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Workshop information and supply lists will be published
in Coastlines newsletter and posted here as they
become available. The
fee for one-day workshops is $35. Sign-ups
for each workshop begin two months prior and we expect these
excellent teachers to sell out fast. Workshops not filled
two months in advance will be opened to non-members for
an increased fee. Enroll by providing a check payable to
Coastal Quilter's Guild to the workshop Chair. All
programs are subject to change.
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August 14
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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. |
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September
11

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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.
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October
4 - 5
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Harvest
of Colors Quilt Show
Our bi-annual quilt show!
Workshops by: Joe Cunningham & Andrea Perejda

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October 9

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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 |
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November 13

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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.)
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| December
11 |
Surprise General Meeting!
No Workshop
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January
8

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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
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February
12

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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. |
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March
12

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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. |
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April 9

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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. |
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May
14

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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.
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| June
11 |
Challenge
quilts will be revealed during the most popular
Guild meeting of the year. Our members will present
their skill and creativity in response to our annual
design challenge. No workshop this month. |
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