Beach Cities Quilters Guild
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WHAT'S HAPPENING IN 2025

April 10, 2025

Would you like to learn how to create collage quilts from a Laura Heine certified teacher? If your answer is yes, hurry and sign up for April’s workshop featuring Susan Nash.

Susan believes that collage quilting is like a combination of a jigsaw puzzle and paper dolls. By selecting bright, cheerful, and whimsical fabrics you can create a new artistic design infused with your own personality.

She’ll show us what tools and tricks are used to properly assemble multiple layers of fabric to achieve a seamless look. And there is no patchwork or sewing done until the very end when you are securing the layers. This workshop will help develop your "editing" eye.

Members can sign up to make either the featherweight or the pin cushion.

When you sign up, specify which pattern you’d like, and Susan will prepare the kit ahead of time. All sign-ups must be made before March 19, 2025, to ensure a completed kit. Kits are $50.

May 8, 2025

In May we’ll welcome Gwen Weedon to our guild meeting. She has been Quilting for over 25 years on the Central Coast of California and started teaching Quilting workshops 20 years ago. She’s taught at San Luis Obispo Adult Ed. quilting classes, local quilt shops and many California Quilt Guilds.

Gwen is an artist who has attended art schools and Long Beach State University. She was a professional graphic artist for 10 years and has won several ribbons for her quilts throughout the years. Her lecture will feature a trunk show and the story of her quilting journey.

The workshop, “Ocean Art Quilt” is a free motion curved piecing advanced technique

All students will have one on one assistance in learning this new technique Gwen developed over the years.

By the end of class all students will have successfully finished a quilt top.

JUNE 12, 2025
Marjan Kluepfel

Fabric is Majan Kluepfel's Art.

She’s held quilting and creativity workshops and lectures for more than 25 years and loves teaching her techniques to inspiring budding artists and meeting quilters from all over the world.

Marjan is an artist who uses fabric and thread as her medium instead of paper and paint....and a sewing machine instead of a brush. The texture, color and prints of fabrics fascinate her and often give her inspiration for a new design. She seldom draws out a quilt plan, instead allowing the fabrics and textures to lead her.

Most of her designs are organic. They’re influenced by her love of nature and all its wonders.

She grew up in the Netherlands and has lived in Florida, Hawaii, South Carolina and Australia. She now makes her home in Northern California. Her inspiration comes from all the natural wonders she’s encountered through her travels.