New Mexico Quilters Association
"We're Enchanted With Quilting!"
Join NMQA's Community Service Committee every Tuesday to cut, sew, & quilt! Pick up kits and drop off work! Stay the entire time! Everyone welcome!
NMQA members donate more than 500 quilts per year to Albuquerque’s sick and needy children and adults. Community Service is a cornerstone of the organization! Our mission is to give the gift of warmth and love through beautiful handmade, lap-sized quilts.
We meet every Tuesday from 9:30 - 1:30. Bring your machine and favorite tools. We have the fabric. There are two restaurants at either end of the mall or you can bring your lunch to the refrigerator in our area.
Join the Quilt Bank Committee, a respected NMQA tradition!
We meet the third Monday of each month. Members work together to create stunning quilts for not-for-profit groups in the Albuquerque metropolitan community to raffle for their own fundraising and outreach efforts.
"Scrumptious Star Stitchery" Workshop
with Gail Garber
It's NMQA's 50th Anniversary Celebration Weekend and the perfect time to Stitch a Star Today! This class, held at The Quilt Works in Albuquerque, is especially tailored for the novice paper foundation-piecer. Working with one of Gail’s designs, learn the ins and outs of this fascinating technique that enables the student to stitch very complex designs with ease and best of all, accuracy. $15.00 pattern fee includes both the 30.5″ octagon and the 39″ square.
Cost: $45 Member/$65 Non-Member, plus $15 pattern fee payable to instructor.
Skill Level: All levels
NMQA Cancellation Policy: If NMQA cancels a workshop, you will receive a refund of the workshop fee via U.S. mail. However, due to contract obligations with instructors, NMQA is unable to provide refunds if you cancel your participation in a workshop and the Guild is not able to fill your place from a waiting list.
50th Anniversary Celebration!
featuring Gail Garber
NMQA is turning 50th! You're invited to join us at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center in Albuquerque to celebrate with a special luncheon and lecture featuring Gail Garber. Besides the lunch and lecture, we'll have a display of quilts from NMQA's history, as well as door prizes and giveaways!
Schedule:
10:30 - Doors open & registration. Come early to browse the many quilts we'll have displayed
11:00 - Welcome & Introductions
11:30 - Luncheon
12:30 - Presentation: "What Goes Around Comes Around," featuring Gail Garber
1:30 - Wrap up and door prizes
Cost: $25 for members and former NMQA Presidents
$45 for non-members
About Gail: Bold, colorful, and stunning geometric designs with flying geese galore – that’s how you know you’re looking at one of Gail’s quilts! Her style has become immediately recognizable because of her talent for combining vivid colors with intricate piecework. Her geometric star quilts and pictorial quilts have won awards at shows throughout the U.S. and have been featured in publications worldwide. For Gail, quilting began as a whim, when friends convinced her to take a hand-quilting class. Quiltmaking quickly became a passion. Gail’s early quilts are traditional with conservative fabric choices. By 1984, she began exploring original design. In 1987, she was NMQA's President.
"Little Goose, Little Goose, Fly Away Home!" Workshop
Top off NMQA's 50th Anniversary Celebration Weekend by taking this workshop where you can learn how to create this charming house block with a flying goose insert in a fun, one day class. The class is designed for students of all skill levels who wish to learn Gail’s creative design and piecing processes and techniques in a low stress, easy to finish class! Students will get an introduction to original design concepts and have detailed instruction in freezer paper piecing techniques and curved seam piecing. There is a $15 pattern and workbook fee. Fabric kits are available for $30.
Business Meeting & Member-Led Demos
This is the meeting where we vote on important items, such as the new Board and the 2025 Budget so make sure it's on your calendar!
We'll also have Show & Tell at the meeting! If you're attending in person, bring your item with you and if you're attending through zoom, send your photos to Kris Lange, klange@email.com at least 48 hours before the meeting.
Finish up NMQA's 50th Anniversary year with a fun evening of food and friendship (and maybe a game or two!) at the annual NMQA Holiday Party!
NMQA will be providing drinks along with plates, cups and silverware, but it's a dinner-time potluck, so bring something to share. Appetizers, main dishes, salads and holiday cookies/desserts are all good!
Bring a cherished holiday themed quilt or wall hanging we can display at the meeting for everyone's enjoyment. Quilts with sleeves will be hung and others can be shown during a holiday show and tell -- come at 6 pm if you bring a quilt so there is time to hang it.
In addition, there will be lots of door prizes this year, so plan now to attend!
We'll have Show & Tell at the meeting! If you're attending in person, bring your item with you and if you're attending through zoom, send your photos to Kris Lange, klange@email.com at least 48 hours before the meeting.
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