GOING ONCE! GOING TWICE!!

Remember all the items you added to your stash from the last Silent Auction like your Graco FastAction Fold Click Connect Stroller? The Star Quilters will hold another one at the January 11, 2016, meeting.  Cindy King will chair this auction again and she needs to begin collecting items now.  Think downsizing! Turn in those UFOs you’ll never finish! Your “trash” = my “treasure”.

So please bring whatever quilting and sewing related items you can part with to the November 2nd meeting this Monday! A collection area will be set aside.  If you have any questions, call Cindy King at 556-0755 or Tam McBride at 524-0263.

September 2015 Presentation of Quilt to Blue Ridge Soil and Water Conservation District

I own and operate Artsavvy Studio. At any given time you may find me working there in multiple Medias which usually includes a lot of fabric and machines with thread and paint thrown in. My love for the arts and passing that love on is my mission in life.  My story is simple actually; I was born an artist, a painter and I have had full time careers while working as a mother and wife. I have gone through three careers, nursing, teacher and graphic designer. In the middle of this I spent way too much time on education and thought for a while I may be a professional student. After obtaining my Master’s in Fine Art I realized no more school for me.

I learned to sew at the age of seven and have sewn avidly since.  I started quilting 10 years ago with a crazy quilt project for my red hat chapter. Right after that two friends developed breast cancer and so two pink quilts were made.  By this time I am seeing the light so to speak. After a crash orientation in the quilt world I realized that my artist spirit could find solace in quilting.  Designing, teaching and total immersion in quilting is my day to day.

My teaching classes/workshops include:

• Creativity for the Masses
• Painting and Quilting Get Married
• Color Theory for the Quilter
• Free Motion and Taking Command
• Thread Painting
• Art Quilts and No Mysteries

Contact Info:
960 Turkey Foot Road
Forest VA 24551
434-942-8303
artsavvy@verizon.net

Starting in July, we are going to do SECRET QUILT PAL. If you would like to be part of this, please return your questionnaire  to me at the July meeting or email it back to me. This is a way of getting to know another member. You will draw another member’s questionnaire at the July meeting. (Do not tell them you have their questionnaire. It’s a secret!) Each month, bring a card or a little something costing less than $3, and in their birthday month not over $5.00. (You don’t need to spend any money if you don’t want to. We all have plenty in our stash we can share.) We will have a table which will be used as a Post Office each month. At the July 2016 meeting, reveal who you are to your Secret Quilt Pal. Any questions, please email me. — Ann Ware

Secret Pal Questionnaire

We will be playing around, making fabric beads.

(Sue, I will be bringing oil cloth table covers for your table)

Bring fabric scraps, enough to share would be fun.

The beads can be made in many different sizes, but we will start with using these size strips, in 3 different fabrics:

2″ x 6″, 1″ x 5″, 1/4″x 4″.

Fabric Scissors

Glue Stick

We will have some wire, beads, lace and other trimmings.  Feel free to bring some, too!  We’ll have dowels.

See you at Sue B’s at 7, Monday evening, April 27, 2015!

Lecture: “Photos and Quilts”

Ann Shaw discusses adapting photographs for pieced quilts, her approach to taking pictures to make into quilts, and the design choices affecting the look of her quilts. She is happy to take questions from the audience. Ann Shaw teaches internationally and has been personally endorsed by Ruth McDowell to teach her style of quilting.  Visit Ann Shaw’s site for more information on this talented artist.

Monday, May 4th, 2015 10 am
Jacksonville Center for the Arts
Guest admission $5
Free for members of The Quilting Party, River City Quilt Guild and Floyd Quilt Guild

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Workshop: Flowers of the Gorge

Tuesday, May 5^th, 2015 at 9:30am
Jacksonville Center for the Arts
220 Parkway Ln. S, Floyd, VA 24091

Ann Shaw 1-day design and piecing class based on the design and piecing techniques of Ruth McDowell.

Flowers have been an enduring source of inspiration for quilters with many traditional quilt blocks featuring flower patterns. Miniature wild flowers found in the Columbia River Gorge have inspired these patterns.  Ann Shaw’s designs will come alive with unexpected fabric choices. This workshop is suited to all levels including the confident beginner.

You will select one of several flower patterns, prepare a freezer paper template and then begin the process of selecting fabrics for your design. We will also discuss sewing methods and sewing order to complete your wall hanging.

Registration for members opens December 1^st, 2014, for non-members February 15^th 2015. $65 workshop fee per person for non-members

$55 for members of Floyd Quilt Guild.The Quilting Party, and River City Quilt Guild.

Pattern required (see supply list: approximately $8 – $18.00) More patterns to come!

For more information, please visit http://www.floydquiltguild.com/workshops.html to find registration forms and supply lists.