Quilt Guilds.com has a full page of 32 ideas for Programs and there are some great ones there! Click here to check them out and look at all the other goodies there too!
Uncategorized
Wisconsin Museum of Fiber Arts
YouTube Videos! Take a look at their YouTube Channel for a series of videos that your guild might like to watch together in a Zoom meetup: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChAuVqsbqHkqaEIxPX8DcSg
Alethea Ballard
Home: Walnut Creek, California
Alethea Ballard creates vibrant and exciting quilts using clear colors and cheerful images. Bouncing between making pieced quilts using large-scale prints to creating interesting collages and commissioned pieces, Alethea fills her working life with beautiful fabrics and eclectic imagery.
A veteran teacher, Alethea is always eager to share her working style and approach to quilting with students of all ages. Alethea’s enthusiasm for her subjects is contagious to her students and her expertise and easy working style makes them feel inspired.
Alethea Ballard approaches the design of her quilts with a cheerful feeling in her spirit. She looks for something a fabric which makes her heart skip a beat when she sees it, like a fabulous face; a beloved character; or a beautiful animal. Combine these images with flowers and trees and she’s off and running. Then, she sets about finding way to use these creative sparks in a quilt which tells a story to delight a viewer. She is especially drawn to a sardonic sense of juxtaposition and loves to imagine her characters doing things which they ought not or might not get the chance to do.
Alethea offers a virtual guild lecture called Exuberant Applique – Inspirations and Explorations. She shares everyday objects like wreaths and vases which inform the shapes she uses, the talk delves into the unusually-shaped quilted textiles which are her signature work. The talk includes her small pieces and amazing wall hangings and ends with her line of people and her larger selfie quilts.
Alethea can accompany the guild lecture with a workshop to create delightful collages using her raw-edge style. Focus on sourcing images from fabrics and extracting them for collage, she will share her cutting tips and tricks. Then students will have the opportunity to create a unique art piece in a subject of their choosing. Alethea can also create kits for the classes if a guild would request that. Information about tools, materials and discussions and examples of design, scale and layout will round out the lessons.
Alethea Ballard was the guest on The Quilt Show Number 2602 where she shared her wonderful collages and even played the accordion! She is also an author and contributor with C & T Publishing, including Maverick Quilts, Using Large-Scale Prints, Novelty Fabrics and Panels with Panache and Dream Chair Quilts, 7 Blocks for Whimsical Wallhangings.
Join Alethea and create the unexpected! In addition to her guild offerings, Alethea has an online workshop that is designed for individual at-home learning. Her Exuberant Appliqué Basics is fun online offered through her website. Students from all over the globe or right across the street can explore the world of raw edge collage from the comfort of their own sewing space.
See more of Alethea’s work on her website https://aletheaballard.com/ and on Youtube at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCe5UOK0kZ15xZBuwaYiYFCQ
Be sure to tell Alethea that you found her on The Quilters Calendar!
Schmetz Needles
Schmetz has a series of videos on their needles on their YouTube Channel – https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQjw4DiWyD-hviRUMrhW-wHb-UsNSRFu1
Hobbs Batting
Hobbs Batting Company offers ‘Batting: What’s Inside Matters’ lecture. Send requests to shackney @ hobbsbondedfibers.com
National Museum of American History Quilt Collection
This is a great resource of quilt images for Programs .https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/object-groups/national-quilt-collection. You can watch some videos or open each quilt and view pictures and details and read about the quilt, or if you would rather see only the videos, they are on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFB732940FBD482C0
Debi Warner
Deb is no longer with us and is sorely missed for her humor and talents. She brought light and laughter when we needed it most.
Home: Harlingen, Texas or on the road in our RV
Debi is a former librarian who became a quilter upon retirement. Debi’s favorite question is “What else can I do with this?” So, reverse applique brings butterflies and flower pounding gets wool applique and embroidery.
Because recycling is one of her passions, she quickly found ways to use leftover fabrics. From scrappy quilts to shirt aprons to Locker Hooking, she has found a use for every scrap. Her book Quilt Thrifting gets 4 stars and is free on Amazon Kindle Unlimited.
Debi and her husband went on the road to quilt shows all over the US in the summer of 2016. Her most popular demo in her booth was Locker Hooking. Making a matching rug from quilt scraps fascinated quilters. Even folks who didn’t make quilts were interested in using scrap fabric for rag rugs. Locker hooked rugs can be made from fabric scraps, yarn, t-shirt yarn, plastic bags, and wool roving.
Debi will show you how to make rugs, table runners, placemats, hot pads, barn quilts, and many other handy items. In this class, you will also learn to embellish your piece using ribbons and old jewelry.
Debi has taught this class for her own guild and for a quilt shop in Texas. She is Zoom ready. You can reach Debi at debi.warner1129 @ att.net.
I took the Locker Hooking class from Debi Warner through our quilt guild’s Schoolhouse classes, and though I had done Locker Hooking before, Debi added so much more to the class as far as technique and the history of the process, and enthusiasm.
Jan B.
Really liked this class, interesting teacher and a unique technic for using up scraps. You can also make designs, which I tried, but wasn’t too successful at, but it was a challenge and I enjoyed it.
Marty
Tales from a Quilting Contessa
Stories have been important throughout all history. In this slide presentation, Debi captures some of the 75+ stories that she has written for Quilting Hub as a Quilting Contessa. Her stories feature some history, some humor, and some quilting focusing in four main areas: How to, For guilds and Quilters, Tools, and Travel. Debi will share stories illustrated with photos and skits from her experiences.
Debi’s Bio
Author and humorist, Debi Warner, retired after many years as a clinical librarian and information specialist. She mainly worked on teaching physicians to use computers and electronic resources. She has a BA in French, and a Master’s in Library and Information Science.
She is a past president of Harlingen Proud, Arroyo Colorado Audubon, and the Sunshine Birding and Nature Club and uses her hobbies as an excuse for travel.
She took up quilting after retirement and chaired the Rio Grande Valley Quilt Show in 2019. She is known in her home Guild for her skits promoting the quilt show, including her appearance as the Grinch (with hair dyed green). She currently writes for Quilting Hub, an online resource. as one of the Quilting Comtesses.
Maggie Ball
Maggie succumbed to breast cancer in February 2022. She was a wonderful friend and generous mentor to me. She is sorely missed. Marguerita
Location: Bainbridge Island, Washington
I have been quilting for over 25 years and enjoy using a variety of techniques, creating my own designs from elements of traditional patterns. My quilts have been exhibited both locally and nationally and I travel the world to teach quilting.
Teaching quilting seems a natural extension of my passion and I find it rewarding.
My first books teach quilting with children, a subject that I’m passionate about. In my book third book,Traditional Quilts with a Twist, I’ve tweaked traditional patterns to make over 20 new designs. I selected three old favorites, Trip Around the World, Ohio Star, and Bear’s Paw on which to base my variations. I love to design and play with patterns and hope to convey this passion through my books. My latest book, Bargello Quilts With A Twist, continues to build on updated design ideas and re-thinking the traditional quiltmaking process.
I am trained and certified by the Northern California Quilt Council to judge quilts and wearable art. Contact me for a judging résumé.
Maggie can be contacted at maggie.quilter @ gmail.com Visit Maggie’s Website
Please let Maggie know you found her on The Quilter’s Calendar!