Next Meeting Friday, June 26, 2026

St Matthews United Church of Christ, 5289 McKinley Parkway, Hamburg, NY 14075

10:00 am

Our speaker is Susan Standley of “Stitch In Time” . Her lecture is entitled “250th Commemorative Celebration: Memento Making Past and Present 1776-1876-2026.

Susan Standley Stitch in Time is a studio where history and textiles meet!

My love of textiles began at the age of four and has continued throughout my life. I have studied and collected antique quilts, samplers, textiles and sewing notions with the purpose of re-interpreting them using modern tools and materials. My particular interest rests in the work of the 18th and 19th century. I find value and meaning in reinterpreting antique textiles.

I have worked and taught in several quilt shops and have served on the Arizona Quilt Studies Documentation Team. Her knowledge of all these realms has allowed her to explore comparisons that she finds valuable when reinterpreting an antique.

She has a Floss Tube channel on YouTube called “Susan Standley Stitch in Time” where she informs and encourages you on your textile journey.

Her home is in the beautiful Pacific Northwest where she am surrounded by green trees and water! It is a serene environment full of inspiration!

Susan is keenly interested in the lives of stitchers from the past and the methods that were used to accomplish all that they achieved. Her program will walk us through the ways things were done in the 19th century so we can experience the techniques for ourselves and gain a greater appreciation for the tools we have today. 

After Class: Memento Making Past & Present 1776 – 1876- 2026

2026

February 28, 2026

Meeting: 10:00 AM

Presented: by Norfolk NeedleArt Bethany Clements and Joanne Lukacher
Program: “Imitation & Improvement, Echoes & Enhancements: New Discoveries in Norfolk Sampler Studies.

After Class: Joanne will teach the Ann Gedge Sewing Bag

Advance purchase of the kit is required.

April 24, 2026

Meeting: 10:00 AM

Presented: by Dawn Ronningen
Program: Lecture on Ladies Sewing Pockets

After Class: Following the class Dawn will present a class with instructions of sewing a “sewing pocket”

Advance purchase of the kit is required.

June 26, 2026

Meeting: 10:00 AM

Presented: Susan Standley
Program: Lecture “250th Commemorative Celebration

After Class: Memento Making Past & Present 1776 – 1876 – 2026

August 28, 2026

Meeting: 10:00 AM
Program: Annual Auction to Benefit Seneca Babcock

September 12, 2026

Meeting: 10:00 AM

Presented: Merry Cox
Program: Hannah Cee 1809 Sampler

Advance purchase of the kit is required.

October 23, 2026

Meeting: 10:00 AM

Presented: TBA
Program: TBA

Advance purchase of the kit is required.

December 4, 2026

Meeting: 10:00 AM
Program: Annual Holiday Pot Luck Luncheon

2025

April 25, 2025

Meeting: 10:00 AM
Lecture: by Beth Seal in the AM
Program: Journal Class in the afternoon

April 26, 2025

Class -Beth Seal
Program: Wildflowers II

June 27, 2025

Meeting: 10:00 AM
Lecture: by Theresa Venette of Kitten Stitcher/Shakespeare’s Peddler

  (in person and on Zoom).

 Theresa Venette will present her lecture “What Goes Into Reproducing and/ or designing and releasing patterns”

August 22, 2025

Meeting: 10:00 AM
Annual Auction

October 24, 2025

Meeting: 10:00 AM
Class: Pin drum finishing
Instructor: Barb Ruestow

Link to the project used with permission:

https://whilstirisnaps.com/all-is-calm-christmas-2020-free-chart

December 5, 2025

Meeting: 10:00 AM
Holiday Pot Luck Luncheon