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!
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