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 […]
The July Schoolhouse and Sew Day is English Paper Piecing at The Fabric Chic on July 8 from 9 am to 1pm. If you enjoy this technique bring your current project to work on and a finished project to share. If want to learn more about this portable meditative method bring a thimble and we […]
July 14 - 16 @ Sew Sweet. Bonus day July 13. Additional information will be available soon via the monthly newsletter.
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 […]
We will have a sew day at KC Maker on July 29 to put all the string blocks collected together into quilts. We will also make pillowcases.
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, […]
This class begins with lecture and drafting exercises on Audrey’s methods for drafting quilts with complex and irregular curves. We’ll discuss how she assembles quilts from the drawings, and she’ll share the best practices she follows for this process. The class will continue using the Exploring Curves Quilt as practice for sewing complex curves. This […]
Come learn Audrey’s curvy ways in the Mobius Radial Workshop. Mobius Radial is a wall hanging made using paper piecing, curved piecing, and partial seam techniques. This workshop covers the basic concepts of paper piecing on an arc, curved piecing, and precision piecing. We will also discuss quilting ideas. Students will learn the concepts of […]
