Programs 2025
The Coachella Valley Quilt Guild presents excellent speakers, including nationally known teachers and lecturers, that provide insight to a wide variety of topics related to quilting, from traditional to modern, from piecing techniques to design embellishments. The lecture presentations are given immediately after our monthly Saturday membership meetings, and classes are usually held on the Sunday following the meeting at the same facility or on Zoom.
Classes can fill up fast, so if you see one that interests you click the PayPal button to sign up or contact the Programs VP, Judy Block and Cheryl Taylor, at programscvqg@gmail.com
Meetings of the Coachella Valley Quilt Guild will be hybrid meetings -- in person at University of Riverside, Palm Desert Campus and on Zoom -- January through May and September through November. June, July and August will be Zoom only. December is our Holiday Luncheon.
Classes will either be in person or Zoom but not hybrid. Check below for more information.
May Meeting -- Saturday, May 10, 2025
Pat Speth
Five Inch is a Cinch -- How Nickel Quilts Are Created
Hybrid Meeting -- Speaker on Zoom
Meeting starts at 10:00am
Program starts at 11:00am
Pat Speth began quilting in 1988 when she purchased a wool quilt batting from her Grandmother's auction. "I checked out a stack of quilt books from the library and fell in love with the patterns and designs, I knew I could not stop with just one quilt."
Pat started working with 5 inch squares as a basis for her quiltmaking in 1993 after attending her first retreat. Pat started on the book, Nickel Quilts in 1998 and was able to have it ready for the publishers in June 2001.
Pat's trunk show is sure to get quilters fired up about using 5" squares of fabric and many of the ideas can also be adapted for using other precuts; such as 2 1/2" strips and layer cakes. She'll show a great assortment of quilts from her collection and will focus on the blocks in the quilts and the simple components they are made from.
Quilts for all skill levels will be shown. One of her favorite things to do is to design a quilt using simple piecing and have the result look like a much more intricate quilt!
May 10 --Pat Speth Lecture guest Fee
$10.00
- Available
- Ships within 1-3 days
June Meeting -- Saturday, June 14, 2025
Trudy Cleveland
How to Photograph Your Quilts
ZOOM Meeting only
Meeting starts at 10:00am
Program starts at 11:00am
Trudy is both a professional quilter and photographer. She has been sewing since she was 12 years old, and the need to photograph her customer's quilts led her to perfecting the art of photographing quilts.
In her presentation Trudy will share tips and techniques that she has learned on how to photograph your quilts with your smartphone. This is an informative
program full of useful information you can start using immediately...as you unleash the creative features of your smartphone...and start showcasing your quilts in photographs.
June Workshop -- Sunday, June 15, 2025
Trudy Cleveland
Shoot Your Quilt: How To Photograph Your Quilts Using Your Smartphone
ZOOM Class
9am -- 3:30pm
Instruction will be given on taking photographs with smartphone including-- iPhone and Android, editing with Smartphone, and selecting Best images.
We will adjust then crop, exposure, contrast, saturation and brilliance using your Smartphone.
At the completion of workshop you will be able to shoot an image and make adjustments to make the image POP!
Prepare to have fun and learn the skill of photographing your quilt.
More of a "Funshop" than a Workshop".
June 15 Class Fee Members -- Trudy Cleveland
$45.00
- Available
- Ships within 1-3 days
June 15 Class Fee Non-Members -- Trudy Cleveland
$55.00
- Available
- Ships within 1-3 days
July Meeting -- Saturday, July 12, 2025
Studio Tour
ZOOM Only
Guests Free
10am - 12pm
TBD -- Looking for a Member Volunteer to share their Studio in a PowerPoint Presentation.
Please contact JudyQ Block or Cheryl Taylor.
August Meeting -- Saturday, August 9, 2025
Studio Tour
ZOOM Only
Guests Free
10am - 12pm
Our Trio of Studios --
Mini, Midi and Maxi
Join Stephanie Beasley, Jackie Mason, and Harriette Griffeth as they share their varied studios.
Three of our very creative Guild Members introduce us to their Creative Spaces. Stephanie Beasley walks us through her MINI studio.. packs a lot, into small spaces. Jackie Mason invites us into her MIDI studio.. one special room in her home that allows her to create and be inspired. Hariette Griffeth then gives us a grand view of her “entire” home turned into her Deva Den.. space to create, share with friends. An envy to us all!
September Meeting -- Saturday, Sept. 13, 2025
Rebecca Blosser
Changing the Baby (Quilts) in the 20th CenturyReview of a New Genre of Quilts -- How and Why They Evolved
Hybrid Meeting -- Speaker In-Person
Meeting starts at 10:00am
Program starts at 11:00am
Many of us know Rebecca as our former fellow member of CVQG. Today Rebecca comes to us from Banning, CA as an AQS Trained Quilt Appraiser, Board Member of CHQP (CA Heritage Quilt Project), and Lecturer. Rebecca has decades of experience and knowledge on historical facts and examples of quilts and fabrics that tell so much of our past through our passion.. QUILTING.
Rebecca’s lecture will touch on how in the beginning of the 20th Century many social, economic and manufacturing changes led to the birth of a new genre of quilts,
Baby Quilts. We will explore the evolution from the crib quilts of the 19th century to the Baby Quilts as we know them today. She will have examples from her collection of 400+ baby quilts
to show the changes spanning the century