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• Mystery Quilt Prep Session

  • When
    December 05, 2025
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    7:00 PM
  • Location
    Via Zoom

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  Are you interested in learning more about the GLHQ 2026 Mystery Quilt? This prep session is for anyone who has registered or is strongly interested in joining the Mystery Quilt fun!

  During this Zoom session, the Mystery Quilt Team will discuss how to approach fabric selection and give you feedback on your fabric choices.  They will also discuss tools and templates you may find useful to successfully solve the mystery!! 

  After the MQ Prep session, stick around for "Finish It Friday", our relaxing "sewcial" time to work on sewing projects from 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm.

  
  

  Please register for this event to receive the Zoom link. 

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• Holiday Potluck

  • When
    December 11, 2025
  •  
    6:30 PM
  • Location
    Birmingham Unitarian Church

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  Annual Holiday Potluck!

  Join us for a special night of food, fun, and friends!  New this year - light jazz entertainment during dinnertime and a special surprise for those who attend in person!

  Let us know if you are coming so we know how many to expect and definitely sign-up to bring a dish to share! Link to Sign Up Genius will be sent in your confirmation. 

  IMPORTANT!  Help us be GREEN this Christmas! Please bring your own plate, utensils, napkin, and cup. Be extra festive and bring your own quilted placemat!  

  Our Show-n-Tell will be special too! Send a picture of a holiday or winter-themed quilt you've made to GLHQpresident@gmail.com by Wednesday, December 10th to be included in a looping slide show during dinner!

  Let's make this the best holiday party yet! 

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• LECTURE: Seminole Patchwork, Kristen Echols

  • When
    January 08, 2026
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    7:00 PM
  • Location
    ZOOM Only

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  I began quilting in 1999 when my best friend, Wendy, told me she was pregnant. Wendy and I have been friends since second grade, and we were the maid-of-honor in each other’s weddings. I wanted to do something special for her first baby, so I decided to make a baby quilt from my bridesmaid dress. I bought “Your First Quilt Book” by Carol Doak and headed to my local quilt shop to buy coordinating fabrics to pair with my purple acetate dress. It was a stressful endeavor, but my quilt turned out and was much loved by Wendy and her son Gavin.

  After that experience, I decided to pursue quilting as a hobby. It was a colorful and creative outlet to balance with my career as a computer programmer. I started taking classes, bought a new sewing machine, and got to know the ladies at my local quilt shops. One of the store managers said I seemed like a patient person and asked if I would be interested in teaching the sewing machine mastery courses they provided with the purchase of a new machine. That sounded like a great way to meet people, so I began teaching classes on weekends. Since the students had all makes and models of sewing machines, it gave me a familiarity with many machines. (I was only stumped by one sewing machine that the student had purchased from the trunk of some guy’s car. Her manual was in Italian and the machine was far from intuitive!)

  When not quilting or teaching, I enjoy spending time with my husband Shawn, our three children Eric, Stephanie and Connor, and our grandkids Malcolm and Gwen. We live on 18 acres in beautiful Worley, Idaho.

  I recently retired from the County of Sacramento where I spent 23 years as a computer geek.  Now, I do freelance web design using WordPress.  I also make the occasional QR code quilt (they really work).

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• WORKSHOP: Seminole Quilting

  • When
    January 10, 2026
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    10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom
  • Spaces left
    11

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  Learn to piece Seminole bands. This is a technique class that teaches students to piece 3-6 different Seminole designs.  The finished bands can be added to quilts, clothing and home decor. Quilts pictured are previous students of Kristin Echols'.

  This workshop will be offered via Zoom only. The link will be provided to enrolled students prior to class. The workshop is 4 hours.

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• LECTURE: Member Spotlight - Martha Stewart

  • When
    February 12, 2026
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    7:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom Only

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  It's a good thing GLHQ has our own Martha Stewart! 

  Martha wanted to learn to quilt as her mother was hand-quilting and had finished several bed quilts.  Martha's sister, Marcia, began to instruct her on the proper way to press fabric pieces as she failed at her first several attempts of accurately using the rotary cutter.   

  Martha joined GLHQ after meeting Helen Jane Peters at a Christmas party on Sylvan Lake who encouraged her to visit this quilt guild that met at a church on Woodward.  She came as a guest then joined shortly after, around 2012, becoming Member #478.   

  Martha is a prolific quilter and enjoys making charity quilts, attending retreats, spending time with quilting friends and shopping.  She gifts several quilts each year.  Martha joins us from her winter stay in Mesa, AZ and will be showing us her beautiful quilts, along with tips and tricks she's learned along the way! 

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• GLHQ Mystery Quilt 2026

  • When
    February 28, 2026
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    10:00 AM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom

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  Mystery Quilt Day is a cherished tradition in our guild! This fundraising event will take place entirely on Zoom and is open to all members and non-members! 

  A new clue will be emailed to registrants each Friday, beginning January 2, 2026. A chance to ask questions and sew-along with other Mystery Quilters via Zoom will be available Saturday mornings from 10am - noon, beginning Saturday, January 3rd.

  If you are a newer quilter, this is an excellent opportunity to learn from your friends in the guild!!  If you are new to the guild, come to the Zoom sessions to meet new friends!

  The completed project will be revealed on Mystery Quilt Day, on Saturday February 28, 2026 at 10:00 am. After the reveal in the morning, you will work with others to finish piecing your quilt top with a show and tell in the afternoon!  If you keep up with the weekly clues, you will assemble the quilt top and have it done on February 28th!  

  Clues also will be posted in a Top-Secret MQD Participant-Only Area!  You can receive security clearance by enrolling in Mystery Quilt Day!  You won't want to miss out on the fun! Please note, only GLHQ members who have registered for Mystery Quilt Day will be able to see this page; non-members will not be able to see this page. 

  A welcome letter with all the details on fabric selection, color choices, and yardage will be sent upon paid registration.  If you enroll after January 2nd, you will receive the welcome letter after you enroll.  Any clues that have been released up to that point will be available for download from our Top-Secret page! If you are viewing the clue documents on your phone, it MAY appear jumbled-looking, depending on your phone.  For best viewing, use a PC/laptop computer. 

  BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND! A separate Zoom Prep Event will be held on Friday, December 5, 2025 at 7pm (right before our "Finish It Friday" Zoom Sewcial).  Please register for the MQ Prep Event separately.  The Zoom link for 12/5 will be provided in your registration confirmation or is available on our website. 

  Please Note: If you are unable to join us on February 28th, you may still register for the Mystery Quilt and receive access to the weekly clues! If you would like to wait to see all the clues and attend the reveal on February 28th, you may also register and join us in a day of sewing!

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• LECTURE: From Fast Fashion to Slow Stitching, Radha Weaver

  • When
    March 12, 2026
  •  
    7:00 PM
  • Location
    ZOOM

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  Leaving a 15-year career in the apparel and textile industry (and a front seat to the rise of fast fashion), I was craving craftmanship, handmade, local and zero-waste where possible.

  And then I found quilting, where my sewing and textile knowledge naturally led me to make quilts as art, as apparel, as functional decor; mixing vintage and upcycled textiles, turning scraps back into fabric.

  And I realized my unique expertise and passion could be shared and, just maybe, inspire you to use repurposed and upcycled fabrics in your quilty projects. 

  My promise to you: I will never be perfect, but I will always infuse my authenticity, big heart and medium silliness in everything I do. 

  My great grandmother was a Jewish immigrant from Russia who worked as a seamstress in New York's garment district. She passed her skills on to my mother who taught me to sew when I was young. I honed those skills in college studying costume design and theater history and working in theater costume shops.

  Post college I worked as a fashion writer and then moved into corporate apparel where I had the opportunity to travel the world researching trends and developing products for Levi's. But my dream was always to return to basics - to have my hands on the fabrics and to create my own designs, my art.

  ​Lecture follows Radha's journey from the fashion world to the world of upcycled and denim quilts, from creative reuse centers to QuiltCon. Radha will join us via Zoom.

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• LECTURE: Michigan, My Michigan, Dr. Susan Kruszynski

  • When
    May 14, 2026
  •  
    7:00 PM
  • Location
    Birmingham Unitarian Church

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  Dr. Susan Kruszynski – lives in Muskegon, Michigan, and is an award-winning art quilt designer, teacher/presenter, author, and gallery artist.  

  Susan currently  divides her time between creating original collaged art quilt designs, marketing this fiber art in shows and galleries, teaching art quilting classes, and giving lectures and trunk shows for quilt guilds.  

  As a retired literacy specialist, Susan uses her 40+ years of K-College level teaching experiences and a PhD in Education to teach this art through in-class experiences in and around the state of Michigan, through on-line instruction, and with art quilt books from Fox-Chapel Publishing.

  This onetime kindergarten teacher knows how to passionately teach art quilting!

  
  

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• WORKSHOP: A Touch of Teal - Landscape Quilt

  • When
    May 15, 2026
  •  
    9:00 AM - 3:30 PM
  • Location
    St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, Troy
  • Spaces left
    17

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  Dr. Susan Kruszynski, professional educator and author of two books on art quilting, will share with you tips and techniques she uses to make her one of a kind art quilts.

  You will amaze yourself at how easy it is to create a simple art quilt landscape. Touch of Teal uses monochromes of teal and grey and metallic threads to create this beautiful piece of art. The kit contains all materials needed to create this lakeshore scene; directions, fabrics backed with an iron-on adhesive, and a stretched art canvas for hanging. You supply basic sewing tools.  The wooden frame of the fabric-covered stretched art canvas makes the art quilt attractive and super easy to hang or to set on a shelf.

  You will love this form of art and find it easier than you thought possible.

  Supply list will be provided to registered participants. Kit fee TBD.

  
  

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• Year-End Potluck

  • When
    June 11, 2026
  •  
    6:30 PM
  • Location
    Birmingham Unitarian Church

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  Join us for the year end potluck and meeting!

  In-person event only.

  Make sure you sign up to bring a dish to pass!  See the SignUp Genius link to bring your favorite dish!

  
  

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