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January 11, 2010 • Betsy Cannon "Forty Years of Funny Quilts" with a workshop "Embellish That Quilt!"
February 8, 2010 • Charlotte Ziebarth • “Creating Digital Cloth.” with a demonstration workshop on Monday afternoon on “Digital Art from Photos Using Photoshop Elements.”
March 8, 2010 • Do Palma "Nothing New Under the Sun" a trunk show of current work. Do makes art quilts that feature her attraction to Latin colors, rhythms, and folklore from her childhoold in Venezuela. Themes include mysteries, politics, crows, and explorations. See more of her work at www.dopalma.com.
April 12 • "Confessions of a Longarm Quilter" Join us for an evening of tips, tricks, and resources available to all machine quilters, brought to you by longarm quilters. Julie Hallquist will discuss ideas for quilting design choices, answer questions about selecting thread and batting, and showcase a variety of quilting services and design styles available from your local longarm quilters. We’ll include some of our favorite tools and shopping sources. The expanded Show-and-Tell and trunk show will include everything from freehand-quilted art quilts to computer-guided bed quilts. Some longarm quilters who will participate in the Show-and-Tell and Trunk Show portion of the program are: Patty Joy, Natalia Majors, Sharon Wakefield, Carolyn Myers, Dane Packard, Colette Sawyer, Shawnette Sherwood, Carol Ricciardi, Stephanie Patterson, and Valerie Thor.
April 13 & 14, 2010 • 2-Day Workhop with Elda Kohls, "Creating and Enhancing Sensational Surface Design." It is the practice in Japan to honor outstanding artists and crafts people with the designation of "National Treasure." We discovered a Fort Collins "treasure" at our November, 2009 meeting, Elda Kohls. Elda will present a 2-day workshop for us on April 13 & 14. In this workshop you will design and use stencils for creative surface elements and create unique enhancements for your art pieces. Click on the "Workshop" section for more information or Click here to get a registration form. Don't delay - there are just a few places left in the workshop!
May 10, 2010 • Jo Fitsell “The Ten Mistakes Art Quilters Make” Jo will also do a workshop on “Bringing Your Work To The Next Level.“ on Tuesday, May 11. Click here to get a registration form or visit the Workshops section for more information.
June 14, 2010 • Gwen Hatchette "Fabric Collage Visions" My path from watercolor, glass, and traditional quilting to fabric mixed media. Gwen will show her work and tell how she moved from teaching to making art quilts, as well as what inspired her then and what inspires her now. (Note that this is a change in speakers.)
July 12, 2010 • Ruth Powers "Dare to be Different"
Tuesday, July 13 & Wednesday, July 14, 2010, 9am – 4:00pm • Workshop with Ruth Powers, "Introduction to Picture Piecing.” Click here to get a registration form or visit the Workshops section for more information.
August 9, 2010 • Vicki Pignatelli "10 Attributes That Make a Good Quilter Better" with a 1-day workshop, "Color Your Quilt Beautiful" ( Crazy About Curves" has been cancelled)
September 13, 2010 • Lynn Jaenke “The Stencil Made Me Do It.”
October 11, 2010 “Finishing Touches” A sampler night of different techniques for finishing your quilt, including borders, binding, hangers, and labels.
November 8, 2010 • Ann Fahl "It's In the Details" with a 1- or 2-day workshop to be announced.
Workshop information will be posted when the details become available.
If you need more information contact the VP of Programs & Workshops click here