Meetings
Our door is always open to visitors who want to join in one, or all, of our various monthly meetings or Bees.
Our Next Meeting...
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About Our Monthly Meetings........
Program meetings are held:
- At the North Chevy Chase Christian Church, 8814 Kensington Parkway, Chevy Chase, MD 20815 (click here for directions.)
- The 2nd Wednesday of each month from September through July;
- 9:30 – 10 am - Coffee and Calories Social
- 10 am -12 pm - Announcements, Speaker, Show and Tell
Programs reflect the varied interests of our membership ranging from:
- Nationally-recognized fiber artists such as Susan Brubaker Knapp and Patsy Thompson to equally impressive local quilt teachers such as Cindy Souder, and Didi Salvatierra.
- Our annual Quilt-A-Thon benefiting a local non-profit organization.
- Demo Day where members share their skills and expertise.
- Workshops that provide in-depth, hands-on methods to expand your quilting repertoire. (Workshops require advance enrollment and may be limited in number of participants.)
- Road Trips to various quilt-related venues such as museums and quilt shops.
"Brown Bag Meetings"
- Informal gatherings held directly after the scheduled meetings.
- May tie into the subject of the program or can be an independent topic of interest.
- Past brown bag opportunities have been demonstrations of techniques, discussions of quilting questions, and sharing commentary on quilting DVDs.
- We are always open to new topics to explore.
- Members are encouraged to bring a "brown bag" lunch if desired.
Program Calendar 2011 - 2012
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Tuesday, April 10, 2012 - Workshop with Joen Wolfrom - "A Marriage of Blocks" - Create beautiful original traditional designs by learning how to use blending-block and exploding- block design techniques. You will be surprised at how easy it is to create exciting new designs with many of our much-loved traditional patterns. By the end of class, you should have at least one new design to use in a future quilt. Click here for the supply list. |
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Wednesday, April 11, 2012 - Joen Wolfrom - Lecture: "It's The Color That Makes The Quilts Go ---Wow!". Take a journey into the world of color, finding clues to basic color ideas and such wonderful illusions as luminosity, luster, depth, shadow, and highlights. Joen will give a slide show on eye-catching, show-stopping quilts that go WOW with color as you learn more about the magic of color.
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Tuesday, May 8, 2012 - Workshop with Laura Wasilowski - "Colorful Leaves" - Learn the basic principles of designing artwork (like repetition, variety, and contrast) and make a colorful leaf quilt at the same time. Creating art is easy with fused fabrics and is the perfect way to learn about the elements that make a well designed quilt. Wednesday, May 9, 2012 - Laura Wasilowski - Lecture: "So Many Chickens, So Little Time: Diary of a Serial Quilter". Explore the artist's quirky mind with this lecture about quilt making in a series. |
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| Wednesday, June 13, 2012 - Trip to Winterthur, DE - Special tour of the Museum and their quilt collection | ||
Monthly Bees
- 4th Wednesday of each month (except November and December)
- Hosted by members in their homes.
- Sit and Sew - Members come to work on a project of their own in the company of other NeedleChasers members.
- “Boutique Bees” specialty meetings where techniques of projects for the Artisan Boutique are constructed. Members wanting to sit and sew on their own projects are ALWAYS welcomed!
Wee Bees
- 1st Wednesday of each month benefiting various not-for-profit organizations.
- See Community Service page for further details