Daisy Aschehoug will join our July meeting in person to share her love of curves.

Quilt designs with curves draw me in every single time. Whether big or small, improvised or precise, drunkard's path or quarter circle square, I love analyzing what makes a curve work in a design. And I absolutely sewing them. During our time together, you'll see how understanding the geometry in a curve will help sew curves of all kinds. The lecture is part inspiration, part demo, and the tiniest part high school geometry. By the end, you'll be ready to sit down at your sewing machine and give curves a try!

Robert J Bosscher will join us for a virtual lecture exploring influences in quilting that should be welcomed, explored further & incorporated more broadly into the modern quilting movement. Ideas including incorporating reused materials, non traditional fabrics, narrative quilts, activist quilts, and incorporating different mediums (ie. paint, print making, and other non-traditional quilt materials) will be explored.

This discussion is important if Modern Quilting wants to remain relevant as a quilting movement in the quilt world and expand its influence in the art world. The discussion explores influences, techniques and quilters who are working in these categories - looking at quilts that challenge what modern quilting is.

Participants will be encouraged to experiment with these different techniques in their own work, and seek out ways to explore and expand their own definitions of quilting in general, and the Modern Quilt movement in particular.

Visit Robert’s website for more information.

Stay after our February meeting to help assemble our 2026 raffle quilt. Bring your sewing machine threaded with a neutral thread!

All fabric and blocks will be provided.

Inspired by Denise Schmidt’s “A Different Stripe” method, we’re sewing big improv blocks together. Our goal is to send volunteers home with enough blocks to piece community quilt tops we can donate on behalf of the guild.

Bring your sewing machine and related supplies, along with any solid fat quarters or solid scraps at least 1 inch wide and 18 inches long. This will be a fun, low stakes sewing day.

Jane has been designing crazy quilts for 25 years. They have ranged from miniature to wall quilts.  Miniature Quilt magazine published a number of her small quilts. Many have been exhibited at Vermont Quilt Festival. Jane will share antique pieces and many of her own. She will discuss the different methods and materials used in the construction of crazy quilts. Jane will point out techniques that you might employ on your modern quilts.

Hope Johnson has been quilting since the early 1980’s and started her first original design for a honeycomb quilt in 1989. Twenty years later in 2009, “Honey, I’m Home”, was completed and received the Best Vermont Quilt award at the Vermont Quilt Festival.

This was the beginning of what was to be an ongoing design evolution inspired by the geometry of the hive and the community of regional beekeepers that coincided with the increased awareness of environmental threats to pollinators. Hope will have her quilts (and more) on hand to show and tell the story of how one quilt opened a whole new world of experience, personal creativity and opportunity to make a difference through her fiber art. 

More information at vermontquiltbee.com

From designing her first state pattern (Vermont, of course!) to over 100 pattern designs spanning the globe, Karen Abrahamovich will talk about her journey as a quilter turned pattern designer.

Developing a unique strip piecing method has opened up many possibilities!

A lover and collector of every specialized ruler imaginable, her designs use no templates, no specialized rules, no paper piecing!

Traveling to Houston Quilt Market and more recently H&H America in Chicago has been an experience she had never imagined she would be a part of. Every quilter has a story, and Karen will share hers with you!