PieceMakers Quilt Guild
PieceMakers Quilt Guild
Encouraging the fellowship of anyone interested in the art and craft of quilt making
Guild Programs
Our meetings begin at 6:30 with a social time to chat and catch up with our guild friends. The business portion of the meeting begins at 7:00. Included in the business portion of the meeting are brief reports from the board and community service project chairs. Each month, we have a 50/50 raffle and the proceeds are donated to a different charity after each meeting. We meet at the Vietnam Veterans Association building at 8000 Derry Street, Harrisburg, PA.
Each meeting features an interesting and informative program. Nationally recognized quilt teachers and artists offer lectures and trunk shows highlighting the many and diverse styles of quilting. Workshops are offered several times a year. We also showcase the talents of our many gifted members with demo nights. Following our speaker is the ever popular Show & Tell to end the evening on a remarkably high note. All guest program speakers are free to members; guests are charged a $5.00 fee which can then be applied to membership if you choose to join the guild that evening.
The guild also holds an annual auction as the primary fund raiser for the guild programs, a picnic, and an end of the year winter festival.
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Upcoming Programs:
February 26, 2025
ZOOM Annual Business Meeting
Invitation will be sent on Monday before meeting.
March 26, 2025
Debra and Donna Lohman Trunk Show
Together they travel to quilt shops and shows around the country and work together to produce quilts and quilted objects. They were featured in a 4 month long quilt exhibition of their works in 2012 at the Mechanicsburg Freight Station Museum. They recently completed the All Mid-Atlantic Shop hop this past summer and it was all documented on their Facebook pages. A website of some of their completed and not-yet completed quilts is http://www.debralohman.com.
March 28, 2025
10:00 am
Black and Bleach Workshop with Pat Sprecher
Back by popular demand! Learn the technique of removing color from fabric and making a specific design. Then, enhance that design with fabric paints and pencils.
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Class size is limited to 16 students and will be held at the Parish House - Hummelstown Historical Society, at the corner of North alley and North Rosanna Streets behind Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church at 100 W. Main St.
Workshop fee is $25 (cash or check made out to PieceMakers Quilt Guild accepted).
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April 23, 2025
From Cotton Farmer to Quilt Shop Owner
with Mike Newswanger
April 24, 2025 9:30-2:30
Happy Villages with Joan Marr
Joan will teach us how to build a Village of our Dreams! This is a raw edge fabric collage with no seams to sew and no points to match.
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Class size is limited to 16 students and will be held at the VVA (Vietnam Veterans Association) at 8000 Derry St., Harrisburg.
Workshop fee is $25 (cash or check made out to PieceMakers Quilt Guild accepted).
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May 22, 2024
May 28, 2025
Pat Sprecher
Come and enjoy and evening with our own Pat Sprecher and be thrilled by her beautiful quilts
Pat’s path to quilting began in her early 20’s but unfortunately, she didn’t take her first quilting class until 2009. She never found the time or resources to begin quilting until 2 years before she retired from a 30+ year career with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. She started quilting thinking that the old-fashioned hand quilting was what she wanted to do but the helpful staff at the Hershey Quilt shop guided her towards a machine quilting class. She made a simple nine patch table runner and immediately fell in love. Her second project was a quilt pattern that she had carried around with her since her late 20’s – a queen size quilt with applique cats. The rest is history. She now has the disease most quilters have ….. She is a fabric-aholic. She feels strongly that sharing our knowledge through fellowship and friendship about all things sewing is the thread that binds us alltogether.
June 25, 2025
Deb Endres
Guild picnic and quilt challenge.
July 23, 2025
Oompah Accordian Sewn HST Lecture
with Beth Helfter
Beth Helfter founded EvaPaige Quilt Designs in 2005. Since then she has published a vast range of scrappy patterns. Her work has been featured in various quilting magazines and on well known quilting websites. As a traveling quilt teacher, she has visited guilds coast to coast and taught at national and regional quilt shows. She never tires of the ah-ha moments and banter of a classroom full of quilters. Beth resides in Pepperell, MA, with her cute but calendar-obsessed husband, three delightful but dramatic teenage and almost adult daughters, and a psychotic but adorable cat.
July 24, 2025
Hurdy Gurdy Workshop with Beth Helfter
In this three-hour workshop, we will learn how to use the Accordian HST method while cerating this stunning version of this classic block with gorgeous, scrappy HSTs. You will be amazed at how the blocks lay out almost like magic.
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Location: VVA, 8000 Derry St., Harrisburg, PA
Time: Start at 10:00 am, but doors open at 9:30 for setup.
Pattern must be purchased at the class at a discounted price.
Class fee is $35. Make checks payable to PieceMakers Quilt Guild
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August 27, 2025
Love of Applique Trunk Show
with Barb Wilke
Barbara, the owner of Wilke Fiber Arts is a long-time quilter. She began by learning embroidery as a child and branched into quilting. While she began as a traditional quilter, her work is now more unique, with details including various shapes and embellishments. Barbara’s quilts are all quilted on a home machine. While some are pictorial, others are more abstract.
Barbara, a retired art teacher, is more of an art quilter using many
traditional techniques, such as traditional piecing, appliqué and
paper piecing by trying to use them in non-traditional ways. She
tries to do a different spin to make things that are more artsy.
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September 24, 2025
Judi Bitner
Annual auction!
October 22, 2025
Is It Live or Is It Memorex
with Evelyn Louise Hunt
​​Evelyn is a former 25 Year member of PieceMakers Quilt Guild. She is an ardent collector of quilts, fabrics, patterns, books, and all other quilt related items. In 1998 she took her first quilt class - Eleanor Burns' Log Cabin quilt. It was the only quilt she completed from start to finish and used. Thus, she quickly realized she was a topper. Since that time, she has taken and enjoyed numerous classes from national and local instructors.
Evelyn is or has been a member of nine quilt guilds and held the positions of program chair, treasurer, retreat, vendor, fund raising, and ad coordinator. She has lectured in six local guilds and her quilts have been exhibited at local quilt shows and at the Harrisburg Mansion in Reservoirs Park.
Outside the guilds, Evelyn started a Friday UFOs when Quilters Cottage closed. In addition to working on UFOs the members of the group shared their knowledge vis a vis demonstrations or
classes. She also visited quilt shows in Pennsylvania and Maryland.​
October 16 & 30, 2025
One Block Wonder With or Without a Panel
Joan Marr and Nancy King
Join our own Joan Marr and Nancy King for their class on creating a One Block Wonder! You can create a quilt with or without a panel!! This is a two day class.
Date: Oct 16 and Oct 30, 2025
Time: 9:00 to 3:30 both days
Location: VVA, 8000 Derry Street, Harrisburg, Pa 17111
FEE: $35.00 - Cash or Check. Make Checks payable to PieceMakers
Quilt Guild.
Class limited to 16 students
December 3, 2025
Holiday Celebration!
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