LAKE QUILTERS GUILD
Serving Smith Mountain Lake Virginia
Programs
2010 Program and Workshop Information by Susan Palmer
March 23 - Kinza Pickelsimer
Kinza joined our guild in January 2003. She took classes for 3 years at the Elly Scienkiewicz Appliqué Academy in Williamsburg. Two years from Nancy Kern, New Jersey and one year from Shirley Bloomfield, England.
9am Workshop: Kinza Pickelsimer will teach an appliqué class featuring a Siberian Iris. Materials List (PDF). Note: The workshop is full, anyone wishing to be on the waiting list should call Susan Palmer 721-5299.
1pm Program: Kinza will also be presenting our March Program.
April 26 - The Singing Quilters
Cathy Miller is a Canadian quilter and folk singer/songwriter from Victoria, BC. Cathy is an accomplished quilt teacher in Hexagons, and hand and machine appliqué. Over the last nine years, Cathy and her husband, John Bunge, have performed at over 500 quilting events for more than 50,000 quilters worldwide. Cathy has released four CDs of songs about quilting: "One Stitch at a Time", "A Quilter's Embrace", "A Quilters World", and "In the Heart of a Quilt". These songs range from historical, to poignant, to drop-dead funny! The program is sure to entertain and inspire both quilters and non-quilters.
Cathy Miller will do a morning workshop (9am) entitled "Hexagons Out of the Garden." For Program Details and Supply List - click here. Catch Cathy singing in this YouTube video with Tricia Sherman on an episode of the Great Canadian ShopHop: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0QjV8K4vQM
Visit Cathy's website: http://www.singingquilter.com/
May 18 - Joyce Noell (Note: This is the 3rd Tuesday of the month)
Joyce has assembled many of her friends and asked them to demo their favorite "I can't live without this" tool. We will have tables and demos lasting approximately 10 minutes each, similar to "Home Spun Ideas," but featuring all kinds of gadgets.
June 29 - Bunny Goode (Note: This is the 5th Tuesday of the month)
Bunny Goode will conduct a 9am workshop and present our 1pm program. During the workshop, Bunny will teach us to embellish fabric and turn it into a pocketbook. To see Bunny's dolls, purses and read all about her, visit Bunny Goode's website: http://www.bunnygoodedesigns.com
August 24 - Karen Witt
Karen Witt will teach a workshop on hand embroidery stitches from the Civil War era, a wonderful compliment to this year's BOM project, and do a program on “Dating Old Quilts.”
Highlights of Past Programs ... photos of each month's program are available on the Show and Tell page. Links to photos and/or slideshows are posted under each month's meeting. All the meetings back to January 2006 can be found on or accessed from the Show and Tell page.
Workshops are special opportunities for a small group of people (usually only 20) to have instruction from a guest teacher. Please follow these guidelines when signing up for a workshop.
• Sign-up will begin at 12:30 at the guild meeting in the month announced for the workshop sign-up.
• Only people who have signed-up AND paid can attend the workshop. You are not considered "signed-up" until you pay your money!
• If you are unable to attend the guild meeting at which the sign-up occurs, have a friend sign you up and pay your money. We will NOT be taking phone sign-ups before this time... Please don't ask us to break this rule.
• Once the workshop is filled, a waiting list will be formed. If someone drops out of the class, the next person on the waiting list will be called. Please do not by-pass the waiting list by selling your spot to a friend. It is not fair to those who have been put on the waiting list. .
• Once you are on the list, and find you will be unable to attend, you will not get a refund unless someone is found to take your place. Please contact Susan Palmer as soon as you know you can't come and the next person on the waiting list will be called. If there is no one on the waiting list, you may then find your own replacement.