calico events

The Club provides opportunities to broaden your quilting skills through educational programs, meetings and workshops. We, also, organize social events to have fun and get to know each other. If you would like to teach a class, or help organize a class, contact the Program Chairman.

If you would like to help organize one of our member events such as a luncheon or party, let one of the Co-Chairs know.

Want to know what's coming up? Check out the calendar below.

Unless otherwise indicated, all meetings/events take place at our regular meeting location at Pueblo El Mirage.

Calendar of Events

Upcoming events

HST Techniques

Spring cleaning sale

On March 24th, learn 4 ways to make

Half Square Triangles, and a quick way to make quarter square triangles.

Supplies -

Fabric-

Two 2 ½” jelly roll strips

Ten 5” charm squares or

Four 10” layer cake squares

NOTE: These are suggested sizes. You need 2 same size strips or squares for each technique sample)

Sewing machine

Thread and sewing notions

Rotary cutter

Long ruler

Small square ruler (6” inch works great)

Pencil

This is a link to a great free ebook with lots of half square triangle block ideas.

http://jellyrollsfabric.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/HSTchallengeebook.pdf

Spring cleaning sale

Spring Cleaning Sale April 14th!

Clean out your sewing room and other closets and sell (or give away) your unneeded stuff at the sale.

Contact Sara Friesen with questions.

Inktense class

Spring cleaning sale

Lexi Burg will teach us how to use Inktense pencils on April 28th.

Supplies:

Inktense pencils

Lead pencil

Light box (if you have one)

Paper towels

Plastic to protect the table

2 Fat quarters of White pfd (prepared for dyeing) fabric

or White Kona cotton

Applique pressing sheet or parchment paper

Note - you can get a starter set of 6 Inktense pens on Amazon at https://a.co/d/3xXEUpf

Accuquilt available

Calico Cut-Ups has an Accuquilt Cutter and many different blades you can borrow. Contact one of the board members to use this benefit. Below is the list of blades available.

Accuquilt Inventory

previous events

If you want handouts, presentations, or tutorials from previous programs, we have archived the information here.

Previous Event Information