Conejo Valley Quilters
where modern meets traditional
Conejo Valley Quilters Programs and Workshops
PROGRAMS
PLEASE NOTE DAY, TIME and LOCATION of our meetings
At this time, all in-person meetings will be held at the Thousand Oaks Library and are hybrid. Members can find the Zoom link any time in the "Members Only" pages of the Member Area section of the website. The day and time of in-person meetings can fluctuate depending on room availability, so please make note of this on your personal calendars.
In months when the room is not available, or when we have out of area speakers, our general meetings will be held virtually only in the evening of the third Monday of the month.
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Guests always welcome: $5 fee.
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NOTE TO OUR GUESTS: Please allow ample time for us to get you a link. Links are not sent automatically upon credit card payment.
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CVQ GENERAL MEETING
ANN WASSERMAN LECTURE
"QUILT REPAIR TAILS"
VIA ZOOM
MONDAY, JUNE 16, 2025
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM, 5:30 PM Social Time
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Ann will share stories from 40 years of adventures repairing quilts. There are both the family history stories embodied by the quilts she has worked on, and the stories of the thought processes and guidelines for deciding which techniques to choose.
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Topics include the why’s and how’s of restoration, conservation, rebuilding severely damaged quilts, and more. There will also be tales of why to decide to do nothing at all and love your quilt just the way it is.
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​Ann Wasserman holds a degree in anthropology and archeology from Northwestern University. She has been working with antique quilts for forty years, and has taught about quilt history and design at the Field Museum of Natural History and the Art Institute in Chicago as well as at numerous quilt guilds and historical societies. In 1981, she began working at an antique quilt gallery, where she was introduced to the field of textile conservation and restoration. In 2013, she published her book "Preserving Our Quilt Legacy: Giving antique quilts the care they deserve."
Ann finds caring for old quilts inspiring, and appreciates working on any type of quilt, from exhausted whole-cloth comforters carrying fond memories of overnights at grandma's house, to a 170-year-old historical gem that was sold at Sotheby's and featured on their sale catalog cover.
Guest Fee: $5
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CVQ'S JULY GENERAL MEETING
MONDAY, JULY 21, 2025
JOIN US VIA ZOOM
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
GUEST SPEAKER: VICKI CONLEY: "Inspired by the Parks"
Based in the mountains of southern New Mexico, Vicki has been a creative person all her life and has recently retired from 42 years as a studio potter. She has been a fiber artist for about 20 years and is now also exploring surface pattern design and online teaching. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and was part of Quilt National 2017 and 2024. Vicki has an eye for interpreting the natural world and is best known for her original national park poster art quilts.
You may have seen Vicki’s work in Machine Quilting Unlimited, Art Quilting Studios and Art Quilt Quarterly and she has articles in recent issues of Quilting Arts Magazine. She has also been a guest on The Quilt Show with Ricky Tims and Alex Anderson demonstrating some of the techniques she uses in her national park art quilts. She recently finished taping for Quilting Arts TV series 3100. Look for it this fall on PBS.
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Join us on July 21 when Vicki will share her inspiring journey through the national parks and how she combines photo inspiration and imagination to make graphic style art quilts. She will share a few funny stories as well as history and facts about the parks. She will also speak a little about the various techniques she uses: turned-edge machine piecing, fussy piecing, and silk screening.
You can see her work at https://www.vicki-conley.com/
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Guest fee: $5.00
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WORKSHOPS
Please check individual workshops for pricing.
Conejo Valley Quilters Events
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AUGUST 2025 VIRTUAL RETREAT
“GOLDILOCKS & THE 3 SQUARES”
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Friday August 15 - Sunday August 17, 2025
9 am - 8 pm each day on ZOOM
$35
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All the fun you have come to expect at CVQ Virtual Retreats:
Morning Meet and Greet
Short classes on making:
String quilts,
Crumb quilts, and
Using large-scale prints
Quilter’s Yoga
Time to sew and visit
Door Prizes and Games!
Come when you can. Leave when you must. Come back again.
If you are mailing a check for the retreat, please indicate you will be sending a check by registering first HERE. Paying online includes registration and will also incur a service fee of $2.00.
​Member Fee: $35.00 (plus online fee of $2)
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Non-member sign-ups begin July 1, 2025.