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• Lecture: All About Art Quilts, with Deborah Boschert

  • When
    January 09, 2025
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    7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom Lecture--Link to be sent later

  What exactly is an art quilt? What can you look for in the art quilt category at a quilt show? Deborah will share an overview of art quilting materials and techniques. This is a great program for guilds who want to get a taste of the art quilting world… even if they make mostly traditional quilts.

  Deborah Boschert is an artist, author and teacher. She creates art quilts with layers of fabric, paint and stitching. The personal symbols and details in her work reflect her experiences and feelings about places she’s lived and the things she’s done. In her art quilts, the tiny details are as important as the over-all design. As in life, every-day little joys complement the bigger adventures. Deborah also serves on the board of Studio Art Quilt Associates. She lives near Dallas, TX with her husband and two kids. She loves to travel, do crossword puzzles, drink coffee, practice yoga and listen to podcasts.

  For more information see:

  https://www.deborahsstudio.com/

  
  

  
  

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• Workshop: Captivating Compositions, with Deborah Boschert

  • When
    January 11, 2025
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    9:30 AM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    Virtual Workshop--Zoom Link to be Sent Later

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  Explore eight design guides that get the creative juices flowing. Look at examples of captivating compositions from fine art and the quilt world. Create a “sketch” for each of the design guides using fused fabrics. Learn to edit, audition and improvise using a super helpful design checklist. Consider adding details with machine and hand stitching. Your completed set of fabric sketches can be used for reference and inspiration for future art quilts.

  A short video about the workshop can be found here:

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUyB6v49BNw

  The workshop will use only five fabrics to make eight small (around 6”) art quilts which you can use to plan a larger quilt or just enjoy as is.

  
  

  Supplies

  • five pieces of pre-fused fabrics approximately 12x13” Consider picking a focus fabric and building the other four fabrics around that with small tone on tone prints or solids. At least one fabric should be dark and one should be light. Fabrics don’t need to be measured exactly. Large scale multi-color pints can be tricky for this project. Follow the instructions in this video for fusing your fabrics ahead of time.

  • eight 6.5 x 6.5ish inch pieces of batting or felt any color

  • card stock window (Using an 8x10” piece of card stock paper, mark a 6x6” square and cut it out, leaving you with a window to help with design decisions.)

  • Watch this video to help you choose fabric and prepare your supplies.

  Deborah has some kits available for her January 2025 workshop. A lot of folks love using them because all the fabric is selected to work well with the project and everything is

  pre-fused! They are $28 including shipping and include printed handouts, design window,

  8 felt batting pieces, and five pieces of pre-fused fabrics. There are a few different color ways. They can be viewed and ordered on her website here.

  https://www.deborahsstudio.com/captivating-compositions-workshop

  With the holidays it's probably good to have those kits ordered by December 20. You can email Deborah with any questions.

  deborahboschert@gmail.com

  
  

  
  

  
  

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• IQI Annual Winter Quilt-In

  • Start
    January 24, 2025
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    5:00 PM
  • End
    January 26, 2025
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    1:00 PM
  • Location
    Crowne Plaza Hotel, 2875 N. Milwaukee Avenue, Northbrook, IL
  • Spaces left
    0
  • Registered
    31 registrants

  Registration is closed

   Registration deadline is FULL

  Final Payment Due ASAP--Please!!

  The hotel will provide a light dinner Friday  night, three meals Saturday, and a buffet brunch on Sunday morning. Go to bed early or stay up sewing all night. Each of us will have a 6-foot work table, but cutting and ironing stations are shared. And bring your show-and-tell! We'd love to see your work. We plan at least two workshops to help you improve your quilting techniques. A freebie table will also be offered. In addition, a Fat Quarter Swap will provide just the right touch for a bit of socializing. 

  Registration fees are $350 (double occupancy, shared room) or $450 (single occupancy). Return your registration form with a $150 deposit to hold your spot.  You can do the complete registration on the website, or print the form and hand it in with a check at the meeting or send to the IQI mailbox. (Illinois Quilters, Inc., P.O. Box 39, Wilmette, IL 60091)

  We prefer that you use the web-based payment system as it sends a complete report to the treasurer and event registrar. 

  
  

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• Lecture: My Kaleidoscope Journey -or- 14 Years of Show and Tell

  • When
    February 06, 2025
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    6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
  • Location
    Lutheran Church of the Ascension

  

  A longtime exhibitor at FAOF, Edrene Heiss has developed a special affinity for kaleidoscope quilts.  Her work elicits "oohs" and "ahs" from FAOF visitors and raises the question "How does she do that?" 

  At our February meeting, Edrene will present a trunk show of her kaleidoscope work and explain exactly how she achieves visual complexity using simple construction techniques.  Spoiler alert:  It's done with mirror images! 

   

  
  

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• Creating Kaleidoscope Fan Quilts

  • When
    February 08, 2025
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    9:30 AM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    Lutheran Church of the Ascension

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  Join Edrene Heiss on Saturday for a playdate to make a lovely kaleidoscopic fan wall hanging.  Taking inspiration from your favorite background fabric, you can explore Edrene's extensive collection of bilaterally symmetric fabrics to create unique fan shapes for your art piece.  The workshop fee includes enough gridded fusible webbing and fabrics to make 3 fans.  

  Supply List:

  •  Sewing machine capable of sewing straight and zigzag stiches
  • Black or neutral sewing thread
  • Rotary cutter, mat, and ruler
  • Small sharp scissors
  • Chalk, soap slivers or other marking tools
  • Paper backed fusible web in addition to gridded web provided
  • One half to one yard lengths of background fabric.

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• Lecture: Trip Around the World in Folk Art Stitches, by Catherine Redford

  • When
    April 03, 2025
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    6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
  • Location
    Lutheran Church of the Ascension

  A humorous, educational and interactive lecture including a game with prizes! I’ll take you on a trip around the globe with the quilts from my exhibit that debuted in April 2017 at International Quilt Festival in Chicago and was at Houston in October that year. Learn how I found my inspiration, the stitches I used and the finishing techniques I employed.

  About Catherine: 

  Catherine Redford was born in England where she learnt to knit and sew as a young girl. After relocating from London to Naperville, Illinois, she learned to quilt and never looked back. She's an award-winning quilter, an active member of her local guilds, and a popular teacher at the local and national level. Catherine is a frequent magazine contributor and has enjoyed being a guest on Quilting Arts TV and The Quilt Show. She is enjoying the resurgence of interest in handwork with an embroidery book, Butterfly Stitches, published Fall 2020, and, with two DVDs and a book on Modern Machine Quilting techniques, Catherine delights in finishing her own quilts on a domestic machine!

  
  

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• Workshop: Pretty in Paisley, Catherine Redford

  • When
    April 04, 2025
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    9:30 AM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    Lutheran Church of the Ascension
  • Spaces left
    23

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  Use Catherine’s pre printed design to learn your choice of embroidery stitches. The class can be tailored to fit the skill level of the group. Everyone welcome!

  Start by learning, or being reminded of, some basic hand embroidery stitches while working on a specially designed pre-printed panel and then learn some novel embellishment techniques and trickier stitches.  We’ll also discuss choosing and transferring designs for future projects and look at lots of samples. Enjoy the relaxed tempo and reconnect with handwork!

  Supply List:

  This class has a required kit. It includes the printed design, hand dyed perle cotton threads, needles and other notions and a full color stitch guide. $40 Students should bring small scissors. They can bring a small light and thimble/hoop if they usually use them.

  
  

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• Workshop: Wrapped in Scraps, by Catherine Redford

  • When
    April 05, 2025
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    9:30 AM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    Lutheran Church of the Ascension

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  Learn to make a beautiful bowl or table runner from clothes line and fabric on the sewing machine. We’ll start with the basic no fuss techniques, then choose your project and start stitching. Go home with the skills necessary to start your next fabulous piece.

  
  

  Supplies:

  -100 ft clothesline (3/16” diameter, cotton)

  -One yard fabric cut into one-inch strips (solids, batiks, hand dyed works well)

  -Machine thread to co-ordinate with fabric (please wind several bobbins ahead of class)

  -Sewing Stiletto or similar

  -Scissors that will cut through clothesline

  -Mini clip or clothes peg/pin

  -Sewing machine with zigzag stitch and usual sewing supplies as you usually use

  -Open toe applique foot and 90 topstitch needle

  -If making the table runner you also need painters’ tape and a sharpie pen.

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• Lecture: You've Got a Friend Named Elmer, with Sue Heinz

  • When
    May 01, 2025
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    6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
  • Location
    Lutheran Church of the Ascension

  Imagine a world where every seam you stitch is perfect...every block true to size. Can you also imagine precisely matching stripes, accurately piecing circles (with ease!), and eliminating bias stretch forever? Wanna dream even more? Imagine never having to rip again! Sue Heinz guarantees you will achieve your wildest piecing dreams when you use this simple technique that requires no pins, clips, or gadgets. A MUST-SEE lecture that will ROCK your piecing world! Sue will have books and notions to sell after the lecture.

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• Workshop: Caffeinated Quilting - A Drawing Workshop, with Sue Heinz

  • When
    May 03, 2025
  •  
    9:30 AM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    Lutheran Church of the Ascension
  • Spaces left
    18

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  Sue Heinz has brewed up energy-infused, organic designs that will look stunning on your next quilt! Based on her book by the same name, this class will leave you filled to the brim with new grid, block, and linear designs that are easy to master – especially with Sue’s one-on-one teaching style. So, what are you waiting for? Come play – leave caffeinated! 

  Sue’s passion is teaching, and she brings to each of her classes a Fine Arts and Education background, over 25+ years of quilting experience, a sense of humor, design expertise and a commitment to help each of her students reach new levels of quilting excellence. She has authored five books, each brimming with fresh design ideas for free-motion quilting, patented several innovative marking tools and has designed some awesome of free-motion rulers – all to intrigue, delight and inspire.

  For more information about Sue, visit www.SueHeinz.com

  Class Supply List:

  • 0.7mm mechanical pencil (like the Bic brand found at Target or

  Walmart), and a ballpoint pen, each with a comfort grip.

  • A few sheets of unlined paper for notes and a few drawings - printer

  Paper works great! Most of your designs will be drawn on the. Specialty pre-gridded and lined paper, which will be provided.

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