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Arapahoe County Quilters

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ACQ Monthly Quilt Guild Meetings

Join us on the second Thursday of each month as we gather for inspiration, education and friendship. Meetings feature national and local speakers who inform and inspire us with a wide range of quilting topics. A highlight most months is Show & Tell when we share the quilts we've made.

See General Info below.

Upcoming Guild Meetings

    • January 09, 2025
    • 6:30 PM
    • Our Father Lutheran Church 6335 S. Holly Street, Centennial, CO
    Register


    Leave  Quilts Not Fabric

    Jenny Kae reflects on a poignant moment from her time at a local quilt shop before providing a range of actionable strategies for completing UFOs (UnFinished Objects) and organizing your fabric stash. This heartfelt narrative resonates deeply with quilters and is an invaluable addition to any quilting enthusiast’s repertoire.

    Check out Jenny's Workshop on January 11, 2025

    Learn more about Jenny Kae Quilts:

    Website        Facebook

    Instagram     Pinterest

    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.

    • February 13, 2025
    • 6:30 PM
    • Our Father Lutheran Church 6335 S. Holly Street, Centennial, CO
    Register


    Save Our Stories

    Amy Milne has been the executive director of the Quilt Alliance since 2006. She has over two decades of experience as a nonprofit administrator, educator and artist. Amy has overseen the expansion of the Quilt Alliance’s oral history projects, including the creation of the Go Tell It at the Quilt Show! project, as well as Quilt Alliance events: Quilters Take Manhattan/a Moment and the Not Fade Away: Sharing Quilt Stories in the Digital Age conference.

    Quilt Alliance is a nonprofit 501c3 organization established in 1993 with a mission to document, preserve, and share our American quilt heritage by collecting the rich stories that historic and contemporary quilts, and their makers, tell about our nation’s diverse peoples and their communities.

    The project was co-founded in 1999 by a dedicated group of Quilt Alliance board members and volunteers who identified an extraordinary gap in the quilt world: no one had ever created an oral-history project to capture the history, craft tradition, and personal experiences of America’s quiltmakers. They envisioned QSOS as a grassroots effort and designed the interview process in ways that would make it accessible to interviewers and quiltmakers at all skill levels and backgrounds, allowing them to explore the central question: “if this quilt could talk,” what would it say? Now, twenty-five years later the collection includes over 1,200 recorded interviews with quiltmakers from novices to professionals.

    Our speaker will be presenting their lecture via Zoom.

    Learn more about QUILT ALLIANCE:

    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.

    • March 13, 2025
    • 6:30 PM
    • Our Father Lutheran Church 6335 S. Holly Street, Centennial, CO
    Register

    Building Community: Nationl Quilting Month

    We invite you to join us for an upcoming gathering where we can connect, share our love for quilting, and grow as a community. Let’s come together to inspire one another, exchange ideas, and strengthen our bonds through our shared passion. Whether you're a seasoned quilter or just starting out, your presence is invaluable. Together, we can create not just beautiful quilts, but lasting friendships. We look forward to seeing you there!

    Check out the March morning Workshop on March 15, 2025

    Check out the March afternoon Workshop on March 15, 2025

    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.

Past Guild Meetings

December 12, 2024 December Guild Meeting
November 14, 2024 November Guild Meeting - "Not Just Your Grandma's Flower Garden! An Exploration of English Paper Piecing" with Teresa Walker
October 10, 2024 October Guild Meeting - "Inviting a Sense of Play into Your Quilting Life" with Monique Kleinhaus
September 12, 2024 September Guild Meeting - "What the Scrap? Ways to Manage Your Growing Scrap Pile"
August 08, 2024 August Guild Meeting - "Navigating Creative Wonderland" with Katie Fowler
July 11, 2024 July Guild Meeting “Celebrating 37 Years of ACQ”
June 13, 2024 June Guild Meeting - "Quilts of Valor" with Lori Thompson
May 09, 2024 May Guild Meeting - "Modern Traditional" with Kate Colleran
April 11, 2024 April Guild Meeting - "Artistry through Applique" with David Taylor
March 14, 2024 March Guild Meeting - "Finding Pride and Joy in Quilting: My Journey in Quilting
February 08, 2024 February Guild Meeting - "Empowering Women in Poverty" with Courtney Kimball
January 11, 2024 January Guild Meeting - "Color! An Engineer's Guide to Color Value and Color Placement in your Quilts"
December 14, 2023 December Holiday Celebration and Potluck Dinner
November 09, 2023 November Guild Meeting - Amish Quilting and it's Influence on Modern Quilting
October 12, 2023 October Guild Meeting - OPEN HOUSE with our Charity Partners
September 14, 2023 September Guild Meeting: Japanese Fabric from Vintage to Contemporary with Dana Jones
August 10, 2023 August Guild Meeting - Finding My Quilting Voice with Sheri Noel
July 13, 2023 July Guild Meeting Quilting: a Creative Journey with Margaret Willingham
May 11, 2023 May Guild Meeting - Color Courage for the Fabric Phobic by Jenny Kae
April 13, 2023 April Guild Meeting - Trunk Show with Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum
March 09, 2023 March Guild Meeting - Approaching Quilting as a Graphic Designer with Sheri Cifaldi-Morrill
February 09, 2023 February Guild Meeting - Memory Quilts with Beth Sullivan
January 12, 2023 January Guild Meeting - Just Cut the Scrap with Michele Crawford
December 08, 2022 December Guild Meeting and Social - "B.Y.O.B" Dinner with Guest Speaker Ellen Palmer
November 10, 2022 November Guild Meeting - Modern Mosaic Quilts with Shelley Cavanna
October 13, 2022 October Guild Meeting - Color Theory Applied: Fabric Collecting and Usage with Swan Sheridan
September 08, 2022 September Guild Meeting - Traditional, Art, Modern: Notes from the Field with Maria Shell
August 25, 2022 August Guild Meeting - The Cutting Edge with Kelly Gallagher Abbott
July 14, 2022 July Guild Meeting - Show Me! An Online Trunk Show of Rare and Historic Quilts
May 12, 2022 May Guild Meeting - Fabric and Form with Mary McCauley
April 14, 2022 April Guild Meeting - A Look at Modern Celtic Quilting with Scarlett Rose
March 10, 2022 March Guild Meeting - Dimensional Curved Piecing with Annette Ornelas
February 10, 2022 February Guild Meeting - Pre-Civil War Quilts: The Secret Codes to Freedom on the Underground Railroad
January 13, 2022 January Guild Meeting - Dresden Reimagined with Candace Grisham
December 09, 2021 December Guild Meeting - An Evening of Fun
November 11, 2021 November Guild Meeting - Improv Paper Piecing with Amy Friend
October 14, 2021 October Guild Meeting - Quilts of Illusions with Karen Combs
September 09, 2021 September Guild Meeting - Seeing Double with Tammy Silvers
August 12, 2021 August Guild Meeting - Windy Wonders: A Quilt Block Grows Up
July 10, 2021 Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum Social
July 08, 2021 July Guild Meeting: Show and Tell Extravaganza
June 10, 2021 June Guild Meeting: Demo Night
May 13, 2021 May Guild Meeting: Shop Hop!
April 08, 2021 April Guild Meeting: Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum
March 11, 2021 March Guild Meeting: Fun with Free Motion Quilting
February 11, 2021 February Guild Meeting: Quilt Remix • Heather Kojan
January 14, 2021 January Guild Meeting: Creating Art Quilts with Panels • Joyce Hughes
December 10, 2020 December Guild Meeting: How Quilters Celebrate Life with Meg Cox
November 12, 2020 November Guild Meeting: Behind the Seams with Peter Byrne
October 08, 2020 October Guild Meeting: The History & Mystery of Baltimore Album Quilts, Jaimie Davis
September 10, 2020 September Guild Meeting: Resizing Any Block with Cindy Barfield
August 13, 2020 August Guild Meeting: Smash Your Stash! with Kate Colleran
July 09, 2020 July Guild Meeting: Wildly Careening into Quilts with Kim Lapacek
June 11, 2020 June Guild Meeting: Show & Tell Extravaganza + More
May 14, 2020 ONLINE May Guild Meeting: Stitching, Symbols, Signature Style with Deborah Boschert
April 16, 2020 VIRTUAL April Guild Meeting: Improvise! Creating, Quilting and Living Courageously with Sherri Lynn Wood
March 12, 2020 March Guild Meeting: Moda and Beyond with Lynne Hagmeier
February 13, 2020 February Guild Meeting: Making Faces with Lea McComas
January 09, 2020 January Guild Meeting: Demo Night
December 12, 2019 December Holiday Potluck & Silent Auction
November 14, 2019 November Guild Meeting featuring Pat Syta and Mimi Hollenbaugh

General Info

TIME

6:15 pm • "Doors open" for socializing (doors may open early for some meetings—watch the calendar for details)

6:30 pm • Business meeting begins 

COST
Admission is $8 (free for members) unless otherwise noted. Visitors are welcome to attend. 

LOCATION
All meetings are currently online through Zoom. Those who register prior to the meeting will receive the link by email. The link is also available for members on the Members-only page. 

Physical location when we're allowed to return: Plymouth Congregational Church, 3501 S. Colorado Blvd., Englewood, CO. Enter the front doors, bear left, turn right, head down the long hallway, and the fellowship hall will be on the right.

SHOW & TELL
Please take photos of your finished quilts to share with all of us. We enjoy seeing all quilts—from the first quilt someone has made to entries in national quilt shows. See the Members-only page (password required) for submission info and the Photos page for a photo archive. 

MONTHLY GUILD MEETINGS

Meetings held the 2nd Thursday of each month

All meetings are streamed online

In person meetings are held at:

Our Father Lutheran Church

6335 S Holly St, Centennial, CO

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