Registration opens on August 19, 2025

In this fun workshop, you will learn to create a Froebel Star (Fröbelstern in German) in a traditional way, from paper, string, wax, and glitter. Though it is sometimes called a Moravian Star, that term refers to a general category of geometrical shapes. The 16-tipped form of part origami, part weaving is specifically called a Froebel Star. It is also called an Advent star, Danish star, German star, Nordic star, Pennsylvanian star, Polish star, Swedish star, or Christmas star, depending on where you look.

This workshop is suitable for anyone who can use scissors!

Fee does not include supplies.  Registrants will be required to purchase a supply kit for $10, payable directly to the instructor on the day of the class.

Doors open at 9:30 for setup, workshop starts at 10:00 am.

SUPPLIES LIST

Cancellation allowed until October 4, 2025.

Julia McLeod

Join us for an exploration of the world of quilts that Julia calls "Not Cottons." 

Julia's presentation will feature antique and modern quilts made of wool, silk, polyester and more. She will bring along examples her own work made with neckties, saris, kimonos and other unusual, "not cotton" textiles.

More About Julia

Julia McLeod is a quilt maker living and working in the San Francisco Bay area. She specializes in making quilts from rescued textiles, particularly silks.  Neckties, saris, kimono and furnishing fabrics all find their way into her quilts.

Born and raised in England, Julia worked as a menswear textile designer in the woolen and worsted mills of Yorkshire and Scotland, and later for a company on Savile Row, in the heart of London’s bespoke tailoring industry. She moved to New York City in the early 1990’s, and America has been her home ever since. Julia enjoys lecturing and teaching on the subject of quiltingmaking with unusual and reclaimed textiles. Her book "Patchwork Luxe" is published by C&T Publishing.

Check out her website at JuliaMcLeodQuilts.com

Please register for if you would like to attend this meeting.  You will receive a confirmation email with the Zoom link. You will also receive an email with the meeting agenda a couple days before the meeting.

If you have any questions, please contact the Recording Secretary via the Contact form.

Registration opens on September 16, 2025

Kris is back for the third consecutive year to lead the Mystery Quilt workshop! This year's project will be made with five fabrics, each measuring 1-yard. The pieced top will come out to 54” x 64” with a border.

This pattern does not have curves, Y-seams, applique, or paper piecing. It can be made in a one-day session, so it is not an intricate pattern. The challenge is in taking the leap of sewing without having the visual in advance. 

It is recommended to have a light, a medium, and a dark fabric, and two multi-colored, medium-to-large print fabrics. The light fabric is considered your background. It is best to not use directional fabrics in a Mystery Quilt, since you have no idea which direction they will turn, but if that doesn’t bother you, use whatever you would like!

This workshop is suitable for all levels of experience.

A light lunch will be provided – bring your own beverages. 

Doors open at 9:30 for setup, workshop starts at 10:00 am.

Luke Haynes

Luke talks about his work in the context of art and architecture. His studies were in contemporary art and modern architecture and both influenced how he understands quilting. He has made over 350 quilts and has shown them across the world.

In this presentation Luke will show slides on how the work is made and how the process is conceived through the lens of painting and building. The works he will show span from simple variations of traditional quilts to entire houses covered in fabric. Quilts are geometry made physical.

More About Luke

Luke  was born and raised across the American South, receiving formal training in art and architecture at Cooper Union in New York. A chance encounter with a box of fabric remnants sparked his imagination, leading to his first quilt which measured 7’x10’. As he continued to experiment, he created a system to piece manageable parts into a larger whole, applying a modern design sense to a familiar process. He uses reclaimed materials from the communities he works with in order to speak with the textile language of each region. 

Watch a video from the LA Times about Luke.

Check out his website at luke.art

Please register for if you would like to attend this meeting.  You will receive a confirmation email with the Zoom link. You will also receive an email with the meeting agenda a couple days before the meeting.

If you have any questions, please contact the Recording Secretary via the Contact form.

NOTE:  This general meeting is on a TUESDAY!

Christina Cameli

Christina shares the biggest "aha!" moments she's had in her years as a quilter, teacher, and pattern and fabric designer.

More About Christina

Christina has been sewing since she was a child. In 2003 she fell in love with quilting. Since then she has authored five quilting books, filmed multiple online classes and designed quilt patterns and fabric. She is also a nurse-midwife, a mom and a paddle boarder. 

Christina lives in Portland, Oregon with her blended family, a rescue lab mix and a ton of houseplants.

Check out her website at christinacameli.com

Please register for if you would like to attend this meeting.  You will receive a confirmation email with the Zoom link. You will also receive an email with the meeting agenda a couple days before the meeting.

If you have any questions, please contact the Recording Secretary via the Contact form.

NOTE:  This general meeting is on a TUESDAY! 

Ellen Lindner

What do 750 pins, window screening, and paint have in common?  They’ve all been used by Ellen Lindner in creative ways as she’s made art quilts.  Join her in an amusing accounting of some of the wacky things she’s done over the years, some of them successful and some of them resulting in “rough drafts.”  She’ll share with you why even the unsuccessful ones are useful and why she fearlessly embraces experimentation.

More About Ellen

A former flight instructor, Ellen didn’t try her hand at art until her forties. After learning the basics, she quickly began to experiment and over the course of years developed her own fabric collage technique. More recently, Ellen has been dyeing all her own fabric and working abstractly. She finds abstract design to be very challenging, which is exactly why she likes it.

She often participates in juried shows and has won quite a few awards throughout the country.

Now using her teaching skills at a lower altitude, she teaches online, as well as via her episodes on Quilting Arts TV (PBS) and “The Quilt Show” online. Ellen has also written two eBooks and several articles.

Check out her website at adventurequilter.com

Please register for if you would like to attend this meeting.  You will receive a confirmation email with the Zoom link. You will also receive an email with the meeting agenda a couple days before the meeting.

If you have any questions, please contact the Recording Secretary via the Contact form.

Lorraine Woodruff-Long

Lorraine will share the inspirations for, and creation of, her ongoing Commentary Quilts series. Sharing artists and creators that have provided inspiration, she will discuss how to use quilting arts to express beliefs, frustrations and aspirations for you community, country and the world.

Find out how using your own quilt art practice can provide both a creative outlet, and source of healing and action and how to share your message and art for greater visibility. Attendees will gain ideas on how to repurpose textiles into statement art, seek sources of inspiration, and use quilts to express concerns and beliefs as well as take action publicly and online.

More About Lorraine

A self-taught quilter based in San Francisco, she focuses on color, improvisation, and recycled/repurposed fabrics.  She is passionate about creating quilts as political and social commentary. 

Raised in Houston, and educated at University of Texas/Austin, Lorraine served in Peace Corps Kenya and afterwards moved to California. After a career in marketing and advertising, Lorraine worked in the nonprofit sector while raising two city kids with her architect husband before pursuing a fiber art practice prompted by the pandemic.

Lorraine’s work has been juried into art exhibitions and received numerous awards at local, national and international quilt shows. She is a member of several guilds and associations, and is a volunteer with the Social Justice Sewing Academy Remembrance Project. Her work is included in the 2021 book, “Stitching Stolen Lives: The Social Justice Sewing Academy Remembrance Project.”

She currently teaches quilting at City College of San Francisco Extension and SCRAP-SF and teaches quilting workshops online and to guilds around the country.

Please register for if you would like to attend this meeting.  You will receive a confirmation email with the Zoom link. You will also receive an email with the meeting agenda a couple days before the meeting.

If you have any questions, please contact the Recording Secretary via the Contact form.

Please register for if you would like to attend this meeting.  You will receive a confirmation email with the Zoom link. You will also receive an email with the meeting agenda a couple days before the meeting.

If you have any questions, please contact the Recording Secretary via the Contact form.

Please register for if you would like to attend this meeting.  You will receive a confirmation email with the Zoom link. You will also receive an email with the meeting agenda a couple days before the meeting.

If you have any questions, please contact the Recording Secretary via the Contact form.

Please register for if you would like to attend this meeting.  You will receive a confirmation email with the Zoom link. You will also receive an email with the meeting agenda a couple days before the meeting.

If you have any questions, please contact the Recording Secretary via the Contact form.