Our monthly meeting takes place the second Thursday of each month at 7:00pm at Hillside Christian Church at 900 NE Vivion Road in Kansas City.   Guests are welcome!

Most of our Nitetime Needlers meetings end with Show and Tell. We celebrate the quilting journey of all our members, whether they are sharing their first project, latest learning, or advanced quilting project like this example by Pam Peugh.

2022 Northland Needlers Quilt Show

Sept 16th - 17th

Hillside Christian Church

900 NE Vivion Road

Kansas City, MO

Our May 2022 meeting was particularly interesting, with Amy Barickman presenting the history of her business: Indygo Junction patterns and Modern Vintage Makers. 

Her presentation detailing her journey in creating and publishing many books, patterns, and classes related to the sewing arts was fascinating.

www.amybarickman.com

At our April meeting, Klonda Holt shared her prolific quilt making output during a trunk show called "A few of my favorite things.” We enjoyed seeing many wonderful quilts including “Big Foot” and several one block wonders.

Our February 2022 program featured Theresa Ward on "Challenges, swaps and exchanges. During her twenty years in the Sunflower Piecemakers Guild in Leavenworth she has made many wonderful quilts which gave us multiple ideas for future guild projects.

During 2020 and 2021, we held a Get ‘er Done Challenge. Each participant submitted a list of projects they wanted to get done, and fat quarters were donated for each month a project wasn’t finished. The winners of the most projects finished were Pam Peugh and Carol Sparks. Jan Maxwell won 90 fat quarters in the drawing.

Above:  King size original star design plus coordinating pillow sham for winter bed dressing.

Right:  Tulip quilt with a lovely scrappy border and prairie point edging.

At our October meeting, Barbara Elkmeier showed us beautiful quilts made from solid fabrics, dating from the late 1800s to present.

In September, Vicky Beasley gave an amazing presentation on making scrap quilts.

Our program for August was a Trunk Show by Kathy Delaney.

Right:  As part of the countdown to the Northland Needlers Quilt Show, we voted on favorite Silent Auction submissions at our August meeting.

• 1st Place - Jackie Keirnan-Hale
• 2nd Place - Lisa Morrow-Welsh
• 3rd Place - Doris Falcone

Nitetime Needlers held a traditional in-person meeting on June 10. The program presented by Kelly Ashton on Fussy and Fabulous—Let the Fabric Work for You was WONDERFUL! She showed many examples of how centering isolated motifs and matching stripes and patterns can take simple blocks to the next level. Her specialty is working with diamonds, triangles and hexagons, but even the square blocks were striking.

Right:  Elements of print fabric are enhanced when centered in hexagons, also creating a more unified design.

Kelly Ashton opened the program showing a quilt her grandmother made before she was born. The carefully cut flower petals inspired her body of work.

Matching stripes carefully on triangles set into squares creates a visually stunning quilt.

Show and Tell:  Mary Ann Heston shows us her latest quilt made from tiny hexagons, paper pieced and quilted by hand.

Our May meeting featured a substitute speaker, but there was nothing substitute about Jackie Keirnan-Hale’s body of artwork. Our guild president artfully combines printed fabrics, colored pencil strokes, hand embroidery and embellishments into wonderful landscapes and nature themed art. There is a reason her beautifully colored and textured work is accepted at many shows. If you missed this, visit her website at https://jackiekeirnanhale.com

Image at right:

An explosion of color and texture

 in this underwater scene!

One of Jackie’s sublimely rendered sunsets.

Art quilt accepted into the Houston International Quilt Festival Landscapes section.

The April program was a show of slides and quilts by Quilt Designer Reeze Hanson on Color Confidence.