Antelope Valley Quilt Association
Welcome!
This page was last updated on: July 1, 2010
Photograph of poppies in the Antelope Valley by Rita Steffenson. Spring 2003.
Summary of Our Web Pages

About Us:  Our history, purpose, and officers
Calendar:  Scheduled guild meetings, California quilt shows
Contact Us:  Map to meeting location, feedback form
Activities: Information and photos from meetings, retreats,  shows, etc.
Quilt Show:  Photos of quilts from past quilt shows
News:  Newsletter and items of interest to members and others
Links:  Members' web sites, e-mail links, list to teachers, links to other guilds and quilting sites



Hospitality - Members with the last names starting with the letters below are asked to bring something deliciously edible or drinkable for sharing: V thru A

Remember to wear your name tag & bring back your library books.


Antelope Valley Fairgrounds
J.P Eliopulous Pavilion
2551 W. Avenue H (at the 14 Fwy)
Lancaster, CA 93536
Admission: $7.00 (covers both days!)
Husbands and chjildren under 12 FREE
Quilt Displays
Quilt Auction
Boutique
Merchant Mall
Door Prizes
Children's Quilt Coloring Workshop

FREE!! AVQA Name Tag Patterns
Appliqued Poppy
Paper Pieced Poppy

GENERAL MEETINGS
2nd Thursday each month
6:30 p.m. - Doors open at 6:00 p.m.
Lancaster United Methodist Church
918 W. Avenue J
Lancaster, California

Guild Meetings

BOARD MEETING
3rd Tuesday each month
6:30 p.m.
Big City Fabrics
15th St. West
Lancaster, California
Visitors Welcome!
AVQA member Kathy Amparan  grew up here in the Antelope Valley. She made her first quilt in the 1970's from that quintessentially 70's fabric, polyester. She says she didn't make her first real quilt until 1990 when she lived in Wrightwood and became friends with the owner of the quilt shop there.

Kathy has developed her skills as a painter through oil painting and wearable arts classes that included silk painting and dyeing. She started applying these techniques to her quilts.

In her workshop, "Paint Your Quilt," Kathy will teach different methods for using Paintstiks with stencils and rubbing plates to create original and unique designs.  The workshop will be held on Saturday, July 10, at Bolts in the Bathtub. You can register for the class by calling Jamie Harrington at 947.7604, or you can sign up at the July guild meeting.

You're invited to meet us for dinner with Kathy before the guild meeting at Texas Cattle Co., 44206 10th St. W. in Lancaster. We'll meet there at 5:00 p.m.

MYSTERY QUILT PATTERN:  AVQA Scrappy Mystery Quilt, designed by Mary Brewer for the 2010 Quilt Show Home Tour, is now available here FREE.  Just click here!

T-SHIRT COMMISSION:  Karen Wurfel has a friend who is looking for someone to commission for a T-shirt quilt. If you are interested, please call her at the following number:  Marianne Alvillar home: 802-7536 or cell: 444-4074

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED:   As of today, we do not have enough people signed up for white glove duty at the Long Beach International Quilt Festival and opportunity quilts ticket sales at the show. If you can help with this, please call Kathy Judkins at 661 266.9048 or email k.judkins@sbcglobal.net as soon as possible.




Kathy Amparan
“Polyester to Paint”
July 9
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