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• July Guild Meeting "Fun and Games in Quilting" with Mel Beach

  • When
    July 10, 2025
  •  
    6:30 PM
  • Location
    Our Father Lutheran Church 6335 S. Holly Street, Centennial, CO

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  Fun and Games in Quilting with Mel Beach

  It's game on for this playful twist on quilting! Join me as I share my nine favorite ways to incorporate fun and games into my quilting including rolling the dice to explore new design possibilities, playing card inspiration, and of course everything is awesome when Lego bricks are involved! I'll share insights into the games I play and their fun results. I hope to inspire you to develop a game plan for adding some creative play into your day!

  The speaker will be presenting her lecture via Zoom.

  Check out Mel's Workshop on July 12, 2025

  About Mel Beach:

  Mel Beach is a San Jose, CA based quilt artist, teacher and lecturer, who breaks away from tradition by adding her own modern, beautifully textured, and colorful twists. She loves to have fun stretching her creativity through her completion of six 100-Day Projects involving dice, daily carves as part of two #CarveDecember challenges, and participation in 100+ quilt challenges at the local and international level.

  Mel is passionate about teaching/lecturing, with a focus on quilting on a domestic machine, modern, and art quilting techniques. Starting in 2016, Mel has taught for quilt shops, guilds and quilt shows around the world including several large venues: Empty Spools Seminars, Road to California, Pacific International Quilt Festival, Virtual Quilt Show, Online Quilt Festivals, Virtual Quilt Festival, QUILT 2024, and Craft Napa.

  Her quilts have been juried into national quilt shows and traveling exhibits, published in books/magazines, earned awards/ribbons, and selected as Finalists. Mel has been featured on Quilting Arts TV (series 2500 and 2600) and The Quilt Show with Alex Anderson and Ricky Tims (episode 2112 and 2808), in addition to having articles published with Quilting Arts Magazine, Curated Quilts, and The Craft Industry Alliance. From 2022-2024, Mel Beach served as President of Studio Art Quilt Associates, a global organization dedicated to promoting the art quilt.

  Learn more about Mel Beach on Social Media:

  Website              

  Facebook                

  Instagram 

  Blog

  YouTube

  This meeting will be both IN-PERSON and ONLINE via Zoom.  Both meeting rooms will open at 6:15 pm and the meeting will begin at 6:30 pm Mountain time. Guests are also welcome to attend this meeting for $8.00.  Please register ahead of time .  If you will be attending via Zoom, please ensure that you know how to use Zoom prior to the meeting. The link will come by email when you register.  

  ACQ Members: Please sign in and register for free—it's so helpful to know how many are coming AND you'll be eligible for door prizes when you register.  Attendees must be present at the meeting OR online via Zoom to win door prizes.

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• August Guild Meeting - "Positively Precuts" with Scott Flanagan

  • When
    August 14, 2025
  •  
    6:30 PM
  • Location
    Our Father Lutheran Church 6335 S. Holly Street, Centennial, CO

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  Positively Precuts with Scott Flanagan

  Discover the versatility of pre-cut fabric bundles with 4th & Main Designs.  Guided by the creative expertise of Scott Flanigan, this lecture dives into techniques, patterns, and tips for using jelly rolls, layer cakes, and charm packs to create stunning quilts.  Whether you're a beginner or an experienced quilter, you'll gain fresh inspiration and practical knowledge to elevate your quilting projects.

  Check out Scott's Workshop on August 16, 2025

  About Scott Flanigan:

  My quilting journey started at the age of 7 sewing alongside my grandmother making quilts for Lutheran World Relief, but I come from a family of crafters and woodworkers. I started 4th and Main Designs in 2011. Since then my patterns have been frequently found in Quilters World, American Quilter, Quiltmaker, McCalls Quilting, and Fons & Porter magazines along with solo authoring four books for Annie's Publishing. I am also a guest designer for Banyan Batiks and have designed three fabric lines with lines four and five are in the works. 

  I love the endless possibilities available when designing patterns and get super excited when putting together a project and normally end up with a sample within a day or two. As for my favorite part of quilting, really all of it! From designing, to cutting, to piecing, to quilting, to binding (OK that one may be a lie!). But it is all part of the creative process and by skipping a step it feels as though part of the project is missing. I have two strong quilting philosophies: (1) A quilt is only hard if you have been told it is hard beforehand and (2) you learn some of the best lessons from the mistakes made along the quilting Journey. With those two thoughts I strive to write patterns that no matter how hard they look a confident beginner with sewing experience could handle.

  Learn more about Scott Flanagan on Social Media:

  Website              

  Facebook                

  Instagram 

  This meeting will be both IN-PERSON and ONLINE via Zoom.  Both meeting rooms will open at 6:15 pm and the meeting will begin at 6:30 pm Mountain time. Guests are also welcome to attend this meeting for $8.00.  Please register ahead of time .  If you will be attending via Zoom, please ensure that you know how to use Zoom prior to the meeting. The link will come by email when you register.  

  ACQ Members: Please sign in and register for free—it's so helpful to know how many are coming AND you'll be eligible for door prizes when you register.  Attendees must be present at the meeting OR online via Zoom to win door prizes.

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• September Guild Meeting - "Photo to Fabric in the Palm of Your Hand" with Lisa Thorpe

  • When
    September 11, 2025
  •  
    6:30 PM
  • Location
    Our Father Lutheran Church 6335 S. Holly Street, Centennial, CO

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  Photo to Fabric in the Palm of Your Hand

   with Lisa Thorpe

  Did you know your smart phone or tablet is a fabric art tool?  First, I'll demonstrate, via screen sharing, how to take a photo on your smart phone or tablet, manipulate it in an app,and print the image onto fabric on a home printer or fabric printing service.  I'll share a variety of art quilts that I've created with these images as a central theme, as well as several art quilts using multiple photo images tiled together to create a stunning collaged quilt effect.

  Next, I have also devised an easy way to create a repeat printed fabric in 4 steps using your smart phone or tablet.  I will explain the process of creating and uploading your own repeat print fabric designs from photos.  

  This lecture comes with handouts detailing apps, printer info, plus fabric printing sources.  I will also show an array of beautiful fabrics I've created, along with examples of how I've used them in my art quilting, clothing, and home designs.

  Lisa will be presenting her lecture via Zoom.

  Check out Lisa's Workshop on September 13, 2025

  About Lisa Thorpe:

  Lisa Thorpe is a mixed media fiber artist and educator based in Little Rock, Arkansas. She is a master at creating unique printed and painted fabrics to use in her work. The art she creates for exhibition is both personal and universal. Driven to pique and poke, she strives to invite discussion and discovery, reflection, and wonder. 

  Thorpe has a BA in Design from University of California, Davis and an Art Teaching Credential from San Francisco State University.  Her identity is equal parts artist + educator and she loves to share what she has learned in her creative explorations.  To that end, she has published writings and art in About Place Journal and Cold Mountain Review and numerous technique and inspiration articles in Quilting Arts magazine.  

  Thorpe was a featured artist both on Quilting Art TV PBS (season 2024) and The Quilt Show in 2022.  She teaches at quilt guilds throughout the country and at national and international art quilt venues like the International Quilt Festival in Houston, the Gulf States Quilt Festival in Baton Rouge, and the SAQA (Studio Art Quilt Association) conference in Toronto.  

  Learn more about Lisa Thorpe on Social Media:

  Website              

  Facebook                

  Instagram 

  This meeting will be both IN-PERSON and ONLINE via Zoom.  Both meeting rooms will open at 6:15 pm and the meeting will begin at 6:30 pm Mountain time. Guests are also welcome to attend this meeting for $8.00.  Please register ahead of time .  If you will be attending via Zoom, please ensure that you know how to use Zoom prior to the meeting. The link will come by email when you register.  

  ACQ Members: Please sign in and register for free—it's so helpful to know how many are coming AND you'll be eligible for door prizes when you register.  Attendees must be present at the meeting OR online via Zoom to win door prizes.

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• October Guild Meeting - "Talk Color Magic" with Julia Graves

  • When
    October 09, 2025
  •  
    6:30 PM
  • Location
    Our Father Lutheran Church 6335 S. Holly Street, Centennial, CO

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  Talk Color Magic with Julia Graves

  Go beyond the basics of the color wheel and learn the secret recipes to create transparency, luster and luminosity to add depth, movement and interest to your quilts.  Transparency is the appearance of overlapping images.  Luster is the appearance of light moving across your quilt, and luminosity is when the colors seem to glow.  Includes a slide show and trunk show illustrating these concepts, along with step-by-step "recipes" on how to create it on your own. 

  Julia will be presenting her lecture via Zoom.

  Check out both of Julia's Workshops:

  • Luscious Luster - October 11th
  • Shimmering Triangles - October 18th

  About Julia Graves:

  Julia Graves started her quilting business, Special Occasion Quilts LLC, in 2007 and teaches, lectures, designs patterns, makes commission quilts, longarms for others, and sells & services APQS longarm machines.  She won "Best Longarm Machine Workmanship Wall Quilt Category" at the 2016 Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival, has had quilts published in many books, was an Artist-in-Residence at Empty Spools in 2019, and teaches at Empty Spools Seminars.  Julia has been sewing since she was ten and always loved fabric, needle arts and the entire creative process.  She did her apprenticeship as a quilter by making a quilt for each of her nieces and nephews (and thinks she should have counted them before making this promise...there were 32!).  She has since made more quilts than she can count...many for charity...and is partial to scrap quilts and working with color to achieve amazing results.  

  Learn more about Julia Graves on Social Media:

  Website              

  Facebook                

  Instagram 

  This meeting will be both IN-PERSON and ONLINE via Zoom.  Both meeting rooms will open at 6:15 pm and the meeting will begin at 6:30 pm Mountain time. Guests are also welcome to attend this meeting for $8.00.  Please register ahead of time .  If you will be attending via Zoom, please ensure that you know how to use Zoom prior to the meeting. The link will come by email when you register.  

  ACQ Members: Please sign in and register for free—it's so helpful to know how many are coming AND you'll be eligible for door prizes when you register.  Attendees must be present at the meeting OR online via Zoom to win door prizes.

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• November Guild Meeting - Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum

  • When
    November 13, 2025
  •  
    6:30 PM
  • Location
    Our Father Lutheran Church 6335 S. Holly Street, Centennial, CO

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  BLUE & WHITE QUILTS

  Two color quilts are always fun to see--they keep your eyes moving and enjoying the contrasts.  But with quilts, there is always more to the story than just the color contrast. 

  Learn fun facts and stories behind the quilts in our education collection that have become part of this Trunk Show.  Get insight into our ancestors--who they were, the challenge in their lives, and the importance quilt patterns hold.  Enjoy touching these bits of collections to generations past whose stitches and care we relate to and admire.

  This meeting will be both IN-PERSON and ONLINE via Zoom.  Both meeting rooms will open at 6:15 pm and the meeting will begin at 6:30 pm Mountain time. Guests are also welcome to attend this meeting for $8.00.  Please register ahead of time .  If you will be attending via Zoom, please ensure that you know how to use Zoom prior to the meeting. The link will come by email when you register.  

  ACQ Members: Please sign in and register for free—it's so helpful to know how many are coming AND you'll be eligible for door prizes when you register.  Attendees must be present at the meeting OR online via Zoom to win door prizes.

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• December Holiday Party

  • When
    December 11, 2025
  •  
    6:30 PM
  • Location
    Our Father Lutheran Church 6335 S. Holly Street, Centennial, CO

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  Join the celebration of another great year of ACQ!

                 We plan to have games, gift exchange, social time, installation of new board members, show and tell and so much more! 

  Put on your holiday spirit and come join in the fun!

  This meeting will be both IN-PERSON and ONLINE via Zoom.  Both meeting rooms will open at 6:15 pm and the meeting will begin at 6:30 pm Mountain time. Guests are also welcome to attend this meeting for $8.00.  Please register ahead of time .  If you will be attending via Zoom, please ensure that you know how to use Zoom prior to the meeting. The link will come by email when you register.  

  ACQ Members: Please sign in and register for free—it's so helpful to know how many are coming AND you'll be eligible for door prizes when you register.  Attendees must be present at the meeting OR online via Zoom to win door prizes.

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