FCQ 2025-26 Workshops and Quilting Events

FCQ Meeting
Nov
18
Meeting, Program

FCQ Meeting

Program: Lecture: “Post Modern Quilt Making”

Joe Cunningham

In this lecture I’ll talk about Modern Quilts and how they have influenced the wider quilt world, and explain how I have come to find my own style of “Post” Modern quilt making. With lots of examples and time for questions, this is a crowd favorite!

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Feathered Edge Star
Nov
19
Workshop

Feathered Edge Star

Using Joe’s system of simple freeform piecing, which can create many shapes, you will make enough varied and wonky feather edged stars to make a small quilt. Using two highly contrasting fabrics, you can create a powerful and fun graphic design, or using a bag of scraps you can create an entirely fascinating field of stars.

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FCQ Meeting
Jan
27
Meeting, Program

FCQ Meeting

Schoolhouse Demos

Guild Members

Each January, our guild starts the new year by sharing our quilting experience and expertise. Members present quilting tips, techniques, patterns, and other valuable quilt-related information.

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FCQ Meeting
Feb
24
Meeting, Program

FCQ Meeting

Long-Arm Quilters Panel Discussion

Guild Members

Learn what a long-arm quilter prefers you to have in your quilts, the how and why. A panel of long-arm and mid-arm quilters will share their perspectives on how to successfully prepare your quilts for quilting.

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NSQG Biennial Quilt Show: Sew Happy Together 2027
May
15

NSQG Biennial Quilt Show: Sew Happy Together 2027

Northwest Suburban Quilt Guild 2027 Show! Amazing Quilts on display or purchase one to take home from our Boutique Sale. Shop Vendors! Take a chance and win our Opportunity Quilt “Stargazing”. Incredible “Temperature Quilts” Guild Challenge; enter to win one of our notorious Raffle Baskets full of amazing products & don’t forget about our Door Prizes and the not to be missed Fabric Scrap and Used Book Sale! How to Get There: If entering campus off of Algonquin Road, Building M is straight ahead. Look for Building M or the Endeavor Health sign. If entering campus off of Euclid drive around the campus perimeter until you come to the Algonquin entry. Building M will be on the right.
Show Hours: Saturday May 15th – 9am to 6pm, Sunday May 16th – 10am to 4pm
Entry Fee: $10 per person, children 12 and under are free accompanied by an adult.

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NSQG Biennial Quilt Show: Sew Happy Together 2027
May
16
Show

NSQG Biennial Quilt Show: Sew Happy Together 2027

Northwest Suburban Quilt Guild 2027 Show! Amazing Quilts on display or purchase one to take home from our Boutique Sale. Shop Vendors! Take a chance and win our Opportunity Quilt “Stargazing”. Incredible “Temperature Quilts” Guild Challenge; enter to win one of our notorious Raffle Baskets full of amazing products & don’t forget about our Door Prizes and the not to be missed Fabric Scrap and Used Book Sale! How to Get There: If entering campus off of Algonquin Road, Building M is straight ahead. Look for Building M or the Endeavor Health sign. If entering campus off of Euclid drive around the campus perimeter until you come to the Algonquin entry. Building M will be on the right.
Show Hours: Saturday May 15th – 9am to 6pm, Sunday May 16th – 10am to 4pm
Entry Fee: $10 per person, children 12 and under are free accompanied by an adult.

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FCQ Meeting
Oct
28
Meeting, Program

FCQ Meeting

Program: Lecture: “Threads of History: The Story of the Bayeux Tapestry”

Cathy Grafton

Like many who love needlework, I consider the Bayeux Tapestry to be one of the most amazing embroideries ever stitched.  I have studied this work since I was a child and have visited Bayeux to see the tapestry seven times. 

After learning the "Bayeux Stitch" I have worked on my own embroideries featuring scenes of this 11th Century embroidery.  This new lecture will feature some of my work, along with the history and secrets that this epic embroidery still keeps today. 

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FCQ Meeting
Sep
23
Meeting, Program

FCQ Meeting

Program: Lecture:

Sue Pawlowski of Jack Squares Studio will present Precision 101 and will discuss many proven, suggested and funny rules and laws to achieve perfect precision piecing, improve your life and to take your quilts to the next level.

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Using Cork: The Kendra Tallboy Wallet Class
Aug
27
Workshop

Using Cork: The Kendra Tallboy Wallet Class

The Kendra Tallboy Wallet is the definition of Slim, Stacked, and Stylish. In this beginner‑friendly class, students turn cork and cotton into a tall, modern wallet with vertical card slots, a clean snap closure, and a full‑length cash pocket that keeps everything organized. The project builds confidence with cork while teaching practical techniques that makers can use again and again. Everyone leaves with a finished wallet that looks boutique‑ready and feels amazing in the hand.

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FCQ Meeting
Aug
26
Meeting, Program

FCQ Meeting

Program: Lecture: “The Magic of Cork!”

Lynn Gerard

Lynn Gerard pulls back the curtain on how cork is grown, harvested, and transformed into the gorgeous, durable textile makers love. Expect real samples, smart tips, and a lively look at why cork belongs in every sewing room.

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LOGistics - Pillow or Table Mat - STITCHING WITH ECLECTIC TEXTILES
Jul
23
Workshop

LOGistics - Pillow or Table Mat - STITCHING WITH ECLECTIC TEXTILES

Learn to sew using alternative textures with Lynn Schmitt, author of The Art of Mixing Textiles In Quilts. Our LOGistics pattern can be made as either a large pillow or table mat. The project features mixed textiles; wool, silk dupioni, silk matka, wovens, batiks, traditional and contemporary cottons. Learn to mix different types of fabric with traditional cotton; learn the inherent properties of alternative textiles, what to do and what NOT to do. Oh the possibilities when you begin to add what were once considered forbidden textures into your quilting and sewing projects.

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FCQ Meeting
Jun
24
Meeting, Program

FCQ Meeting

  • MEETING IS 100% VIRTUAL! NO IN-PERSON MEETING, ANYWHERE. ZOOM LINK WILL BE SENT BEFORE MEETING DATE. (map)
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Program: “True Crime Obsessions: Clues in the Piecework”

Millie Kehrli

Given the growing obsession of the true crime genre in America—and especially its popularity among quilters seeking entertainment while they work—this study center will focus on the axe murder of John Hossack, a wealthy Iowa farmer, on December 1, 1900, and how this headlining unsolved crime story bridges the worlds of crime and quiltmaking.

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Reverse Applique with mini Moons
May
28
Workshop

Reverse Applique with mini Moons

  • 432 59th Street Downers Grove, IL, 60516 United States (map)
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1pm - 4pm Learn a unique technique that makes perfectly smooth small circles with hidden stitching. Bonus: An amazing presentation on how the use of contrast and block layout completely change the look of this miniature quilt.

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Mastering Curved Piecing
May
28
Workshop

Mastering Curved Piecing

  • 432 59th Street Downers Grove, IL, 60516 United States (map)
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9AM - 12PM Adding curves to a quilt has never been easier. We will cover cutting curves and three different ways to piece curves so that you can try them all and find your favorite way. Jennifer Wagner, Snapdragon Quilting will join us for this half day workshop.

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FCQ Meeting
May
27
Meeting, Program

FCQ Meeting

Program: “Innovative Quiltmaking: Blending Modern and Traditional Techniques - A Trunk Show”

Jennifer Wagner

Expand your quilting repertoire with a lecture that blends storytelling, a trunk show, and live demonstrations of the techniques that define my quilt-making process. Together, we’ll celebrate the traditional roots of quilting while exploring fresh, innovative methods that push design beyond the classic quilt block.

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Fiber & Fabric Craft Festival
May
3

Fiber & Fabric Craft Festival

FIber and Fabric Craft Festival

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2026 Parade of Quilts -Quilt Show - Sinnissippi Quilting Guild
May
3

2026 Parade of Quilts -Quilt Show - Sinnissippi Quilting Guild

Saturday  May 2,  9am -5 pm

 Sunday  May 3,  10am -4 pm

 

Special Exhibit: ROUTE 66   The featured special exhibit for our 2026 Quilt Show comes from the Bits n Pieces Quilt Guild in Baldwin, MO.  From their Art Quilt Project and is their version of “Drive Down Route 66”.  So buckle your seat belt and rev your engine for an exciting ride down the Mother Road!!  It features 66 individual 24”x24” pieces each depicting a different location or attraction from all 8 states from Illinois to California, representing the beginning, middle, end, and birthplace.

Our Raffle Quilt: In My Garden by Kelli Saffell.  This Quilt is an original collection of beautiful Birds, Baskets, and Blossoms to make it a Garden Paradise!! It is set in 12 blocks with a beautiful mix of Applique and Piecing and finished is approximately 76” x 88”.  The blocks we constructed by a past member of our guild Lily Rude, and assembled and quilted by the members of our guild. 

 Display and Bed Turning: Ruby Short McKim

Ruby McKim was an American Quilt Designer, Art Teacher, Writer, Magazine Editor, Wife, and Mother of 2.  She was born in Millersburg, IL on July 27, 1891 and died July 26, 1976, at the age of 85.    She was inducted into the Quilter’s Hall of Fame in 2002.  She graduated from the New York School of Fine and Applied Arts in 1912.  She was a nationally known top quilt designer of the 1920’s.

Her only book was published in 1931, 101 Patchwork Patterns.  She was an editor of the magazine Doll Talk where she then published a few more of her patterns.

She died in a nursing home in Independence, MO in 1976.

She had two personal motto’s:  “If you don’t feel good, Put on your company face and keep going.” And “You only fail when  you don’t try.”

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