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Pillow SA-4 Crazy Quilt Basics With Hand

1 SA-1 Half Square Triangles and Four Patch Class SA-2 Duluth Trees North Star Quilters Guild Third Educational Conference SA-3 Cartouche Embroidered Pillow SA-4 Crazy Quilt Basics With Hand Embellishment SA-5 Basket Weave Quilt SA-6 Machine Quilting Friday, October 17, 2014 Sunday, October 19, 2014 Alerus Convention Center Ballroom nd Street South Grand Forks, ND SU-7 Borders the Nickel Quilt Way SU-8 Fun Free Motion Quilting National Faculty: Regional Faculty: Lorraine LeBlanc SU-9 Orion s Belt Table Runner SU-10 Machine Stitched Crazy Quilt SU-11 Miniature Paper Quilts SU-12 Diva Wallet For questions contact: Jolene Mikkelson at jomikkelson@msn.com Phone: Or Bev Solseng at beverlysolseng@gmail.com Phone: Educational Conference

National Faculty is the creative mastermind behind the five inch square craze and a talented scrap quilter. Pat has written four books and many patterns for quilts using 5 squares.

After juggling her full-time job and her quilting for many years, Pat moved into a full-time quilting career in July 2003. I have found my passion in life, and I can t imagine doing anything else.

For years my focus was designing and making clothing. All that changed in 1992, when I realized all I wanted to do was make quilts. I have been designing and making original art quilts ever since.

2 National Faculty is the creative mastermind behind the five inch square craze and a talented scrap quilter. Pat has written four books and many patterns for quilts using 5 squares. She enjoys discovering traditional blocks, designing new blocks, and teaching the methods for working with these squares. After juggling her full-time job and her quilting for many years, Pat moved into a full-time quilting career in July I have found my passion in life, and I can t imagine doing anything else. I have always made things, and love the process of creating. In college I majored in art history and minored in ceramics, but returned to fiber because it was more satisfying. For years my focus was designing and making clothing. All that changed in 1992, when I realized all I wanted to do was make quilts. I have been designing and making original art quilts ever since. It is hard to say what part of quiltmaking I like best. I love the pure creativity involved in conceiving and designing a new quilt. I love to piece and to fuse. I have found that by fusing smaller pieces, I can work out design issues. Then I like to make a bigger, bolder statement and piece the same quilt in a large format. Most of my work is machine quilted and nature inspired. North Star Quilters Guild Education Conference Master Schedule Friday, October 17, 2014 Ballroom 5 Lecture/Trunk Show 7:30 pm Saturday, October 18, 2014 Ballroom 5 SA-1 Half Square Triangles and Four Patch SA-3 Cartouche Embroidered Pillow SA-5 Basket Weave Quilt SA-2 Duluth Trees SA-4 Crazy Quilts Basics With Hand Embellishment 8:30 am 12:00 pm Lorraine LeBlanc, SA-6 Machine Quilting Lecture/Trunk Show 7:30 pm Sunday, October 19, 2014 Ballroom 5 SU-7 Borders the Nickel Quilt Way SU-9 Orion s Belt Table Runner SU-11 Miniature Paper Quilts SU-8 Fun Free Motion Quilting SU-10 Machine Stitched Crazy Quilt SU-12 Diva Wallet Every day I walk in a little woods near my home with my dog George. Much of what I see there appears in my work. I discovered hand dyeing fabric 20 years ago, and I now work almost exclusively with my own hand dyed cottons and silks. I love the dye process, and I particularly enjoy seeing the colors emerge from the wet fabric Educational Conference 2014 Educational Conference 7

Saturday Classes - Regional Faculty Saturday morning SA-3 Cartouche Embroidered Pillow Come and learn the basic embroidery stitches and then use them to make this stunning pillow!

3 Saturday Classes - Regional Faculty Saturday morning SA-3 Cartouche Embroidered Pillow Come and learn the basic embroidery stitches and then use them to make this stunning pillow! Saturday afternoon SA-5 Basket Weave Quilt This quilt uses a jelly roll and two additional fabrics. A 90 ruler is needed for this project. The Creative Grid 45 /90 ruler is suggested, but any 90 ruler will work as long as it measures 6½ from tip to base line. The partial seam technique is used in this block. The quilt finishes at 70 x 70. SU-9 Orion s Belt Table Runner Saturday morning SA-4 Crazy Quilt Basics with Hand Embellishment Brief history of crazy quilting as well as tips and techniques for making a crazy quilt. Practice hand embellishment of your crazy quilt square. Saturday afternoon Lorraine LeBlanc SA-6 Machine Quilting Have you always wanted to freemotion quilt your own table runners and other projects on your own sewing machine? You will learn how to spray baste a quilt and how to quilt motifs without marking. We will also discuss thread, needles and other tools. Sunday Classes - Regional Faculty Sunday morning Construction using the Common Bias cutting guides allows for easy and accurate floating stars. Using joined bias strips you create rectangles and squares. A template set is required for this project. Nice sharp points are produced using this method. Sunday afternoon SU-11 Miniature Paper Quilts Learn to make a miniature quilt suitable for framing, using simple paper cloth techniques and basic color theory. Use fabrics or a combination of paper and fabric to create your quilt. Patterns provided or use your own. Sunday morning SU-10 Machine Stitched Crazy Quilt Brief history of crazy quilting as well as tips and techniques for making a crazy quilt. Practice two machine embellishment techniques of your crazy quilt square. Sunday afternoon SU-12 Diva Wallets Dress it up or keep it casual you ll find it hard to make just one! This sassy wallet has 6 card pockets, 2 open pockets and a zippered pocket. Complete it within the class. Makes a great gift! $20 kit fee, payable to Nancy, covers pattern, one frame and screwdriver Educational Conference Vendors! A limited number of quilt shops will be vending during the conference and will be open to the public during class hours and prior to trunk shows. Regional Faculty Pamela Gordon Davis is an art quilter and fiber artist. She has a degree in Textiles, Clothing and Design from the University of Minnesota. She is a member of the North Star Quilters Guild and the Designing Quilters group in Fargo. She is an Artist in the Classroom for the Grand Forks School District. lives near Reynolds, ND and is the mother of Marie (6) and Asher (2). She belongs to the North Star Quilters Guild, has been quilting for 25 years and enjoys all quilting methods, especially embroidery and fusible applique. She owns a pattern design company called Light on the Prairie., works at Quilter s Eden and is a martial arts instructor by trade., Blaine, MN, has been sewing for nearly 60 years. As kids, we all had jobs: wash dishes, wash clothes, do the ironing, do the sewing. At 13 she made a maternity dress for her mother! About 20 years ago, she saw a Crazy Quilt at the Smithsonian American History Museum. That inspired her to teach herself to do Crazy Quilts. Lorraine LeBlanc grew up on a dairy farm east of new Rockford, ND where she participated in 4-H for ten years. She attended the University of North Dakota and has lived in Grand forks for 26 years. She joined North Star Quilters Guild in March of 1997 and has been machine quilting on her Bernina for ten years. is a quilting addict who loves to teach, create and decorate with quilts. Nita recently followed her passion by creating What a Hoot Quilting. She blogs at and lives in Fergus Falls, MN. is from Grand Forks and is a proud member of the North Star Quilters Guild. She has been quilting for eleven years. Faye s Henhouse Quilts 37 Center Ave. N Mayville, ND quilting@polarcomm.com Owned and Operated by Faye Grandalen Over 3,000 bolts, Quilting Classes, Hand Guided Quilt Machine, Custom Quilts, Embroidery & Heat Press Machines, Books, Patterns, Notions & Supplies, and Much, much more! 2014 Educational Conference 3

SA-2 Duluth Trees All day Saturday Raw-edge fusing makes quilting fun and fast. This woodland design is simple yet elegant and naturally suited for quiet reflection of the passing seasons.

Each student will create their own unique forest in the woods art quilt.

4 SA-2 Duluth Trees All day Saturday Raw-edge fusing makes quilting fun and fast. This woodland design is simple yet elegant and naturally suited for quiet reflection of the passing seasons. Students will free form cut tree shapes and, using a collage method, fuse them onto fabric dyed in a colorway that speaks of cabins, lakes and rivers. Each student will create their own unique forest in the woods art quilt. Lecture and Trunk Show Frieda s Fun Free Motion Machine Quilting 7:30 pm Saturday In this one hour lecture and PowerPoint presentation, Frieda will show you how she uses her sewing machine to achieve her beautiful award winning machine quilting designs. Thread, needles, batting and other tools will be reviewed and the basting of large quilt projects will be covered. SU-8 Fun Free Motion Quilting All day Sunday Frieda s award winning quilts have been in many magazine articles and books. She will lead you through a series of fun exercises where you will create one-of-akind free form machine quilting without marking or templates. Each exercise leads you step by step in developing your own style and expertise to free motion quilting with confidence. Lecture and Trunk Show Fabulous Nickel Borders 7:30 pm Friday Turn a nice quilt into a WOW quilt by adding easy-to-piece Nickel Borders. In this lecture we focus on easy to piece borders that are made from 5 squares. I bring many of my quilts with pieced borders and I walk you through my method of auditioning borders. SA-1 Half Square Triangles and Four Patch All day Saturday These units could be considered the cornerstones of quilting. Simple sewing and cutting techniques will turn your 5" squares into many great quilts. You can choose from 14 different quilts to make. Once you play with these units on a design wall you may come up with a new block of your own! You will also learn how to make 2 different sizes of nine patches from 5" squares and sew a mystery block! A handout will be given and discussed on how to make your pieced border fit your quilt top. Rated: All skill levels. SU-7 Borders the Nickel Quilt Way All day Sunday Jazz up your quilts by adding easy pieced borders. Unit construction methods will be taught for these basic border units: Half Square Triangles, Four Patches, Flying Geese, Picket Fence, Hourglass Units, Small Wonders, and Combination Units. If time allows additional units will also be demonstrated. Learn how to fit any pieced border to your quilt top. I utilize an inner spacer border and we will practice calculating the size of this border. We will also go through the steps and calculations needed to determine the number of border units needed when you are designing a quilt of your own or adding a pieced border to a quilt that does not already have one. Worksheets will be provided Educational Conference 2014 Educational Conference 5

5 North Star Quilters Guild 2014 Quilt Education Registration Form Name Address City State/Province Zip/Postal Code Phone NSQG members may register after April 1, 2014; non-members may register after May 1, All class registrants will receive a supply list. Return your registration by September 1, 2014 to assure you have ample time for class preparation. Quantity Event Day Time Cost Amount Fabulous Nickel Borders Trunk Show/Lecture Friday 7:30 pm $15.00 Trunk Show/Lecture Saturday 7:30 pm $15.00 All class sizes are limited. Please indicate 1st and 2nd choices for each day. 1st 2nd Saturday SA-1, Half Square Triangles and Four Patch Class All Day Saturday $75.00 SA-2, Duluth Trees Class All Day Saturday $75.00 SA-3, Cartouche Embroidered Pillow Saturday morning $30.00 SA-4, Crazy Quilt Basics With Hand Embellishment Saturday morning $30.00 SA-5, Basket Weave Quilt Saturday afternoon $30.00 SA-6 Lorraine LeBlanc, Machine Quilting Saturday afternoon $30.00 Sunday SU-7, Borders the Nickel Quilt Way Class All Day Sunday $75.00 SU-8, Fun Free Motion Quilting Class All Day Sunday $75.00 SU-9, Orion s Belt Table Runner Sunday morning $30.00 SU-10, Machine Stitched Crazy Quilt Sunday morning $30.00 SU-11, Miniature Paper Quilts Sunday afternoon $30.00 SU-12, Diva Wallet Sunday afternoon $30.00 Make check or money order payable to North Star Quilters Guild (US Funds) Mail registration to: Education Conference Registration 3418 Cherry Lynn Drive Grand Forks, ND (International payments drawn on non-us banks must include $5.00 to cover bank fees.) Amount Enclosed

North Star Quilters Guild Fourth Educational Conference. October 21-23, Alerus Center nd Street South Grand Forks, ND

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