Workshops
Call Me Bag
Instructors: Darlene LaCharite and Marlene Waters
Date & Time: October 4, 2025, Set up 8:30. Workshop 9 – 4.
Location: St. Mark’s Church, 138 Hoylake Road West Qualicum Beach
Cost: $28 (includes pattern)
Workshop Information:
Make a beautiful one-of-a-kind bag that will keep everything handy! This little bag is the perfect size for guild meetings. With space for your name tag, phone, credit card, cash, and tickets (raffle and 50/50). The fabric strap can be customized to wear around your neck, across your body or over you shoulder.
Skill level: confident beginner
Maximum number of participants: 20, minimum 15.
Registration begins June 16th, 2025 at guild.
Online Registration Begins: June 17, 2025 and ends September 20, 2025.
To register online please use Call Me Bag Form.
Payment is due within 5 days of registering.
E-transfer: treasurer@quilthouse.ca
Darlene’s Bio:
Darlene has been sewing since childhood, though she focused on clothing until retiring from her job as a professor at Laval University and moving to Qualicum Beach in 2014. When she wandered into Serge & Sew, scouting out the fabric sources around Qualicum Beach, she was swept up into the world of quilting. It was love at first sight! She joined the Parksville Guild in 2014 and spent the first three years taking several courses in various aspects of quilting. The one thing that she excelled at from the outset was stash building. Over the past three years she has taught courses in paper piecing, scrap quilting and bag making.
Marlene’s Bio:
My passion for sewing began at 6 yrs old making doll clothes with my grandma on her Singer sewing machine. My mother was also an accomplished sewer and once my younger sister began to sew, all three of us shopped for fabric, searched through pattern books, and kept our one sewing machine humming.
I still enjoy making clothes for my grandchildren and their dolls plus home decor. In 2013 we retired to Parksville and in 2014 I joined the Parksville Quilt Guild. Thanks to this group of inspiring women I now have an amazing stash of fabric and patterns but have also created many quilted items including bags. The By Annie “Call Me” bag has been an immensely popular one for guild members.
Darlene and I look forward to sharing this with our members, you can create several!
Domestic Machine: Free Motion Feathers
Instructor: Deb Morrissey
Date & Time: November 15, 2025, Set up 8:30. Workshop 9 – 4.
Location: St. Mark’s Church, 138 Hoylake Road West Qualicum Beach
Cost: $69 (includes handout)
This class is for students with free motion experience - having an understanding and experience in free motion quilting will allow for the most beneficial learning experience. We will get right to work to practice the ins and outs of feathers - the idea is to expand your repertoire of quilting ideas and get you confident in quilting feathers. It is a busy and fun class! We will work on 5 feather plumes - single, bump-back, curly, fern and molar/heart. Feathers are so versatile. I will show you how to work in different spaces, create new looks with details and echoing, and many more ideas of how-to free motion and use feathers in any project. Included with the class are 3 sets of detailed handouts and instructions on how to create the runner (photos included here) - the runner showcases all the types of feathers you will learn in class and is something for you to look forward to creating once you have had practice.
Skill Level: confident intermediate
Maximum number of participants: 20, minimum 15.
Registration begins September 15th, 2025 at the Guild meeting.
Online Registration Begins September 16, 2025 and ends November 1st, 2025.
To register online please use Free Motion Feathers form.
Payment is due within 5 days of registering.
E-transfer: treasurer@quilthouse.ca
Deb Morrissey’s Bio:
It has been 20 years since I started my totally unplanned quilting journey! In the spring of 2004, I pieced my first quilt (a queen-sized Yellow Brick Road) in five days and was hooked. I started working at Huckleberry’s in July of that year and I remember being so fearful of anyone asking me questions on my first day. I quickly learned the many aspects of quilting and was teaching within five months of starting my job. My background was a primary teacher, so I suppose the organizational skills transferred to quilting classes. I’ve taught many different classes over the past 19 years and always like to challenge myself. Hence, I also learned to ruler quilt – I remember not having resources when I started so I was a challenge for me to figure out the ins and outs of how to use rulers, but I found the biggest learning curve was how to move a ruler with the fabric and not veer off the ruler foot. The key to any quilting – free motion or ruler work – is to make sure you take the time to practice! The detailed hand out will make it easy to reference ideas for your projects (or to refresh your memory of what we did in class!)
Looking Forward
February 7, 2026
Darlene LaCharité
Beginning Paper Piecing: Fall Leaves
St. Mark’s Church, 138 Hoylake Road, Qualicum Beach, BC
January 24, 2026
Carolyn Mulders
Mystery Quilt
Lighthouse Community Centre 240 Lions Way, Qualicum Beach, BC
March 14, 2026
DiAnne Hill
Beach Bag
St. Mark’s Church, 138 Hoylake Road, Qualicum Beach, BC
April 18, 2026
Carolyn Mulders
Ribbon Candy Bargello
St. Mark’s Church, 138 Hoylake Road, Qualicum Beach, BC
Ideas for topics can be shared with anyone on the workshop committee or sent to workshops@quilthouse.ca
Susan P. and Joyce M.
Workshops Committee Chairs