Pat Speth

Five Inch is a Cinch  -- How Nickel Quilts Are Created

Hybrid Meeting -- Speaker on Zoom

Meeting starts at 10:00am 

Program starts at 11:00am

Pat Speth began quilting in 1988 when she purchased a wool quilt batting from her Grandmother's auction. "I checked out a stack of quilt books from the library and fell in love with the patterns and designs, I knew I could not stop with just one quilt."

Pat started working with 5 inch squares as a basis for her quiltmaking in 1993 after attending her first retreat. Pat started on the book, Nickel Quilts in 1998 and was able to have it ready for the publishers in June 2001.

Pat's trunk show is sure to get quilters fired up about using 5" squares of fabric and many of the ideas can also be adapted for using other precuts; such as 2 1/2" strips and layer cakes.  She'll show a great assortment of quilts from her collection and will  focus on the blocks in the quilts and the simple components they are made from.

Quilts for all skill levels will be shown. One of her favorite things to do is to design a quilt using simple piecing and have the result look like a much more intricate quilt! 

https://patspeth.com/

Trudy Cleveland

How to Photograph Your Quilts

ZOOM Meeting only

Meeting starts at 10:00am 

Program starts at 11:00am

Trudy is both a professional quilter and photographer. She has been sewing since she was 12 years old, and the need to photograph her customer's quilts led her to perfecting the art of photographing quilts.  

In her presentation Trudy will share tips and techniques that she has learned on how to photograph your quilts with your smartphone. This is an informative program full of useful information you can start using immediately...as you unleash the creative features of your smartphone...and start showcasing your quilts in photographs.

trudycleveland.com

Trudy Cleveland

Shoot Your Quilt: How To Photograph Your Quilts Using Your Smartphone

ZOOM Class

9am -- 3:30pm

Instruction will be given on taking photographs with smartphone including-- iPhone and Android, editing with Smartphone, and selecting Best images.

We will adjust then crop, exposure, contrast, saturation and brilliance using your Smartphone.

At the completion of workshop you will be able to shoot an image and make adjustments to make the image POP!

Prepare to have fun and learn the skill of photographing your quilt.

More of a "Funshop" than a Workshop".

 Studio Tour

ZOOM Only

Guests Free

10am - 12pm

 Our Trio of Studios --

Mini, Midi and Maxi

Join Stephanie Beasley, Jackie Mason, and Harriette Griffeth as they share their varied studios.

Three of our very creative Guild Members introduce us to their Creative Spaces. Stephanie Beasley walks us through her MINI studio.. packs a lot, into small spaces.  Jackie Mason invites us into her MIDI studio.. one special room in her home that allows her to create and be inspired. Hariette Griffeth then gives us a grand view of her “entire” home turned into her Deva Den.. space to create, share with friends. An envy to us all!

 Rebecca Blosser

Changing the Baby (Quilts) in the 20th CenturyReview of a New Genre of Quilts -- How and Why They Evolved

Hybrid Meeting -- Speaker In-Person

Meeting starts at 10:00am 

Program starts at 11:00am

Many of us know Rebecca Blosser as our former fellow member of CVQG. Today Rebecca comes to us from Banning, CA as an AQS Trained Quilt Appraiser, Board Member of CHQP (CA Heritage Quilt Project), and Lecturer. Rebecca has decades of experience and knowledge on historical facts and examples of quilts and fabrics that tell so much of our past through our passion.. QUILTING.

Rebecca’s lecture will touch on how in the beginning of the 20th Century many social, economic and manufacturing changes led to the birth of a new genre of quilts, Baby Quilts. We will explore the evolution from the crib quilts of the 19th century to the Baby Quilts as we know them today.  She will have examples from her collection of 400+ baby quilts to show the changes spanning the century

 Linda Sullivan

Successful Machine Applique

Hybrid Meeting -- Speaker In-Person

Meeting starts at 10:00am 

                                                                     Program starts at 11:00am

Linda and Carl Sullivan of Colourwerx are intensely passionate about bold bright colors, midcentury modern art and contemporary pattern design. Always searching for a twist on the traditional, their fabric designs and quilt patterns are well known for their modern look, spontaneous movement and fearless use of color. Through the years, they have designed three fabric collections, authored two books and have been featured in several national quilting publications. 

In this lecture, Linda will share her over 20+ years of experience for successful machine applique – from prepping your shapes, to setting your machine up for success, to her favorite notions to explaining different threads and weights and how they embellish the edge of your appliqué to emulate hand needle turn appliqué but using your machine. It’s the ultimate machine appliqué lecture!

https://colourwerx.com

Linda Sullivan

Applique

Stitch Lab

In Person

9am to 3:30pm

 Boost your appliqué IQ! Loaded with super practical tips and tricks, this workshop is a great way for students to learn or brush up on easy fusible web machine appliqué. Students will learn a variety of methods to prepare their shapes for appliqué and perfect their own “unique machine appliqué stitch” during class. Along the way, they’ll also learn how to use a variety of fun decorative stitches to texturize their appliqués and gain the confidence they need to appliqué the day away!

Karen Brow-Meier

You'r Best Quilting Tools Are In Your Head

Hybrid Meeting -- Speaker In-Person

Meeting starts at 10:00am 

Program starts at 11:00am

 Karen Brow-Meier of Java House Quilts has been designing inventive, lighthearted patterns for over 20 years. As Karen says,

“Quilting is a joyful medium for creativity, innovation and personal expression, with all of us having something uniquely meaningful to say.”

As she sews and designs quilts, Karen asks herself questions such as:
- Is it a little boring right now?

- What’s missing?
- How can I make it “move”?
- Can I break up the block setting?
- Should I mix up fabric lines?
These “decision tools” move a project along towards something exciting! When working from a pattern, or designing a quilt from scratch, we can make it uniquely our own by thinking about some of the above.  Making a few small changes can bump up the “wow factor” of our work.

This program is about ways to move us forward in a project when we’re stuck or feel like something’s not quite right… or not enough. (All artists visit that space on occasion!)
In this program Karen incorporates professional slides and finishes up with actual quilts which illustrate unique solutions and many of her special techniques.

https://javahousequilts.com

Karen Brow-Meier

Fancy Feathers/Frog Table Topper Using the Middle to Middle Piecing Method

In Person

9am to 3:30pm

This is not paper piecing! Create either of these colorful, four-block table runners (approx. 12" x 36") using our Middle to Middle Piecing Method. (Think piecing a log cabin block but with shapes instead of strips.)
In this workshop we'll cover:

• cutting pieces in multiples using the templates
• piecing the blocks by "matching middles" and trimming
• creating appliqué feathers
• using simple hand embellishment stitches

These can be created using any holiday colors and the finished lengths can be increased by simply adding more blocks.
Note: The pattern is included in the class fee and this same technique is used to create our Infrognito or Elephant Walk lap quilts.