PROGRAMS & CLASSES
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and dates may change!
- For NON-GUILD MEMBERS, there is a $5 fee for attending a Guild Meeting.
- For NON-GUILD MEMBERS, if there is a guest speaker, there is a $10 fee to attend the Guild meeting.
- There is a charge for all classes and Guild Membership is required.
- Classes are held at the Chota Rec Center Room "A" located at 145 Awohili Drive, Loudon, TN.
- Half day classes are from 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. and full day classes are from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., unless noted.
- Cancellations with full refund are accepted up to 2 weeks prior to the class date.
NOTE: If you must cancel within the 2 weeks prior to class,
there are no refunds.
View the Program History File (PDF)
Listing of Speakers/Presentations From 2002 to Present
Zoom Presentation - "All-Star Sampler Platter"
Saturday & Sunday
September 23-24, 2023
Zoom Presentation - "All-Star Sampler Platter"
By Global Quilt Connection
(Presentations will be up for 48 hours this time)
Sign-up at the August or September
Guild meeting
Cost is $3.00
Questions about Global Quilt Connection
should be directed to Rita Hollenbacher
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Saturday Sept 23, 3:00 - 6:00 pm eastern
Kelly Ashton: Kelly's "Partial" to Partial Seams; You Can Be, Too!
Dara Tomasson: Doodles to dazzling designs
Jennifer Houlden: Creating Eye Catching Fabric Runs is as Easy As 1-2-3
Beth Cunningham: POP! POP! Punch Needle(an ancient embroidery technique)
Katie Lewis: No-Reverse Applique Design Transfer
Cyndi McChesney: Surprising settings for Multi Image panels
Emma Powell: Itty Bitty Dolls for Applique based on South American Arpilleras
Dana Jones: Demystifying Design for Foundation Paper Piecing (FPP)
Lyric Kinard: Foil + Fabric = Fun!
Sunday Sept 24, 3:00 - 6:00 pm eastern
Nanette Zeller: Painterly Applique Using Colored Pencils
Elizabeth DeCroos: A Quilt that's not a Quilt
Julia McLeod: The 4 'S's of Piecing with Silk
Jane Houprich: Fear The Negative No More!!
Carole Lyles Shaw: Vibrant Stitching - Big Stitch Hand Quilting
Melissa Marginet: Dot-to-Dot Walking Foot Quilting
David Owen Hastings: Backing, Binding, Batting, Beauty: designing a quilt from back to front
Stephanie McIntyre: Sew Sustainably! Recycled Leather Reverse Appliqué
Kristin Echols: Add a Bold Seminole Band to Your Next Project
Class - "Chevron Scraps with Color"
Guild Meeting – “The Ugly Fabric Scraps with Color”
Guild Meeting – “The Ugly Fabric Scraps with Color”
Thursday, October 12, 9:30-4:30
Class - "Chevron Scraps with Color"
With Carole Liebzeit - Wyoming
Chota Rec Center Room A
Cost: $30.00
With scraps of one size create a charm-like quilt ablaze with color and texture. Introducing some hand appplied embellishments takes this work to a new contemporary level and is fun tool Learn to make lined prairie points for some border jazz. This chevron braid technique is very versatile.
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Guild Meeting – “The Ugly Fabric Scraps with Color”
Guild Meeting – “The Ugly Fabric Scraps with Color”
Guild Meeting – “The Ugly Fabric Scraps with Color”
Friday, October 13, 9:30am
Guild Meeting – “The Ugly Fabric Scraps with Color”
With Carole Liebzeit - Wyoming
Christ Our Savior Lutheran Church
Carole Liebzeit from Wilson, Wy will present The Ugly Fabric Challenge
Carole is all about color and design! She travels the world inspiring fiber artists and quilters to stretch their color boundaries and creative spirt. Her degree in art, use of the color wheel, nature, tribal textiles and extensive travel have all contributed to her popularity and success. A forty year background in art education allows for a progression of skills to be introduced and a color confidence developed in a relaxed atmosphere.
Her work revolves around traditional books with clear, bright colors used in unconventional ways! Bring your most challenging fabric to the meeting and sit back for a thoroughly enjoyable, humorous fabric experience as Carole pulls fabrics from her inventory that will make those ugly fabrics sing. Be sure to bring the most difficult fabric you have. This is very educational and fun at the same time.
Class - "Wool Table Runner"
Guild Meeting – “The Ugly Fabric Scraps with Color”
Guild Meeting – “Implementing Wool into your Quilts” and Class - "Wool Pin Cushion"
Thursday, November 9th, 9:30-4:30
Class - "Wool Table Runner"
Chota Rec Center Room A
Cost: $25
Kit Cost" TBD
Guild Meeting – “Implementing Wool into your Quilts” and Class - "Wool Pin Cushion"
Guild Meeting – “Implementing Wool into your Quilts” and Class - "Wool Pin Cushion"
Guild Meeting – “Implementing Wool into your Quilts” and Class - "Wool Pin Cushion"
Friday, November 10, 9:30am
Guild Meeting – “Implementing Wool into your Quilts”
With Terri Ayers - Tennessee
Christ Our Savior Lutheran Church
November 10, 1:30-4:30
Class - "Wool Pin Cushion"
Chota Rec Center Room A
Cost: $15
Luncheon – “Christmas Jingle Bell"
Guild Meeting – “Implementing Wool into your Quilts” and Class - "Wool Pin Cushion"
Guild Meeting – “Quilts From the Sea and Beyond"
December 8, 2023
Luncheon – “Christmas Jingle Bell"
Location TBD
Guild Meeting – “Quilts From the Sea and Beyond"
Guild Meeting – “Implementing Wool into your Quilts” and Class - "Wool Pin Cushion"
Guild Meeting – “Quilts From the Sea and Beyond"
Friday, January 12, 9:30am
Guild Meeting – “Quilts From the Sea and Beyond”
With Rob Appell
Christ Our Savior Lutheran Church
Rob Appell is coming to the Village Quilters!
Rob Appell became a national known quilter while spending four years hosting the Man Sewing at Missouri Star Quilt Co.
He can now be found on Youtube teaching his own patterns and designs.
Besides filming with Missouri Star, Rob has been on Simple Quilts, The Quilt Show, Uncommon Threads, and works with Stitchin' Heaven in Quitman, TX and Juki Sewing Machines.
1/2 Day Class – “Strip Pieced Tumbling Blocks Quilt"
1/2 Day Class – “Strip Pieced Tumbling Blocks Quilt"
1/2 Day Class – “Strip Pieced Tumbling Blocks Quilt"
Friday, January 12, 1:30 - 4:30pm
1/2 Day Class "Strip Pieced Tumbling Blocks Quilt"
With Rob Appell
Chota Rec Center Room A
Class fee $30.00
This will be a fun and fluid workshop building blocks for a Strip Pieced tumbling Block style quilt. You may bring scraps, or totally organize your colos. I will help assist in the construct and layouts. No Y seams.
Class – “Super 60 Sampler Quilt”
1/2 Day Class – “Strip Pieced Tumbling Blocks Quilt"
1/2 Day Class – “Strip Pieced Tumbling Blocks Quilt"
Saturday, January 13, 9:30 - 4:30
Class – “Super 60 Sampler Quilt”
With Rob Appell
Chota Rec Center Room A
Class fee $45.00
Super 60 set templates $37.00 Pattern optional
Join Rob Appell to create a wonderful variety of designs based on Sixty Degree triangles but with Rob’s fun twist of design and layouts. The Super 60 Set will allow you to have pieced circles and curves within your triangle designs.
The quilt is made up of six different blocks which included five different stars and tumbling blocks. (no Y seams) The blocks can them be made into the sampler quilt or you can repeat a black to make a whole different quilt. The finished quilt is 61 X 67.
Level - Confident Beginner
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