Every monthly guild meeting is at:
Beginning with our February meeting, OQG meetings will be at the Westside Community Center at 3534 S 108th Street, Omaha
2nd Tuesday of each month, August thru May at 7 pm.
Rising Stars meets at 6 pm
2023-2024 Program Schedule
Program: Fun with Panels
Cyndi McChesney Bentonville, Arkansas
August 8, 2023. 7 PM
Cyndi McChesney has been quilting for over 40 years and has enjoyed a wide-ranging and fulfilling career in the quilting industry including as a quilt shop owner, custom quilt maker and instructor throughout the US and Canada at national shows, guilds and quilt shops.
Cyndi achieved the distinguished title of National Quilt Association Certified Teacher of the Year, has won awards in the Hoffman Challenge, the Colorado State Fair, Mancuso Visuals #1 2020, for Best Long-arm Workmanship and the Vermont Quilt Festival 2021 for Exceptional Merit.
Cyndi’s first book, Fun With Panels, C&T Publishing will be available in 2022.
Cyndi’s passion for quilt making is evident in comments from her students and in her never-ending quest to find new techniques and skills to share so that quilting is a fun, enjoyable life-long endeavor.
Fun with this trunk show, Cyndi will let us see in her panel quilts where she got the creative genius to take panels, their images, use other words and ideas to create a totally unique design that takes panels from plain to creative!!
September 12, 2023, 5pm-9pm
Helping Hands Sew-in
Westside Community Center
Program: The Beauty of Scrap Quilting.
Vicky Beasley Leavenworth, KS
October 10, 2023. 7 PM
Vicky’s passion is scrap quilting. She is more excited with a bag of scraps than yardage. 90% of the quilts she makes are made from left over fabrics. Her local quilt shop has a scrap bin with a price tag of “All you can put into a zip lock bag; $5” She has perfected the art of packing a bag.
Vicky will encourage you to turn your scraps into works of Art!!
Vicky’s trunk show is where she shares her passion for all things scrappy! In her trunk shows she shares how she organizes, cuts, and uses her scraps. You will see over 50 quilts where she shares the versatility that quilters have with scraps.
PROGRAM: Piecing with Studio 180 Design Tools
Carol Coniglio, Omaha, NE
November 14, 2023, 7:00 p.m.
Carol began sewing over 50 years ago when she joined the neighborhood 4-H Club. She made her first quilt about 25 years ago, a rag quilt, and found her passion. In 2008, Carol became a partner in a local quilt shop where she shared her love and knowledge of quilting. Carol continues to teach quilting techniques on a variety of topics.
Carol’s trunk show includes quilts made using Studio 180 Design Tools. Quilts include designed for piecing with the tools and some in which she adapted the patterns to use the tools for more accurate and quicker piecing. Join us and learn how to make piecing easier, faster, and more fun.
December 12, 2023
Holiday Party benefiting Children’s Emergency Fund
German American Society
January 9, 2023, 5pm-9pm
Helping Hands Sew-in
Westside Community Center
Program: What’s Old is New Again
David and Teresa Duwe. Overland Park, KS
February 13, 2024. 7 PM
David is self-taught and began quilting in the early 1990’s. He loved woodworking and thought of the sewing machine as just another tool he could use. He would watch quilting shows on television and go into local quilt shops to study their display quilts. He then would go home and make his own creations. Teresa would get frustrated with having to pick up all the loose threads around the house and didn’t become interested in quilting until after a trip to the Houston International Quilt show in 2005. She too became infected with the Quilting Bug and David became her first teacher.
David is a traditional piecer and Teresa leans toward more modern techniques. Together they like to exchange ideas for new quilts using both of their skill sets. They love to coteach other quilters, whether beginner or experienced, and offer several different classes. They both have had quilts displayed at Houston and Paducah and have had quilts travel the country with the Hoffman Challenge Quilts. They have won various ribbons throughout their careers including Best of Show at the Kansas State Fair.
We will share with you over 40 of our quilts that have been repurposed with antique fabric or recreated with newer techniques. With hand-me-down linens, family pieces and found fabrics, these quilts will give you different ideas so that you can go home and repurpose your own fabric treasures.
Program: A Funny Thing Happened to Me When I Moved to Utah
Patricia Beaver, Salina, KS
March 12, 2024. 7 PM
Patricia started sewing at a very young age. Her father often said that “Patricia is going to die with a needle in her hand.” She then spent her teenage years in Utah, where she began in earnest sewing and quilting. An avid quilter, Patricia enjoys all styles of quilts and tries to learn new techniques. She is a lecturer, judge, and teacher. Patricia has taught in California, Oregon, Nevada, Arizona, Kansas and even Rome, Italy. In her mission as a teacher, she has vowed to meet people at their own skill level and then challenge them to go one step farther in their skills.
In her program Patricia chronicles her quilting journey with quilts that she has made in each leg of her quilting career. She reveals that she started quilting when she started high school in Utah. Her family was living in a large city in California, then her father was sent to Cross Roads, UT. When they moved to Utah, the nearest high school was 75 miles, one way. The Home Ec teacher told the class at the beginning of her freshman year “You have 4 years of Home Ec. You will start as a freshman, and by your senior year, you will finish making a quilt.” Once she started, she was hooked, and it has been a lifelong passion for her.
Program: Quilting with Precuts
Karen Hill. Spring Hill, KS
April 9, 2024. 7PM
Quilting is one of Karen’s passions and she makes time every day to enjoy it. She also creates patterns and teaches about quilting. Karen helps every quilter to improve their skills and have fun in class. Her patterns are available at The Quilted Sunflower in Spring Hill, KS.
I enjoy working with precuts because I get to use every fabric in the line without buying yardage. It allows me to do scrappy quilts MY WAY. I will discuss things I have learned to help you be successful when creating with precut fabrics. Unique quilts included in the trunk show will inspire you to take one of your precuts off the shelf and make a quilt!
Program: Bargello and 3-D Quilts
Ruth Anne Berry, Fife Lake, Michigan
May 14, 2024 7 PM
Ruth Ann owned and operated a small-town pharmacy for many years before converting her store into a quilt shop, The Quilter’s Clinic. She enjoys writing quilt books and designing individual patterns representing a variety of styles and techniques.
In her program, Ruth Ann will show us that 3-D designs create the impression of motion and depth, especially Bargello and other 3D or geometric styles. Bargello looks difficult, but is simple, and a key to a good bargello is the choice of color for the quilt. She has written two books so far and blogs at www.quiltersclinic.com