Workshop Policies
Online workshop registration and payment via PayPal will be available! Look for links near each workshop description.
2024-2025 Workshops Form 2024-2025
Complete the appropriate workshop registration form(s) included above (or register online below).
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- Make check payable to Q.U.I.L.T., Inc., and mail to:
Michelle Young
3 Staffords Crossing
Slingerlands, NY 12159. - A list of materials and supplies, if required, will be posted on this page or, if needed, will be sent to you in a self-addressed stamped envelope, if you include one with your registration check. If the workshop is filled, you will be put on a waiting list and your check will not be deposited until you are accepted for the workshop.
- For online Zoom workshops, you will receive a unique invitation that may only be used by you and can’t be shared to connect to the Zoom session for the workshop.
- In person workshops are held at Delmar Reformed Church 386 Delaware Ave., Delmar, NY 12054 Printed Directions
- The cost of a workshop may be reduced if we get a lot of participants. We generally need a minimum of 10 participants to hold a workshop. Refunds will be made if class is canceled.
- The online registration payment page will give you the option to pay on-line (with an additional service fee), or to write a check and mail it.
- For all day classes, most people bring their lunch or run out and bring something back. Lunch is usually about 30 minutes.
- Guild will provide several ironing boards and irons, several cutting boards and some basic straight rulers (but not necessarily rotary cutters), at least half a table, and a chair.
- Make check payable to Q.U.I.L.T., Inc., and mail to:
Refunds for cancellations will only be made if your place can be filled from a waiting list or you can find a substitute. Workshop and waiting list policies are in the Q.U.I.L.T., Inc.’s Members Guide.
Workshops and Supply Lists
| May 2025 |
| May 8, 2025 – BLOCK PARTY #2 (PATTERN – Items for Harvest Quilt Show Boutique)
In-Person Whole-day workshop (9:30am-3:30 pm) A chance to be social with your fellow guild members while making blocks for service. Pattern and Fabric supplied.
Supply List: Sewing Machine, Basic sewing supplies including rotary cutter and neutral threads. Materials that might be helpful if you have EXTRA around Patterns:
Registration: FREE members/ guests $5 Donations welcomed to help cover the cost of the room, but not required! |
| May 9, 2025 – What is Modern Quilting? with Amelia’s Garden and Capital District Modern Quilt Guild
In-Person Half-day workshop (12:30 pm)
Objective: Use features of modern quilting to create a modern traditional quilt block. Materials: (Provided by instructors) MQG video, shapes cut from construction paper, graph paper, solid paper for pattern making, and solid paper for arranging shapes during practice Participant Supplies Needed: |
Join us as we take a fresh look at vintage quilt blocks and classic shapes—like half-square triangles, Drunkard’s Path, half-rectangle triangles, four-patch, and more—through a modern lens. Get ready to sharpen your pencils, sketch freely, and explore design possibilities as you play with paper shapes in this hands-on class. These creative exercises will inspire you to design—and sew—your own unique modern traditional block. Get ready to spark your creativity and leave with a design that’s truly your own!
Completed Workshops
| October 2024 – Joyce Hughes www.JoyceHughesOriginals.com
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October 10, 2024 – Thread Painting with Joyce Hughes In-PersonWhole-day workshop (9:30am-4 pm)  Learn the basics of Dimension Thread Painting and Embellishment on this beautiful Exclusive printed Photo Panel. We will cover the step-by-step process of Dimensional Thread Painting – using zig zag and straight stitching. See the fabric come to life as you sew and layer the threads on top of your design; adding shading, highlighting, texture and definition. You will use Thread as the medium to sew with different types of threads and color combinations. Learn the strategic placement of threads to enhance the overall appearance of the panel, giving it a three-dimensional look and feel.Supply List/Prep: Supply ListRegistration: $50 members/ guests $75October 11, 2024 – Free-Motion Quilting with Joyce HughesIn-PersonHalf-day workshop (12:30-4 pm)This workshop concentrates on the steps to prepare your quilts for Free Motion Quilting; needle, thread and tension issues; design ideas and the practice of Free Motion Quilting. Students will develop Samples rather than completed projects.Supply List/Prep: Supply ListRegistration: $40 members/ guests $55 |
| November 2024
November 8, 2024 – Oh Happy Days with Timna Tarr https://www.timnatarr.com/ In-Person – Limit 25 participants! Half-day workshop (12:30-3:30 pm) Learn how to make this very happy quilt while also having a great time! Timna will teach five (or more!) techniques on how to make perfect circles, using both hand and machine techniques. Come prepared to play, experiment, and have fun. Supply fee of $5 for in-person workshop. Supply List/Prep: Supply List Registration: $40 members/ guests $50 Supply Fee $5 paid to teacher. |
November 14, 2024 – Drunkard’s Path with Julie-Ann Fortran 
In-Person Whole-day workshop (9:30am-3:30 pm) Participants will learn the Drunkard’s Path technique using 3, 6 and 9 inch templates, which will be provided. (If you have Drunkard’s Path templates of your own, please feel free to bring them to class) Different arrangements of this versatile block yield surprising results.
Registration: $35 members/ guests $35
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Supply List: Sewing supplies like pins, neutral thread and a seam ripper. The templates work best with a 28mm rotary cutter (small) versus a 45mm rotary cutter. Fabric and batting.
At this Block Party, we will explore the string block and the various arrangements possible with this simple block. We will make our string blocks using a batting foundation with the goal of combining our blocks to make quilts for Service.
| January 2025 |
January 9, 2025 – Storm at Sea with David Sirota quiltmavendave.com
ZOOM – LIMIT 20 Students!! CLASS FULL! Whole-day workshop (9:30am-3:30 pm) STORM AT SEA In 2 or 3 Colors The perfect quilt for beginners AND experienced Paper-Piecers alike It’s Paper Piecing for the 21st Century
Informational video with more information Registration: $50 members/ guests $60 |
Are you curious about paper piecing? Do you and paper piecing already have a love/hate relationship? Do you love the accuracy you achieve, but hate the process of getting there? Well, this class will change that to a LOVE, and kind of an addictive relationship. We’ll be using the versatile, graphic, complex, quite simple Storm at Sea pattern to learn my “No More Tears” © method of paper piecing. Although we won’t be finishing the entire project in class, you’ll have a good start, and the tools you’ll need to finish it at home, in half the time you’d expect from paper piecing. Don’t believe me? You’ll just have to come and see for yourself. 
Supply List/Prep: | February 2025 | ||||
| February 13, 2025 AND February 14, 2025 – Studio 180 tool Star 60 with Jackie O’Brien https://ifthesethreadscouldtalk.com/
NOTE: Class times are different from traditional times. This is class on 2 days, via ZOOM, and starts later both days, but goes later too. ZOOM Two Day workshop (11:00 am-5:00 pm day 1, 1:00-5:00pm day 2)
See the Supply Lists for more pictures and details. Supply List/Prep: Registration: $75 members/ guests $85 BOTH Days $40 members/$50 guests each class when registering individually for a single day. Plus separate Tool Cost: approx. $45-50 – working on getting a local store to help us supply them for a discount. REGISTRATION CLOSED, TOOLS HAVE BEEN ORDERED.
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| April 2025 |
April 10, 2025 – Crazy Quilts with Betty Pillsbury 
Instagram (@bettyfikespillsbury) In-Person Whole-day workshop (9:30am-3:30 pm)
Supply List/Prep: Crazy_Quilt_Supply_List Registration: $50 members/ guests $60 |
Betty taught herself to embroider when she was eight and loves everything to do with needle and thread! Over the years, she has won nearly 200 awards for her needlework and has appeared on Simply Quilts, has written numerous articles, created a piece for the White House and her work has been exhibited in numerous venues across America.
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