Narragansett Bay Quilters Association

Quilt Show 2024
2024-04-27 10:00 - 2024-04-28 16:00 (America/New_York) | West Warwick Civic Center, 100 Factory Street, West Warwick, RI, United States
Quilt Show Vendors

Vendor Name
Website

A Link in A Chain Quilting

Blaine Sewing Machine
http://blainesewing.net/

Bob’s Featherweights
http://oceanwavesqc.com/featherweights.html

Embroidery Sewing

Fabrics N Things
https://www.fabricsnthingsma.com/

Fired Woodcraft LLC
https://www.firedwoodcraft.com/

Global Fiber Shop
https://globalfibershop.com/

Island Creations By Louise
https://islandcreationsbylouise.com

Monday Night Quilters

Penny Rug Pet Portraits
http://www.mmmunchys.com/

Purr-fect Pastimes
https://cottonnoveltyfabrics.com/

Quilt Corner Studio
https://quiltcornerstudio.com/

Seaside Stitches
https://seaside-stitches.com/

Six Gables Designs
http://www.sixgablesdesigns.com/

Stitch Chicks Quilt Shop
http://www.stitchchicksquiltshop.com

Vinscent Candle Co, LLC
https://www.vinscentcandleco.com/

POC: Joan Potter Joanpotter1@cox.net
Member’s Quilt Show Registration form

NBQA Orphan Block Workshop
2024-04-20 09:00 - 14:00 | East Greenwich United Methodist Church, 1558 S County Trail, East Greenwich, RI, 02818, United States
NBQA Orphan Block Workshop guided by Missy Smith, Blaire Gagnon and Paula Weston.
In this workshop, Missy, Blaire and Paula will provide guidance on how to take blocks that are different sizes, shapes and colors and turn them into finished projects. These can be UFO projects that you want to reimagine such as orphan blocks from test patterns, project rejects, a collection of vintage blocks, a set of blocks won through a guild Block of the month or a t-shirt project. If you do not have a project, we will have orphan blocks donated to the guild for you to work with.
Space is limited for this no cost workshop!!! Please sign up today with Carol Ann Robertson carobertson562@gmail.com

Membership Meeting - Kick it up a Notch lecture
2024-04-18 18:30 - 20:30 | East Greenwich United Methodist Church, 1558 South County Trail, East Greenwich, RI, 02818, United States
We have our General Membership meeting this Thursday, April 18th starting right at 6:30 p.m. with our speaker, Barbara Graceffa.

We will have The Boutique from 5:20 to 6:20 p..m. with lots of new to us fabrics with some surprises thrown in the mix.

The Library will have an array of books for sale (very reasonably priced). We really want the books to be repurposed.

The sign up sheet for the quilt show will be in the foyer for you to sign up (if you haven’t already). This quilt show is going to be epic but we really need all hands on deck for sure.

Don’t forget – we are doing Show and Tell!

Spring is in the air!
Looking forward to seeing all of you on Thursday.

Membership Meeting - "OPM" Other Peoples Material
2024-03-21 18:30 - 20:30 | East Greenwich United Methodist Church, 1558 South County Trail, East Greenwich, RI, 02818, United States
Stay tuned for meeting agenda…

Board Meeting
2024-03-07 18:30 - 20:30, 2024-01-04 18:30 - 20:30, 2023-11-02 18:30 - 20:30, 2023-09-07 18:30 - 20:30 | Island Creations by Louise, 74 Nooseneck Hill Road, West Greenwich, RI, 02817, United States

Disappearing Block Sampler with B. Nelson - Day 2 of 2
2024-02-24 10:00 - 13:00 | Zoom meetings
This 6-hour workshop will be structured similar to a “sew along” and will be held over 2 days (3 hours each). There are 9 blocks and Brita will teach each one in turn. She will have 2 cameras, one on her and the sewing machine and one pointing straight down at the cutting mat and pressing surface. Brita will demonstrate how to make the block along with little tips on accurate piecing and pressing. The students will then follow along and take turns showing the class how their block came out. The Zoom features allow Brita to answer questions immediately and help anyone who might be having a little trouble. As some students finish before others, she will show other possible layouts and talk about things like how to enlarge the pattern or use different colors and how these blocks might look in a finished quilt.
Schedule:
9:30am – Sign in to Zoom
10am-1pm – Workshop

Disappearing Block Sampler Workshop with Brita Nelson - Day 1 of 2
2024-02-17 10:00 - 13:00 | Zoom meetings
Day 1 – Feb. 17, 2024
Day 2 – Feb 24, 2024
This 6-hour workshop will be structured similar to a “sew along” and will be held over 2 days (3 hours each). There are 9 blocks and Brita will teach each one in turn. She will have 2 cameras, one on her and the sewing machine and one pointing straight down at the cutting mat and pressing surface. Brita will demonstrate how to make the block along with little tips on accurate piecing and pressing. The students will then follow along and take turns showing the class how their block came out. The Zoom features allow Brita to answer questions immediately and help anyone who might be having a little trouble. As some students finish before others, she will show other possible layouts and talk about things like how to enlarge the pattern, or use different colors and how these blocks might look in a finished quilt.
Schedule for workshop days:
9:30am – Zoom sign in
10am-1pm – Workshop

Membership Meeting Featuring Brita Nelson
2024-02-15 18:30 - 20:30 | East Greenwich United Methodist Church, 1558 S County Trail, East Greenwich, RI, 02818, United States
Join us for Brita Nelson’s lecture, Now You See It, Now You Don’t via Zoom at the United Methodist Church
Brita started seriously quilting in the 1980’s. Her best friend from High School is a quilter and Brita would buy her fabric and notions for Christmas and birthdays. After a while all the pretty colors started drawing Her in. In April of 2017 I retired from work, moved back to PA and devoted myself to serious quilting and sharing this passion which has given me so much joy. Find out more on Brita’s website www.questioningquilter.com
Learn about the magic and beauty of disappearing blocks with this interactive online lecture, demo and trunk show. Using 3 cameras, one on Brita and the quilts, one pointing straight down at the cutting mat, and one close-up on the quilts, she will be able to show you how easy it is to turn simple blocks into beautiful complex patterns. Using the Zoom format, you will be able to ask questions during the presentation. Brita will also show you how different block designs can be enhanced by color choices or slight modifications to make even more interesting full quilts.

January Membership Meeting via Zoom
2024-01-18 18:30 - 20:30 | Zoom meetings
Happy New Year! Stay tuned for meeting agenda…

NBQA December Quilt-in - New Date and Location - December 10, 2023
2023-12-10 10:00 - 15:00 | North Kingstown Masonic Lodge, 1515 Ten Rod Road, North Kingstown, RI, 02852
NBQA is hosting a December Quilt-in on Sunday December 10th 2023. The event includes lunch, raffles, games and more! Feel free to bring a project you are working on. We’ll have kits available too for your convenience. Come for some or all of the time. We’d love to see you.
Sign up soon – space is limited

Contact Carol Ann Robertson at camartinelli@me.com

Colleen McFarlin's Iron Garden Workshop
2023-11-18 10:00 - 14:30 | East Greenwich United Methodist Church, 1558 S County Trail, East Greenwich, RI, 02818, United States
Colleen started sewing at age 14 and attended a vocational high school for fashion design, where she learned to make my first quilt. She graduated from Savannah College of Art & Design with a degree in Fibers. Colleen’s quilts have been displayed in galleries from Seattle to Savannah. In 2016, her quilt ‘Finding Home’ was displayed at QuiltCon in Pasadena, CA and placed 3rd in the Flying Geese Challenge by American Patchwork + Quilting Magazine. She also proudly had quilts published in 2 different issues of Curated Quilts.
“Quilting is an incredible art form – it is creative, beautiful, challenging, exciting, frustrating, and wonderful! I am so incredibly proud to be a part of this community as a quilt shop owner of Beyond the Bolt in Bristol RI, pattern designer, teacher, and overall quilt enthusiast.”
In this class we will make the ‘Iron Garden’ Pattern from Five/Five Studio. Curves can be tricky – Colleen will go over tips and tricks for making them easier. We will also tackle trimming up the curves to be the perfect size for this pattern. She will be teaching how to make the small throw size. Students will finish a good portion of this quilt in class.
Skill Level: Intermediate and up
We will be sewing curves in this class. No knowledge of sewing curves is necessary. Participants must know how to operate their sewing machine, keep ¼” seam allowance, and sew a straight(ish) line.
Cost of pattern not included in workshop fee.
Flyer
Materials List
Schedule:
9:30am – Set up
10am-2:30pm – Workshop
2:30pm – Clean up

Membership Meeting with Colleen McFarlin
2023-11-16 18:30 - 20:30 | East Greenwich United Methodist Church, 1558 S County Trail, East Greenwich, RI, 02818, United States
Join us for the November membership meeting featuring Colleen McFarlin’s lecture on Color Theory/Variation
Colleen started sewing at age 14 and attended a vocational high school for fashion design, where she learned to make my first quilt. She graduated from Savannah College of Art & Design with a degree in Fibers. Colleen’s quilts have been displayed in galleries from Seattle to Savannah. In 2016, her quilt ‘Finding Home’ was displayed at QuiltCon in Pasadena, CA and placed 3rd in the Flying Geese Challenge by American Patchwork + Quilting Magazine. She also proudly had quilts published in 2 different issues of Curated Quilts.
“Quilting is an incredible art form – it is creative, beautiful, challenging, exciting, frustrating, and wonderful! I am so incredibly proud to be a part of this community as a quilt shop owner of Beyond the Bolt in Bristol RI, pattern designer, teacher, and overall quilt enthusiast.”
In this lecture, Colleen will discuss what color theory is and why it matters within quilting. She will go over the color wheel, explore different values, and look at samples that go over both. Color value is so important in the success or failure of a quilt, and it’s important for quilters to see how to successfully use color and value!

Quilts of Valor
2023-11-11 10:00 - 15:00 | East Greenwich United Methodist Church, 1558 S County Trail, East Greenwich, RI, 02818, United States
Please join us at the church to support Quilts of Valor.
Quilts of Valor Foundation began in 2003 with a dream, literally a dream. Founder Catherine Roberts’ son Nat was deployed in Iraq.
According to Catherine: The dream was as vivid as real life. I saw a young man sitting on the side of his bed in the middle of the night, hunched over. The permeating feeling was one of utter despair. I could see his war demons clustered around, dragging him down into an emotional gutter. Then, as if viewing a movie, I saw him in the next scene wrapped in a quilt. His whole demeanor changed from one of despair to one of hope and well-being. The quilt had made this dramatic change.
The message of my dream was: Quilts = Healing.

Rope Bowl Workshop
2023-10-21 10:00 - 14:00 | East Greenwich United Methodist Church, 1558 S County Trail, East Greenwich, RI, 02818, United States
NBQA presents a Rope Bowl Workshop with Missy Smith, Mary Hamilton and Carol Ann Robertson. Missy, Mary and Carol Ann are members of NBQA and other sister guilds. Each share a passion for quilting in all art forms. Miss and Carol Ann have taught various classes, workshops and events.
In the workshop, participants will learn how to create bowls using corded rope. Participants will understand various rope types and the overall process to bend, curve, shape and size bowls to their individual tastes.
Schedule:
9:00am – Set up
10am-2pm – Workshop
2pm – Clean up
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Membership Meeting with Anthony Ferranti
2023-10-19 18:30 - 20:30 | East Greenwich United Methodist Church, 1558 S County Trail, East Greenwich, RI, 02818, United States
Join us for the October membership meeting featuring Anthony Ferranti’s lecture, Maintaining Your Machine.
Anthony is an experienced, 3rd generation mechanic who repairs sewing machines of all makes and models. In this lecture, Anthony will discuss the proper maintenance of y our domestic machines, common issues and troubleshooting tips.

Welcome Back Membership Meeting
2023-09-21 18:30 - 20:30 | East Greenwich United Methodist Church, 1558 South County Trail, East Greenwich, RI, 02818, United States
Welcome back NBQA members!
Stay tuned for the meeting agenda….

Unmarked - Contemporary Walking Foot Quilting Workshop - Part 2 - Virtual
2023-09-16 09:00 - 12:00 | Zoom meetings
Unmarked – Contemporary Walking Foot Quilting Workshop[3658]
Part 2 of 2
You can do so much innovative quilting JUST with your walking
foot! Marge will show us her method of quilting with your
walking foot that involves little or no marking but still results in
spectacular quilting. Marge will start with the basics, such as batting choices,
thread, needles and how to secure the quilting stitches. Then,
we start quilting with straight lines and move to curved quilting
lines and spirals on your practice quilt sandwiches. For both
the straight line and curved quilting, she will show us many
designs and variations we can use to great effect. Marge will
also have some of her quilts as examples, including “Burst”
which received the award Best Machine Quilting (Frameless) at
QuiltCon 2019. This class will change the way you think about
your walking foot!

Unmarked – Contemporary Walking Foot Quilting Workshop - Virtual - Part 1
2023-09-09 09:00 - 12:00 | Zoom meetings
Unmarked – Contemporary Walking Foot Quilting Workshop
Join Marge Tucker to learn all about contemporary quilting in this virtual 2-day workshop.
You can do so much innovative quilting JUST with your walking
foot! Marge will show us her method of quilting with your
walking foot that involves little or no marking but still results in
spectacular quilting.
Marge will start with the basics, such as batting choices,
thread, needles and how to secure the quilting stitches. Then,
we start quilting with straight lines and move to curved quilting
lines and spirals on your practice quilt sandwiches. For both
the straight line and curved quilting, she will show us many
designs and variations we can use to great effect. Marge will
also have some of her quilts as examples, including “Burst”
which received the award Best Machine Quilting (Frameless) at
QuiltCon 2019. This class will change the way you think about
your walking foot!

Workshop - Have your cake and sew it too With Kassie and Billie
2023-05-20 10:00 - 14:00 | Island Creations by Louise, 74 Nooseneck Hill Road, West Greenwich, RI, 02817, United States
Do you have a layer cake stack you just had to have, but now have no idea what to do with it? Then this is the class for you! We will demonstrate piecing and pressing techniques that will help to get those pesky points to match up and all your seams to lie flat for ease of construction for this lap quilt. Don’t have a layer cake stack hanging around? This pattern works with fat quarters as well. As in all our classes, participation in class shenanigans is mandatory.

Membership Meeting - Shop the Boutique and enjoy the Strawberry Social
2023-05-18 17:20 - 20:00 | East Greenwich United Methodist Church, 1558 S County Trail, East Greenwich, RI, 02818, United States
Shop great deals at the Boutique from 5:20-6:20pm before the membership meeting begins at 6:30pm. Then, enjoy delicious strawberry shortcake and participate in our annual election of officers at the membership meeting.

Board Meeting
2023-05-04 18:30 - 20:30, 2023-03-02 18:30 - 20:30 | Island Creations by Louise, 74 Nooseneck Hill Road, West Greenwich, RI, 02817, United States

Spring Quilt-A-Thon
2023-04-22 10:00 - 15:00 | Island Creations by Louise, 74 Nooseneck Hill Road, West Greenwich, RI, 02817, United States
Join us for NBQA’s Spring Quilt-A-Thon.
We will be using kits (put together by the Comfort Quilt Committee) and making quilts for those in need. This will be a fun day of getting together, sewing, laughing, and oh yes, eating delicious baked goods. All you have to bring is your sewing machine

NBQA Member's Only Silent Auction - April NBQA Meeting
2023-04-20 18:30 - 20:30 | East Greenwich United Methodist Church, 1558 South County Trail, East Greenwich, RI, 02818, United States
Join us for an NBQA Member’s only silent auction to benefit the New England Quilt Museum, Meals on Wheels and a mission for the United Methodist Church sponsored by the Comfort Quilt Committee and Programs.
There will be more than 65 items for members to bid on. Bidding will start at 6:30 p.m. and end at 7:30 p.m. We will also use this hour as our social time. At 7:30 we will have a brief business meeting and Show and Tell. As soon as the committee has the results – the winners of the bids will be announced.
Payment via cash or check only please.

Pillowcase-A-Thon with Phyllis Cayer
2023-03-18 09:00 - 14:00 | Island Creations by Louise, 74 Nooseneck Hill Road, West Greenwich, RI, 02817, United States
Join us for a pillowcase-a-thon with NBQA’s own Phyllis Cayer, pillowcase maker extraordinaire.
We will be learning three different pillowcase making techniques. You can bring your serger or your sewing machine. If you have children themed fabric, please bring that as well. Otherwise, we will have fabric on hand. The completed pillowcases will be delivered to Hasbro Children’s Hospital.
Feel free to join us from 9am-2pm or drop in as your schedule permits.

Membership Meeting - Anthony Ferranti
2023-03-16 18:30 - 20:00 | East Greenwich United Methodist Church, 1558 South County Trail, East Greenwich, RI, 02818, United States
Membership Meeting
Guest Speaker Anthony Ferranti – Maintaining your machine

The Boutique - Shopping for all NBQA Members
2023-03-16 17:20 - 18:20 | East Greenwich United Methodist Church, 1558 South County Trail, East Greenwich, RI, 02818, United States
The Boutique – Shopping for all NBQA Members before the March meeting. You can shop our gorgeous array of fabrics, thread, and notions. Cash or check (made out to NBQA) only please.
