Special Effects with Color - Zoom Workshop
2025-07-26 12:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom
Special Effects with Color
Zoom Workshop with Karen Bolan Saturday July 26 from 9am – 12 noon
Journey into color mastery by creating illusions and tricking the eye. Color is one of the most exciting things about quilting, and yet it’s easy to feel unsure about our choices. By understanding how we see color and then creating illusions with color, students can develop color confidence and giddy enjoyment. In this class, learn to define and use basic color theory terminology; apply the principles of additive and subtractive color as they relate to vision, light, and the physical world; create mutable color illusions; create a color palette with afterimage effects; and create transparency illusions including a complex transparency illusion with more than two overlapping shapes and textures.
Material List HERE
Registration is now open with tickets available below.

Tiny Art Quilt - In Person Workshop with Claudia Pearce
2025-08-09 09:00 - 15:00 | First Presbyterian Church of Howard County, 9325 Presbyterian Circle, Columbia, MD, 21045, United States
Tiny Art Quilts (TAQ) – A fool proof method for making a small keepsake quilt
This in person workshop will be held Saturday August 9 from 9am – 3pm in Lyle Buck Hall
Cost: $28
Have you ever wanted to make a keepsake quilt for yourself or a gift but didn’t have the time or
energy to invest in a large quilt? The answer is a tiny art quilt. From a photo of your travels, of
your pet, of your house, or anything else that strikes your fancy, you will design and create your
own small art quilt (around 12” x 12”). This small quilt can be used as a wall hanging, a pillow,
the centerpiece for a larger quilt, the focus of a bag or designer jacket.
In this one-day workshop you will design and make your own tiny art quilt. In the morning you
will design your quilt from a treasured photo and select your fabrics. In the afternoon, you will
make your tiny art quilt. You should be able to mostly complete the project in class. Binding or incorporating your TAQ into a bigger project will be done on your own.

Material List
Registration will open June 1 with tickets available below.

The Creative Art of Finishing - In Person
2025-08-21 10:30 - 12:00 | Elkridge Branch Ho Co Library, 6540 Washington Blvd, Elkridge, MD, 21075
The Creative Art of Finishing – In Person Lecture by Gyleen Fitzgerald
Thursday August 21 at 10:30am at the Elkridge branch of the Howard County Library – The Belmont Room. The library building opens at 10am.
Don’t get bogged down with unfinished projects. Instead consider them new possibilities. Whether they are vintage or newly abandoned projects, find creative ways to reconfigure or upcycle orphan projects to suit today’s life style. Let’s talk about how to finish.

Gyleen will be bringing a trunk show of quilts to demonstrate her ideas.

2025 Fall Retreat
2025-09-19 - 2025-09-21 | Pecometh Riverview Retreat Center, 136 Bookers Wharf Road, Centreville, MD, 21617
The Fall Retreat for 2025 will be held at the Pecometh Riverview Retreat Center in Centreville, MD.
Dates: Friday September 19 through Sunday September 21
Cost: Single Rooms are $532; Double Rooms are $330
The price includes overnight accommodations, workroom and all meals starting with Friday dinner and ending with Sunday brunch.
Tickets will be available starting July 1, 2025 on our website. You may also pay with a check made out to “Faithful Circle Quilters”.
Members can pay a deposit of $100 to hold a space for the event, with the option to pay the
full price by September 1,2025.

2025 Thanksgiving Benefit Auction
2025-10-11 | First Presbyterian Church of Howard County, 9325 Presbyterian Circle, Columbia, MD, 21045, United States
The public is cordially invited to attend our annual Faithful Circle Quilters Thanksgiving Benefit Auction on Saturday, October 11, 2025 from 10:30-noon. This event is a silent auction, and all proceeds are used to fund Thanksgiving baskets which are given to people in need in our community. Items for auction include: handmade gifts, puzzles, books, quilting materials, crafts and notions, several raffle baskets and gift certificates. Bidding will begin at 10:30 and end at 11:15am.
Cash donations can be made using the “Donate” button on our website. Please add a note to the form, to designate your donation to “Thanksgiving Benefit Auction” . Donations close on October 16.
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Please join us at the First Presbyterian Church of Howard County, 9325 Presbyterian Circle, Columbia, MD 21045. For questions or further information, contact FCQpresident@faithfulcirclequilters.com

How I Became a Spiromanic-Zoom Lecture by RaNae Merrill
2025-10-20 18:30 - 20:30 | Zoom
How I Became a Spiromaniac – Lecture by RaNae Merrill
Monday October 20 @ 7pm via Zoom (Log in at 6:30pm with a short business meeting before the lecture)
This lecture begins with a gorgeous photographic exploration of spirals in nature, followed by a hands-on lesson in drawing a basic spiral. Then, RaNae shares a selection of her spiral quilts along with stories of how they have impacted her life and her development as a professional quilter.

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Spirals Boot Camp -Zoom Workshop with RaNae Merrill
2025-11-01 09:30 - 16:00 | Zoom
Spirals Boot Camp – Zoom Workshop with RaNae Merrill
Saturday Nov. 1 from 9:30am to 4pm (half hour lunch break)

Learn to draw, color and sew each of the four types of spirals. We’ll do Nesting and Baravelle spirals in the morning, Point-to-Point and Pinwheel spirals in the afternoon, then finish off with some basic design techniques for incorporating spirals into quilts. Along the way, you’ll learn how to select fabrics by color, value and pattern, and pick up techniques for foundation piecing that make it easier than ever. You will receive a pattern for a hot pad to make at home using your spiral blocks. Don’t let the title scare you — spirals are actually much easier than they look!
Class kit is included in workshop fee and includes preprinted foundations, instructions and pattern.
Click HERE for Material List. RaNae’s book Simply Amazing Spiral Quilts is recommended. (The information covered in this class is also contained in her second book Magnificent Spiral Mandala Quilts.)

Morning Meeting
2025-12-04 10:00 - 12:00 | First Presbyterian Church of Howard County, 9325 Presbyterian Circle, Columbia, MD, 21045, United States
Regular meeting and business meeting at 11am.

Friday Afternoon Happy Hours
2025-12-05 13:00 - 17:00, 2025-12-12 13:00 - 17:00, 2025-12-19 13:00 - 17:00, 2025-12-26 13:00 - 17:00, 2026-01-02 13:00 - 17:00, 2026-01-09 13:00 - 17:00 | Zoom
Sew along with other members from the comfort of your own sewing space. Join in shared conversation with all participants.

Saturday Evening Forum
2025-12-06 19:00 - 22:00, 2025-12-13 19:00 - 22:00, 2025-12-20 19:00 - 22:00, 2025-12-27 19:00 - 22:00, 2026-01-03 19:00 - 22:00, 2026-01-10 19:00 - 22:00 | Zoom
Sew together with fellow members from your own sewing space. Share conversation with all participants.

No Meeting
2025-12-08 19:00 - 20:30, 2025-12-11 10:00 - 12:00, 2025-12-15 19:00 - 20:30, 2025-12-18 10:30 - 12:00, 2025-12-22 19:00 - 20:30, 2025-12-25 10:00 - 12:00, 2025-12-29 19:00 - 20:30 | First Presbyterian Church of Howard County, 9325 Presbyterian Circle, Columbia, MD, 21045, United States
Church closed to outside groups in December

No Meeting Today
2026-01-01 10:00 - 12:00 | First Presbyterian Church of Howard County, 9325 Presbyterian Circle, Columbia, MD, 21045, United States
Happy New Year!
Church closed today

Evening Meeting - Love Quilts
2026-01-05 19:00 - 20:30 | First Presbyterian Church of Howard County, 9325 Presbyterian Circle, Columbia, MD, 21045, United States
Weekly Meeting – Mondays 7pm
Love Quilts today

Morning Meeting - Love Quilt Work Day
2026-01-08 10:00 - 12:00 | First Presbyterian Church of Howard County, 9325 Presbyterian Circle, Columbia, MD, 21045, United States
Weekly Meeting – Thursdays 10am; Business meeting at 11:00am
We will work on Love Quilts during the meeting and continue in the afternoon as well. Please stay to help out if possible!
