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.

2024 Opportunity Quilt

The Sum Of Its Parts

 

Original Design by Loretta Duffy

Pieced by Loretta Duffy

Machine Quilted by Kelley Bachli

 

Drawing on December 14, 2024

Tickets $1  -- 6 tickets for $5

 

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:  2024 membership is $35 and includes 2 books of raffle tickets for The Sum of Its Parts. 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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SEW WHAT TABLE 

 

SAT., DECEMBER 7

 

If you missed it, watch for the

Spring 2025 date.

 

What a wonderful time we had yesterday.  This was the first, but not the last, Sew What Table combined with the Knitting Guild of the Desert Stash Sale!  
With the help of our 27 volunteers we opened the doors at 9:00 a.m.  The Welcoming Committee, Joan Kiening and Kathy Pratt, signed in 119 people (including our 27 helpers). They collected canned goods and $60 in donations for the Joclyn Center.
Our crew that manned the tables, Linda Perotto, Holli Hainer, Marcia Ulrich, Harriette Griffeth, Cindy Valley, Jackie Mason, Lizette Dalquie, Kashmir Dhillon, Holly Hainer, Dolores Abelardo, Tony DeZego, Cathleen and Cliff Jolley sold $4,563.41 in fabric, notions, books, and patterns.
Our Check-Out team, Leslie Herbst, Brian Brown, Annie Houston, Kathleen Herring, Linda Blake, Treese Pflum, Pat Siegel and Cheryl Taylor not only tallied and collected for purchases, but processed 15 gift certificates totaling $320.
We had a very important floater - Cindy Snyder, a non-member, who covered stations as needed, and was a wonderful help to us all.
Kathy Clewell handled membership -- it was awesome, but I will let her tell you about that!
We emptied 27 plastic bins and 8 cardboard boxes.  
Our sincere thanks to Tony DeZego, Cathleen and Cliff Jolley, Treese Pflum and Joe Dunlap, Cindy Valley and Cindy Snyder for helping us load, and unload, the truck.  
Alex and Rodney from the Joclyn, went above and beyond, setting up tables, accommodating last minute changes and even providing COFFEE!
Adding the $1,500 that we collected during June-November to the $4,563.41 from the SWT, we have collected $6,563.41 for the current fiscal year.  Big sigh of relief.  Leslie is a very hard act to follow.
A Sew What Table has many people behind the scenes, rolling, tying, pricing, sorting, collecting donations, etc.  Marcia and I thank all of you.  If I missed anyone's name, I apologize.
Thank you all!
Stephanie Beasley and Marcia Ulrich

MEMBERSHIP

  

The time is here to renew your membership or join the CVQG for 2025!!

 

New memberships for 2025 include free attendance to the October and November 2024 meetings. And, of course, you are welcome to attend the Holiday Party on December 14! (Cost and reservation information for the party can be found on the Guild website.)

 

Membership renewals for 2025 that are received by midnight December 13, 2024, will be entered into a drawing for a $100 gift basket at the Holiday Party.  (You don’t need to attend the holiday party to win the drawing.)

 

Membership dues can be paid in person at any of our meetings as well as at the Sew What Table on December 7, 2024.  You can also pay your membership dues on our website using your PayPal account, credit card or debit card -- click here. Or mail a check for $35 payable to CVQG to:

 

CVQG Membership

PO Box 3121

Rancho Mirage, CA  92270

 

Click here for new member/renewal form.

 

Holiday Party

Saturday, December 14

10am - Noon

Desert Willow Golf Resort

38995 Desert Willow Drive

Palm Desert

Cost -- $34/person

 

Reservations are closed!

Hope you didn't miss out!

 

 

Join other guild members and friends for a morning of socializing and eating, Silent Auction, Raffle Baskets, presentation of President's Blocks to pass President Tony DeZego and more.

Breakfast Buffet includes

Coffee Cake, Muffins, Croissants, Danish, Bagels with Cream Cheese and Fruit Preserves, Assorted Fruit Yogurts, Fresh Fruit, Fluffy Scrambled Eggs, Bacon Strips, Grilled Sausage Links, Roasted Breakfast Potatoes, Crème Brulee French Toast

Beverage Station includes

Assortment of Juices, Regular and Decaf Coffee, Selection of Hot Teas

Call for Entries SCCQG 2025 Special Exhibit

“Tradition with a Twist”

Road to California Quilters Conference January 22-25, 2025

 

Entry due December 14, 2024

Zoom Meeting with more information August 28, 2024

 

Click here for details.

Need a ride to 

Road to California?

Join Trish Tac Sew on Friday, January 24, 2025.

www.Trishtacsew.com

 

More details here.

 

Sun City Quilters have a bus going Thursday, January 23, 2025.

Contact Debbi LoCicero

Friendship Group -- Stitches For Kids

Olive Crest is delighted to see Natalie come with so many quilts.  Last year we made and donated over 600 quilts to Olive Crest who serve foster children and Coachella Valley Rescue Mssion New Life program.
Our Stitches group comes together every Tuesday from 8:00 to 11:00 at Indio Senior Center.
Each week we hold our show & share at the Indio Senior Center Stitches group in a quilt turning fashion, one quilt stack upon another with everyone gathered around for viewing pleasure.   
This summer we had a surprise challenge.  We each took a bag with an unknown panel and each participant was challenged to complete a 40” x 60” child’s quilt.
Retired teacher Dorothy made the cutest school bus.  Margarita sewed a “Let’s Get Outdoor” quilt, Peggy pieced an alphabet quilt, Natalie made the cutest  placemats, Terry enjoyed sewing her “Life is Better in a Tutu” quilt, Elida and Linda also made alphabet quilts, Nora had fun sewing her “ Benjie Engie” train quilt, Ruth added bumble bees to her Bee Happy quilt, Gloria helped with the Circus lion. Sandy received lots of Ooos and Awws for her “The Circus” quilt.

 

Interested in learning more in the area of quilting?

Check out our upcoming classes by going to Programs 2025

Sew What Table Finds!!

The Sew What Table has received donations of one sewing machine and an embroidery module.  Pictures and whatever details we could find are on the Sew What Table page. Click here to see them. Please contact Stephanie Beasley if you're interested.

 

 

Guild's President Block presentation at the Holiday Party!

Looking for quilt shows in the Southern California area?

Click here.

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Project FTF--Finish the Flimsy*

 

 

A few weeks ago the guild received a donation of approximately 35 quilt tops that needed to be made into quilts.  These tops in addition to others that have been received by Philanthropy, created a large backlog of 45+ quilts to complete.  As a result Treese has created kits with tops, batting, backing and binding of lap size or smaller quilts. She needs help from guild members to finish these charity quilts.  

There are larger size quilts that are available for the long arm quilters in the guild as well.

  • Kit includes top, batting, backing and binding
  • Can be hand tied, machine tacked or machine quilted
  • Can easily be completed using a home sewing machine
  • We have volunteers who can bind the quilts
  • When finished, please wash
  • Return finished tops to Hilda Koning-Bastiaan, Philanthropy Chair, or Treese Pflum, President at drop off date and locations or guild meetings

Hilda Koning-Bastiaan  email:  hildkb@yahoo.com

Treese Pflum email:  2quiltnutz@gmail.com

 

*A FLIMSY is an un-finished quilt top.

Information on finishing a quilt by tying:

How To Tie A Quilt

Machine Tack Stitch to Tie a Quilt

Philanthropy Quilt Drop Off

  

 UCR Palm Desert

Saturday, January 10, 2025  

 

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 will be available online and due at the January meeting.

See what members have been working on! Click here or go to PHOTOS -- Show and Share on the menu!

We Are Social
We now have an Instagram page!  If you seek quilting inspiration from Instagram from your favorite designers, you can now follow the guild too. Look for our CVQG logo for the profile picture on Instagram to find us easily. Tag us on your Instagram postings by tagging @coachellavalleyquiltguild or using the hashtag #cvqg. Don't forget we also have a Facebook page. Robert Tucker continues to run our Facebook page.   
Follow us at coachellavalleyquiltguild on Instagram and Coachella Valley Quilt Guild on Facebook.

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