May 2017 meeting

We are off to Canada for our meeting in May.  Terry Aske is the guest artist and is should be an amazing program.  Here are the details.

When:                    Saturday, May 13, 2017

Who:                       Terry Aske, Canadian Quilter

Where:                 St. Faith Anglican Church, Vancouver, BC

Time:                       Registration starts at 9:30 a.m.  Program starts at 10:00 a.m.

PROGRAM:        My earliest creative memory is from kindergarten, making a mosaic from seeds and beans. This was the beginning of a life-long quest to find the perfect medium to express myself. A friend invited me to join her at a one-day quilting course. Finally, I had found an artistic medium that fascinated and inspired me! I discovered the work of other art quilters and started designing my own quilts. The design and construction of fabric-based art has become my passion.

My style is contemporary, and I create both art quilts and abstract/modern quilts. I use a variety of techniques – machine-piecing, fusible appliqué, thread-sketching and free-motion-quilting are among those I employ most frequently. The design of a piece always evolves during the creative process, and the final quilt is often quite different from my original concept. My goal is to continue to evolve as an artist, exploring new subject matter and techniques in my art quilts.

DIRECTIONS:

St. Faith’s Anglican Church, 7284 Cypress St., Vancouver, B. C.  Remember there is an elevator available if needed—just ask!

Take 1-5 North into Canada to Vancouver via the Peace Arch crossing.   I-5 North becomes Provincial Route 99N. Continue north (you will go through a tunnel, then cross the Oak Street Bridge), after the bridge, turn left at W. 57^th and continue west.  Turn right onto Cypress.   St. Faith’s church is located at Cypress and W 57^th, before you reach the railroad tracks.

BRING TO THE MEETING:

Exchange Block

Auffle items

Show and Share Items

Name Tag, Cash for Auffle

Admission for NQC members is paid for with membership.  $7 for non-members and for guests.

Bag lunch.

 

March meeting

When:                    Saturday, March 11, 2017

Who:                       Heidi Lund, Bremerton

Where:                 Lynden Community Center, 401 Grover Street, Lynden

Time:                       Registration starts at 9:30 a.m.  Program starts at 10:00 a.m.

PROGRAM:

Heidi is a fiber artist who has a passion for fabric, fiber and surface embellishments.  Her garments and art quilts have been exhibited and awarded in both national and international shows like the International Quilt Festival, Quilt Expo, Road to California, La Conner Quilt & Textile Quiltfest, Pacific International, MQX and Association of Pacific West Quilters.  Heidi is a five time Bernina Fashion Show designer and has had work published in Creative Quilting the Journal Quilt Project, Quilting Arts Magazines and Calendars, Quilting Arts TV and instruction DVDs: Gathering of Leaves as well as several publications and a designer thread pack with Sulky of America.  She is also an Ambassador for BERNINA USA.

Heidi works with cottons, silks, and lots of thread.  She enjoys fabric dying, painting and airbrushing and applying yards of threads by free motion on her home sewing machine.  Her unique works are well “garnished” with unbelievable embellishments from fibers, to ribbons, beads, buttons, ultra suede and even shells.  Heidi teaches quilting, surface design, fabric collage, fabric dyeing, embellishment and beading.  She lives in the beautiful Pacific Northwest with her two chocolate spaniels.

DIRECTIONS—Lynden Community Center, 401 Grover:

From the north: Take I-5 to exit #270 (Birch Bay-Lynden Rd). Go east on Birch Bay-Lynden Road to Meridian Street (WA 539). Go left on Meridian to Front St.  Turn right on Front (between two cemeteries) and travel on Front to 4^th.  Turn left on 4^th. The Community/Senior Center is at the corner of 4^th and Grover.

From the south: Take I-5 to the Bellis Fair/Meridian Exit #256A Take Meridian (WA 539) north to Front St. Turn right on Front (between two cemeteries) and travel on Front to 4^th.  Turn left on 4^th. The Community/Senior Center is at the corner of 4^th and Grover.

BRING TO THE MEETING

(no host meeting,  members please bring auffle items & snacks):

Exchange Block

Bag lunch.

Show and Share Items

Name Tag, Cash for Auffle

Admission for NQC members is paid for with membership.  $7 for non-members and for guests.

 

 

 

Change of Venue for meeting

January 14th the meeting will NOT be at the Christian Church in Anacortes–there was a mix up with the church on the dates.  Instead we will meet at the Westminster Presbyterian Church in Anacortes.  This church is on M & 9th, so if you follow the directions below (and in the newsletter), turn up 12th and then turn right instead of left onto M and the church is a large brick building on your left on the corner of 9th and M.  Address is 1300 9th Street.

We will meet in the basement fellowship hall.  There is limited handicap parking on the  far side between the church and the museum with an elevator right inside the door.  There is a steep set of stairs through a glass door on M street.  That goes  straight into the fellowship hall. Lots of street parking around the building–just don’t park in the museum parking spots.

January 2017 meeting

HOSTED BY:          Fidalgo Island Quilters

WHEN:                      Saturday, January 14, 2017

WHO:                         Lisa Jenni

WHERE:                    Anacortes Christian Church, Anacortes, WA

TIME:                         Registration starts at 9:30 a.m.  Program starts at 10:00 a.m.

PROGRAM:

In her work, Lisa explores the relationship of colors to each other, how colors enhance or calm down a piece of fiber art, how it directs feelings, emotions, evokes memories. For the last few years, she experimented with free-shape cutting and piecing, painting on fabric, discharge and dye processes. And she spent a lot of time doing free-motion machine quilting, all of which contributes to the many ribbons on her walls. Although, ever since her first quilt, Lisa never lost the passion for the humble stitch by hand, – the mark-making.

Being a trained Cartographer, the habit of extreme precise workmanship helped her to master the technical part; however, coming from a painter’s point of view, she seeks to transfer her vision from a 2-dimensional image into fiber, stitches and texture. Inspiration could come from anything she sees on her many travels, or just roadside a glimpse, line picked up due to a current event, or triggered by a memory from long time ago.

DIRECTIONS–ANACORTES CHRISTIAN CHURCH, 1211 M AVE:

From I-5 take the Hwy 20 exit to Anacortes. At the round-about in Anacortes, turn right onto Commercial Ave. which is the main road through town. Turn left on 12th. Turn left on “M”. The church is on the corner of “M” and 12th.

BRING TO THE MEETING:

Exchange Block

Show and Share Items

Name Tag

Bag lunch  (Beverages and dessert only will be provided by the hosting group)

Cash for Auffle (you are welcome to bring items for the auffle)

Admission for NQC members is paid for with membership. $7 for non-members and for guests.

 

November 12 Meeting Location

Our next meeting, November 12, will be back in Mount Vernon at the Hillcrest Church where we had the September meeting.  Caryl Bryer Fallert-Gentry will be our guest and if you know her work, she is amazing.  Sign in at 9:30 a.m. and the program will start at 10 a.m.  Guests $7.  We are also collecting dues at this meeting so consider becoming a member!

November meeting

Our next meeting was scheduled for November 12 in Bellingham, HOWEVER our meeting place is no longer available.  We are working on another location for the 12th, or may have to move the meeting to another Saturday or another town–if our speaker is able to do that.  Much in flux at the moment.  As soon as we have better information it will be posted here first.

Meeting Sept. 17 in Mount Vernon

WHEN:      Saturday, September 17, 2016
HOSTS:      No Guild Host
WHO:         Kathy McNeil
WHERE:   Hillcrest Church, Mt. Vernon, WA
TIME:        Registration starts at 9:30 a.m. Program starts at 10:00 a.m.  Guests $7, members free

 

Kathy McNeil

PROGRAM:

Kathy McNeil is an internationally award winning quilt artist, author, pattern designer, teacher and judge.
Hand appliqueing thousands of little scraps of fabric together, she creates quilts that look like paintings. These wall hangings are inherently and symbolically full of love and comfort. Often using over a hundred different fabrics in one composition, she revels in adding small details and surprises for the viewer to find. The quilting itself adds an additional element of texture to her work. Her quilts are frequently featured in museums, magazines, calendars, and international shows. Many of her quilts are in private collections.

 

 

 

 

HILLCREST CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP, 1830 S. 13TH ST., MT. VERNON:
From 1-5 take the Kincaid exist in Mt. Vernon. (Exit 226) At the base of the exit turn left onto Kincaid which will take you under the freeway and up the hill. Turn right at South 13th. The church is across the street from Hillcrest Park. Come in the side door into the fellowship hall