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Sylvia Schafer

Quilting Negative Space

You’ve finished your modern quilt top that includes plenty of wide-open negative space! Now what? It can be intimidating to tackle quilting in the background areas, but this lecture will give you lots of ideas, from simple to complex, to help enhance your negative space and help you choose the perfect quilting design for your project.

Workshop January 21, 2026

Rainbow Sun

This mini quilt from her book, The Quilter’s Negative Space Handbook, combines improvisational piecing and paper piecing in a project designed to use your small scraps. We will begin with improvisational piecing, creating new fabric from collection of old favorites, then we’ll use our improvisationally pieced sections to paper piece the modified Mariner’s Compass block that forms the center of this fun little wall hanging.

Kit Fee: $25 Includes a copy of The Quilter’s Negative Space Handbook and all templates needed for the quilt.

Workshop Fee: $37.50 for GQG members $47.50 for non GQG members.

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Happy New Year to everyone at the Gwinnett Quilters’ Guild!

Can you believe our January weather is hovering near 70 degrees? What a blessing! I hope 2026
is shaping up to be one of your very best years yet.

For those who enjoy making New Year’s resolutions, I’d love to hear your quilting goals. Mine
remains the same: no more UFOs! I’ll let you know how I’m doing along the way, and I
hope you’ll do the same—let’s hold each other accountable.

My sincere thanks go out to our Board for such a strong start to the year. As we wrap up a few
loose ends from December, we’re also keeping our eyes firmly fixed on the future—toward 2026
and the exciting programs and activities ahead. We can’t wait to share throughout the year!!
Please remember to review your Guild Directory for details about upcoming programs. We’ll
continue to share any additions or updates as they become available.

Kudos to Linda Brimanson, Cathy Rasque, and everyone who helped make the Christmas Social
such a success. I’ve heard so many wonderful compliments about the desserts, activities, and
fellowship. It was a beautiful reminder that we are more than a guild—we are a family.

Finally, January is your last chance to sign up for the February Make It & Take It
programming. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to take highly interesting workshops from your
guild members. I’m already signed up, and I hope you are too! See Susan Gordon for more
information.

Happy Quilting everyone!
Warmly,
Kim Beasley
President, Gwinnett Quilters’ Guild

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Programs Chair Note

Recommend a Program – Thank you to our members who have suggested programming and/or workshop speakers for guild meetings this year. We appreciate your willingness to share quality presentations that you’ve witnessed. We’ve started looking for presenters for 2026. Contact us if you would like to recommend a speaker or volunteer for the program team.

Linda Brimanson
lsbrimanson@gmail.com

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Just For You

The J4U bee group is now meeting at Grayson United Methodist Church, 555 Grayson Parkway, Grayson, Ga from 10:00 to 2:00 the 4th Thursday each month.  We have plenty of space for people to join us.  You can work on the kits or your own J4U quilt.  If you have any questions please contact me.  

Jackie Campbell
mustshop@aol.com