January 19, 2026  Helene Knott
December 15  Celebrate the Year in Quilting
November 17 UFO Challenge Reveal
October 20 – Melissa Hoffman  www.fiddlestitches.com
September 15 – Judy Gauthier  www.bungalowquilting.com
August 18 –  Jane Haworth  Janehaworth.com/
July 21 – Arlene Satchitano, arlenesachitano.com

June 16 – Chris Marchini, RoseCityOriginals.com

May 19 – Toni Beattie – The Annual Challenge

April 2025 – First, Last & Favorite!

March 2025 – Julia McLeod

January 2025  – Duo at Play

October 2024 – Kimberly Bennefield

September 2024 – Vicki Conley

August 2024 – Barbara Schoonover

July 2024 – Nancy Tubbs

June 2024 – Karen Walker

May 2024 – Kathy Cardiff

March 2024 – Susan Beal

February 2024 – Ken Casey

Past Speakers

Helene Knott is a longtime friend of the Westside Quilters’ Guild. Well known by many
of our members, this talented fiber artist was born and raised on the Monterey
Peninsula in central California. She began her artistic journey early with pencils and
paint. From there, in her mid teens, she made the leap to fabrics and never looked
back. Working in fiber arts for 54 years, she has won numerous awards, made the cover
of Quilters’ Newsletter magazine, and has appeared in numerous publications, books,
and public installations.
This program & Trunk Show, will feature some of Helene’s endeavors to go beyond the
fabric alone to create embellished quilts that are works of art. Join us for an evening of
celebrating the “Icing on the Cake”.

Helene will be teaching needle-turn hand applique on Saturday, March 28, 2026.
  for more information.

Please plan to participate by sharing the projects you completed this year as a result of your attendance at a workshop, Demo Day, retreat, charity event, Sewing Saturday….  you get the idea!
Click Here to see a list of all of the activities for the year as a reminder for you 

We will also have our regular Show & Tell time and Charity Show & Tell

So much awesomeness happened this year, and we want to remember it, honor it, and celebrate it!

How it will all work: ( participate as much as you want)

• Everyone may bring a plate of treats (Empty “to go” containers will be provided so everyone can have goodies to take home!)
• Everyone may participate in donating  to Love INC through the Harvest Community Church – greatest need items are: Laundry soap, floor cleaner, disinfectant, toilet bowl cleaner, shampoo, conditioner, feminine hygiene products, toilet paper, paper towels, new pillows, flatware sets, larger size glass sets, and throw blankets.
• Everyone may participate in a gift exchange (suggested $15 value)

See you there to CELEBRATE!

The UFO Challenge concludes at our November meeting with quilt reveals and prizes for participants.
See our Challenges page for full info ( and the buttons to submit the forms described below)

For those participating, please:
● Submit a FORM (on our Challenges page) for each of your completed UFOs. (Each completed form earns you an entry in the prize raffle, so fill ‘em out!)
● Bring up to 3 quilts completed during the challenge for show-n-tell.

Melissa is the maker, finisher; dreamer of FiddleStitches; Sawdust in Newberg Oregon. She has a studio upstairs and a woodshop next to the house.  Most days it’s pretty easy to find her- she’s in one or the other! Melissa will be showing us both wooden quilts AND cotton quilts at our October meeting, and she will have a large assortment of treasures available for purchase, including wooden block kits, and one-of-a-kind quilt ladders made from reclaimed wood.

Learn more about Melissa and her work on FiddleStitches.com.
You can also find Melissa on IG and FB at FiddleStitches.com.

Melissa will have a workshop to make a wooden quilt block at the Chehalem Cultural Center in Newberg. The workshop will be open to the public, but our guild will be able
to register in advance, at a discount. Our discounted price will be: $80. for the workshop AND the complete kit.
$75 for just the kit- available at the guild meeting or at her workshop if you want to purchase extra kits.

We’ll let you know when the workshop is open for registration.

In this lecture you will learn many ways to use your scraps.  Scrap Quilting can be daunting. Scraps in our stash don’t all fit one color scheme or fabric genre. Rather, they are many and varied. Enter my system. You can use the color wheel and just 4 color theories to make your scraps work together and marry each other into beautiful quilts. You will leave with an organized way about thinking and approaching your scraps.  Soon you’ll be placing scraps in quilts that you would never think would go well together.

Check our Workshops page for info on her workshop – Blended Hexagons  on Tuesday, September 16, 2025

Jane Haworth is an award winning professional quilter specializing in custom memory quilts.

In addition to quilts she makes custom functional art items from repurposed materials.

Jane also instructs and when she is not creating works of art for her customers she works on her own quilting projects.   

Arlene Sachitano was born at Camp Pendleton while her father was serving in the US Navy. Her family lived in Newport, Rhode Island before settling in Oregon, where Arlene still resides. Arlene worked in the electronics industry for almost thirty years, including stints in solid state research as well as production supervision.

Arlene is handy being both a knitter and a quilter. She puts her quilting knowledge to work, writing the Harriet Truman/Loose Threads mystery series, which features a long arm quilter as the amateur sleuth.

Arlene divides her time between homes in Portland and Tillamook that she shares with her husband and their canine companion, Navarre.

Chris Marchini is a quilt pattern designer putting his own unique twist on this timeless artform. After watching quilting videos on YouTube for years, he decided to make a quilt for his mother-in-law for Christmas… that led to him making additional quilts for more family members as gifts. After not being able to find a pattern to match with an idea for a quilt, he started drafting his own patterns. Chris has gained popularity online, growing a large audience on TikTok, Instagram & YouTube where he posts short videos ranging from how-to tutorials to fabric pulls for upcoming projects. His latest projects include a Randomly Generated Quilt and a Year-Long Community Quilt where followers can actively participate in its creation.

Click Here for Workshop Info and registration