Welcome to the Coachella Valley Quilt Guild
Our Purpose
Guild Meetings
Centrally located in the beautiful Coachella Valley of Southern California. The Guild shall be a non profit organization established to promote appreciation of quilting, to share and to uphold the heritage of a timeless folk art, and to further the education and skill levels of the members of the guild.
2024 Opportunity Quilt
The Sum Of Its Parts
Original Design by Loretta Duffy
Pieced by Loretta Duffy
Machine Quilted by Kelley Bachli
Drawing on December 14, 2024
Tickets $1 -- 6 tickets for $5
Second Saturday of the month
Check out our Hybrid (In person and Zoom at the same time) meetings!
Meeting Times:
10AM to Noon
Doors open at 9:30AM
Membership: 2024 membership is $35 and includes 2 books of raffle tickets for The Sum of Its Parts. Click here to join.
Guests are welcome at all meetings: $10.00 guest fee
Location:
We are holding hybrid meetings -- in person at UCR and Zoom January to May and September to November.
June, July, and August are Zoom only.
University of California, Riverside
Palm Desert Campus
Auditorium Building
75080 Frank Sinatra Drive
Palm Desert, CA 92211
For Directions Click Here
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Congratulations to the Officers for July 2024 to June 2025!
May Meeting -- Saturday, May 11, 2024
Veruschka Zarate
Finding Pride and Joy in Quilting: My Journey in Quilting
Hybrid Meeting -- Speaker on Zoom
Meeting starts at 10:00am
Program starts at 11:00am
Veruschka Zarate will detail her quilting journey and upcoming projects of Pride & Joy Quilting. From traditional quilt piecing to falling in love with Foundation Paper Piecing, she will show how she is using foundation paper piecing to bring about fresh and modern pieces for quilters to make. She will discuss her development as a quilt maker and designer sharing all sorts of tips, tricks and techniques she has learned along the way. She will also share some of the elements within her creative process such as successes and pitfalls within FPP construction and design, choice of fabrics and color selection, thread, tools and much more. She will also do a trunk show of her large-scale FPP pieces as well as upcoming projects.
Guest Fee for May Meeting -- Veruschka Zarate
$10.00
- Available
- Ships within 1-3 days
Members Quilts Entered in the Date Festival
Thank you for making the Date Festival a success!
There may not have been as many quilts as at past Date Festivals but there were some wonderful quilts made by members and community quilters. There were quite a few awards given out.
First Place awards went to:
Judy Block (2 1st places), Treese Pflum, Laurie LaSalle (4 1st places), Cheryl Chandler, Kathleen Herring (2 1st places), Cheryl Taylor and Roxanne Braun.
Second Place awards went to:
Pat Siegel, Treese Pflum, Linda Blake, and Laurie LaSalle.
Third Place awards went to:
Laurie LaSalle and Elizabeth Mitchell.
VP Opportunity Quilt Alena Callimanis did a wonderful job of organizing the volunteers to sell raffle tickets and put up and take down the quilts. Thank you to Alena and her volunteers!
Desert Guilds Quilt Show 2024
The biannual Desert Guilds Quilt Show put on by Coachella Valley, Cactus SewAbles and Pass Patchers was held on March 1 & 2 at the Pavilion in Palm Springs. Hopefully you got a chance to see the wonderful quilts displayed and to vote on your favorite quilt. The vendors had a wide assortment of items for sale which is always fun to browse. New this year was a demonstration area where 7 guild members of the three guilds showed attendees a variety of techniques. It turned out to be quite a popular activity.
The next Desert Guilds Quilt Show will be in March 2026 so watch for the date.
Below are the entries from the Coachella Valley Quilt Guild.
Showcase Entries
Miniatures Quilts
Small Art Quilts
Challenge -- Opposites Attract!
Top Three Challenge Quilts Receiving The Most Votes at February Guild Meeting!
CVQG members who decided to accept the Desert Guilds Quilt Show Challenge of Opposites Attract brought there finished quilts to our February meeting. Challenge Chair, Robert Tucker, along with Patricia Young and Cheryl Quesnell set up a display of the quilts so that members could vote on the quilt of their choice. This voting is done without knowing who the maker of the quilt is.
After tallying the votes the guild members who received the top three number of votes were:
Cheryl Quesnell -- Red -- a portrait of her daughter
Kathy Dunham -- Aquarius
Kelley Bachli -- Untitled
All of the entered challenges will be displayed at the Desert Guilds Quilt Show on Friday, March 1 and Saturday, March 2 -- 10am to 4pm.
Make a Block for the Guild's President!
CVQG President Tony DeZego has chosen a 9 patch block with a RED square in the center surrounded by other squares to give it a scrappy look. All the squares should be 2 1/2 inches with an unfinished block of 6 1/2 inches (finished block of 6 inches). For more details and to see how the seams should be pressed, click here.
SEW WHAT TABLE
SAT., MARCH 16
Doors opened at 9am and closed at noon.
Joslyn Senior Center
73750 Catalina Way
Palm Desert
Check out the fun!!!
The March 16 Sew What Table was a resounding success! I know, you've heard me rave about the great results before, and it just keeps getting better. Here are the highlights:
- We had a record number of people show up: 127 signed in.
- We banked our 2nd highest amount in at least 4 years.
- We left The Joslyn Center with 58 empty bins! That means that you, dear shoppers, went home with a lot of great stuff! That included everything from gorgeous fabrics to color-sorted bags of scraps; from quilting cotton to flannel and fleece to non-(traditional)-quilting-cotton.
- In addition, we emptied 6 boxes of notions, tools and patterns.
- AND we sold a sewing machine and a serger.
- New members joined the Guild and received $25 gift certificates, which they promptly spent!
To read Leslie Herbst full report on the Sew What Table event click here.
Next Sew What Table -- December 7!
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Philanthropy Quilt Drop Off
Saturday, May 11
Guild Meeting -- 9:30 -- 12
UCR Palm Desert Campus
Tuesday, April 16
10 -- 11 am
Josyln Senior Center
73750 Catalina Way
Palm Desert
Friday, April 26
10 - 11 am
Trish Tac Sew
73608 Highway 111, Suite 2
Palm Desert
Bring in your quilts and placemats (12" x 18") and burp cloths
and fidget quilts.
Pick up a burp cloth kit complete with instructions!
NEW Instructions on making story pillows. Go to the Philanthropy page.
(If you need another time, contact Treese Pflum, Philanthropy.)
For more information on Philanthropy Quilts click here.
Join Us For Block of the Month
Click here to go to the page to download the directions to do the Block of the Month. It is a great
way to collect blocks and try something different. Instructions for this block will be available at the February Meeting (2/10) and online and due at the March meeting.
See what members have been working on! Click here or go to PHOTOS -- Show and Share on the menu!
If you or any guild member you know have won a prize at a recent quilt show, we would love to acknowledge your accomplishment. Please send an email with a photo and details to info@cvquiltguild.org
