May Guild Meeting -- ZOOM only
Our May Guild Meeting will be on Zoom only due to the Brooklyn half-marathon. We will not be meeting in the church hall.
Our May Guild Meeting will be on Zoom only due to the Brooklyn half-marathon. We will not be meeting in the church hall.
GOT COLOUR?
Boost your colour confidence and learn to use every colour of the rainbow in your quilts. Linda will discuss the basics of colour theory, demonstrate colour concepts, mood boards and share her tips and tricks on how to find colour inspiration in everyday objects to inspire, infuse and ignite the colour in your next quilting project.
Zoom meeting room opens at 7:15
Meeting runs one hour
Zoom meeting:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81551698966?pwd=k0gia0Ek1JJnweMLiiMwzEwN0H9cTD.1
Meeting ID: 815 5169 8966
Passcode: 579957
Join with friends for our virtual Sewing Bee. Share your recent work, ask questions, and enjoy an afternoon of sewing with other members. Our Sunday sewing bees are “open house” style, so feel free to pop in and out throughout the meeting hours.
Host: TBD
Join Zoom Meeting:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81388187757?pwd=yJ8d58P9uAdzYhbXdjISJYSLwgct09.1
Meeting ID: 813 8818 7757
Passcode: 055080
Join us at our April Guild Meeting. In-person and on Zoom. Come early to socialize and shop!
The hall is open at 10:00 am. Meeting starts at 11:00 am.
Our April meeting will include our Round Robin exchange, our Block-of-the-Month raffle, members’ Show and Tell featuring your recent finishes, small prize raffle, 50-50 raffle, and free table.
Guest Lecturer: Sue Fox Mitrano of Blue Fox Studio will give a lecture and trunk show titled, Shibori Magic and will also be our vendor.
Sue’s presentation includes history, culture and production of both Indigo (the dyestuff) and Shibori (Japanese hand-dyeing techniques). This talk includes a slideshow with embedded video clips of her process, examples and discussion of inspiration and ideas for using Shibori fabrics. There is also a short livestream technique demonstration and a fun interactive activity to help attendees better understand a key aspect of Shibori techniques. Handouts with resources and reading list provided. (Approx. 1 hour)
Blue Fox Studio creates hand-dyed Shibori accessories and home goods. Owner Sue Fox Mitrano creates a large variety of scarves and wraps, kimonos, tunics/cover ups, tote bags, linen table runners, pillow covers, silk bags, tea towels, baby attire and more.
Join Zoom Meeting:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86102157312?pwd=3gbZAkteU4HfppG2MxajT8I9zbULdJ.1
Meeting ID: 861 0215 7312
Passcode: 098915
Join with friends for our virtual Sewing Bee. Share your recent work, ask questions, and enjoy an afternoon of sewing with other members. Our Sunday sewing bees are “open house” style, so feel free to pop in and out throughout the meeting hours.
Host: TBD
Join Zoom Meeting
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Meeting ID: 881 6451 7167
Passcode: 807830
Join with friends for our virtual Sewing Bee. Share your recent work, ask questions, and enjoy an afternoon of sewing with other members. Our Sunday sewing bees are “open house” style, so feel free to pop in and out throughout the meeting hours.
Host: TBD
Join Zoom Meeting:
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Meeting ID: 861 1358 6130
Passcode: 992625
Join us at our March Guild Meeting. In-person and on Zoom. Come early to socialize and shop!
The hall is open at 10:00 am. Meeting starts at 11:00 am.
Our March meeting will continue our Round Robin exchange, our Block-of-the-Month raffle, members’ Show and Tell featuring your recent finishes, small prize raffle, 50-50 raffle, and free table.
Join Zoom Meeting:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89755373730?pwd=CGbVleMS8QqQb2i0Dp9oqBypD5LTtE.1
Meeting ID: 897 5537 3730
Passcode: 991203
Join with friends for our virtual Sewing Bee. Share your recent work, ask questions, and enjoy an afternoon of sewing with other members. Our Sunday sewing bees are “open house” style, so feel free to pop in and out throughout the meeting hours.
Host: TBD
Join Zoom Meeting:
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Meeting ID: 811 5426 9410
Passcode: 928183
Join with friends for our virtual Sewing Bee. Share your recent work, ask questions, and enjoy an afternoon of sewing with other members. Our Sunday sewing bees are “open house” style, so feel free to pop in and out throughout the meeting hours.
Host: TBD
Join Zoom Meeting:
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Meeting ID: 823 5968 2315
Passcode: 595117
Join us at our February Guild Meeting. In-person and on Zoom. Come early to socialize and shop!
The hall is open at 10:00 am. Meeting starts at 11:00 am.
Our February meeting will continue our Round Robin exchange, our February Block-of-the-Month raffle, members’ Show and Tell featuring your recent finishes, small prize raffle, 50-50 raffle, and free table.
Join Zoom Meeting
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Meeting ID: 848 9151 9190
Passcode: 385686
Join with friends for our virtual Sewing Bee. Share your recent work, ask questions, and enjoy an afternoon of sewing with other members. Our Sunday sewing bees are “open house” style, so feel free to pop in and out throughout the meeting hours.
Host: TBD
Join Zoom Meeting:
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Meeting ID: 824 6563 0545
Passcode: 714550
Join with friends for our virtual Sewing Bee. Share your recent work, ask questions, and enjoy an afternoon of sewing with other members. Our Sunday sewing bees are “open house” style, so feel free to pop in and out throughout the meeting hours.
Host: Margaret Marcy
Join Zoom Meeting:
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Meeting ID: 823 8630 2132
Passcode: 115518
After the January 20th 2024 guild meeting Chris Augenbraun will lead a workshop to sew a Tessuti apron. Interested members may email Chris Augenbraun at chrismaugen@gmail.com to be entered in a random drawing. Eight members will be selected. The entry deadline is December 31, 2023.
Members will need the following supplies: 2 yards of 45” fabric, sewing machine and your favorite sewing supplies. (Scissors, thread, seam ripper, pins, rotary cutter, eyeglasses)
We will have stations for cutting the pattern and ironing.
The pattern will be provided for you.
Join us at our January Guild Meeting. In-person and on Zoom. Come early to socialize and shop!
The hall is open at 10:00 am. Meeting starts at 11:00 am.
Our January meeting will include the kick off of our Round Robin exchange. Bring your center block and a bag of fabric to go with it. The meeting will also include our Strings of Illusion Block-of-the-Month raffle, members’ Show and Tell featuring your recent finishes, small prize raffle, 50-50 raffle, and free table.
Special vendor: Richie Doran’s company Urban Homestead Quilts will be selling fabrics.
A free Tessuti Apron making workshop follows the meeting. (advance registration required)
Join Zoom Meeting: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82560721958?pwd=42SubuKzqr0ISlJ5SV0HbVfO6MybAB.1
Meeting ID: 825 6072 1958
Passcode: 189280
Join with friends for our virtual Sewing Bee. Share your recent work, ask questions, and enjoy an afternoon of sewing with other members. Our Sunday sewing bees are “open house” style, so feel free to pop in and out throughout the meeting hours.
Host: Lily Shames
Join Zoom Meeting: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85627631939?pwd=9I1nvNq1pfbw4fWH63b0RtXKzbJ4WH.1
Meeting ID: 856 2763 1939
Passcode: 514768
Join with friends for our virtual Sewing Bee. Share your recent work, ask questions, and enjoy an afternoon of sewing with other members. Our Sunday sewing bees are “open house” style, so feel free to pop in and out throughout the meeting hours.
Zoom Code:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84314871676?pwd=bu7anaO2esTZ8NObkwbU00lRHJ5Vqy.1
Meeting ID: 843 1487 1676
Passcode: 178674
December Guild Meeting, In person and on Zoom
The hall is open at 10:00 am to socialize. Meeting starts at 11:00 am.
Our December Holiday Meeting will include our Block-of-the-Month raffle, members’ Show and Tell featuring your recent finishes, small prize raffle, 50-50 raffle, and free table. Plus, a Holiday Cookie Exchange— bring a dozen cookies and swap them with other’s cookie offerings. And members will share their 2024 goals/resolutions. Quirky Quilter Questions — we will ask members to share their habits while sewing/quilting.
Join Zoom Meeting
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Meeting ID: 835 4064 9578
Passcode: 117678
Sunday, December 10, 2023
1:00 PM 4:00 PM
Join with friends for our virtual Sewing Bee. Share your recent work, ask questions, and enjoy an afternoon of sewing with other members. Our Sunday sewing bees are “open house” style, so feel free to pop in and out throughout the meeting hours.
Zoom Code:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82243286233?pwd=PlBj8zbrWObSpJnGojdbrW1PvbUKwd.1
Meeting ID: 822 4328 6233
Passcode: 760297
Join with friends for our virtual Sewing Bee. Share your recent work, ask questions, and enjoy an afternoon of sewing with other members. Our Sunday sewing bees are “open house” style, so feel free to pop in and out throughout the meeting hours.
Zoom Code:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83035022242?pwd=dfprY9BkGjOH97GBU73xDWbbbYi0S6.1
November Guild Meeting, In person and on Zoom
The hall is open at 10:00 am to socialize and shop. Meeting starts at 11:00 am.
Our November meeting will include our Block-of-the-Month raffle, members’ Show and Tell featuring your recent finishes, small prize raffle, 50-50 raffle, and free table. Ms. Biffle Elmore will present her book talk on “Quilt of Souls” and sign copies afterward. Books will be for sale $25.00 which includes tax. Credit card preferred.
Vendor: Easy Piecing will be selling her fabrics and notions.
Zoom Code:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83799310493?pwd=IH9tYOlgxvkWiWN9c0aTyKSJv8kT2j.1
Join with friends for our virtual Sewing Bee. Share your recent work, ask questions, and enjoy an afternoon of sewing with other members. Our Sunday sewing bees are “open house” style, so feel free to pop in and out throughout the meeting hours.
Zoom Code:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84169057303?pwd=aau67TxdrDJb8pkkxCsp0msl9ZM6vn.1
Join us on a quilt walk!
All are welcome to the Brooklyn Quilters Guild’s free outdoor quilt show, displayed on the fence surrounding Holy Name of Jesus Church in Windsor Terrace, Brooklyn. The quilt walk starts at Prospect Park West and Windsor Place. View the quilts as you stroll down Windsor Place and around the corner onto Howard Place.
The show will feature approximately 50 quilts made by members of the Brooklyn Quilters Guild. The quilts were inspired by the challenge theme of “Going Green”. The quilts range from modern, traditional, arty, to playful— reflecting the rich diversity of styles and interpretations of the quilters that made them.
Questions?
Email: guild@quiltbrooklyn.org
Holy Name of Jesus Church: 245 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn NY
Join with friends for our virtual Sewing Bee. Share your recent work, ask questions, and enjoy an afternoon of sewing with other members. Our Sunday sewing bees are “open house” style, so feel free to pop in and out throughout the meeting hours.
Zoom Code:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89778023893?pwd=1YvJxHl5hvW7ZGPbuz77LAdbbuuSIZ.1
Meeting ID: 897 7802 3893
Passcode: 780395
Just in time to make for holiday gifts, the Brooklyn Quilters Guild will offer a class on how to make round fabric bowls taught by our talented member, designer, and teacher Kirsten Fisher.
The first part of the class will take place after the meeting on Saturday, October 21. If additional time is needed to finish the bowl, it will be conducted via Zoom on Sunday, October 22.
Thanks to the generous support of the Eileen Anderson Fund, this class is free of charge to participants. In order to attend, it is required that you have the book Round Fabric Art Bowls by Kirsten Fisher. You can order it from the internet.
This class will be limited to 15 students. Sign up will be first come, first served by emailing Poppy O’Neill at poppy.oneill@gmail.com. A supply list will be emailed to you after you have signed up.
Join us at our October Guild Meeting. In-person and on Zoom. Come early to socialize and shop!
The hall is open at 10:00 am to socialize and shop. Meeting starts at 11:00 am.
Our October meeting will include some special fun and games! Micki Segel will lead us in “Strip Poker” — bring 10 strips measuring 2.5 inches X width of fabric (42-45 inches). You can bring ready-made strips from a jelly roll or make your own, but be sure to only bring the most beautiful ones that you would want to win.
Special vendor: Sew Beary Special will be selling her fabrics.
The meeting will also include our Halloween Lanterns Block-of-the-Month raffle, members’ Show and Tell featuring your recent finishes, small prize raffle, 50-50 raffle, and free table.
Note: A free fabric bowl making workshop follows the meeting. (advance registration required)
Guild Meeting Zoom Code:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83272763094?pwd=v740x4pt78zd83AFLFTusrwvB0AL2B.1
Join with friends for our virtual Sewing Bee. Share your recent work, ask questions, and enjoy an afternoon of sewing with other members. Our Sunday sewing bees are “open house” style, so feel free to pop in and out throughout the meeting hours.
Zoom Code:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86411102108?pwd=WTdlNnRpNlROSS80ZmNrZW5ZR2NLQT09
Meeting ID: 64 1110 2108
Passcode: 078006
Join us as we kick off the season at our September Guild Meeting. (In-person and on Zoom).
After the meeting please stay for a Pillowcase Sew Together benefitting Ryan’s Case for Smiles.
Join Zoom Meeting:
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Meeting ID: 865 7707 7615
Passcode: 657143
Join with friends for our virtual Sewing Bee. Share your recent work, ask questions, enjoy an afternoon of sewing with other members.
Join Zoom Meeting
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Meeting ID: 868 9031 8962
Passcode: 048052
Join with friends for our virtual Sewing Bee. Share your recent work, ask questions, enjoy an afternoon of sewing with other members.
Join Zoom Meeting:
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Meeting ID: 864 1110 2108
Passcode: 078006
BQG Picnic!
Prospect Park Carousel Lawn (next to the Prospect Park Zoo)
12-4 pm
Bring your lunch, a chair or quilt to sit on, a hand sewing project if you desire, and have a lovely afternoon with friends! Feel free to bring a friend.
In case of inclement weather, we may delay or cancel the picnic -- check the homepage of the website for any announcements on Sunday morning.
Join us for our June Guild Meeting. (In-person and on Zoom).
This important meeting is the last of the 2022-2023 year with lots happening.
New member show and tell.
Hold elections for the new guild board members.
Approve the budget for 2023-2024.
Members’ Boutique where members can destash and sell their fabric, notions, and books.
Celebrate together with an end of the year potluck luncheon. Bring a dish to share.
Join Zoom Meeting:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85235092203?pwd=Mjh1NGdNU3d1L3grSWNNQ0oyYXVEUT09
Meeting ID: 852 3509 2203
Passcode: 399013
Join with friends for our virtual Sewing Bee. Share your recent work, ask questions, enjoy an afternoon of sewing with other members.
Join Zoom Meeting:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89155985364?pwd=dkF5b2pLYzlnMFYzVjJxY3NqbG93dz09
Meeting ID: 891 5598 5364
Passcode: 620164