| ANkeny Area Quilters GuildAnkeny, Iowa |
2026 PROGRAMS
Non members are welcome to attend meetings $10.00 admission per meeting.
Or join $45.00 per year membership and enjoy all the monthly meetings at no extra charge plus other perks.
| JANUARY 13TH, Speaker Emily Rairdin, is the Sewing Instructor, Front Store Manager, IT Manager, Web Designer, and Sales Manager, among other things at University Vacuum & Sewing. She will be speaking on Tips & Tricks to get our machines ready to sew |
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| MARCH 10TH Stacy Harding from Iowa Swan Quilting will be speaking on "Quilty Friends are the Best".She is a long-arm quilter for any size and variety of quilt, and the occasional custom quilting project. She loves to teach quilters, she has a sewing center in Swan for group sewing and classes! |
| APRIL 14TH WORKSHOP
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 | APRIL 14TH, Jennifer Halbur has been a quilter for many years. She started sewing when she was able to reach the sewing pedal and switched to all quilting about 25 years ago. She loves the challenge of matching fabric to a pattern and creating a beautiful quilt to give someone comfort. She has made upwards of 200 quilts and have gifted the majority of those to family and friends. Her quilting life changed when she started following Gudrun and GE Designs. Her patterns are amazing! Gudrun’s Stripology ® Rulers revolutionized the way she quilts and she can’t wait to show our guild how! |
| MAY 12TH, Speaker, Shelley Robson with Quilted Forest and Pieced Tree Patterns, https://www.thequiltedforest.com/ |
| JUNE 9TH Speaker Marti Klatt will be speaking on quilt labels. She will talk about different kinds of labels, What types of things should be included on a label. How to attach labels. |
JULY 14TH, Speaker Patricia Sanabria Friederich originally from Costa Rica where she was fortunate to already have sewing classes starting at a young age in elementary school. That along with help from her mother and grandmother she learned to sew at an early age. After moving to Wisconsin in the mid 90s is when she took her first formal quilt class. In 2013 Landauer Publishing published her book Mosaic Tile Quilts featuring her designs inspired from mosaic tile floors from historical buildings in Costa Rica. Since then she has continued to keep designing a variety of quilts, table runners and wall hangings. Her latest designs are utilizing wool hand applique because she really enjoys sewing by hand. |
| AUGUST 14TH, Speaker, Laura Piland from Slice of Pi Quilts. The topic of her presentation will be Story Books Quilts. I'm Laura! I'm a quilter, pattern designer, and homeschooling mom of three boys. I'm also an ex-math teacher - and with a last name like Piland - there's a strong love of pi in our house! I'd love for you to take a look around and leave a comment so I can get to know you! Let's sew something together! Have you ever spotted a quilt in the illustration of a children's book? Bedtime stories in our house often include, "Mom, look! A quilt!" One day, I began to wonder if those quilts could be created in real life and transform story time into something more. I began stitching past the boys' bedtime bringing our favorite stories to life. Storybook Quilts was born from those moments. It's part quilting book, part love letter to children's literature, and wholly inspired by the magical intersection of real and make believe. The book has patterns for 14 quilts from beloved picture books. |
| SEPTEMBER 8TH.Renee Den Beste from My Best Quilt Co., will speak on Scrap Happens. She is a pattern designer at My Best Quilt Co and she designs the patterns for Ticket to Quilt, a virtual shop hop. She started quilting when a friend gifted her with quilting supplies. Like so many quilters, once she started, she was hooked. Sitting at her sewing machine the cares of the day disappear! Not long after she started quilting, she dabbled in writing patterns when she couldn’t find what she was looking for or an idea struck her. Her quilt friends convinced her to share her love of quilting and designs with the world, hence the birth of My Beste Quilt Co. , https://mybestequiltco.com/ |
| OCTOBER 13th. Workshop 1:00-4:00 pm . We will be making an easy table runner Enchanted Emerald Isle. Workshop will be $40.00 members, $65.00 non-member. Plus $12.00 for pattern Must pre-register to attend. |
| OCTOBER 13TH EVENING MEETING, Speaker is Linda Everhart with Among Friends. Linda developed a technique to make a beautiful quilt in half the time. Her technique was trademarked FUSIQUE, which is a fused reverse applique process. Linda's high tech process ingeniously trims the time required to create a priceless treasure! |
2025 Programs Non members are welcome to attend our meetings $5.00 admission at the door. |
| January Meeting : Recycling old quilts into new Projects Presented by: Diana Weirich Diana Weirich will be speaking on ideas of what to do with old quilts that are worn and tattered in places but still have some good areas. She will be talking about the process of making the quilt jacket she entered in the state fair and other things you can do with those old quilts besides making jackets from them. |
| February Meeting : Quilts of Valor Presented by: Kathleen Jones She is the Iowa State Coordinator for QOV. She made her first Quilt of Valor in 2017, and awarded it to her father-in-law who had served in the Phillipines during WW II. That began her QOVF journey which eventually led to the QOVF State Coordinator role, beginning in 2019. |
| March Meeting : Cover them with love Presented by Danille Curtis She will be speaking about quilts and other homemade items she sews and donates to the Midwest Mission, a non-profit organization based in Springfield, IL. with a branch location in Jefferson, IA. www.midwestmission.org. |
| April Meeting: Canuck Quilter, Ames, Ia. Presented by JoAnn Kerton She enjoys playing with shapes, colors and layouts, and figuring out the math that goes with them.She has been dabbling in quilt design for at least 15 years, She started sharing them as patterns in 2013 and have published almost 70 stand alone patterns. She has had designs published in American Patchwork and Quilting magazine, have patterns in quilting catalogs, collaborate with various fabric companies and enjoy speaking and teaching about quilting. |
| May Meeting: Presented by Colleen Tauke |
 | June Meeting: Presented by Judy Martin One of the world’s foremost quilt designers, Judy Martin has long sought to bridge the gap between the traditional and modern. In the wake of the Bicentennial Quilt Revival, Judy was an enthusiastic proponent of machine piecing and helped bring pattern presentation into the modern era. Her work remains rooted in the shapes and styles of traditional quilts but feels fresh and original. Judy’s inventive plays on Log Cabin and Lone Star Quilts—each the subject of multiple books and a dazzling array of variations—have become two of her hallmarks. Over the course of her prolific four-decade career, Judy has inspired and empowered quilters to do their best work. |
 | July Meeting: Community Sew Day This is fun day where we invite others to come sew with us. You can either bring your own project or join forces with others and work on a charity quilt. Enjoy sewing with friends or come and meet new quilting friends. |
| August Meeting: Quilt Journey Presented by Gloria House |
| September Meeting: Paperpiecing Presented by Chris Hobbs of Story City |
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 | October Meeting: 3 Dog Designs Presented by Carl Hentsch |
| November Meeting : Speaker is Missie Carpenter from Traditional Primitives. Check out patterns and videos https://traditionalprimitives.com/pages.php?pageid=6 |
| December Meeting: Christmas Celebration |
2023 ProgramsJanuary 10th - "Collage Quilting"
February 14th - "Flying Geese: Let me Count the Ways"
March 14th - "Make it your own" April 11th - "I Love Chocolate"
May 9th - "All about the All Iowa Shop Hop"
June 13th - "Effervescent Applique"
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