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.

 

February 17, 2026***************************************************************************************

Make it Take It
Last chance to sign up

Make sure you sign up in January for make it take it!

Remember there is a limit of 10 people per class.

March 10, 2026********************************************************************************************

The Return of Nancy Sapin
Workshop: “Stabilizer Reference Workbook” creating a sample book on all the different stabilizers and how to use them.
Members Fee; $20+$20 kit fee
Fee for non members will be $30

A trunk show and workshop class with Nancy Sapin on March 10th, Tuesday from 10am-1pm on the second floor youth area.

Nancy will bring Sulky stabilizers with her and discuss how and where you would use every stabilizer. We are creating a stabilizers reference notebook for sewing, quilting, embroidery and crafts plus their uses. Understanding stabilizers will enlighten and inspire everyone who takes this class.

NO SEWING – Just bring a 3-ring binder notebook, pen for note taking and paper scissors.

KIT: includes a sheet of every Sulky Stabilizer, stabilizer information, dividers, sleeves to put the stabilizers in and notebook paper for each stabilizer.

Nancy encourages quilters to bring their stabilizers that they have at home that they have no clue how to use. We can try to match them to a Sulky stabilizer.

Nancy will also bring some extra stabilizers to sell – cash or check only.

PRICE: $20 for class paid to workshop & $20 for kit paid to Nancy the Day of the workshop.

Maximum number is 40 and we currently have 30 people signed

March 17, 2026*******************************************************************************************

Mary Sowatzka

 Lecture and Trunk Show of Quilts using the “Stripology Ruler”

About Mary:  I come from a long line of quilters.

My grandmother made crazy quilts without a pattern, using scraps from homemade clothing. Her quilts have become treasured family heirlooms.

My mother quilted almost daily, until she passed away at age 94.

I have seven sisters who are quilters. I started quilting after I volunteered to teach students in my homeschool group how to sew.

March 18, 2026 Workshop – Mastering your Stripology Ruler

9-3 pm. Doors open at 8:30 am.

Mary Sowatzka will be teaching techniques of a Stripology ruler.  In this workshop, we are not making a specific project. The workshop is a technique class only.

You will need basic quilting workshop supplies: a sewing machine with a power cord. Other basic supplies: Thread, needles, scissors. rotary cutter. etc.

We will be using the book Master Your Stripology Ruler. Each attendee will need this book for the workshop.

Mary will be supplying the fabrics for the workshop.