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Register Soon! Cindy Grisdela Only Has a Few...
Don’t miss this chance to learn from Cindy Grisdela! Cindy will teach two classes for GAAQG, September 17 and 19. Register for the Friday class, Fearless Curved Piecing, to learn two different methods for curved piecing, that are very forgiving and easy to master. This class only has a few openings left! On Sunday, Cindy…
QAAQG Quilt Along Week 12 – Finishing...
“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” Mae West How are you? Did you quilt your Aviatrix yet? Well, to be honest, we don’t really expect you did. A week isn’t quite enough time. Did you make any plans, though? Or did you send it to your longarmer?…
QAAQG Quilt Along Week 11 – Quilting...
How are you? Are we done yet? Well, almost, right? What do you do with your quilt top? Do you use a longarmer and quilt by credit card? Do you put your Aviatrix on top the big pile of “I need to quilt these one day”? Do you hand quilt? Machine? And how do…
David Owen Hastings is a very busy guy...
By Arlene Kindel April 20, 2021 David Owen Hastings is a quilter, graphic designer, print and textile artist, and creative coach. He creates textile art through dyeing, painting, collage, stitching, fabric printing and manipulation, and produces richly layered contemporary pieces with lots of texture and depth. He lectures, teaches numerous workshops on design and many…
QAAQG Quilt Along Week 10 – Assembly...
How are you? Assembly. How does that sound? Does it sound like accomplishment and satisfaction? We know, right? It’s this bright grin on your face. But don’t get carried away, let’s finish this nicely. This week’s task The rows get quite long and skinny. In case you really could resist to attach…
QAAQG Quilt Along Week 9 – Butterflies
“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.” …
QAAQG Quilt Along Week 8 – Squares...
“The soul of an artist cannot remain hidden.” Henri Nouwen How are you? Are you hunting eggs today? Well, we have some sort of square eggs in a square for you. Maybe you whipped up some…
QAAQG Quilt Along Week 7 – Checkerboard...
“I have decided to be happy because it is good for my health.” …
QAAQG Quilt Along Week 6 – Propellers
“Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.” Earl Nightingale Thanks to an incredibly smart quilt-alonger (it was Pat Weber!), we finally realized that the star blocks look like propellers, which makes so much…
We have had some extraordinary fabric donations this year. The storage unit is packed to the ceiling, Roberta’s basement sewing room has more guild fabric than her own, Nico has fabric up to her eyeballs, and we have to get rid of it ALL.
Besides a Joann’s store worth of bulk fabric, we have: KITS with all fabric and instructions, HUNDREDS of fat quarters/eighths/halves, quilt tops for you to take and complete for
Ann Loveless’ 
lecture at the Saturday November 20 Quilt Day meeting is titled “Landscape Art Quilts”. The lecture presentation and trunk show describes the techniques that Ann uses in composing and creating her award-winning quilts. She has had over 15 quilts accepted in national juried shows and is the unprecedented two-time winner (in 2013 and 2015) of the Grand Rapids Artprize for Sleeping Bear Dune Lakeshore and Northwood Awakening. These large installations capture the beauty of Northern Michigan scenery. She creates mainly landscape quilts using three techniques – collage, mosaic and impressionistic composition. This will be a Zoom presentation. A link will be sent in advance of the lecture.
