Events
Gain a front-row seat to all the stories, comments and jokes when our speakers present, as well as the artwork, quilts and insights explaining their creative processes. It’s fascinating!
Our guild hosts numerous events yearly, with visitors are welcome as space permits. Events are casual; members come with projects to share and questions to ask one another. Photos are usually allowed, and a question-and-answer session ends the lecture. Often a display table with the speaker’s supplies, materials, CDs and books is available during the meeting.
IQI meetings are at 7pm on the first Thursday evening of most months and feature presentations on a wide variety of quilt topics. Workshops may follow presentations on subsequent days.
Our programs are held at Lutheran Church of the Ascension, 460 Sunset Ridge Road, Northfield, IL, at 7 pm. Workshops are at Gloria Dei Lutheran Church, 1133 Pfingsten Road, Northbrook.
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All programming —
lectures, workshops and service —
will be cancelled for April 2020 due to COVID-19.
Happily, our April lecture/class will be re-scheduled for April 2021 (the second week in April, due to Easter and Passover holidays). Participants in the fabulous Tuffet class will have the option to keep their spot in next year’s class or trade for another class during the 2020-2021 season. Details when we get back together.
Happily, our April lecture/class will be re-scheduled for April 2021 (the second week in April, due to Easter and Passover holidays). Participants in the fabulous Tuffet class will have the option to keep their spot in next year’s class or trade for another class during the 2020-2021 season. Details when we get back together.
Regarding May’s lecture/meeting and class, we’re not sure yet.
2019-20 Calendar:
IQI Programs and Workshops
Rhonda Pierce
Program:
Two Inches of Steel:
Schmetz
Needle Education
Schmetz
Needle Education
Thursday,
September 5, 2019
(6:30-9pm)
September 5, 2019
(6:30-9pm)
Marla Margelewski
Workshop:
Featherweight
Maintenance
Class
Maintenance
Class
Saturday,
September 7, 2019
(9am-4pm)
September 7, 2019
(9am-4pm)
Gloria Dei
Event:
Service and
Friendship Day
for September
Friendship Day
for September
Saturday,
September 21, 2019
(9am-4pm)
September 21, 2019
(9am-4pm)
Laura Wasilowski
Workshop:
Free-Stitched
Embroidery
Landscapes
Embroidery
Landscapes
Saturday,
October 5, 2019
(9am-4pm)
October 5, 2019
(9am-4pm)
Gloria Dei
Event:
Service and
Friendship Day
for October
Friendship Day
for October
Saturday,
October 19, 2019
(9am-4pm)
October 19, 2019
(9am-4pm)
Botanic Garden
Event:
Fine Art of Fiber
Quilt Show
Quilt Show
Thursday-Sunday,
November 7-10, 2019
(10am-5pm)
November 7-10, 2019
(10am-5pm)
Gloria Dei
Event:
Service and
Friendship Day
for November
Friendship Day
for November
Saturday,
November 16, 2019
(9am-4pm)
November 16, 2019
(9am-4pm)
Gloria Dei
Event:
Service and
Friendship Day
for December
Friendship Day
for December
Saturday,
December 14, 2019
(9am-4pm)
December 14, 2019
(9am-4pm)
Gloria Dei
Event:
Service and
Friendship Day
for January
Friendship Day
for January
Saturday,
January 18, 2020
(9am-4pm)
January 18, 2020
(9am-4pm)
Gloria Dei
Event:
Service and
Friendship Day
for February
Friendship Day
for February
Saturday,
February 15, 2020
(9am-4pm)
February 15, 2020
(9am-4pm)
Valli Schiller
Program:
Gizmos and Gear
for Adventurous
Quilters
for Adventurous
Quilters
Thursday,
March 5, 2020
(6:30-9pm)
March 5, 2020
(6:30-9pm)
Valli Schiller
Workshop:
Free-Motion Quilting
and Bindings
(Two Lessons)
and Bindings
(Two Lessons)
Friday,
March 6, 2020
(9am-4pm)
March 6, 2020
(9am-4pm)
Cheryl Schenck
Program:
Tuffets: From
First Stitch to
Last Staple
First Stitch to
Last Staple
Thursday,
April 2, 2020
(6:30-9pm)
April 2, 2020
(6:30-9pm)
Challenge Quilt
The Challenge Quilt is an event offered to the membership yearly: One or two members create a challenge for members to participate in, with the specifics of fabric, size, theme and techniques pre-determined.
At the August and September meeting, members often purchase fabric packs for a minimal amount of $10.00 and then have until the June meeting to complete the challenge. The fun is seeing the variety of responses to the original challenge! Challenge Quilts are displayed as a group at the Fine Art of Fiber each fall.
Service Days
All IQI members are required to participate in service to the guild. Besides the Fine Art of Fiber quilt show, and sewing the Raffle Quilt, this means quilting projects for preemie babies, children and teens. Area hospitals’ neonatal ICUs receive the premie quilts and DCFS the child and teen size quilts.
Contrary to the term, “service days” are actually fun and friendly — we’re an easy-going group and would love to have you join us.
There are only two rules: your project must be service-related, and as much as possible, please bring your own sewing machine and basic supplies. And if you have any extra, we’re also always in need of “kid” fabrics, especially for boys (…but nothing scary or violent). Of course, we’ll have irons and boards available and usually we have a large cutting board available.
We usually have quilts ready to be quilted and some for piecing. Some “quilt kits” are available for home sewing and are collected at our monthly meetings. Pack or buy your lunch; tea and coffee are provided.
Any questions? Email either Lynn Bradburn at lynn.bradburn@gmail.com or Diana Burrows at
ddburrows@hotmail.com. Service days run from the Fall to Spring; see our dates above.
The 2019 IQI Raffle Quilt
Raffle Tickets for the 2019 Raffle Quilt (“Liberty and Dots for All”) will be on sale until 3:45pm, Sunday, November 10th at the Fine Art of Fiber, held at the Chicago Botanic Garden.
Tickets are $1.00 per ticket or six tickets for $5.00, and cash or checks are accepted. We need your cell phone number on the ticket stub that goes into the drawing, which will be held at 4pm, on November 10th. The winner need not be present, and if there’s an absentee winner, that lucky person will be called and arrangements made to deliver the quilt.
Thanks for your support! All Raffle Quilt proceeds are used to cover our program costs in the next year. This is a vital effort, and a creative expression of our guild.
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P.O. Box 39
Wilmette, IL 60091
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Wilmette, IL 60091
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