Programs
Pieces and Patches Quilt Guild meets the last Monday of each month. Demonstrations are held at 6:15 and 6:40 p.m. The Guild meeting starts at 7:00 pm. Speakers presentations are from 7:00 to 8:00 followed by a short business meeting and then Show and Tell. We meet at :
Ella Sharp Museum of Art and History
3225 Fourth Street
Jackson, MI
*No meeting is held in December. January and February meetings may be via Zoom.
January 27, 2025 Gyleen Fitzgerald - The Creative Art of Finishing VIRTUAL ONLY
The Creative Art of Finishing:
Stop the madness! Don’t get bogged down with unfinished projects instead consider them new possibilities. Vintage or newly abandon discover creative ways to reconfigure or upcycle orphan projects to suit today’s life style. Let’s talk about how to finish.
February 24, 2025 Teri Tope - A Girl with a Checked Past & a Future in Pieces VIRTUAL ONLY
“Girl with a Checkered Past and a Future in Pieces”
Trunk show of over 30 quilts. Join Teri as she walks you through her life journey and the quilts that followed her along the way. Starting with that very first quilt and ending with her most recent. Entertaining and sure to make you laugh out loud!
March 31, 2025 Debi Vanden Heuvel - How to Stay Inspired
Programs for the 2024 - 2025 Program Year
December – No meeting. Happy Holidays!
January 27, 2025 – VIRTUAL MEETING ONLY
The Creative art of Finishing – Gyleen Fitzgerald
February 24, 2025 – VIRTUAL MEETING ONLY
A Girl with a Checked Past & a Future in Pieces –
Teri Tope
March 31, 2025
How to Stay Inspired – Debi Vanden Heuvel
April 28, 2025
Challenge Reveal – Barb Noble
May 19, 2025
English Paper Piecing – Ellen Cieslak
Annual Business Meeting
June 30, 2025
From Traditional to Modern – Rona the Ribbiter
July 28, 2025
TBD
August 25, 2025
My Quiltworx Journey – Barb Barringer
Previous Programs
Veteran's Quilts
The November meeting has our very own Janet Rochefort doing a presentation to local veterans thanking them for their service to our country. Beautiful red, white and blue quilts, kits that Janet donated, have been put together by several guild members. Quilted and bound by several other members and will be the quilts presented. You definitely do not want to miss the November Guild meeting it’s going to be a beautiful memorable meeting!
October 28, 2024 Hope Stropes - Historic Quilts At Ella Sharp
As the repository for Jackson County history, the Ella Sharp Museum houses a collection of over one hundred quilts. In this session, Curator of Collections, Hope Stropes will present a number of these quilts, exploring their provenance, and the techniques used to make them. Additionally, Hope will explain how the museum stores, and cares for the quilt collection to preserve them for future generations.
August 26, 2024 Mary Zesiger - Get Ready To Enter
Have you ever entered a quilt in competition? What is the job of the quilt judge and what kinds of things is the judge looking for? This lecture will discuss entry forms and mistakes quilters make in getting their quilt to the show. Multiple tips will be shared to improve your chances of coming away with the blue ribbon.
July 29, 2024 Sheila Painter - KidLit in Quilts
A trunk show of quilts from children’s picture books. There are dozens of children’s literature with quilts within the pages, and Sheila has found them, read them, created the quilts within, and wants to share them with you and your library, book club, museum, school, quilt guild or any group who wants to be entertained!
Includes mini book reviews and a chance to compare the quilt illustrations with the quilts that jumped off the pages, thanks to Sheila’s clever re-creations. Some of the authors and illustrators weighed in on her work, and you won’t believe what they said!
June 24, 2024 Nancy Roelfsema - Great Basics
Nancy will discuss great basics including cutting, setting blocks on point, borders and other tips and techniques.
6/25 Workshop: Monoprinting
6/26 Workshop: Double Wedding Ring
May 20, 2024 Cindy Huffman - 175 Years of Sewing Machines
Cindy collects and refurbish vintage antique sewing machines her program is called “175 years of sewing machines “she delves into the history and origin of various sewing machine companies. She is a prolific quilter she uses her vintage machines to make clothing and quilts.
March 25, 2024 Gary Harvey - Machine Sewn Hexagons, Y-Be Afraid?
Machine sewn hexagons – a new way to handle the Y seams.
February 26, 2024 Meg Cox - International Quilt Museum Via Zoom
Meg Cox will will be taking us “Behind the Scenes at the Greatest Quilt Museum in the World”, The International Quilt Museum in Lincoln, Nebraska. The IQM has quilts from the 1600s thru today. Their collection includes objects from 65 different countries.
January 29, 2024 Jenny Doan - An Evening with Jenny Via Zoom
November 27, 2023 Lynn Carson Harris - Do It For The Process
Lynn will share some of her quilts and talk about her journey from the first quilt she made as a teenager in 1976 to her current work. She has found that the steps of making a quilt are often more meaningful to her than the completed quilt. Focusing on the creative process rather than the finished product allows her time in the studio to be filled with play and discovery.
https://www.lynncarsonharris.com/
Lynn will be doing a workshop on “Tiny Piecing – Precision Perfect” on Saturday December 2, 2023.
October 30, 2023 Gary Harvey - Quilting with Rulers
Have you ever wanted to learn how to use rulers with your domestic sewing machine? Gary Harvey will be here in October to talk to us about how to use rulers with our domestic machines.
Gary will also be presenting a workshop on ruler work on Saturday, November 4, 2023
September 2023 Guild Potluck - get to know each other
Sharon Bannister’s family has donated her fabric and notions to the Guild. There will be a sale of her large fabric collection including complete kits, UFO’s and beautiful fabric yardage. Attendees can view sale items prior to the meeting but there will be no sales prior to 7:00 PM. The potluck will start at 6:30 PM. The money raised from this sale will be designated to purchasing new display racks for our upcoming quilt show.
August 2023 Lucinda (Cindy) Herring The RE-ality of Rescue
Lucinda (Cindy) Herring will be coming in August to talk to us about The RE-ality of Rescue. Cindy loves to find old quilts and redo, re-quilt, rehome, reuse and re-love them. She will bring some of the finished quilts she has rescued. She will be sharing the before pictures of these rescued quilts.
July 2023 Jan Roys Trunk Show
In July our very talented Guild Member Jan Roys will be doing a trunk show entitled “A Walk Through My Quilting Journey”.
Jan Roys says, ” I started quilting with 2 1/2″ squares back in the 1970s and have progressed over the years with the help of Pieces and Patches Quilt Guild, many classes (on-line and in person) and good teachers. My story has advanced to creating my original designs from photographs or from just playing around with fabric. Most recently I have added dyeing fabric to my list of accomplishments. I look forward to sharing my journey with you.”
June 2023 Vernita Dailey
The Three B’s of Quilting – Borders, binding and Battings
Vernita Dailey is an avid quilter, teacher, lecturer & quilt designer in the Lansing area. She will be doing a lecture program on the 3 B’s of Quilting – Borders, Bindings & Batting. She will delve into the many different borders (mitered, blocks, scrappy, etc), determine whether a border is necessary or not, all kinds of binding techniques & different types of battings. She will have an array of quilts that show many different ideas, techniques and styles.
May 2023 Sue Cortese - Quilt Judging
Sue Cortese is a Quilter/Artist who lives in Holland, Michigan. She is a Certified Quilt Judge through the National Association of Certified Quilt Judges (NACQJ) and a Regional Representative for Studio Art Quilt Associates (SAQA). Sue started quilting & dyeing her own fabric in 1995. From start to finish, her work incorporates the many techniques she has learned: dyeing & printing her own fabric, piecing & appliqué, machine & hand quilting, & various finishes. Her work has been displayed in quilt shows & art museums around the country. She teaches various dyeing & quilting techniques.
PROGRAMS FOR 2022/2023
December: No Meeting Happy Holidays
January 30, 2023
Topic: Long Arm Basics
February 27, 2023
Topic: Favorite Quilting Tools
March 27, 2023
Nancy Roelfsema: Why Do We Quilt
(Workshop on Tuesday, March 28, 2023 – New York Beauty quilt)
April 24, 2023
Challenge Reveal
Angie Townsend
May 22, 2023
Quilt Judging
Sue Cortese
June 26, 2023
Vernita Dailey: 3 B’s of Quilting(Borders, Bindings and Battings)
June 27, 2023
Workshop : Vernita Dailey Precision Paper piecing
July 31, 2023
Jan Roys: A walk through My Quilt History
August 28, 2023
Lucinda Herring: The Reality of Rescue
