Darting Needle Quilt Guild Programs - 2012
Darting Needles Quilt Guild meetings, lectures and
workshops are held as noted
below.
Workshop Fees (Per Day)
For Darting Needles members the fee schedule
is
$40 for the first class in a calendar year
$35 for the second class in a calendar year
$30 for the third and subsequent classes in a
calendar year
For Non-Darting
Needles members the fee schedule is
$50 for all
classes
Monday night
lectures: Free to Darting Needles members / $5
for non-members
Locations
Saturday & Sunday workshops - Held at
Piece by Piece,
1350 W College Ave # B,
Appleton, WI (920) 749-1957
Monday workshops & lectures - Held at
First United Methodist of Appleton - 325 E, Franklin St, Appleton
Piece by Piece map link
First United Methodist map link
Darting Needles Members may sign up for workshops three months prior to the workshop date at the regular evening meetings. Non-members may contact the
Program Chairperson at any time after that initial offering.
The information
provided below is known to be accurate at the
time of posting, details are subject to change.
Download the schedule in .PDF format for easy
printing.
Click here.
For more information, please contact Barb Bermel at
Barbara.bermel@att.net
or
920-738-9495
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Darting Needles guild meeting
Heritage Month
Location: Monthly guild meeting First United
Methodist of Appleton - 325 E
Franklin St, Appleton
Our 30th
Anniversary Year begins!
Join the guild for a social
evening with cake, refreshments, and memories.
Our charter members and those joining the guild
during the early years are invited to reminisce
and bring “Show & Tell” of their favorite
quilts.
Joanne Rowicki of Gingham
Girls has designed a mystery quilt just for the
guild’s 30th anniversary. My Stars!
Quilting Friends Forever will be a six “clue”
mystery. Guild members attending the meeting
will be given the ground rules and first clue.
We hope to reveal the quilt tops later in the
year and provide room to display them at the
2012 Darting Needles Quilt Show. (Guild members
not able to attend the meeting will find their
information attached to the February
newsletter.)
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Darting Needles guild meeting
Lecture:
Sew-Along: Many Paths to Grandmother’s Flower
Garden
Location:
Monthly guild meeting @ 7pm - First United
Methodist of Appleton
325 E Franklin St, Appleton
Sew-Along: Many Paths to Grandmother’s Flower
Garden
Bring your hand sewing kit
so you can try out the English Paper Piecing
method of making Grandmother’s Flower Garden
blocks. Guild will provide the papers, fabric
squares and instructions. We will look at a
variety of Grandmother’s Flower Garden quilts
owned by guild members. There will be a
presentation on a variety of methods to make
these blocks, including using stamped fabric,
use of mylar hexagon templates and the
traditional English Paper Piecing technique.
Bring your thread, needle and scissors to enjoy
an evening of instruction and sewing.
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Darting Needles guild meeting
Lecture:
Mary Sue Fenner Trunk Show
Location:
Monthly guild meeting @ 7pm - First United
Methodist of Appleton
325 E Franklin St, Appleton
Mary Sue Fenner Trunk Show
Mary Sue will provide a trunk show of her
jackets where guild members can try them on. A
few of her creations are pictured.
The first jacket is a Chanel style jacket. Hand
woven, hand dyed, and totally sewn with Chanel
techniques. This is the most conservative jacket
in Mary Sues’ repertoire.
The second example is a ruffled cotton top,
puckered with pony merino wool.
A third example of Mary Sue’s work is a woven
two layered top, using Pompeii yarn, lined with
hand dyed silk.
Many of Mary Sues’ jackets
use very creative fabrics and trims in
non-conventional ways employing construction
techniques that will be familiar to most
quilters and garment makers. No need to fear a
jacket project when guided by this experienced
teacher.
Mary Sue Fenner
A Clothing, Textiles and Design major at
UW -Stout, art studies at Newcastle-Upon-Tyne
Polytechnic, England, Kansas U. and a
UW-Milwaukee MFA give Mary Sue an excellent
background in fibers. Recently she retired from
Northeast Wisconsin Technical College, Green
Bay, WI where she taught Marketing
Communications. Mary Sue maintains her own
business, Fiber Designs. Noted for use of
bright colors and her own handspun yarns, her
clothing and accessories are seen in area shows,
galleries and shops, and featured in Handwoven,
Shuttle, Spindle & Dyepot, Belle Armoire,
Altered Couture, Sew Somerset and Haute Handbags
magazines.
A two-day workshop will be
offered April 14 and 15 where
students can construct a jacket with the
assistance of Mary Sue. Class size will be
limited to ensure all students have personal
consultation time.
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Mary Sue Fenner
Workshop: “Jackets" Time:
TBD
Location:
Piece by Piece, 1350 W
College Ave # B, Appleton, WI (920) 749-1957
Map Link
Mary Sue
Fenner
Information
forthcoming.
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Mary Sue Fenner
Workshop: “Jackets" Time:
TBD
Location:
Piece by Piece, 1350 W
College Ave # B, Appleton, WI (920) 749-1957
Map Link
Mary Sue Fenner
Information
forthcoming.
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Darting Needles guild meeting
Lecture: Quilt Show University
Location:
Monthly guild meeting @ 7pm - First United
Methodist of Appleton
325 E Franklin St, Appleton
Quilt Show University
2012 is the year of Darting Needles’ biennial
quilt show. Many of the programs this year will
help members prepare for that event. April’s
evening will be a round-robin type of event
where mentors can talk and demonstrate to small
groups that rotate every half hour.
Many of us have scribed for the quilt show judges over the years and we
are going to translate those comments into a
night of demos and mentoring. Bindings are
always a topic of comment. We hope to show some
of the best binding techniques. Quilting – how
much is enough? Bring your top or idea and spend
some time with a member or two who have some
insights on this topic. Hanging sleeve – a topic
that makes most of us shutter but a necessity to
enter any quilt. Scared to enter? Talk with
members whose first-time experience can help you
get over those jitters. Ready to go to the next
level: a different show in the state or perhaps
the leap to national? We have members who can
talk about those topics too. What are judges
looking for? We never know but we can hazard
some good guesses to help you prepare.
Join us for an evening of
instruction at Quilt Show University.
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Darting Needles guild meeting
Activity:
Appliqué Academy
Location:
Monthly guild meeting @ 7pm - First United
Methodist of Appleton
325 E Franklin St, Appleton
Appliqué Academy
Spend the
day Sunday brushing up on a topic you are
interested in. We will bring it all together on
Monday evening as we show and tell a whole
variety of appliqué techniques.
Sunday
there will be a variety of sessions available
including regular machine appliqué, Hawaiian
appliqué, new methods of preparing for hand
appliqué, invisible machine appliqué and using
nontraditional fabrics in appliqué. These are
not beginner classes; rather a gathering where
you can be with a mentor and a few other people
doing a similar technique. You will be working
on your own project. Working together with a
mentor and group of like-minded quilters may
provide the stimulus you need to get a stalled
project going or the courage to continue on an
existing challenge.
Methods
and mentors may change as we approach May and
see who in our guild can provide help with this
program. We may also expand this to two days if
demand warrants.
The Monday
evening lecture time will be a show and tell
opportunity for those who worked over the
weekend.
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Darting Needles guild meeting
Evening Lecture:
Mary Nordeng - Dufus to Diva
Location:
Monthly guild meeting @ 7pm - First United
Methodist of Appleton
325 E Franklin St, Appleton
Mary Nordeng
Mary
will be visiting from Minnesota. Her Monday
night lecture is titled Dufus to Diva – learn
how she has become a huge name in long arm
quilting. Mary will be teaching quilting design
classes during the day Monday that do not
require bringing the machine and swatches to
quilt on – just paper and pencil.
More
information will be posted.
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Darting Needles guild meeting
Location:
Monthly guild meeting - First United
Methodist of Appleton
325 E Franklin St, Appleton
Rummage Sale and UFO Auction
July
is our annual rummage sale and we will have,
back by popular request, the UFO Auction. This
gives you six months to put into effect those
New Year’s resolutions to clean up your sewing
room. Put things in the holding area for July’s
meeting.
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Darting Needles guild meeting
Lecture:
Quilter’s Surfs Up – How To Surf The Internet
Location:
Monthly guild meeting @ 7pm - First United
Methodist of Appleton
325 E Franklin St, Appleton
Quilter’s Surfs Up – How
To Surf The Internet
August
will be a program on surfing the internet for
quilting related blogs, sites, information, and
fun. If you have a favorite place you like to
go, let Barb Bermel know and she’ll get a
bibliography started.
August
also could be the reveal month for the 30th
anniversary mystery quilt. Stay tuned for
developments in this mystery.
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Charlotte Angotti:
www.charlotteangotti.com
She
will be visiting with us from South Carolina. We
have three days of classes and a lecture to look
forward to. Hopefully by this time in September,
your quilts for the show will be done and you
can begin a new adventure with this experienced
national teacher. She comes highly recommended
for those who want to learn in a fun
environment.
Charlotte Angotti
Workshop: Fantastic Fans
Time: TBD
Location:
Piece by Piece, 1350 W
College Ave # B, Appleton, WI (920) 749-1957
Map Link
Workshop:
Fantastic Fans
Charlotte says “This
class is the one that started me thinking about
faster ways of doing things. Although I had
taken it off my class list I am bringing it back
by popular demand. The templates for this fan
are available in class. There is a simple way of
doing everything and this quilt is the most
simple with the most wonderful results. Fabrics
that are difficult to use are made into
beautiful fan quilts. Students at the beginner
level will enjoy this class as well as the very
advanced. The students will need a sewing
machine that does a blind hem stitch as well as
a straight stitch.”
www.charlotteangotti.com
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Charlotte Angotti
Workshop:
Surprise Yourself (Based on a book Charlotte is
coming out with Spring 2012)
Time: TBD
Location:
Piece by Piece, 1350 W
College Ave # B, Appleton, WI (920) 749-1957
Map Link
Workshop: Surprise Yourself (Based on a
book Charlotte is coming out with Spring 2012)
From Charlotte: “This class
is full of information and teaches the way that
I cut and design the kits that I use in other
classes. I will show the tools that I use, the
methods that I use and the way I make color come
together. This is a combination of many classes
that I have taken and things that I have learned
over the years of quilt making. Certain patterns
are easier than others and using basic units
instead of an entire pattern you can create
instead of just copy. This class is made for the
intermediate and advanced level quilt maker
interested in more creativity that is doable.
The class is full of information, real quilts
and real solutions to everyday problems in quilt
making.”
There is a hand out with
this class that includes many patterns and
guidelines to refer to once the class is over;
there is a charge for this handout of $5.
Lots
of quilts will be shown giving many ideas and
possible future projects. A mystery project is
started in the class along with the learning of
the methods. There will be tools available for
sale during the class. Students can use them
before buying them. (Tools are not required to
purchase so they are not asked to bring them to
class.)
www.charlotteangotti.com
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Charlotte Angotti
Workshop:
Why Walk When You Can Fly
Time: TBD
Location: First United Methodist of Appleton,
325 E Franklin St, Appleton
Workshop: Why Walk When You Can Fly
Does
this have curves in it or is that just and
illusion? No, curves, just an illusion and there
is a dragonfly applique in the pattern as well.
He can be hand appliqued or machine appliqued or
forgotten all together. This is a good one for
intermediate and beyond.
www.charlotteangotti.com
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Darting Needles guild meeting
Evening Lecture: Charlotte Angotti - Lecture and
Trunk Show
Location:
Monthly guild meeting @ 7pm - First United
Methodist of Appleton
325 E Franklin St, Appleton
Charlotte Angotti
Lecture and Trunk Show
www.charlotteangotti.com
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Darting Needles 14th Biennial Quilt Show
Fox Valley Lutheran High School in Appleton
More details to come.
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Darting Needles guild meeting
Evening Lecture: To Be Determined
Location:
Monthly guild meeting @ 7pm - First United
Methodist of Appleton
325 E Franklin St, Appleton
Lecture - To Be Determined
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Holiday Party
Darting Needles guild meeting
Location: Monthly guild meeting First United
Methodist of Appleton
325 E Franklin St,
Appleton
Christmas PartyMore information will be posted.
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No Meeting
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Enjoy the holiday season!
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For more information, please contact Barb Bermel at
Barbara.Bermel@att.net
or 920-738-9495
Updated: 1/9/2012
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