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• ZOOM LECTURE: Make Extraordinary Scrap Quilts - Diane Harris

  • When
    March 13, 2025
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    7:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom Only

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  How do you make a successful scrap quilt? Learn Diane Harris's best tips and top secrets during this trunk show of many scrappy quilts made over the years. What is a scrap quilt? Who can make one? Why would you create with scraps? How is it done?

  
  

  
  

  From the Stash Bandit herself, discover ways to pull your scraps together, strategies for using your stash and even what does not work. You may never make an ordinary quilt again!

  
  

  
  

  Zoom information will be sent automatically upon registration in a confirmation email. Reminders with the Zoom link will be sent to those who have registered for the event. 

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• ZOOM WORKSHOP: Ahead of the Curve - Improvising Curves

  • When
    March 15, 2025
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    9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    ZOOM
  • Spaces left
    5

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  Improvisational curves are fun and easy! Diane Harris, the Stash Bandit, will teach you how to cut and sew large, gentle curves while paying attention to value and scale for smashing results.

  Diane will cover lots of ideas for adding machine quilting details and hand stitched embellishments, and she’ll show you how to finish it off with a facing as an alternative to binding. We'll make a four-section piece as shown; the size will vary depending on your choices. Later you can create more sections if you want a larger quilt.

  This full-day workshop will be held entirely on Zoom so that you can sew from the comfort of your own sewing space and the link will be provided closer to the class date. 

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• GLHQ Garage Sale

  • Start
    April 09, 2025
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  • End
    May 07, 2025
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  • Schedule
    2 sessions
  • Location
    Clarkston, MI

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  This year has seen a huge donation of fabric to our guild. We are turning our surplus into a fundraising garage sale! $5.00 bag stuffed and out the door. Funds raised to go to Guild.

  This event will take place once in April and once in May at Cathy Labrie's home in Clarkston. Register for the event to obtain the address. 

  If weather is bad it will be inside the home and if nice weather, in garage.

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• LECTURE: Member Spotlight - Mandy Manno on Laura Heine Collage Quilting

  • When
    April 10, 2025
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    7:00 PM
  • Location
    Birmingham Unitarian Church

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  Every year, Great Lakes Heritage Quilters features one of our own for the annual Member Spotlight!  This year, we are pleased to feature Mandy Manno!

  Join us for a lecture and trunk show to learn collage quilting the Laura Heine way. Learn the simple techniques that create a big wow factor. Mandy will bring a variety of completed projects for you to look at up close, as well as projects in various stages of completion to better see the process.  She will have a variety of finishing ideas on display, including a completely no-sew canvas mounted project. She will walk us through a project from start to finish, so bring a notepad and your camera.

  Sign up to bring a snack: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090A4DAFA72FA13-50135840-glhq#/

  Zoom and in-person information will be sent automatically upon registration in a confirmation email. Reminders will be sent to those who have registered for the event.

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• WORKSHOP: Collage Quilting - Seed Pods

  • When
    April 12, 2025
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    9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, Troy
  • Spaces left
    1

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  Join me in creating your own version of my favorite Laura Heine pattern, Seed pods.  This pattern is easily created from your own stash and can made in any color palette. Class participants will learn the entire process from start to finish, so other than gathering supplies, no prep work is needed. 

  This will be a stand alone project in which we make a portion of the pattern to allow participants to leave with a completed top ready to quilt and bind. 

  Laura Heine projects are doable for beginners and fun for advanced sewists who would like to learn a new technique!  As an added bonus, a demo on using Inktense pencils to enhance your projects will be given (Inktense pencils are not necessary for the class and participants can use mine during class if they would like to try them out).  I will also demo how to add words or sayings to your collage project for those that would like to.  All necessary supplies (including fabric kits) will be available for purchase during the trunk show/lecture as well as the day of class.  Please see the Supply List for all the details!

  This full-day workshop will be held at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church located at 5500 N Adams Rd, Troy, MI 48098.  Click here for map.

  St. Stephen's is in a residential area, so there are no restaurants nearby.  It's highly recommended that you bring your lunch.  Microwave and fridge are available. 

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• LECTURE: Folded Improv: Kawandi Quilting - Jennifer Stauser

  • When
    May 08, 2025
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    7:00 PM
  • Location
    Birmingham Unitarian Church

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  Join us for a discussion of the traditions of Kawandi Quilting in India, along with samples of Indian Kawandi. Jennifer will talk about her introduction into Kawandi, and what made it so special to her. She will share about a dozen Kawandi she has made herself. She'll talk about what Kawandi has done for her, and how she uses her experience to give back to the community that has inspired her.

  
  

  Preview Jennifer's website: https://dizzyquilter.com/about/ 

  Sign up to bring a snack: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090A4DAFA72FA13-glhq7#/

  Zoom and in-person information will be sent automatically upon registration in a confirmation email. Reminders will be sent to those who have registered for the event.

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• WORKSHOP: Folded Improv - Kawandi-Style Quilting

  • When
    May 09, 2025
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    9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    St. Stephen's Episcopal Church
  • Spaces left
    11

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  Learn about the African/West Indian tradition of Kawandi quilting. During this class we will work on an unique mini quilt, working from the outside in to the middle. GLHQ has arranged for  a custom class where both hand and machine techniques will be taught. Jen will lead you through everything you need to know, from selecting fabrics and tools to finishing your Kawandi style quilt.  

  Blast through a pile of precious scraps and make a mini or baby quilt in a single afternoon. We will focus on the best parts of Kawandi making – using fabrics in an improvisational manner without piecing, and quilting from the outside in. You can choose to use your machine and skip the slow stitching, or relish the relaxation that comes from slow stitching by hand.

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• 2025 Color Splash Quilt Show

  • Start
    June 06, 2025
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  • End
    June 07, 2025
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  • Schedule
    2 sessions
  • Location
    Mercy High School, Farmington Hills

  

  
  

  Join us for our bi-annual quilt show at Mercy High School in Farmington Hills, Michigan!  

  Over 200 quilts on display made by members of the Great Lakes Heritage Quilters, ranging from modern to traditional and everything in-between.  Our quilters include all levels of experience, from rookie beginners to award-winning seasoned quilters! Vote for your favorite quilt - we promise it will be hard!

  Enter for your chance to win a stunning raffle quilt, made by our members.

  Enjoy shopping with our many vendors to find inspiration for your next (or first!) project, a gift for someone special, or a unique tool to elevate your quilting!

  Learn how we support our community in Community Outreach and Charity projects benefitting children, seniors, premature babies, hospice patients, breast cancer warriors, heart surgery patients, foster-case children, and others in our community who need comfort!

  Learn about our programs, workshops, and membership!  We meet September through June and invite nationally and internationally known speakers to our meetings.  We are a hybrid guild, so our meetings are available both in-person and via Zoom!  You don't even have to live in the Metro Detroit area to enjoy all the benefits of membership!

  Admission is $8 at the door.

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• Year-End Potluck

  • When
    June 12, 2025
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    6:30 PM
  • Location
    Birmingham Unitarian Church

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  Join us for the year end potluck and meeting!

  In-person event only.

  Make sure you sign up to bring a dish to pass!  See the SignUp Genius link to bring your favorite dish!

  
  

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