March 26, 2025 |
AS ALWAYS all members are always welcome at every Sit & Sew to work on you own projects OR you can work on some simple Community Service projects that we will always have on hand (currently adult dining scarves.) |
| April 9, 2025 10 - 1 |
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| April 23, 2025 10 to 4 |
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| May 14, 2025 8:30 - 4:00 |
Trip to the Virginia Quilt Museum Join us on a trip to the Virginia Quilt Museum in Dayton, VA for a docent led tour of their exhibits. We leave NCCC at 8:45 am with a stop for an early lunch nearby before our tour and arriving back home approximately 4:30 pm. The price is $45 for the bus and museum fee and you will have the option of a box lunch when we get to Dayton, VA. Anniversary Exhibit (30 quilts 30x30 in size), up through the end of September in honor of our 30th anniversary which is August 26th. The Teal Trace exhibit by Barbara Hollinger which ties together her love of color, pattern and textiles with her engineering and mathematics background - the common thread that runs across all of her original designs is the color teal. They will also have a mini quilt challenge "Stars Abound" OR "At the Zoo". |
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May 28, 2025 |
You will receive patterns for 3 fantastic designs and complete one set of placemats during the workshop. All are simple to sew (one of the Mavens already noted that we may not need to offer lunch since they are so simple!) and will become go-to patterns for you in the future as hostess gifts or just to grace your own table.
Donna Jacobs, our own math wizard designed this pineapple quilt as you go REVERSIBLE table toppers for a centerpiece or occasional table. Themed with various Holiday fabrics they will be a wonderful addition to you home décor and your repertoire! AS ALWAYS all members are always welcome at every Sit & Sew to work on you own projects OR you can work on some simple Community Service projects that we will always have on hand (currently adult dining scarves.) |
| June 11, 2025 10 - 1 |
Jane Sassaman Lecture- Under the Influence Under the Influence is a lecture of the visual and philosophical ideas that have influenced Jane and her work. There is an extra ordinary range of wonderful images. This is a very colorful lecture. She hopes to excite and inspire the audience by exposing them to an unusual combination of fantastic images. |
| June 12 - 13, 2025 10 - 4 |
Jane Sassaman Workshop- Abstracting from Nature Nature is an endless source of inspiration. In this class she will examine a wide variety of artists interpretations of nature before beginning to manipulate natural forms ourselves. Through a series of exercises, we will experiment with abstraction and exaggeration to capture the essence and energy of your favorite flora and achieve dramatic visual effects. We will then translate these ideas into fabric. The cost of this workshop is TBD. |
| June 25, 2025 10 - 2 |
Artisan Boutique Projects TBD AS ALWAYS all members are always welcome at every Sit & Sew to work on you own projects OR you can work on some simple Community Service projects that we will always have on hand (currently adult dining scarves.) |
| July 09, 2025 10 - 1 |
T Carter Lecture- Resist! History Outside the Box This powerful quilt collection reveals stories of acts of resistance from the time of Marie Antoinette to the present day. Learn about extraordinary ordinary people who lifted their voices, lobbied leadership, peacefully protested and marched for social justice, equity, equality, protection of the planet and peace. https://www.historyoutsidethebox.net/ |
| July 23, 2025 10 - 2 |
Artisan Boutique Projects TBD AS ALWAYS all members are always welcome at every Sit & Sew to work on you own projects OR you can work on some simple Community Service projects that we will always have on hand (currently adult dining scarves.) |
| August 13, 2025 10 - 2 |
Summer Camp Activities TBD |
| August 27, 2025 10 - 2 |
Sit and Sew Projects TBD AS ALWAYS all members are always welcome at every Sit & Sew to work on you own projects OR you can work on some simple Community Service projects that we will always have on hand (currently adult dining scarves.) |
| September 10, 2025 10 - 1 |
Lecture- Creative practice and composition Annabel will be discussing her methods of color selection and composition while also discussing her origin story as it relates to color. |
| September 11, 2025 10 - 4 |
Workshop- This workshop is all about color and the power of intuitive color selection- Thursday We will be creating pieced panels using different improvisational techniques and then combining those panels to create interesting compositions, exploring shapes and color play. One of her favorite parts of this process is leaving perfectionism and perfect points at the door and really diving into the beauty of creating movement, interesting shapes and curves. |
| September 24, 2025 10 - 2 |
Sit and Sew AS ALWAYS all members are always welcome at every Sit & Sew to work on you own projects OR you can work on some simple Community Service projects that we will always have on hand (currently adult dining scarves.) |
| October 10 - 11, 2025 | Quilt Show |
| October 22, 2025 | Community Service |
| November 12, 2025 | Quilt-a-Thon |
| December 10, 2025 | Holiday Party |
New and improved design and sizes. Now with a special elasticized closure so the pages will not fly open in your bag, we are offering the ever-popular Fabric Covered Notebooks in 3 sizes – including a small one for your purse and one that fits school composition books (easy and inexpensive to refill.) You will see many gorgeous improv fabric pieces from our earlier workshop and love creating one of a kind covers for all your important notes!
Straight seams, large pockets, one size fits all AND reversible! 
This is IT for all you bag makers. We finally broke the code and will teach you how to simply adapt any lined bag pattern to include a zippered center pocket that goes all the way down to the bottom of the bag! We will let you in on the “secret sauce” aka highly classified formula that will let you transform open totes where everything gets lost to an organized and secure go everywhere bag.
We warmly invite members of the quilting community to attend our program meetings. All visitors will be required to pay a fee of $5 at the door. The guest fee may be applied towards a membership fee that day. We normally meet the 2nd Wednesday each month from 10 AM - 12:30, at the North Chevy Chase Christian Church, 8814 Kensington Parkway, Chevy Chase, MD 20815. (Click here for directions.) With the pandemic, however, we may meet remotely as conditions indicate. Workshops require registration in advance of the event.
To sign up for the Bees you can use the Google Form in the Members Only section of our Website under the pull-down tab “Workshop Sign Ups;” OR you can sign up with Johnette Roberts at a regular meeting; OR you can contact Debbie Lamb-Mechanick at lambmechanick@verizon.net Hope we see you there!
| Winter Weather Policy. NeedleChasers follows the lead of the Montgomery County Public Schools: if school is cancelled, our NeedleChasers meeting for that day is also cancelled. If the schools have a delayed opening, our NeedleChasers meeting will take place at its regular time. |
About Our Other Programs........
"Wee Bees"- 1st Wednesday of each month benefiting various not-for-profit organizations.
- See Community Service page for further details
"Sit-and-Sew Bees"
- Generally held the 4th Wednesday of each month
- Meet in Harlow Hall at NCCC Church from 10:00 am to 2 pm.
- Sit and Sew - Members come to work on a project of their own or Community Service Projects or just join in for the camaraderie!
- “Boutique Bees” specialty meetings where techniques or projects for the Artisan Boutique are constructed. Members wanting to sit and sew on their own projects are ALWAYS welcome!