This meeting will be an Open Sew where you can bring your favorite project to work on or just chill and talk with your fellow guild members.
Members will also bring their favorite tool and tell others why it’s their favorite.
In addition, the guild will hold an Orphan Block Swap. More on this to come.
Let’s Have Fun With Fabric Stamping!
Have you ever wanted to play with fabric stamping or painting on fabric? Here’s your opportunity to try it out! Pam and Karen C will show you how you can easily make your own foam stamps using your own designs or something you have traced. You can use your homemade stamps or borrow some commercial stamps from other members to create your own fabric design. Stick to the basics or explore your inner child and print with household items like bubble wrap, pencil erasers, toilet paper tubes, leaves, string, sponges, etc. You can also choose to paint your fabric with a brush. Wear your old clothes or bring an apron! This will be fun!
Optional Open Sew for those who prefer to sew.
Bring your imagination and the following items:
- Fat quarter size pieces of fabric that you’ve washed (no fabric softener) and backed with either stabilizer (such as SF101) or freezer paper.
- Pen/pencil and paper for designing and testing stamps
- Scissors – not your good sewing ones.
- An apron or older clothes and gloves if you want to protect your hands
- Anything from home that might lend itself to stamping on fabric like bubble wrap, toilet paper rolls, leaves, string, pencil erasers, sponges, etc.
- A garbage bag to protect the table.
- OPTIONAL - Fabric paint, or acrylic paint plus fabric medium if you want to have your designs be permanent and washable, or any kind of acrylic or craft paint or well inked stamp pad if you just want to play.
- OPTIONAL - Your collection of stamps and/or stencils
The Guild will provide the basics for making and playing with foam stamps.
Berlin Fair
September 18 - 20, 2026
Show Your Quilt
Debbie will collect quilts for showing at this year's fair at the September 14th meeting.
Debbie will drop the quilts off at the fair on Wednesday September 16th in the afternoon. She will collect all the quilts and any prize money on Sunday, September 20th. Debbie will bring the quilts entered by guild members to the October 19th meeting.
Please enter a quilt or two, so we have an awesome CCTMQG showing at this year's fair. Don't think that your quilts are not good enough! We are all very talented quilters and should be sharing our work!
Information on the fair and registration info can be found HERE.
Contact Debbie if you have any questions.
The Avon Congregational Church Quilt Show
Saturday, October 17, 2026 10 – 4
Sunday, October 18, 2026 1- 4
$10 admission to the show
No quilt entry fee
Featuring quilts from CCTMQG in our 2nd floor exhibit
Also featuring patriotic quilts from FVQG and applique quilts from the Granbies Applique Group
CCTMQG members will also have the opportunity to enter larger quilts in the church sanctuary.
Other concurrent events:
Café serving sandwiches, salads, soup, cookies and drinks
A variety of craft booths
The Avon Congregational Church Antique Shop
A demo by Brenda Day of Creative Art Jam (Sat Only)
Raffle quilt – Patriotic Quilt, tickets $2 each
Several raffle baskets
June Social at the Canton Senior Center
Beginning at 6 pm on June 8th.
It's the perfect time of year to enjoy great food and mingle with creative friends old and new.
Please bring your favorite Potluck dish, serving utensils for your dish, and your favorite beverage, if desired. The Board will provide bottled water and seltzer. No alcohol please.
Don't forget to bring your Show and Share. Also, Members will show their second quarter Art Quilts featuring the prompt "Earth".
Note: Members will vote on the Revised By-Laws during the meeting.
During Monday's meeting, we will enter the world of Inspector Gadget. With Erin Byrne, owner of Cotton Candy Fabrics in Simsbury and Brookfield as our guide, we will see some of the latest innovative tools available to quilters and also get to admire some quilts that utilize them to their full advantage. This should get our juices flowing for new projects.
Mega Dream Bag pattern by Bodobo Bags by Ticklegrass Designs presented by Debbie D.
This is a great bag to carry all your supplies to classes, workshops, sew days & retreats! Holds everything you need including an Oliso mini-iron! Zips closed so you don’t lose anything & folds down for easy access of all your tools when you need them.
Makes a great gift for the sewers & quilters in your life too!
Pellon interfacings can be purchased at Walmart along with most quilt shops!
Purchase pattern (a digital download of the pattern can be purchased on Etsy for $10.50), fabrics, 18” or larger zipper or zipper tape, thread & Pellon interfacings Shape Flex (SF101) & Fusible Thermolam Plus (TP971F). Precut all your pieces of fabric & interfacings as per pattern instructions. Also cut a zipper tab piece 2” x 3” from one of your fabrics. Bring your extra fabrics with you!
Fuse the strips of Pellon Shape Flex (SF101) to the center of the wrong side of each strap piece & press in the long edges of the straps in per instructions twice, then topstitch along both sides using a 3.5 stitch length as on page 2. If you are comfortable do step E & F on page 2 too!
Fuse Pellon Shape Flex (SF101) to the wrong sides of the lining pieces per page 4.
Fold the 2 pocket pieces per instructions on page 4 & stitch the ¼” seam, turn & press, then topstitch 1/8” from folded edge using a 3.5 stitch length.
The more prep you have done the better chance we have of finishing the bags!
Debbie will bring my 2 presses to make the fusing of the Thermolam go quicker.
Please bring your sewing machine and all related sewing tools. The guild will provide irons and extension cords.
The month we will be having a Fabric Acquisition Road Trip (F.A.R.T.) to the Quilted Ewe located at 37 Greenwoods Road in New Hartford, CT. This is located about 10 minutes from our meeting location in Canton. They have a big, bright beautiful shop. This is a members only event.
Shop owner, Mary, will demonstrate the Hunter Ruler at 6:00 pm.
Join us for improv curves! And if there is time, we will touch improv circles using Maria Shell’s method.
Bring your machine of choice (or easiest one to carry), a rotary cutter and cutting mat, and fabric. Layer cakes, charm packs and yardage are welcome! If you are using yardage, precut at least two pieces into 6” x 10” in contrasting colors or patterns. Prints and solids are both welcome.
You can bring a ruler to square up your blocks, but other than that, we won’t be touching it. No pins needed either.
The guild will provide irons and extension cords.
We will be having a CCTMQG sewing day at the Quilted Ewe in New Hartford on Saturday, January 17, 2026, from 9:15 am to 3:45 pm.
Amenities include irons and ironing stations, cutting stations (bring your own cutting tools), design walls and a lunchroom with a refrigerator. There is plenty of space with great lighting and the opportunity to browse the shop.
The cost is $15.00 (non-refundable) and is payable in advance to the Quilted Ewe. Registration is open - just go to the Quilted Ewe website and click on the January 17th Open Sew Day.
If you have any questions please contact Patty or Pam
We look forward to seeing you there.
Guild Annual Business Meeting
January is our annual business meeting.
We will discuss guild business, and Marcia will be giving the Treasurer's report.
After the official meeting, Marcia will present: Dice-y Sketches Mini-Workshop - Join us for some creative paper play with simple dice rolls inspiring our path. Please bring the following:
- One die
- Variety of Paper, i.e., color, wrapping, magazines, calendars, etc.
- Paper scissors, unless you want to tear your paper
- Glue/glue sticks
- Alternatively, if not cutting from various papers, you may use paints, markers color pencils, crayons, etc.
If we have time, we will go through a quick, easy paper exercise where you will use six colors of markers, pencils, or crayons.
Marcia will have some paper, dice, and glues available if needed.
The new Board will begin January 1, 2026
Cathy Baldoumis - Co-President
Debbie D’Angelo - Co-President until 12/31/26
Pam Weaver - Vice President
Karen Carvalho - Secretary
Patty Mace - Treasurer
Cindy Grisdela Workshop (Zoom) - Improv Puzzle
Sponsored by CCTMQG
Create Improv Log Cabin blocks in a variety of sizes and put them together into a unique composition–like a jigsaw puzzle. There’s no measuring or precise cutting and each quilt will be unique. We will discuss color choices and using simple design principles to create an original dynamic composition.
Basic sewing skills and a sewing machine in good working order necessary. Confident beginner to advanced level.
Fee for Members: $30 Registration opens August 1, 2025
Fee for Non-Members: $35 Registration opens September 15, 2025
Check or Cash Only
Maximum of 24 participants
Contact Marcia for payment information.
Note: this is a Zoom workshop - learn from the comfort of your own sewing room!
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This month is our annual December social with Friends, Food and Fun!
Rather than a swap this year, we will be asking everyone to make a Standard Size Pillowcase for the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp in Ashford. Fabric is up to you, and you are welcome to make more than one pillowcase. These are for children and teens – and unisex or boy specific are especially appreciated. Use your own pattern or the one Marcia has provided HERE.
We will be having potluck main dishes, side dishes, salads, desserts and beverages, and playing our favorite Quilters game - LCR. You will need one fat quarter of each of the following so shop your stash - Solids, Polka Dot (ish) and Ruby Star Society. Please roll your fat quarter and secure with a rubber band or tie with fabric or string for easier passing during the game.
Please sign up at the November meeting for either a main dish, side dish, salad, or dessert.
Guests are welcome for a $35 fee - Cash or Check only
Hiroko Fukawa -A Chat Among Friends
Join Hiroko Fukawa for an informal chat among friends, where she will show her work and share her inspiration and techniques. She is a local Connecticut quilter who creates modern designs based on classic quilt patterns.
*** Guests are welcome for a $35 fee. Checks or cash only. ***
We will be having a CCTMQG sewing day at the Quilted Ewe in New Hartford on Saturday, September 13, 2025, from 9:15 am to 3:45 pm.
Amenities include irons and ironing stations, cutting stations (bring your own cutting tools), design walls and a lunchroom with a refrigerator. There is plenty of space with great lighting and the opportunity to browse the shop.
The cost is $15.00 (non-refundable) and is payable in advance to the Quilted Ewe. Registration is open - just go to the Quilted Ewe website and click on the September 13th Open Sew Day.
If you have any questions please contact Patty or Pam
We look forward to seeing you there.
Berlin Fair
September 11 - 14, 2025
Show Your Quilt
Debbie will collect and deliver quilts for showing at this year's fair at the August 11th and September 8th meetings.
Debbie will drop the quilts off at the fair on Wednesday September 10th in the afternoon. She will collect all the quilts and any prize money on Sunday, September 14th. Debbie will bring the quilts entered by guild members to the October 20th meeting.
Please enter a quilt or two, so we have an awesome CCTMQG showing at this year's fair. Don't think that your quilts are not good enough! We are all very talented quilters and should be sharing our work!
Information on the fair can be found HERE. Registration begins August 15, 2025.
Contact Debbie if you have any questions.
I am an author, educator and descendant of Gee’s Bend (Boykin), Alabama and the
granddaughter of Gee’s Bend quilters, I am proud to continue to share the story of how
this small town in rural Alabama made its mark in the art world, Their magic with a needle
and thread can be found in museums such as the Smithsonian and the Metropolitan
Museum of Art. Their work has also been featured on postage stamps and most recently
in Target’s 2024 Black history month collection.
Guests are welcome for a $35 fee.- Cash or Check Only.
Bring a sewing project and enjoy the fun and conversation. Don’t forget your Show and Share.
In addition, the following members will be doing brief demos -
Karen C - Making 3-D fabric flowers using light-weight metal mesh
Ivy - Using perspective points and a ruler to draw three-dimensional shapes. Can you translate them into fabric?
Pam - Using Procreate to import a picture, make a sketch and print it, and play with color and quilting
Sue - A quilter’s diary
Open Sew
Bring whatever quilt or sewing project you’d like to work on. Or, just relax and socialize with your quilty friends. The Guild will provide the normal irons and extension cords.
June Social at Leslie’s House
59 Barbourtown Road in Canton Center
Beginning at 6 pm on June 9th.
It's the perfect time of year to sit outside, enjoy great food, and mingle with creative friends old and new.
Special Event: CCTMQG Quilt Challenge - Inspired by Art
Members will present their quilted item rerpesenting an aspect of visual art.
Please bring your favorite Potluck dish, serving utensils for your dish, and a chair. The Board will provide bottled water and lemonade. No alcohol please.
Don't forget to bring your Show and Share. Look for our CCTMQG yard signs, which will direct you to parking.
In the event of bad weather, we will meet at the Canton Community Center at 6 pm. We will send out an email and Instagram post by 12 pm Monday if we must meet indoors.
Please contact Leslie if you have any questions.
A Korean textile technique called Pojagi will be introduced and demonstrated. This will be a workshop to help you start your own Pojagi. Please bring your sewing machine and sewing supplies. The best fabrics are solids or batiks for this process.
The Infinite Grid
Join Ivy for an open discussion on the ways to use the GRID to implement the ideas you might dream about. What do we see when we look through the grid? How do we express what we see?
She will talk about a few fine art paintings and her quilts to explore the importance of freedom and shapes.
We are all full of creative ideas, we just have to figure out how to access them.
There are so many talented people in this group. Let’s think of ways to translate ideas into fabric.
The month we will be having a F.A.R.T. to the Quilted Ewe located at 37 Greenwoods Road in New Hartford, CT. This is located about 10 minutes from our meeting location in Canton. They have a big, bright beautiful shop. This is a members only event.
From Linda:
Although I made my first few quilts starting in 1975, my journey as a scrap quilt quilter actually began in 1977. Looking back, little did I know at the time that a quilt I started that year held many predictions of my future journey as a quilter in general. Since 1992 I have completed 242 quilts. My earliest quilts were made prior to the invention of the rotary cutter and the advent of longarm machine quilting. My favorite quilts are scrap quilts, but I also appreciate and have made reproduction, art, applique, and modern quilts. I have taken workshops with Bonnie Hunter, Edyta Sitar, Jane Sassaman, Victoria Findlay Wolfe, Jane Davila and Elin Waterston, Karen Eckmeier, and many others over the years. I belonged for many years to the West Hartford Quilters and Quilters West chapters of the Greater Hartford Quilt Guild and Women Against the Grain (Art Quilters). I am currently a member of the Farmington Valley Quilters and the Granbees quilt guilds. I consider myself very fortunate to have worked at Sew Inspired Quilt Shop in Simsbury, Connecticut for the last 17 years, which allows me to keep current with quilting trends and to share my knowledge and passion for quilting with others.
*****Guests are welcome for a $35 fee. Cash or Check Only *****..
We will be having a CCTMQG sewing day at the Quilted Ewe in New Hartford on Saturday, February 1, 2025, from 9:15 am to 3:45 pm.
Amenities include irons and ironing stations, cutting stations (bring your own cutting tools), design walls and a lunchroom with a refrigerator. There is plenty of space with great lighting and the opportunity to browse the shop.
The cost is $15.00 (non-refundable) and is payable in advance to the Quilted Ewe. Registration is open - just go to the Quilted Ewe website and click on the February 1st Open Sew Day.
If you have any questions please contact Patty or Pam
We look forward to seeing you there.
January is our annual meeting.
We will approve the revised Bylaws, and Marcia will be giving the Treasurer's report.
After the official meeting, we will have an Open Sew and Show and Tell with the first quilt you made and how you started quilting.
The new Board will begin January 1, 2025
Leslie Perry - President
Pam Weaver - Vice President
Karen Carvalho - Secretary
Marcia Horan - Treasurer
This month is our annual December social with Friends, Food and Fun!
Rather than a swap this year we will be asking everyone to make a 12 1/2 inch unfinished star block which we will use to make a quilt for our Community Outreach Program. Fabric and star design are up to you and you are welcome to make more than one block.
We will be having potluck appetizers, desserts and beverages and playing our favorite Quilters game - LCR. You will need one fat quarter of each of the following so Shop your Stash - Solids, Low Volume and Brights - solid or print. . Please roll your fat quarter and secure with a rubber band or tie with fabric or string for easier passing during the game.
Scrappy Snacks
Learn about how to play with color and pattern with low-stakes commitment. Timna will demonstrate how to dig through your scrap bag to make stripey mini circles. Each circle is its own color study but will play well with others so you can turn them into a larger project. Be careful though, these circles are like potato chips – addictive and you will want a whole handful.
*****Guests are welcome for a $35 fee. Cash or Check Only *****
Please note the date of this event has been changed from November 11th to November 18th.
We will be having a CCTMQG sewing day at the Quilted Ewe in New Hartford on Saturday, November 2nd, from 9:15 am to 3:45 pm.
Amenities include irons and ironing stations, cutting stations (bring your own cutting tools) , design walls and a lunch room with a refrigerator. There is plenty of space with great lighting and the opportunity to browse the shop.
Members Only
The cost is $15.00 (non-refundable) and is payable in advance to the Quilted Ewe. Registration will begin in October - just go to the Quilted Ewe website and click on the November 2nd Open Sew Day.
If you have any questions please contact Patty or Pam
We look forward to seeing you there.
Make a quilted item inspired by Visual Art -- be it a painting, line drawing, sketch, sculpture, mural, photograph, etc.
Some ideas:
Choose:
+ a particular piece of art or artist
+ a certain element of the art or artist's work, i.e., colors, lines, shapes, motifs
+ a specific type or school, i.e., Impressionistic, Cubist, Surrealist, Pop, Bauhaus, Minimalist, Abstract, etc.
+ from ancient to modern to contemporary art
For this particular challenge, we are not choosing quilters for our inspiration.
Our big reveal will be at our June 2025 meeting
If you cannot make our June meeting, please share when next you attend after June 2025.
Back by popular demand Mary will be presenting her Orphan Block workshop.
Dig through your own orphan block box or, better still, share other people’s orphans! This is a great opportunity to share your extra blocks with other members. We’ll shoot to make a 24” x24” finished block that you can take home or contribute to a charity quilt. NO stress, ONLY fun.
Orphans are blocks that might have been test blocks, or things that you tried and realized that you don’t want to make a whole quilt like that after all, or things that came out the wrong size, or you ran out of the right fabric—whatever.
Between now and September—save your orphan blocks! Go through your stash and put them all in one place, and let them get happy together.
Also at this meeting, we'll do our WHAT WAS I THINKING stash swap! Do you have fabric, books, or supplies that you no longer need? Bring them for others to scoop up. You wouldn't believe the great stuff this guild gives away!
The Guild is looking for quilts and quilted items to be entered into the Berlin Fair this year. Please consider entering some of your beautiful quilts, bags, and wall hangings into this year’s fair. We’d love to have a large showing of quilted items from our Guild to showcase the talents of our amazing members. Ribbons & prizes are awarded for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place.
Debbie D’Angelo will collect all items at the August or September meetings, and drop them off for judging at the fair on Wednesday, September 11th. She will pick the items back up at the fair on Sunday, September 15th, and return them to members at the October meeting.
Debbie will provide entry information for the fair as soon as its available. Participants can also go directly to the Berlin Fair website and register there.
More details to follow. Feel free to contact Debbie with questions.
Polaroid/ photo blocks with Betsy
Take some of your favorite material and make them into Polaroid photo quilt blocks! You can use white or ivory material as your photo frame, with dark grey or black material to create the shadow, and finishing off with your choice of background color.
Lighter colored background fabrics work better as they enhance the shadow effect.
There will be a couple of different size blocks you can make to create either a stand alone block for a bag or pillow or create slightly smaller blocks to combine.
People can also bring extra center squares (the photo part of the block) to share so we all have more fun options to choose!.
Polaroid block materials:
1 - fussy cut 2.5” center square for your “photo” (finished block = 7.5”)
white or off white material:
2 - 1” x 2.5” strips
1 - 1” x 3.5” strip
1 - 1.5” x 3.5” strip
Background fabric:
2 - 2.5” x 4”
2 - 2.5” x 7.5”
If you would like to make a Polaroid square with a shadow:
1 - fussy cut 4” center square (finished block = 8.5”)
white/off white material
2 - 1” x 4” strips
1 - 1’ x 5” strip
1 - 1.5” x 5” strip
background material:
1 - 1.5” x 1” piece
1 - 1.5” x 5” strip
1 - 1.5” x 7” strips
1 - 2” x 8.5” strip
1 - 2.5” x 1” piece
1 - 2.5” x 7” strip
shadow material (black of gray):
2 - 1” x 4.5” strips
And a couple of extra fussy cut 2.5” or 4” center squares to share!
