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January 2025
January 2025

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We’re happy to welcome guests and new members to our meetings, which can be held either in-person or online (see the Calendar for details). Whether you’re joining us for the first time or returning, you’re always welcome! (Guest fee is $10.00.) Membership forms are available at each meeting, or you can conveniently join online. We look forward to meeting you!

In Person: Grace United Methodist Church (244 East Center Avenue) in Lake Bluff, Illinois
(enter through the parking lot doors)
Online: via Zoom (meeting info is emailed)
Date: Always on the third Tuesday of the month
Time: 6:30 p.m. social time, 7:00 p.m. meeting followed by the program program

 

Upcoming Programs

Featured
Cotton & Bourbon: Audrey Esarey - “Finding My Voice in Modern Quilting”
Jan 21
Online Program
Cotton & Bourbon: Audrey Esarey - “Finding My Voice in Modern Quilting”
Online Program

Join in to hear award winning Audrey Esarey share her journey and to see her trunk show of amazing quilts! Audrey’s lecture focuses on her path to becoming a modern quilter and how she has applied many traditional techniques in her modern quilts. She will share the progression of her work and show her Radial Quilts, Watercolor Quilts, and a few others too!

Online Program
Annette Kennedy – From Photo to Quilt, and Enhancement for Visual Depth and Details
Feb 18
Online Program
Annette Kennedy – From Photo to Quilt, and Enhancement for Visual Depth and Details
Online Program

Since 2003 Annette has been creating pictorial art quilts that incorporate hand dyed, painted, commercial fabrics, and paint and thread, based on photographs she has taken. Her work focuses mainly on nature, including landscapes and flora, but also includes some architectural pieces. Her goal is to express her personal experience with a place or subject in a way that gives beauty, peacefulness and a sense of awe to those who view it.

Online Program
Quilt Like an Artist — Pat Bishop
Mar 18
In-person Program
Quilt Like an Artist — Pat Bishop
In-person Program

Pat Bishop is an internationally recognized fiber artist, whose work has been juried into numerous exhibitions, including the International Quilt Festival in Houston (“Nest” and “Globe Thistle”). Her works have appeared on the cover of Quilting Arts magazine (Winter, 2024) and reflect her deep respect for the natural world. She has been featured in articles about her own impressionistic style.

Pat is a life-long, essentially self-taught artist, who has experience in too many forms of artistic impression to list! In addition to her quilting, she has expanded her work to include watercolors and acrylic painting on fabric. (See the background of “Harbinger” on the cover of Quilting Arts, Winter, 2023, as well as several of her other pieces.)

Pat lectures, teaches and sells her work at fine art exhibits. Her goal is to help others realize their desires to create their own personal art!

In-person Program

Upcoming Workshops and Events

Featured
“Ultraviolet Radial” - Online Workshop with Cotton & Bourbon’s Audrey Esarey
Jan 25
Online Workshop
“Ultraviolet Radial” - Online Workshop with Cotton & Bourbon’s Audrey Esarey
Online Workshop

In this Saturday Zoom workshop you will work on your very own Ultraviolet Radial quilt! You will begin several blocks and Audrey will help you refresh your techniques, including precision piecing and making some paper pieced arcs!

More Info and to Register →

Online Workshop
Fall Foliage — Krista Moser Online Workshop
Feb 22
Online Workshop
Fall Foliage — Krista Moser Online Workshop
Online Workshop

Krista Moser is BAAACK! After our delightful Zoom lecture with Krista back in February 2024, we’re bringing her back for a whole day Zoom workshop! Krista is the creative force and inspiration behind Krista Moser, The Quilted Life, and we already know just how creative and inspirational she can be! She designed the 60-degree diamond rulers for Creative Grids and has published dozens of patterns using the rulers. She loves symmetry, clean lines and bold colors! Don’t miss it!

More Info and to Register →

Online Workshop
Abstraction Distraction 2.0 With or Without a Pattern – Pat Bishop Workshop
Mar 19
In-person Workshop
Abstraction Distraction 2.0 With or Without a Pattern – Pat Bishop Workshop
In-person Workshop

Pat is creating a special starter class for us to experience working abstractly! Either bring your own meaningful photo, or magazine inspiration, or use one of Pat’s two composition options to make your very own abstract collage.

You will learn how to think abstractly and expand your creativity with no rules or rulers. What?? NO RULES OR RULERS?? YEP! NONE!

More info and to Register →

In-person Workshop
 

From the July 2024 meeting