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2025 PHXMQG Guild Events
Open Sew & Socialize
Community Outreach Sew & Learn
Workshops
2nd Saturday of each month
10 am - 1 pm
Check individual events for details
Meetings
2nd Saturday of each month
1 pm - 3 pm
- All 2025 meetings are scheduled to be IN PERSON.
- Meetings with remote lecturers will be IN PERSON meetings and the remote lecture will be broadcast at the meeting.
Location change for 2025
Pyle Adult Recreation Center
655 E Southern Avenue Tempe, AZ 85282
JANUARY 11
2025 Kick Off
Open Sew & Socialize: 10 am – 1 pm
Meeting: 1 pm – 3 pm
Introducing the 2025 Lineup
Block of the Month
- Block Lottery
- Program Announcements
- Swap Intro
- Raffle Basket Sign Ups
- QuiltCon Updates
- Sol Bee Kick Off
- Community Outreach Update
- And much more…
The 2024 Block of the Month quilts will be on display.
FEBRUARY 8
Quilty Games
Open Sew & Socialize: 10 am – 1 pm
Meeting & Games: 1 pm – 3 pm
Join PHXMQG Member and Program Chair, Erynn Truex as she leads us through fun and games. Chat and socialize (and sew-cialize) with your fellow PHXMQG Members.
FEBRUARY 20
Quiltcon Happy Hour
Happy Hour: 4 pm – 7 pm
Step away from Quiltcon for a bit and join PHXMQG Members nearby at Copper Blues Rock Pub & Kitchen, 50 West Jefferson Street, Phoenix, AZ 85003 .
We plan to take a group photo, so be sure to wear your Endless Sewing t-shirts!
MARCH 8
Community Outreach Bits for Kits
Diana Jacobsen & Cindy Stohn
Community Outreach Bits for Kits: 10 am – 1 pm
We have lots of scraps that need to be cut into useable pieces so they can be kitted into quilts. Please come help with the cutting.
Supply List
Rotary Cutter
Ruler
Cutting Mat
We will have one ironing station set up.
The Bits for Kits will take place on the half of the room nearest the stage. It will share the space with Open Sew. The workshop will take place on the other side of the room.
Open Sew & Socialize
Open Sew and Bits & Kits will share the half of the room closest to the stage. There will be limited outlets due to the workshop on the other side of the room. Please bring hand projects if possible.
MARCH 8
Barb Brandt
Workshop: In the bag with Barb – Sew Together Bag
Workshop: 10 am – 1 pm
Meeting: 1 pm – 2:30 pm
Workshop Finish: 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm
Join us for a workshop with PHXMQG Member Barb Brandt! You must register for this workshop, there is a $10 fee and seats are limited.
Get ready to create the incredibly versatile “Sew Together Bag” with the guidance of Barb! Don’t let zippers and bindings intimidate you—Barb will walk us through each step with ease.
Pre-work: Be sure to check the attachment for details. Completing this work before the session will help ensure you’re ready to tackle the difficult stuff with help to guide you.
You must have the pattern to take this workshop. Buy the Pattern here. A 20% discount code (valid Feb 15 – Mar 8) will be provided via email.
Join us for a fun, hands-on workshop and leave with your very own Sew Together Bag!
aPRIL 12
Community Outeach Sew & Learn
Diana Jacobsen & Cindy Stohn
Community Outreach Sew & Learn: 10 am – 1 pm
Diana & Cindy will teach you how to make Frankenbatting. We all have batting scraps lying around. Community Outreach quilts are a great way to use them up. Come learn how to make one large piece from your batting scraps.
Supply List
sewing machine with zig zag stitch
extension cord
white thread
patience
Open Sew & Socialize
Open Sew & Socialize: 10 am – 1 pm
Open Sew and Bits & Kits will share the half of the room closest to the stage. There will be limited outlets due to the workshop on the other side of the room. Please bring hand projects if possible.
aPRIL 12
Sheila Frampton Cooper
Lecture - Spontaneous Inspiration & Creation
Community Outreach Sew & Learn: 10 am – 1 pm
Open Sew & Socialize: 10 am – 1 pm
Meeting & Lecture : 1 pm – 3 pm
This talk goes deep into Sheila’s process. She discuss color, inspiration and the various approaches she engages when doing this type of work. She’ll share a variety of student work as well as a few other artists and discuss what she feels makes a piece successful. This is a fun talk full of eye candy!
aPRIL 26
Zoom
Sheila Frampton Cooper
Workshop - Lines & Curves
VITRUAL Workshop: 10 am – 4 pm
Students will combine thick and thin lines with curved pieces and assemble the quilt top in rows. There are infinite possibilities. Sheila will demonstrate construction techniques for sewing curved seams and discuss some of the challenges you may run into with spontaneous design and piecing.
$25.00 for members
April 26th – 10 am – 4 pm
Limited Seats
MAY 10
Community Outreach Sew
Diana Jacobsen & Cindy Stohn
Community Outreach Sew: 10 am – 1 pm
Bring whatever community outreach project you are working on or just show up ready to work and the Community Outreach committee will give you something to work on – there are always kits to make, tops to piece, bindings to sew…
Open Sew & Socialize
Open Sew & Socialize: 10 am – 1 pm
Bring whatever you are working on and get to know your guild mates while you work.
MAY 10
Peter Byrne
Behind the Seams Trunk Show
Community Outreach Sew: 10 am – 1 pm
Open Sew & Socializing: 10 am – 1 pm
Meeting & Lecture: 1 pm – 3 pm
Peter is a Published, National, and International Award-Winning, modern quilter with a deep passion for innovation and design. His strength is maintaining a fresh approach to quilting, with original designs and technical mastery.
He will be sharing many, many quilts with us that are from his body of work dating from 2017 until present day. With change, comes opportunity, going virtual with his presentation has allowed me to go “Behind the Seams” and show people much more, of his quilt making process! With every quilt he shares, he has added “how to pictures”and “close up” pictures as well.
JUNE 14
Sharon Root
Workshop - Drunkard's Path for the Modern Quilter
Workshop: 10 am – 1 pm
Meeting: 1 pm – 3 pm
Join PHXMQG Member, Sharon Root, to learn some modern takes on the traditional Drunkard’s Path Quilt.
Modern quilters have discovered the versatility of the quarter circle block that quilters, in the late 1800s, used to make the drunkard’s path quilt top. Sharon Root’s Airport Museum quilt is a modern variation of the traditional layout. The possibilities for layouts using the 16 blocks you will make in class are endless. Click HERE to view ideas. Note the cute animals baby quilt ideas!
Drunkard’s Path by Sharon Root 2022
On display as part of the Sewn Together Exhibit at The Phoenix Airport Museum.
JULY 12
Summer Splash De-Stash Sale
SALE: 10 am – 3 pm
Community Outreach Sew: 10 am – 3 pm
We will have our annual fundraiser…so start saving your sewing related donations. At the same time we will be doing Community Outreach sewing.
AUGUST 9
Community Outreach Sew
Community Outreach Sew: 10 am – 1 pm
Bring whatever community outreach project you are working on or just show up ready to work and the Community Outreach committee will give you something to work on – there are always kits to make, tops to piece, bindings to sew…
Open Sew & Socialize
Open Sew & Socialize: 10 am – 1 pm
Bring whatever you are working on and get to know your guild mates while you work.
AUGUST 9
Karen Bolan Lecture
Lecture - Engineer Your Quilts
Community Outreach Sew: 10 am – 1 pm
Open Sew & Socialize: 10 am – 1 pm
Lecture & Meeting: 1 pm – 3 pm
Karen Bolan is a quilter in Northern California. Drawn to the layers of design and expression possible in quilting, she loves the learning that comes from experimenting. She endeavors to find efficiencies in process and material use. Her designs are out of the box, and integrate a love of geometry, experimentation, interconnection, depth, and texture. Her work has been featured in magazines including Curated Quilts, Modern Quilt Guild Journal, Make Modern, and Modish Quilter, and her quilts have been exhibited at local and international shows including QuiltCon, Pacific International Quilt Festival, and the de Young Museum.
Free yourself from the need to use someone else’s pattern and appoint yourself head of your own design empire. View a gallery of original quilts and learn how to apply the engineering design process to your quilts. Learn to find and use sources of inspiration, harness nifty software and manual tools, and get inspired by approachable improvisational techniques.
SEPTEMBER 13
Community Outreach Sew
Community Outreach Sew: 10 am – 1 pm
Bring whatever community outreach project you are working on or just show up ready to work and the Community Outreach committee will give you something to work on – there are always kits to make, tops to piece, bindings to sew…
Open Sew & Socialize
Open Sew & Socialize: 10 am – 1 pm
Bring whatever you are working on and get to know your guild mates while you work.
SEPTEMBER 13
Make it Modern Challenge
Challenge Sew: 9:30 am – 1 pm
Meeting: 1 pm – 3 pm
Our Annual fun competition where you will re-design of a traditional quilt block into a modern mini-quilt. The block name will be released one week prior to the meeting. You can design, plan, and cut your fabrics during that week, but NO SEWING. You must retain one element of the original block. On the day you will have 3.5 hours to construct, quilt and bind your piece MAKING IT MODERN. The present membership will vote and the winner gets free membership for 2026.
OCTOBER 11
Community Outreach Sew
Community Outreach Sew: 10 am – 1 pm
Bring whatever community outreach project you are working on or just show up ready to work and the Community Outreach committee will give you something to work on – there are always kits to make, tops to piece, bindings to sew…
Open Sew & Socialize
Open Sew & Socialize: 10 am – 1 pm
Bring whatever you are working on and get to know your guild mates while you work.
OCTOBER 11
Sarah Ruiz
Lecture - From Inspiration to Quilt
Community Outreach Sew: 10 am – 1 pm
Open Sew & Socialize: 10 am – 1 pm
Meeting & Lecture: 1 pm – 3 pm
Sarah Ruiz is a quilter and aerospace engineer from Houston, TX. Her creative and technical sides have always been intertwined, from drawing Disney characters and memorizing constellations as a kid to taking humans back to the moon and dreaming up new quilts today.
Quilting perfectly combines her engineering and artistic mindsets, and she loves the puzzle-solving required to turn an idea into reality. Her quilts feature bright colors, bold lines, and graphic shapes that are easy to make but pack a visual punch.
nOVEMBER 8
Community Outreach Sew
Community Outreach Sew: 10 am – 1 pm
Bring whatever community outreach project you are working on or just show up ready to work and the Community Outreach committee will give you something to work on – there are always kits to make, tops to piece, bindings to sew…
Open Sew & Socialize
Open Sew & Socialize: 10 am – 1 pm
Bring whatever you are working on and get to know your guild mates while you work.
NOVEMBER 8
Demo Day
Community Outreach Sew: 10 am – 1 pm
Open Sew & Socialize: 10 am – 1 pm
Meeting & Demos: 1 pm – 3 pm
One of our most popular events of the year! Demo Day!
We will move around the room in small groups as several of our talented members give short demonstrations on quilt and sewing related techniques. If you have a technique you’d like to share please contact [email protected]
DECEMBER 13
Community Outreach Sew
Community Outreach Sew: 10 am – 1 pm
Bring whatever community outreach project you are working on or just show up ready to work and the Community Outreach committee will give you something to work on – there are always kits to make, tops to piece, bindings to sew…
Open Sew & Socialize
Open Sew & Socialize: 10 am – 1 pm
Bring whatever you are working on and get to know your guild mates while you work.
DECEMBER 13
PHXMQG Year End Party
Community Outreach Sew: 10 am – 1 pm
Open Sew & Socialize: 10 am – 1 pm
PARTY: 1 pm – 3 pm
End the year with a party! Celebrate with the guild at the Pyle Adult Recreation Center.
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