Letter from the President – Carolyn Cosgriff

It’s amazing how many activities are swirling around the guild!  The big event in February is the Annual Retreat late this month at Tanglewood Resort.  The registration deadline is just a few days away.   

The February meeting is packed!  The participants in the Moda Blockheads 6 Challenge are showing off their work.  Learn how to make a scrappy heart block pillow at the education table. 

The Quilt Show Committee is celebrating Friendship month by treasuring Renee Burson who designed and pieced “Dazzling Dahlia,” our 2026 Raffle quilt. This gorgeous quilt was quilted by Richard Larson.  Susan Brubaker Knapp is presenting “The Artist in You.”  I’m going to catch her Quilting Arts podcast before the meeting–my inner artist wants to peek out. 

Thanks to the MANY who took Shop: Bag or Roll kits to make Community Service projects.  Bags will be available again at the February meeting.   Bring your finished top to the June meeting and the guild volunteers will get it quilted.  Making a dent in the Community Service fabric stash is one of our goals for this year.   Don’t forget the Community Sew Day, February 10th.

See you soon!

Please email president@qgplano.org if interested in learning more.

Important Dates

Feb 10—-Sew Day (Community Service) @ Plano Sewing Center 10-2

Feb 12—–Guild meeting–Wear your QGP lanyard for an extra door prize ticket! At the Community Service table donate 3” squares for One Common Thread. 

Read under Guild Activities to get a bag of fabric to play: Shop: Bag or Roll

Feb 26–Mar 1–Annual guild retreat at Tanglewood Resort, Pottsboro, TX

If you are new to quilting and would like to spend some time learning the basics, please join Linda Chappell and Donna Petrick in a new venture to mentor beginning quilters.  You will get acquainted with terms and gain the confidence to join in with other groups or the guild workshops.  We have a form we are asking you to complete to see the times everyone will be available and what you are interested in learning. 

Reach out to Donna or Linda for more information.

Membership

Christi Ables and Anna Marie Larrabee

There is a new Zoom link for the monthly meetings.  Find it here:

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82144960765

JANUARY MEMBERSHIP RECAP

125 members attended the January meeting in person or on Zoom.  We also welcomed guests:

• Veronica Hatter

• Melissa Mattoon

DUES WERE DUE OCTOBER 1!  It’s not too late to renew your membership.  Renew online or come see us at the Membership table at the next meeting.  You don’t want to miss all the great programs, workshops, and community service opportunities we have planned for the upcoming year!

Current Members: be sure to wear your new black Quilters Guild of Plano neck I.D. and you will receive two (2) door prize tickets!

Special Drawing

Take 5 – The Teacher’s Pet Quilt Kit

February Birthdays

Quilt Plano Show 2026 — Carol Truscott

August 14-15, 2026!

Celebrations:

We have a new Co- Chair-  Deb Merrill

She is a wonderful addition to our team!!

February is Friendship month! As is our tradition, please help me show our appreciation to Renee Burson for creating/piecing “Dazzling Dahlia” our 2026 Raffle quilt. This gorgeous quilt was quilted by Richard Larson.

Now is also the time to be thinking about the 2028 Raffle Quilt- If you or your small group is interested in making our 2028 raffle quilt, please see Carolyn, our president, for more information or to submit your ideas.

Brags:

Did you know that our Best of Show for 2025~”A Calm Day At Sea” by our very own Linda Neal was accepted into AQS Paducah!!

Martha Wolf has done an excellent job with creating our bookmarks and raffle tickets!

Ashley has done a fantastic job creating our logo and Mary Alice and Debbie B. are working away on getting our vendors and sponsors registered. Lorelle and Virginia are busy selling our raffle tickets. Sadly, Lorelle has had to step away for a while as her husband is working in Houston the first part of this year. Our media team (Bonnie and Roxy) are already working their magic!! These two always amaze me!!

Mini Quilts- Kaye and Valerie- You both do such a great job with these!!  Support their efforts by submitting your minis early.  Take a look at some of our amazing minis from last year’s show.  You know you want to be a part of this!

Couldn’t forget about our committee show t-shirts- Fran has sorted shirts and is ready for committee members  to pick up their shirts. Beautiful Show shirts are available for purchase.  Some sizes are running low so be sure to get yours soon!

To honor the Semiquincentennial celebration of the United States, the Quilters

Guild of Plano will feature a special judged category for the Quilt Plano 2026

show sponsored by the James Billingsley Chapter of the National Society of

the Daughters of the American Revolution.

Reach out with any questions to Carol Truscott – ShowChair@QGPlano.org

Guild Activities – Donna Allenbaugh & Sally Pitre

Thank you to everyone who supported our Community Service “Shop”: Bag or Roll” Challenge!  We have 45 participants signed up to make a quilt top – some even picked up two bags!  We can’t wait to share the creativity of our members at the March meeting!

Imagine four days of uninterrupted sewing, laughter with quilting friends, and finally making progress on those long-awaited projects.  Participants are welcome to bring their Community Service Challenge projects to the Annual Retreat, February 26 through March 1.  If you finish your WIPs, we’ll have extra kits available.  Get ready for a FUN, extended weekend!

At the February meeting, we invite all participants in the Moda Blockheads 6 Challenge to share their projects.  We had 17 members participating.  This is a wonderful opportunity to learn new techniques and expand your block pattern library.

The next challenge will be the April Apron Challenge.  Sign up at the Activities table.

Contact: Donna Allenbaugh and Sally Pitre, Co-VPs of the Guild Acitivites at activities@qgplano.org with any questions.

Education – Debbie Burns and Deanna Tucker

We have planned some helpful tips, fun blocks and creative sewing and quilting demos for 2026.  

At the January meeting, we had a great demo given by Dianne Cronenberg.  She presented the Missouri Star Block and shared an innovative technique with disappearing blocks that used half square triangles. 

February’s demo is a scrappy heart block pillow.  Stop by and say hello and learn a new fun and easy block.  

If you have any suggestions, ideas, or would like to present a demo, please stop by the Education table and let us know.

Debbie Burns and Deanna Tucker

education@qgplano.org

Programs and Workshops — Kim Iverson and Andrea McMahan

February is here!  Kim and I are so excited to start welcoming our guests and hosting the 2026 workshops!  This month we will be joined by Susan Brubaker-Knapp host of Quilting Arts TV & Podcast.  She will be sharing with us her journey from traditional quilter to quilt artist.  I can’t wait to be inspired to try new things and branch out of my quilting comfort zone! 

Please remember to sign up for the upcoming workshop that catches your eye.  We are seeing a pickup in registration activity and want to be sure your seat is reserved. 

Also, you may notice our March workshop schedule has been modified to only one day, Friday March 13th, for Thread Painting.  Since participation was low for the second day, we felt it best to be mindful of our guild budget and cancel the second day. If you signed up for the Saturday workshop you will be hearing from us regarding reimbursement.

March – Joyce Hughes presenting Dimensional Thread Painting & Sketch, Color and Quilt, March 13th and March 14th.

April – Rob Appell presenting Quilts from the Sea and Beyond April 10th and April 11th.

June – Allie McCathren presenting Seaglass Quilting June 12th.

October – Diane Harris presenting StarQuar Scrap Quilts October 9th and Fowl Play a three October 10th.

Check out the details for these workshops or register at https://www.qgplano.org/activities/programs/ or stop by the Programs table to check out the other 2026 offerings.  We look forward to chatting with you!

Upcoming Programs and Workshops

February will be a presentation by Susan Brubaker Knapp inspiring us to tap into “The Artist in You” during our regular February meeting.

March is our first workshop of the year! Joyce Hughes presenting Dimensional Thread Painting & Sketch, Color and Quilt, March 13th.

April brings Rob Appell to town presenting Quilts from the Sea and Beyond April 10th and April 11th.

For more information about our workshops or to sign up online, check out our webpage here: https://www.qgplano.org/activities/programs/

Community Service – Jeanne Vogel and Susie Luttrell

In January we started giving out the kits for the Guild Activities! We have one top already turned in! This activity will provide the guild numerous tops, so if you have backing to match in your stash, that would be great if you would make that also – or make the binding out of your leftover strips! 

The Plano Community Homes https://www.planocommunityhome.org/ are in need of 30 quilts for their residents in Plano and in Denton so that is the next of 30 quilt donations we will be doing.

We are partnering with the Transition Resource Action Center (TRAC) of Dallas and Ft Worth. TRAC supports young people ages 16–24 who are transitioning from foster care into adulthood. Serving youth across a 19-county region of North Texas: Tarrant, Dallas, Denton, Collin, Ellis, Cooke, Parker, Johnson, Hood, Erath, Palo Pinto, Somervell, Fannin, Grayson, Hunt, Kaufman, Navarro, and Rockwall counties. About 86% of all the youth served  come from Tarrant, Dallas, Collin and Parker County. 

They are helping more than 1,500 young people each year access housing, education, employment, and life skills. About 70% of the young women they serve are pregnant or parenting by the age of 21, many welcoming their first child while building a stable home for the first time.

TRAC is  assembling New Parent Kits to support these young families, and would love to include a handmade baby quilt in each one. Their goal is to collect 50 baby quilts each year. So visit our Community Service table to pick up a baby quilt kit.

Also visit our table each meeting to pick up notions/fabrics that Community Service is passing on to our members.

Jeanne & Susie

communityservice@qgplano.org

Quilts of Valor – Carolyn Cosgriff & Donna Petrick

As we take a break in February, enjoy these pictures from past events and stay tuned for updates as we move into 2026.

Quilters Guild of Plano’s 2026 Retreat

Tanglewood Resort, Pottsboro, TX 75076

Retreat Dates: February 26 through March 1, 2026

Arrival: Thursday, 9:00 am – Depart: Sunday, 2:00 pm

Calling all Quilters:

Our retreat will be here before we know it.  We still have a few spots available for you as well as friends that are non-members. So, if you are on the fence and haven’t decided, it’s now time to climb on down.  The final registration deadline is Feb. 3rd so don’t delay!

The cost of the event includes a single or double room, 8 meals and workspace where you can sew, learn, socialize and enjoy time with your fellow guild members.  All you have to do is fill out an application form and send it along with your check to: Jeanne Fletcher, 4202 Spring Meadow Lane, Flower Mount, TX 75028.

This year’s retreat will be an event to remember.  We have games, plenty of door prizes, pop-up demonstrations along with an on-site quilt store by Home A La Mode.

Hope to see you there!!!

Rose Davis

Chair of Retreat Committee

Meetings on Zoom

Hoop it Up Bee

1st Monday from 10am – 12pm

Donna Petrick

Hoop It Up!

Come join us for a machine embroidery Zoom meeting

Contact donna.petrick@gmail.com

Chicks with Feathers

3rd Saturday from 1pm – 3pm

Dana Braden

Sit & sew at home with your Singer Featherweight.  Tips, tricks, and advice to make straight stitch sewing simple and precise.

If you have not previously notified me, please email: pickincotton26@verizon.net to get the invitation to join the Zoom meeting.

Next meeting: January 17, 2026

In Person Meetings

Sew Happy Quilters

Aurora Chancy

achancy@msn.com

1st and 3rd Thursday 9am-4pm

• Sam Johnson Recreation Cetner @ 401 W. 16th St. Plano

• Bring your own project, sewing machine, and supplies

• We have lunch together at the Gazebo Cafe for $5 or less

Fourth Friday Featherweight Friends

Jeanne Vogel

pickincotton26@verizon.net

Meeting at the Best Little Retreat Center in Texas from 9am – 9pm on the 4th Friday of the month

• Make your reservation by calling 469-708-2378 or email: info@blrcit.com

• Either bring your lunch or we will go out as a group to eat together

OR

Meet at Ready, Set, Quilt at 1101 Ohio Dr. in Plano from 9am-4pm.

Email Jeanne at pickincotton26@verizon.net to reserve your spot!

Sit N Sew Community Service Day

Susie Luttrell &       Jeanne Vogel

communityservice@qgplano.org

2nd Tuesday 10am – 2pm

• Plano Sewing Center, 2070 Spring Creek Pkwy #326, Plano

• Bring your sewing machine and sewing supplies

For Trade: HandiQuilter Little Foot Frame

Will trade for 15 yards of quality quilt shop fabric – you choose the fabric!  I’ll take yardage, precuts, fat quarter bundles, etc.

• Must pick up in Dallas/Richardson area

• In excellent condition – nothing missing

• Includes 4 casters, 2 channel locks, super quilt clamp, 4 clamps and table overlay

• Easy to transport but must be reassembled.  No boxes.

• Reason for selling: I recently upgraded to a larger frame.

• Perfect for someone who’s just starting out and wants a reliable frame for a small space

If you have questions, contact Bonnie Cook at 214-632-5853 or bcook111698@gmail.com

Turn your treasured tees into a cozy quilt!  Our custom T-Shirt quilts are perfect for preserving memories.

Longarm edge-to-edge and custom quilting available.  Call for more information.

Liz’s Quilting Corner

Allen, Tx

214-532-1394