March 2024

Meeting Day Program

March 14, 2024

Gyleen Fitzgerald - Trunk Show - "Path to Modern"

Gyleen Fitzgerald makes quilts that blend color, pattern, and texture to provide a contemporary essence in traditional quilting. Her strength as a quilter is demonstrated by the infusion of engineering tools and innovative techniques to simplify visually complex quilts. She shares her enthusiasm for quilting through interactive lectures and workshops. As a writer, Gyleen centers on haiku poetry, quilt project books, magazine articles and children's books.

An avid quilter, Gyleen has earned Best of Show honors and as a publisher, she is a Gold Medal winner for Quilts: Unfinished Stories with New Endings. She is best known for inspiring Trash to Treasure Pineapple Quilts and the creation of the Pineapple Tool by Gyleen.

Gyleen has appeared on The Quilt Show and Lifetime TV promoting a contemporary spirit in traditional quiltmaking.

For Gyleen, dreams hold no limits. Ray, her husband, is her shining light and quilting is her passion; together they color her world in a very special way.

Gyleen is a Philadelphia, PA native, who spent her formative years in Taiwan and Japan.

Workshop: March 15 - "Bending Star"

Gyleen Fitzgerald

Crisp and clean design lines are colored to bend. Image is everything and that image is controlled by color placement and precision piecing. Learn the butterfly seam, the criss-cross seam, and how to inlay a star in a pieced background. The entire design is machine pieced… It’s easier than you can imagine! Size: 38” x 43”

Pay Gyleen day of class:

Pattern Fee: $10

Polygon 3 Tool: $14

Bending Star - Gyleen X Fitzgerald

Gyleen Fitzgerald Bending Star

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Workshop: March 16 - "Engaged"

Gyleen Fitzgerald

Are you ready for love? It’s a Polygon Affair. “Engaged” combines 4 shapes (diamonds, pyramids, hexagons and cones) into one stunning quilt all cut from your stash. You will learn how to construct a Butterfly Seam for effortless stitching. It’s so easy, you’ll fall in love. Size of the finished quilt is 73” x 72”.

{Pay Gyleen day of class:

Pattern Fee: $10

Polygon Tool: $14