What's Coming Up?
PVQA Quilt Show 2025 Website Pages Open!
Enter Your Quilt, Wearable, or Embellished Object!
PVQA Members
The December Meeting will feature the traditional, in person activities.
See you there!
PATTIE KLIMEK
January 13, 2025
7:00pm-In-Person
Crazy Quilts
Pattie has been quilting for 15 or so years. Based in San Francisco, she is the one of the few Traditional hand piecers and hand quilters in a sea of Art and Contemporary quilters located in the Bay Area. She found some like minded quilters amongst the Dorcas Hand Quilters, a group that meets once a week to hand quilt at St. John’s Presbyterian Church in the Richmond District of San Francisco. She blesses these ladies everyday for teaching her these time honored skills and is now traveling around the Bay Area teaching so quilters can rediscover the joys of handwork.
Lecture Description:
CRAZY QUILTS. Judith Baker Montano, the queen of the modern crazy quilt, says that a crazy quilt is a quilt that is tied, not quilted, and the seams are always embroidered. But of course it is more than that. A crazy quilt is also a snapshot of history. If you look at antique crazy quilts, you will see embroidered pictures that reflect important events of the past. What symbols reflect modern history? How are the crazy quilt techniques used by the quilters of today? Look at crazy quilts through the eyes of contemporary quilters and see how they use their own personal stamp and leave a bit of history behind for the quilters of tomorrow.
Find out more about Patti at
Website: pattihandquilts.net
Patti Klimek's Workshop is In-Person on Saturday, January 18, 2025. Sign up now on the Workshops page.
Come to a Meeting!
December 9, 2024 - 7 pm - In Person
January 13, 2025 - 7 pm - In Person
February 10, 2025 - 7 pm - In Person
March 10, 2025 - 7 pm - In Person
April 14, 2025 - 7pm - In Person
May 12, 2025 - 7pm - In Person
For more General Meeting information, go to our Meetings Page.
Get Those Quilts Finished!
The 2025 Quilt Show Planning Team Is Hard At Work
A Few Quilt Show Team Positions Are Still Open
Entry Forms Are Open for Your Entries!
The entry forms for the Quilt Show and Auction are open.
For members, there are still a few positions open on the Quilt Show Team. We these positions left to fill:
Quilt Hang (Set-up)
Teen Challenge Coordinator
Announcements
We also have a job that is VERY important to the success of setting up our quilt show. Thursday/Friday Catering is a job that organizes the donated food items for the volunteers to keep them going though the days of show set up. The food sign up is already available on the Volunteer tab under Quilt Show. We are looking for someone, or a couple of people to set up, organize and do some pre-shopping. It does involve arriving a bit early and getting the coffee going. Please consider this for your volunteer hours for the quilt you want to enter in the show. If you would like to take a look at the job description or have questions, please reach out via the Quilt Show Contact page of the website by clicking here.
Bargain Garden Closing Donations For This Year!
Bargain Garden Fabric Prices Are Now $6.50 Per Pound
The locker is bursting at the seams!
We are very grateful to all of you who have donated fabric, notions, sewing and craft supplies to the Bargain Garden this year.
As happens every year, we have come to the point of not being able to receive and store more donations until after the upcoming show.
Those of you who have contacted us already and are in the process of readying donations, we will complete those donations.
If you have a donation ready and were about to contact us, please make that contact by November 15.
After November 15, we will have to ask you to hold on to those donations until after the show in February.
We look forward to opening donations in March 2025.
Donations are NOT accepted during set up for the show or on show days.
Costs for holding our annual Quilt Show are rising. Bargain Garden is one of the primary fundraising efforts that make the show possible. To help ensure we have the funds for future shows, we will be raising our Bargain Garden price per pound for most items to $6.50 per pound.
A big thank you, again, to those who have supported the Guild and the Quilt Show by donating fabric, notions, and sewing/craft supplies to the Bargain Garden.