Welcome to Quintessential Quilters!

Quintessential Quilters - 2007 Retreat at Deer Creek

We are the Quintessential Quilters of Columbus, Ohio. We meet the 2nd Thursday of each month at Mountview Baptist Church, 2140 Fishinger Road, Columbus, Ohio. Each meeting starts at 7 PM and consists of a business meeting, a program with a featured speaker or event and a wonderful show-and-tell of recent quilts made by our members.

Our officers for 2007-2008 are...

President - Jody Wigton
Vice President - Bobby Brooks
Secretary - Maria Slayman
Treasurer - Lisa West

February 14th – Bernina "Award Winning Quilts"

A 2 hour lecture providing continuing education on quilting techniques for award winning quilts including: piecing, curved piecing, appliqué, embellishments and quilting. No charge for QQ members and $5.00 for non-members. Beth's Creative Stitchery will offer a follow-up "Hands On" all day program the following day as a follow-up to the lecture, February 15th for up to 20 people. Contact Beth's at 436-2611 directly for costs and to sign up for the Friday session.

March 13-15 QQ presents Jane Sassaman

Lecture March 13th at Mountview Baptist Church, 2140 Fishinger Blvd. Upper Arlington. 7PM, $5.00 for non-members
Friday, March 14th, "Abstracting from Nature" workshop. Cost is $60 for members and $65 for non-members.
Saturday, March 15th, "Leaf Sampler" workshop. Cost is $60 for members and $65 for non-members.
For more information, click here to see the Workshops page. To sign up, contact Mary McLoughlin at 4678 Carrington Way, Hilliard, OH 43026, 850-8567 (registration form - PDF).

Read our latest newsletter (PDF).

Find out about our next workshop.

Find out about our next Deer Creek retreat (PDF), and download a registration form (PDF).

In addition, the guild offers a number of other activities in which members may participate including fabric exchanges, block raffles, a secret sister program, an annual quilt challenge (participants make a quilted item using specified fabrics or meeting specific requirements) and an extensive quilt library of books, magazines and videos.

Other opportunities have included a fall weekend retreat to Amish country, quarterly quilt-ins (on Saturdays) and occasional bus trips to regional quilt shops.

QQ is Chapter 139 of The National Quilting Association, Inc. and we encourage all of our members to become members of the NQA as well.