January 20, 2026 ***************************************************************************

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.