Our general meetings are educational, fun, social events when we gather to celebrate our love of modern quilting! Meetings are free for members.
NOTE : Moved to 4th Saturday because of QuiltCon
We’ve reserved the meeting room starting at 9am. In person and zoom (hybrid) meeting starts at 10am and members can stay afterwards for pizza lunch and to sew. Bring something to share if you wish.
Lecture : Linda Hungerford – In-Person Trunk Show and question/answer session.
Workshop: Kawandi workshop (in-person, after February meeting)
Instructor: Linda Hungerford
Date: Saturday, February 28, 2026 Time: 1-4 EDT
Cost: $0 for SFMQG members
In 3 hours, learn the hand stitching technique of Kawandi, as made by Siddi women in India. Kawandi means “quilt” in India. Kawandi is made completely by hand - no sewing machine needed. Unless you have a desire to make a particular size, for this workshop, we’ll make a 10” X 14” finished Kawandi.
About Linda:
Linda Hungerford began sewing clothes when she was 13 years old, growing up in Ohio. While living in Iowa, in the late 1970s she taught herself quiltmaking and by the 1980s was taking classes and learning in earnest. Continuing to make quilts, she attended college while working full time, and obtained a journalism degree in 2000. That’s when she began writing articles and patterns for numerous quilting magazines, such as American Patchwork and Quilting; Quilter’s Newsletter Magazine; American Quilter; and Fons & Porter’s Love of Quilting. In 2006 she wrote the book First Time Quiltmaking (Landauer Publishing/Fox Chapel Publishing). Her quilts have won awards at national shows including Machine Quilter’s Showcase, Home Machine Quilter’s Show, Road to California, and AQS; and 17 of her quilts have been juried into and displayed at eight QuiltCons. Her small “Lime ’n Luxe” quilt is included in the Modern Quilt Guild’s book Modern Quilts: Designs of the New Century (C&T Publishing, 2017). After a 2012 move from West Des Moines, Iowa to The Villages, Florida, Linda founded the Central Florida Modern Quilt Guild, a chapter of the Modern Quilt Guild, where she served as president, vice president, program chair, and media coordinator.
Find Linda on Instagram @flourishingpalms and on her blog where she has been posting regularly for the past 18 years: www.flourishingpalms.blogspot.com
Zoom link will be sent via email or find in Facebook Members Only Group Events.
Meeting Preview will be available on the blog about a week before the event.
Meeting Recap will be available on the blog about a week after the event.