December 2023 Meeting: Holiday Party

Merriam Community Center 6040 Slater St, Merriam, KS, United States

December Holiday Party and Committee Fair Our traditional Holiday Party will continue this December and we’ll add a Committee Fair and encourage you to be “Looking For More in 2024”. There will be a chance to meet the committees and find out about what they do to enhance the KCMQG experience. This amazing guild is […]

January 2024 Meeting: Becky Blades – Start More Than You Can Finish

Merriam Community Center 6040 Slater St, Merriam, KS, United States

On January 11th, we will begin Looking for More in 2024 with Becky Blades. She believes that creative initiative is both the kindling and blaze of the creative process. Becky calls it stARTistry® — the art of beginning. STARTISTRY® can be learned, practiced, and mastered. It may even be contagious.  We will find out! If […]

February 2024 Meeting: Everyday Stitches – Paper Piecing

Merriam Community Center 6040 Slater St, Merriam, KS, United States

On February 8, 2024, come spend some time with our very own KCMQG creatives,  Trisch Price and Jenifer Dick of Everyday Stitches as they debut “Talking Foundation Paper Piecing with Everyday Stitches: An Evening of Design, Technique & Inspiration” and introduce a brand new paper piecing pattern! It will be an intriguing evening and who knows paper piecing may become your new […]

March 2024 Meeting: Merrie Ford – Series Work

Merriam Community Center 6040 Slater St, Merriam, KS, United States

On March 14th, Merrie Ford, a KCMQG member and national speaker, will talk to us about Working in a Series: Motivation & Inspiration. This lecture is the result of a lifelong love of a specific subject matter, a desire to explore creative possibilities, and many changes in her life and the world over the past […]

April 2024 Meeting: Minki Kim

Merriam Community Center 6040 Slater St, Merriam, KS, United States

On April 11, 2024 at the Merriam Community Center come meet Minki Kim. Minki Kim is a fabric and pattern designer with her own whimsical style. As a formally trained sculptor and self-taught sewist, she found that designing fabrics and creating art with fabric and thread were natural steps in her evolution as an artist. […]

August 2024 Meeting: Anna Maria Horner

Merriam Community Center 6040 Slater St, Merriam, KS, United States

The one and only ANNA MARIA HORNER is coming to the KCMQG! *** THURSDAY AUGUST 22 @ 6:30pm PLEASE NOTE DATE CHANGE!!! *** Fine artist, fabric designer, quilter... all words used to try to describe the incomparable Anna Maria Horner. Join us for an amazing guild meeting where we will enjoy Patchwork Pathways: An auto-biographical […]

September 2024 Meeting: Kelly Ashton

Merriam Community Center 6040 Slater St, Merriam, KS, United States

On September 12 the KCMQG will welcome our own Kelly Ashton. As a self-described “pragmatic quilt maker”, Kelly approaches quilt design and construction with a knowledge of and an appreciation for the theoretical and a penchant for the practical. Her mid-life realization that she truly may not live long enough to use all of her […]