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• Fall Retreat

  • Start
    Thursday, September 11, 2025
  • End
    Sunday, September 14, 2025
  • Location
    Camp Lonestar

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  Fall Retreat

  September 11 - 14, 2025

  Camp Lone Star

  Registration Form: 

  Sept 2025 Retreat Registration.doc

  Summer 2025 Retreat Registration.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
    3 registrants

  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)

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

  If you are not a member and would like to join us via Zoom, please register for the meeting.  A link will be sent to you a day before the meeting.

  
  

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• Strata Quilts

  • When
    Wednesday, September 17, 2025
  •  
    9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom Only
  • Registered
    8 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

  Joyce Teng

  Joins us In-Person

  TSC Designs,Simple Techniques using Stencils and Tsukineko Inks

  In-Person and Zoom

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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

  Speaker to be announced

  
  

  
  

  In-Person and Zoom

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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/#

  In-Person and Zoom (Hybrid)

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

  If you are not a member and would like to join us via Zoom, please register for the meeting.  A link will be sent to you a day before the meeting.

  
  

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• Daisy with On Point Border

  • When
    Wednesday, October 22, 2025
  •  
    9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom Only

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  Daisy with On Point Border

  Laureen Smith

  October 22, 2025

  Zoom Only

  Transform your quilts with this three-dimensional fusible applique technique. During this class, you will learn to

  • Quilt the background,
  • Make the templates and appliques,
  • Attach the appliques, and
  • Embellish the mini quilt to make it really pop.

  

  Supplies to bring: See Supply List for materials needed.

  Optional kits($25) are also available at this  link  or copy: Dimensional by Design - Daisy | Tourmaline & Thyme Quilts which include all the materials except thread for sewing/quilting; be sure to select the Daisy On Point kit.  For those getting the kit, you will also need 1 FQ of a coordinating fabric for the border/backing. This ensures that you really like it!  Remember that this is a ZOOM workshop, you need to purchase the kit in advance if you want one.

  Members: $50

  Non-members: $65

  Daisy with On Point Border Supply List.pdf
  

  
  

  
  

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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/

  In-Person and Zoom (Hybrid)

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

  If you are not a member and would like to join us via Zoom, please register for the meeting.  A link will be sent to you a day before the meeting.

  
  

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• Texture from A to Zen

  • When
    Wednesday, November 19, 2025
  •  
    9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    Trini Mendenhall Community Center

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  Texture from A to Zen

  Bethanne Nemesh

  November 19, 2025

  
  

  9 AM - 4 PM

  Trini Mendenhall Community Center

  1414 Wirt Rd./Houston, TX 77055

  Members $50.00/Non-members $65.00

  Traditional free motion background fillers are a wonderful starting point, but what happens when you let yourself be influenced by natural patterns, everyday objects, macro photography, and the art of Zendoodling? Be inspired by Bethanne’s fresh take on backgrounds, with inspiration from every letter of the alphabet, perfect for filling those big open spaces of more modern quilts! 

  Supplies to bring: no kit, bring the following

  1) Sewing machine set up for free motion quilting with any tools to make that easy. (Table/ gloves/ grips).

  2) A pre-basted sandwich of neutral fabric, one yard x width of fabric.

  Suggested companion book: “Quilted Textures from A to Zen”

  
  
  

  
  

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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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