Monthly Meeting: QuiltCon A to Z
2025-03-13 18:30 - 21:00 (America/Chicago) | 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.
