Upcoming Local Shows

QCNYS Member Meeting Wednesday, March 16 via Zoom  9:15AM – 9:45AM  Business Breakout - The Village Quilt Shoppe The Village Quilt Shoppe is for quilters of all ages and skill levels, offering fabric from many designers/vendors, all types of patterns, notions,  wool, embroidery and classes.   We are very excited to be showcasing some of our products before the March QCNYS meeting.   Join us as we showcase our newest lines, great patterns and notions.  There will be fat quarter  & wool bundles, table runner and quilt kits, our most popular patterns and notions for you to purchase.  If you miss us on Zoom visit us at 21 East Main Street,  Webster, New York.

Wednesday, August 24th - Sunday, August 28th, 2022  at The Y at Watson Woods (formerly known as Watson Homestead Conference Center) 9620 Dry Run Road, Painted Post, NY 14870  Quilting Connections 2022 our annual Member Meeting, a Lecture/Trunk Show and Master Class with Gyleen X Fitzgerald, the three or four-day NYS Quilters Retreat and Sewciety Night with The Quilt Lady!

TRAVEL CLUB PASSPORT are in production.  The QCNYS Board is making arrangements to get passports out as soon as they are received from the printer.  Travel Club Passports will be available at the first quilt shows of the year and at other locations for your guild members.  FIRST QUILT SHOW INFO !! The Irondequoit Quilt Show proudly presents our quilt show “Festival of Quilts”! The show will be held March 26 (10 AM – 4 PM) and March 27 (1PM – 5PM) at St. Cecilia’s Church, 2732 Culver Rd (immediately north of route 104). We will be presenting over 250 of our quilts as well as having vendors, a boutique and raffle baskets. Tickets are $5 at the door or $4 for QCNYS passport holders.

Create a quilt using your favorite construction method within three categories of a childhood game. Rock includes traditional blocks/piecing, whole cloth quilts and yo-yo methods Paper includes any type of foundation piecing method   Scissors includes any appliqué method. The number of entries in each category may answer the age-old question of Rock/Paper/Scissors superiority.  Entries may combine techniques and participants will be asked to choose which category best represents their entries.    More Information & Call for Entry at www.qcnys.org/challenge/