Pacific Piecemakers Quilt
Guild
Bits & Pieces
October 2003 -- Volume 8, Issue 10
Jackie Gardener, Editor
Katie
Pasquini Masopust
Ghost
Layers & Color Washes
October
14-15-16
There are still spaces available for this fabulous three day workshop. Don’t miss the opportunity to work with and learn from a master who “Paints with Cloth”, the title of her talk at the meeting on Friday, the 17th. Be sure to check out Katie’s website for an idea of what is in store at katiepm.com. Her work with oversized leaves and natural sights like redwoods and slot canyons are spectacular. Contact Laurie Mueller at 785-9533 or email her at laurie@mcn.org to sign up.
Comfort
Quilt Workshop
Stack
& Slash
So far this year, twenty-five comfort quilts have been completed, but many more will be needed through the winter. Come join us at Gualala Arts and see the Stack & Slash technique demonstrated. Carol Tackett has ordered more batik fabrics for our use, and Polly has purchased 20 crib size batts. They are not high-loft, so you can use them to practice your machine quilting techniques! Left over funds from the Darling project have been donated to the Comfort Quilt projects, so we should be in good stead with plenty of interesting supplies. Twenty-four tables will be provided, so come spend a fun day with fellow quilters.
President’s Message
Summer
has been a busy time for most of us.
I know my focus has been more on family and visiting than it
has been on quilting in the last several months.
So, I can't think of a better way to get back into the
quilting mode than to take the upcoming October workshop with
Katie Pasquini. Check out the
PPQG web page (www.pacificpiecemakers.org) for details. Taking a workshop from Katie
Pasquini comes highly recommended by quilters who have studied
with her before -- she teaches process and technique, and is said
to be very motivating. We are
lucky to attract such high-quality teachers, so I urge you to
sign up and participate; there are still several openings.
Thank you, Donna Blum, for submitting last month's article and
for being the most considerate vice president. Linda Warnock
Library
Corner
Ann Graf,
Guild Librarian
Many thanks to all who donated, browsed and
bought books at our auction table at the October meeting. We netted $99.00 toward more
new books!
Again, these new titles are added to our shelf this month:
Jacket
Jazz - Encore J.
Murrah
Liberated
String Quilts G.
Marston
Patchwork
and Quilting- Book #4 K.
Fassett (designs by other quilters, too)
Patchwork
and Quilting -
Book #1 K.
Fassett
President Linda Warnock has two tickets for
the
Ann Anastasio,
Barbara J.
Dunsmoor,
Jane L.
Frederick,
67 E. McKenzie,
Please note
the change of address for Nancy Lamphear,
Guild
Glimmers
by Reva Basch
The September Guild meeting was a triple-layer affair — very much like a quilt, come to think of it — four hours, give or take, of varied and informative doings. Far be it from us to determine which activity – demo, bazaar, or “fairy godmother” assistance — was the “top,” as opposed to the batting and the backing, so let’s not carry the metaphor any further. Besides, that would leave us with the business meeting as embellishment, and you may not be able to stretch your imagination quite that far.
Janet Sears and Mary Austin started us off with a
“Something’s Fishy” two-fer aimed at inspiring us
to start thinking now about next year’s Challenge. Janet
showed her slides of the
That was just the first hour. We moved on to demos of three “systems” – i.e., equipment one might spend lots of money on. Marilyn Limbaugh showed us how to use the Altos cutting system, which enables a quilter to cut up to a dozen fabric layers at once into large quantities of triangles, squares, strips, and other straight-edged shapes. The Altos sells for somewhere in the $130-$180 range, depending on the model. Carol Tackett demoed the Flynn machine quilting system, in which all three quilt layers are rolled onto a frame (no pinning or basting required!) that the quilter then moves through the machine in free-motion patterns. Iris Lorenz-Fife followed with a demo of the Handi Quilter, which, though similar in principle, is more robust than the Flynn and involves gliding the machine (at least Iris made it look like gliding) over the fabric in the frame, instead of moving the frame. To our eyes, the Handi Quilter made more sense. It also sells for roughly ten times the price of the Flynn.
While the demos went on, and continuing through the lunch break (with delicious tuna salad puffs, veggies and dip, as well as homemade cookies – bless you, Laura and Lola!), the other layers of the day rolled out. One was the Bazaar Bonanza, in which Donna Blum’s neatly packaged profusion of fabric samplings and Julie Verran’s early-20th-century crewel, embroidery, and other “household arts” objets were standouts, along with a silent auction of books, the proceeds of which will go to buying more titles for our library. The other consisted of a row of worktables on which designated Fairy Godmothers helped puzzled quilters work out their technical or aesthetic problems, with the ultimate goal of completing their peskier UFOs.
The highlight of the business meeting that wrapped up our triple-layer day was new Guild member Anna Hines’ show and tell. Anna is a children’s book author and illustrator who shared with us a stack of unbelievably gorgeous miniature quilts that served as the basis for several of her books. Murmurs were heard throughout the audience to the effect that Anna and her quilts would make for a terrific program. Take heed, next year’s program committee.
The action-packed sequence of overlapping events concluded
with a re-showing of Janet’s
Mary Ellen
Blohm 16th
Iris
Lorenz-Fife
16th
Mariam
Littlejohn
21st
Cathe Marshall 22nd
Ann Hines 23rd
Pat
Elizabeth Beckett 29th