Quilters Calendar & Guild Network

resources for quilt guild volunteers

Private Zoom Training

Private Zoom Training

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Does your guild need help transitioning to using Zoom? Experienced Zoomer and Zoom Transition Trainer Marguerita McManus is available to help! Contact MMQuilts @ gmail.com for more information. In “Six Sessions to Success” you will have everything you need to run your guild meetings – no matter how large your guild – via Zoom. Full board & committee training for

  • Creating your guild’s plan for meetings to increase membership
  • establishing the best settings for security and meetings
  • creating meeting templates and recurring meetings
  • learning the in-meeting controls and how they work
  • running a mock-meeting and using the controls
  • follow-up after your first meeting, planning programs, tips on hiring truly “Zoom Ready” national teachers and more…

Marguerita has been on-camera for 15 years, uploading videos to YouTube that have over 2.5 million views. She has been a professional in the quilting industry for over twenty years. Contact her at MMQuilts @ gmail.com

Featured Teacher Reeze Hanson

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Reeze Hanson, Morning Glory Designs, teaches and lectures on one-patch designs, with methods that appeal to traditional and modern quilters. Her floral machine applique techniques include shortcuts that produce gorgeous results. Reeze also teaches EQ, and offers an interesting list of presentations.

Marguerita McManus

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Marguerita McManus Marguerita specializes in quilt-as-you-go and she’s applied it to crazy-cut quilts (using decorative sewing machine stitches to do the quilting), modern quilts; finishing almost any quilt or UFO; T-shirt quilts and stunning Layer Cake Quilts. Although home is Alaska, Marguerita travels the lower 48 states in her RV in winters.

Carol Lyles Shaw

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CarolLylesShawCarole Lyles Shaw is an enthusiastic modern quilter and mixed media artist. She brings her painless and fun approach to improvisational modern quilting to her lectures and workshops. Take a look at her workshops and contact her from her website for information. You can reach Carole at Carole @ lyles.net

Karen Bolan

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Santa Rosa, California

Karen Bolan is a clear and patient teacher, thoughtful and entertaining lecturer, and clever and instructive quilt pattern designer. Her original award winning quilts and quilting philosophy integrate a love of geometry, experimentation, interconnection, depth, and texture. Karen offers virtual programs or travels to you from Santa Rosa, California.

Learn more about Karen on her website: Karen Bolan

Be sure to tell Karen that you found her on The Quilters Calendar!

Clorinda Fresquez-Tria

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Home: Stephens City, Virginia

Unlock your creativity with Clorinda Fresquez-Tria, a skilled fiber artist who masterfully blends mixed media with thread painting.

Offering both in-person and virtual classes, Clorinda’s experience as a former teacher ensures clear instruction. Join Clorinda Design Studio today and explore the art of mixed-media fiber art!

Learn more about her work, lectures, and classes on her Facebook, Instagram, and website: Clorinda Design Studio

Please let Clorinda know that you found her on The Quilters Calendar!

Becca Fenstermaker

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Southern New Jersey

Inspired by nature, history, and family, Becca specializes in storytelling through fabric and encourages others to do the same. She also helps quilters who struggle with unfinished objects, offering strategies to organize, complete, or move on from their projects.

Becca brings passion and expertise to her lectures, helping quilters to infuse their projects with personal stories and creativity.

Visit Becca’s Website: Sugar Sand Quilts

Please let Becca know that you found them on The Quilters Calendar!

Marge Tucker

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Phoenix, AZ from Nov to early May

Norwell, MA from early May to end of October

Marge Tucker is an international award-winning quilt artist and quilting instructor.  The first quilt she made, over twenty-five years ago, was for friends expecting their first child.

“At that time, I didn’t know that quilting would become my passion and now my profession.  I feel so fortunate to be able to share and continue the tradition of quilting with my students.”

Burst

“I started with traditional pieced quilts but am now focused on abstract improvisational design in my work.”

Marge has received numerous awards for her quilts including, “Best of Show” at Mancuso Quilt Show Visuals #4 in 2021, “Best use of Color-Innovative Quilts” at the Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival in 2022, “Best Machine Quilting” at QuiltCon 2019 as well as “Best Sewing Machine Workmanship Award – Modern” at the Pacific International Quilt Festival in 2019 as well as numerous other awards for her quilts.

Her quilts have been published in several of Gwen Marston’s book (Minimal Quiltmaking and Free Range Triangle Quilts).  Several quilts have also been featured in the periodical Curated Quilts  (Black and White Issue #10 and Collaborate Issue #18.  Another quilt, “Burst” was accepted into the Excellence in Fibers 11th Anniversary exhibit.               

Coming Into Light

A recent solo exhibit at the New England Quilt Museum, displayed a collection of Marge’s antique and vintage quilts along with her contemporary designed quilts. 

Marge teaches throughout the United States (and abroad) as well as from her studio in Rockland, MA. 

View Marge’s Website here: Marge Tucker Quilts

See Marge’s YouTube channel: Marge Tucker

Marge’s Intro video: Marge Tucker’s Intro Video

Marge’s Instagram: Marge Tucker Quilts

Contact Marge here- [margetuckerquilts] @ gmail.com (remove brackets and spaces)

Please let Marge know that you found them on The Quilters Calendar!

Electric Quilt (EQ)

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Bring Electric Quilt to your Guild

Bring EQ8 to your next guild meeting with Electric Quilt Company’s presentational video and virtual Q&A! Host a fun, informative presentation of the Electric Quilt Company and its best-selling products. Just click play, and the work is done for you! Want more than just the video content? EQ Staff will virtually join your group for a live Q&A session via Zoom or the like.

Electric Quilt 8

For over 30 years, Electric Quilt has been the leading quilt-design software in the world with the most user-friendly tools and top-notch technical support. Design your own quilts from scratch or use the 6,000+ included blocks to create something you love! Import your own fabric images or use the 6,000+ manufacturer fabrics in the program. See your finished quilt before ever cutting a piece of precious fabric. Finally, print what you need to sew your masterpiece—rotary cutting charts, templates, or foundation paper piecing patterns. EQ8 even calculates how much fabric you’ll need! Use EQ8 to turn all your ideas and sketches into real, sewn quilts you’ll be proud of.

Resources for EQ8 Users

Every EQ8 purchase comes with a free Getting Started lesson. Additionally, every EQ8 user receives a digital Reference Manual and Quick Start Guide (PDF). Dozens of free tutorials and videos are available on EQ’s Support Website and blog. Every month, you can download a free EQ quilt project and new fabric collection for your program. If you want more help, lesson books are available for purchase as well as online and in-person classes!

At ElectricQuilt.com, you can shop for all kinds of add-ons for EQ8 if you want more blocks, quilts, and fabrics!

About the Electric Quilt Company

The Electric Quilt Company’s mission is to provide quilters with the best software and support for turning their quilt design ideas into reality. In addition to its flagship quilt design software and add-ons, the company also offers companion books, printable fabric, and software education for quilters around the world.

EQ Website Link: Electric Quilt

Watch an EQ8 Demo on YouTube: EQ8 Demo

EQ Guild Presentation Products: EQ Guild Presentation

Contact EQ here- [customerservice] @ electricquilt.com (remove brackets and spaces)

Please let EQ know that you found them on The Quilters Calendar!

Karen Greer

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Victoria, Texas

Loves teaching all ages to sew and create fun things. Conducts children’s sew fun camps each summer and has presented programs to many guilds in Texas. Previously was a Home Ec. teacher and sample maker for a high end garment company. Now an avid quilter who spends time creating items for community service projects and presenting programs for guilds.

Current presentations include repurposing placemats with a trunk show of over 35 examples. Workshops are available also.

Future presentation available in the spring is recycling jeans with numerous examples with workshops also. Willing to travel and makes presentations entertaining and educational.

Contact Karen here- [sewer444] @ gmail.com (remove brackets and spaces)

Please let Karen know that you found her on The Quilters Calendar!

Ann Moore

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Huntsville, Texas 

I am a national quilting instructor and designer for Sew Steady/Westalee who started quilting several years ago after years of making my own clothes.  I enjoy making quilts even more because if the quilt doesn’t fit, just find a different wall or bed.  I love the process of making a quilt from start to finish.  I was blessed to attend classes with an international instructor several years ago and before I knew it I was asked to teach free motion quilting. 

In 2016 while attending Houston Quilt Festival, I discovered Westalee Rulers and became hooked.  Teaching quilting with rulers was a natural progression and many students have indicated that they find ruler work easier and more fun.  Today, I incorporate free motion and ruler work into my quilts and classes and I recently collaborated with Jason Yenter from In the Beginning fabrics designing a pieced quilt with ruler work quilting using his amazing fabric.

I enter my quilts into several shows each year and have won numerous awards including Judge’s Choice, People’s Choice, Best Machine Quilting on a Domestic Machine and Best in Show along with a few 1st Place ribbons.  All of my quilting is done on domestic machines and they are my preference.

My husband Andrew and I live in Huntsville, Texas, and we are grandparents to 5 grandchildren.

I am available for teaching, demonstrating at events and am often a speaker for quilt guilds.  You can find me, and my ruler work classes along with instructional videos on the Sew Steady website and University, where I have several designs and classes to my credit.  I was recently asked to teach my corded binding method after showing a quilt in the Houston International Quilt Festival in 2023. 

The quilt featured knotted corded binding and was very popular. I designed the Corded Binding class for guild workshops and the class can be extended to include ruler work.  I am happy to travel throughout the U.S. and Canada and perhaps internationally although English with a Texas twang is my only language.

Click here to go to Ann’s website- Annmoorequilting.com

Contact Ann here- [annmoorequilting] @ gmail.com (remove brackets and spaces)

Please let Ann know that you found her on The Quilters Calendar!

Dawn Heese

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Home: Fayette, MO

Dawn Heese is an author, pattern designer, and Marcus fabric designer. She is a fourth-generation quilter and grew up stitching from a young age.

Her career in the quilting industry was launched with the publication of her first book, Geese in the Rose Garden, published by Kansas City Star.

The following year she started Linen Closet Designs, named for her grandmother’s linen closet filled with vintage quilts. Here she produces patterns for quilts, punch needle, cross stitch, and hooked projects as well as fabric.

Dawn’s work is regularly featured in magazines in the US and abroad. She teaches and presents trunk shows and workshops nationally and in France, sharing her love of applique and quilting

Dawn has several trunk show presentations and workshops to choose from including: Working with Wool and The French Connection.

Dawn’s ninth book was released in 2023. It is her third book with the French publisher, Quiltmania and is co-authored with Bonnie Sullivan. Dawn and Bonnie are co-creators of Made by Hand, a yearly membership dedicated to all things made by Hand. 

Click here to go to Dawn’s website- linenclosetdesigns.com

Click here to go to Dawn’s Facebook Page and view her videos- LinenClosetDesigns

Contact Dawn here- [dawne86] @ hotmail.com (remove brackets and spaces)

Please let Dawn know that you found her on The Quilters Calendar!