QuiltNebraska 2009

Saturday Morning

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Saturday Morning Classes

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SAM59
Andrea Bishop
Electric Quilt 6 Basics
Do you want to EQ and don’t know how? This is the class for you. We’ll start from scratch and cover the basics of Electric Quilt 6 software. We will learn how designing, coloring, drawing, saving, and printing work. We will make a few quilts and blocks, and then see what our patterns look like. By the end of this class you will have the skills to create and print designs of your own.

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SAM60
Cathy Miller
Reverse Machine Appliqué
Skill Level: Some free motion machine quilting experience.
We will practice this technique by working on a small project using two layers of fabric, free motion machine stitching and cutting away the top layer to reveal the bottom. This is very useful for both quilts, and wearable art. The finished item will probably end up about 24" square.
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SAM61
Peg Spradlin
COLORFUL SHADOW APPLIQUE
Intermediate
Students will learn colorful shadow appliqué using brightly colored fabric and felt overlaid by voile.  A simple practice 15” x 15” design will be completed in the half-day class.  Free motion background quilting stitches that set off the appliqué will be demonstrated.
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SAM62
Arlen Brown
NINE-PATCH DIAMOND VARIATIONS
Intermediate
Learn how to cut one 1-1/2” diamonds on grain and using the fabric grain line correctly for designing different diamond nine-patch designs.  Arlen will teach his method of success for matching seams on the diamonds perfectly each and every time.  Learn from a carpenter’s point of view, tips on how to make accurate diamonds without pulling them off grain, along with how to create different variations using larger diamonds for the centers for emphasis.
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SAM63
Nancy Christopherson
BACKGROUNDS, BORDERS AND BLOCKS
Beginner
Have you tried or do you have a long arm “Quilting Machine” and you are ready to learn more?  Explore the tools and skills that will help you add texture, design and fluidity to your quilts.  In class we will explore basic backgrounds, borders, and block designs that can be used on any quilting project.  You will leave class with your mind full of design ideas and possibilities.
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SAM64 
Sherrill Lewis
SILK RIBBON & THREAD
EMBROIDERY:  THE BASICS
Beginner – Intermediate
The pattern in this kit utilizes eight stitches, thread and silk ribbon, in a sweet garden scene.  The instructions include a bonus of five stitches, plus combination ideas.  The kit project may be the center of a crazy quilt block, a decorative lid, or a needle book cover.
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SAM650
IQSCM TOUR
All Levels
Hop on the free shuttle bus for a half-day tour of the International Quilt Study Center & Museum.  Wear your QNE09 name badge for free admission.  Enjoy two exhibitions:  “American Quilts in the Modern Age, 1870-1940” and “A Fairyland of Fabrics:  The Victorian Crazy Quilt.”  You should also have time to view the Mary Campbell Ghormley Reading Room and doll quilt display, check out the Virtual Gallery and its array of interactive options, and visit the museum store.  For more information:
www.quiltstudy.org.
Supplies:
QNE09 name badge
Comfortable shoes!

SAM660 - Lecture
Gloria Hall
GRAMA IS A BAG LADY
All Levels
This feedsack lecture and trunk show takes you back to an “I Remember When” time in our textile history. The era of feedsacks are lost to history and never will be repeated for their intended use.  You will have a chance to see a hand woven and sewn sack made before commercial machines were available. The trunk show includes a display of feedsack quilts, feedsack creations and special interest prints, including logo sacks, Disney, “Gone with the Wind,” etc.  Gloria is an avid collector of feedsacks and the items made from them.  You will also enjoy snatches of 30s and 40s family life. 

SAM670 - Lecture
Gloria Smith
PATCHWORK MOSAIC

All Levels
Having quilted for over 25 years, Gloria Smith has made a mosaic of patchwork items.  Journey into her world of quilting as she shares the pieces of that quilting mosaic from the past to the present and into the future.


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Sue Chaffee and Cathy Audley
EXTREME MAKEOVER FOR FABRIC

All Levels
Why  have plain fabric when you can have WONDERFUL fabric?  Come and let the Sisterspeak sisters, Cathy Audley and Sue Chaffee, entertain you as they explore some of the many ways to make blah fabric brilliant!  How will they change it?  Will they paint it or batik it or print it or dye it?  You will have to come and see for yourself.  Find out how they do it and what products they use.  One thing is sure, you will never look at a dull piece of fabric the same way again.  It will become an opportunity!  Cathy and Sue will also show you quilts they have made using these improved fabrics.  Drooling is permitted.

 
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