2025-2026
Saturday February 21, 2026
Lecture (Zoom): February 21, 2026 11:00 am EST-12:00 pm EST Members: Free Non-members: $ 5
Lecture: New Directions in Mixed Media Textiles – This is Aprils latest edition to her presentations, we will have the chance to seeher latest pieces in Japanese Boro Stitching inspired textile art. We will also see a collection of cyanotype prints on fabric created with plants from her yard.
Workshop (Zoom): February 21, 2026
12:30 pm EST- 3:30 pm EST Members: $ 25 Non-members: $ 30
Workshop: Intro to Japanese Boro Stitching — Japanese Boro Stitching began long ago as a way of mending clothing, but it has evolved into the loveliest of art forms now done by many as a daily practice.
This mindful hand stitching is pared down to the basics using very simple stitches. The beauty of the work evokes a great appreciation for simple pleasures as you learn the design, construction, and stitching on a square compiled of a variety of fabrics. As a part of this process, you will learn to do hand embroidery without a hoop which leads to an ease of stitching and vastly improved results.
In this 3 hour workshop you will have plenty of time to experiment and play with this wonderful art form as you create your own 8” Stitch Sampler. You can use the examples provided as your inspiration or create your own original version.
To register email: [email protected] Payment method: After registration is confirmed, mail check made payable to “Wiltwyck Quilters Guild” to: Carolyn Boice PO Box 117; Tillson, NY 12486
This is a zoom workshop. Workshop links will be sent out when available and when registrations are complete.
Saturday January 17, 2026
Lecture (Zoom): January 17, 2026 11:00 am EST-12:00 pm EST Members: Free Non-members: $ 5
Lecture: Oompah! Accordion Sewn HST, Beth Helfer aka Eva Paige Quilt Designs
Beth says what happens when you have a designer who not only wants to be as scrappy as possible but also hates wasting fabric? Well, all sorts of things, because that’s pretty much the definition of scrappy. She took it another step further and figured out a way to create HST’s that don’t have twins and waste no fabric with her accordions. In this lecture she will tell us all about it.
Workshop (Zoom): January 17, 2026
12:30 pm EST- 3:30 pm EST Members: $ 25 Non-members: $ 30
Workshop: Intro to Accordion Sewn HST’s — Beth created Accordion Sewn HST’s to maximize the number of fabrics in scrappy HST based quilts. Learn the ins and outs of the process, block making capabilities and adding wow to your scrap borders. Be inspired to take the process to all new levels.
To register email: [email protected] Payment method: After registration is confirmed, mail check made payable to “Wiltwyck Quilters Guild” to: Carolyn Boice PO Box 117; Tillson, NY 12486
This is a zoom workshop. Workshop links will be sent out when available and when registrations are complete.
November 15, 2025
COMMUNITY WORKSHOP November 15
At the community workshop we plan to make isolette covers. The project calls for 6 1/2 inch squares of cotton/flannel baby fabric, batting and flannel backing. We will need donations of fabric to make these covers. If you have material to donate, please bring it to the meeting.
What to bring if you are staying:
Lunch
Cutters and mats
Sewing supplies: pins, rulers,etc.
We need people to cut, iron and sew. If you plan on bringing a machine let us know.
Connie Brewer & Ginny Hanna
October 18, 2025 (Zoom)
Lecture (Zoom): October 18, 2025 11:00 am EST-12:00 pm EST
Members: Free Non-members: $ 5
Lecture: Taming of the Hues, a color play – Lyric Kinard
Are you struggling to find the perfect cast of colors for your next quilt? Does all the talk of color schemes just confuse you? It honestly doesn’t have to.
In this playful and entertaining lecture Lyric takes you through a quick course on color, explaining each scheme with entertaining and easy to remember metaphors. She helps you understand how colors relate to each other and how they function alone, or together, because color is ALL about relationships!
Join her for an hour of laughter as you look at lovely quilts that will help you understand how colors work. You’ll come away with truly useful and practical knowledge that will help make your color decisions much easier to make. Go back out seeing the world through a fresh pair of lenses and appreciate the joy of color.
Workshop (Zoom): October 18, 2025
12:30 pm EST- 3:30 pm EST Members: $ 30 Non-members: $ 35
Kit fee $35 (see picture below)
Workshop: Photos and Foil = Fun — Come spend some delightful time playing with foil and photo transfer as you create little winged friends, ready to turn into lovely postcards or mini art quilts. Learn two easy techniques for transferring photocopies onto cloth and please your inner magpie with easy to apply, shiny, permanent, metallic foil. Learning a little about Thermofax screen printing is an added bonus that I’m sure you will fall in love with.
Techniques Taught include:
• Solvent Photo Transfer
• Inkjet Transfer Paper
• Thermofax Screen Printing
• Foiling on Fabric
To register email: [email protected] Payment method: After registration is confirmed, mail check made payable to “Wiltwyck Quilters Guild” to: Carolyn Boice PO Box 117; Tillson, NY 12486
This is a zoom workshop. Workshop links will be sent out when available and when registrations are complete.
$35 Kit Includes
Citra-Solv, Transfer Art Paper, Laser Printed images
Foil, Foil Glue
Thermofax Wing Screen, Squeegee card
Misty-Fuse
Other Needed Supplies
• 1/2 yard Tight weave, smooth white fabric (washed without fabric softener, ironed) These are for practice and tests. Most will be cut or torn into US letter sized pieces.
• Fabric and Paper scissors
• Iron and ironing surface
• Baking Parchment or Silicone press sheet to protect ironing surface and iron, from fusible web
• Masking tape
• Metal spoon
• Hard smooth surface (cookie sheets work well and this technique does not damage the sheet or use a piece of glass from a picture frame with the edges taped for safety)
• cotton balls
• FQ or several letter-page sized pieces of hand dyed or solid-ish fabric
• Plastic bin to hold water or nearby sink – used for rinsing thermofax screens after printing
• Piece of craft felt to use as a printing surface
• Gloves to protect hands from solvent (optional but recommended)
• Kit with materials listed as above
Order kit a minimum of 2 weeks before workshop to guarantee delivery.
September 20, 2025 (in person)
Lecture: Walk a Creative Path – Bethanne Nemesh 11:00 am EST-12:00 pm EST
Follow Bethanne’s journey as an art quilter from her beginnings making traditional quilts, then branching out into pattern manipulation, to her current pictographic silk art quilts in a this exciting zoom presentation. Bethanne will share 22 years of her quilt history from her humble and shaky beginnings to her masterpiece quilt with excellent shot photography and inspiring creative suggestions. Walk with Bethanne on her creative journey as she explains how she recognizes the creative spark, grows her concepts for her elaborate story quilts from initial sketches, paintings, photography to final creation and finish details. Hopefully each quilter can learn some tips on recognizing inspiration and learn to document and organize it, to facilitate their own quilt design in this funny creative journey.
Members: Free Non-members: $ 5
Workshop: Blended Backgrounds 12:30 pm EST- 4:30 pm EST
Blending diverse background fills is the new hotness! This exciting free motion quilting class not only teaches beautiful backgrounds, but how to blend and transition between them, building drama, creating focus, and movement. Learn to use bridging techniques to seamlessly change background textures and build your repertoire of designs with Bethanne’s creative and innovative designs, with a focus on changing details to enhance your personal creativity and develop your own style!
Members: $ 30 Non-members: $ 35
To register email: [email protected] Payment method: After registration is confirmed, mail check made payable to “Wiltwyck Quilters Guild” to: Carolyn Boice PO Box 117; Tillson, NY 12486
Supplies Needed
One pre-based quilt sandwich in a yard x WOF in solid neutral color layered with batting and backing. This one yard x WOF working piece can be split into 2 for ease of use. Baste with your choice of methods, but do not spray baste IN class.
Top and bobbin thread of choice. Due to high density quilting, thinner thread is recommended, of at least 50 weight or thinner.
Sewing machine set up for free motion machine quilting with extension table, hopping foot, and ability to drop feed dogs, cords, petal, extensions, etc.
Standard free motion equipment (ie: gloves or grippy hoops)
Thread snips, marking utensils that will show on fabric like blue line pen or chalk
An additional “final project” fabric sandwich. The size should be small, like a fat quarter or table placemat size. Any fabric that will allow visible quilting is fine, with thread you enjoy. You will create a small composition based on the design theory of class with your favorite class designs. When finished, it can be bound, or turned into a small zippered bag.