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• Summer Retreat

  • Start
    Friday, July 11, 2025
  • End
    Monday, July 14, 2025
  • Location
    Camp Lonestar

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  Summer Retreat

  July 11 - 14, 2025

  Camp Lone Star

  Registration Form: 

  Summer 2025 Retreat Registration.doc

  Summer 2025 Retreat Registration.pdf
  

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• Business Meeting

  • When
    Tuesday, July 15, 2025
  •  
    7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
  • Location
    Congregation Brith Shalom and Zoom
  • Registered
    2 registrants

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  QGGH Business Meeting

  July 15, 2025

  Cindy Lohbeck

  Diary of a Dyehard

  Meeting is In-Person and Zoom (Hybrid)

  Speaker joins us in-person

  

  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  Equal parts human rainbow and transformative educator, Cindy Lohbeck is 100% DYEHARD! Her colorful contributions to the quilting community include an extensive line of fabric dyeing kits and innovative techniques. She humorously brings a deep knowledge of color, dye and textiles along with and an array of unique tools, tips, and tricks to help quilters, textile artists and crafters share in the empowering experience of dyeing their own fabric. Having worked in textiles and fabric dyeing for over 40 years, Cindy’s mission is to pass her knowledge on to other artists, helping to make the world a more colorful place!  Her website is https://www.dyehardsstudio.com/

  In-Person and Zoom (Hybrid)

  Zoom Link is sent to members the day before the meeting.

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• Rad Ombres with Skin Tones as Additional Colorway

  • When
    Wednesday, July 16, 2025
  •  
    9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    Trini Mendenhall Community Center
  • Spaces left
    14

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  Rad Ombres with Skin Tones 

  as Additional Colorway

  Cindy Lohbeck

  
  

  July 16, 2025

  9AM - 4PM

  Trini Mendenhall Community Center

  1414 Wirt Rd/Houston, TX 77055

  Another in-demand Quilt Festival instructor! No more bending and twisting, dip dyeing, and hoping to achieve the gradual changes characteristic to ombre` fabrics. Learn this methodical method to the create subtle value shifts from light to dark, or explore the range of color created when blending two colors together. You choose your colors. And then create the perfect shades for any skin tone to use in your fabric portraits too! 

  Kit cost $100: Your kit will include 6 pieces of cotton "PFD" fabric, access to a rainbow of dyes, all fixatives and detergent, gloves and dust mask, mixing cups and spoons, measuring cups and squeeze bottles and a funnel, and a compact and portable Drip Rig of your very own! 

  Supplies to bring TBD

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• Day Meeting

  • When
    Friday, July 18, 2025
  •  
    10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    Congregation Brith Shalom and Zoom

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  QGGH Day Meeting

  Friday July 18, 2025

  Paula Golden

  Healthy Quilting for All Ages

  Meeting is In-Person and Zoom (Hybrid)

  Speaker joins us via Zoom

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• Charity Quilt Day

  • When
    Saturday, July 26, 2025
  •  
    9:00 AM - 2:30 PM
  • Location
    Trini Mendenhall Community Center

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  Charity Quilt Day!

  July 26, 2025

  Trini Mendenhall Community Center

  WHAT TO BRING:

  A plate or dish of food to share for potluck lunch (sandwiches, casserole, fruit, dessert, salad) A spill proof mug. Please bring your own beverages. Basic sewing equipment, thread, pins, scissors, rotary cutter, cutting mat, ruler, and possibly a cushion for your chair. Sewing machine, extension cord.

  Kits will be provided to piece a quilt top or you may do your own thing. If you don’t want to sew, you can help others by cutting, ironing, and cheerleading.

  The pattern we are using is Missouri Star’s Falling Charms. We will be using 5” fabric squares. I will be glad to take any charm packs you would like to donate for the cause.

  This is not a member only event. Bring a friend if you would like. We like a sewing community.

  Please register for this sew along so I will have enough kits for all attendees. You may sign up online or on my signup sheets which will be located at the Comforter table at the morning and evening meetings. You may also email or text me if you plan to come.

  Looking forward to a fun day of sewing together.

  
  

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• Day Meeting

  • When
    Friday, August 15, 2025
  •  
    10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    Congregation Brith Shalom and Zoom

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  QGGH Day Meeting

  Friday August 15, 2025

  Susie Parks

  Tube Ruler

  Joins us via Zoom

  
  

  In-Person and Zoom

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• Business Meeting

  • When
    Tuesday, August 19, 2025
  •  
    7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
  • Location
    Congregation Brith Shalom and Zoom
  • Registered
    2 registrants

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  QGGH Business Meeting

  August, 19 2025

  Kena Tangi Dorsey

  Big, Bold & Beautiful: Using African Prints in Quilts

  Meeting is In-Person and Zoom (Hybrid)

  Speaker joins us in-person

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  Kena Tangi Dorsey (Quilt Artist, Teacher, Designer, and Owner of Kena Quilt Studio), began quilting over 20 years ago while living in Harlem, NYC. Her artistic style is a blend of contemporary, modern improv and traditional quilt making.  However, it’s making portrait art quilts that really makes her heart sing!  She loves creating with big, bold and beautiful colorful fabrics and then free motion quilting on them. Her favorite textiles to work with are Indonesian Batiks, African Batiks and African wax print fabrics.  Early on in her quilting journey, Kena was influenced by many of the Harlem Renaissance artists such as Jacob Lawrence, Romare Bearden, Zora Neale Hurston, James Van Der Zee, and Langston Hughes, to name a few. Like them, you can see reflections of the African American experience in her work. 

  Teaching is another passion of hers. She teaches quilt workshops and lectures that take place in- person, on-demand, as well as online virtual classes. Over the last year, Kena has had some of her art quilts and African fabric quilts featured in festivals as well as published in the Spring, Summer and Winter 2023 and 2024 issues of Art Quilting Studio Magazine and Today’s Quilter Magazine. She is a Brand Ambassador for Benartex and also for the Grace Company for their longarm machines. When not making quilts, she teaches filmmaking and television production to high school students, and is also an adjunct professor at a local college. 

     Please visit her website at  https://kenaquiltstudio.com/

  In-Person and Zoom (Hybrid)

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• African Log Cabin

  • When
    Wednesday, August 20, 2025
  •  
    9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    Trini Mendenhall Community Center
  • Registered
    4 registrants

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  African Log Cabin

  Kena Tangi Dorsey

  August 20, 2025

  Trini Mendenhall Community Center

  1414 Wirt Rd/Houston, TX 77055

  9AM - 4PM

  
  

  

  Don’t miss this great introduction to using African wax print fabrics in quilts. Using an improv piecing method, students will learn how to make a crazy-pieced center block and then build larger strips around it to make wonky log cabin blocks. The blocks can be turned into a wall hanging, table runner, throw, or full-sized quilt.

  Please download the supply list.

  African Improv Log Cabin Materials _ Supplies List.pdf
  

  
  

  
  

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• Business Meeting

  • When
    Tuesday, September 16, 2025
  •  
    7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
  • Location
    Congregation Brith Shalom and Zoom
  • Registered
    1 registrant

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  QGGH Business Meeting

  September 16, 2025

  Rachel Derstine

  Meeting is In-Person and Zoom (Hybrid)

  Speaker joins us via Zoom

  Keep It Simple

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  Rachel Derstine is an award winning fiber artist living in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  Her works are featured in invitational and juried gallery shows and fine art/craft shows throughout the country.  She has had articles published in Machine Quilting Unlimited and Art Quilting Studio magazines.  Her work has been purchased and installed in institutions such as Epic Corporation in Madison, WI, and the Milton Hershey Medical Center in Hershey, PA.

  Having grown up in Japan, this influence is evident in her style and use of kimonos, silks, ikats, hand dyed and batik fabrics.  She includes traditional techniques of quilting as well as her own contemporary methods.  She does all her piecing, applique and couching on a domestic sewing machine and her quilting on a long arm quilting machine.  Her website is https://www.rachelderstinedesigns.com/

  In-Person and Zoom (Hybrid)

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• Strata Quilts

  • When
    Wednesday, September 17, 2025
  •  
    9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom Only
  • Registered
    3 registrants

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  Strata Quilts

  Rachel Derstine

  September 17, 2025

  Zoom Only

  9AM - 4PM

  Join us for a fun filled class in which we will create a quilt full of movement and texture.  We will learn curved piecing of fabrics for the background.  Easy quilting designs will be introduced.  Organza circles will be stitched to the surface with single or double needle applique.  Yarns will be couched to the surface for movement and definition. Screen printing will be demonstrated as an optional choice.  Facing of the quilt will also be demonstrated as an alternative to traditional binding.

  Optional Kits are available for purchase if you do not want to gather the fabrics and fibers yourself. Kits contain fabrics, yarn, and silk organza and are available at   Strata Quilt Class Kit | Etsy

  Strata Quilt - Supply List.pdf
  

  
  

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• Day Meeting

  • When
    Friday, September 19, 2025
  •  
    10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    Congregation Brith Shalom and Zoom

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  QGGH Day Meeting

  Friday September 19, 2025

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• Day Meeting

  • When
    Friday, October 17, 2025
  •  
    10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    Congregation Brith Shalom and Zoom

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  QGGH Day Meeting

  Friday October 17, 2025

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• Business Meeting

  • When
    Tuesday, October 21, 2025
  •  
    7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
  • Location
    Congregation Brith Shalom and Zoom
  • Registered
    1 registrant

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  QGGH Business Meeting

  October 21, 2025

  Laureen Smith

  Meeting is In-Person and Zoom (Hybrid)

  Speaker joins us via Zoom

  Deny Quilting Gravity

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  Laureen Smith is a recovering corporate director, who is embracing her creative drive by picking up her needles again. She has combined her formal engineering education with her artistic passion to create new quilt patterns.

  In addition to needlework, Laureen loves spending time with her family, playing with her two crazy dogs and demanding cat, gardening, hiking with friends, baking up a storm, reading historical fiction, and sipping a good wine. She is blessed to have a supportive husband, two amazing sons, a wonderful daughter, two adorable grandchildren.

  Laureen has been published in QuiltWorld, McCalls Quilting, Fons and Porter Love of Quilting, and Quick + Easy Quilts magazines.  She has great information on her website https://tourmalinethymequilts.com/#

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• Daisy with On Point Border

  • When
    Wednesday, October 22, 2025
  •  
    9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom Only

  Daisy with On Point Border

  Laureen Smith

  October 22, 2025

  Zoom Only

  
  

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• Business Meeting

  • When
    Tuesday, November 18, 2025
  •  
    7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
  • Location
    Congregation Brith Shalom and Zoom
  • Registered
    1 registrant

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  QGGH Business Meeting

  November 18, 2025

  Bethanne Nemesh

  Walk a Creative Path

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  Bethanne Nemesh is a classically trained artist with degrees in Art and Art Therapy...but more importantly...I've been mastering the art of free motion machine quilting for over 23 years! Her quilts have been extensively shown and have been honored with many major awards in all levels of national and international quilting. My deepest love though, is teaching. I have taught quilters all over the world to love quilting and find their own voice of creative expression through the stitched line. For more information visit https://whitearborquilting.com/

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• Texture from A to Zen

  • When
    Wednesday, November 19, 2025
  •  
    9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    Trini Mendenhall Community Center

  Texture from A to Zen

  Bethanne Nemesh

  November 19, 2025

  
  

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• Day Meeting

  • When
    Friday, November 21, 2025
  •  
    10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    Congregation Brith Shalom and Zoom

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  QGGH Day Meeting

  Friday November 21, 2025

  Laura Hartrich

  (Joins us via Zoom)

  Labels as a Love Language

  In-Person and Zoom

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• Holiday Party

  • When
    Tuesday, December 02, 2025
  •  
    6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
  • Location
    Trini Mendenhall Community Center

  Holiday Party

  December 2, 2025

  Trini Mendenhall Community Center

  1414 Wirt Rd

  Houston, TX 77055

  6:30 PM - 8:30 PM

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