August 14

August Meeting is a Silent Auction

Cathe Hedrick has volunteered to head up the plans for the Silent Auction, so please let her know if you have good ideas, Big Things you want to get rid of, if you want to help, if you want to change the way things are done, or if you’re curious about how it works.  Call her at 899-3947 or email at chedrick@cox.net.

September 11

Vikki Pignatelli www.vikkipignatelli.com presents 10 Attributes that Make a Quilter Better. Passion, humor, persistence, courage, and faith in your work...these five attribute and others all play a role in your quiltmaking. What does it take to be a great quilter? She will discuss how she learned these attributes the hard way while creating her quilts.

September 12 Workshop: Improvisational Curves. This relaxing, impromptu approach to piecing curves offers students total freedom in quiltmaking. With a play-as-you-go spirit, students create several "blocks" of shapes (circles, ovals, curvy rectangles or triangles or teardrops) learn manipulations and how to arrange them into a free-form contemporary quilt. This class features techniques from Vikki’s new book, Quilting By Improvisation. All skill levels.

October 4 - 5

Harvest of Colors Quilt Show

Our bi-annual quilt show!
Workshops by: Joe Cunningham & Andrea Perejda

October 9

Julie Silber

Keep ’Em in Stitches. American women have always expressed their WHOLE selves in quilts—their tragedies, accomplishments, losses, loves, passages, AND humor! Slides and real-life examples of some very, very funny quilts, both 19th and early 20th century! Sometimes it’s images, sometimes words, sometimes it’s just the idea that’s so amusing! She is also the co-producer of the book, Amish: The Art of the Quilt, with text by Robert Hughes, published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1993 (a must book for lovers of Amish quilts).

No Workshop

November 13

Lyn Mann

When Life Gives You Scraps. This presentation deals with scrap quilts. Emphasis is placed on the importance of color, value and texture. Lyn will bring up to 40 quilts! In 1998, Lyn was the featured artist for the Christmas exhibit at the La Conner Quilt Museum in La Conner, Washington. Over the years her quilts have been featured in numerous books and magazines. A Simply Quilts film crew visited Lyn's house and filmed a class on “No Such Thing As An Ugly Fabric.” It aired on January 2002, #743. The response to this one program was overwhelming. www.quiltsbylyn.com

November 14 Workshop: No Such Thing As An Ugly Fabric. Learn how to make any fabric great depending on what you put with it. In this class, students will each bring squares of an ugly (or hard to use) fabric to share. They will also bring a variety of scraps. We will construct a simple scrap quilt while learning how to make any fabric great, depending on what you put with it. A really fun day!!! Many say this is the best class they ever had. (Lyn asks that you do not wear perfume to the workshop, as she is allergic.)

Surprise General Meeting!

No Workshop

January 8

Sue Rasmussen

A Desperate Housewife’s Quilt Journey. This presentation, with dozens of Sue’s quilts, takes you through her development as a quilt maker of the two main quilt styles that Sue loves and is known for –Intricate Pieced Quilts and Machine Pieced Landscape Quilts. “A diversified quilt instructor since 1988, Sue Rasmussen loves to inspire her class participants to stretch beyond traditional confinements through quick methods of paper foundation piecing, machine pieced landscapes and beautiful, intricate machine quilting.”

January 9 Workshop: Landscapes–Machine Pieced. This class is an introduction to the curved machine piecing technique for landscape quilts. In this class, students will learn design techniques, fabric choices, marking, sewing, and pattern development working directly with fabric. To simplify and allow more time for learning these techniques, Sue has designed a landscape pattern of a Single Tree Landscape, available to students in this class. By utilizing this pattern, students will immediately begin learning the process of working on landscape quilts without taking hours to design an individual piece.

February 12

Anita Luvera Mayer

I Don’t Do Guilt Anymore (or What Other People Think of Me Is None of My Business). A humorous but practical approach to the problems facing every woman who is trying to find more time, more space, and more money. A sharing of how to prioritize the events in your life from children to husbands to ageing parents and have time for your creative self. The session includes philosophy, encouragement and humor.

February 13 Workshop: Embellishing the Surface. A hands-on exploration of simple yet dramatic ways to individualize clothing and accessories using mirrors, creative stitchery, innovative beading, braids and wrapped rings. The instructor’s wardrobe and items featuring these embellishments will be available for examination. Compile an extensive reference notebook of simple yet dramatic ways to individualize cloth using mirrors, creative embroidery, beads, braids and wrapped rings. Lab supplies fee $30.

March 12

Melinda Bula

Discovering the Artist Within. Sit back and enjoy a fun lecture into the world of a quilt and wearable art artist. Melinda’s lectures include a humorous look at the development of an artist as well as showing her award winning Fabulous Fusible Flower quilts and a fashion show featuring her wearable art. Creating and designing is an obsession with Melinda and whether it is fabric, wallpaper or quilts, it is her passion. www.melindabula.com

March 13 Workshop: Fabulous Fusible Flowers. This is a fusible technique that Melinda uses to create her beautiful flower quilts. A simple pattern is used in class to create a wonderful flower quilt. Renegade thread play is demonstrated. Her Fabulous Fusible Flowers quilts are unique. With the wonderful look of a painting, she uses fabric and thread to create beautifully artistic quilts.

April 9

Peggy Martin

Beyond Tradition. Tradition takes off with new ways to interpret blocks in different variations and settings. New designs evolve naturally through experimentation and a sense of play. She will show us how to free up our own creativity through the use of color and a variety of fabric styles. Trunk show of quilts, continually updated with new pieces. www.martins.cts.com

April 10 Workshop: Quick-Strip Paper Piecing. Workshop includes instruction in the Quick-Strip Paper Piecing technique and is suitable for confident beginners to advanced quilters. The block to be made in our workshop has not been selected yet but will be either New York Beauty (this traditional block is amazingly fast and easy to sew using the Quick-Strip Paper Piecing technique and machine applique instead of curved seams) or Evening Star (similar in appearance to the classic Mariner's Compass, this circular design is simplified and pieced in a fraction of the time). Piece it in traditional colors for a classic look, or go wild with directional fabrics and bright colors.

May 14

B.J. Adams

Is It a Painting or What? The sewing machine has become a brush and pencil while hundreds of colors of threads have become paint to create realistic or abstract images on various backgrounds or maybe no background at all.

May 15 Workshop: Drawing and Lace in Machine Embroidery. The sewing machine will be used as an artistic tool to sketch and draw on fabric or stabilizer in a manner similar to the way traditional pen and ink images are created on paper. Half the time will be spent drawing with thread in free machine embroidery on fabrics. The other half of the time will be spent using thread in free machine embroidery on a dissolvable stabilizer to create lacy images.