Upcoming events
Tina Turner Exhibit
Tribute to the Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll Tina Turner. For the annual Fredericksburg Quilt and Sewing Expo challenge, members were asked to contribute quilts honoring Tina Turner or some aspect of her music, life, or movies. The quilts will be on display at the Montpelier House Mansion. through April. Please click here for hours that the mansion is open for visiting.
March Monthly Meeting
Joins us for our monthly hybrid meeting.
LEELAND HALL
SAINT BARNABAS EPISCOPAL ANGLICAN CHURCH
14111 OAK GROVE ROAD
UPPER MARLBORO, MD 20744
15 Community Service Day – Reading Pillow, Maxine Morgan/Janevie Brooks
2025 Challenge Show and Tell:Reinterpreting Alma Thomas, due Saturday, March 15, 2025
Our first challenge of the year is a mini quilt just in time for Women's History Month. For this challenge, please create a 12 x 12-inch quilt inspired by the work of Alma Thomas (1891-1978). A long-time DC resident, Thomas was the first person to earn a fine arts degree from Howard University. After retiring from more than 30 years as a DC Public School art teacher, she focused on her art career and began to exhibit her work. At the age of 80, she became the first African American woman to have a solo exhibit at the Whitney Museum in New York.
When designing your quilt, you can draw from the colors, theme, titles, or any element of Alma Thomas' work or her life. You can choose inspiration from an individual painting or think of her works collectively. Please remember to adhere to all copyright laws.
Check out the following resources to learn more about Thomas and view her works:
Area 51 UFO Club
Area 51 UFO Club Registration Form: https://forms.gle/xKUeJ5m7VPbSkKKCA. Click the link to join the UFO Club and once you're registered, details will be emailed to you.
Spaulding Library exhibit
https://www.pgcmls.info/event/12752006
Join us for this community exhibit with some of our Uhuru members displaying their quilts.
Sew Happy Hour
***Open Studio
Open Studio during Sew Happy Hour – this is an opportunity for you to get help on specific projects you are working on. Breakout rooms will be made available to those who are in Adinkra Symbols BOM or Beginner’s Quilters Bee classes. Rose Swain will share details during the February general guild meeting.
Greenbelt Quilt House Exhibit
MARYLAND QUILTS 2025
Welcome to the twenty-second exhibition of Maryland
Quilts Exhibit shown at the Greenbelt Federal Courthouse
Now through the end of April.
This collection of quilts features the work of Maryland quilt makers from 7 different guilds, whose work demonstrates a wide range of styles and techniques that illustrate the versatility of the quilt artists and the capabilities of the medium.
The Courthouse is open Monday through Friday, 9 AM- 3PM CLOSED ON WEEKENDS
(excluding Holidays)
6500 Cherrywood Ln, Greenbelt, MD 20770
NO ADMISSION FREE PARKING and HANDICAPPED ACCESS
Be sure to visit all three floors. Enjoy the quilts!
April Monthly Meeting
Joins us for our monthly hybrid meeting.
LEELAND HALL
SAINT BARNABAS EPISCOPAL ANGLICAN CHURCH
14111 OAK GROVE ROAD
UPPER MARLBORO, MD 20744
Montpelier House Museum Tina Turner exhibit (Copy)
Pick up date for Tina Turner Challenge Quilts
Sew Happy Hour
***Open Studio
Open Studio during Sew Happy Hour – this is an opportunity for you to get help on specific projects you are working on. Breakout rooms will be made available to those who are in Adinkra Symbols BOM or Beginner’s Quilters Bee classes. Rose Swain will share details during the February general guild meeting.
June Monthly Meeting
Everybody’s birthday party
Joins us for our monthly hybrid meeting.
LEELAND HALL
SAINT BARNABAS EPISCOPAL ANGLICAN CHURCH
14111 OAK GROVE ROAD
UPPER MARLBORO, MD 20744
Virtual attendees click here
2025 Challenge Show and Tell: Mocha Me, Due Saturday, June 21, 2025
The Pantone Color of the Year 2025 is Mocha Mousse. For this challenge, choose Mocha Mousse-colored fabric and create a quilted item of any size and style that incorporates the fabric in a significant way.
To help you brainstorm ideas, the Pantone website describes Mocha Mousse as “a warming, brown hue imbued with richness. It nurtures us with its suggestion of the delectable qualities of chocolate and coffee, answering our desire for comfort.” For more information about the color see the Pantone Color of the Year site: https://www.pantone.com/color-of-the-year/2025?gad_source=1
You can find Mocha Mouse fabric on the Spoonflower website https://www.spoonflower.com/en/inspiration/collaborations/pantone-color-of-the-year-2025#shop-fabric or choose a matching fabric from your stash or a favorite fabric store.
Original Sewing and Quilting Expo
Original Sewing and Quilting Expo
Fredericksburg Convention Center
Fredericksburg, VA
See our 2025 challenge quilt display, take classes, shop with the vendors, or see quilt displays by other guilds.
January Monthly Meeting
Winter Holiday Party
Joins us for our monthly hybrid meeting.
LEELAND HALL
SAINT BARNABAS EPISCOPAL ANGLICAN CHURCH
14111 OAK GROVE ROAD
UPPER MARLBORO, MD 20744
Virtual attendees click here
Challenge Show and Tell: Honoring Nikki Giovanni, due Saturday, January 17, 2026
Our final challenge of the year will honor African American poet, author, activist, and educator, Nikki Giovanni. For this challenge, you can create a quilt of any size using any technique, and we encourage you to explore resources about her life as well as her work. To help you meet this challenge, Uhuru will provide education and support throughout the year. Please remember to adhere to all copyright laws when choosing elements for your quilt.
The final quilts for this challenge could be used for Uhuru’s participation in Handwork: Celebrating American Craft 2026. See Renee Anderson for more details about our involvement with this program.
Sew Happy Hour
***Open Studio
Open Studio during Sew Happy Hour – this is an opportunity for you to get help on specific projects you are working on. Breakout rooms will be made available to those who are in Adinkra Symbols BOM or Beginner’s Quilters Bee classes. Rose Swain will share details during the February general guild meeting.
Uhuru Bus Trip: Mid-atlantic Quilt Festival
Hampton Roads Convention Center, Hampton, Virginia
Pickup Time and Location: 7:00 a.m. 6009 Oxon Hill Road,
Oxon Hill MD (Behind IHOP Pancake House)
Transport to: Hampton Convention center 10:00 –4:00 Show hours
4:00 –Leave for MD
Return: 8:30 p.m.
Note -times are approximate
Price $85 per person -No Refunds (replacements accepted)
Price for Uhuru Members who volunteer to white glove on Saturday $75 per person -No Refunds (replacements accepted)
Price includes round trip deluxe bus transportation, and ticket to the show.
Pay Deborah Stafford during the Uhuru meetings,
Or send your $85 check payable to Uhuru Quilters Guild to
PO Box:47332
6514 MARLBORO PIKE
DISTRICT HEIGHTS, MD 20747
Beginner Quilter Bee
Learn the techniques to complete your first quilt with our Master Quilt teachers. Registration closed on December 31, 2024. If you registered for this class be sure to check your email for the Zoom link.
Beginner Quilter Bee
Learn the techniques to complete your first quilt with our Master Quilt teachers. Registration closed on December 31, 2024. If you registered for this class be sure to check your email for the Zoom link.
Area 51 UFO Club
Area 51 UFO Club Registration Form: https://forms.gle/xKUeJ5m7VPbSkKKCA. Click the link to join the UFO Club and once you're registered, details will be emailed to you.
February Monthly Meeting
Joins us for our monthly meeting.
February 2025 meeting is virtual only.
February Guest Speaker Presentation: Aurifilosophy!
Our February meeting will feature Karen Miller of Red Bird Quilt Co. who will present the Aurifilosphy Program via ZOOM. Karen is a quilter, designer, author, blogger, and Aurifil ambassador. Her presentation will include a trunk show and a thread education program. The presentation will begin following Show and Tell (approximately 12:15 pm).
This presentation is a door prize won by Angela Lanier at the Recharge & Reinvent: A Virtual Retreat for Quilt Guild Leaders sponsored by the International Quilt Museum in October.
Beginner Quilter Bee
Learn the techniques to complete your first quilt with our Master Quilt teachers. Registration closed on December 31, 2024. If you registered for this class be sure to check your email for the Zoom link.
Sew Happy Hour: Her-Story & His story
HER-Story & HIS-Story – join us as we come to show and share our quilt stories. We often do not take the time to hear our own stories from guild members. We would like to take this time to celebrate the quilters in our guild and hear a little more about them and their quilt stories. So go through your quilts, whether finished or not, and find that quilt that is special to you, show us and tell us the why. Each person who wants to show a quilt that you or someone in your family has made to share as your quilt story during Sew Happy Hour Monday February 10, we will start at 7, and you will have 3-5 mins to share your quilt. We are excited and looking forward to “HER-Story & HIS-Story” for Black History Month during Sew Happy Hour.
Sew Happy Hour
***Open Studio
Open Studio during Sew Happy Hour – this is an opportunity for you to get help on specific projects you are working on. Breakout rooms will be made available to those who are in Adinkra Symbols BOM or Beginner’s Quilters Bee classes. Rose Swain will share details during the February general guild meeting.
Beginner Quilter Bee
Learn the techniques to complete your first quilt with our Master Quilt teachers. Registration closed on December 31, 2024. If you registered for this class be sure to check your email for the Zoom link.
Beginner Quilter Bee
Learn the techniques to complete your first quilt with our Master Quilt teachers. Registration closed on December 31, 2024. If you registered for this class be sure to check your email for the Zoom link.
Beginner Quilter Bee
Learn the techniques to complete your first quilt with our Master Quilt teachers. Registration closed on December 31, 2024. If you registered for this class be sure to check your email for the Zoom link.
January Monthly Meeting
Joins us for our monthly hybrid meeting.
LEELAND HALL
SAINT BARNABAS EPISCOPAL ANGLICAN CHURCH
14111 OAK GROVE ROAD
UPPER MARLBORO, MD 20744
Board of Directors/Committee Chair Meeting
Joins us for our monthly Board of Directors Meeting. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84789092597?pwd=QzJMVG5HcnJuc3VIdkgvL3BIN05zQT09
Communications Committee Meeting
Communications Committee will hold a committee meeting on January 8. 2024 at 7p.m. Please join us for our first quarterly meeting if you are currently on the Communications Committee or are interested in joining the committee. We still need support with the blog, social media, and the newsletter. If any of those items are skills or interests that you have, we welcome you to join us.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81938571636?pwd=eVUqwdztU3FVBSoaZTQ33INqqhcLB1.1
Homage to the Color Purple
36x36 Challenge quilts inspired by a theme, scene, quote or character from The Color Purple: book, movie, or play.
Original Sewing & Quilting Expo
Set up is on Wednesday, September 25, 2024. Volunteers needed for Uhuru booth and as Expo Ambassadors.