PROGRAMS 2022
The Coachella Valley Quilt Guild presents excellent speakers, including nationally known teachers and lecturers, that provide insight to a wide variety of topics related to quilting, from traditional to modern, from piecing techniques to design embellishments. The lecture presentations are given immediately after our monthly Saturday membership meetings, and classes are usually held on the Sunday following the meeting at the same facility or on Zoom. Classes can fill up fast, so if you see one that interests you click the PayPal button to sign up or contact the Programs VP, Cheryl Quesnell or Nancy Wilhelm at programscvqg@gmail.com
Meetings of the Coachella Valley Quilt Guild will be hybrid meetings -- in person at University of Riverside, Palm Desert Campus and on Zoom -- January through May and September through November. June, July and August will be Zoom only. December is our Holiday Luncheon.
Classes will either be in person or Zoom but not hybrid. Check below for more information.
July Meeting -- Saturday, July 9, 2022
Studio Tours
Zoom Only
Leslie Herbst and Tony DeZego
Meeting begins at 10:00am
Program begins at 11:00am
July meeting will be our second set of studio tours featuring the home studio’s of Leslie Herbst and Tony DeZego. Join us as we explore their sewing spaces. Invite your friends and fellow quilters as this meeting has no guest fee.
July Sit and Sew -- Sunday, July 10, 2022
July Zoom Sit ad Sew
Sunday, July 10, 2022
10am to 12pm
Join Annie Houston and other guild members at a Zoom Sit and Sew and share your sewing projects.
Use the same Zoom link as for the meeting.
Any questions contact Annie Houston by clicking here.
August Meeting -- Saturday, August 13, 2022
Shop Tour and GAMES!!
Zoom Only
Meeting begins at 10:00am
Program begins at 11:00am
Join us for a short presentation about one of our local quilt shops, Quilter’s Faire. Then we will be breaking into small groups with an all new photo game. There will be prizes!!
Invite your friends and fellow quilters as there is no guest fee for this meeting.
August Sit and Sew -- Sunday, August 14, 2022
August Zoom Sit ad Sew
Sunday, August 14, 2022
10am to 12pm
Join Annie Houston and other guild members at a Zoom Sit and Sew and share your sewing projects.
Use the same Zoom link as for the meeting.
Any questions contact Annie Houston by clicking here.
September Meeting -- Saturday, Sept 10, 2022
Kathryn Pellman
A Fashionista In Quarantine
Meeting begins at 10:00am
Program begins at 11:00am
Kathryn Pellman is an artist, fashionista, quilter, cook, baker, gardener and storyteller. Her whimsical series of small, playful, single frame cartoons featuring long limbed and knobby kneed fashionistas that invoke fashion illustration. Commercial fabric is her paint; thread is her ink and the sewing machine her pen.
Kathryn's lecture is fun, entertaining, and amusing with Word Salad, Fashionistas and Girl-friends and a few Angry and Not So Angry Women. She chronicles how quilting frames and tells the story of her real and imagined life and her love of storytelling that took her from fashion design to traditional, hand-pieced miniatures to quilts to sleep under to cartoon quilts to fashionistas and angry and not so angry women. kathrynpellman.com
Guest Fee --September Meeting
$10.00
- Available
- Ships within 1-3 days
September Class - Sunday, Sept 11, 2022
Annie Houston
Gnomes and More
ZOOM CLASS
10am to 12pm
Make a gnome on a placemat, table runner, wall hanging, or pillow to brighten up your Holiday decor.
Patterns of several different male and female gnomes will be provided as part of the class fee.
We will also explore ways to frame your gnomes.
Click here for the supply list.
September Class -- Gnomes and More
$15.00
- Available
- Ships within 1-3 days
October Meeting -- Saturday, Oct 8, 2022
Pam Hadfield
Trunk Show
Meeting begins at 10:00am
Program begins at 11:00am
Pam Hadfield's original quilting comfort zone was traditional piecing, but then she branched out into traditional cotton appliqué, followed by appliquéing with wool and enhancing it with embroidery stitches.
Pam loves exploring art with pictorial quilts. Her newest ventures are designing her first two quilt patterns called Red, White and Bloom and Texas Strong.
In addition to teaching Beginning Quilting at Saddleback College for Community Education for two years, Pam has enjoyed teaching/speaking for guilds whether in person or Zoom for the last 3 years.
Her Trunk Show contains a variety of quilts from pieced, appliqué - both cotton and wool, a collection of challenges, and seasonal quilts. Pam tells stories and shares what she has learned from her work. mamapquilts.com
October Class - Sunday, Oct 9, 2022
Pam Hadfield
Whimsey Wedges
9am to 3pm
Whimsy Wedges gives the maker an opportunity to be creative with their fabric choices. Every Dresden in the class will be different. This is a great pattern for a full sized quilt, wall hanging, table runner, or a pillow.
Click here for the supply list.
October Class -- Whimsey Wedges -- Members
$35.00
- Available
- Ships within 1-3 days
October Class -- Whimsey Wedges -- Non-members
This includes attendance at the lecture.
$45.00
- Available
- Ships within 1-3 days
November Meeting -- Saturday, Nov 12, 2022
Lyric Montgomery Kind
The Elements of Art for Every Quilter
Meeting begins at 10:00am
Program begins at 11:00am
Kick-start your creativity and learn about the basic elements and principles of good design. Learn why some colors fizz while others explode, why some quilts calm and some excite. Examples from every genre in the quilt world show how you can use a broader color palette to showcase your favorite blue, or more intentional methods for using differently scaled prints.
This lecture will help you learn few simple tools from the artist's kit that will help you take your work, whether traditional or contemporary, to the next level. Audience participation keeps viewers engaged after the lights go down and the gorgeous quilts go up on your screen.
Lyric translates the language of ART into delightful and simple to understand concepts and presents them in such an entertaining and practical way that everyone goes home thinking, "I can do that!" She is on a crusade to convince every quilter that they can use the principles of art in whatever kinds of quilts they love to create. lyrickinard.com
November Class -- Saturday, Nov 12, 2022
Lyric Montgomery Kinard
Bead It Like You Mean It
2pm to 5pm
NOTE: This is a 3 hour Zoom following the morning meeting.
Add beads of all shapes and sizes to your quilts and wearable art, easily and after you are done quilting. Here’s the prize: no knots or mess on the back! Learn to embellish in a way that adds to the overall design instead of looking like an afterthought.
Students will create a small fabric flower collage on batting and learn different beading techniques such as solid line bead embroidery, attaching bugle beads, and creating a beaded bezel used to attach a cabochon to the fabric’s surface.
Click here for the supply list.
Optional kits that include all of the following are available at this link:
https://shop.lyrickinard.com/collections/beading-supplies
$30.00 plus shipping. Please order 7 days before live-virtual class to guarantee timely arrival of your kit.
November Class -- Bead It Like You Mean It -- Members
$25.00
- Available
- Ships within 1-3 days
November Class -- Bead It Like You Mean It -- Non-Members
This includes attendance at the lecture as well.
$35.00
- Available
- Ships within 1-3 days