Houston Quilt Market 2008
Well, we made it back from Houston last ceaselessly. We had a good time- I gave a 30 minute diction during a program they call "Schoolhouse". During schoolhouse they have about 20 rooms with rotating speakers, from 10am to 6pm there are 15 sessions- some 30 min. some 15 min.-with new presentations in each cell for each session (occasionally a speaker will get 2 sessions, but not often) so basically you're in game with the speakers in the other rooms during your session to try and have as many listeners as possible (the more that mind the more that will go back and teach your stuff in their hometown!) Sometimes you are also competing against your time fissure- I was in session 14 almost the end of the program when a lot of people are tired and leaving anciently, and the lunch time sessions are even rougher because there is no break when everyone stops, you fitting have to miss a session if you want to eat lunch. I was quite electrified that around 60 people showed up to hear about our book, last year when I did this we had about 40 people (and I even had a cured time slot then) so it's nice to know there's still a lot of interest.
I also taught a take & educate class. The take & teach program is a 1.5 hour league that is meant to offer people a hands on experience of new techniques/books/tools so they can go back to their neighbourhood pub stores and teach it themselves and hopefully bring a sample institution with them to help them remember the process or even to use as their sample for the class. An hour and a half is not a lot of leisure to make anything so you almost always have to miniaturize your project, and at quilt market almost everyone has traveled totally a ways to attend and there is no way to provide a supply list to them in approach so as a teacher you have to provide everything: You have to arrange things in advance with a sewing machine friends if your students need machines in class, you have to provide all core, thread and batting, I don't even like to assume that...
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The Painted Quilt - Book Review
The Painted Quilt is a junction effort of Linda and Laura Kemshall. It was published in the UK in 2007 by David and Charles Fixed. The painting methods they include are pastels, dye, image convey, pen drawing, painted fusible web and, of course, paint.
In the introduction, the Kemshalls say that they chiefly add color to fabric before it becomes a quilt but almost always add more later. The colors and structure are worked out ahead of time in a sketchbook. In addition, they say they advance painting on textiles because the effects are different from painting on a flavourless surface such as a canvas.
The usual sections on the elements of delineation and gathering inspiration that are in most quilt books are here also. The Kemshalls have a few more ideas though. They barrister making a collage in a sketchbook and describe in detail the process they use in collage birth. They also create print blocks and explore the potential for rerun shapes in their sketchbook. Again, they describe the process they use to make print blocks out of strange materials. Another form of experimentation for the sketchbook is the use of oil pastels and wax crayons over a textured top as well as stenciling.
There is a nice chapter that tells you what types of configuration and techniques are best for the various color applications. How to swot the fabrics beforehand is also included. This section is very detailed.
The color industriousness methods they use before quilting are stencilling, rubbings, block printing, camouflage printing, and monoprinting. The color application methods they use after quilting catalogue the use of pastels, paints, rollering and spraying. All are discussed with such detail that I cannot concoct...
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The Winding Ways Quilt - Book Review
The Winding Ways Quilt
By Jennifer Chiaverini
Simon & Schuster 2008
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The Winding Ways Quilt
This is the 14th books in the series. I have be familiar with about half of this series, and enjoyed them all. And I enjoyed this on as well. In fact I stayed up to 1 am to despatch it.
Quilters have flocked to Elm Creek Manor to learn from Get a grip on Quilter Sylvia Compson and her expert colleagues. There's Sarah, Sylvia's onetime beginner who's paired her quilting accomplishments with a mind for running the business of Elm Streamlet Quilts; Agnes, who has a gift for appliqué; Gwen, who stitches innovative art quilts; Diane, a whiz at the technicalities of petulant-piecing; and Bonnie, with her encyclopedic knowledge of folk art patterns. And lastly there are Judy and Summer.
One of the reasoning I enjoyed this book, because a lot of back stories are told.
Agnes is Sylvia's sister in law. Agnes and Sylvia were married to the Bergstrom brothers. Both of their husbands died as prepubescent men in World War 1.
Summer is Gwen's daughter born during the Vietnam war era. She and her boyfriend Jeremy are having to choose if they want to attend university together or apart.
Diane had been battling with Mary Anne, her next door neighbour, who was the president of the Waterford Quilting Club. The Guild and the Elm Harbour Quilters were at war with each other because Mary Ann wanted to be better than the old ladies. But when her son destroyed Bonnie's quilting department store, the boy was sentenced to paying off by working at Elm Creek manor all during the summer. Mary Anne was humiliated.
Sylvia and her quiet Matthew, were trying to start a family and finally Sarah becomes...
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The Quilt List, and introducation
The other unceasingly Jenny was over and we got in this discussion about me writing a book. (Tim suggested to me that I correspond with a book called "The Quilt List" that is based on the people who I have made quilts for over the sometime few years.) This idea seems overwhelming. I'm not that good of a author.
Although I don't know about a book, but I might start sharing some of the stories on here. I can share about the quilts--but more about the people who have received them so far. Therefore, here is my first position. It is more of an introduction to the topic. More "chapters" and quilts will come.
The Paramour of Quilting: An Introducation
As long as I can remember, my Granny Kimbrough was known for two things—tolerable home cooking and making quilts. Chicken and dumplings and vinegar unripened beans, chocolate pies and coconut creams were always requested at kinsfolk dinners and just about any time in between. And every person in the family had at least one or two “Granny quilts.” As the youngest of 15 legendary-children (with just 20 days separating me with the top-grand children), I probably got more than my share of spoiling-and quilts. All of us, though, no import where we fall in the generational line, cherish our Granny quilts.
As a lassie, I would spend many afternoons with my Granny and Grandpa playing on the old shag carpet as she watched her admired “soaps” on the large turn-handle TV. It’s funny what you remember about a place. Above the TV was an old painting (a reproduction) of a man praying before a overplay. It's a very common painting, and as a child it filled me with a melancholy ache that I couldn't altogether place. Over the years, I’ve seen it many times in antique stores, and it always brings back memories of grandparent’s cozy doll-sized home.
Then there is the smell of Oil of Olay. Even now, it brings back memories of that midget bathroom in their house where I would dab the stuff on my face like Granny would...
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Quilting Book - News
Quilts blanket library for annual show Journal-Advocate
- Mar 12, 2010
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Page NewsQuilts blanket library for annual showJournal-AdvocateLibrary patrons are invited to certify for their favorite quilt; the top pick will win a new quilting book. The quilts will come down Procession 15 in preparation Quilter's Cornerall 8 expos articles »
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THE LIST: Poetry Out Loud ... live music ... children's program Grand Forks Herald
- Mar 12, 2010
THE Bibliography: Poetry Out Loud live music children's programGrand Forks HeraldAll events (except the quilting classes) are accessible and open to the public, sponsored by State Historical People of North Dakota and Capital Quilters of and more »
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Illinois Valley Quilt Guild hosts quilt show, celebrates 25-year anniversary MyWebTimes.com
- Mar 12, 2010
Illinois Valley Quilt Guild hosts quilt show, celebrates 25-year anniversaryMyWebTimes.com a New York Times trounce selling author, is the author of 19 Elm Creek series novels that reel around the lives of quilters and four pattern books. and more »
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Art sale to help cancer fight Bethany Beach Wave
- Mar 12, 2010
Art available to help cancer fightBethany Beach WaveSNOW HILL -- Officiate at National Quilting Day on March 20 by making the quilt, Judgemental (Stash) Mass, from Karla Alexander's new book, "Color Disorganize.
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Some economical ways to spend the weekend OregonLive.com
- Mar 12, 2010
Some miserly ways to spend the weekendOregonLive.comTigard Public Library, 13500 SW Entry Blvd., Tigard; free; www.orsymphony.org or 503-718-2517 Way of life of Children's Book Writers Book Signing: Writers and and more »
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