Club and Guild Directory

Be sure to check the calendar of events for special programs these groups
may be hosting. If you are attending your first meeting with a group
it is advisable to call and confirm meeting time and place.

American Needlepoint Guild
Tucson Chapter

The Tucson Chapter of the ANG has morning and evening meetings. Morning group meets 4th Thursdays, 10:30am, Pima County Medical Society Building, 5199 E. Farness Drive. Evening group meets 4th Wednesdays, 6:00pm, Streams of the Desert Lutheran Church, 5360 E. Pima Street (half block west of Craycroft). For information, please call Judy Burgess 625-2425. www.tucsonang.org.

American Needlepoint Guild
Green Valley

The Cactus Wren Chapter of the ANG meets the 2nd Wednesday of the month at the La Posada Recreation Room. Business meeting starts at 10:00am Contact: Susan Ettl, 399-3297. www.gvang.org

American Sewing Guild

The Tucson Chapter welcomes you. Monthly Neighborhood Work Groups and their leaders’ names and contact information are: EASTSIDE DAY: 3rd Mondays, 1:00 pm at Bookmans on Speedway - call Ann Williams, 574-4462 EASTSIDE EVENING: 3rd Tuesdays, 6:30 pm at Bernina Sewing Center - call Cheryl Malone, 826-1987. WESTSIDE: 4th Tuesdays, 10:00 am at Villas de La Canada Clubhouse on Sandero Uno - call Barbara Hovagian, 297-4265. SOUTHWEST: 2nd Wednesdays, 1:00 pm at Friends In Deed building in Green Valley - call Phyllis Viola, 625-4877 or Phyllis Bannister, 625-8657. SADDLEBROOKE SATELLITE: 1st Mondays, 9:00 am, Saddlebrooke #1 Arts/Crafts Bldg. - call Liz Macijeski, 825-2937. SIERRA VISTA: 3rd Mondays at 1:00 pm in SSVEC (Electric Building) at 2nd St and Wilcox - call Lucy Shaver, (520) 458-3551.

Cactus Cablers Smocking Guild

Cactus Cablers is affiliated with the Smocking Arts Guild of America (SAGA). The group offers fellowship, education and fun. Meetings 3rd Wednesdays at St. Jude’s Anglican Church on East Sececa, 10:00am-2:00pm. (Lunch is served - come be our guest.) Contact: Terri Kilgore at 790-5868. cactuscablers@yahoo.com, www.cactuscablers.org.

Copper Thimbles Chapter of AQG

Meets 1st and 3rd Wednesday. Contact: Glenda Hatfield, P.O. Box 1094, Kearny AZ 85237.

Embroiderers’ Guild

The Tucson Chapter of the Embroiderers’ Guild of America meets in the Kiva room at the Junior League of Tucson, 2099 E. River at 12:30pm, September-June, 1st Thursdays. After the business segment there is a program of slide presentations, “hands-on” projects or speakers. Contact: Jenny Coniglio, 546-3684. www.tucsonega.org.

Embroiders of Tucson

Meets 2nd Mondays, 10:00am in member’s homes. Dues $10/year. Call Marge Thompson, 745-2448.

Green Valley Sewing Club

Meets 2nd Thursdays, 1:00pm at Friends In-Deed, 301 W. Camino Casa Verde, Green Valley. Contact: Doris Neal 399-3606.

Helping Hands

This group of quilters meets 1st and 3rd Wednesdays, 9:00-11:30am. Helping Hands make scrap quilts for various charities. Donated scrap fabrics or sheets always welcome. Anyone came come, no sewing experience necessary. No dues. Meetings at Christ Church United Methodist, 655 N. Craycroft. Call Beverly Thompson 745-0177.

Hummingbird Stitchers
Quilt Guild of Sierra Vista

The Sierra Vista HSQG is dedicated to promoting the art of quiltmaking and educating about quilts. Meetings are held at the Sierra Vista Community United Church of Christ, 240 N Bypass 90 (Sierra Vista) each Wednesday at 9:30am., and 1st Mondays at 7:00pm. Short programs and demonstrations are presented at the monthly business meetings, and at the weekly bees. The guild also sponsors day-long workshops at least twice a year. For more info write to: HSQG, P.O. Box 1326, Sierra Vista, AZ 85636.

Old Pueblo Knitters

Old Pueblo Knitters (Tucson chapter of the Knitting Guild of America), meets at 9:30am on 3rd Thursdays at St. Phillips Episcopal Church. Guests are always welcome. Programs feature knitting techniques and embellishments. Patterns, fibers and sources are also shared. Humanitarian projects are: knitting for Preemies; knitting sweaters, hats, mittens and gloves for children in Northern Arizona. Contact: Nancy Gibbons 520 293-0781.

Old Pueblo Pleaters

The Old Pueblo Pleaters smocking guild welcomes anyone with an interest in smocking. Instructional program related to smocking as well as a time to show and share recent smocking projects. Meetings 1st Wednesdays, 7:00pm, Bernina Sewing Center, 4500 E. Speedway #39. Call Jane at 797-9250.

Old Pueblo Rug Hookers

First Tuesdays, 10:00am, Woods Library, 3rd Tuesdays at Bella Quiltworks, 1:00-4:00pm. Contact: Lin Spangler, 579-9407.

Pattern Master Boutique Users’ Group

Southern Arizona PMB User’s Group is a support and education group. Members use Wild Ginger Pattern Master apparel pattern drafting software. The group primarily serves southern Arizona (Pima, Santa Cruz, and Cochise counties). They have outgrown meeting in member’s homes and are now meeting at Bernina Sewing Center in October. Third Saturdays, from 9:30am to 2:30pm. Contact Madeline Zargarian, sewbizi@aol.com.

Silken Threads Smocking Guild

This smocking and heirloom sewing group meets the first Tuesday morning of each month from 10am to noon at Friends in Deed in Green Valley. Learn to smock, do heirloom sewing and share your projects. Be a guest or join the club – contact Jo Ann Newkirk at 578-3200 or beadearl@wmconnect.com.

Tucson Hand Weavers and Spinners Guild

General meetings, with a featured speaker, are usually held September through May, on the 4th Wednesday of the month starting at 9:30am at the Junior League building, 2099 E. River Road.

Tucson Quilters Guild

Learn, teach, share skills, and participate. General meetings 2nd Wednesdays, 9:30am at the St. Frances Cabrini Church, 3201 E Presidio. Programs vary. Dues $25/year. New members and guests please come to the new-member table. Contact Membership Chairman, Mary Meserve 883-4408.

Tucson Threadheads

A cloth dollmaker’s club. Meetings are held at Baby Lock / Bernina Sewing Center, 4500 E. Speedway #39 on the 3rd Wednesday of each month, 6:30-8:30pm. Membership dues are $12/year but you may attend your first meeting free of charge. Questions? Call Maureen Wilson 795-2174 or Judi Dalton 298-7454.

Valley Quilter’s Guild

There is a new quilting guild in Green Valley. TheValley Quilter's Guild meets 4th Fridays at St. Francis Episcopal Church in Green Valley. Contact person is Janie Schott at 625-7944 or janie.schott@cox.net.