Programs and Workshops
Meetings in 2025 & 2026 will be held at the Palmetto Electric Coop, 1 Cooperative Way, Hardeeville, SC
Social - 9:30am Meeting - 10am to Noon
REMEMBER: Your Name tag (you could win a prize just for wearing your name tag.),
Items for Show ‘n Tell, and money $$$ for birthday bundles or workshops!
Sewing, charity and friendship go together!
Saturday, September 6
Social at 9:30 Meeting at 10am
Palmetto Electric Cooperative
In September, join us for a Zoom presentation by Leila Gardunia, a pattern designer from Missouri, who thinks there is nothing better than drafting quilts and playing with fabric. Her presentation will be a mash-up of two lectures; Got Scraps? and Traditional Blocks, Modern Quilts. She will help us have fun, be creative and find joy while creating our own beautiful quilts. She is obsessed with using scraps and many of her patterns are foundation paper-pieced scrap busters. So, get ready to clean out those scrap bins.
The survey of our membership in the spring indicated an interest in using up scraps and modern quilts so this is sure to be of interest to many of us.
Learn more about Leila Gardunia at: https://www.leilagardunia.com/
Saturday, October 4
Program: Ben and Kathleen Hollingsworth Trunk Show
Join us for the artist couple Ben and Kathleen Hollingsworth who will delight us with their amazing quilty treasures in a trunk show called “Every Quilt Tells a Story”. You are not going to want to miss their fascinating quilts. We will even get to see a two sided quilt.
Social at 9:30
Meeting at 10am
Palmetto Electric Cooperative
Workshop: InkTense® Pencil with Ben Hollingsworth
In this workshop Ben a prolific Quilter and retired art teacher, will lead us in a workshop using InkTense® pencils teaching us how to make special labels for special quilts. Learn how to add a unique touch to document your quilts.
InkTense® Pencils will be provided to use at the workshop. Space is limited to 15 participants so register early! Cost $30.00
Saturday, October 4 following the guild meeting
Workshop starts at 1pm
Palmetto Electric Cooperative
Tuesday, October 21 Field Trip Indigo Exploration Program
First Ever Field Trip to the Coastal Discovery Museum for the Indigo Exploration Program
We will travel by sightseeing bus from the Hardeville Walmart parking lot to the Coastal Discovery Museum where we will journey to the past and "meet" Eliza Lucas Pinckney. In 1739, when Eliza was just 17 years old, her experiments with indigo resulted in a very profitable industry for the colony of South Carolina. Hear her unique story, learn how indigo dye was made and make your own indigo fat quarters. After the program we will have a bit of time to explore the museum or the Honey Horn Farmer's Market before we get back on the bus and head to Skull Creek Dockside for lunch after which we return to the Hardeville parking lot.
We will meet at approximately 9:00 am and return by 3:00 pm.
Lunch will be on your own.
The cost is $50 and it includes transportation, program fee and 4 fat quarters to dye.
Limited to 25 participants so sign up early!
You will be required to complete a release of liability form.
Please check back for updates as we plan our year
Saturday, November 1 - Cathy Morin Trunk Show and Workshop
Cathy Morin, a Jody Barrows certified teacher, will be presenting a Trunk Show and leading a workshop teaching us patchwork basics including; square in a square, half square triangles and flying geese. You will have a chance to try this method using supplied rulers to make a fall themed pillow. If you like the method, you will have the opportunity to order one of the rulers.
Saturday, December 6 - Annual Holiday Party
Join us for our annual Holiday Party including the Basket Raffle, Pot Luck and more.
Saturday, January 3 - Lilo Bowman of The Quilt Show
Are you overwhelmed by all the stuff that seems to be taking over but don’t know how to bring back order? If your current situation isn’t functioning--- it might be time to hit the refresh button. Learn how to build a creative place that works for you, your space, your budget and where you are right now.
Saturday, January 3 - Book Club Lunch and Discussion
If you enjoy books, mysteries and historical fiction and quilts you will want to sign up for a “one and done” book club. After the January Guild Meeting, we will go out to lunch (at a restaurant to be determined) for a discussion of the book “The Forgotten Seamstress” by Liz Trenow.
This book is a moving story of two women tied together by an heirloom despite the decades that separate their times in England. “The Forgotten Seamstress” quilts layers of history into one astonishing mystery.
Saturday, February 7 - Tara Miller of The Quilt District
Join us for Tara Miller of The Quilt District as she brings fresh energy, creative inspiration and historical insight to our meeting with an informative lecture and trunk show. We will then enjoy a workshop that will include a modern quilt using curves and paper piecing.
