Events & Workshops
November Workshop
Saturday, November 1, 2025, 9 AM- 3 PM
David Sirota will teach paper piecing for the 21st century. Are you curious about paper piecing? Do you and paper piecing already have a love/hate relationship? Do you love the accuracy you achieve, but hate the process of getting there? Well, this class will change that to a LOVE, and kind of an addictive relationship.
We’ll be using the versatile, graphic, complex, quite simple Storm at Sea pattern to learn David’s “No More Tears” © method of paper piecing. Although we won’t be finishing the entire project in class, you’ll have a good start, and the tools you’ll need to finish it at home, in half the time you’d expect from paper piecing.
Cost is $45.00 for members, $55.00 for non-members. Contact the Guild at rrqmiddletown@gmail.com to sign up.
November Meeting
Sunday, November 2, 2025, 2-4 PM Poricy Park Nature Center
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This will be our annual business meeting.
January Meeting
Sunday, January 4, 2025, 2-4 PM Poricy Park Nature Center & via Zoom
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This will be a hybrid meeting.
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Meg Cox will inspire our new year of quilting with her thoughts on Making Meaning: How Quilters Celebrate Life.
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Meg’s two main specialties are FAMILY TRADITIONS and QUILTING, two wildly misunderstood topics. Both are thought to be old-fashioned and un-hip which could not be farther from the truth. An expert on tradition who has written four books on ritual, Meg Cox shares examples of quilters’ celebrations but also shows powerful ideas from her own life. She shares what she has learned in 20 years of research about what makes traditions unforgettable.
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Meg was hired as a staff writer by the Wall Street Journal at age 24, and worked at the WSJ in Chicago and New York for 17 years. She continues to contribute weekend arts features to the Journal.
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Meg has written for many national magazines, and has lectured and taught all over the country.  Meg also serves on the board of advisors for the International Quilt Museum in Lincoln, Nebraska.