Welcome to FIQ-Fidalgo Island Quilters Guild!
Please scroll down to the bottom for detailed calendar information.
Julie Anderson is May's presenter
Terri Shinn's work-She is a mixed media artist.
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April Block of the month
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Navigating the website-Each of the titles above-home, about, calendar, etc- are pages full of information, just click on the word or the categories underneath. To enter the Members pages, use the password on the front of your membership card or contact, Diane [email protected]. If you do not see the titles above, look to the top left of your screen for the 3 dashes, on your system, this is where you will find the tabs.
Meetings
Meetings are held in the Westminster Presbyterian Church basement, Anacortes, 1300 9th Street at 1 p.m. unless otherwise noted on the first Monday of the month. We have a handwork social at 10:30. Enter from the side door on M street. If you need the elevator it can be accessed from the parking area between the church and the museum on the side. Use the doorbell to get our attention if the door is not open. Until further notice, we will be meeting upstairs while the kitchen is being remodeled.
FIQ Membership
All members will be asked to fill out a new membership form so we have your current information. Membership forms are not valid until approved by the FIQ Board. If you are over 80 membership is free, a membership form still needs to be filled out . Once approved by the board, you will receive your membership card in the mail or at the next meeting.
Please print out both membership forms: 2025_membership_application_draft.pdf
Please read the FIQ Bylaws: Bylaws copy
Please read the FIQ Standing Rules: Standing rules copy
Please do not share the FIQ password with anyone who is not on the currant FIQ Roster. Thank you.
Important Dates:
FIQ BOARD MEETINGS first Monday of the month at 3 p.m. (after the meeting) Everyone is welcome to attend!
April 27th-Sit and Sew in Sedro-10-4-Hosted by Julie Anderson Bring whatever is needed to work on your project, your lunch and beverage. There is no microwave. There is also a market next door and many eating establishments. Please contact Julie Anderson if you will be attending since there is limited space.
360-540-0321 [email protected]
April 28th-Community Quilts-
Our next workshop will be April 28th at the church storage room 10:00 - 1:00 PM. We will be cutting batting and finding backings for many quilt tops. We will also find co-ordinating fabric for bindings (approximately 1/2 yard). These will be put together for Quilt Kits. Hopefully, it will be less cold than in past months! See you then!
May 5th-Meeting-We will be upstairs. Go up the stairs instead of down.
Trunk show featuring Julie Anderson
10:30 Handwork Sewcial-come early with handwork projects or just to visit. Bring a lunch. 1:00 General meeting starts.
Don't forget:
Membership form with payment: 2025_membership_application_draft.pdf
Birthday treats-If March is your birthday month, (We would like you to be the hostesses-please bring a treat to share at our meeting. We also ask that you clean up after. We will continue this each month through the year.
Community quilt projects
Quilt Camp form and deposit
Nametag
Block of the month
Friendship block
May 8-11 - Quilt Retreat 2025 -
Our First FIQ quilt retreat in years will be at Camp Huston in Gold Bar May 8-11, 2025. You can choose a 2 or 3 night retreat, or even just come up for a day. This is where the guild used to meet for retreat during the 2000s and is a nice campus and friendly staff. Wallace Falls State Park is walking distance away for hikes to break up your day. Ben Franklin Store in Monroe is a short drive for emergency supplies.
Early registrations help us determine how many rooms to reserve. To join us – please print this email, fill out the registration form and send it with your deposit to me (mailing address at bottom of form) or bring it to the guild meeting.
FIQ Quilt Camp Registration 2025.pdf
Kim McKinnon-[email protected]
Click here for Registration form
May 12th-Art Quilters-Monday, May 12 at 10:00 AM - Classroom #3 Bring your finished Telephone/Grapevine Challenge quilt so we can pass them to the next person along the line. You will also be returning the first quilt that you chose during the March meeting to its creator. We will each receive the next inspiration quilt in the challenge to take home for the 3rd segment of the challenge. If you will be unable to attend this meeting, please send your finished #2 challenge piece that was due for this meeting with another member or bring it to me at the main FIQ meeting the first Monday in May.
May 14th-Diva's-The next meeting on Wednesday, May 14th, at the Anacortes Senior Activity Center (10:00 am to Noon) will feature a special talk by Candice Reid on Mary McFadden (1938-2024), an iconic fashion designer she recently discovered and whose work she fell in love with. McFadden’s distinctive garments and unique sensitivity to color, harmony and proportion brought a new sense of style to American fashion from the 1970’s through the ’90’s.
May 25th-Sit and Sew-Hosted by Julie Anderson-at the Sedro Woolley library. From 10-6. Bring whatever is needed to work on your project, your lunch and beverage. There is no microwave. There is also a market next door and many eating establishments. Please contact Julie Anderson if you will be attending since there is limited space. 360-540-0321 [email protected]
May 29th-QUILT CLASS !! PLAYING WITH PANELS !! All of us have panels stuffed away in the hidden spots in our sewing studios. Let's pull them out and make something with them. This class will give you the inspiration to create something with those panels.
Time: 10:00 - 4:00 at Cottage Hobby House in Anacortes Cost: $45.00, This class is being taught by our talented returning member Teri Bever. The hobby house has wonderful space for 12, but that's it, so get signed up sooner than later. If you don't know Teri, she has taught quilting for many years and is incredibly talented. I thought that taking advantage of that talent would benefit FIQ in so many ways. We are offering this as a test to see if our members are interested in FIQ offering classes in the future, so if there is something that you would like to see offered, please reach out to me and we can work on scheduling more.
If you have questions about the panel class or want to sign up. You can text with Teri at 360-631-1197. Texting is the most effective method for Teri, or contact me! Past President-Arlene Anderson [email protected] 360-320-0332
Registration form:
May-Community Quilts-
Art Quilters-
July 25, 26 and 27 Second Bi-annual Fabric and more sale-I have inked in on my calendar July 25,26 and 27 for our fundraising Fabric and More sale. Kathy Parker has agreed to take pre-priced items at her place starting in late May. We CAN NOT store items in the basement. Do you have space that you are able to help us store items for the sale? Please contact Julie and let her know. We will be dedicating time at the May meeting to address questions regarding all things about your donations.
So…when you are spring cleaning in your sewing space think of what you can live without and set it aside for FIQ!
FIQ BOARD MEETINGS first Monday of the month at 3 p.m. (after the meeting) Everyone is welcome to attend!
Our next workshop will be April 28th at the church storage room 10:00 - 1:00 PM. We will be cutting batting and finding backings for many quilt tops. We will also find co-ordinating fabric for bindings (approximately 1/2 yard). These will be put together for Quilt Kits. Hopefully, it will be less cold than in past months! See you then!
Meetings
Meetings are held in the Westminster Presbyterian Church basement, Anacortes, 1300 9th Street at 1 p.m. unless otherwise noted on the first Monday of the month. We have a handwork social at 10:30. Enter from the side door on M street. If you need the elevator it can be accessed from the parking area between the church and the museum on the side. Use the doorbell to get our attention if the door is not open. Until further notice, we will be meeting upstairs while the kitchen is being remodeled.
FIQ Membership
All members will be asked to fill out a new membership form so we have your current information. Membership forms are not valid until approved by the FIQ Board. If you are over 80 membership is free, a membership form still needs to be filled out . Once approved by the board, you will receive your membership card in the mail or at the next meeting.
Please print out both membership forms: 2025_membership_application_draft.pdf
Please read the FIQ Bylaws: Bylaws copy
Please read the FIQ Standing Rules: Standing rules copy
Please do not share the FIQ password with anyone who is not on the currant FIQ Roster. Thank you.
Important Dates:
FIQ BOARD MEETINGS first Monday of the month at 3 p.m. (after the meeting) Everyone is welcome to attend!
April 27th-Sit and Sew in Sedro-10-4-Hosted by Julie Anderson Bring whatever is needed to work on your project, your lunch and beverage. There is no microwave. There is also a market next door and many eating establishments. Please contact Julie Anderson if you will be attending since there is limited space.
360-540-0321 [email protected]
April 28th-Community Quilts-
Our next workshop will be April 28th at the church storage room 10:00 - 1:00 PM. We will be cutting batting and finding backings for many quilt tops. We will also find co-ordinating fabric for bindings (approximately 1/2 yard). These will be put together for Quilt Kits. Hopefully, it will be less cold than in past months! See you then!
May 5th-Meeting-We will be upstairs. Go up the stairs instead of down.
Trunk show featuring Julie Anderson
10:30 Handwork Sewcial-come early with handwork projects or just to visit. Bring a lunch. 1:00 General meeting starts.
Don't forget:
Membership form with payment: 2025_membership_application_draft.pdf
Birthday treats-If March is your birthday month, (We would like you to be the hostesses-please bring a treat to share at our meeting. We also ask that you clean up after. We will continue this each month through the year.
Community quilt projects
Quilt Camp form and deposit
Nametag
Block of the month
Friendship block
May 8-11 - Quilt Retreat 2025 -
Our First FIQ quilt retreat in years will be at Camp Huston in Gold Bar May 8-11, 2025. You can choose a 2 or 3 night retreat, or even just come up for a day. This is where the guild used to meet for retreat during the 2000s and is a nice campus and friendly staff. Wallace Falls State Park is walking distance away for hikes to break up your day. Ben Franklin Store in Monroe is a short drive for emergency supplies.
Early registrations help us determine how many rooms to reserve. To join us – please print this email, fill out the registration form and send it with your deposit to me (mailing address at bottom of form) or bring it to the guild meeting.
FIQ Quilt Camp Registration 2025.pdf
Kim McKinnon-[email protected]
Click here for Registration form
May 12th-Art Quilters-Monday, May 12 at 10:00 AM - Classroom #3 Bring your finished Telephone/Grapevine Challenge quilt so we can pass them to the next person along the line. You will also be returning the first quilt that you chose during the March meeting to its creator. We will each receive the next inspiration quilt in the challenge to take home for the 3rd segment of the challenge. If you will be unable to attend this meeting, please send your finished #2 challenge piece that was due for this meeting with another member or bring it to me at the main FIQ meeting the first Monday in May.
May 14th-Diva's-The next meeting on Wednesday, May 14th, at the Anacortes Senior Activity Center (10:00 am to Noon) will feature a special talk by Candice Reid on Mary McFadden (1938-2024), an iconic fashion designer she recently discovered and whose work she fell in love with. McFadden’s distinctive garments and unique sensitivity to color, harmony and proportion brought a new sense of style to American fashion from the 1970’s through the ’90’s.
May 25th-Sit and Sew-Hosted by Julie Anderson-at the Sedro Woolley library. From 10-6. Bring whatever is needed to work on your project, your lunch and beverage. There is no microwave. There is also a market next door and many eating establishments. Please contact Julie Anderson if you will be attending since there is limited space. 360-540-0321 [email protected]
May 29th-QUILT CLASS !! PLAYING WITH PANELS !! All of us have panels stuffed away in the hidden spots in our sewing studios. Let's pull them out and make something with them. This class will give you the inspiration to create something with those panels.
Time: 10:00 - 4:00 at Cottage Hobby House in Anacortes Cost: $45.00, This class is being taught by our talented returning member Teri Bever. The hobby house has wonderful space for 12, but that's it, so get signed up sooner than later. If you don't know Teri, she has taught quilting for many years and is incredibly talented. I thought that taking advantage of that talent would benefit FIQ in so many ways. We are offering this as a test to see if our members are interested in FIQ offering classes in the future, so if there is something that you would like to see offered, please reach out to me and we can work on scheduling more.
If you have questions about the panel class or want to sign up. You can text with Teri at 360-631-1197. Texting is the most effective method for Teri, or contact me! Past President-Arlene Anderson [email protected] 360-320-0332
Registration form:
May-Community Quilts-
Art Quilters-
July 25, 26 and 27 Second Bi-annual Fabric and more sale-I have inked in on my calendar July 25,26 and 27 for our fundraising Fabric and More sale. Kathy Parker has agreed to take pre-priced items at her place starting in late May. We CAN NOT store items in the basement. Do you have space that you are able to help us store items for the sale? Please contact Julie and let her know. We will be dedicating time at the May meeting to address questions regarding all things about your donations.
So…when you are spring cleaning in your sewing space think of what you can live without and set it aside for FIQ!
FIQ BOARD MEETINGS first Monday of the month at 3 p.m. (after the meeting) Everyone is welcome to attend!
Our next workshop will be April 28th at the church storage room 10:00 - 1:00 PM. We will be cutting batting and finding backings for many quilt tops. We will also find co-ordinating fabric for bindings (approximately 1/2 yard). These will be put together for Quilt Kits. Hopefully, it will be less cold than in past months! See you then!
