Leslie Herbst, and Cathleen Jolley, sold fabric, notions, books, patterns, and machines. Actual sales were $2,439.75. The net sales of $1,801.75 were after volunteer discounts, a donation, new member discounts, and door prizes gift certificates which totaled $638.00. (For those who are curious, before gift certificates and discounts: Fabric $1532.25, Notions $716.75, Books $30.75, and Machines $160.00)
Our Check-Out team: Janna Calkins, Pat Siegel, Annie Houston, Judy Ferraris, Natalie Shonerd, and Cheryl Taylor, tallied and collected for purchases, and processed gift certificates and volunteer discounts.
Our sincere thanks to Jack and Kim Johnson and their daughter Jacklyn for helping us load, and unload, the truck on Friday and Saturday.
Alex, Rodney, and Art from the Joslyn were wonderful as always; setting up tables and accommodating last-minute changes and even helping to unload (and load) the truck!
As you know, A Sew What Table has many people behind the scenes, rolling, tying, pricing, sorting, and collecting donations. Special thanks to Kim, JudyQ, Tami, Jackie, Jer, and Rose!
All the volunteers were invited to meet at Roc’s Firehouse after the event for libations, food, a guessing game, and great fellowship. Jacklyn won a 20% discount for the next Sew What Table because she was the Best Guesser (she guessed closest to the $1801.75)!
Marcia and I thank all of you. If I missed anyone's name, I apologize.
The next Sew What Table will be on December 6. In addition to the Sew What Table Volunteers, Membership, Philanthropy, Opportunity Quilt and the Knitting Guild will be there. Stay tuned for more information.
Friendship Groups
There are a number of Friendship Groups that are associated with the guild that meet on a regular basis. If you are interested in learning more click here.
Interested in learning more in the area of quilting?
Check out our upcoming classes by going to Programs 2025 or Programs 2026
Looking for quilt shows in the Southern California area?
WANTED
Baby Quilts for first time military moms.
Please drop off at Philanthropy at the locations below.
Thanks.
Philanthropy Quilt Drop Off
Joslyn Senior Center
Tuesdays
10am - 12pm
September Guild Meeting
Saturday, October 11
9:30am-12:00pm
UCR Palm Desert Campus
Bring in your quilts and placemats (12" x 18") and burp cloths
and fidget quilts.
Pick up a burp cloth kit complete with instructions!
NEW Instructions on making story pillows. Go to the Philanthropy page.
(If you need another time, contact Hilda Koning-Bastiaan -- hildakb@yahoo.com)
For more information on Philanthropy Quilts click here.
Join Us For Block of the Month
Click here to go to the page to download the directions to do the Block of the Month. It is a great way to collect blocks and try something different. Instructions for this block are available online and due at the October meeting.
See what members have been working on! Click here or go to PHOTOS -- Show and Share on the menu!
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If you or any guild member you know have won a prize at a recent quilt show, we would love to acknowledge your accomplishment. Please send an email with a photo and details to info@cvquiltguild.org
