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.
2025 Opportunity Quilt
Whimsical Leaves
Inspired by Pinterest Nancy Lou and Carole Gold's Quilted Art
Pieced and Appliquéd by Paul Reiss
Quilted by Treese Pflum
Winning ticket will be drawn Saturday, December 13, 2025.
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: 2025 membership is $35 and includes 2 books of raffle tickets for Whimsical Leaves. 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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Officers for 2025-2026
2025-2026 Officer Installation May 2025 Meeting done by Treese Pflum
Tony DeZego's President Quilt -- President from 2022 - 2024
July Meeting -- Saturday, July 12, 2025
Studio Tour --
Kathy Dunham
Lose a Den, Gain a Studio
ZOOM Only
Guests Free
10am - 12pm
Come see the updates on Kathy Dunham’s Studio (presented to us 5 years ago) with all the wonderful changes and additions that she has made to her “creative”
space.
July Workshop --Two Dates Below
Scrappy -- It's a Cinch
Free Zoom Workshop
Sunday, July 13
9:30am -- 2:00pm
AND/OR
Wednesday, July 16
12:00pm -- 4:00pm
Here's our chance to use our motivation that was shared with us from our Featured Speaker in May, Pat Speth, as well as our scraps to create some beautiful Scrappy Blocks. During this ZOOM Sit and Sew we’ll have the chance to share with each other our secrets to organizing, cutting and sewing our ever-growing scrap stash. See Supply List link below to a collection of curated quilt blocks and instructions from Pat Speth’s should you wish to use. For more blockoptions: https://www.facebook.com/groups/patspeth or https://patspeth.com. You are welcome to bring to the Sit and Sew whatever scrappy project you wish to work on. Come Join us!!
Bus Trip to Hoffman's Fabric
Members' entries
Riverside County Date Festival -- Feb 13 to Mar 2
Lunch Bunch -- Friendship Group
For years, Jer Williams has been making dog beds stuffed with scraps collected by members of The Lunch Bunch Friendship Group. Borrowing an idea from Needles & Pins, the 20 or so Lunch Bunch members present decided to set aside one weekly session for a group dogbed production day. 11 beds were completed that morning, and Jer finished another 10 over the following 2 weeks. On 2/13, 4 of us delivered these, plus some cat privacy curtains and other supplies to the Palm Springs Animal Shelter, the area's only public no-kill shelter, where we got heartfelt thanks, and a behind-the-scenes tour of the shelter. Many agreed to repeat this day periodically.
Ronald McDonald Camp with Quilting For Good Times -- La Quinta
A warm welcome to our new families at Family Camp! A huge thank you to Quilters for Good Times for your endless love and support—each family leaves with a beautiful quilt, a symbol of comfort and care. We’re beyond grateful to have you with us this weekend and hope to see you again soon! 💖
END OF THE YEAR REPORT 2024
BY ROBERT TUCKER -- GUILD HISTORIAN
Want to read what the guild has been up to in 2024? Click here or go to Year In Review button in the menu.
Sew What Table
Saturday, May 31
What a wonderful event we had this past Saturday. For the third time our Quilt Guild and the Knitting Guild held a joint event! We were so happy to welcome back several of our members who had been on the injured/reserved list last time. We are sad that some of our regular volunteers are recuperating from ailments.
With the help of our 20 volunteers, we opened the doors at 9:00 a.m. Our greeters, Kathy Pratt, and Joan Kiening welcomed 71 people (including our 20 helpers). Our shoppers donated canned goods and $109.75 in donations for the Joslyn Center.
The crew that staffed the tables: Marcia Ulrich, Lizette Dalquie, Cindy Snyder, Mimi Rivera, her son Josh, Dolores Abelardo, Holli Hainer, Linda Bucknam, Rhonda Gowdy, Leslie Herbst, and Cathleen Jolley, sold fabric, notions, books, patterns, and machines. Actual sales were $2,439.75. The net sales of $1,801.75 were after volunteer discounts, a donation, new member discounts, and door prizes gift certificates which totaled $638.00. (For those who are curious, before gift certificates and discounts: Fabric $1532.25, Notions $716.75, Books $30.75, and Machines $160.00)
Our Check-Out team: Janna Calkins, Pat Siegel, Annie Houston, Judy Ferraris, Natalie Shonerd, and Cheryl Taylor, tallied and collected for purchases, and processed gift certificates and volunteer discounts.
Our sincere thanks to Jack and Kim Johnson and their daughter Jacklyn for helping us load, and unload, the truck on Friday and Saturday.
Alex, Rodney, and Art from the Joslyn were wonderful as always; setting up tables and accommodating last-minute changes and even helping to unload (and load) the truck!
As you know, A Sew What Table has many people behind the scenes, rolling, tying, pricing, sorting, and collecting donations. Special thanks to Kim, JudyQ, Tami, Jackie, Jer, and Rose!
All the volunteers were invited to meet at Roc’s Firehouse after the event for libations, food, a guessing game, and great fellowship. Jacklyn won a 20% discount for the next Sew What Table because she was the Best Guesser (she guessed closest to the $1801.75)!
Marcia and I thank all of you. If I missed anyone's name, I apologize.
The next Sew What Table will be on December 6. In addition to the Sew What Table Volunteers, Membership, Philanthropy, Opportunity Quilt and the Knitting Guild will be there. Stay tuned for more information.
Friendship Groups
There are a number of Friendship Groups that are associated with the guild that meet on a regular basis. If you are interested in learning more click here.
Interested in learning more in the area of quilting?
Check out our upcoming classes by going to Programs 2025
Looking for quilt shows in the Southern California area?
WANTED
Baby Quilts for first time military moms.
Please drop off at Philanthropy at the locations below.
Thanks.
Philanthropy Quilt Drop Off
Joslyn Senior Center
Tuesdays
10am - 12pm
Sew What Table
Joslyn Center
Saturday, May 31, 2025
9am -12pm
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 Hilda Koning-Bastiaan -- hildakb@yahoo.com)
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 online and due at the September meeting.
See what members have been working on! Click here or go to PHOTOS -- Show and Share on the menu!
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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
