Come to a Meeting!
Meetings are now available in a "hybrid" format, both in person and via Zoom.
Meetings start at 7 pm unless otherwise noted.
Information tables (Name Tag, Library, BOM, and so on) are usually available at 6:30 pm.
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June 8, 2026
July 13, 2026
August 10, 2026
September 14, 2026
October 12, 2026
November 9, 2026
December 14, 2026
For more information,
go to our Meetings Page.
Sign Up For Karen Bolen's Workshop
Spaces are still available for Karen Bolen's workshop on June 7, 2026.
Journey into color mastery by creating illusions and tricking the eye. Color is one of the most exciting things about quilting, and yet it’s easy to feel unsure about our choices. By understanding how we see color and then creating illusions with color, students can develop color confidence and giddy enjoyment. In this class, learn to define and use basic color theory terminology; apply the principles of additive and subtractive color as they relate to vision, light, and the physical world; create mutable color illusions; create a color palette with afterimage effects; and create transparency illusions including a complex transparency illusion with more than two overlapping shapes and textures.
Sign Up for Karen's Workshop, Special Effects With Color, on the Workshops page.
June 8, 2026 General Meeting
Karen Bolen, Speaker
See Color in a New Light!
The opportunity to play with color has drawn people to quilting for generations. Whether using intuition, color theory, or simply what we have on hand, we have all developed color palettes for our quilts that speak to us in some way. What are they saying? In this trunk show lecture, we will explore different properties of color and see them in action. Follow Karen's journey as she seeks to understand color and how to use it for the biggest impact.
Karen Bolan is a quilter in Santa Rosa, California. She is drawn to the layers of design and expression possible in quilting, and she loves the learning that comes from experimenting.
Her designs are out of the box, and integrate a love of geometry, experimentation, interconnection, depth, and texture. Her work has been featured in numerous magazines including recent features in Quilts Japan, Make Modern, and the QuiltCon Magazine, and her quilts have been exhibited at local and international shows including QuiltCon, Pacific International Quilt Festival, and the de Young Museum.
Renew Your PVQA Membership Now!
We have over 300 active PVQA members. Our fiscal year ends May 31st and every year it seems to take months and many eBlasts to have everyone renew. This year let’s just renew right now! Dues remain $45 ($50 for affiliates ) the same as this year. You can go to the Membership Page of this website and renew with PayPal or a credit card. You can send a check to PVQA PO Box 1412 Aptos, CA 95001, or come to the May meeting in person with cash, check, or card. Only fill out a membership form if you have changes to your information.
Please do it today! So far 3 members have renewed without being asked ☺. Our membership cards for 2026-2027 are purple and are available now!
We can’t set up automatic renewal so we have to do it ourselves. Don’t wait. Let’s see if we can have all our renewals complete before May 31st!