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Come discover quilting creativity and fellowship along Lake Michigan and a bit west by joining our quilting guild. Illinois Quilters Inc. (IQI) has members from the south side of Chicago and north into southeast Wisconsin.

We usually meet the first Thursday of most months, with a speaker or another program. Doors open at 6:30pm and meetings begin at 7. The lecture is followed by a short break. Browse our extensive library and check out books (our guild has the largest quilt-book collection in northern Illinois) and sign up for workshops then.

After the break there are committee reports, information about future events, and the always-popular member quilt show-and-tell. The meeting closes with a door prize giveaway. There’s plenty of time for visiting.

IQI is a not-for-profit organization, and our dues and raffle quilt ticket sales fund our library and program costs. Members help make one raffle quilt each year and sell (or buy) 25 tickets to support the guild. Our raffle quilt is taken to other guild meetings during the year and tickets are sold there. At our meetings we welcome other guilds who show their raffle quilt and sells tickets to our members.

IQI’s quilt show is The Fine Art of Fiber (FAOF) annually at the Chicago Botanic Garden, Glenview IL. This venue offers an exciting space for showing and viewing member quilts and features the work of area needle workers and weavers. IQI sponsors a Boutique Table to raise money for our programs. The three guilds work cooperatively to host this stunning show during the first full weekend of November. Each guild member may automatically have one quilt in the show, with additional pieces accepted as space allows.

Other yearly events at IQI include our Raffle Quilt, two retreats in October and January, School House workshops and potlucks in June and December. Please join us!

Portrait of actress Phylicia Rashad

"Any time women come together with a collective intention, it's a powerful thing.

Whether it's sitting down to make a quilt, in the kitchen preparing a meal, in a club reading the same book, or around the table playing cards, or planning a birthday party, when women come together with a collective intention, magic happens."

— Phylicia Rashad

HOW TO MAKE A QUILT

Quilters designing a pattern

Design a pattern

Hands measuring a pattern

Measure it

A lady cutting a paper pattern

Cut the pattern

Cutting fabric with scissors
Cut the fabric
Using a sewing ring to stitch a quilt section
Sew a section
A woman holds a a pattern section
A finished section
Using a sewing machine to combine sections of a quilt
Combine sections
Holding a finished quilt
A finished quilt
Meetings:
Lutheran Church of the Ascension
460 Sunset Ridge Road
Northfield, IL 60093
Workshops:
Lutheran Church of the Ascension
460 Sunset Ridge Road
Northfield, IL 60093
(Unless otherwise noted)
Snail Mail:
Illinois Quilters, Inc.
P.O. Box 39
Wilmette, IL 60091
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