Program Overview

September 20, 2011:

Beverly Fine, Quilt Judging and Show and Tell
Note that this is the third Tuesday this month

October 25, 2011:

Bobbie and Joel Bergquist, Quilter's Treasures

November 29, 2011:

Catherine Gentile, Trunk Show

January 24, 2012:

Benefit Quilt Month

February 28, 2012:

Mini Workshops

March 27, 2012:

Marianne Hatton, Jill of all Trades and Master of None

April 24, 2012:

Pam Druhen, Quilting the Landscape

May 22, 2012:

Pat Ferguson, Zentangle Miniworkshop

June 26, 2012:

Desserts and Auction/Quilto

Workshop Overview

December 3, 2011

Catherine Gentile

March 31, 2012

Marianne Hatton

April 25, 2012

Pamela Druhen

Program in Full

• September 20, 2011
  In September, we will begin our year with Quilt Show preparations and our annual Show-and-Tell. Bring the pieces, finished or not, that you have been working on over the year, over the summer and over the weekend. In the interests of time, please limit your choices to no more than two items and to preserve the surprise please save your RSQ Show entries for the show. Joining us will be Beverly Fine, National Quilt Association Certified Judge, author of Guide to Judged Shows (published by NQA) and former president of Quilters Connection. Beverly says she is passionate about making her own quilts but considers traditional quilt scholarship important as well. She will share her thoughts on what qualities define a prize-winning quilt.

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• October 25, 2011
  In October, Bobbie and Joel Bergquist, owners of Quilters' Treasure, bring their quilt shop to our guild. They travel the US approximately 45 weeks out of the year attending quilt and fabric shows and will speak on how their family business was started, the exciting trials and tribulations of traveling with quilt shows, marbling fabric, their innovative Stained Glass Technique, and more! They will share show dozens of samples of their work as well as most of their products at our guild meeting (They don't have a retail store, so their products are normally available only at Quilt Shows and on their website—check them out at www.quilterstreasure.com).

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• November 29, 2011
  At our November meeting, Catherine Gentile, master seamstress and owner of The Button Box in Wellesley, will share her quilts and wearable art as well as her history as both businesswoman and creative artist in a Trunk Show. She will give a workshop on Saturday, December 3 on constructing stylish sweatshirt jackets. The stylish jacket you construct will be the highlight of your wardrobe. Kathy will also be vending the meeting so you can purchase your supplies from her great selection of contemporary fabrics. Visit the Button Box at www.buttonboxquiltshop.com.
• December 3, 2011: Sweatshirt Jackets Workshop
  Register now for Catherine Gentile's Sweatshirt Jacket workshop to be held in the basement of the Button Box Quilt Shop, 5 Overbrook Drive, Wellesley, MA (781-489-6515). Catherine Gentile is an accomplished teacher of wearable art. Join her in making a cozy jacket using a sweatshirt as a lining. This stylish jacket will be a favorite and Catherine has indicated that if there is enough interest, she will be willing to arrange another session with the group to help with the jacket finishing. We will show a sample of the jacket at the October meeting.
  
  Supply List (pdf)
  
  GentileSupplyList.pdf Workshop registration form (pdf)

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• January 24, 2012
  January is Benefit Quilt month. Join your fellow guild members by working together to start and/or finish quilts for next October's donations. It's a great opportunity work with and meet new members, learn new techniques and designs and have fun.
  
  We will be making baby quilts from a huge stash of donated flannel, using a simple pattern. Check out the directions here.

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• February 28, 2012
  In February, we will spotlight some of our own Rising Star members who will give mini-workshops during the meeting time. Let your programming chairs know what skills you are eager to learn. Have you admired the work of a member whose technique you are dying to learn? This is a great chance to take full advantage of what our guild has to offer. Supply lists and handouts with instructions and references will be available.

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• March 27, 2012
  Marianne Hatton is our speaker for March. Marianne is author of a new book, Simply Dynamic Sampler Quilts (available from Amazon and from Marianne at the meeting), which honors the tradition of sampler quilts at the same time introducing a contemporary flair using her Grid Map technique while learning how to work with blocks of varying sizes. She will share her history as a quilter and unpack her trunk of sampler quilts at the meeting. Check her out on YouTube.
• March 31, 2012: Mastering the Kaleidoscope Quilt Block Workshop Park Street Congregational Church
  Marianne Hatton, our March presenter, will teach a workshop on mastering the kaleidoscope quilt block. Intended for confident beginners and beyond, participants are sure to learn something new as they try different variations and work with multiple fabrics to start a beautiful little wall quilt. Piecing by machine (or just as easily by hand if preferred) with precision will benefit quilt-making over-all. Lots of coordinated fabrics in a light to dark range to make this piece look terrific — even small pieces will add variety to the final product — a gorgeous 18-inch finished piece works which will work as a wall hanging or part of a larger quilt.
  
  Workshop registration form (pdf)

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• April 24, 2012
  Pamela Druhen, SAQA member and Vermont quilter, will share her machine pieced and quilted representational "threadscapes" with all of us in April. She uses the fiber medium to explore the relationships between light, depth, color and texture in the natural world as defined by the four seasons as she experiences them in Vermont. Pamela has been competing on the national level since 2001 and internationally since 2002. See her website.
• April 25, 2012: Pamela Druhen Landscape for Real Workshop Follen Church Basement
  What makes a landscape real?  How do you catch the viewer's attention, draw them in and make them want to look closer?  Composition, value, color, texture, depth and fabric section are the major components of this class.  Students will fuse together several fabric samples to illustrate each area of discussion.  Using the design drawing (provided) each of the techniques will be combined in an 8" x 10" fused landscape. Check out her website.
  
  Supply list for Pamela Druhen Workshop (pdf)
  
  Workshop registration form (pdf)

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• May 22, 2012
  Pat Ferguson is an award-winning machine quilter from Connecticut. "Zentangle ® is an easy-to-learn method of creating beautiful images from repetitive patterns " In place of a trunk show, Pat, a Certified Zentangle ® Teacher, will teach this relaxing and rewarding art form as a miniworkshop for the entire membership. Requiring no artistic skills, this basic beginner class, is suitable for any and all skill levels. Even if you think you can’t draw, you will find Zentangle therapeutic and addictive! For a small charge, Pat will supply the official Zentangle workshop supplies or follow along with a notebook and pen. We hope that she will be returning in fall, 2012, to conduct a day workshop in Zen Quilting. Zentangle ® opened up a whole new outlook on machine quilting for Pat, who then developed this class to make machine quilting much easier and help free up those with "quilters block". See her website.

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• June 26, 2012
  In June, we celebrate another successful year at RSQ and usher in the summer with our annual coffee and dessert social. Our informal program will be full of fun—perhaps a UFO auction or raucous game of quilto (bingo for quilters) with lots of fabric as prizes. More later.

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