Pacific Piecemakers Quilt
Guild
Bits & Pieces
March 2004 -- Volume 9, Issue 3
Jackie Gardener, Editor
Suzan
Friedland
Pattern
in Nature, Art, and Quilts
Hospitality
How do patterns emerge from seeming
disorder in natural settings? How
do scientists and artists explore those patterns in their own
ways? Suzan Friedland will talk about how working with linen and
such diverse materials as procion dyes, textile paints, sumi ink,
adobe (yes, the muddy kind of adobe), and acrylic has enabled her
to capture emerging surface patterns.
Warmth, texture, and utilitarian beauty are strengths of
textile arts that Suzan values as sheseeks ephemeral qualities
like the colors of fading flowers, the texture of clouds, or even
the sound of a Japanese bamboo flute--a shakuhachi.
Suzan Friedland has won multiple awards and national recognition
for her art quilts. Following
a non-traditional path, she takes the craft to a new level of
artistic expression. In her
presentation Suzan give us a glimpse of her evolution as a quilt
maker and artist, while focusing on those aspects of pattern
emergence that she finds most meaningful. Prepare to be elevated,
energized, and inspired!
Share the excitement - invite a friend!
No-Math
Drafting
Iris Lorenz-Fife
Thursday,
April 15,
An
easy, fun, and accurate way to draft your own blocks of any
size. A must
for the mathematically challenged. The fee is $25. Call Laurie
Mueller to sign up at 785-9533 or email laurie@mcn.org.
Melody
Johnson
The Fine Art
of Fusing
Tuesday-Thursday,
Only
two spots are left to participate in Melody's fusing techniques
workshop. Color yourself
lucky if you call Laurie Mueller to sign up and get in. Remember,
there are no machines in this workshop, just hands-on techniques.
Beginners to advanced. Workshop price is $275.
Velda Newman
Layers: Form
and Texture
Saturday/Sunday,
Velda's
class throws all the rules of stringent design out the window.
First we will construct units by exploring machine techniques for
texture and form; then add color and depth with paint and colored
pencils. Finally, the units
will be assembled, collage style, into one fabulous piece. Velda says, "You will
find working in the collage style easy and liberating."
Beginners to advanced. Workshop price is $130.
New
Slate of Officers
The
Nominating Committee has done its work, and the Steering
Committee voted at the February 20th meeting to accept this new
slate of officers for the upcoming year.
President: Donna Blum
Vice
President/Chair -Ways & Means:
Lynne Atkins
Treasurer: Kathye Hitt
Secretary: Colleen Jackman &
Jeri Taylor
Programs:
Laurie Mueller, Chair; Carol Tackett, Marilyn Limbaugh &
Barbara Dunsmoor
Program
Publicity: Paula
Osborne
Membership: Pam Wilson
Comfort
Quilts: Polly Dakin,
Joyce Gaudet & Dee Goodrich
Webmistress: Reva Basch
Library: Ann Graf
Newsletter: Jeri Taylor & Jackie
Gardener
Challenge
Show: Janet Sears &
Mary Austin
Name
Tags & Greeter: Suzy
Bates
Hospitality: Lola Delongoria &
Laura Hamilton
Fanny
Basket: Mary Ellen
Blohm & Ellen Anderson
Block
of the Month (as of September 04):
Janet Sears & Bev Sloane
Progressive
Quilts: Jo Dillon,
Miriam Littlejohn & Linda Warnock
Special
Events: Anita Kaplan
Historian: Paula Osborne
AIR
Quilt: Miriam
Littlejohn & Linda Warnock
Mailing:
Katy Horn & Pam Wilson
New
Accounting Procedures
The
Steering Committee also approved these new procedures for
handling our finances.
Checks
···Requests for checks under $500 should be submitted in
writing or via email with supporting receipts, etc. to PPQG
Treasurer. Checks will be written on the 1st and 15th of each
month.
···Requests for checks over $500 should be submitted in
writing or via email with supporting recepts, etc. to PPQG
Treasurer, who will forward them to Gualala Arts for payment.
Allow at least 5 days from time Treasurer receives request for
check to be written. Only the program chair can submit requests
for workshop leaders directly to GA, with a copy to the
Treasurer.
···Requests for checks over $600 must include
recipient’s social security number and address for
1099’s.
Deposits
···Checks and cash should be submitted to the Treasurer for
deposit to PPQG account. Cash deposits should be counted and
initialed as accepted by Treasurer, and source of funds included
in your submission.
Thanks
for the Windmills!
Don
Quixote - eat your heart out! I’ve
never seen so many wonderful windmills, thanks to all of you. They are beautiful, and I can
hardly wait to have the time to work on my President’s
Quilt. Now I must make 35
eight-pointed stars to combine with the windmills. As soon as I have anything
assembled to show, you will be the first to know. Thanks again for your
participation!
Paula Osborne
by
Donna Blum
What a great time to be a Quilter.
Did you know that March 20 is National Quilting Day? A recent
national survey sponsored by the publisher, Quilts, Inc. revealed
since 1997, the number of households with one or more Quilters
has increased from 14 million to more than 21 million.
The survey indicated that we are buying more quilting supplies
(my stash can certainly attest to that!) and
devoting more time per week to quilting (my husband attests to
that!). Most quilt makers rotary cut and machine piece their
tops. The article reports more of us are now appliquéing and
quilting by machine, but that still more than half of all quilt
makers’ appliqué and quilt by hand.
More fabrics, tools, books, technique workshops and magazines are
available than five years ago. Quilt shows exhibiting the
wonderful diversity and creativity of regional Quilters are
available across the nation in most major cities.
But to me the most important thing the survey showed was the major reasons we make quilts. We make them to give to family and special friends, to decorate our homes and to donate to charity efforts. Wow! What a great art form! We get to fondle fabric, express our creativity and socialize with friends and help others. Sounds pretty wonderful to me. So, wear your Pacific Piecemakers Quilting Guild pin and a big smile on March 20th.
Something's
Fishy -- The 2004 Quilt Challenge
Are
these dates on your calendar?
Wednesday-Thursday, June 9 & 10 - deliver your quilts to
Gualala Arts
Saturday, June 12 - Opening Reception.
Tuesday, July 6 - quilts come down.
This means, of course, that our quilts will be hanging over
the busy 4th of July weekend when there are many visitors in town
and much activity at the
None of us are making our quilts for the sole purpose of
selling them. And a few of us are working on a quilt that we
can't imagine parting with. But with the show still three months
away, there's plenty of
time for many of us to finish quilts that we would be
willing to sell. This is a great opportunity to promote quilts as
works of art. If you haven't
priced your work before, please consider it this year. It's good for the
Janet Sears
March
Birthdays
Mona Innes
1st
Karel Metcalf
8th
Pam Carlson
15th
Pat Peterson
20th
Mary Suhr 25th
Suzy Bates 26th
2004 Marin
Quilt & Needle Art Show
Get
an early start on the $250 Special Challenge Award “My
Favorite Season”. Open to quilt, needle art and wearable art
entries. Total quilt perimeter limited to 209 inches. Entry form
at www.mnag.org in March or send SASE to MQ&NAS,