2025
Meetings & Workshops
-------- 2026 GUILD MEETINGS ---------
Giuseppe Ribaudo, aka "Guicy Guice"
Tuesday, February 17, 7PM, Zoom
Guicy discovered quilting in college and began sewing improvisational quilts before moving into modern traditional territory. Joining Instagram resulted in making long distance friends in the ever-growing quilting community via social media. He pursued a career in textiles after moving back to NYC and after working at Andover Fabrics, first in marketing and then as a multimedia manager, Guicy refocused his energy on fabric design and released his first collection, Quantum, in 2018. His tenth collection, "Nonna", was released in honor of his grandmother in 2021. Currently located in Portland, Maine, Guicy continues to design fabric and patterns, lecture, and teach quilting workshops. For more info, check out GuicyGuice.com
Guests: $5 payable by check or Venmo in advance.
Guests: $5 payable by check or Venmo in advance.
Andrea Hoke of Miss Andrea Quilts, presents,
"A Love of Quilting, A Love of Teaching"
Tuesday, March 17, 7PM, Lower Makefield Township Community Center
Andrea Hoke has been sewing ever since she was a little girl. Fortunate to have a mother who was a Home Economics teacher, she learned to sew and do needlework at a very young age. She grew up sewing her own clothes, participating in 4-H club, and entering her creations in the local county fair.
A Sampler Quilt class in 1991 awakened Andrea’s love of quilting, and she has been stitching quilts ever since. She enjoys all forms of quilting, including hand and machine piecing, appliqué, and hand and machine quilting. She has entered her quilts in the Elizabethtown Fair almost every year for the past 25 years.
“Modern Traditionalist” best describes Andrea’s style. She loves all things vintage, which is reflected in her work. The exploding online quilting community has only fueled her passion for quilting, and as a result, she has “more quilts in her brain than she will be ever be able to stitch in this lifetime!” Andrea enjoys sharing her knowledge and experience and delights in introducing sewing and quilting to others.
A Sampler Quilt class in 1991 awakened Andrea’s love of quilting, and she has been stitching quilts ever since. She enjoys all forms of quilting, including hand and machine piecing, appliqué, and hand and machine quilting. She has entered her quilts in the Elizabethtown Fair almost every year for the past 25 years.
“Modern Traditionalist” best describes Andrea’s style. She loves all things vintage, which is reflected in her work. The exploding online quilting community has only fueled her passion for quilting, and as a result, she has “more quilts in her brain than she will be ever be able to stitch in this lifetime!” Andrea enjoys sharing her knowledge and experience and delights in introducing sewing and quilting to others.
-------- 2026 WORKSHOPS ---------
Tiny Paper-Pieced Lapel Pins with Tina Craig of Seaside Quilts
Saturday, January 24, 2026, 9AM-12PM (Zoom)
Patterns will be provided for an assortment of tiny, machine-stitched paper pieced blocks suitable for beginner to advanced piecers . Instructions will include how to paper-piece tiny blocks and how to complete a lapel pin or magnet. Each student must purchase a $5 kit which includes finishing supplies for 2 pins or magnets. Example shown is 1.5”, Seaside Quilts Workshops
$45 Members/$55 Non-Members (OPEN)
$45 Members/$55 Non-Members (OPEN)
"Learn to Make a Bargello Quilt Using Strips" with Denise Cyhan
Saturday, February 21, 2026, 10AM-2PM (Zoom)
Ever wonder what a Bargello Quilt is? It's actually a style of needlepoint embroidery that uses upright flat stitches to create designs, traditionally in a “flame stitch”. According to Wikipedia, it originated on patterned chairs found in the Bargello Palace in Florence, Italy. Some smart quilter along the way figured out how to replicate the patterns with fabric to create such strikingly beautiful designs. Join Guild member, Denise Cyhan, as she leads a Zoom class on how to create this beautiful design using fabric strips.
$45 Members/$55 Non-Members (OPEN)
$45 Members/$55 Non-Members (OPEN)
“Blue Onion” Quilt with Andrea Hoke of The Old Country Store
Saturday, March 21, 2026, 10AM-4PM (Morrisville Presbyterian Church, Morrisville, PA)
The Blue Onion swirling blocks are made from a variety of contrasting prints. To change it up - make them out of any 12 contrasting prints that you like. The arcs are long and gentle which makes them easy to sew. Work with 6 different prints at a time to make one set of blocks. This makes it easy to make more, just add to the mix in sets of 6 additional rectangles for 6 additional blocks. Or take a practice run with 6 rectangles and turn it into a table runner!
This class requires the Creative Grids® Ovals All Ways Quilt Ruler and the quilt pattern.
$45 Members/$55 Non-Members (OPEN)
This class requires the Creative Grids® Ovals All Ways Quilt Ruler and the quilt pattern.
$45 Members/$55 Non-Members (OPEN)
Paper-Piecing with Pat Clayton
Saturday, May 2, 2026, 10AM-2PM (Morrisville Presbyterian Church, Morrisville, PA)
$45 Members/$55 Non-Members (OPEN) Pattern fee of $5 due to Pat.
Make a Hemingway Bag with Karen Thompson
Saturday, June 13, 2026, 10AM-2PM (Morrisville Presbyterian Church, Morrisville, PA)
$45 Members/$55 Non-Members (OPEN)
* Please note that workshop times vary.
Workshop sign-up policy: Members - you will have received instructions on how to sign up for workshops by email. Guests, please use the Contact page to request information. To reserve your place, payment (via check, made payable to “Newtown Quilters’ Guild”, or cash, or Venmo) will need to be made when signing up. You are not registered until your payment is received. Any kit fee will be payable at the workshop. Classes that do not meet the minimum participation will be cancelled and anyone who signed up will receive a full refund. Sorry, there are no refunds if you decide you cannot attend.