Socializing and Sign-ups 6-6:30

Meeting, Program, Show and Tell 6:30-8:15

PROGRAM: Marianne Clower of Quilt Peddlers will be our featured guest in February, showing and telling us What’s Hot in
Quilting! She has lots of pictures from the International Quilt Festival in Houston, and
comments about trends she spotted there.

A class taught by Leslie Cohen

• February 18, 2023
• 9 am -2 pm
• Woodville Community Center
• 8000 Old Woodville Highway; Tallahassee FL 32315
• $25 class limited to 12 participants. Sign up at a Guild meeting.

This class will teach you how make a quilt inspired by an impressionist painting of Van Gogh using ripped fabric strips instead of paint strokes. Leslie created this technique for a fabric challenge in 2017 and the result was amazing! She will share with you how to interpret the impressionist technique with fabric and create your own original work of art.

Leslie will provide a supplies and equipment list upon registration. If you have questions about the class please contact her at her email address in your directory.

Featuring Chawne Kimber

Atlanta Convention Center at AmericasMart in Atlanta, Georgia

Quilt Show & Vendor Hall Hours:
Thursday, Friday, & Saturday: 10AM–6PM
Sunday: 10AM–4PM

Socializing and Sign-ups 6-6:30

Meeting, Program, Show and Tell 6:30-8:15

SWAP MEET!

At the March 9 meeting you can sell your surplus or unloved quilting and craft supplies
(or anything else that you think would appeal to Guild members) and shop for
bargains from your fellow quilters. Here are guidelines for participating in the swap
meet:
❖ Table rentals cost $10 for a whole table, $5 for half of a table. You can reserve a
table on the Quilters Unlimited website or at the February meeting.
❖ Tables can be rented by individuals or groups.
❖ If you rent half of a table, please bring something (painters’ tape, a ping pong
net, etc.) to subdivide the table.
❖ On the night of the Swap Meet you can come into the meeting space at 5:45
to set up your items.
❖ Please bring a sheet or something to cover up the merchandise until the
business segment of the meeting is completed.
❖ There will be no sales until the Swap Meet begins.
❖ Sellers are responsible for making change for their sales.
❖ All items that are not sold must be removed from the meeting space at the end
of the evening.

To be a seller at the swap meet, reserve a half or whole table HERE.

This is not a Quilters Unlimited workshop. But it’s close by and Cheryl Gratt, our workshop chairperson, highly recommends it.

Details are at Rita Verroca’s page: http://www.ritaverrocaquilts.com/retreats-1

A half-day class taught by Pam Doffek

• Saturday March 18
• 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
• Woodville Community Center; 8000 Old Woodville Highway; Tallahassee FL 32315
• $30 per class, or $50 for both classes (see Sashiko — By Machine; same day, 1:30–4:30) (Fees include kits) Sign up at a Guild meeting.

Sashiko (pronounced:  Saa-She-Koh, not Sash-eye-ko) is an antique Japanese hand embroidery technique used by peasant and lower class workers to provide warmth to clothing and decoration at the same time.  It was traditionally done on 2 layers of indigo (dark) fabrics with a thick thread and no “batting”. Sashiko history and patterns will be discussed in class.  I’ve taught this class since 2004 and its resurgence and adaptation to quilting are heartening as it’s a very flexible technique.

Kits with fabric, thread, needles, and patterns will be included in the class fee.  The class project will be an 18” X 24” sampler of patterns suitable for a pillow, table centerpiece or incorporation into an apron or other piece of clothing.

A student supply list will be provided with class payment.

A half-day class taught by Pam Doffek

• Saturday March 18
• 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
• Woodville Community Center; 8000 Old Woodville Highway; Tallahassee FL 32315
• $30 per class, or $50 for both classes (see Sashiko — By Hand; same day, 9:30–12:30) (Fees include kits) Sign up at a Guild meeting.

Sashiko CAN be done on a domestic sewing machine, all you need is a straight stitch machine that can vary the stitch length. Although we will work on 2 layers of fabric (no batting) the machine technique expands well to projects made with lightweight batting, embellishment on clothing or quilting on a layered quilt. Alternative use of non-cotton threads and decorative stitches as well as Sashiko machines will be discussed but not done in class.

Kits with fabric, patterns and water-soluble stabilizer will be included in the class fee.  The class project will be a 12” X 18” oval placemat. Students will provide their own binding/finishing technique outside of class. The class will require a machine that minimum does straight stitch and walking food (optional)

A student supply list will be provided with class payment.