MONTHLY MEETINGS
Second Monday of each month
6:00pm
Motherlode Fair Grounds Creekside Building
220 Southgate Drive Sonora, CA 95370
Visitors are always welcome to join us!

2025 Guild Calendar
January
Meeting Monday Jan13th, 2025 6 p.m. Creekside Building
April
Meeting Monday Apr 14th, 2025 6 p.m Creekside Building
Workshop Apr 15th Athena
10 a.m. to 4 p.m - Susan Florez, Owner of Quail's Nest
Sew Day Monday, April 21st 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. Creekside Building
Quilt Show Meeting TBD
February
Meeting Monday Feb 10th, 2025
6 p.m. Creekside Building
May
Meeting Monday May 12th, 2025 6 p.m Creekside Building
Workshop TBD
Quilt Show Meeting TBD
March
Meeting Monday Mar 10th, 2025
6 p.m Creekside Building
Workshop Mar 11th and 12th
10 a.m. to 4 p.m - Cheryl Hart
Sew Day Mar 8th 9 a.m. - 4p.m. Quilts of Valor
New Member Social Mar 15th 12 p.m. - 2 p.m. @ Alice Kraus' Home
Quilt Show Meeting Mar 13th 10:30 a.m. @ Linda Roger's Home
June
Meeting Monday June 9th, 2025 6 p.m Creekside Building
Workshop TBD
Sew Day Thursday, June 5th 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. Creekside Building
Quilt Show Meeting TBD
July
Meeting Monday Jul 14th, 2025
6 p.m Creekside Building
Ice Cream Social
Quilt Show Meeting TBD
October
Meeting Monday Oct 13th, 2025 6 p.m Creekside Building
Quilt Show Awards
August
Meeting Monday Aug 11th, 2025 6 p.m Creekside Building
Workshop TBD
Sew Day Saturday, August 30th 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. Creekside Building
Quilt Show Meeting TBD
November
Meeting Monday Nov 10th, 2025 6 p.m Creekside Building
Workshop Rob Appel "Super 60 Sampler"
September
Meeting Monday Sep 8th, 2025 6 p.m Creekside Building
Quilt Show Prep
Sew Day Saturday, September 6th 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. Creekside Building
Quilt Show
Friday September 19th, 2025 and
Saturday September 20th, 2025
9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
December
Meeting Monday Dec 8th, 2025 6 p.m Creekside Building
Holiday Celebration
Community Quilts Sew Days are back!
We will have all of our Community Quilt fabric at the work day. One of the big goals is to purge the older (disintegrating) fabric from our collection. Also, if you are going through your fabric stashes and come across some fabric you would like to donate to our Community Quilt fabric collection, this work day is THE day to bring it to the fairgrounds.
We have a LOT of bins of fabric to go through, so please come help us!
Additionally, don’t hesitate to come shop for fabrics for your community quilt projects! All are welcome! Don’t forget to bring a lunch! There will be quilt kits, quilts needing quilting and quilts needing binding sewn on available at our January General Membership Meeting. Mark your calendars for this year's sew dates!
NOTE: We will have batting available for your Community Quilt projects at all of the Community Quilt Work Days. Don’t forget to bring lunch! We hope you will come and join in the fun! Questions?– Kathy Richard - kathy24760@gmail.com
Monday, April 21st
Thursday, June 5th
Saturday, August 30th
Saturday, September 6th
Creekside Building at the Fairgrounds!
9 a.m. - 4 p.m.
2025 Sierra Quilt Guild
Featured Quilter
Deby Stagliano

My entire career has been in sales. First with Bank of America where I worked for 20 years and financed inventories for franchised new automobile dealers (selling to salesmen). I left the bank and went to cosmetology school. I got my license but, other than mine and my husband’s hair, I never worked in that field. Locally, I worked in retail at Gottschalks. I was there 5 years and was the Estée Lauder counter manager. Finally, I am a licensed (as you can see, I collect licenses) real estate broker and am a Broker Associate with Coldwell Banker Segerstrom. I retired in 2017. I now wonder how I ever had time to work..
I am obsessed with quilting, literally. Although I’ve sewn virtually my entire life, I’ve only been quilting since 2018. That’s not to say I haven’t made patchwork “blankets” but no way could they be considered quilts. I started my first quilt in 2001. I was quilting it by hand and decided it was taking too long. I put it up in the closet where it remained for 17 years. In 2018, I showed it to a friend and she convinced me to finish it. That was just the beginning…
“Can’t” is not in my vocabulary. I guess that’s because I think I can do anything if I set my mind to it. I got that can-do attitude from my Mom. My focus borders(?) on OCD. If I see something and want to do it, I jump in with both feet, ankles, knees, all the way up to my neck. I will tackle anything I’m interested in without reservation and work at it until I feel I’m fairly competent...and then work at it some more.
I decided right away that hand quilting and quilting on a domestic machine were not for me. And I could not bring myself to pay someone to quilt my quilts. What a dilemma! Since I did not want to stop quilting, I had to figure out a solution. So, although I didn’t know anyone who owned one, I decided to buy a longarm. I met Richard from Elk Grove Sew & Vac at Cal Expo in March 2019 (shortly before I joined the Guild) and purchased my HandiQuilter Amara 20 with Pro-Stitcher from him on the spot. Delivery, however, had to wait until I figured out where to put it.
Since we have a very small house with only three bedrooms, I decided to recess a Murphy bed into the closet of our guest room. When we don’t have guests, it’s my longarm room. So, I have an office/sewing room and a longarm room. Perfect! My husband gets half of a bedroom.
I took a lot of classes and thank goodness for YouTube. I live on YouTube. I would watch a longarm episode, pause it, go apply it, come back watch some more, pause it, go apply it, etc. I quilted a lot of community quilts and, with a lot of trial and error, I figured out how to operate my machine. I love it!!
I sew 8 hours a day, 6 days a week, and 4 hours on Sunday. My husband enables me. He does all of the cooking (including grocery shopping and most of the cleanup). At noon, he calls me to tell me it’s lunchtime. I go eat, watch an hour of television with him, and go right back to sewing. We’ve agreed that my quitting time is 4 o’clock and noon on Sunday. I couldn’t have a more wonderful and tolerant husband.
Thanks to him, in the seven years I’ve been quilting, I’ve made nearly 100 quilts and quilted over 300 (I have nearly 40M stitches on my longarm). I have no UFO’s (unfinished objects). I work on one quilt and won’t start another until that one is completely finished. But I do start thinking about and anticipating my next project. And the one after that. Life is good.

Who are we?
The Sierra Quilt Guild of Tuolumne County is dedicated to providing an atmosphere of fellowship for anyone interested in the art and craft of quilt making and related arts by: sharing of skills and knowledge in the field of quilt making, providing instruction to further the education, knowledge and skills in quilt making through lectures, workshops, and seminars. We also provide ongoing information on quilting events and contribute to community education by encouraging the appreciation of the art of quilting.