PROGRAMS
Guild programs scheduled for 2012:
February 6, New Members Night
May 7, Community Service Night
August 27, Hot August Deals -
October 1, Challenge Quilts revealed
November 5, Mentor Night
December 3, Christmas Potluck
March 5 Speaker - Peggy Martin
In March, author and quilter Peggy Martin will be speaking at our guild. Her lecture, Beyond Tradition, will instill a new way to interpret blocks into different variations and settings and free up your creativity.
Peggy has published several books, including “Quick Strip Paper Piecing,” “Paper
Piece the Quick-
Workshop March 6
Peggy was named Quilt Teacher of the year for 2010, so don’t miss the opportunity to take her workshop on Tuesday, March 6, 2012.
She will be teaching a workshop that includes instruction in her Quick–Strip Paper piecing technique. Peggy swears her technique is suitable for the confident beginner.
The class she’s teaching is “Palm Leaf.” At left is a Palm Leaf quilt shown with traditional color placement. You can do a lot more with this block, though...this simple traditional block has many different design options. Use it alone in a variety of settings, as borders, or set other 12" blocks on point with Palm Leaf triangles in the corners. Palm Leaf units also make great borders. To see some really neat variations of the same block, check her website here.
January 2 Speaker -
Jerry Fujimoto
Jerry Fujimoto
Our first speaker in January is Jerry Fujimoto, who shares his Journey as a Quilter. Jerry was an architect who has discovered a new passion as a quilter. He incorporates an Asian influence with crisp lines in his designs. He also brings his architectural precision to his quilts. Jerry has started his own pattern line, Pocket Quilting. Jerry is scheduled to teach at Empty Spools at Asilomar in April 2012.
Workshop February 7
We wanted to give you a breather so you don’t have to worry about starting a new project right after the holidays... so we’ve scheduled our first workshop with Jerry Fujimoto on Tuesday, February 7. This should give everyone time to breathe, catch up or give up on New Year’s resolutions.
Jerry will teach Go Diamondo, a 42”x42” quilt featuring a large center diamond and four smaller corner patches among flying geese. Many of you who saw the sample at our Christmas potluck were marveling at this dramatic quilt top. It’s a perfect use of the those large prints we fall in love with, but are never quite sure how to use them.
June 4 Speaker - Nancy Brown
Nancy S. Brown’s specialty is hand appliqué and animal quilts. Nancy has wonderful quilts that revolve around childhood pets, neighborhood dogs and the Oakland Zoo. Her talk on June 4 will show a retrospective of over fifteen years of her animal and family quilts and the stories behind them.
Workshop June 5
Nancy will be leading a workshop that will focus on learning how to transform your dog and cat photos into appliquéd blocks. She will teach how to portray animal features.
In her class she teaches the basics of hand applique, and the students learn these techniques while working on one of her original animal patterns. In each class, she also demonstrates how to design animal patterns, which you may be able to make look like your own pet.
April 2 Speaker - Jan Soules
Jan Soules began her quilting career in 2000 when her expectant daughter asked for a baby quilt for Isabelle, her first granddaughter. Little did she know what that little quilt would lead to...most recently, being selected as the Featured Quilter for the 2011 River City Quilters quilt show.
Jan says she became very passionate immediately and began taking every class she could to learn all the tools and techniques from experienced teachers. She has never settled on one style, preferring to mix appliqué and pieced blocks using her sense of color and design to create her “treasures.” Choosing colors and fabrics are her favorite part of the process and she carefully selects each piece in her so called “scrap” quilts. In the past year, Jan has experimented with her own designs and has joined a small art group. She has also begun to dye some of her own fabric.
Her accomplishments include two Best of Show awards and three Best Use of Color awards in local guilds, along with numerous first place ribbons. Jan currently has her quilt “Sunrise, Sunset” in the AQS 2011 engagement calendar. She has had quilts juried into AQS shows in Paducah, Knoxville, Nashville, Des Moines and Lancaster. Her quilts have been exhibited in several Mancuso shows, including PIQF, Road to California, the California State Fair, and the Hoffman Challenge traveling show. In 2007 her paper pieced quilt “Cracker Jacks” was a finalist in the $100,000 quilting challenge.
In addition to her passion for quilting, Jan is an expert tournament bridge player and travels around the country competing with her husband, Gary. Of course they visit every quilt shop along the way!
Workshop April 3
On April 3, Jan will present a workshop called, “Free Form Quilt.” She has an interesting
way of doing free-
August 6 Speaker - Cathie Hoover
Cathie Hoover has been quilting and designing wearable art for almost 25 years. She says she loves the sharing of her quilting skills with novice and experienced quilters all over the world, and she enjoys traveling to any location to do so.
Over the years, she’s just about done it all in the world of fabric, quilting, and wearable art. Her specialties include all types of machine appliqué, decorative machine embellishment, wearable art design, and a wide range of piecing and quilt construction techniques. Her credentials include a Home Economics degree and textile skills honed over 44 years of sewing.
Workshop August 7
Whatever your skill level, one of Cathie’s goals is to help you realize your potential as a fabric artist. In a workshop situation , she strives to empower each student with enough knowledge and confidence to continue experimentation beyond the classroom. She encourages each student to strive for their own unique style in quiltmaking and/or wearable art.