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Quilt Guild Activities
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Special Activities
Quilts for all Seasons the FGQG Quilt Show is coming October 11, 2025
for more information visit Quilts for all Seasons
The Flying Geese Quilter's Guild Quilt Auction
Quilt Auction
at the Clifton C. Miller Community Center
300 Centennial Way, Tustin CA 92780
from 1pm - 4pm
Dessert, Quilt Viewing, Raffle Baskets, etc. from 1 pm - 2 pm
Live Auction 2pm - 4 pm
Up Coming events
Community Education 2025
The goal of Community Education is to promote the art and history of quilting.
Our members have displayed quilts at Heritage Hill Park in Lake Forest to celebrate each of the Park's major events:
- October Festivals
- Mid December Candlelight Tour - December 2025
Tustin Home and Garden Tour - Spring 2025
Annual Promenade Home and Garden Tour
The FGQG will present a mini quilt show during the home tour at the Presbyterian Church, Old Town Tustin.
Home Tour Tickets. Presale $tbd at www.tustinhistory.com
Orange County Fair - Mid-July to mid-August 2025. The FGQG has had an exhibit at the Orange County Fair for many years. In previous years our booth was in the Home Arts Building and volunteers demonstrated how quilts are made and sometimes presented a trunk show on stage. It was always an invigorating day, showing people some of the projects we work on, especially our philanthropy work. Hopefully organizations will be able to demonstrate their activities in person at the fair again next year.
check the calendar of events for other quilt activities
Philanthropy
The Philanthropy Team works together to sew and collect items such as quilts, flannel receiving blankets, burp clothes (burpees), pillowcases or placemats to donate to organizations throughout Orange County and beyond.
The Philanthropy Team meets on the first Friday of the month to organize projects, materials, and plan for upcoming Sew Days.
If you are interested in joining the Philanthropy Team, please contact :
- Sew Days: Sew days are a fun and productive day where guild members volunteer to sew quilt tops that will be quilted and bound and to donate to charitable organizations. Other items like pillowcases, placemats, flannel blankets, and burp clothes (burpees) may be sewn.
- Sew Days are held the 3rd Wednesday of each month from 10:00 AM – 1:30 PM. at the Orange Quilt Bee (Check newsletter or call to make sure that there has not been a date change). No Sew Day in December.
- Donations of completed items and/or fabric can be made at the monthly guild meetings and/or at Sew Days. When you donate, you sign up to be entered into a monthly drawing for an Orange Quilt Bee gift card.
- Quilts made by guild members are donated to CAST, Stand Up for Kids, VITAS, OC Memorial Hospital Cancer, and St. Joseph’s Adult Oncology Center. We make pillowcases for CHOC and VITAS. The Irvine Senior Center receives ongoing donations of placemats to use with the Meals on Wheels program. We make receiving blankets, burp clothes, and baby quilts for baby showers supporting wives of the deployed Marines from Camp Pendleton and 29 Palms Marine Bases.
- Quilt sizes accepted: Baby, Lap/Throw (adult and children themed), Twin Bed (used for young adults moving out of foster care). Here are approximate dimensions but we accept quilts of any size!
- Babies - 30"x40"; and above. Remember babies will grow into them (for our Military Showers)
- Young Children ages 2-17 - any size from 40"x50"; and up (for CAST – Child Abuse Services Team)
- Teens, young adults - 60"x80"; for twin bed, also double and queen sizes welcome (for StandUp for Kids serving formerly-homeless young adults)
- Adults - 40"x50" up to 50"x60"; (lap quilts for VITAS Hospice and St. Joseph Cancer Center)
- Instructions for Philanthropy Items:
Holiday Placemat
Pillow Case
Receiving Blanket - Burp Cloths - Cut two 11" x 18" pieces of flannel. Round corners. Sew wrong sides together. Turn inside out and press. Top stitch 1/8" around the edge (also closes opening). Can be slightly smaller. Easy to make from a flannelfat quarter.
- Simple Free Quilt Patterns are Available or use any quilt pattern from your library.
- Fund raisers, such as our 2026 biannual auction and 2025 biannual quilt show also provide the funds to support our philanthropic projects.
Additional Activities
- Periodically there are additional activities offered by the guild. For instance, Holiday Craft Activity, the Guild Challenge and the Little Red Hen Auction at a selected guild meeting.
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2025 Virtual Sew-Ins Via Zoom; The Flying Geese Quilters Guild is still offering this activity for our members to get together via Zoom. From the comfort of your home sign on Zoom and sit and sew or chat with other members. Please refer to the guild's newsletters and emails for more information.
Dates and Times:
Mondays from 9 a.m. - 12 noon:
The 4th Friday of the month from 5 p.m. - 9 p.m.
The Challenge theme and rules were announced at the Sept. 2024 meeting
Challenge 2025 Theme: What Comes Around, Goes Around A challenge is always fun. You never know what our guild members will dream up next, but it is always worth finding out! The 2025 challenge will be viewed at the May 12, 2025 meeting. |
 Challenge Fabrics. |
For Directions on how to attach your 4 inch quilt sleeve to the back of your quilt: click here
Click here for pictures from the 2020 Winter Wonderland Challenge
Click here for pictures from the Challenge 2014 California History Quilt Challenge
Click here for pictures from the Challenge 2012 American History Lesson (pdf powerpoint).
Click here for Pictures of the 2010 Silver Liningchallenge quilts.
Click here for Pictures of the 2008 All Fired Up Challenge quilts.
Lectures and Workshops
Note: Workshops are held in person. Normally at the Orange Quilt Bee
See the schedule for the location of each workshop.
Lectures & Programs are held in person and virtually until futher notice at 6:30 p.m. on the second Monday of the month. Social time opens at 6:00 pm. Guests are welcome to our lectures; use contact information to request a link for the meeting if you would like to attend virtually.
In person meetings are held at
Rancho San Joaquin Middle School
4861 Michelson Dr.
Irvine, CA 92612
Workshops
Workshop fees must be paid at the time you sign up. There is an additional fee for nonmembers.
Nonmembers are welcome only if space is available after guild members have had an opportunity to register for the workshops.
NOTE:
Sign up for workshops at any guild meeting.
Nonmembers are placed on a waiting list to allow members to have an opportunity to register for the workshops.
For a list of workshops and fees and lectures click here
Quilt Retreats;
Biannual Quilt Retreats are scheduled for Flying Geese Quilter Guild Members at the Retreat at Vina de Lestonnac Retreat Center in Temecula.
The next retreats are;
Thursday August 14 to Sunday August 17, 2025.
Thursday April 16 to Sunday April 19, 2026.
For information about the quilt retreats click here
Calendar of Events:
Check out the quilt and sewing happenings in So. California - click here
This page was updated 4-21-25