Autumn Stars can
be done as a wallhanging, lap quilt, or queen size quilt. The
piecing is simple and fun; the color choices are what makes it
so stunning. The quilt was originally designed as a mystery
quilt but has become so popular that we teach it whenever groups
see it in person. *See photograph on the home page.
click for supply list
An original
pattern that includes a “trim to size” block that will just eat
up all those scraps you’ve been saving. Each block is then
sashed and a 4 or 8 pointed star cornerstone is inserted. The
quilt is finished off with 2 thin borders and a wide scrappy
piano key outer border with mitered corners. A number of piecing
techniques are included as are fabric and color placement. You
will finish a number of blocks and view demonstrations of all
techniques.
Award winning
quilter, NBQA member and past president, Pat Harrison lives in
Exeter, RI and has a long arm quilting business, "Ocean
Waves Quilting."
Thursday
February 19,
2009
Vivien Sayer - Quilt Appraisals
will be scheduled by appointment, Please see Sandy Barron.
Vivien Lee Sayre is an appraiser certified by the American
Quilter's Society, and a member of the Board of Directors of the
New England Quilt Museum (NEQM). She also serves on the
Acquisition Committee of NEQM and is a member of the Steering
Committee of The Massachusetts Quilt Documentation Project.
Vivien lectures extensively on the history of quilted textiles,
colors, patterns and the differences in quilt styles through the
centuries. As a member and past Co-chair of MassQuilts, Vivien
has seen some of the earliest quilts to arrive on our shores, as
well as those made from imported and domestic fabrics. She has
appraised and documented everything from very early historic
quilts to the latest art quilts. She encourages class
participants to bring their quilts to her lectures for a view
into their textile history. Vivien lectures and appraises quilts
throughout the country.
Barbara Pershing & Mary Hoover
-
StrataVarious
Create Strata (panels of various width fabric strips sewn
together) then use them to piece beautiful blocks. Great for
fabricoholics as it uses lots of different fabrics. Just cut
strips, join, slice and sew!
Fee: $40.00
Barbara and Mary
are award winning quilt artists and their quilts have been
published in many quilting magazines. They were born the fourth
and sixth children in a close knit family in south Jersey.
Despite living 300 miles apart, Barbara and Mary began
collaborating shortly after the start of their own businesses.
This collaboration quickly became a partnership which has grown
into the pattern and design company,
Fourth & Sixth Designs.
Thursday
April 16
Sulky
National Educator, Pam Laba- Sit ‘n Sew creative
machine art class
Fee: $35.00
The people taking the sit n sew will be doing several different
types of free-motion work on muslin “sandwiches”. No pressure,
just practice and tips on how to improve and expand skills, and
build confidence in using metallics and other decorative Sulky
threads. This is a skill-builder class, as well as learning
about needles, threads, stabilizers and more.
Join us to learn how to use and have fun with specialty
threads. Yes, you can successfully use metallics for quilting,
embellishment and more. Discover how stabilizers can make your
work look like the professional's. All the secrets to using
decorative threads and specialty needles are yours for
attending. Featured threads: Sulky Cotton Blendables, Sulky
Holoshimmer Metallic, Sulky Sliver Metallic, Sulky Original
Metallic, Sulky Rayon and Sulky Polyester Invisible.
Supply List
- Sewing Machine with zigzag and drop down feed dogs
- Free motion or darning foot for sewing machine
- Regular sewing supplies
May 21
Borders &
Bindings - Pat Ferguson
Professional,
award winning quilter and NBQA member, Pat Ferguson
will teach you how to finish your quilt with borders and
bindings that are show worthy.
Workshops are held at
the Westminster Unitarian
Church in East Greenwich. It is located at the corner of
Kenyon & First Avenue. The workshop room is located in the
parish hall which is the building next to the round church meeting
building. Look for the handicapped ramp entrance. Click here for
DIRECTIONS.
Workshops are held on various days of
the week. Cost of a workshop will vary depending on the cost of the
instructor etc. In general, workshops will be priced to cover the
cost of running that workshop. Workshops are limited to 20 participants.
To attend a workshop, you must
register and pay in full in advance. Do this by seeking out one of
the Program Chairpersons at a General Meeting (Sandy Barron or Pat
Harrison) or by mailing in your check and request to: Sandy Barron P.O. Box 614 East Greenwich, RI 02818
Plan your arrival at
the workshop for 9:30. This will give you ample time to get set-up
for the 10:00 workshop start time.For your comfort you might want to dress in layers and bring
a seat cushion. The workshop will end
around 3:30. Your help setting up
and breaking down tables and chairs is appreciated.
Coffee and tea will be
provided. You are welcome to bring a snack for yourself and/or a
snack to share with other workshop participants.
You should bring a power strip and a light.
There will be a lunch
break around noon. You may bring a bag lunch including a beverage or
go out to get your lunch at local fast foods. A refrigerator is
available to store lunches.
A group including the
workshop leader will be going out to dinner at 5:00 to a local
restaurant. Let the program leaders know if you plan to join the
group so that a dinner reservation can be made for you.
Please make every
effort to gather all
the supplies on the supply list.
Please remember to
turn your cell phone ring off at the workshop so that you do not
disturb other participants.
Please wear a name
tag. Stick-ons will be available at the workshop.
Guild Policy
states that if you are unable to attend the workshop, the workshop
fee will be refunded only if your spot is filled two weeks previous
to the workshop.
Classes and class space
are available only to registered, paid participants. No "auditing"
of classes is permitted. No concurrent use of the workspace for
other projects is permitted.
Our own Pat Bruno will spend the
day teaching us how to add the
excitement of beading to our
quilts. On the right are 2
examples of her quilts where she
has used beaded embellishment.
Fee: $25.00. There is an
additional $5.00 materials fee.
Jo is a quilt teacher from
Maine. She has loved working
with fabric since she was a
child but first began exhibiting
her appliqué wall hangings and
wearable art in New Mexico in
the late sixties. She moved to
Maine in the 1970’s and was
introduced to a world of
quilters that caused her to
focus her creative talents in
quilting ever since that time.
Her work has been exhibited
internationally and she has
taught extensively in the US and
Canada. Her work has been
photographed and published in
numerous quilt magazines and
books. To see some of Jo’s work
you can go to:http://www.mainecraftsguild.com/diggs.html
11/15/07
Susan Carlson - Somethin'
Fishy
Fee: $45.00
Create a fun and fabulous fabric
fish using Susan's
layering/collage method, then
quilt in place with machine
stitching. Color, construction,
and quilting will be discussed.
A pattern will be available in
class, or create your own unique
design. Finished size
approximately 12" x 16",
suitable for framing.
Susan has a Bachelor of Fine
Arts degree from Maryland
Institute, College of Art and
now lives in Maine. She has
received numerous awards for her
quilts, including a NH State
Council on the Arts and National
Endowment for the Arts Artistic
Opportunity Grant.
The thread caddy for appliqué
lovers. Store all your numerous
spools of thread in this handy,
see-thru organizer. The plastic
pouches hold anywhere from 8 to
13 spools, so you can see the
color and pull out any length of
thread whenever you like without
tangles. The pouches can also
hold sewing accessories like
scissors, needles, seam ripper,
needle threader and thimble. The
thread caddy rolls up and ties –
making it very portable for the
traveling quilter.
In this class,
Everyone will create their own
personal little nature scene!
"The Art
of Making an Appealing Nature
Scene": Learn to create 3-D
leaves, some from fabric, others
from thread, by sewing layers of
stitching linked together.
You'll be surprised at how you
can create beautiful
realistic-looking leaves!
You'll also fashion 3-D
butterflies using fabric,
thread-painting, and beads.
Explore making realistic trees
with trunks and branches using
fabric and quilting lines to
represent bark textures,
contours, and shadowing. Learn
the technique used for Miranda's
hair in my quilt, " Miranda: The Tempest," by employing free-motion embroidery on
water-soluble stabilizer
to craft a little creature.
You'll create a cozy place
for it, a corner with pond
water and a lurking spider and
web if there's time. We'll
emphasize attention to details
which play a major role in
quilts. You’ll look at new ways
of choosing colors and threads
to enhance the beauty of your
quilts. Everyone will create
her own personal little nature
scene! (Details and examples at
www.loveabideth.com
-- click on “Classes.”)
Christine Fries-Ureel was born
and grew up in Belgium. A
Registered Nurse with a
specialty in Pediatrics, she
worked on the Pedi Service of a
hospital in Belgium before
leaving the nursing profession
when she married her American
husband and came to the U.S. in
1982. They started a family
which grew to include six
children, all boys. They live in
Vermont.
Though the demands of being a
wife and mother put some of her
aspirations on hold, Christine
never lost a dream of becoming
involved in the world of art. In
1998 she visited the Vermont
Quilt Festival, and seeing such
beautiful quilts for the first
time changed her life forever.
She decided she had to learn
quilting!
For lots more information about
Christine, click here:
This graphic design has so many
possibilities, it is hard to
know where to start, but we do
begin at the beginning with one
classic Pineapple block, pieced
on a vellum foundation. The
pattern has been
computer-generated, and is
accurate and easy to see and sew
on. Sewing with strips,
upside-down or on the back of
the pattern, may be new to some,
so everyone makes one practice
block. Then on to whatever
design you fancy. The choices
are two kinds of off-center
patterns, a Flying Geese
pattern, or playing with the
classic block to create new
designs.
Jane has lectured and taught
quiltmaking for guilds and quilt
conferences in the United States
and abroad for twenty-five
years. She is an author and
quilt designer as well as a
teacher, judge, and appraiser
for antique and contemporary
quilts. Foundation work is a
particular interest.
Her award-winning quilts have
been exhibited nationally and
internationally in quilt shows,
juried fiber and multi-media
exhibitions, and galleries. Her
quilts are included in public
and private collections and in
the American Quilter's Society
Museum in Paducah, KY. A
graduate of Cornell University,
Jane and her husband, Robert,
live in Raleigh, NC.
Christine Bagley - Double
Wedding Ring - One piece Arc
Fee: $30.00
Christine is an NBQA member and
lives in Middletown.
Christine
has been quilting for over 20
years and teaching and lecturing
for the last ten. She has won
numerous ribbons and awards for
her quilts in displays from
Newport to London, and enjoys
success in national competitions
(see 2006 Hoffman Challenge
Winners
http://www.hoffmanchallenge.com/
).
Her quilts
have been published in several
quilting magazines as well as in
Skyedyes by Mickey Lawler and
America from the Heart: Quilters
Remember September 11, 2001
edited by
K. Bresenhan.
Her favorite element of teaching
is convincing her students to
try new methods and use unusual
colors set in classic patterns.
In Color Theory 101, students
will develop a comfort level
with color through hands on
exercises using fabric scraps,
colored pencils and construction
paper. Students of all abilities
from beginner to seasoned are
encouraged to sign up. No sewing
required.
Gwyned
Trefethen’s passion for quilting
has been gaining momentum for
over 20 years. She began making
simple traditional quilts from
patterns for family members and
has progressed to creating art
quilts of her own design. Her
artwork is regularly juried into
shows both nationally and
internationally. She is the
Massachusetts and Rhode Island
Representative for
Studio Art Quilt Associates,
the founder and coordinator of
The Power of the Quilt Project
and
has served on the Board of the
Rhododendron Needlers Quilt
Guild
for 13 years. She
lectures, teaches,
sells her artwork
and does
commissions.
Gwyn lives in Sherborn, MA.
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