Barb started her own Longarm Machine Quilting business in 2000. In 2007 she and her sister, Mary Hoover, started a pattern company called 4th & 6th Designs (www.4and6designs.com). Mary lives in NY and owns a quilt shop but they collaborate daily on designs and ideas. Barb's quilts have placed at AQS, Quilters Heritage and Mid Atlantic Quilt Festival, among others.
Barbara will speak on the Strata Technique she developed with her sister.
Visit Barb's website at www.BarbaraPersing.com. View her Calendar page for information on book signings and lectures by Barbara and her sister in May and June, 2008.
May 13, 2008 -- Sharon Schamber of Payson, Arizona
April 8, 2008 -- Fiber Artist
Didi Salvatierra, of Abingdon, Maryland, presents “Dare to Embellish!”
March 11, 2008 -- Merry May of Tuckahoe, NJ, “Nothing Up My Hanging Sleeve”
February 12, 2008 -- Madge Ziegler of Newark, Delaware, “Apron Strings”
January 8, 2008 -- Charity Quilt Workshop
December 11, 2007 -- Holiday Celebration
November 13, 2007 -- Batik Tambal
October 9, 2007 -- Charlotte Froman presents “Conservation and preservation of Textiles”.
September 11, 2007 -- Susan Cleveland of West Concord, Minnesota.
August 14, 2007 -- Picnic and BVQ 2007 Challenge display/voting.
June 12, 2007 -- Mickey Lawler of West Hartford, CT, “Skywriting”
May 8, 2007 -- Eleanor Levie of Bucks County, PA, “Not Just for Mother's Day”
April 10, 2007 -- Mini Workshops
BVQ welcomes award-winning quilter, author and teacher Sharon Schamber. Sharon says, "When I first began quilting, I had no idea that quilts were being machine quilted. I remember only that quilts were all hand pieced and hand quilted. I remember my Grandma Larsen counting the stitches per inch and ranting about being inconsistent, so that is where I went. I set out to find how many stitches per inch I needed to make my quilts "right." I asked the wrong person, and she told me that it was just rude to ask. This was the first indication that I needed to be a teacher!"
Sharon is known for her curved piecing technique called Piec-liqué, as well as numerous beautiful continuous-line quilting patterns. She also specializes in hand-painting faces on fabric. And her stunning quilt, “Scarlet Serenade ”, was selected as the winner of the 2007 $100,000 Quilting Challenge! Congratulations to this talented, multi-faceted quilter!
Sharon will present her “New York Beauty Piec-liqué” workshop on Thursday, May, 8.
Visit Sharon's website, www.sharonschamber.com to view Sharon's fabulous quilts and her free tutorials, and to purchase her books, DVDs, and other products.
Unusual and entertaining tips from “The Fudgemaster's” thirty years of quiltmaking experience. Includes topics such as “Alternative Shopping,” “Other Uses for 505 Spray,” and “Things My Grandmother Taught Me.” Includes a few samples to pass around and examine.
(This meeting was cancelled because the school closed early due to bad weather. We have rescheduled this program for our February, 2009, meeting.)
Aprons are hot! A fun and informative program. Using her extensive collection of vintage aprons, Madge will have Guild members modeling a variety of aprons and showing quilts from the same time period. More aprons and apron patterns will be displayed.
Teacher, lecturer and award-winning quiltmaker, Madge Ziegler teaches for local shops and lectures and conducts workshops throughout the Mid-Atlantic region. She resides in Newark, Delaware. Madge has been teaching quiltmaking since 1979. Her work has been part of national juried and invitational quilt exhibitions. She enjoys using examples from her extensive collection of vintage quilts in her lectures and classes.
Madge was interviewed in 2001 by Heather Gibson of the The Alliance for American Quilts Q.S.O.S. (Quilters' S.O.S.- Save Our Stories) project. Visit www.centerforthequilt.org to see the interview and accompanying photographs.
At our January meeting, we spent our time cutting fabric and assembling more Charity Quilt kits. Jane Shea announced the name of the person who donated the most time to the Guild's charity efforts. Again this year it was Lee Hickman. Lee was awarded a gift certificate from BVQ for one year's free membership! Also, Peg Miller was our top raffle quilt ticket seller. She outpaced everyone else, selling 20 books of tickets!
Potluck dinner and games were enjoyed by all in attendance. Dale Kendall was the lucky winner of our raffle quilt!
Batik Tambal specializes in the textile traditions of Indonesia. Our program will consist of a hands-on workshop with paintsticks.
In addition to her quilting, Charlotte is an Embroidery
Guild of America Master Craftsman.
Susan’s quilts have been shown in international-level competition since 1997 and have received many awards. She bases her designs on traditional
patterns, then adds specialty threads, prairie points, and great binding techniques.
Susan will present a workshop on the afternoon of September 11.
July 10, 2007 -- Augusta Cole of Richmond, VA, “A Stroll Through My Quilt Garden”
Augusta Cole began her quilting career in North Carolina 27 years ago. She was a member of the Pamlico River Quilters Guild and has served on the board of directors for the North Carolina Quilt Symposium. In 1984, she moved to Richmond and became active in the local quilting groups, eventually serving as President of the Virginia Consortium of Quilters.
Currently, Augusta teaches basic beginner classes and advanced workshops, many of them being snappy, scrappy classes. She gives lectures that include her collection of quilts and her love for the art of quiltmaking.
Augusta is married with two grown children and four precious grandsons. In addition to quilting, she is a Middle School Health and Physical Education teacher for the Henrico County School system and also coaches middle school boys’ soccer each fall!
Imagine the possibilities with the most inspiring hand-painted cottons for today's quiltmaker! A quiltmaker for over 25 years, Mickey Lawler paints each piece of fabric individually to suggest textures, skies, landscapes, moods, with subtle and rich color nuances. For this reason the name SKYDYES has become a symbol of outstanding art fabric for the creative quiltmaker and has been used by America's top quilt artists since 1984.
This collection of top-tier quilts celebrates women, capturing the joys, tribulations, and memories of family life, or commenting on social pressures. Some are deeply sentimental, others wild and quirky as all get out!
After the lecture, members shared quilts that were inspired by their mothers, or quilts they had made for their moms, or for their own children or grandchildren.
Four mini workshops were presented by our members. Ann Tumolo demonstrated stitching with decorative threads, Mary Alice Peeling presented a reversible Log Cabin technique, Lee Hickman showed how to cut a fat quarter to yield the most squares and triangles, and Ellen Nobles-Harris designed a quilt on her laptop computer using her Electric Quilt (EQ6) software. Everyone enjoyed learning something new! Many thanks to these four willing members for sharing their expertise.
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March 13, 2007 -- BVQ's 20th Anniversary Celebration!
At our March meeting, we celebrated BVQ’s 20th birthday with a catered dinner and social evening, at the Lutheran Church Of The Good Shepherd in north Wilmington.
February 13, 2007 -- Batik Tambal
Batik Tambal specializes in the textile traditions of Indonesia. Our program was to consist of a hands-on demo, featuring paintsticks to reproduce traditional Indonesian batik. Unfortunately, the meeting had to be canceled because the school was closed due to bad weather. Bummer! We were looking forward to learning this technique. Program was rescheduled to November 13, 2007.
January 9, 2007 -- Charity Quilt Workshop
This was a “working” meeting, where we cut squares and assembled kits for our Quilt Hugs charity quilts.
December 12, 2006 -- Holiday Social
A fun and relaxing evening of social time. We enjoyed a covered dish meal with everyone bringing their favorite dish, followed by Quilto games with prizes for the winners. A good time was had by all!
November 14, 2006 -- Show and Share
Guild members Jane Shea, Ann Tumolo, Eric and Moria Fischer, Ann Tolman and Lil Koster shared their quilts and their quilting stories.
October 10, 2006 -- Mickey Depre
Mickey Depre, who mixes traditional quilting techniques with bold, innovative machine appliqué and threadwork.
September 12, 2006 -- Gyleen Fitzgerald
Gyleen Fitzgerald is a chemical engineer by day and inventor and quilter all the time! Gyleen is best known for her sense of color and her technical design ability.
August 8, 2006 -- Jennifer Barone
Jennifer Barone, daughter of member Cindy Barone, will share her collection of hand-dyed, painted, and silk screened clothing. She will discuss the design process.
July 11, 2006 -- Guild Picnic at Brookhaven Municipal Building.
Our July meeting will take place at the Brookhaven Municipal Building, where were will enjoy a potluck dinner together. Don't forget to bring your Challenge Fabric quilts. This is the meeting where they will be judged. How is your challenge quilt coming along?
June 13, 2006 -- Shirley Kelley, “Preparing Edges for Pictoral Appliqué”
Shirley Kelly, of Colden, NY., will present a program on preparing edges for pictorial appliqué. Shirley was the Best of Show winner at the 2002 International Quilt Festival for her quilt “Flowers of the Crown”.
May 9, 2006 -- Carol Taylor, “Sew Many Quilts, So Little Time”
This retrospective of Carol's quilting career shows how she produced over 450 quilts (many award winning) since she began in 1993. She will present slides from her first traditional quilt through her gradual transition to art quilts. She will also present a trunk show of her newest quilts! The presentation is interspersed with some humorous slides from her 33 year-old son who shows Mom that he is never without his blankie!
April 11, 2006 -- BJ Titus, “Journey from Traditional to Contemporary Quilting”
BVQ member BJ Titus will tell us about her journey from traditional to contemporary quilting. B.J. began quilting in 1996 after attending her first quilt show. Her early quilts were traditional in design, although her use of bright colors would not be considered as such. She eventually migrated to art quilts and has not looked back. Her quilts have won numerous awards in national shows, and she has been repeatedly recognized for her machine workmanship. BJ encourages quilters to reach beyond the norm, let go of traditional expectations, and have fun with the design process.
March 14, 2006 -- Libby Kube Hage, Queen of Tops
A trunk show of twenty three (plus or minus) tops with humorous comments about why and when they were made, and why they are not quilted. Libby has been sewing the age of nine, and has been quilting off and on since 1976. She began teaching in 1994. She is a National Quilting Association Certified teacher and belongs to four guilds and the Quilt Professional Networking Guild. She teaches at Quilted Treasures quilt shop in Atco, Gloucester County College, Cherry Hill Arts Center, Washington Township Recreation Center.
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