Dates and program
1st TUESDAY EVENING MEETINGS currently via ZOOM,
Future in-person meetings take place at
St. Michael Lutheran Church,
2308 Merrimac Road, Blacksburg
6.30pm socializing and program from 7pm - ~8.30 pm
If not otherwise noted guest fee is $2
Programs are free for members of TQP
For questions or additional information please contact
Karin at
Meeting cancellation policy
TQP meetings are NOT canceled just because the schools close due to weather.
If the road conditions are iffy there will be an email sent by 2 pm on the afternoon of the meeting to let members
know if the meeting is cancelled.
* Mark your calendars for a fun and exciting year of events provided by program chair Paula
Color coding of calendar
* listing in red = tentative
* Regular meeting, take place once a month, mostly on the first Tuesday
* Community Quilt Bee 2020, optional activity co-sponsored by TQP and the Blacksburg Library
This takes place monthly from 1 – 4 PM at the community room, Blacksburg Library.
Learn the basics of quilting, make new friends, join the community of quilters all while making a table runner.
Kits will be provided (to include fabrics and batting). A Basic Sewing Kit (see January bee info below)
will be the responsibility of participants.
* Chat Bee, additional meeting mostly on the third Tuesday are currently held via zoom. These more informal chat club meetings often center around a topic and invite open discussions and conversations.
Meeting starts at 7 pm
* Additional activities: additional optional activities that might be of interest to the guild member
2021
JANUARY
January 5
Via Zoom: A Community of Quilts
January 17 CANCELLED!
Community Quilt Bee,
Topic: TBD
January 19
Chat Bee will meet via ZOOM
Selecting fabric & colors. Who's really good a picking colors? And where do you shop – good stores? Websites?
FEBRUARY
February 2:
Via Zoom: Do Not Meddle with My Treadle Melissa C.
Do you own a treadle sewing machine that was handed down to you as an heirloom? Do you ever use it for sewing and quilting? Melissa Chase acquired her great grandmother’s treadle machine many years ago, and it holds treasured memories of her earlier years of learning how to sew with it and the influence of her grandmothers on her love of sewing and quilting. Melissa will briefly share her personal story and demonstrate how treadle machines can still be used today to make beautiful sewing and quilting projects.
February16
Chat Bee will meet via ZOOM
A quilter's dilemma – to wash or not? Different products that can be helpful. This topic can lead to a lively discussion.
February 21 CANCELLED!
Community Quilt Bee
Topic: TBD
MARCH
March 2
Via Zoom: Creativity For All
Art enthusiast and experienced Flame-work Glass Bead Bonnie Scott has recently moved to Salem, Virginia. She will share how she came to embrace her new VA license plate "plzwfyr" (Plays With Fire).
Bonnie lives by the Ben and Jerry's of Ice Cream fame motto, "If it's not FUN, why do it!"
Hear how she landed in Virginia with a Mobile Glass Studio that she dreamed up, inspired and helped develop. She will share the discovery of how fun leads to creativity in her glass work, in her quilts, in her drawing and how they all relate to each5other....sometimes! She will bring a video of her making a glass bead in real time and will bring a few samples and tools to explain the process.
She makes individual beads, finished one-of-a-kind jewelry and accessory pieces and she makes glass buttons. She will bring a few things for sale. Her recent exploration is the use of recycled antique mason canning jars as glass material to melt into beads and create unique and memorable jewelry. So come, expect nothing and perhaps leave with a light heart from a life lived in the creative accident lane. www.JoyfulAdornments.com
Visitor fee $5
March 16
Chat Bee will meet via ZOOM
Threads, needles & pins for machine & hand sewing – favorites?
March 21 CANCELLED!
Community Quilt Bee,
Topic: TBA
APRIL
April 6
Via Zoom: Hexies to Pieces
English paper piecing is a versatile sewing method that is user friendly. It is quick and portable. Using a paper template as your guide you can create intricate designs for appliqué, small items and larger ones up to king size quilts.Just a few supplies are needed. Fabric, thread, needle, scissors and your template. Join Kathy G. for a truly addicting and creative project via ZOOM.
April 18 CANCELLED!
Community Quilt Bee,
Topic: TBA
April 20
Chat Bee will meet via ZOOM
Cutting tools & techniques, rulers, rotary cutters, scissors, die cutting machines. What are your experiences/opinions?
MAY
May 4
Show Me the Monet! A lecture with Vicki Clontz
Travel through southern France with Vicki and view villages in southern France, the beautiful architecture
and art of Paris and learn how these classic elements are interpreted in fabric designs.
French and woad dyed textiles will be displayed.
Vickie’s love of fibers, fabric, wool and folk art shine through in each of the 100+ patterns she
has designed for her company, Annie’s Keepsakes, celebrating 29 years of business in 2019!
Vickie’s unique projects have appeared in magazines across the nation and abroad, and she
brings her easy-going style and award-winning expertise to each of her classes and workshops.
Vickie’s second book, Playful Placemats, was released by Leisure Arts in early 2017, and is filled
with 20+ different placemat designs, all based on the same simple shape! Her first book, Crafty Critters ,
features 20+ quick ‘n easy projects for the beginning sewist or for a special gift.
Her newest book My Pet Crafts was also released in late 2017.
To see more of Vickie’s work and class samples, please visit her web-site and blog.
http://annieskeepsakes.blogspot.com http://www.annieskeepsakes.com
Visitor fee $5
May 6 and 7 Workshop:
Registration is OPEN
Exploring Textures on Silk with Dyeing and Felting
This two-day workshop with Vickie Clontz is filled to the brim with several dyeing and felting techniques using
non-toxic dyes, including silk marbling, stenciling, ice dyeing, texturizing and resist techniques. Day 2 will
continue the dyeing processes as well as starting on the layout of the finished piece. Wool bead, boro stitching
and more will be demonstrated. Two full days of creativity playtime await!!
Kit fee (required): $25.00
Kit includes variety of different silk textiles such as habotai, chiffon, organza, and fibers; wool fibers for felting
and wool fabric squares; perle cotton and sari silk to dye; visits to instructor’s “embellishment buffet” including bamboo, silk, and Angelina fibers, curly mohair; use of instructor’s dyes, inks, and marbling and felting tools.
May 18
Chat Bee will meet via ZOOM
Tools for ease and accuracy. What are your favorites?
Have you ever bought something that was a waste of $$?
JUNE
June 1
New River Valley Fiber Groups Picnic
The Quilting Party cordially invites you and your fiber art friends to this annual event.
Please feel free to bring items for show and tell, the potluck buffet, and any info about your group.
There will be a Silent Auction, friendship, networking, good food - and
in The Quilting Party tradition - chocolate!
Social hour 5:30 - 6 pm
Picnic and Activities 6 - 8.30 pm
locationTBA
June 15
Chat Bee will meet via ZOOM
Setting options for sampler quilts. Have you seen any that you love? Do you have a good pattern or a plan?
JULY
July 6
TBD
July 20
Chat Bee will meet via ZOOM
Batting & stabilizers – what are your favorites? What to avoid?
AUGUST
August 3
Kaffe Fassett: Glorious Color Liz Doughtery from FreeSpirit
Kaffe Fassett is a world renown icon in many worlds of making: needlepoint, knitting, fabric design and quilting. In addition, he is a painter and interior designer. Kaffe explores the interplay of color, mood and motif in all of his work.
This lecture & trunk show will present an overview of Kaffe’s aesthetic by featuring many of his quilts and fabric designs.
August 17
Chat Bee will meet via ZOOM
Quilt backing & basting your quilt sandwich – this can be controversial – how do you do it?
What tools do you use?
SEPTEMBER
September 7
Clear carry bag with Marti S.
Visitor fee $5
September 21
Chat Bee will meet via ZOOM
Selecting quilting designs – any experts out there? Quilt marking with stencils, marking pens, chalk, wash away, air erase, frixion pens – what works good on dark fabric? Any disasters?
OCTOBER
October 19
Chat Bee will meet via ZOOM
How do you quilt? By hand or machine? How did you learn?
October 22 (Monday - NOTE CHANGE IN DATE and TIME)
A Trunk Show with Bonnie Hunter
Bonnie Hunter lecture with a trunk show of approx 100 quilts. Bonnie K Hunter is passionate about quilt quilting, focusing mainly on scrap quilts with the simple feeling of “making do”. She started her love affair with quilting in a home economics class her senior year of high school in 1980 and has never looked back.
When not traveling and teaching, she spends her time piecing scrap quilts, enjoying the peaceful reward of English paper piecing and hand quilting as much as machine work, and loving life in her wooded surroundings in beautiful rural Wallburg, North Carolina, A suburb of Winston-Salem.
Trunk shows last approximately one hour + Q&A and will be illustrated with loads of Bonnie's quilts.
NOTE: This presentation is sponsored by the TQP and Floyd Quilt Guild and will take place 10am
at the Floyd Center for the Arts, Floyd.
Free to members of TQP and FQG, visitor fee $5
Sunday October 21, 2021
Bonnie Hunter Workshop Postponed from 2020!
Registration is OPEN
Jared Takes a Wife taught by Bonnie Hunter
Jared Takes A Wife is based on the traditional “Blackford’s Beauty” block.
It is a great block with no inset Y seams and can be made completely from 2” strips and squares.
In class we will be learning some basic techniques from quick pieced 4-patch units to easy star points.
Anyone from a beginner on up is welcome to take this class. This is a “power sewing” class and
we hope to get many blocks in one sitting so you have something to show for your fun day at the machine.
NOVEMBER
November 9
Wearable Felt Pin
Create your own Penny Pin in no time at all. Pre-cut circles in different sizes, a cute button, and
some strands of 12 wt thread will turn a few pieces of felt into a little beauty. Make one for yourself,
give them as gifts, and make them for every season. Inexpensive, fun, and additive like M&M’s!
Karin T. will bring all the materials needed and will demonstrate some simple embroidery stitches.
Visitor fee $5
November 16
Chat Bee will meet via ZOOM
Binding. By hand or machine? Bias? Piping? There's a lot to talk about . . .
DECEMBER
December 7
Holiday Party and Pot Luck (read more here...)
Our evening in December features a “Pincushion Exchange”: create or buy (~$10) a pincushion, wrap it in true
Christmas style and add your name to the outside. Be prepared for some fun game to get the parcels rotating!
Christmas potluck: bring your favorite appetizer, snack, dessert or any other "just perfect" potluck item.
The guild provides the paper products and cups. There will be plenty of time to laugh, share stories, and socialize.
And let’s not forget CHOCOLATE!
December 21
Chat Bee will meet via ZOOM
Show & tell. How did we do?
2022 TENTATIVE programs
January
Quilters Treasure: Blow Out Sale TBD
Did Santa Claus bring too many new goodies? Do you need to make space? Start the New Year with a clean slate AND
a clean sewing area. Bring your overflow and unwanted items and even unfinished projects to the January meeting and
then shop at the treasures others placed on the $1, $3, $5 and $10 tables. Enjoy cookies, hot chocolate and fun games.
All profits will benefit future programs. Any unsold and unclaimed items will be donated to the Second Time Around Thrift
Shop of Montgomery County.
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