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!
June Meeting -- Saturday, June 8, 2024
Brandy Maslowski
Your Mind Matters
Zoom Meeting only
Meeting starts at 10:00am
Program starts at 11:00am
Brandy Maslowski is a quiltmaker and textile artist who travels the world as a teacher, speaker, author and NACQJ certified quilt judge. Her lecture and trunk show will feature quilts, textile art and processes that tell the story of Brandy's path from Firefighter to Quilt Professional. With consistent practices in self-care, learning, and creativity to live happy rather than searching for happiness, she discovered along the way that bringing joy to others through her podcasts, lectures, teaching and travel fills her cup every day.
Brandy is the founder and host of the Quilter on Fire podcast and can be found everywhere online as the Quilter on Fire.
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, May 21
10 -- 11 am
Josyln Senior Center
73750 Catalina Way
Palm Desert
Thursday, May 16
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
