Amy Shotwell, from Pentwater where she owns “Sew Lets Be Quilty” and is full of brightly colored fabric, including Tula Pink and many other popular designers’ fabrics, was our speaker. The shop is full of bright colors and happy feelings and showcases many samples of tote bags. Amy is thrilled to be with us to share her technical […]
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I hope those of you who were able to attend the joint meeting of Lighthouse Quilt Guild and PALS Guild last night enjoyed Cindy’s lecture on the Anatomy of Improv Quilting. It was a great turnout and the room seemed full of great quilting energy. https://cindygrisdela.com/ Check out her website, lots of great pictures, how
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In this lecture, Shae gave an overview of quilt history with a focus on how quilts fit into larger historical events and eras. With quilts spanning from the early 19th to mid-20th century, this presentation highlighted key changes in quilts over the decades, in color, pattern, technique, etc. while also fitting these changes into the
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Our speakers Jill Twiss-McFadden of Quilted Memories in Montague, Kelly Kindt of Pressing Matters in Holland and Elizabeth Johnson of Birtles Fabrics of Zeeland. What did we learn from these 3 shop owners? Jill from quilted Memories learned to quilt from her Grandmother and from 4H. The name of her store came from a conversation
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These are the quilts that are in the library. Click on an image to enalrge. Marcia demonstrated hand quilting twice a week Elizabeth and Leslie talked about rescuing antique and vintage quilts They brought several of their rescued quilts, and also helped a few other people identify their quilts. Laura gave a talk on the
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of Quilting Fabrics in Time CREATING ART QUILT CARDS –day time class What a fun day making 5 cards from kits that Dr. Susan prepared for us. She showed us all the tricks and supplies that she uses. Her books are very well written and easy to follow with lots of pictures. We have
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We had an all day class with Beth Ann Williams, our speaker for the evening. The class was learning to to make a Celtic type design using her technique. The pictures show the basic steps of drawing, making the strips, gluing the strips (over-under, over-under we all muttered to ourselves), putting on the borders, adding
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Workshop Lone Star Quilt There were 13 guild members who took the class from Andrew Lee, the Combat Quilter, and learned a great deal regarding a Lonestar Quilt. Andrew gave them very specific information as to the cutting, placement and sewing of the 36 strips each measuring 2 1/2 inches. The choice of
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Before the meeting at night we had a paper piecing workshop put on by Carol Keen. The results are shown in the bottom picture (some more impressive than others- but they did have fun). Then we had to evacuate for a short time to the parking lot, Elizabeth handed out quilts from her trunk to
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We learned so much in this class. Many of Sally’s pictures are shown here. She taught us the use of DerWent Pencils and doing the flower centers using confetti fabric and tulle. So many hints and tips. A lot of concentration going on. https://www.sallymanke.com/ Check out Sally’s website for lots of patterns and ideas. She
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