General Meetings

October 15, 2025 - 7:00 PM

Guest Speaker: Tina Curran

Title: My Excellent Adventure as a Quilter

November 19, 2025 - 9:30 AM

Guest Speaker: Heather Kojan

Title: Quilt Remix:

"Quilt Remix: UFO's, Orphan Blocks and What Was I Thinking??!! Fresh Ideas for Stale Projects". Healther will speak via Zoom to the Garden Center

January 21, 2026 - 9:30 AM

Guest Speaker: Polly Matsuoka

Title: "Turning Color and Cloth Into Wonder: My Art Quilting Journey"

February 18, 2026 - 7:00 PM

Member Speaker: Gale Green

Title: "I'm Just A Regula Quilta!"

March 18, 2026 - 9:30 AM

Guest Speaker: Michelle Trimble

Title: "Adventures in Improv"

Website: https://quiltingchemistry.com/

Michelle Trimble is a quilter, pattern designer, and educator based in San Francisco with 20 years of teaching experience, including teaching at regional and national conventions. She enjoys experimenting with new techniques, dramatic layouts with bold saturated colors, and adding texture to her quilts with free motion quilting. Her work has been featured in magazines and hung at local and international quilt shows including Houston International Quilt Festival and QuiltCon. You can find out more about her on her website: quiltingchemistry.com. In Adventures in Improv, Michelle shares her personal journey of discovering the joy and freedom of piecing without a pattern. She’ll walk you through her creative process, from the first hesitant stitches to the bold quilts incorporating swaths of negative space that followed. This lecture is all about exploration, choosing which rules to embrace, and finding fun in the unexpected twists of improv quilting.

April 15, 2026 - 7:00 PM

Annual Spring Challenge & New Member Tea

May 20, 2026 - 9:30 AM

Guest Speaker: Cassandra Beaver

Title: Aurifilosophy

Website:

"From the thread makers of Aurifil… a program designed to unlock the mystery of thread, educate the masses, and help all users achieve brilliant results! Cassandra, a certified Aurifilosopher, will present a fun and informative presentation and trunk show of her award-winning quilts. She will then take you behind the scenes to see how she created the Endangered Species Block of the Month designs to accompany the Aurifil 2021 Color Builder Collections. Attendees will come away with an increased knowledge of thread, tools, uses, tips, and some exclusive Aurifil swag!"

June 17, 2026 - 7:00 PM

Guest Speakers: PQG Affiliates

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.

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.

August 19, 2026

Event: Presidents Choice

September 16, 2026

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

Updated: 09/19/2025