July 15, 2026 - 9:30 AM

Guest Speaker: Karen Bolan

Title: Collaboration is Fun

Website: www.KarenBolan.com or Instagram at www.instagram.com/karen.bolan.

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For those new to collaboration and seasoned collaborators alike, sit back and enjoy this candid discussion. View over 25 stunning collaborative quilts while learning tips for successfully designing, managing, and participating in collaborative quilting projects. Get ready for a discussion of different kinds of collaborative quilt projects, dealing with difficult situations, and how collaborative quilting relates to life beyond quilting.

Karen Bolan is a quilter in Santa Rosa, California. Drawn to the layers of design and expression possible in quilting, she loves the learning that comes from experimenting. She endeavors to find efficiencies in process and material use. Her designs are out of the box, and integrate a love of geometry, experimentation, interconnection, depth, and texture. Her work has been featured in numerous magazines including recent features in the QuiltCon Magazine, Make Modern, and Quilts Japan, and her quilts have been exhibited at local and international shows including Pacific International Quilt Festival, QuiltCon, and the deYoung Museum. You can learn more about Karen’s work by visiting her website at www.KarenBolan.com or Instagram at www.instagram.com/karen.bolan.

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August 19, 2026 - 7:00 PM

Event: Presidents Choice - Guest Speaker Sandi daRoza

Title: Come See What I See: A Creative Maker’s Vision

Website: https://www.rogerslanestudios.com/

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Sandy is a guild past PQG president. She has been moving forward in her vision as quilter and as a speaker presenter. Most recently presented / instructed  an improv project at an ‘Empty Spools’ Retreat. 

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September 16, 2026

Event: Annual PQG Birthday Party, Fall Challenge and Quilter of the Year

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October 21,2026
Patti Klimek 
Lecture - Crazy Quilts through the Ages

Website: https://www.pattiehandquilts.net/

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November 2027

Guest Speaker: Brando Wulff via Zoom

Title: Trunk Show to Biscotti

Website: https://bwulffandco.com/

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Brandon Wulff grew up in a fiber focused family. He started quilting as a way to support his sister who opened a fabric store. He took off from there and has become a talented, sought after quilter. He is also a life coach. As a disabled person ( autism ), he is a champion for disabled people in the arts and in challenging the status quo.

He will talk on his evolution of an artist and his speciality, the biscotti quilt.

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January 20, 2027

Guest Speaker: Jamie Davis 

Title: TBA

Website: https://www.loopytulips.com/

 

Jamie Davis started out as a scientist in college then taught herself quilting. She took off and discovered she loved dissecting quilts and figuring out what works and what doesn’t.

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February 17, 2027

Guest Speaker: Kim Brownell

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Website: https://thewackydoodlequilter.com/

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Kim Brownell is on a quilting journey with curiosity, chaos and fun. She loves bright colors and mixing and matching fabrics and textures. Her philosophy? Fiber art should be as joyful and surprising as finding a forgotten chocolate bar in your sewing kit.

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​March 17, 2027
Catherine Sherman
Lecture - Color and Pattern Across Period and Place

Website: https://www.piecemovement.net/

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May 19, 2027
Honor our own … TBA

June 16, 2027
Kristin Echols
Lecture and Workshop- Seminole Patchwork 

Website: https://kristinlaura.com/

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July 21, 2027
Linda Wagner
Lecture: Edgy ( New ways of doing borders)

Website: https://www.addquilter.com/

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Updated: 7/18/2026

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