The Kansas City Modern Quilt Guild

May 2022 Meeting: Journey of a Modern Art Quilter with Mary Kay Fosnacht
2022-05-12 18:30 - 20:30 (America/Chicago) | Overland Park First Assembly of God Church, 7700 W. 75th St, Overland Park, KS, United States
Mary Kay , a renowned award winner for her contemporary work. She is known for her detailed work with color coordinated design implementation nationally. Mary Kay will be showing her work and explaining how she has been so successful. There is definitely a nod to Wassily Kandinsky, improvisational art, in her creative genius.
Here is improvisational quilt making at its best:

This is a hybrid meeting that can be attended in person at Overland Park First Assembly of God Church, or via Zoom. If attending via Zoom, you can find the meeting link in the KCMQG Newsletter or Facebook group.

June 2022 Meeting: Tia's Improv with Tia Curtis
2022-06-09 18:30 - 20:30 | Overland Park First Assembly of God Church, 7700 W. 75th St, Overland Park, KS, United States
We welcome one of our own STARS, Tia Curtis. Tia conducts a warm, light-hearted presentation showcasing her quilting journey. Tia has lived all over the world, and having been influenced by so many different cultures along the way it’s such a treat to connect with Tia’s view of quilting. Her love of Welsh-Style quilting and respect for quilt masters like Susan McCord and Gwen Marston is evident in her work. The Trunk Show will be one to be remembered!

July 2022 Meeting: What is a Modern Quilt? with Carole Lyles Shaw
2022-07-14 18:30 - 20:30 | Overland Park First Assembly of God Church, 7700 W. 75th St, Overland Park, KS, United States
WHAT IS A MODERN QUILT? THE MYTHS AND THE MAGIC!

Carole designs patterns to help beginning and experienced quilters confidently dive into modern quilting. What excites her about modern quilting is bringing individualism and free expression to the way we design and make quilts today. It is her desire that patterns will inspire you to find ways to let your own creative voice shine.
This is a ZOOM talk that will be broadcast at the Overland Park First Assembly of God Church.

August 2022 Meeting: Sheila Frampton Cooper
2022-08-11 18:30 - 20:30 | Overland Park First Assembly of God Church, 7700 W. 75th St, Overland Park, KS, United States
A very exciting Guild Meeting on August 11, 2022 awaits all of us. Sheila Frampton Cooper will be with us here presenting her very popular lecture: “Spontaneous Creation and Inspiration”. This talk goes deep into her process. She discusses color, inspiration and the various approaches she uses when doing this type of work. She will share a variety of student work as well as a few other artists and discuss what makes a piece successful. This is a fun talk full of eye candy.

This is a hybrid meeting that can be attended in person at Overland Park First Assembly of God Church, or via Zoom. If attending via Zoom, you can find the meeting link in the KCMQG Newsletter or Facebook group.

September 2022 Meeting: David Taylor
2022-09-08 18:30 - 20:30 | Overland Park First Assembly of God Church, 7700 W. 75th St, Overland Park, KS, United States
Have you ever studied the work of David Taylor of Ft. Collins, Colorado?

David was born in Peterborough, New Hampshire, and currently resides in Fort Collins, Colorado. He has been the recipient of the Fairfield Master Award for Contemporary Quilting from the International Quilt Association (2006, 2014), the Brother Wall Machine Workmanship Award from the American Quilters Society (2008), and a two-time Best of Show winner at IQA’s Spring Festival in Chicago (2007, 2008), among others. His art quilts hang in numerous private collections worldwide.
He is an amazing artist and an expert at appliqué! David’s quilts are all award winners! Join us for a fabulous array of artistry at its best and meet David for yourself!
Thursday, September 8, 2022
This is a hybrid meeting that can be attended in person at Overland Park First Assembly of God Church, or via Zoom. If attending via Zoom, you can find the meeting link in the KCMQG Newsletter or Facebook group.

October 2022 Guild Meeting: Jacquie Gering 2.0
2022-10-13 18:30 - 20:30 | Overland Park First Assembly of God Church, 7700 W. 75th St, Overland Park, KS, United States
We are thrilled to welcome our guild’s founding president and renowned author and educator Jacquie Gering to our October meeting. In her Jacquie 2.0 talk, we’ll catch up with Jacquie with examples form her beloved Walk 2.0 book and hear more about what she’s whipping up in her studio. She describes her style as “simple, bold, graphic, impactful.” You’ll likely describe it as inspiring. Jacquie is a passionate, engaging speaker– you don’t want to miss out! Join us in person on October 13th 6:30-8:30pm at
Overland Park First Assembly of God
7700 W 75th St, Overland Park, KS 66204
Or
Join Zoom Meeting – please check your KCMQG Newsletter for the link!

November 2022 Meeting: Mary Fons
2022-11-10 18:30 - 20:30 | Merriam Community Center, 6040 Slater St, Merriam, KS, 66202, United States
Mary Fons lives a quiltful life. You might already know Mary from her lectures at QuiltCon, her work as Quiltfolk magazine’s editor-in-chief, her time at Quilty magazine, her appearances on Fons & Porter’s Love of Quilting, reading her articles on quilt history and culture in all your favorite quilt magazine, or tuning in to her Quilt Nerd video magazine. She’s known as an engaging and thoughtful speaker at the intersection of quilts and culture — it’s our pleasure to welcome her to KCMQG in November. With a topic as compelling as MYTH: Belief vs. Reality in the American Quilt Story, we are all sure to leave the meeting thinking about quilting just a bit differently.

December 2022 Guild Meeting: Karen Sullivan "Maker Self Care"
2022-12-08 18:30 - 20:30 | Merriam Community Center, 6040 Slater St, Merriam, KS, 66202, United States
Karen Sullivan(@sullysmittenco) is a licensed professional trainer and wool mitten maker. She’ll give us great tips on how to take better care of ourselves while “making” with exercises and tips. She’ll also tell us about her Wool Mitten company Sully’s Mitten Co. Karen is funny, entertaining and will share lots of great self care advise.
Thursday, December 8th, 2022 630-8:30pm
Location: Merriam Community Center, 6040 Slater St in Merriam, KS 66202
or on Zoom

January 2023 Meeting: "Color -The Next Steps" with Lisa Hirsch
2023-01-12 18:30 - 20:30 | Merriam Community Center, 6040 Slater St, Merriam, KS, 66202, United States
KCMQG member Lisa Hirsch will share her knowledge and incredible color skills with us to step up our Color profiles in 2023.
Join us January 12, 2023 6:30-8:30pm in person at Merriam Community Center, 6040 Slater Street, Merriam, Kansas
or on Zoom

February 2023 Meeting - Laura Piland with Slice of Pi Quilts- "Try Something New"
2023-02-09 18:30 - 20:30 | Merriam Community Center, 6040 Slater St, Merriam, KS, 66202, United States
Laura Piland with Slice of Pi Quilts is a local quilter, pattern designer and ex-math teacher, “With a last name like Piland – there’s a strong love of pi in our house! Just after finishing my very first quilt almost 12 years ago, I decided I would try something new with every quilt I made. I’ve made well over 400 quilts since then, and I still love the thrill of trying new things! Every quilt in this show features a unique and different technique. Bias tape applique, fabric weaving, quilt as you go, prairie points, and 3-D elements are just a few of the many examples included in the show. Be prepared to be inspired and leave ready to try something new in your next quilt!”
Join us February 9, 2023 at 6:30-8:30pm to see Laura’s trunk show and learn about her quilting journey.

March 2023 Meeting: Timna Tarr, Stitched Photo Mosaic Quilting
2023-03-09 18:30 - 20:30 | Merriam Community Center, 6040 Slater St, Merriam, KS, 66202, United States
Timna Tarr comes from a long line of quilters, but did not begin quilting until after studying art history in college. She bought her first longarm in 2001 and began quilting clients’ quilts shortly thereafter. Timna’s own nationally award-winning quilts are in private and corporate collections and can be seen in exhibits, publications, and on The Quilt Show and Quilting Arts TV. Timna is a designer for Studio e Fabrics, the author of Stitched Photo Mosaic Quilting, and is an in-demand teacher and speaker. She lives in South Hadley, Massachusetts. Want to hear more about Timna? Check out her video interview recently with Blair Stocker on YouTube. Click here
Join us for Timna Tarr’s presentation on March 9th, 2023. Meeting will be 6:30-8:30pm at Merriam Community Center, 6040 Slater, Merriam, Kansas 66202. Doors open 6pm.
Or on Join us on Zoom.
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April 2023 Meeting: Nina Clotfelter - "Threads - What's the big Deal?"
2023-04-13 18:30 - 20:30 | Merriam Community Center, 6040 Slater St, Merriam, KS, 66202, United States
This is a FUN lecture on all the things you didn’t know you needed to know about thread! As an educator for WonderFil Specialty Threads, Nina Clotfelter has learned a lot and she wants to share!
Thread is like candy! Sometimes you just can’t get enough…LOL!
When we purchase thread it’s usually the color we buy, or the thread the shop carries. In this lecture you’ll learn about the different wieghts of thread and why the make a difference. Ply, why is that important? Specialty threads like metallic, monofilament, tinsel threads, how do we work with them? Why do metallics give us issues? This lecture is FULL of information you’ll be thrilled you know now!
April 13, 2023 6:30-8:30pm @ Merriam Community Center, 6040 Slater, Merriam, Kansas 66202
If you’d like to join us via Zoom, please check the KCMQG Newsletter for the link.

May 2023 Meeting: Lyric Kinard - Elements of Art
2023-05-11 18:30 - 20:30 | Merriam Community Center, 6040 Slater St, Merriam, KS, 66202, United States
Kick-start your creativity and learn about the basic elements of good design through a series of short, hands-on exercises. Learn why some colors fizz while others explode, why some quilts calm and some excite. A few simple tools from the artists kit will help you take your work, whether traditional or contemporary, to the next level.
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 everyone that they can use the principles of art in whatever kinds of quilts they love to create.
May 11, 2023 6:30-8:30pm at Merriam Community Center, 6040 Slater, Merriam, Kansas 66206
If you’d like to join us via Zoom, please check the KCMQG Newsletter for the link.

June 2023 Meeting: Community
2023-06-08 18:30 - 20:30 | Merriam Community Center, 6040 Slater St, Merriam, KS, 66202, United States
June’s meeting is all about our quilting community. We’re calling this one “Firsts and Favorites”. Please bring your first quilt (or an early in your quilt journey quilt) and your current favorite quilt. We’ll break out into smaller groups and enjoy chatting about our quilts and getting to know one another better. You’ll love this opportunity to spend time with fellow guild members and leave with lots of inspiration!

July 2023 Meeting: Quilt Stories with Mary Thomas
2023-07-13 18:30 - 20:30 | Merriam Community Center, 6040 Slater St, Merriam, KS, 66202, United States
We are always excited when we get to enjoy hearing from our very own members. In July we will welcome Mary Thomas. Mary has been a quilter since 1985. Mostly self-taught, she increased her skills in quilting classes, expos and quilt shows. She has tried a large number of techniques and quilt styles from Applique to Watercolor (and most of the alphabet in between.) Mary’s trunk show will include quilts from all the varied techniques and styles that she has worked in. She says that she was making “…improv before I knew what improv was.” Mary has exhibited in local quilt shows and the Missouri State Fair, receiving various ribbons. One of Mary’s quilts hangs in the Missouri Quilt Museum in Hamilton, Missouri.
Mary believes that most quilts tell a story, and she is eager to share with you some of her many Quilt Stories! She plans to inspire you to your next story with over 50 quilts for you to see. Please join us in July!

August 2023 Meeting: Audrey Esarey (Cotton & Bourbon)
2023-08-10 18:30 - 20:30 | Merriam Community Center, 6040 Slater St, Merriam, KS, 66202, United States
In August, we are excited to welcome Audrey Esarey of Cotton and Bourbon to the KCMQG! She has always identified as a maker, and has sewn for as long as she can remember, but only began quilting in 2005. In 2018, she set a personal goal to exhibit her work in a juried quilt show, which motivated her to design and create a series of original quilts. Since then, her quilts have been exhibited and recognized at Quilt National, International Quilt Festival, and QuiltCon. She shares her creative process on Instagram via @CottonandBourbon You’ll be excited to hear her lecture which focuses on her path to becoming a modern quilter and how she’s applied many traditional techniques in her modern quilts. She’ll discuss the progression of her work and show her Radial Quilts, Watercolor Quilts, and a few others too! She will also share information on design inspiration, favorite artists, and discuss some quilting highs and lows along her journey.
There is a $10 fee for guests which will happily apply to a membership should they decide to join us!

September 2023 Meeting: Robin Long - Robin Ruth Designs Modern Mariner's Compass
2023-09-14 18:30 - 20:30 | Merriam Community Center, 6040 Slater St, Merriam, KS, 66202, United States

October 2023 Meeting: Dee Bushrod of Pixel Quilts
2023-10-12 18:30 - 20:00 | Merriam Community Center, 6040 Slater St, Merriam, KS, 66202, United States
Dee Bushrod of Pixel Quilts has become quite a sensation on Instagram in the last several years as she honed and perfected her practice of making pixelated quilts. Join Dee and the KCMQG as she takes us on a deep dive into the tiny squares that make up a pixel quilt and her adventures in making and gifting these amazing quilts.
Check out her social media and website links below and get ready for an exciting evening.
Website: www.pixelquilts.com Instagram: www.instagram.com/pixelquilt/

December 2023 Meeting: Holiday Party
2023-12-14 18:30 - 20:30 | Merriam Community Center, 6040 Slater St, Merriam, KS, 66202, 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 run by all volunteer help and we need you to make it happen! Holiday refreshments, a chance to talk and get to know other members, and a introduction to the committees will give you a reason to look forward to the 2024 KCMQG season. Join us, won’t you?

January 2024 Meeting: Becky Blades - Start More Than You Can Finish
2024-01-11 18:30 - 20:30 | Merriam Community Center, 6040 Slater St, Merriam, KS, 66202, 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 you wish to learn more about Becky Blades prior to our January meeting, visit her webpage: www.beckyblades.com
I cannot wait to start more than I can finish in 2024. How about you?
Kelly Lautenbach – VP of Programming

February 2024 Meeting: Everyday Stitches - Paper Piecing
2024-02-08 18:30 - 20:30 | Merriam Community Center, 6040 Slater St, Merriam, KS, 66202, 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 favorite technique!
Kelly Lautenbach – VP of Programming

March 2024 Meeting: Merrie Ford - Series Work
2024-03-14 18:30 - 20:30 | Merriam Community Center, 6040 Slater St, Merriam, KS, 66202, 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 few years. Drawing from personal interests, a small book by an artist of the 50’s, and her process of planning and creating a series of works, she will give both practical and unusual inspiration to help us all move forward with our own creative lives.
A little bit about Merrie. She began sewing in 8th grade and primarily made clothing for years. She caught the quilting bug at age 22 and began with traditional quilts and hand quilting. Her creative journey would take her into utility quilts, modern quilts, collage, and original designs. After 20 moves, she landed in Kansas City, MO, and credits the KCMQG with much of her growth and creativity as a Quilter. She now splits time between Missouri & her home state of Montana. Merrie teaches at shops, guilds, and retreats all over the nation, loves the color brown, and never gets tired of buying fabric at any shop she can find while traveling!
Cannot wait to see what Merrie will inspire us to do in 2024!
Kelly Lautenbach, VP of Programming

April 2024 Meeting: Minki Kim
2024-04-11 18:30 - 20:30 | Merriam Community Center, 6040 Slater St, Merriam, KS, 66202, 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. Her program will take us all on her journey as we learn about “How Sewing Changed My Life”. She’ll share lots of photos and will be bringing lots of her projects for us to enjoy.
Minki discovered sewing as a creative outlet when her children were small. She wanted to capture the beauty of ordinary moments, first with hand embroidery and later recreating them with her sewing machine and fabric—literally drawing with thread. Capturing ordinary moments in beautiful sewing illustrations to make keepsake snapshots of daily life has become her signature style.
The author of Sew Illustrated, Diary in Stitches, Zakka from the Heart and Zakka Wool Applique (all by C&T Publishing), Minki has also designed several fabric collections for Riley Blake Designs.
Check out her Instagram @zeriano and her website Sewing Illustration
Two of her books, Zakka from the Heart and Zakka Wool Applique, are available in our library if you’d like to check out a bit more inspiration!
Kelly Lautenbach – VP of Programming

May 2024 Meeting: Make Up or Break Up
2024-05-09 18:30 - 20:30 | Merriam Community Center, 6040 Slater St, Merriam, KS, 66202, United States

June 2024 Meeting: My Top 10
2024-06-13 18:30 - 20:30 | Merriam Community Center, 6040 Slater St, Merriam, KS, 66202, United States

July 2024 Meeting: Pride and Joy Quilting
2024-07-11 18:30 - 20:30 | Merriam Community Center, 6040 Slater St, Merriam, KS, 66202, United States

August 2024 Meeting: Anna Maria Horner
2024-08-22 18:30 - 20:30 | Merriam Community Center, 6040 Slater St, Merriam, KS, 66202, 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 presentation of Anna Maria’s quilts from the beginning.
You’ll revel in the opportunity to see Anna Maria’s quilts up close and personal and leave inspired to create a beautiful and artful world.
Scroll Anna Maria’s amazingness on Instagram @annamariahorner @craftsouth and @conservatorycraft

September 2024 Meeting: Kelly Ashton
2024-09-12 18:30 - 20:30 | Merriam Community Center, 6040 Slater St, Merriam, KS, 66202, 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 fabric stash has propelled her into “turbo quilt making mode”! Join us as Kelly shares her quilts and her latest publication Spinners, Spirals and Stars and see her creative use of shape and color to create fabulous quilts. Follow her on Instagram @kellyaquilter and visit her website at kellyquilter.com

October 2024 Meeting: Diane Harris - Stash Bandit
2024-10-10 18:30 - 20:30 | Merriam Community Center, 6040 Slater St, Merriam, KS, 66202, United States
October 10, 2024 6:30pm Merriam Community Center
October finds us jumping into the world of all things ScRaPpY and our fearless leader for the adventure will be Diane Harris of Stash Bandit. Diane Harris is a quilter who loves everything about the process and enjoys sharing it with others. She’s been sewing for almost 50 years and quilting for three decades. She can’t imagine ever running out of ideas.
For 11 years, she was an editor for Quiltmaker magazine where she wrote patterns, product reviews and how-to articles. Her quilt designs can still be seen regularly in the pages of Quiltmaker, McCall’s Quilting and Quick Quilts.
Her trunk shows and classes are lively, inspiring entertainment. We can’t wait to see her quilts and be inspired to dive into our scrap bins to create beautiful quilts. You can learn more about Diane by visiting her on Instagram @stashbanditquilts or her website StashBandit Website

November 2024 Meeting: Mary Thomas
2024-11-14 18:30 - 20:30 | Merriam Community Center, 6040 Slater St, Merriam, KS, 66202, United States

December 2024 Meeting: Holiday Party
2024-12-12 18:30 - 20:30 | Merriam Community Center, 6040 Slater St, Merriam, KS, 66202, United States

Monthly Meeting: Tia Curtis
2025-01-09 18:30 - 20:30 | Merriam Community Center, 6040 Slater St, Merriam, KS, 66202, United States

Monthly Meeting: Martin Catenhauser from Missouri Sewing Machine Company
2025-02-13 18:00 - 21:00 | Merriam Community Center, 6040 Slater St, Merriam, KS, 66202, United States
Join us as Martin Catenhauser of Missouri Sewing Machine Co. takes us on a journey to “A Simple Understanding of the Modern Sewing Machine”. You’ll enjoy getting to know the primary tool that makes all of your quilting goals come to life. Missouri Sewing Machine Co. has been a part of the Kansas City area since 1932 and generations of Martin’s family have made it their mission to offer innovative and easier sewing options. With 4 shops in the KC area, their company is dedicated to great customer service and community growth as they look forward to serving their customers in the generations to come.

Monthly Meeting: QuiltCon A to Z
2025-03-13 18:30 - 21:00 | Merriam Community Center, 6040 Slater St, Merriam, KS, 66202, United States
Additional information will be added once we get all the details ironed out.

April Monthly Meeting: Denyse Schmidt
2025-04-10 18:30 - 20:30 | Merriam Community Center, 6040 Slater St, Merriam, KS, 66202, United States

Monthly Meeting: Negative Space Challenge
2025-05-08 18:30 - 20:30 | Merriam Community Center, 6040 Slater St, Merriam, KS, 66202, United States
Discover the Power of Negative Space at Our May 8th Meeting!
Join us on May 8th for an inspiring evening as our talented KCMQG members showcase their Negative Space Challenge mini quilts! This is your chance to see how quilters have embraced the challenge, using bold expanses of fabric, intricate quilting textures, and unexpected layouts to transform “empty” space into a striking design element.
Members are invited to create a mini quilt (24″ x 24″ max) that highlights negative space in a unique way. Whether you go for modern minimalism, high-contrast drama, or delicate quilting details, we can’t wait to see your interpretation! Attendees in person and on Zoom will have an opportunity to share their quilts. If you would like to have your mini quilt featured at the Kansas City Regional Quilt Festival in the KCMQG Negative Space exhibit, you can leave your mini with Kelly Hubka after the meeting. There will be additional opportunities to deliver your quilt for inclusion in our KCRQF exhibit, so stay tuned for those details.
Mark your calendars, get inspired, and join us for an evening of creativity and conversation. See you there!

Monthly Meeting: Kitty Wilkin - Quilt Your Life: Milestone Quilts for Every Moment
2025-06-12 18:30 - 20:30 | Merriam Community Center, 6040 Slater St, Merriam, KS, 66202, United States
Kitty Wilkin, the Night Quilter, is joining us virtually on June 12th for a memorable presentation called “Quilt Your Life: Milestone Quilts for Every Moment”. Come explore the world of quilts created to mark milestones, and see why these quilts are a fun and meaningful solution to joyful sewing in this busy world. In this workshop, Kitty will share her journey through the world of creating milestone quilts, beginning with the quilt she created for her third child to mark his first year of life, and will explore other life events that can be documented through the creation of a quilt. Together we will talk about the many variables to consider when designing milestone quilts and you will come up with a plan for a milestone quilt of your own. Kitty will guide you through the process so that you leave feeling inspired and ready to dive into creating a positive feedback loop in your life, documenting your days through the creation of a quilt.

Monthly Meeting: Luke Haynes
2025-07-10 18:30 - 20:30 | Merriam Community Center, 6040 Slater St, Merriam, KS, 66202, United States
Luke Haynes is coming to KCMQG on July 10th for a dynamic lecture about his quilting journey that’s taken him across the globe!
Check out Luke’s quilt art on Instagram and his website!
IG: @entropies
Website: https://luke.art

Monthly Meeting: Sandi Griepenstroh
2025-08-14 18:30 - 20:30 | Merriam Community Center, 6040 Slater St, Merriam, KS, 66202, United States
Join Sandi Griepenstroh for a lecture on August 14th about organizing your space. Sandi is a quilter with more than 30 years of experience and knows a thing or two about how to optimize and organize quilting spaces! She will also host a workshop called “String Quilts Revisited” on August 15th from 10-4pm. In this workshop, we will see String Quilts in a new way, using the book String Quilt Revival: A Fresh Approach to 13 Classic Designs by Virginia Baker and Barbara Sanders as inspiration.
Be sure to follow Sandi on Instagram at @lonetreequilter

Monthly Meeting: Kim Alexis Newton
2025-09-11 18:30 - 20:30 | KS

Monthly Meeting: Ashelyn Downs
2025-10-09 18:30 - 20:30 | Merriam Community Center, 6040 Slater St, Merriam, KS, 66202, United States
Join us on Thursday, October 9th, to welcome Ashelyn Downs of Urban Dwell Studio!
Ashelyn will treat us to an inspiring trunk show featuring her large-scale, minimal quilts. She will share projects that feature her improv process, fabric selection process, and a demonstration of how she assembles her “blocks”. Learn about and follow Urban Dwell Studio on Instagram!

Monthly Meeting: Crystal Manning
2025-11-13 18:30 - 20:30 | Merriam Community Center, 6040 Slater St, Merriam, KS, 66202, United States
Join us on November 13, 2025 for our guest speaker Crystal Manning!
Crystal is a Kansas City fabric and quilt artist who will share a trunk show of her latest and favorite quilts.
After spending a decade as a graphic designer, Crystal turned her artistic talents toward surface and textile pattern design. In 2015, she bought her first sewing machine and began teaching herself to sew, using her custom-printed Spoonflower fabrics. Though she endured the occasional pinprick and became well-acquainted with her seam ripper, her passion for sewing and fabric design flourished.
Since 2017, Crystal has been designing fabric for Moda Fabrics, inspiring sewists to create with her stylish collections. She also designs quilt patterns to complement her fabric lines.

Monthly Meeting: Holiday Party
2025-12-11 18:30 - 20:30 | Merriam Community Center, 6040 Slater St, Merriam, KS, 66202, United States

Monthly Meeting: Make Up or Break Up
2026-01-08 18:30 - 20:30 | Merriam Community Center, 6040 Slater St, Merriam, KS, 66202, United States
Start your new year by taking stock of the dreaded unfinished projects that are stashed around your sewing room. Bring the projects that you just can’t bring yourself to finish, and we will break into groups to workshop why you are stuck, what might get you motivated, or if you should just ditch the idea altogether.

Monthly Meeting: How to Photograph a Quilt with Lauren Hunt
2026-02-12 18:30 - 20:30 | Merriam Community Center, 6040 Slater St, Merriam, KS, 66202, United States
You’ve finished your gorgeous new quilt and want to share it with the world, but your photographs aren’t doing it justice. What to do? Lauren Hunt, who has photographed quilts for pattern designers and publishers like Lucky Spool, will share her tips for giving your quilt the glamour shot it deserves.

Monthly Meeting: Design a Quilt Series: Inspiration
2026-03-12 18:30 - 20:30 | Merriam Community Center, 6040 Slater St, Merriam, KS, 66202, United States
This month we are launching our Design a Quilt Series, where we will look at the building blocks of design to give you the confidence to step away from the pattern. Every design starts with inspiration, and in this meeting we will look at what’s trending in quilting design, particularly at QuiltCon.

Monthly Meeting: Design a Quilt Series: Quilt Exploder
2026-04-09 18:30 - 20:30 | Merriam Community Center, 6040 Slater St, Merriam, KS, 66202, United States
This month, we are going to talk to some of our own members about their journey designing a quilt. From their initial inspiration to the nitty gritty sewing details, we will learn about each artist’s process and technique. It’s like we get to pause Show and Tell to get into the how and why of each quilt.

Monthly Meeting: The Complex Composition with Valerie Goodwin
2026-05-14 18:30 - 20:30 | Merriam Community Center, 6040 Slater St, Merriam, KS, 66202, United States
We are thrilled to welcome Valerie Goodwin to our guild! She will share how she
approaches composition in creating a commissioned art quilt. The lecture will provide food for thought in terms of how different design disciplines can be combined to create unique ways of thinking about design.

Monthly Meeting: Color and Design with Tara Faughnan
2026-06-11 18:30 - 20:30 | Merriam Community Center, 6040 Slater St, Merriam, KS, 66202, United States
We are so excited to welcome back Tara Faughnan to the guild! Tara will be joining us
over Zoom (hooray, technology!), and sharing what she’s learned about color in her 20 years as a designer. She will share some of her approaches to the creative process, and discuss the importance of value, proportion and color when designing a quilt.

Monthly Meeting: Ten Minute Tips
2026-07-09 18:30 - 20:30 | Merriam Community Center, 6040 Slater St, Merriam, KS, 66202, United States
There are over 200 members in the KCMQG, and we all have little tricks and sewing hacks that we have picked up over the years. Think about how much knowledge there is in our group! This month members will share their 10-minute tips with the group and we will all leave a little smarter than when we arrived.

Monthly Meeting: Concentric Circles with Maday Delgado
2026-08-13 18:30 - 20:30 | Merriam Community Center, 6040 Slater St, Merriam, KS, 66202, United States
We are thrilled to welcome Maday Delgado to our guild! Maday is a prolific, bilingual art
educator devoted to sustainability. She is a published artist, author, and speaker who is
committed to bringing innovation and artistry to the forefront of the work she creates. This month, she is going to share her tips on one of the scariest sewing techniques – piecing with concentric circles.

Monthly Meeting: Quilts on the Lawn Picnic
2026-09-10 18:30 - 20:30 | KS
This month we’ll take a break from our regular programming to have a picnic party. Pack up your favorite picnic quilt, snacks, and handwork to meet us at a local museum for an evening of camaraderie, community, and quilts.

Monthly Meeting: Introduction to Natural Dye with Bess Wilke
2026-10-08 18:30 - 20:30 | Merriam Community Center, 6040 Slater St, Merriam, KS, 66202, United States
We are happy to welcome Bess Wilke to the guild! Bess will join us to share her techniques of that thrilling alchemy that is natural dyeing. She’ll share how to get started in this magical world, recipes, and samples. Start saving your marigold petals, you are going to want them after you hear from Bess!

Monthly Meeting: Design a Quilt Series: The Big Reveal!
2026-11-12 18:30 - 20:30 | Merriam Community Center, 6040 Slater St, Merriam, KS, 66202, United States
It’s time for the big reveal! After a season of learning the building blocks of design, we can’t wait to see the quilt you’ve created. Tiny to California King, we are looking forward to learning how our Design a Quilt Series influenced your work this year.

Monthly Meeting: Holiday Party
2026-12-10 18:30 - 20:30 | Merriam Community Center, 6040 Slater St, Merriam, KS, 66202, United States
The days are dark, but the quilts are merry and bright! Share your holiday creations, play games, eat snacks, and join the merriment that is the KCMQG Holiday Party.
