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• Day Meeting

  • When
    Friday, May 16, 2025
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    10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    Congregation Brith Shalom

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  QGGH Day Meeting

  Friday May 16, 2025

  Rob Appell

  Meeting is In-Person and Zoom (Hybrid)

  Speaker joins us via Zoom

  Quilts from the Sea and Beyond

  (If you are not a member and would like a link to the meeting, please register for the event and a link will be sent the day before the meeting.)

  Our entertaining speaker, Rob Appell, will be discussing Quilts from the Sea and Beyond. Rob regularly participates with Stitchin’ Heaven, out in Quitman, Texas.

  Rob has been around quilting his whole life, as his mother owned a quilt shop. He has his own fabric line that is bright and bold, and he is a regular teacher of several techniques and improv quilting.

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• Business Meeting

  • When
    Tuesday, May 20, 2025
  •  
    7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
  • Location
    Congregation Brith Shalom and Zoom
  • Registered
    4 registrants

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  QGGH Business Meeting

  May 20, 2025

  Karen Stone

  A Quilter's Evolution

  Meeting is In-Person and Zoom (Hybrid)

  Speaker joins us in-person

  
  

  A quilter since 1986, Karen’s inspiration manifests equally of innovation and tradition. She received the Master of Innovative Artistry award at IQF in 2009, and People’s Choice at Quilt National ’95, and is now part of the QN collection at the International Quilt Museum. Her pieces have won Best of Show in Dallas in 2020, juried into Quilts=Art=Quilts 2022, and won awards in QuiltCon 2022 & 2023, IQF and AQS shows, and at Quilt National ’23. Having enjoyed success in design, publication, she continues to teach and judge nationally, and reinvent herself in new work. Karen holds degrees in Piano from Baylor and Indiana Universities, has two beautiful daughters, three exemplary cats, and rides her bike from historic Deep Ellum in Dallas, TX.  Her website is https://karenkstonequilts.com/

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• Little Things That Count

  • When
    Wednesday, May 21, 2025
  •  
    9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    Trini Mendenhall Community Center
  • Registered
    23 registrants

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  Little Things That Count

  Karen Stone

  May 21, 2025

  9AM - 4PM

  Trini Mendenhall Community Center

  1414 Wirt Rd, Houston TX 77055

  
  

  
  

  The devil is in the details! But the joy is there too- the closer someone gets to your quilt, the more there should be for them to appreciate. This class includes a variety of detail techniques that should delight both the viewer and the quilter every time.

  Supply List: $25 Kit Fee required (purchase from instructor).  

  Karen K Stone Workshop Supply List.pdf
  

  
  

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• Business Meeting

  • When
    Tuesday, June 17, 2025
  •  
    7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
  • Location
    Congregation Brith Shalom and Zoom
  • Registered
    2 registrants

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  QGGH Business Meeting

  June 17, 2025

  Denise Labadie

  Stone Portrait

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  Denise makes art quilts of megalithic stones and monoliths, and more recent (but still centuries old) monastic ruins. Drawing on what is now a portfolio of sixty plus "stone portraits", Denise will discuss her development of both a recognizable style and self-identifying "story", and her evolving adoption and use (and "tweaking") of select art quilt composition and construction techniques (including fabric painting) and “best practices”.

  Topics also include:

  –  telling the stones’ stories through her art

  –       how she constructs her stone structures and landscapes

  –       her management and control of color, texture, and dimensionality

  –       her struggles relative to perspective, depth, and shadowing

  –       the critical role of craftsmanship and art fundamentals in creative expression

  For more information please see  https://labadiefiberart.com/

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• Art Quilt Techniques

  • Start
    Wednesday, June 18, 2025
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  • End
    Thursday, June 19, 2025
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  • Schedule
    2 sessions
  • Location
    To Be Determined
  • Registered
    12 registrants

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  Art Quilt Techniques

  Denise Labadie

  June 18  - 19, 2025

  Two Day Workshop!

  Location TBD

  
  

  Denise makes contemporary art quilts of Celtic megalithic (bronze age) “stones” and monoliths, and their landscapes, and more recent monastic ruins. She handpaints most all her own fabric, and uses varying combinations of reverse appliqué, turned edge appliqué, raw edge appliqué, insetting, free-form strip piecing (and optional couching), and “thread shadowing” (a variation on thread painting) to achieve her trademark quilt top textures and dimensionality. These construction techniques are the focus of her Art Quilt Techniques workshop.

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• Day Meeting

  • When
    Friday, June 20, 2025
  •  
    10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    Congregation Brith Shalom and Zoom

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  QGGH Day Meeting

  Friday June 20, 2025

  Kris Vierra

  Continuous Line Quilting

  Joins us via Zoom

  Meeting is In-Person and Zoom

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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

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• Business Meeting

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

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  QGGH Business Meeting

  July 15, 2025

  Cindy Lohbeck

  Diary of a Dyehard

  

  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  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/

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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
    19

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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

  Joins us via Zoom

  Meeting is In-Person and Zoom (Hybrid)

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• Charity Quilt Day

  • When
    Saturday, July 26, 2025
  • Location
    Trini Mendenhall Community Center

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  Charity Quilt Day!

  July 26, 2025

  Trini Mendenhall Community Center

  
  

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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

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  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
    1 registrant

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  QGGH Business Meeting

  August, 19 2025

  Kena Tangi Dorsey

  Big, Bold & Beautiful: Using African Prints in Quilts

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  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/

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• African Log Cabin

  • When
    Wednesday, August 20, 2025
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    9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    Trini Mendenhall Community Center

  African Log Cabin

  Kena Tangi Dorsey

  August 20, 2025

  
  

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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

  (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/

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• Strata Quilts

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

  Strata Quilts

  Rachel Derstine

  September 17, 2025

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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

  (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
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    9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom Only

  Daisy with On Point Border

  Laureen Smith

  October 22, 2025

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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
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    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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