Programs
2025-2026 Guild Programs
March 18, 2026: 
Alena Joling (from Moleta Artisanal Sharpening)
Morning Lecture
● All About Scissors
Bring items- sharpening done during presentation
All About Scissors
Learn everything about how to take better care of your scissors and how to tell when it’s time to get them sharpened versus when to buy a new pair. Moleta exposes scissor sharpening myths and what to look for when shopping for new a new pair!
https://www.moletausa.com
2026-2027 Guild Programs
April 15, 2026
Rhonda Pierce SCHMETZ Needles
Title: SCHMETZ: What Needle Should I Use?
Presenter: Rhonda Pierce, Spokesperson, SCHMETZ needles
Confused about what needle to use? What do all those numbers mean on the needle package? Is changing the needle really important before it breaks? What needle should I use? Successful sewing is often about paying attention to the little things – like the needle in your sewing machine. Get the low-down about how this little pieceof steel can solve some very BIG problems, including broken threads, skipped stitches and puckered fabrics. Your sewing machine is an investment and protection begins by using the very best needle.
Bio: Rhonda Pierce has a dream job … teaching sewing enthusiasts about the hardest working 2” piece of steel in the sewing machine – the SCHMETZ needle. She lives in the Chicago area. Whether presenting SCHMETZ virtually or in-person, she averages 100+ presentations annually, and happily provides SCHMETZ facts to make your stitching easier. Rhonda created and published 100 issues of SCHMETZ Inspired to SEW ezine. She publishes the “must read” Schmitz needles monthly newsletter. Her quilt, Color Splash, hung at three International Quilt Festivals.
Rhonda’s personal website is www.SewMoreStitches.com.
May 2, 2026
Coach Bus Trip to Rockford Sinnissippi Quilts Show
Bus trip includes entrance fee, bus and tip
https://sinnissippiquilters.org/2024-quilt-show
May 20, 2026
LoveNComfort Work day
June 17, 2026
Phyllis Fay Motivate Me to Use My Stash
Phyllis Fay’s website: https://www.pfayquilts.com
She will be presenting to us on “Motivate Me to Use My Stash” on June 17, 2026.
July 15, 2026
Judy Zoelzer Levine
Lecture- Sewing Room Solutions
A look at how quilters have solved workspace, storage, and organizational problems. This lecture covers from neatnik to slob and is a must for anyone who when ready to work hates spending most of the time looking for scissors!
Afternoon Workshop
Silks, Satins, and Other Fun Stuff- Taking the Fear Out of Handling the “Other” Fabrics
You’ve been lured by those wonderful lustrous fabrics all your life but know they are difficult to work with. This is an in depth look at assorted “fun” fabrics, how to make them work for quilting and a look at the supplies that make them easier to use.
Website: https://www.judylevine.com
I learned to sew at age 10 and I have had a very close relationship with my sewing machine ever since. At 13 I started needle working, including knitting, cross-stitch, needlepoint and tatting. In 1983 my Godmother gave me a quilt top she had made before her marriage in 1945. My aunt encouraged me to design a quilting pattern that reflected the embroidered top. I was hooked. I knew this was going to be my creative outlet. My first quilts were very traditional. I saw immediately room to experiment and play. Because of my sewing experience, I have always enjoyed beautiful fabrics. It seems only natural that I include these fabrics in my quilts. I now specialize in quilts that incorporate special fabrics such as silk, lame’ and lace.
Quilting to me is a personal expression. My quilts are now abstract original designs that evoke a personal response in each viewer. Each quilt develops intuitively allowing me the artistic freedom to create. I start with an idea , then allow the quilt to evolve as the texture of each new fabric is added. I produce my quilts by machine using a variety of techniques and fabrics. This sense of freedom in both uses of fabric and construction makes every quilt both a challenge and an adventure. I enjoy creating my quilts and look forward to each new experience.
August 19, 2026
Mary Reilly Kliss
Botanical Dying
Mary Reilly-Kliss is a retired reading/language arts teacher, bee keeper, and coordinator of the Washington County Community Garden in West Bend. She creates botanical eco print apparel, gift items and dyed and printed fabric for others to use for their own creations. She has been an exhibitor at the Art in the Burg Art Fair in Cedarburg, WI.
Morning Lecture
Botanical Dying Original Art from Mother Nature.
Mary will give an overview of the botanical eco dying process including preparing fabric, dye choices, and bundling and unbundling projects.
Afternoon Workshop
Foliage and Flowers on Fabric
Use flower pounding to create your own art on fabric. After a demo, participants will be provided with prepared fabric to make their own original art on fabric.
September 16, 2026
Kristen Weiss
Wool Appliqué with Embroidery and Afternoon workshop.
October 21, 2026
Linda Halpin
Trunk show 50 years of quilting
https://www.lindahalpin.com/
Afternoon Workshop
Pinwheel Victoriana
November 18, 2026
Vicki Spiering
Trunk show of Award Winning Quilts & Conversation
Vicki Spiering has been making quilts for over 30 years.
Vicki is a competitor and winner at state, national and international quilt shows. She will share her quilts, shares her techniques and inspirations behind some of her most interesting creations as well as judges critiques.
Her talk blends humor with heart felt emotions that will leave you inspired to take on your next quilting challenge.
December 9, 2026
Holiday Party
January 20, 2027
Member Round Robin
February 17, 2027
Cyndi McChesney – a quilt artist, author, long-arm quilter, teacher and lecturer who revels in finding simple solutions to complex questions about quilt making and quilt design.
I am the author of Fun with Panels and Playful Panel Quilts C&T Publishing, available now directly from me or at your local quilt shop!
Morning Lecture Panel Palooza Trunk Show
In this informative and entertaining trunk show I’ll show you how to take that panel you fell in love with and turn it into something truly unique. You’ll experience my good, bad and AH HA moments as I learned how to work with the different styles of panels and how adding interesting block treatments and borders and filling those pesky open spaces with patchwork or appliqué results in a truly special quilt.
March 17, 2027
Angelica Sanchez Mora
Cultural Cloth
Past Programs 2025-26
April 16, 2025: Timna Tarr
Morning Lecture/ Trunk Show (Zoom)
● Stitched Mosaics
https://www.timnatarr.com
May 21, 2025
From 9-3
● Love ‘N Comfort
Join members in creating charity quilts
● Moleta Artisanal Sharpening: available starting at 10am
Bring your dull scissors/ garden tools/ knives
https://www.moletausa.com
Alena Joling was busy as we gathered 102 items to be sharpened! Plus she donated her time and skills to sharpen 15-20 church kitchen knives and office scissors.
June 18, 2025: Sheri Cifaldi-Morrill
Morning Lecture (90 min. via Zoom) Aurifilosophy
Sheri Cifaldi-Morrill
https://www.wholecirclestudio.com/
GIVEAWAY FOR MEMBERS OF THE NORTH SHORE QUILT GUILD
At the end of the presentation, I’ll be doing a giveaway of a Whole Circle Studio PDF pattern. To be entered for a chance to win, please fill out this form BEFORE June 17th at 8pm (the evening before the presentation): https://www.wholecirclestudio.com/giveaway-northshorequiltguild/
July 16, 2025: Ann Crowl Meyer
Morning Lecture
● Art Quilting from Vacation Photos
Instagram (@anncrowlmeyer)
To start God gave me the gift to see color in all its many nuances and as a child my favorite “toy” was my box of 64 crayons and a pair of scissors.
I asked for an electric sewing machine for Christmas at age 12 as we only had a Singer treadle. In those years I was making clothes and went off to college in 1971 for fashion design at Drexel University in Philadelphia, took lots of drawing and painting classes and art history, too. Switched my major to interior design, got married, started my own business, had 3 children, husband’s career moved us a couple times and I really found quilting when we moved to Wisconsin in 1995 for his engineering job at Harley. I quickly went from taking classes to giving classes at my local quilt shop in Slinger. It took awhile for me to get over the finished seams thing and start art quilting about 2007.
I won Viewer’s Choice at Madison that year and also bought a Gammill Longarm which I don’t recommend if you really want to do Art Quilts. I sold my Longarm in 2018 and now I’m back to doing Art Quilts. I really love to turn my travel photos into Art Quilts. I will show you my process using photos of the progression of two of my award winning Art Quilts “Reflections of Honfleur” and “The Gardener’s Cottage” which will be on display along with a few other pieces.
August 20, 2025: Leah Evans
Morning Lecture/ Trunk Show
● Quilting the Land (abstract map art)
https://www.leahevanstextiles.com
September 17, 2025: Chris Lynn Kirsch
Morning Lecture
● Modular Memory Quilts
Cancelled Afternoon Workshop
● Fall into Replique
https://www.chrisquilts.net/
October 17 and 18, 2025
(set up Oct. 16th) Quilt Show
November 19, 2025: Lisa Binkley
Morning Lecture
● Bead Embellishment Design on Quilts
https://www.lisabinkley.com
December 10, 2025
● Holiday Party 10 am
January 21, 2026: Emily Taylor/ Judy Stippich
Morning Lecture (Zoom)
● Collage Quilting with Emily
https://collagequilter.com
Afternoon Workshop
● Create a Collage with Judy (in person)
http://judysartquilts.com/
February 18, 2026: Elayne West The Sewing Basket, Plymouth Wisconsin
Elayne West from The Sewing Basket in Plymouth, WI is back! Have you been to her shop lately? She has multiple mannequins around the shop modeling so many creative outfits made out of the fabrics we love so much. Elayne will be here talking about “Clothing -from zippers to —!”
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