2025
May 3, 2025 – IN PERSON Member led workshops There are two, Magic Circle and Let’s Play Ball! See information below.
Circle Magic with Donald K.
Supplies:
Circle Magic:
This is a pattern I’ve seen by a few designers, but I’m giving credit to The Missouri Star Quilt Company because they bought the rights to the magic circle acrylic templates. We are not using them, Because the last thing most quilters want are more rulers. What you will need is:
- At least two contrasting fabrics. The yardage depends on how many front and backing circles you cut. The above picture is mug rug size. I plan on making it bigger during the class.
Templates will be handed out during the April meeting, if not in attendance contact to receive
- 4 ½” square ruler. If you don’t have one, contact Donald at [email protected] (Preferably before the April meeting) and he will give you a paper template you can trace on plastic.
- Favorite removable marking tools. (I used friction pens)
- Awl, chopstick, Purple Thang, or other tool for making sure circles stay round.
- Fusible Batting (optional). If you’re making
- Sewing machine and other basic sewing notions/ supplies
Note: You do not need backing or binding fabric for this project. You don’t even need batting if you’re making a table runner or place mats. The only thing you need is the same amount of front circles (floral fabric in picture above) and backing circle fabrics (the scrappy tone-on-tones)
Make it Modern: Use solid colors and I’ll show you a way to make the outer scallops or circles a clean line instead.
Prepwork: Please have circles cut out (or at least traced if your’re worried about bias) before class. Also if you decide to use fusible batting, please fuse that to the wrong side of one of your backing circles. 
This was my first attempt at making a Circle Magic Quilt. The first thing I thought of when I looked at it is that the red backing circles look like lips. My biggest suggestion is, don’t use red, pink, or skin colored fabric.
Using only two colored fabrics also looks amazing, especially if the backing circles are a dark color to hide those seams.
Lastly, These circles have regular low loft batting in them, which makes the lips pucker more.
Let’s Play Ball with Anna W.
Description:
Get a chance to go 3D and make some balls with fabric.
We will be using two of the simpler patterns from Jinny Beyer’s 2005 book titled “Patchwork Puzzle Balls”.
Supply List:
- Fabrics
- At least one dark/medium, rest can be a mixture of medium/light (you want some contrast) – less than fat quarter in size for each
- Coordinate on color or theme
- Good opportunity to use some of your scraps
- Hand piecing needle (ex size 10/11 between/straw) and thread snipper
- Hand piecing threads in colors best match your fabric choices
- Machine quilting thread works too if you have them handy
- Pins (finer is better)
- Seam presser if you have one
- Ruler and fabric markers (per your fabric choices; 0.7mm mechanical pencil works too on lighter fabrics)
- Sharp fabric scissors
- Rotary cutter and cutting mat (optional)
- Stuffing material (cotton or synthetic like “Poly-fil Silky”)
- Chopstick or something similar with a blunt end
- Template paper or plastic, tracing paper, sharp scissors to cut (optional)
June 14, 2025 – IN PERSON TBD
2025-2026
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
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:
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
Order kit a minimum of 2 weeks before workshop to guarantee delivery.
https://shop.lyrickinard.com/collections/surface-design-supplies/products/photos-foil-fun-kit