March Program: 'Meet the Member' featuring Sue Vildosola

Our March meeting will feature SJVQG member, Sue Vildosola. Sue, originally from Oakland, lived in Mexico City for 13 years before moving to Fresno, where she's been for 37 years.

An avid fly fisher-woman, she has taken several fishing trips to New Zealand and Alaska. Her free time is spent serving as a docent at the Chaffee Zoo and a volunteer at the Holy Cross Center for Women.

Sue learned to sew from her mother and grandmother and has been quilting since 2002.
Be sure to join us at our meeting on Thursday, March 11th to meet Sue and see all her fantastic quilts!

April Program & Workshop: Jan Steffen

In April, Jan Steffen will present her program "It’s Hip to be Square" as well as teach a workshop the following Saturday on her Square-in-a-Square Technique.

Jan is a certified Square in a Square instructor. Her workshop will teach us this new technique for rotary cutting and strip piecing that allows quilters to achieve perfect points with improved accuracy, simplicity of construction, and speed.

The resulting blocks go together with great ease and lie very flat. Sound too good to be true? Well, attend this lecture and workshop and you will find out that it’s very TRUE! The technique encompasses 38 different “Options.” Using these options, you can make half-square triangles four at a time and flying geese blocks two at a time!

Don’t miss this workshop. Sign up now!

• Date: Saturday, April 10, 2010
• Time: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
  
• Location: D&J Sewing Center, 2700 Clovis Ave.
  

Learn more about Jan by visiting her websites: www.janicesteffen.com or www.squareinasquare.com

March Newsletter is now Available!

The March Newsletter is now available. To read it Click Here

The quilt pictured is the 2009 New Mexico Quilters' Association Raffle Quilt. Balloons shown on the quilt represent actual balloons that participate in the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta.

Fiber Arts Scholarships

The San Joaquin Valley Quilters Guild is pleased to offer two (2) $250 scholarships to students interested in fiber arts.

Qualified applicants include those focusing on fiber as an art medium or those with skills in costume or clothing design, textiles or textile conservation. High school seniors and college students may apply.

Preference will be given to students enrolled at least half time in a Fresno County school.

Email us at: sjvquilters@gmail.com for more information. Entry must be postmarked by April 1, 2010.

Don't miss the 2010 SJVQG Quilt Show!

SJVQG Presents:
“Springtime in the Valley”
Over 200 quilts on display, vendors and more!

Saturday, March 6, 10 – 5
Sunday, March 7, 10 - 4
Clovis Veterans Memorial Building
453 Hughes Avenue
Clovis, California
Entry Fee $7 per person

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Friday Night Preview
March 5, 6:00-8:00
For members only (and a guest)
Entry Fee $5 per person

Guild members on TV!

Note: The date of the show has been changed from Wednesday to Thursday

Be sure and watch (or tape!) KSEE 24's Central Valley Today Show on Thursday, March 4th from 11-12.

On the show, Alex Delgado will be promoting the 2010 SJVQG Quilt Show and interview Guild members Gerri Pymm and Kathleen Papenhausen.

Don't miss it!