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Quilting never takes a vacation

This small quilt made by Dianne Stoutenberg is from star quilter Kathie Neffenger’s Mexican Star piecing workshop. Come join us in the fall.

The Agave Quilters of Sun Lakes may not be having meetings this summer, but that does not mean that quilting is taking a vacation. Most Agave members will use the free time this summer to work on their entries for Agave’s 2016 President’s Challenge for the 2016 Agave Quilt Show. The theme of Faith Bragg’s…

Quilt challenge winner

Our Greatest Generation quilt by Anne Munoz

Anne Munoz, a gifted Agave quilter, recently won the Moda Piece and Comfort quilt challenge at the local (store) level. Here, in the greater Phoenix area, the challenge was sponsored by Mesa quilt shop, A Quilters Oasis. After winning at the local level, Anne’s quilt was entered, along with many other shop winning quilts, in…

Master quilter to visit Agave Quilters

One example of Sharon Schamber’s works

All Agave members should save the 1:00 p.m. April 1 meeting for Master Quilter Sharon Schamber. Sharon has a wonderful studio in nearby Payson where she creates all of her fabulous quilts. The Agave Guild is very lucky to have Sharon as a presenter where we will be able to see her quilts up-close and…

Agave Quilt Show March 28

Art Group’s “Happy Places” art quilt

Brooks Scofield The Agave Quilt Guild sponsored Art Group recently completed a superb wall hanging for the upcoming Agave Quilt Show that will be held on March 28. This unique contemporary quilt illustrates President Faith Bragg’s show theme of “Holidays and Celebrations” in a very distinctive way. Over the 2014 summer and into the fall,…

Agave Quilters news – February 2015

Education Assistant Laura Alexander and Agave Education Director Marti French show a sample from an upcoming workshop.

The Agave Quilters got off to a fantastic start in 2015 with a wonderful Trunk Show in January by Barbara Polston of Phoenix. Barbara introduced Agave members to her newest book, Quilting with Doilies: Inspirations, Techniques, and Projects published by Schiffer, and now available on Amazon. Included in the January trunk show were all the fabulous…

Agave Quilters: Quilters who care

Helen Robinson from Sew Kind of Wonderful demonstrates curved piecing for Agave member Sue Jordan.

Johnie Scofield The Agave Quilters got off to a fabulous start this fall. Our “Quilters Who Care” group has designed the cutest ladies bag possible and is distributing kits at each meeting. Come and get a kit at the November meeting and return it in December! All completed bags will go to local women’s shelters…

Agave Quilters news

Johnie Scofield The Agave Quilters of Sun Lakes got off to a fabulous start in September with their first guild meeting of the year held September 3 in the Oakwood Ballroom of the Oakwood Country Club. One of the founding members, Dorrie Meehan, was given a small token of appreciation and love for all that…

Agave Quilters installs new leadership

2014 Agave Co-President Kathy Neffenger (with her Board center left), installs Faith Bragg of Maricopa as President (with her new Board center right) for the new 2014-2015 quilting year.

Johnie Scofield, Publicity Chair The Sun Lakes special interest group known as Agave recently installed new officers for the coming 2014-2015 year. On May 8 in the Oakwood Ballroom, the guild bid farewell to their current leadership: Co-Presidents Kathie Neffenger and Martha Powell, who have served for the past two years, Vice-President Bonnie Lewis and…