Meeting In Person: Tuesday 11/21/23 7:00-9:00pm Fall Harvest Fun Night

 Come join us for the Fall Harvest Fun Night 11/21/23! We'll have members showcase their special talents on how to make Fabric Flowers, do English Paper Piecing, and stitch Sashiko.  Bring a sewing kit to the hands on demo.  A big thank you to our members who will be doing demonstrations: Joanne Reiter, Diane Pitchford and Colleen Euge.

The Harvest Challenge quilt is due at this meeting. We can’t wait to see your creation from the soy Batiking class.

Also please bring two of your favorite Harvest quilts for show and tell. 

At break time, we will have the Free Table and time to enjoy the refreshments. 

Please bring finished tops for community service.

Set up time 6:00pm

Fun starts at 7:00pm

Holy Trinity Lutheran Church

739 W Erie Street

Chandler, AZ

Please note:  NO meetings will be held in December 2023.

Our first meeting in the New Year is on January 2nd 2024 featuring Melissa’s sweatshirt class. Purchase a zipper sweatshirt with a hood in your size. More details to follow.

Upcoming events 

TGIF Sew Day - Friday Dec 1 & 15 (scheduling change due to the holidays.) 11:00am-3:00pm in the Makery, downtown Chandler Library. Bring your own project to work on.

Save the date! 11/24/23 Friday! We are having a kick off Bonnie Hunter Mystery Quilt for 2023-24 Party at Sweet Pzs in Gilbert. All members and friends are welcome! Come and join the fun sewing on BHMQ and/or your own projects. Bring a white elephant gift $20-25 to Sweet Pzs on 11/24/23.  Friday from 9:30am-4:00pm. $10.00 fee payable to Sweet Pzs.  The December 9th date has been canceled.

AQG opened registration 10/1/23 to enter your quilts for the March quilt show 2024. http://arizonaquiltersguild.org

If interested in creating a Gee’s Bend quilt for the AQG quilt show NT Chapter Challenge - contact Penny Boese for details.  (See recent email explaining)

Meeting (In Person): 11/7/23 7:00 - 9:00pm Pam Rackley Presentation

 Nimble Thimbles In Person Meeting 11/7/23 7:00 - 9:00pm

Holy Trinity Lutheran Church 739 W Erie St, Chandler AZ

This Tuesday 11/7/23 is our in person meeting. We will have Pam Rackley from Sweet Pzs Designs presenting Lori Holt’s patterns. She will have demonstrations, patterns for sale and quilts on display. A show you won’t want to miss. 

We will set up starting at 6:00pm (all help is welcome!) and our meeting will start at 7:00pm. 

Also, bring your show and tell items to our meeting. We look forward to being inspired by all your creative works!

We will have the give away table available for you to give and take items.

Bring your quilts for community service and they will be showing the one’s completed and received.

Upcoming events

11/21/23 Tuesday - Harvest fun filled night - in person

Please bring 2 of your Harvest quilts to show

Also the Harvest Challenge quilt is due from the soy batik class Come and  join in the fun learning new techniques, with hands on demonstrations.

TGIF Friday, November 3rd  & 17th to avoid Veterans and Thanksgiving holiday closures.  11am - 3pm at  the Makery, downtown Chandler Library. December dates are December 1st & 15th. 

Save the date! 11/24/23 Friday! We are having a kick off Bonnie Hunter Mystery Quilt for 2023-24 Party at Sweet Pzs in Gilbert .All members and friends are welcome! Come and enjoy in the fun sewing on BHMQ and or your projects. Friday from 9:30-4:00pm. $10.00 fee payable to Sweet Pzs. We are also booked December 9, 2023. 

AQG opened registration 10/1/23 to enter your quilts for the March quilt show 2024. If interested in creating a Gee’s Bend quilt for the AQG quilt show NT Chapter Challenge - contact Penny Boese for details.   Also check the page on our blog that has details on the Challenge.

Please note:  NO meetings will be held in December 2023.

January 2nd 2024 program will be a sweatshirt class presented by Melissa Bickham. Purchase a zipper sweatshirt with a hood in your size. More details to follow.

We still need a couple of volunteers to bring refreshments this upcoming Tuesday night 11/7 and on November 21st volunteers to bring pumpkin bread and hot apple cider. If you don’t like to use the signup Genius (link is in the recent email) you may contact Mary Platt and volunteer.