2010-2011 Programs
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AUGUST | SEPTEMBER | OCTOBER | NOVEMBER | DECEMBER | JANUARY | FEBRUARY | MARCH | APRIL | MAY | JUNE | JULY
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AUGUST 2010: New Board Members Trunk Show
Thursday, August 5 Program: Board members will be showing one item.
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SEPTEMBER 2010: Barb Vlack (website)
Thursday, September 2 Afternoon Program: “Borders”
Thursday, September 2 Evening Program: “Designing Quits With the Aid of a Computer Program”
Friday, September 3 Workshop: “We’ve Got ‘Em Surrounded! For One Day”: Explore possibilities for single or multiple border quilts. Learn to measure, design and draft pieced and appliqued borders to fit your quilts. Four different categories of borders will be presented, including triangles, traditional blocks, vining, and swags. This is a drafting workshop, no sewing machine is required, though Barb will demonstrate freezer paper foundation piecing for a triangle border. We are not producing a project here.
Saturday, September 4 Workshop: “Introduction to EQ 7″: Learn the basics of drawing a quilt with EQ. (She will have a student version that can be loaded into the student’s laptop that will remain active for a short time.)
About Barb: Barb Vlack has turned a passion for quiltmaking into a second career. She has become internationally known for her work with The Electric Quilt Company through the internet and her travels and was invited to do a three-week teaching tour in japan in 1999. Patchwork Quilt Tsushin, one of the major quilting magazines in japan, published her column about quilt designing and the computer in 1998-1999. The Electric Quilt Company has published three books written by Bar to supplement their manuals: Too Much Fun (1997), EQ4 Magic (1999), and EQ5 Quilt Design (2003). She is currently writing a tips and tricks book to accompany EQ6.
Barb designs and makes quilts and has had her work published in several quilting magazines as well as the cover of Keepsake Quilting catalog (1998). She has exhibited her award winning quilts in shows sponsored by IQA in Houston, AQS in Paducah, Quilter’s Heritage in Lancaster, and NQA in Charlotte, North Carolina. Her quilts have also been included in special exhibits in Japan, Korea, and Australia. Examples of her EQ software-generated quilt designs can be seen on the Electric Quilt website at www.electricquilt.com.
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OCTOBER 2010: Janet Blazekovich
Thursday, October 7 Program: “Janet’s Quilt Journey and Trunk Show”
Friday October 8, 2010 Workshop: “BearPaw Mystery”. You will create a BearPaw using the Square in a Square Ruler. Jan is developing the workshop … stay tuned for further details.
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NOVEMBER 2010: Sew-In for the Soldiers
Thursday, November 4: Margaret Steele will lead us in making Christmas Stockings and pillow cases for the soldiers serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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DECEMBER 2010: Annual Holiday Party/Potluck
Thursday, December 2: Check back for details.
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JANUARY 2011: Leslie Alcorn Gebbie
Thursday, January 6 Program: “Leslie’s Quilt Journey and Trunk Show”
About Leslie: Leslie moved to Roscoe 15 years ago from Palatine. She was introduced to her addiction by “A Touch of Amish” in Barrington, where she worked for several years before moving. She joined Sinnissippi Quilters in 1997 and served as afternoon chair in 1999. She went back to work full time and disappeared from guild but not from quilting. She has been teaching quilting for about 10 years and last year fulfilled her dream of owning her own quilt shop, “Acorn Quilts”.
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FEBRUARY 2011: Betty Suiter (website)
Thursday, February 3 Program: “Tips on Making a Blue Ribbon Quilt”. Discover the important details the judge is looking for so your next quilt will wear a blue ribbon. She will bring a trunk showcase and share her award winning quilts with us.
Friday, February 4 Workshop: ” Tulip Garden Workshop”. Beginner to Intermediate. Achieve skinny stems the easy way, smooth curves, sharp V’s and points along with reverse appliqué.
Saturday February 5 Workshop: “Blooming Flowers Workshop.” All Levels. Learn how to make perfect needle-turn curves and sharp points. You will learn Betty’s method for skinny 1/8″ stems the easy way. Flower centers are stuffed to add dimension to the flowers. Embroidery enhances the flowers.
About Betty: Betty is an award-winning quilt artist from Racine, WI. Her quilts have been exhibited across the U.S. and Japan. To-date, Betty has won 41 Best of Show Awards and 22 Best Workmanship Awards. Her ribbons now number well over 300. Her quilts have been featured in 16 books and 36 magazines. Betty is always looking for inspiration. It may be in a flower, architecture, furniture, rugs or perhaps the color in the sunrise or sunset. Her interest is in traditional design using her own ideas. Betty considers her several years of work experience as a draftsman an added advantage when it comes to designing quilts. She also uses her own hand dyed fabrics to get the special glow in her quilts. She likes subtle changes in hues and uses about distinct 40 colors in a quilt.
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MARCH 2011: Annual Sew-In, Quilts for Neo-Natal Unit
Thursday, March 3: Special Projects will be leading a fun filled day of making baby quilts for the NICU at Rockford Memorial Hospital
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APRIL 2011: Caron Carlson (website)
Thursday, April 7 Program: “Caron’s Quilt Journey and Trunk Show”
Friday, April 8 Workshop: Caron will share with us a method she calls Curvlique (pronounced curve-li-q). Is it curved piecing? Is it appliqué? It’s both! She will teach the technique of joining curved pieces invisibly without stitching on the top of the work, so invisible is truly the word for it! The sample shares different styles of this method so you can adapt it to your own project. This is a great tool for any quilter’s bag of tricks!
About Caron: She is a 50-ish mother of two grown boys, twins, and married to an engineering physicist, Kermit. She lives in Batavia, IL on the old family farm (or what’s left of it!) on 4 1/2 acres. She doesn’t even garden, but she tries! She designs quilt patterns and by going to her website, you will see exactly what makes her tick!
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Thursday, May 5: More info later.
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JUNE 2011: Aniko Feher (website)
Thursday, June 2 Program: “From Closet Quilter to Portrait Artist (My quilts and the stories behind them)”
Friday, June 3 and Saturday June 4 Workshop: “From Photo to Quilt”, 12 hour class, 2 days. A step-by-step class to teach you how to turn your own favorite portrait photo into a treasured quilt.
About Aniko: Born and raised in Hungary, quilting was an unknown art form to her. All her life she loved to draw people and their faces. It fascinated her that behind every face there was a life story. Yet a portrait is a moment in time that captures the whole person. When she came to the United States, she discovered quilting rather accidently at an art fair. She remembers how that quilt immediately attracted me with its colors and softness. At first she tried teaching herself quilting at home. Later on she realized there were such things as guilds and classes, but by that time it was too late. She was off doing her own thing….
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Thursday, July 7 Program: “Monique’s Quilt Journey and Trunk Show”
Friday, July 8 Workshop: TBD
About Monique: Monique designs quilt patterns, lectures and teaches all over the country. She is currently designing a line of fabrics through Maywood Studio.