Previous Programs

June 12, 2025
​  Bag Making with Sallie Tomato
Carrie Wilquet, a certified Sallie Tomato educator, talked about Bag Making Basics at the meeting and held a workshop in the morning.

​May 8, 2025
​  Paper Piecing the Judy Niemeyer way
Celeste Akre, a certified Judy Niemeyer instructor presented a trunk show on Thursday and held a workshop On Friday May 9th.
Celeste Akre – Quiltworx.com

April 10, 2025
​  Underground Railroad
Laurie Landree presented a lecture and trunk show about the Underground Railroad and how quilting ties into it.
https://www.instagram.com/artsychickquilts/
https://www.facebook.com/ceesaylaurie

​March 13, 2025
​  Trunk Show
Sue Coatney, DNQG member and 2026 Quilt Show Chair, shared many of her quilts with us.

​February 27- March 2, 2025
​  Cabin Fever Retreat
Mt Morris, outside of Wautoma, WI for this winter retreat.  
https://mt-morris.org/

February 13, 2025
​      Quilter's Rule!
Patricia from Quilter's Rule, based in Green Lake, WI, shared with us many of the tools they have created.  Quilter's Rule is a manufacturer of machine quilting and home machine quilting tools, templates, MegaMat cutting boards, and the quilting industry's first "FabricGripping" ruler.
https://quiltersrule.com/

​January 9, 2025
​      New Year's Kickoff
Introduction of all board & committee members, cake and fat quarter bingo.

​December 12, 2024 
     Fun and festive DNQG holiday celebration
 
​November 14, 2024
     Making a Round Robin Quilt
Linda Pujo, Darting Needles guild member, and friends from "Quilters with Borders" shared information and the quilts from a recent Round Robin Quilt-a-long.

October 10, 2024
     Escher Quilts
Christopher Weinhold, from Quilt-agious in Mukwonago, WI did a trunk show including Escher Quilts.  ​https://www.quilt-agious.com/

​September 26-29, 2024
     Fall Retreat at Mt. Morris   
Our Fall retreat was held at Mt Morris Camp & Conference ​Center  in Wautoma, WI.  

September 12, 2024
     Making a French Braid Quilt
Birgit Ruotsala, fiber artist, illustrator, and storyteller presented about French Braid quilts. https://birgitsdesigns.com/​

​August 8, 2024 
    2024 Quilt Show Preparations and quilt drop- off at Fox Valley Lutheran High School

July 11, 2024
     Creativity within Us
Pat Bishop shared her thoughts on finding creativity within all of us for our quilting projects and presented a trunk show. https://www.patbishop.info/

June 13, 2024
     Quilts with a Story
Several of our guild members shared quilts with unique stories attached to them.   

May 9, 2024
     Organizing your Quilting Stash - Members shared ideas of how they keep their fabric collections
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April 11, 2024
     All About our 2024 Quilt Show! - Discussion on the upcoming quilt show with Cheri Sweeney, our 2024 Quilt Show Chair.

​March 21-24, 2024
     Spring Retreat at Pine Lake -  our Spring retreat was held at Pine Lake campground.  

March 14, 2024
     Quilt as you go - Elayne West from the Sewing Basket in Plymouth presented Quilt as You Go techniques. A class was also held to make QAYG placemats.
 https://sewingbasket.biz/

February 8, 2024
     Lisa & Heath Petersen from KK Sew & Vac (Appleton, DePere & West Bend) shared with us how to maintain and pamper our sewing machines. 
 https://www.kksewvac.com/

January 11, 2024
     We welcomed in the new year with hot chocolate and cake. After the presentation of the 2024 programs we played Fat Quarter Bingo.  

December 7, 2023
     Guild Holiday Potluck dinner, gift exchange, and Christmas challenge

November 9, 2023
     Linda Halpin Presentation on Laura Wilder Quilts
​http://www.lindahalpin.com/links.html

November 10, 2023 class
       Linda Halpin's Mexican Cross Workshop - 6 hours
Cheery colors pop in this fun version of the Mexican Cross block. Not only is it a great pattern for using up lots of different fabrics in one quilt, but the construction technique cleverly creates a bonus quilt out of the cutaways.
This complex looking pattern is a snap when you make it with my shortcut techniques. 

​October 12-15, 2023
     Fall Retreat held at Mt. Morris, outside Wautoma. 

October 12, 2023
     Andrea Brown - Taking Care of our Precious Quilts - Andrea shared her knowledge of repairing antique or those special broken quilts.​ Included were tips on how to care for quilts to help them last.

September 14, 2023
​     Judy Fox - Cuddle up! Judy will be shared a variety ways of using CUDDLE fabric. Website:  https://www.foxcitiesquiltco.com/​ 

August 10, 2023
     Rummage Sale & Ice Cream Social

July 13, 2023
     Terry Davis explained the One Block Wonder technique and had a trunk show of many One Block Wonder quilts. 

​​June 8, 2023
     Mickey Mowry - Tiny Pieces Trunk Show  - Mickey did a trunk show of her Tiny Pieces quilts. She explained how the quilts are made and why.  She also held a class on making bindings extraordinary.
Website:  https://sew-many-pieces.com/ 
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May 11, 2023
     Ruler Fun!  Mary, Joanne, & Sue shared with us different types of rulers and how to best to use them in our projects.
Going to Peces website:  https://goingtopiecesquiltco.com/ 

April 13, 2023
     History, Music, Quilting, and Fun–Ann Marie Rowland from Michigan Ann Marie
presented Pieces of Time that stitches together quilts and music - a happy trip through time and place.  To find out more about Ann Marie Rowland, visit her website:  https://annmarierowland.com/

March 23-25, 2023
​     Spring Retreat at Pine Lake Campground

March 9, 2023
     How Computers Can Enhance Your Quilting Judy Brown showed us how computers can enhance our quilting experience. She is a member of the guild with lots of computer & quilting experience

February 9, 2023
Introduction of all board and committee members ,overview upcoming programs for the year, demo website, and discuss newsletter & Facebook group.

January 12, 2023
    A fun filled evening with games, cake, and hot chocolate
We played “QUILT”  a spinoff of Bingo. Members brought fat quarters as the prizes. For every fat quarter brought one “QUILT” card was received.

December 8, 2022
     Our Guild Holiday Party will be at Van Abel's of Hollandtown.  If you'd like to participate in the gift exchange, please bring a wrapped gift ($10-$15 value) to the dinner.  
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November 10, 2022
​     Quilting and your body.  We will have Eric Koehler, Certified Physical Therapist from Physical Achievement Center in Oshkosh, to talk about what we can do to help our bodies while we quilt.

October 13, 2022
​Linda Fleschner will be presenting a trunk show and sharing information about her art quilts. A class on fabric bleaching was held the afternoon of October 13.  

September 8, 2022
Joan Sachs, Serge instructor

​August - No meeting - preparation for Quilt Show

July 14, 2022
​Rummage Sale & ice cream social. This rummage sale is for sewing/craft supplies only so dig through your closets, open those lonely drawers, and bring anything for sewing that our fellow members may be interested in. 

June 9, 2022
Elayne West from The Sewing Basket in Plymouth WI presented a trunk show and information about purse/bag/tote quilting, construction, and tips.    

May 12, 2022
Donna Mather, certified Judy Niemeyer instructor for a presentation and trunk show.
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April 7, 2022
HERstory Quilts: A Celebration of Strong Women
     
March 10, 2022
Wisconsin State Fair Competitive Exhibits – Kristie Jorgenson

February 10, 2022
Quilt Show planning and discussion
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January 13, 2022
Online meeting - Wisconsin Museum of Quilts and Fiber Arts Treasurers from the Vault
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December 9, 2021
Christmas Party Dinner at Van Abel's Supper Club

November 11, 2021​​​
Our November meeting was with Birgit Ruotsola from Green Bay with a lecture "The Accidental Quilter". You can visit her website at birgitsdesigns.com.

​October 14, 2021​​
​Sue Cleveland lecture - She is contagiously enthusiastic about quilting. She has been named Minnesota Quilter of the Year in the past. Check out her website Pieces Be With You.