Programs and Workshops for July 2020 - June 2021
All meetings will be presented via Zoom. A meeting invitation will be sent out to all Members the weekend before the meeting.
July 13, 2020 Monday, 7:00 PM Zoom Practice Meeting
Want to join the July Show and Tell meeting but you haven’t used Zoom? Come to this meeting to learn the basics. You will need internet connection and a device with a camera and a microphone. Most tablets and laptops will have camera/microphone. Desktop computers work, but sometimes don’t have the camera/microphone built in. Check your equipment. A meeting invite will be sent out via email to all members the weekend before. The invite will include a link and further instructions.
July 14, 2020 Guild Show and Tell
So what have you been working on? Let’s share our creations with each other and have a chance to say Hello. This meeting will be held via Zoom. Closer to the date, an invitation and instructions to join the guild’s Zoom meeting will be sent to all guild members. If you are new to Zoom, we will be holding a “Zoom Practice” session prior to the meeting. In the Practice meeting, you will learn the basics of Zoom and be more comfortable with the tool before the guild meeting. More to come! If you haven’t already done this, you can down load the free Zoom app ahead of time.
August 11, 2020 Virtual Sewing Room Tour
This meeting will be via Zoom instead of at church. Kathy Herbach will arrange a virtual tour of selected sewing spaces. If you would like to offer your space for our meeting please contact Kathy ([email protected]) You will receive an invitation in your email to join the Zoom meeting, with instructions.
September 8, 2020 Deb Strain - Designing Fabric
https://www.facebook.com/debstrainstudio/
Deb is an acclaimed artist who has been one of MODA's top fabric designers for over 20 years. She has created over 100 fabric collections for MODA. Her collections are always the most popular and sell-out every season. Deb is going to walk us through, step by step, how she designs a new fabric collection. Then she is going to show us quilts from her personal collection featuring her fabrics. Deb also designs calendars, greeting cards, garden flags, figurines and other decorative items for the home that she will also show.
October 13, 2020 Julia Graves - Color Exploration
www.soquilts.com
Julia has been sewing since she was ten, loves fabric and the whole creative process! She made a quilt for each of her 35 nieces and nephews. And then started Special Occasion Quilts, LLC so that she could help others create a one-of-a-kind quilts for special occasions and for special people, incorporating various ways to let them know how much they were cared for. She especially enjoys color and incorporates information on color into as many classes as she can. A highlight of her career so far has been as Artist in Residence at Empty Spools Seminars at Asilomar, CA in 2019. She will be an instructor there teaching Amazing Abstracts in 2021 and in April 2022. She is also teaching with Live Online Quilt Classes. Check her www.soquilts.com and see her abstract quilts and several free patterns.
November 10, 2020 RaNae Merrill - Free Motion Quilting Mastery in One Month
www.ReNaeMerrillquilts.com
Free-Motion Mastery in a Month breaks down the process of learning free-motion quilting into individual skills. You learn each skill separately and then put them together for quilting success. There are 31 guided daily lessons. Each lesson contains three types of exercises: Tracing, Drawing and Quilting. Each exercise plays a different and important role in mastering free-motion quilting. Because you're practicing the right things, the right way, in the right order, you really can learn to do free-motion quilting in as little as a month.
December 8, 2020 Connie Martin - Pre-Civil War Quilts: Their Secret Code to Freedom on the Underground Railroad
WWW.Precivilwarquilts.com
Connie Martin will give a historical presentation, “Pre-Civil War Quilts: Their Secret Codes to Freedom on the Underground Railroad.” This is a multimedia experience including introduction music, Power Point slide presentation, storytelling, and display and explanation of 18 beautifully hand-crafted quilt replicas, representing quilt patterns and special stitching used over 300 years ago by abolitionists and fugitive slaves to signify escape routes to the North. It is based upon her mother’s book: Lizzie’s Story: A Slave Family’s Journey to Freedom” by Dr. Clarice Boswell. (Amazon.com) She will tell the fascinating family stories of how these quilt codes were used by her ancestors. The meanings and interpretations have been passed down to her; a 6th generation descendant of captured American slaves.
January 12, 2021 School House
Join us as our very own members share techniques for quilting and crafting. The slate of teachers for School House is:
Rosemary Sanza – Small pumpkins.
Yvette Thorn – Creating Quilt labels.
Carol Wilhoit – Taking Great Quilt Photos with Your Phone.
Catherine Redford – Embroidery Beginnings and Ends.
Any documents from the meeting are available at the bottom of this page.
February 9, 2021 Susan Cleveland
www.PiecesBeWithYou.com
Susan will be showing her award winning quilts using prairie points, marvelous miters, attic windows, piping hot binding, curves, and disappearing Dresdens. Susan is a quilt designer/author/teacher/inventor and admirer of all things quilty! Her quilts are loosely based on traditional designs with a fair bit of unexpected surprises and details. They showcase precision piecing, thread embellishments and bold colors. She enjoys sharing her quilts and passing along her techniques to others.
March 9, 2021 Lori Dickman - My Favorite 3 D’s, Dresden, Diamond & Drunkard’s Path
www.QuiltingWithLori.com
Lori Dickman has been quilting for over 30 years and teaches numerous quilting classes. Lori will provide a lecture and trunk show titled “My Favorite 3 – D quilts” that features over 30 of Lori’s favorite 3 D’s quilt designs, Diamond, Dresden & Drunkards’ Path. There are several styles, from traditional to applique to modern. In this lecture, Lori will inspire us to pick up those three versatile template tools and have fun designing and piecing literally dozens of different designs and make fabulous quilts.
April 13, 2021 Amy Friend - Improv Paper Piecing
www.duringquiettime.com
Amy is a former museum curator who is now a quilt pattern designer and author. She enjoys making modern quilts and paper piecing. She has authored three books: Intentional Piecing (all about fussy cutting and the best use of your fabric), Improv Paper Piecing (an innovative technique combining the improv aesthetic with the paper piecing technique to create modern quilts) and Petal + Stem (mix and match flower and stem blocks.) She lives in Massachusetts with her husband and three kids, and loves gardening and baking.
May 11, 2021 Ruth Ann Berry –Bargello, 3D and Panels
www.quiltersclinic.com
Ruth Ann Berry is the author of "Bargello Quilts in Motion", C&T Publishing 2014, "Braided Bargello", C&T Publishing 2017, Simplified 3D Quilts, self-published 2018, Stunning 3D Quilts Simplified, C&T Publishing 2020 and over 50 quilt patterns available at major distributors. She owns and operates a small-town quilt store and online business, the "Quilter's Clinic" and travels extensively to exhibit and teach at guilds and festivals.
For her Presentation/Trunk Show, she brings about 50 quilts total, in three different styles: Bargello, 3D and Stacked Frames. She gives a brief history and explanation of the design process and demonstrates the construction techniques for each style. She brings her books, patterns and kits for sale. Ruth Ann's work can be viewed at quiltersclinic.com
June 8, 2021 Betsy Habich - Designing and Making a Pieced Picture Quilt with Freezer Paper
https://betsyhabich.com/
Starting with a description of early quilts, Betsy explains how she began designing picture quilts to achieve more realistic images by piecing with freezer paper templates. The freezer paper template method frees you from the perfect 1/4” seam by marking and sewing on the seam. Unlike paper piecing, freezer paper templates let you use curved seams, and let you easily audition fabric. The first part of the talk is a slide + trunk show, covering both what works and what not to do. The second part takes you from photograph to quilt top, including designing the pattern, checking it for piece-ability, making the freezer paper templates, selecting fabric, mocking-up, marking, and sewing.
Betsy Habich has been sewing since the third grade. Her quilts have been juried into national and regional shows, including International Quilt Association (IQA/Houston), American Quilters Society (AQS/Paducah), Machine Quilters Expo (MQX), and Quilters Gathering, and been awarded ribbons at regional quilt shows. She is a self-confessed fabricaholic and cat person. She lives with her husband, cats, and fabric in Beverly Farms, MA, a coastal community north of Boston.
Workshop Notes: All workshops will be held at BERNINA of Naperville, located in Naper West Plaza near Menards.
2764 Aurora Ave STE 100, Naperville, IL 60540 https://www.berninaofnaperville.com/
Workshops are filled on a first come, first served basis. Payment by check will be accepted at guild meetings. Sign up with payment early to ensure your participation and class availability. If a participant is unable to attend a workshop, the student must responsibly contact the workshop coordinator. Thank you for your understanding, and keep learning to quilt!
Important: Some lectures may look the same on paper, but each presenter is unique in their approach, artistic and teaching style, tips, tricks, and space-solving approaches. Learn something whatever your style, ability level and interest to apply to your own projects. Don’t miss the opportunity to learn from some recognized talents coming to our own backyard.
2764 Aurora Ave STE 100, Naperville, IL 60540 https://www.berninaofnaperville.com/
Workshops are filled on a first come, first served basis. Payment by check will be accepted at guild meetings. Sign up with payment early to ensure your participation and class availability. If a participant is unable to attend a workshop, the student must responsibly contact the workshop coordinator. Thank you for your understanding, and keep learning to quilt!
Important: Some lectures may look the same on paper, but each presenter is unique in their approach, artistic and teaching style, tips, tricks, and space-solving approaches. Learn something whatever your style, ability level and interest to apply to your own projects. Don’t miss the opportunity to learn from some recognized talents coming to our own backyard.
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