Join us to sew for SafeHouse on Saturday, March 18
Who: YOU. All levels of sewing skills encouraged What: To have fun, to socialize with friends new and old, and to sew quilt tops for SafeHouse Time: Beginning 30 minutes after our regular Quilt Day meeting Where: Morris Lawrence Building – Classroom TBD How: With a ‘Quilt Kit’ provided (includes fabric and pattern), or You may […]
Modern AND Improv—Great!
Blogger: Kathy Schmidt, Quirks Ltd. Every year one of the wonderful volunteers in our guild gets a quilt–just for volunteering! Isn’t that fantastic? Something that might seem so easy to you, merely stepping up and doing a job that needs to be done, could result in YOU being the one to receive a beautiful quilt. […]
GAAQG history: First Quilt University 1991
by Kathy Johnnson Feb 27, 2017 The first of Greater Ann Arbor Quilt Guild’s biennial Quilt University events was held on August 9-11, 1991 at Eastern Michigan University’s Hoyt Conference Center. This project was an ambitious undertaking for a guild that was just four-years-old. During my discussions with our guild’s founding https://gaaqg.dev.nsgroupllc.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/006-1.jpgs, many reminisced about the […]
GAAQG President Kathy Johnson welcomes spring
by GAAQG President Kathy Johnson February 26, 2017 As I write this letter, we are experiencing an unusual February with very warm weather. I am thankful for the sun and warm air, but it is also creating a comfort zone for my bulbs and plants as well as the birds who think it is […]
GAAQG Small Groups
by Kathy Johnson – February 23, 2017 Small quilting groups or circles in the greater Ann Arbor area were a foundation to the formation of the Greater Ann Arbor Quilt Guild in 1987. Today a number of small groups continue and to learn more about them, I spoke with Isabel Das Gupta, the GAAQG Small […]
GAAQG’s own Mary Hogan is March 2017 headliner
by Linda Theil February 12, 2017 String Quilt Style (Landauer, 2016) auhttps://gaaqg.dev.nsgroupllc.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Modern-Lily-Ginia-Forrester-Kudos-1.jpg Mary M. Hogan will present “Adventures in String Quilting” on GAAQG Quilt Day, 9-11 a.m. March 18, 2017 in the Morris Lawrence Building of WCC, Ann Arbor. Hogan will also teach two, full-day classes at WCC: “String Circles” 9:30-4:30 p.m. on March 17, 2017; and […]
“String Quilt Style” by Mary Hogan – Book Review
Carol Makielski February 11, 2017 String Quilt Style: Easy techniques and inspiring designs from strips, scraps and stash, by Mary M. Hogan. GAAQG https://gaaqg.dev.nsgroupllc.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/006-1.jpg Mary Hogan is the queen of string quilting. If you aren’t familiar with the term “string quilting,” we are talking about strips of fabric – narrow, wide, long and short. Mary’s […]
Tech focus group offered to GAAQG members
by Linda Theil February 7, 2017 GAAQG https://gaaqg.dev.nsgroupllc.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/006-1.jpgs who wish to learn more about using technology to enhance their creative experience are invited to sign up for a small group called Tech Focus. The content of the experience will be determined by our group https://gaaqg.dev.nsgroupllc.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/006-1.jpgs, but will certainly cover the areas of blogging, social media, […]
Member Book Review
Book Review by Nancy Butler ART QUILT COLLAGE—Deborah Boschert Has one of your quilts ever really annoyed you? Something is just off and you don’t know what that is and what to do about it. Or you make the same quilt pattern as your friend and her quilt sings and yours is–well, dull. If you’ve […]
There’s something about a workshop…
Blogger: Kathy Schmidt, Quirks Ltd. Workshops are so appealing to me. I take them for a variety of reasons. Sometimes to learn a new technique, to explore a teacher’s creative process, to spend some time with a friend or two, or maybe to have some uninterrupted sewing time! I always try to go into them […]