Darting Needles guild meeting
Heritage Month
Location: Monthly guild meeting First United Methodist of Appleton - 325 E
         Franklin St, Appleton
 

Celebrate the 1982 founding of the guild with cake and fellowship.
View and learn about quilts made by some of our talented members.

Blue Underground Studios
Workshop: 10 a.m.to 4 p.m.
Location: Piece by Piece, 1350 W. College Ave. Suite B Appleton, Wisconsin  

This workshop, for confident beginners and above, focuses on piecing/cutting methods and choosing fabrics for our patterns.  Patterns will be available at the workshop.  In addition to piecing methods, they will also include brief discussions about batting/thread choices and color theory.

The website is for more information is - www.blueundergroundstudios.com

Blue Underground Studios
Lecture:  Philosophy of Quilting and Trunk Show, 7pm.
Location: Monthly guild meeting @ 7pm - First United Methodist of Appleton
         325 E Franklin St, Appleton

The Trunk Show features 50 – 60 quilts constructed using Blue Underground Studios patterns in different colorways.  All quilts have been machine pieced and quilted.  Quilts will be passed around after they have been shown.  They welcome questions and comments about the quilts and lecture topics during the trunk show.

The website is for more information is - www.blueundergroundstudios.com

Randi Hilleso 
Lecture:  Wearable Art: Designing with the Garment in Mind. The Kimono as Canvas.
Location: Monthly guild meeting @ 7pm - First United Methodist of Appleton
         325 E Franklin St, Appleton

Randi Hilleso designs clothing for the wearer.  A garment determines how one moves through space, how one is seen in that space, how one feels in that space, how the garment feels to the wearer and what non-verbal communication is being projected.  A single garment can influence all of that.

Wearable art, to her, is creating something that enhances the being of the wearer:  it makes the wearer feel good and not overpowered by the garment or the design on the garment.

“Designing with the Garment in Mind” provides inspiration and keeps a focus on the purpose of the creation – wearability. The simple shape of the kimono provides a wonderful canvas upon which designs can flourish, which in turn can magnify the well-being of the wearer.  She will provide many examples of kimono like garments, and a basic pattern for the kimono to allow everyone the experience creating something new and different.

The website is for more information is - http://www.hillesodesigns.com/w_art.htm

Susan Breier
Workshop:  “It’s A Wrap”    9:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Location: First United Methodist of Appleton - 325 E Franklin St Appleton

Wind, wrap, and sew fabric strips into fantastic containers!  Learn the technique then create a round, oval, square, or other shaped project.  Create purses, baskets, and bowls in an endless variety of sizes, shapes and colors.  Simply wrap fabric strips around cotton clothesline, coil into the desired shape, and secure with machine stitching. Information on lids, handles, and embellishments will offer unlimited options for your own variations. This class is suited for sewers of all levels.

The website is for more information is - www.susansstitches.com

Susan Breier
Lecture:  Author of “It’s a Wrap” and “It’s a Wrap II”
Location: Monthly guild meeting @ 7pm - First United Methodist of Appleton
         325 E Franklin St, Appleton

The website is for more information is - www.susansstitches.com

Joanie Zeier Poole     
Workshop: Choosing and Adapting Quilting Designs   9:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Location: First United Methodist of Appleton - 325 E Franklin St Appleton

$50 for DNQG member / $60 for non-member
$100 for Sat & Sun session, get both Monday sessions free for DNQG member / $120 for non-member

A Hands-on workshop for all quilters, any skill level

Plan for a day of fun and discovery while creating your own quilting designs with Joanie’s easy paper template method!  Use simple tools and skills from the art world and learn to manipulate almost any image, including stencils and paper patterns, to fill the quilt top with perfectly coordinating squares, triangles and multi-sized borders. Prior to class, each student will be asked to construct a small quilt top that will be used to demonstrate how various spaces are divided and filled and to show a variety of marking procedures.  After this class, you will never again be at a loss when your pattern suggests, “quilt as desired!”

www.heirloomquiltingdesigns.com

From the ripple stipple to simple grids, from headbands to lazy daisies, filling the quilt background with interesting patterns that create texture, depth and movement is not only possible with machine quilting, Joanie encourages it. In this hands-on workshop, the texture of the background of the quilt is covered. Join Joanie for a very full and creative day expanding your free-motion skills creating a wholecloth sampler of patterns used to anchor the entire top or just fill in around stitched motifs. Enjoy her impressive portfolio of stitched examples. A strong desire to learn and a machine that is in good working order are more important to your success than previous free-motion experience.

www.heirloomquiltingdesigns.com
 

Lecture/Demo Solution Session for Any quilter, all skill levelsIf you dread the marking process, are confused by all of the different tools, and are challenged by difficult to mark fabrics, this class is for you! Joanie brings a wealth of information from many years of quilting experience and her inventive methods discovered when necessity pushed invention, in marking her contest quilts. Learn about the latest innovations in marking tools, how you can change the size of designs, turn block designs into multi-sized borders and create continuous line designs. Joanie makes this fun and creative while impressing the importance that marking will bring to your machine quilting experience.

Do not brig your machine, lecture/demo only.

www.heirloomquiltingdesigns.com

Half-day Lecture/Demo Session
Skill Level-All, longarm, frame, and home machine quilters

Have you ever considered how many similarities there are between free-motion quilting and driving a car? How do you expect to drive your machine without a plan for where you are going? Joanie takes you on a light-hearted adventure of understanding the process of machine quilting. From planning intelligently, to beginning and ending your stitches, what to stitch first, last and why, this Lecture/Demo/Solution Session is your travel pass to a future filled with successful machine quilting.

Do not brig your machine, lecture/demo only.

www.heirloomquiltingdesigns.com

Learn about Joanie’s favorite tools as well as many special hints collected over twenty-five years of working with numerous styles and techniques for quilting. Learn which tools she really uses in the construction and assembly of her quilt tops, as well as what works best for the machine quilting process. From the purchase of the fabric through the final stitch, learn the tips and tricks that make the process go smoothly.

www.heirloomquiltingdesigns.com

HEIRLOOM MACHINE QUILTING - 2-day workshop
When she first introduced free motion quilting in 1984 at Houston Quilt Market, Harriet set the quilting world on its ear, and has been changing the look of quilting ever since. Heirloom Machine Quilting is Harriet's favorite class to teach, as the enthusiasm of the students is contagious. This is the class she is famous for.

Come and learn unique machine quilting techniques that will turn quilt tops into heirlooms in a fraction of the time it takes to hand quilt. The actual sewing is a small part of machine quilting, and the beginning of the class is lecture filled with valuable information so that the student knows what to expect and how to avoid the pitfalls along the way. A thorough discussion of preparing the quilt top to quilt, work space, threads, needles, etc. will be covered.

Hands-on exercises will be used to develop machine quilting skills, from walking foot ditch quilting, to free motion feathers. Harriet is a master at teaching students "how to learn to machine quilt". Most of all, encouragement and excitement is taught, giving students permission to become great machine quilters.

 www.harriethargrave.com/default.asp

Machine Appliqué class will focus on the Satin and Buttonhole Stitches. The class will be divided into 3 hours of satin stitch technique and 3 hours of buttonhole and blanket stitch techniques.  There will also be a discussion of threads and needles along with tips and tricks to perfecting these appliqué techniques.

www.harriethargrave.com/default.asp

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Darting Needles guild meeting
Rummage Sunshine Quilt working day  &  Rummage Sale and Sundaes
Location: Monthly guild meeting - First United Methodist of Appleton
         325 E Franklin St, Appleton

Come help fellow members make quilts that are donated to the domestic abuse centers, foster care, etc in the area.  The Sunshine Chair will have plenty of projects to be completed. It’s a great time to socialize and do something good for others.

One quilter’s junk is another quilter’s treasure and there will be ice-cream, too!

Learn Flower Pounding with Ellen Mischler from Kermis Dutch Festival Little Chute Garden Club.  Bring flowers, a hammer and a pounding surface.  The Guild will provide the fabric.

Darting Needles guild meeting
Evening Lecture: Covering Wisconsin with Quilts

Presented by Kay Walters from Wisconsin Museum of Quilts and Fiber Arts, Cedarburg, Wisconsin.

The website is for more information is - www.wiquiltmuseum.com

Quilt Show "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Quilting" hosted by Darting Needles Quilt Guild

Fox Valley Lutheran High School
5300 N. Meade Street, Appleton
Saturday: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sunday 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Click here for a map to Fox Valley Lutheran High School

Nearly Insane Lecture:  Join Liz as she relates her story of recreating the Salinda Rupp 1870's quilt.  This special quilt has 98 tiny six inch blocks. All the blocks are different, and some contain 200 or more pieces. Talk about crazy!  See the quilt, along with others from the same time period.

Liz has been quilting for almost 30 years and sewing since she was a small girl.  She took her first quilt class in 1981, did art and craft fairs along with custom quilts in the 1990's before operating Quilt Emporium in East Troy from 1996-2004.  Liz has been lecturing and teaching quilting classes for the past 15 years.  She is currently a sales rep for a quilting, sewing and notions company and enjoys traveling for her job as well as visiting shops in Wisconsin and the UP.  She is the author of the books "Nearly Insane" and "Just Plain Nuts”.  

She is on the web at www.nearlyinsane.com

For more information contact Jill Harman at 722-4123 or at quackyjill@yahoo.com