Hammersmith Quilters Guild

August Executive Board Meeting
2025-08-20 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom
The Guild’s Executive Board meets monthly to discuss Guild business. All members are invited. If the meeting is by zoom, contact any member of the executive board for the link.

Light and Movement - NEQM
2025-08-12 - 2025-09-06 | New England Quilt Museum, 18 Shattuck St, Lowell, MA, 01852, United States
From the New England Quilt Museum Website

“Works by Marianne R. Williamson
August 12 to September 6, 2025
“Life is always changing in one way or another, and the world around me is always moving, swaying in the breeze, or changed by light.” — Marianne R. Williamson
Light and movement have been recurring themes in Williamson’s work for nearly 45 years since she embraced textiles as her artistic medium. A classical education in art from L’Ecole des Beaux Arts in Geneva, Switzerland provided a solid foundation for the painterly qualities of her distinctive scenes of sunlit gardens, windswept landscapes, ripples on water and ocean waves.
Williamson’s work reflects a life dedicated to art and a mastery of diverse fiber art techniques. She ice dyes her cottons and silks, and applies hand-painted details, raw edge appliqué, layered textiles and free motion quilting. When viewed at a distance, Williamson’s art quilts are easily mistaken for paintings, a characteristic that has earned her national recognition, numerous awards and countless admirers.”

NEQM: The Best of the Region’s Quilt Guilds
2025-08-12 - 2025-09-06 | New England Quilt Museum, 18 Shattuck St, Lowell, MA, 01852, United States
As a reminder, our guild’s member submission to this exhibition is Gail Dwyer’s quilt. Go see her quilt and other guilds quilts this summer.

Sit N Sew
2025-08-06 19:00 - 20:30 UTC, 2025-07-09 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Saugus Senior Center, 466 Central St, Saugus, MA, 01906, United States
An informal get together to socialize and do some light sewing, sandwiching quilts, etc.

NEQM: Pat Pauly -- Unfolding Years
2025-06-24 - 2025-09-20 | New England Quilt Museum, 18 Shattuck St, Lowell, MA, 01852, United States
From the NEQM website: “The NEQM is pleased to feature works by Pat Pauly, whose fiber art exudes a graphic, color-saturated palette using her own hand printed fabric. Featured in major exhibitions and found internationally in public and private collections, Pauly’s work is distinctive for its strong abstraction of natural forms and complex color combinations. With a degree in art and graduate studies in design and fine art, Pauly embraced fiber art as her medium in the early 1980s ‘as the perfect amalgam of construction, painting and printmaking.’ ”

Saturday, August 23, 2025 at 11 AM
Join us in welcoming Pat Pauly to the NEQM for an artist’s talk in her exhibition, Unfolding Years.

June 2025 Executive Board Meeting
2025-06-18 18:30 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | Zoom

June 2025 General Membership Meeting
2025-06-04 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Saugus Senior Center, 466 Central St, Saugus, MA, 01906, United States
Annual Ice Cream Social
Show & Tell: Yes
Free Table: Yes
Creative Quilt Works:TBD
Fat Quarter (FQ) Drawing: Bring a fat quarter in the designated color or theme. For each FQ you bring, your name goes into a drawing. You could win a whole bundle of fat quarters! The color for is floral. Remember: a fat quarter of fabric measures 18” x 22”.
3/$1 Raffle: Buy 3 tickets for $1 and you are entered into a raffle for notions or other quilting things. The more tickets you buy, the more chances to win!
Name Badge: Wear your Guild name badge and enter a drawing for a prize. This is to encourage everyone to wear their name badge so we get to know who you are! New members received a printout of the directions when you joined as part of your tote bag welcome pack; the directions can also be found on our website www.hqgsaugus.org under Member Information.
All drawings and raffles are optional; you do not need to participate at all, or you can pick the ones that interest you!

May 2025 Executive Board Meeting
2025-05-21 18:30 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | Zoom

May 2025 General Membership Meeting
2025-05-07 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Saugus Senior Center, 466 Central St, Saugus, MA, 01906, United States
Annual Business meeting — Officer elections
Show & Tell: Yes
Free Table: Yes
Creative Quilt Works: TBD
Fat Quarter (FQ) Drawing: Bring a fat quarter in the designated color or theme. For each FQ you bring, your name goes into a drawing. You could win a whole bundle of fat quarters! The color for is Novelty prints. Remember: a fat quarter of fabric measures 18” x 22”.
3/$1 Raffle: Buy 3 tickets for $1 and you are entered into a raffle for notions or other quilting things. The more tickets you buy, the more chances to win!
Name Badge: Wear your Guild name badge and enter a drawing for a prize. This is to encourage everyone to wear their name badge so we get to know who you are! New members received a printout of the directions when you joined as part of your tote bag welcome pack; the directions can also be found on our website www.hqgsaugus.org under Member Information.
All drawings and raffles are optional; you do not need to participate at all, or you can pick the ones that interest you!

NEQM: Quilts Japan - The 17th Quilt Nihon Exhibition
2025-05-06 - 2025-08-09 | New England Quilt Museum, 18 Shattuck St, Lowell, MA, 01852, United States
From the NEQM Website: “The NEQM proudly presents an exhibition of award-winning quilts and textile arts from some of world’s most accomplished artists in Quilts Japan: The 17th Quilt Nihon.
For more than a decade, the New England Quilt Museum has been the exclusive Northeast host for this celebrated exhibition, which premieres at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum before traveling internationally. It features some of the most extraordinary and innovative works from the biennial competition of the Japanese Handicraft Instructors’ Association (JHIA), which sponsors the largest international quilt contest in Japan and one of the most prestigious in the world. This year’s Quilt Nihon Exhibition features 53 award-winning and notable works, including 18 entries from the competition’s newest category–miniature quilts.”

Gallery Talk: Mary Kerr on "Make-Do Quilts"
2025-05-03 11:00 - 12:30 (America/New_York) | New England Quilt Museum, 18 Shattuck St, Lowell, MA, 01852, United States
The New England Quilt Museum is welcoming guest speaker Mary Kerr for a gallery talk in her exhibition, which features her vintage collection of “Make-Do” quilts and the contemporary versions they inspired her to create.
This public program is free to members and included in the price of admission for nonmembers.

Proper Bostonian Quilters Quilt Show
2025-04-25 - 2025-04-26 | Daughters of St Paul, 50 St Paul Avenue, Jamaica Plains, MA, United States
The Proper Bostonian Quilters invited out members to attend their quilt show on April 25 and 26. Their invitation and raffle quilt are depicted in the photos. Admission fee is $10.

April 2025 Executive Board Meeting
2025-04-16 18:30 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | Zoom

Gallery Talk: “Showing Off”
2025-04-12 11:00 - 12:30 (America/New_York) | New England Quilt Museum, 18 Shattuck St, Lowell, MA, 01852, United States
The New England Quilt Museum (NEQM) Collections Manager Laura Lane will offer a gallery talk in the exhibition, Showing Off: Selections from the Permanent Collection. Some of the most elaborately pieced and embroidered masterpieces from our renowned quilt collection will be on view in the NEQM’s Nancy Donahue Gallery.
This public program is free to members and included in the price of admission for nonmembers.

A SAQA and Johns Hopkins Wavelengths Global Exhibition
2025-04-05 - 2025-05-03 | New England Quilt Museum, 18 Shattuck St, Lowell, MA, 01852, United States
The New England Quilting Museum has a textile exhibition called the Fierce Planets which is a collaboration between Studio Art Quilt Associates and the Johns Hopkins WavelengthsTM public research communication and outreach program. The exhibition is composed of 42 works of art which masterfully explore and capture the science, the beauty, and the power of planetary forces and phenomena. To create their works, fiber artists from eleven countries on six continents drew inspiration from Bloomberg Distinguished Professor Dr. Sabine Stanley’s work in planetary science at Johns Hopkins University, the Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), and NASA, as well as her recent book, What’s Hidden Inside Planets?

April 2025 General Membership Meeting
2025-04-02 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Saugus Senior Center, 466 Central St, Saugus, MA, 01906, United States
Speaker: Sandra Crownauer-Mitra
Incorporating Redwork into Quilting
Show & Tell: No
Free Table: Yes
Creative Quilt Works: TBD
Fat Quarter (FQ) Drawing: Bring a fat quarter in the designated color or theme. For each FQ you bring, your name goes into a drawing. You could win a whole bundle of fat quarters! The color for is Plaid. Remember: a fat quarter of fabric measures 18” x 22”.
3/$1 Raffle: Buy 3 tickets for $1 and you are entered into a raffle for notions or other quilting things. The more tickets you buy, the more chances to win!
Name Badge: Wear your Guild name badge and enter a drawing for a prize. This is to encourage everyone to wear their name badge so we get to know who you are! New members received a printout of the directions when you joined as part of your tote bag welcome pack; the directions can also be found on our website www.hqgsaugus.org under Member Information.
All drawings and raffles are optional; you do not need to participate at all, or you can pick the ones that interest you!

Workshop - Red Work
2025-04-02 15:30 - 18:30 (America/New_York) | Saugus Senior Center, 466 Central St, Saugus, MA, 01906, United States
Sandra Crownauer-Mitra, whose website is https://www.quiltsbysandra.com/, is conducting a workshop on incorporating red work into quilts.

Guild Quilt Retreat
2025-03-20 - 2025-03-23 | Best Western Plus, 580 US Highway 1 Bypass Interstate, Portsmouth Traffic Cir,, Portsmouth, NH, 03801, United States
We have found a great location at the Best Western Plus in Portsmouth, NH (at the traffic circle) with the Roundabout Diner attached to the hotel. We are going back to 4 days and 3 nights, March 20-23, 2025 (Thursday through Sunday). The price includes 4 full days of sewing in the ballroom, 3-nights hotel and 3 buffet breakfasts provided by the fabulous Roundabout Diner. Complementary coffee and tea are available all day in the hotel lobby.
There are lots of quilt shops and great restaurants in the Portsmouth area and Marden’s in Maine is a short drive away.
We have some great activities planned, like a mystery quilt, Left-Right-Center (round up those fat quarters), games, show and tell and maybe a surprise or two.
The cost is $350.00 per person for a double room and $510.00 per person for a single room

March 2025 Executive Board Meeting
2025-03-19 18:15 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | Zoom

A SAQA and Johns Hopkins Wavelengths Global Exhibition and Program
2025-03-15 11:00 - 12:30 (America/New_York) | New England Quilt Museum, 18 Shattuck St, Lowell, MA, 01852, United States
“The NEQM welcomes Dr. Sabine Stanley, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor in Planetary Science at Johns Hopkins University.
With wit and enthusiasm, Dr. Stanley sheds light on the mysteries of our beautiful solar system and scientific discoveries that inspired 42 works by international fiber artists featured in Fierce Planets. This public program is free to members and included with admission for nonmembers.” from NEQM newsletter to member guild representatives.

March 2025 General Membership Meeting
2025-03-05 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Saugus Senior Center, 466 Central St, Saugus, MA, 01906, United States
Member to Member sharing featuring Betty Snell-Fraiser (Red Work), Bo Shilkey (Fabric Sculpture), Dale De Luca (Paper Piecing), Hildy Curran (Shibori tie dye)
Show & Tell: Yes
Free Table: Yes
Creative Quilt Works: TBD
Fat Quarter (FQ) Drawing: Bring a fat quarter in the designated color or theme. For each FQ you bring, your name goes into a drawing. You could win a whole bundle of fat quarters! The color for is Green. Remember: a fat quarter of fabric measures 18” x 22”.
3/$1 Raffle: Buy 3 tickets for $1 and you are entered into a raffle for notions or other quilting things. The more tickets you buy, the more chances to win!
Name Badge: Wear your Guild name badge and enter a drawing for a prize. This is to encourage everyone to wear their name badge so we get to know who you are! New members received a printout of the directions when you joined as part of your tote bag welcome pack; the directions can also be found on our website www.hqgsaugus.org under Member Information.
All drawings and raffles are optional; you do not need to participate at all, or you can pick the ones that interest you!

Workshop - Collage Quilting
2025-03-05 15:15 - 17:15 (America/New_York) | Saugus Senior Center, 466 Central St, Saugus, MA, 01906, United States
On March 5th, at 3:15 p.m. we will have a workshop in the Senior Center taught by Nancy where she will show us how to make one of her wonderful small wall hangings. The pattern, Steam A Seam and fabric are provided. Please bring a pair of Karen Kay Buckley scissors and a fusing mat if you have them. At 5:30 we will eat and then go to our meeting. One stop does it all!! The cost for the workshop is $25. Please contact Joyce Rodenhiser at albearrod@aol.com to sign up for the workshop. The picture below shows the small wall hanging that attendees will make.

February 2025 Executive Board Meeting
2025-02-19 18:30 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | Zoom

February 2025 General Membership Meeting
2025-02-05 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Zoom
This will be a Zoom meeting. The link will be sent to members one half hour before the meeting begins.
Speaker: Ann Lauer, Update on the African Charity Project
Show & Tell: No
Free Table: No
Creative Quilt Works: TBD
Fat Quarter (FQ) Drawing: No
3/$1 Raffle: No

January 2025 Executive Board Meeting
2025-01-15 18:30 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | Zoom

January 2025 General Membership Meeting
2025-01-08 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Saugus Senior Center, 466 Central St, Saugus, MA, 01906, United States
Nancy Sandreuter, Trunk Show
Show & Tell: Yes
Free Table: Yes
Creative Quilt Works: Fibonacci Quilt
Fat Quarter (FQ) Drawing: Bring a fat quarter in the designated color or theme. For each FQ you bring, your name goes into a drawing. You could win a whole bundle of fat quarters! The color for is batiks. Remember: a fat quarter of fabric measures 18” x 22”.
3/$1 Raffle: Buy 3 tickets for $1 and you are entered into a raffle for notions or other quilting things. The more tickets you buy, the more chances to win!
Name Badge: Wear your Guild name badge and enter a drawing for a prize. This is to encourage everyone to wear their name badge so we get to know who you are! New members received a printout of the directions when you joined as part of your tote bag welcome pack; the directions can also be found on our website www.hqgsaugus.org under Member Information.
All drawings and raffles are optional; you do not need to participate at all, or you can pick the ones that interest you!

Workshop - Totebag
2025-01-08 15:30 - 18:30 (America/New_York) | Saugus Senior Center, 466 Central St, Saugus, MA, 01906, United States
Our own member, Gail Dwyer, is offering a workshop on making a tote bag. The workshop is limited to 11 people.
You will love this easy tote bag! It works up quickly and it’s a great way to show off some of your favorite pieces.
You will use it all the time to replace the ugly brown paper bags in the stores now, and you will get lots of compliments!
You will need:
16 X 32” Fabulous fabric
16 X 32”. Coordinate fabric (for the lining)
16 X 32” Ugly light fabric or muslin (for the inside you will
Never see after the bag is finished)
2 – 17 X 5” coordinate fabric (for handles)
80/20 Batting 17 X 36 (or larger)
Sewing machine with regular sewing foot and embroidery/darning foot
Coordinating threads (or light and dark gray)
Pins
Sharp scissors
Ruler
Sharpie
Extension cords

December 2024 Executive Board Meeting
2024-12-18 18:30 - 19:30 UTC | Zoom

December 2024 General Membership Meeting
2024-12-04 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Saugus Senior Center, 466 Central St, Saugus, MA, 01906, United States
This is our Holiday potluck meeting.
Show & Tell: Yes
Free Table: Yes
Creative Quilt Works: TBD
Fat Quarter (FQ) Drawing: Bring a fat quarter in the designated color or theme. For each FQ you bring, your name goes into a drawing. You could win a whole bundle of fat quarters! The color for is white on white. Remember: a fat quarter of fabric measures 18” x 22”.
3/$1 Raffle: Buy 3 tickets for $1 and you are entered into a raffle for notions or other quilting things. The more tickets you buy, the more chances to win!
Name Badge: Wear your Guild name badge and enter a drawing for a prize. This is to encourage everyone to wear their name badge so we get to know who you are! New members received a printout of the directions when you joined as part of your tote bag welcome pack; the directions can also be found on our website www.hqgsaugus.org under Member Information.
All drawings and raffles are optional; you do not need to participate at all, or you can pick the ones that interest you!
