SEW TOGETHER (via Zoom)

Relax on Friday nights with fellow quilters for a virtual quilting bee. Settle into your favorite sewing space with your favorite Zoom-compatible technology for 2 hours of stitching and chatting. Everyone will have a chance to talk about what they’ve been working on and pose questions to the other quilters. Each month, a guest speaker shares her enthusiasm for an aspect of quilting – a designer, a technique, a hot topic -- with lots of inspiring ideas and photos.

• February 3, 2023: Let’s celebrate the rich history of African quilts and fabrics! Deb Moore will survey African quilt traditions, and Carolyn Goshen will talk about African textiles, fresh from a trip to The Gambia.
• March 3, 2023: Temperature quilts are a hot topic in using quilts as a visual journal. Join Janice Wheeler as she explores the highs and lows of this cool trend in quilting.
• April 7: Art quilts from photographs are a stunning evolution in the quilt arts. Harry Fox will trace his explorations of his form, including plenty of examples and descriptions of techniques.
• May 5 : Call them pre-cuts, jelly rolls, strip sets, rollie-pollies, roll ups, they are fun to work with! SherriJoyce King will take us on a tour of what can be done with these seductive bundles of fabric strips.
• June 2: Let’s ease into summer with story time! We’ll listen to the short story, “A Jury of Her Peers,” by Susan Glaspell. Loosely based on a real-life murder case, this early feminist account shows how two women solve a murder, using clues found in a sewing basket.