May
May 19, 2024 9:00 am - 4:00 pm(GMT-04:00)
Washtenaw Community College
4800 E Huron River Drive
July
20jul9:15 am11:30 pmQuilt Day: Designing FabricSpeaker: Deb Strain
Deb Strain is a fabric designer for Moda Fabrics. Drawing and
Deb Strain is a fabric designer for Moda Fabrics.
Drawing and painting her fabric designs by hand, Deb has created over one-hundred collections since she began working with Moda. She loves working with different colors and patterns, the more intricate the better!
A life-long passion for art led Deb to teaching art before becoming a designer. Her artwork has been featured on many different products over the years – calendars, greeting cards, garden flags, books, framed prints and more. Recently, she and Scott proudly launched a line of notecards for sewing and quilting enthusiasts titled “Sew Noted”.
With traveling to see her children, creating new fabrics and collections, and other types of new art, Deb’s life is happily filled with color, creativity and lots of hugs!
She will be bringing 6-8 door prizes AND Selling her products! You will want to be present for this one!
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July 20, 2024 9:15 am - 11:30 pm(GMT-04:00)
Morris Lawrence Building at Washtenaw Community College Campus
4800 E Huron River Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48105
27jul(jul 27)10:00 am28(jul 28)4:30 pmGAAQG Quilt Show
“Celebrate the Quilt 2024” is our opportunity to showcase our creativity for the public. A popular attraction is our fundraiser supporting SafeHouse Center, where the public can purchase a quilt. The
“Celebrate the Quilt 2024” is our opportunity to showcase our creativity for the public. A popular attraction is our fundraiser supporting SafeHouse Center, where the public can purchase a quilt.
The GAAQG Quilt Show is non-juried and held in even-numbered years, with skills ranging from beginner through expert. Show attendees are invited to vote for their favorite quilts and “Viewers Choice” winners are awarded ribbons.
The show will be held at the Morris Lawrence Building on the Washtenaw Community College campus in Ann Arbor.
More than 1300 visitors attended our 17th biennial quilt show on July 30-31, 2022.
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July 27, 2024 10:00 am - July 28, 2024 4:30 pm(GMT-04:00)
Morris Lawrence Building at Washtenaw Community College Campus
4800 E Huron River Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48105
September
20sep9:00 am4:00 pmZoom Workshop: Accordion Sewn HSTsInstructor: Beth Helfter
September 20, 2024 9:00 am - 4:00 pm(GMT-04:00)
21sep9:15 am11:30 amQuilt DaySpeaker (via Zoom): Beth Helfter
As a mostly scrappy designer, Beth prefers to dig into her stash to create designs and patterns that appeal to her senses of color and value, using as many different fabrics as possible. Keeping to just a few color families in each quilt palette is one of her best tricks to keeping scrappy quilts from getting too out of hand but allowing them to sing with tone and movement. Her lecture “Consistency in the Chaos” seeks to inspire quilters to think about scrap quilts and pull fabrics to make them shine without overwhelming the eye.
Her penchant for scraps and her need to use as many fabrics as possible in her quilts led her in 2017 to develop the Accordion Sewn HSTs™ method of creating half square triangles that don’t have a match and yet waste no fabric. Her book “Oompah! Jazz Up Your Scrap Quilts With Accordion Sewn HSTs™” was published in 2018, and “Another Round of Oompah” was published in 2020.
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September 21, 2024 9:15 am - 11:30 am(GMT-04:00)
Morris Lawrence Building at Washtenaw Community College Campus
4800 E Huron River Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48105
November
16nov9:15 am11:30 amQuilt DaySpeaker (in Person): Brandy Maslowski
Brandy Maslowski is a quilt maker, textile artist and teacher known for
Brandy Maslowski is a quilt maker, textile artist and teacher known for her pursuit of more joy and less overwhelm in the classroom. She loves exploring the texture, colour and boundless possibilities of fabric and stitch. She travels the world to educate, speak and ignite creativity with the tag line More Joy, Less Overwhelm. Her weekly Quilter on Fire Podcast has exploded on the quilting scene over the last 2 years and the feedback has overwhelmed her inbox with joy.
She is also a BERNINA Ambassador for Canada and founder of the SQUARE ONE 3 day Textile Art Bootcamp and the Confident & Creative Textile Artist Masterclass.
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November 16, 2024 9:15 am - 11:30 am(GMT-04:00)
Morris Lawrence Building at Washtenaw Community College Campus
4800 E Huron River Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48105