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REQUEST FROM MICHELE

Does anyone have a small piece of plain red-orange fabric to complete her colour wheel?

634-4909(h) 634-9338 (w)

NEXT MEETING

Monday, April 7, 2003

7:30 p.m.

United Church Hall, Mahone Bay

 

 

EVENING PROGRAM

Anna Davison - Folded Flowers

• Nova Scotia:

  • July 26-27 Sherbrooke, Show & Sale
    Lions Club Hall, Hwy #7, 10-4. Old, new quilts & related crafts
  • July 27-Aug.1 Tatamagouche Centre
    Quilting Quandaries Qualified, 5-day workshop exploring how to create original quilts.

  
  

• New Brunswick:

  • May 1-3 Marco Polo Quilt Fair
    , NB Museum, Saint John
  • June 6-18 Quilt NB 2003,
    CQA National Juried Show,
    University of NB, Fredericton

  
  

• Newfoundland:

  • May 4-June 15 Solo Exhibition by Valerie Hearder
    Devon House Gallery, St. John’s
    Val was a founding member of Mahone Bay QG

  
  

   

  

  

   

   

   

  Patchwork in Perspective

  A six hour class with Lynne Edwards, U.K.

  Saturday, May 31, 2003

  Create a three-dimensional effect using true perspective.

  In this class students will draft a simple patchwork block and then use a vanishing point to draw side blocks in perspective. The effect, seen in the two drawn above, is of the inside of a patchwork box. Easier to do than to explain! Once drafted; the design is transferred to freezer paper and pieced, using the freezer paper as a foundation and as templates.

  Ideas are given for future use of the drafting technique to create original and exciting patterns based on other patchwork blocks.

  SIGN-UP SHEET AT APRIL MEETING

   

   

   

   

  Through the Window and Beyond

  Lynne’s lecture at our closing dinner Monday, June 2, 2003

  A talk with slides to show Lynne Edwards' personal development using Cathedral Window and the ways in which the different blocks can be combined to create original designs. The lecture will also be illustrated with several quilts and wall hangings which can be examined more closely at the end of the session.

   

   

  Lynne Edwards Bio:

  Lynne Edwards is an internationally known quiltmaker and a trained teacher. She began making quilts twenty-five years ago and has exhibited at the National Crafts Council Gallery, with the Suffolk Craft Society and in galleries and museums throughout the U.K. Her quilts have been exhibited at the European Quilt Expo in the Netherlands, in Germany and in Austria, and in 1993 she presented her own exhibition at the Houston Quilt Festival in the US. A Cathedral Window quilt was part of an exhibit at the National Quilt Festival in Japan in 1997. Lynne co-edited the Quilters' Review for the U.K. Quilters' Guild for thirteen years and writes regularly for magazines on patchwork and quilting.

  She is the acknowledged authority on Cathedral Window and the variations of design and shape that allow the development of exciting and innovative quilts: her book "Through the Window and Beyond" is considered the definitive textbook on this technique and was sold worldwide before going out of print in 2001.

  In 1992 Lynne was awarded the Jewel Pearce Patterson Scholarship for International Quilt Teachers. Lynne has taught at the Houston Quilt Festival as well as Brisbane, Europe, USA, and the National Quilt Show in South Africa and Quilt Canada 2000.

  Her long association with the quilting movement both locally and nationally has involved Lynne in the organisation of Quilt Shows, from twelve Sampler Quilts in a local Village hall to the Quilters' Guild National Exhibitions. She has served on selection committees and is an experienced judge of National Quilt Shows. She was Senior Judge at the South African National Quilt Show.

  In 2000 Lynne was given honorary lifetime membership of the Quilters’ Guild of the British Isles and in 2002 was awarded the Amy Emms Memorial Trophy for services to quilting.

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  The Tale of a Tonka Toy Quilt

  "Could you make me a single bed quilt featuring Tonka Toys," Brenda was asked. "Sure," she replied, knowing there were bed sheets available with the design. Being pretty sure she could incorporate the sheets into her quilt, she searched for and purchased same, one patterned, one plain, polycotton.

  The toys were cut out and appliqued on to the plain sheet. Many hours later the quilt went in the bars and many more hours later, quilting was complete. That’s when the trouble started. The polycotton produced "more humps than a camel" said Brenda, "can’t present that to the purchaser!"

  She took the quilt apart and began her applique once again, this time using plain cotton blocks as a background for the Tonka patterns. Sitting quietly with her grandson, blocks at her side, stitching and drinking a mug of coffee, the second catastrophe happened - you guessed it - coffee upset all over the pile of blocks! Laundry done, stains removed, she continued with the applique, was satisfied with the result and restitched the quilt top, machine-quilting the final offering. "Very nice," said her son, "but you’ve left some of the original sheet fabric in between that Tonka front end loader". With remarkable calm, Brenda set about carefully cutting out the offending fabric to reveal the plain background. Finally satisfied, we saw the finished quilt at Sew & Tell on Monday evening - quite a story and I understand the recipient appreciates the end result!