2025-2026 Meeting Programs
July 8, 2026
Justin Clement
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Ice Cream Social
August 12, 2026
Jennifer Worthern
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Dive into a lively, visual presentation that explores how thoughtful design choices can elevate quilt making from good to great. In this lecture Jennifer takes your group on a tour of her design journey—from ideas to finished quilts—and highlights what she’s learned about fabric selection, block placement, value shifts, and creative problem-solving over the years. Quilters will leave inspired to examine why they make certain decisions (and excited to apply those discoveries in their next project).
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Hi there! I'm Jenn, Quilt Designer with a Playful Bias
… and the owner and designer behind Slightly Biased Quilts. With a lifelong love of bright colors and a PhD in Computational Science, Engineering, and Mathematics, I bring a unique blend of creativity and precision to my quilt designs.
Slightly Biased Quilts started as a bias tape Etsy shop, but my passion for quilting soon took center stage. I’ve been quilting since 2009, and I find immense joy in transforming beautiful fabrics into stunning quilts, even with simple patterns. My focus is on creating beginner-friendly, scrap-busting quilt patterns that are quick and easy to assemble. I love helping new quilters experience the satisfaction of completing a beautiful project.
While I appreciate classic quilt blocks, I enjoy putting a modern spin on them with my fabric choices and color palettes. This playful approach lets you create quilts that feel fresh and unique. In addition to designing downloadable PDF patterns, I’m also a published quilt designer, a quilt instructor, and a lecturer. I’m a member of the DC Modern Quilt Guild and absolutely love connecting with fellow quilters at shows and events.
I’d love for you to join me on my quilting journey! Sign up for my newsletter, follow me on social media, or check out my blog for shop updates, beginner-friendly tips, and a peek into my creative process.
September 9, 2026
Merry May
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Scrap quilts have been made for hundreds of years; sometimes out of necessity, sometimes just for fun. Today, scrap quilts are still as popular as ever, but many people struggle with deciding what fabrics to use - or not use - in their quilts, whether they are scrappy or not. The focus in this program is on working more instinctively with color, rather than getting bogged down with complicated color wheel terminology.
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Merry May, from Tuckahoe, New Jersey
Some of you may know Merry May from her popular "New Year's Day Mystery Quilts," a one day quilting sew-along where she posts the instructions every hour on January first on her Facebook page. But Merry's quilting journey began decades ago, and took a long and winding road to get here.
Merry discovered quilting in the 1970's and taught herself how to piece blocks by hand, eventually taking a quilting class and learning how to piece with a machine. For years, she quilted her tops by hand. In 1988, Merry was approached to teach adult ed quilting classes, beginning her professional quilting journey.
After making her first quilt, Merry and her husband began attending auctions, and found that vintage quilts were selling for very reasonable prices. They began buying them, with the goal of creating a collection of different styles of quilts throughout American history. Merry began to study how they were made, tried to determine their age, and what fabrics were used on the quilts in her collection. Her research led her to offer lectures on the History of American Quilting, using samples from her collection. Over the years, she added many more professional labels: Professional Quilter, Instructor, Designer, Appraiser, Longarm Machine Operator, and Consultant.
Scrap quilts have been made for hundreds of years, sometimes out of necessity, sometimes just for fun. Today, scrap quilts are still as popular as ever, but many people struggle with deciding what fabrics to use - or not use - in their quilts whether they are scrappy or not. The focus of Merry's program is working more instinctively with color, rather than getting bogged down with complicated color wheel terminology.
October 14, 2026
Emily Taylor
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Emily Taylor is a self-taught artist, fabric designer, and quilter. She has been a creative entrepreneur in the home dec and quilt industry for over 20 years. Her quilting life started in 2009 when she became a fabric designer for Riley Blake.
As an artist, Emily turned to collage as a way to blend quilting and art. To make it easy for us, she has developed unique patterns printed in shades of gray that allows a quilter to use a lot of different fabrics in a variation of patterns and values to create a collage. Her ‘parchment piecing’ technique is not difficult -- it uses small pieces of fabric to build a fusible design that can be added to a quilt, wall hanging, table runner, and more.
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Read more about Collage Quilting with Emily Taylor HERE
November 12, 2025
Emma Jane Powell
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Arpilleras were a form of craft art resistance born during the Chilean dictatorship of the 1970-80s. Using applique tapestries closely resembling quilts, learn how impoverished women communicated human rights atrocities happening in Chile with the outside world. We will explore various arpilleras from that time period and what they represent. We will also look at arpilleras today and how this craft art is being recognized. You will even get to see and feel various arpilleras. Learn a little about history, politics, and art of South America during this very captivating lecture.
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Continuing a family legacy of quilting for over 25 years, Emma Jane has tried it all, and she loves every (almost) step of the quilting process. A career public school teacher for many years, she jumped ship after having a baby in her 40s during the pandemic, and now teaches quilting for guilds, shows, and local quilt stores. She studied Spanish in high school and college and has traveled to numerous Spanish speaking countries. Her love of travel has influenced her appreciation for craft art.
Click here for her About page on her website.
December 10, 2025
Annual Holiday Luncheon
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Sign-ups will take place at the November meetings. There will also be sign-up sheets for food contributions. The Decor will be winter and Christmas decorations and a fat quarter at each place. Space is limited to 120 members.
January 14, 2026
Annual Guild Charity Sew In
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Our Annual Charity Sew-in will be held on Wednesday, January 14, 2026, at PARC, from 9:00 am – 2:00 pm. Bring your lunch and a dessert or snack to share. Water will be provided. This is a great opportunity to meet other guild members. Please join us to sew quilts for the Comfort Quilts and Veterans groups. Ryan’s Cases for Smiles will also be there for you to sew pillowcases for their cause.
It is important that you register for this event due to space limitations. Please sign-up at the Comfort Quilt table at our monthly meetings. If you are unable to attend meetings before the Sew-in, please contact Lee Ann Comegys. You will need to bring the following: sewing machine, sewing machine pedal and cords, scissors, pins, needles, and rotary cutter. We will have irons, ironing boards and cutting mats. If you have fabric and a pattern you would like to work on, please bring that as your project. Kits for Comfort Quilts and Veterans Quilts can be reserved on the sign-up sheet. Fabric for pillowcases will be available.
Please consider being a part of this annual event. It is a wonderful opportunity to create quilts and pillowcases for those in need.
Nothing comforts like a quilt or a cute pillowcase!
See you then!
Lee Ann Comegys
Comfort Quilt Committee - Chair
February 11, 2026
MEMBER DEMOS
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We’re in for a treat. Members will rotate through three demonstrations/presentation in a round robin format.
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February 9 :45 AM
We’re in for a treat. Members will rotate through three demonstrations/presentation in a round robin format. Content will include 1) potato chip blocks, 2) Justine Clement, a historian from Pottsgrove Manor, and 3) A SURPRISE!
Bring your notebook and/or a way to take pics either with cell phones or your camera. It will be a fun and informative time for all. AND, there will be door prizes.
March 11, 2026
Giucy Giuce
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Hi there! My name is Giuseppe Ribaudo, but I am better known as Giucy Giuce.
I grew up in Long Island, NY. First generation Sicilian-American on my dad’s side and second on my mom’s, my family lived on the bottom floor of my maternal grandparents’ house. My parents were restaurant owners and as such spent much of their time working, so my sister and I were often upstairs with my grandparents.
My grandmother is a remarkably talented and prolific seamstress. She taught me to sew in the Sicilian fashion, which is to say she would show me how to do something and I would have approximately 10 seconds to demonstrate that I had learned it perfectly before she’d abruptly pick me up and sew the seam herself. I never much cared for the finicky elements of garment making, so sewing took a backseat for a while. It wasn’t until I was in college that I discovered quilting. I began with sewing improvisational quilts before moving into modern traditional territory. I joined Instagram shortly thereafter and quickly found myself making long distance friends in the ever-growing quilting community via social media.
After bouncing around the country for about a decade, I decided to move back to New York to pursue a career in textiles. Within a few months of being in NYC I was offered a marketing position at Andover Fabrics and was promoted to multimedia manager a year later. In 2018, I refocused my energy to fabric design and released my first collection Quantum. In 2021 I released my tenth collection called Nonna, an homage to my beloved grandmother and her home where I learned to sew. My most recent release, Sleuth, is the third and final collection in a true crime series I have dubbed The Gnarls Hollow Trilogy.
In 2020 I relocated to Portland, Maine where I continue to design fabric and patterns, lecture, and teach quilting workshops.
April 8, 2026
Nancy Herschberger
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Art Quilts
A distinctive voice in the art quilt world, Nancy weaves together tradition and innovation. Her artistic journey began after a sudden loss that changed her world. Several years of work in traditional quilting was transformed when she began studying color, form and the natural environment. Hershberger's work invites viewers into vividly constructed landscapes that evoke emotion and wonder. Nancy has developed a unique style characterized by dynamic compositions and meticulous attention to detail. Her portfolio spans a variety of studies, including portraits and still life, each piece reflecting exploration of memory and place.
Hershberger has exhibited in galleries and museums both nationally and internationally, earning recognition for technical mastery and innovative approach. Driven by a desire to challenge conventions and connect with audiences, she continues to push the boundaries of her craft, ensuring that each creation is both deeply personal and universally resonant.
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May 13, 2026
CCQG Annual Fundraiser
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Even without comfort quilts, veteran’s quilts, and show-and-tell, this meeting will be packed with inspiration and opportunity. Activities will include the following:
Annual guild fund raiser - so much to see
Free table - sale tables - raffle items - and a few auction items
Pre-made lovely items were donated and a wide assortment of kits, patterns, and books will be on display. We are emptying out the storage shelves and everything must “go”.
Vote on leadership for the guild’s 2026-2027 year
2026 Celebrate America quilts display and voting
June 10, 2026
Rebecca Penniston
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Rebeeca makes Razzy, Snazzy & Jazzy Custom Crafts and Patterns. RazBeca's birds are worldwide!
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Learn more about Rebecca Penniston here
Questions About a Program?
Programs Chair: Renee Devine