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At our next guild meeting on Tuesday, March 22, we welcome Rose Hughes who comes to us from Long Beach, California. She says "I'm a California girl. Just one that grew up and was educated in warm, sunny Florida." It wasn't until the early 1990's, that she started quilting. It was only a matter of months before she focused her artwork on quilting. Around 1996 she began to lecture and teach nationally, and exhibit her quiltworks internationally.
The afternoon lecture topic is "Wisdom, Whimsy, and Life in Quilts."
The evening lecture topic is "The Organized Quilter."
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Guild meetings are held at 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. at the West Des Moines United Methodist Church at 8th & Grand, in West Des Moines
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ROSE HUGHES
Double Quilt Applique Supply List
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Piecetime News
March 2011 |
Greetings!
Uffda, how time flies! Spring is just around the corner and I have seen some very fat robins in our front yard with our cat cackling at them from the sidelines. He is quite the companion when it comes to handwork as well. He can be sleeping downstairs and not paying any attention to what is happening until I have a quilt in my lap ready to work. It would not be so bad if his favorite place wasn't right on top and in the middle of the hoop.
I hope you are looking at the class lists and planning on taking a class from our guests this year. We are very fortunate to have the ability to bring in National Teachers for lectures and classes. We also are so fortunate to have the talent and Teachers in our guild that have moved us into the realm of being very capable of picking up new ideas and running with it. I was able to take the Sue Spargo class and so although I know much about wool and wool applique, I picked up a trick or two and the cost became very worthy of my hard earned dollars. It's what keeps us getting better, keeps us fresh with new techniques, and what great friends I have because I met them at class and yes they shared some of their secrets that work for them. Each year as we go through the process of selecting speakers, we work to get a well-rounded list of classes so everyone can find something they enjoy. We need your support to fill the classes.
Spring Break! Quilt Shop Hops! Small Group Get-Togethers! Quilt Classes! SHOW & TELL AT GUILD MEETINGS! Isn't this a wonderful time of year to get those inspirations going for a new quilt just before the outdoors calls us for gardening, sports, and just sitting outside with a great book.
See you Soon!
Diane Thiese---President
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Upcoming 2011 Workshops
The mission of the Des Moines Area Quilters Guild is to stimulate an interest in quilts and quilt making, educating its members, and provide for the inter-change of information. (Adopted -- September 20, 2003).
WORKSHOP LOCATION
March's Workshop will be held at Park Avenue Presbyterian Church, located at 3120 SW 9th Street, Des Moines
Rose Hughes www.rosehughes.com
Wednesday, March 23 (9am - 4pm) -- DOUBLE- QUILT APPLIQUE -- In this workshop you will learn two machine applique techniques that are not only easy to achieve but will open new doors to your creativity.
Thursday, March 24 (9am - 4pm) -- WHAT's ON TOP? EMBELLISHMENT! -- In this class we'll explore the varied and delightfully creative forms embellishments can take in our work, and how you can use them to add drama, whimsy, character and sparkle to your quilts.
Wendy Butler Berns
www.wendybutlerberns.com
Wednesday, April 27 (9am - 4pm) -- CREATING CAPTIVATING COLORFUL QUILTS -- Begin to take the mystery out of confusing fabric choices. Develop confidence in choosing fabrics and understanding more about color dynamics. This is a technique and project based class..
Thursday, April 28 (9am - 4pm) -- CAPTIVATING CONE FLOWER -- Learn the process of creating simple pictorial quilts from a photograph or picture.
Karen Eckmeier www.quilted-lizard.com
Wednesday, May 25 (9am - 4pm) -- ACCIDENTAL LANDSCAPES: BEACHES -- Here is an introduction to creating landscapes "accidentally" using Karen's layered topstitching technique. These little beach scenes are quick and easy to make, no templates, no fuss -- just free form rotary cutting and topstitched edges. Personalize your beach by adding collage details like a dune fence, beach grass, shells, sailboats, beach chairs, umbrellas, lighthouses, photo transfers, etc.
Thursday, May 26 (9am - 4pm) -- HAPPY VILLAGES/ FABRIC COLLAGE -- Explore the freedom of fabric collage! No seams to piece or match, no lines to trace ... Just free form cutting of step and window shapes. Step by step your little village will magically come to life.
Nancy Prince www.nancyprince.com
Wednesday, June 29 (9am - 4pm) -- THREAD PAINTED LANDSCAPES -- Introduces two thread painting techniques. You will learn how simple thread painting is. A zigzag or straight stitch are the only stitches necessary to create amazing thread painted designs. No artistic skill is needed so come join us for a day full of fun. Simple designs have been selected to boost your confidence right away.
Thursday, June 30 (9am - 4pm) -- SHADING AND BLENDING WITH THREAD -- This workshop will introduce you to a simple way of blending and shading with thread. The process might seem complicated, but Nancy's step-by-step approach will show you how choosing the correct thread colors and the color-coded design makes thread painting the design a snap. It's easy and way too much fun!!
Joanie Zeier Poole
www.heirloomquiltingdesigns.com
Wednesday, July 27 (9am - 4pm) -- CHOOSING, ADAPTING, AND USING QUILTING DESIGNS --
Plan for a day of fun and discovery creating your own quilting designs with Joanie's easy paper template method! Using simple tools and skills from the art world, learn to manipulate almost any image, including stencils and paper patterns, to fill the quilt top with perfectly coordinating squares, triangles and multi-sized borders. Prior to class, each student constructs a small quilt top that is used to demonstrate how various spaces are divided and filled and to show a variety of marking procedures. All experience levels, any quilting technique --no machines required. Material fee of $3.00 to be collected in class.
Thursday, July 28 (9am - 4pm) -- IVY WREATH REFINED FREE-MOTION -- In the tradition of the great wholecloth quilts, transform a solid piece of fabric into a work of beauty using the graceful Ivy Wreath design created especially for this class. Focus on refined free-motion techniques using the basic elements of Heirloom Machine Quilting: curvilinear motifs, grids, and stippling. Class includes information on essential supplies, machine set-up, marking, basting, navigating the design, plus time to begin stitching this beautiful project. Requires: $6.00 pattern and either the Ivory Sateen kit $22.00 or Willow Radiance kit $25.00. Must be ordered in advance as students need to prewash, starch, and mark their projects before class. Anita Shackelford
www.anitashakelford.com
Wednesday, October 26 (9am - 4pm) -- BRODERIE PERSE APPLIQUE -- Take inspiration from a special fabric and design a chintz appliqué block in a style that is traditional or today. Practice both blind stitch and blanket stitch edges. Thursday, October 27 (9am - 4pm) -- SPRING BOUQUET -- Create a bouquet of carnation, wildflowers and lily-of-the-valley tied with a bow. Techniques covered are corded stems, stuffed appliqué, two types of ruching, free-form berries and lily-of-the-valley, unit-appliqué ribbon and embroidery embellishment. |
Newcomers Meetings
The Newcomers Program for February will be held on Tuesday, March 15 at 6:30 p.m. at the Urbandale Library. Janet Pittman will talk about designing machine applique quilts. The block of the month will be strip piecing which was inspired by February's speaker, Elsie Campbell.
Remember to bring any projects you are currently working on and also your 4 blocks for the Quilt of Valor. We will try to cover any issues you may be having on a current project.
February was a great meeting--Mary Shotwell came with her applique group and showed us beautiful and inspiring quilts.
Show & Tell: members brought finished quilts which were fun to see.
Block of the Month: for January it was a 6.5 inch 4-patch made with four 3.5" squares. Two members brought their blocks. The block for February was a rail fence made with three 2.5" x 6.5" strips.
Quilts of Valor: newcomers volunteered to make a donation quilt together. Each member took home enough strips to make 4 blocks.
Come and enjoy "with or without show and tell". All members who joined in 2010 and 2011 are welcome. Other Guild members are also welcome to attend.
Upcoming Meetings:
April 19-Creating with Color with Mary Cecil
May 17-Traditional Quilts with JoAnn Belling
June 21-Paper piecing with Sharon Meisenheimer
July 19-Beyond the Block-Scrap Piecing with Rebecca McCreary and Sara Harless
August 16-Machine Quilting with Lynn Witzenberg
Sept 20-Finishing Touches: Binding, Squaring Up and Labels with Shirley Loeffler
If you have any questions, please call Barb at 515-279-2651.
Barb Smalley, Vice President |
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Break-down of Workshop Costs
The Guild's workshops are a great opportunity for members to meet national speakers and to learn new techniques. $50 may sound like a lot of money to spend for a workshop but it is a bargain compared to the fees at national quilt shows. For example, all day workshops at AQS sponsored shows are $75; International Quilt Festival in Cincinnati are $65.
The Guild is committed to providing a variety of workshops for members to attend although it is an expensive venture. To give you an idea of the expenses involved for the workshops (this does not include the fees for the lectures on the Guild's meeting day).
Workshop average fee: $600 per day
Workshop space rental fee: $200 per day
Lodging: $100 per night (usually at least 3 nights)
Meals: $25 per day
Transportation to/from Des Moines: $125 (this is $500 divided: 1/2 allotted to lectures, then divided by 1/2 to get cost for one lecture)
TOTAL: $1050 average workshop cost per day
If 20 members attend the workshop, the average fee the Guild pays per student is $52.50. When fewer members attend, the fee the Guild pays per member is much higher. For example, if only 10 attend, the cost per member is $ 105 per student.
We need more members to attend the workshops to keep the cost down per member. Please consider taking at least one of the workshops coming up. There is still space available in each of the remaining workshops. To register, contact val@grm.net or call her at 641-447-2411.
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Community Service
At the March meeting stop by the Community Service table to sign up to attend the first Sewing Day of the year on Monday, April 18th from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Urbandale Public Library. Eleven guild members have already signed up so a second room has been reserved in hopes we can double that number! Our goal is to use up a large amount of our stash by making pillowcases for the local shelters and ConKerr Cancer. It would be great if you can join us for the whole day but, if you only have a few hours to spare we can put you to work. We will need members to cut, sew and press. Bring your sewing machines, accessories, and a power strip or extension cord. At noon we will break for lunch--due to the no outside drink or food policy of the library, you may eat in the library café or go out to any of the nearby restaurants.
Carolyn Eliason, Chair Community Service
Upcoming Volunteer Opportunities
This October school age children will be invited to the Historical Building for their History and Arts Program. For four days the students have five mini classes (30 minutes long) about different historical events or art related things. Do we have a group (or individuals) who would help teach a workshop (one day or all days) about quilting, specifically how it has changed thru the years.
They also are planning a Crazy Quilt Marathon Day in April or May of 2012. This event would take place on a Saturday for the entire day. People would sign up to participate, be placed on a team and construct a crazy quilt top in one day. The quilts would be donated to Foster Children. They would like someone from our guild to help with the planning and running of the event. Since Crazy Quilting is pretty specific, is there a group or individual who would like to help with this project
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Quilt Show Categories Announced
Have you been working on quilts that you plan to enter in the quilt show? Although it is only March, Spring, Summer, and then the Quilt Show will be here before you know it.
Based on input from many of you, the entry categories for the quilt show have been tweaked for 2011. The categories are listed below to help you plan your entries for 2011. We'd love for everyone to be represented in this year's display! More information about entering the show will be published in upcoming newsletters.
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Med |
Lg |
XL |
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Appliqué |
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Pieced |
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Mixed Technique |
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Art/Pictorial |
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Whole Cloth |
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Miniature Pieced |
One Size |
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Miniature Appliqué |
One Size |
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First Quilt |
One Size |
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Clothing/Accessories |
One Size |
One Size | |
Quilts for the Home |
One Size |
One Size | |
Junior (under age 18) |
One Size |
One Size |
Sizes - based on perimeter (total measurement of all sides of the quilt)
Small - 159" perimeter or smaller
Medium - 160" - 249" perimeter
Large - 250" - 339" perimeter
X-Large - 340" or larger perimeter
Miniature - Miniature representation of a full size--92" perimeter or smaller
Definitions:
Applique - Primarily applique
Pieced - Primarily pieced
Mixed technique - Two or more techniques as major elements of the design including but not limited to applique, piecing, embroidery, embellishment, painting, etc.
Art/Pictorial - May contain several techniques. Not a traditional pattern/design
Whole cloth - Quilted 3 layers whose top is devoid of piecing or appliqué
Clothing/Accessories - Wearable quilted items, i.e. jackets, vests, etc. and personal accessories, such as purses or totes.
Quilting for the Home - Quilted items for the home other than quilts such as table runners, pin cushions, and tree skirts.
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"Little Quilts" for 2011 Quilt Show
It's another year and another quilt show. This year's show is the end of September 2011. We have to move the time table for completion of "little quilts" for the silent auction up to the July meeting. If you attend the August "Charity Auction", then you can turn in your "little quilts" at that time. Like every other year, the Guild depends on the generosity, great skill and creativity of our members to make outstanding "little quilts". These "little quilts" are a main source of income for our Guild. So, once again, we are asking for your help in contributing to the success of our quilt show by making a "little quilt" for the silent auction.
Leigh Lussie, quilt show member for "Little Quilts"
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Education Committee
Photos Needed
To follow the theme of the quilt show this year we are looking for photos, both vintage as well from today, of quilters and groups of quilters. We hope to gather the photos and put a collage of sorts together showing the community of quilting that is built.
Please contact me if you have photos that we may use. If you can, please scan and email photos, or email digital photos to me. OR you can get me your originals and I will digitize them and return the originals to you.
Feel free to contact me with questions at 515-999-2746 or by E-mail: jillreber@yahoo.com
To Mail: Jill Reber, 10481 NW 107th Avenue, Granger IA 50109
Kids Classes and State Fair Sew-In
Your Education Committee has been hard at work getting ready for a summer of activities. Our mission as a Guild is to teach people about quilting. Two of our projects are the Kids Classes and the State Fair Sew-In. Both of these projects are successful because of the commitment of many Guild members.
You can be involved in a variety of ways. We need volunteers to help the kids for one or more of the Kids Classes at the public libraries. The dates of these classes are June 20 and 21 in West Des Moines and July 11 and 12 in Pleasant Hill.
The dates of the State Fair are August 11-21. We need 5 associates each day to help the fair-goers make quilts for state wide children's charities.
We also need some help getting ready for these events. We need donations of 2 yard cuts of juvenile fabric to use as backs for both of these programs. We need donations of 1/2 yard or larger pieces of solid color fabric to use for binding.
We need people willing to work at home. We need help to cut fabric into strips and bindings. We will provide you the fabric to cut along with clear directions.
Do any of these opportunities sound good to you? Contact Sharon at Rmeis@aol.com or 515-986-1145 with questions or to volunteer. Become an active member of a Community of Quilters.
Sharon Meisenheimer
Jill Reber
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Offer from AQS
In celebration of the 27th anniversary of the American Quilter's Society, they are extending a 27% discount on AQS memberships to guild members. The cost to join is $18. Please click on the two links listed below to find the information on the DMAQG website:
http://www.dmaqg.org/Forms/AQS_special.pdf http://www.dmaqg.org/Forms/Guild_membership_select.pdf
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2010 President Challenge Winners
There were 10 entries in the 2010 President's Challenge. We will be showcasing 2 entries each month in the newsletter with a picture of the designer and the quilt along with the inspiration for the quilt in the designer's own words.
Anita Gogerty
Winter Wonderland was inspired by living in Iowa all my life. The quite winter walks in the woods, listening to the babbling brook over the rocks. There was a scene on the internet that I got the inspiration to make the quilt.
Jan Hall
I made my first nine-patch baby quilt in the fall of 1999. I quickly began leaning in the direction of art quilts. I find it much more satisfying to create my own designs, than to use a commercial pattern.
My inspiration for this quilt was a photo I took many years ago, of a lone tree on a hill near my sister's acreage in northeast Iowa. The sky and snow backgrounds are little snippetts of many fabrics all fused together and covered with a layer of tulle. I have recently acquired a couching foot for my Bernina, and find it lots of fun to couch yarn, ant this is what I did for the large tree. The smaller "ghost" trees were just thread painted. The cardinals are hand embroidered
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Website
Please stop by and visit our new and improved DMAQG website at www.dmaqg.org for information about upcoming quilt shows and other events taking place around the area, our newsletter archive, as well as other useful information.
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