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To keep current in the quilting field, the Conejo Valley Quilters attends and holds a variety of workshops and quilting events throughout the year and invites prominent guest speakers to our guild meetings. Our members also exhibit at quilt shows throughout the year. Please join us!

Learn more about upcoming quilt shows and tours in the area.

Conejo Valley Quilters workshops

September 19, 2010: Landscape Quilts: Design and Technique with Norah McMeeking Long established principles of painting can be applied to quiltmaking to produce a great variety of landscapes. Without resorting to creating our own fabric (though this is fun!), value, color, print scale, texture, contrast, and line quality can all be brought into play to design a realistic quilt. Techniques such as colorwash, bargello, foundation piecing, invisible blind-hem machine appliqué, and curved-seam piecing are very adaptable for landscapes and other pictorial quilts. Embellishment and surface techniques such as embroidery, stenciling, and drawing can be used for special effects or to add small detail. Composition, perspective, and emphasis "speak" to the view and give heart to the quiltmaker's vision.

October 17, 2010: Watercolor Hearts with Janet Bottroff

December 5, 2010: Whirlpool Curved Piecing with Virginia Walton Virginia Walton will teach a workshop on, Whirlpool Curved Piecing. Virginia created the Creative Curves line of rulers and books to make gorgeous curved piecing blocks and quilts. Never again do you need to be intimidated by curved piecing! Virginia’s workshop will be held at Quilter’s Studio in Newbury Park, which has recently added air conditioning to its classroom area. Starting at the February Guild meeting, you can sign up for this workshop. The cost of the workshop is $35.

January 16, 2011: Fast Piece Applique with Rose Hughes

For information about attending any of these workshops, send an e-mail message to admin@conejovalleyquilters.com.

Southern California Council
of Quilt Guilds meetings

SCCQG board meetings are now conducted via teleconference. If you would like to participate, please click here.