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Sept. 11, 2025 Virtual Lecture

Got Color? The Ultimate Color Lecture by Linda Sullivan

It’s no surprise that Linda loves color and love creating colorful contemporary fabric designs and patterns! With over 22 years experience as a professional designer and quiltmakers, Linda is intensely passionate about bold bright colors, midcentury modern art and contemporary pattern design. Always searching for a twist on the traditional, her fabric designs and quilt patterns are well known for their modern look, spontaneous movement and fearless use of color. Through the years, she has designed three fabric collections, authored two books and

have been featured in several national quilting publications. Today, she resides in Palm Springs, California and enjoy collaborating together in her design company, Colourwerx designing fabric, quilt patterns and traveling across the country to share her love of color, quilting and contemporary design.

Boost your color confidence and learn to use every color of the rainbow in your quilts. Linda will discuss the basics of color theory, demonstrate color concepts, mood boards and share her tips and tricks on how to ,find color inspiration in everyday objects to inspire, infuse and ignite the color in your next quilting project.

Oct. 16, 2025 In person lecture

My Quiltwerxs Journey by Susan Deshensky

Since 2017, Susan has been a Quiltworx Certified Instructor, who teaches at quilt shops, quilt guilds and retreats. She attends trainings with Judy Niemeyer on a regular basis. She has also taken many classes with Jacqueline deJonge of BeColourful Quilts. She takes great pride in learning the latest techniques and continuing her textile education, so that she can pass this information on to her students. Since 2023, she has been an Island Batik Brand Ambassador. She is also a pattern designer and her original designs have been published in over twenty-

five magazines.  Her quilts have won several awards, including 3rd place at AQS Paducah and 1st place at MQX New England. Several of her quilts have also been juried into AQS exhibits and featured in the AQS 2025 and 2026 engagement calendars. Susan is delighted to share in her Quiltwerxs journey. 

This lecture will be accompanied by an in-person workshop on Oct 17th!!! See Workshop Section to sign up!

Jan. 8 , 2026 – Virtual lecture

Challenge Yourself by Mel Beach

Mel Beach is an award-winning fiber/mixed-media artist who loves to create through play each and every day. Mel thrives on stretching her creativity through more than one hundred quilt challenges and completing seven 100-Day Projects since 2020, each inspired by daily dice rolling. Mel’s fiber art has been juried into prestigious art venues and traveling exhibitions, while earning top awards and honors along the way. Mel and her artwork have 

been featured on The Quilt Show with Alex Anderson and Ricky Tims, Quilting Arts TV hosted by Susan Brubaker Knapp, popular quilting podcasts, and published in several quilting books and magazines.

Mel is an in-demand lecturer and instructor, offering a variety of fun and inspirational quilting programs to inspire others to create with confidence and joy.

Discover the world of Quilt Challenges and the many opportunities awaiting you (and your quilts!) Join me as I recount my adventures (including a few misadventures) while participating in Quilt Challenges at both the local and national/international level. I hope to inspire you by sharing my own quilts and their stories, along with tips/tricks that I hope will inspire and encourage you to enter your own quilts, regardless of style or level of experience/skill!    

This lecture will be followed by a virtual workshop on Jan 10, 2026. See Workshop Section to sign up!

Feb. 12, 2026 – Virtual Lecture

Joyful, Modern, Architecture-Inspired Quilts by Cathy Perlmutter

Cathy Perlmutter started quilting more than 30 years ago, as a hobby during a career in journalism. Her quilting and sewing books include, ‘Scrap Cities, Joyful Modern Architecture Inspired Quilts’, ‘Quilted New York: Celebrate the City with Fabric and Color’, 'Hexagon Star Quilts: 113 English Paper-Pieced Star Patterns to Piece and Appliqué', ‘Stitch-a-hedron: English Paper Pieced Polyhedron Gifts and Accessories to Sew’, and more. Her books and patterns can be found in her Etsy shop at https://www.etsy.com/shop/CathyPStudio. Find her on Instagram @cathy.perlmutter. See her quilts and learn more about her publications and online classes, on her website at cathyperlmutter.com.

I have been quilting for 30+ years, and have loved nearly every minute of it (except pin-basting). I've never met a quilt fad I didn't try, and my current favorites include English Paper Piecing, and Modern quilts, especially triangle- and star-based quilts. 

But I've never had more fun than with the cityscapes I've been making in the last seven years. I was never good at drawing, so while I liked the idea of cityscapes, I never dared to make one. I fell into it by accident, in 2017, when trying to make abstract ladders! That quilt wound up looking more like a city skyline than ladders! That launched an obsession, and by now, I've made quilts, small and large, inspired by structures in New York City (where I was born), Los Angeles (where I live now), Chicago (where one of my clients was grew up), and many fantasy lands. I'll take you on my journey, including a whirlwind tour of real cities, real buildings, and how I translated them into fabric. No need for drawing ability, and I usually don't do photo replication. I strive to capture the idea of the building, add fantasy elements when I want to and do a fair amount of improvisation; not only because improv is fun, but because it also reflects reality (I will prove it). My buildings are mostly pieced. I have a unique method for turning edges back DURING piecing so that when each building is finished it has neat-folded edges and can easily and quickly be placed anywhere in the scene, even partially overlapping other buildings, like in real cities. Learn this and other tricks I use to give cityscapes dimension, perspective and the "wow" factor. People tell me that after this lecture or class, they never look at buildings the same way again!

This lecture will be followed by a virtual workshop on Feb 14th, 2026: Improv Log Cabin Triangle Kaleidoscope Quilt. Please see Workshop Section to sign up.

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