Sell

Guild members will be able to provide quilting and sewing items for sale.  Sale proceeds are for members alone, not the guild.  Suggest members consider unused fabrics, UFO’s, quilting and sewing notions, books, really, anything related to fiber arts.  Got an extra sewing machine, maybe someone has a friend or family member who wants to learn to sew! Your unused fabric is someone’s great find!  Maybe you have that book on a technique, someone else has been wanting to try.  Whether you have ten things or a hundred, please bring them, prices marked and ready to sell.  Make sure you contact Carolyn Schwarz at cschwarzp5@gmail.com by February 10, so we can plan for enough tables.  (Remember to bring cash to make purchases.)

Tell

There will be a place set up for you to show and tell us about your current, favorite, or best quilt.  We will record you speaking and showing the quilt to be put on our Facebook page and share with The Quilt Alliance as part of their S.O.S. (Save Our Stories) Project.  Be prepared to talk about why you made it, who designed it and how you chose the fabrics.  Why is this quilt special to you.  We will record you and your quilt in three minute videos.  Contact Carolyn Schwarz at cschwarzp5@gmail.com by February 10, if you wish to participate.

Learn

There will be several stations where specific techniques will be demonstrated.  For example, we all bind our quilts, but are there better or easier ways to approach this necessary step in quiltmaking?

A note from the Ladies at What’s Old is New Again (WOINA):

* WOINA and Community Quilts would be happy to take items that don’t sell.

* If you don’t want to sell, you can still donate to WOINA and Community Quilts

* Good opportunity to sell and/or swap magazines because WOINA will not accept them.

Community Quilts Workday

Saturday, February 21, 2026 

10 am to 2 pm

Lutheran Church of the Nativity

2425 Hendersonville Rd.

Arden, NC 28704

During our annual  Community Quilt Sew Day, we will be social while sewing for others.  You will work on quilts for children in need.  All materials are cut to size so all you will need is your machine, scissors, thread and pins.  

If you are unable to bring your sewing machine please email Nancy Dalzell at mailto:ndalzell34@att.net.  We have a very limited number of non sewing jobs.

Lunch will be provided by the Guild.  Please register so we know how many we are feeding.  Thanks!

Linda Crouch-McCreadie, Tennessee Quilts, Jonesborough, TN.  Linda is the co-owner of Tennessee Quilts, located in historic Jonesborough, Tennessee’s oldest town.  Linda has been quilting since 1988 when she took a quilting class and became addicted.  Her addiction resulted in the purchase of an existing quilt shop in Jonesborough in 2000.  The shop is currently home to over 8,000 bolts of fabric and is a Judy Niemeyer Certified Shop.  It was also named as a featured shop in the American Patchwork and Quilting Magazine in 2011.  Linda has produced a number of award-winning quilts.  Two of the quilts she quilted for hire have been juried into and exhibited at the American Quilter’s Society show in Paducah, Kentucky. In a former life, Linda was a teacher and a lawyer. She is happiest now that she can spend all of her time with quilting and related projects.  You can contact Linda at: www.tennesseequilts.com. 

Ballroom Dance (a New York beauty block)

Judy Niemeyer Quiltworx Pattern

Teacher will provide fabric, paper foundation and templates to make one 14” block (kit fee of $12.00).  Alternatively, you may use your own fabrics, in which case the kit fee will be $8.00.  See the suggestions below for selecting your fabrics.  At the class, you may purchase complete patterns or additional papers to make the number of blocks you wish for your specific project.

If you are providing your own fabric, select “High Contrast” fabrics.  See the diagram attached to assist you in color placement.  You may pick two fabrics or as many as six fabrics.  Before you come to class, please have the following pieces of fabric cut.

For one block you will need the following:

CS Unit – Background 6 ½” x 10” rectangle

                        Spikes – 7” x 7” square

GS Unit – GS-1 – Three squares @ 5 ½”

GS -2 – Inside curve 4” x 11” rectangle

GS -3 – Outside curve 5” x 12” rectangle

BS Unit – Background 11 ½” x 16 ½” rectangle

Spikes – 9 ½” x 16 ½” rectangle

  Supply List:

Add-a-quarter ruler (available in class, price varies based on size)

Glue Pen (Sewline is preferable and will be available in class, $8.50)

Heavy duty Template plastic – 3 ½” x 12” (available in class for $3.00)

Jumbo paper clips (not coated or grided)

Flowerhead or other fine pins

Rotary cutter with sharp blade, cutting mat, iron and pressing pad, 70/10 needles, 50 or 60 weight neutral piecing thread, scotch tape, scissors and sewing machine in good working order.

Questions:

Linda Crouch-McCreadie

Tennessee Quilts

tnqlts@gmail.com  423-753-6644 or toll-free: 877-385-0934

Registration for Members will open:  1/26/2026

Registration for Non-Members will open:  2/16/2026