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Each year we make about 500 items to put in the
bags given out at the TAQG Rally in July.
This year we are making Key FOBs.
Prepare the strips according to the
instructions on the 'Guild Forms' Web page.
End-cap hardware will be added later.
Click on the month you want to read about:
January 17 Meeting
February 21 Meeting
March 20 Meeting
April 17 Meeting
May 15 Meeting
June 19 Meeting
July 17 Meeting
August 21 Meeting
September 18 Meeting
October 16 Meeting
November 20 Meeting
December 18 Meeting
Programs for 2012
****January 17 Program -- Dr. Marian Ann Montgomery
Quilt historian, Dr. Marian Ann J. Montgomery, has just completed revising the book
on the honorees of The Quilters Hall of Fame.
The Quilters Hall of Fame,
located in Marion, Indiana, honors master quilters as well as others who have
had a significant influence in the world of quilting.
To date, 42 have been honored.
These include influential early 20th century designers like Marie Webster and
Ruby McKim as well as those who spurred the quilt revival in the 1970s such as
Jonathan Holstein and Gail van der Hoof and those that continue to create beautiful pieces
of art today such as Jinny Beyer, Nancy Crow and Michael James.
Dr. Montgomery will
share information on some honorees you likely know well and those you may not realize
have influenced your quilting.
She will also sell copies of the book, The Quilters
Hall of Fame; 42 Masters Who Changed our Art.
Marian Ann Montgomery, an independent museum and textile consultant with expertise
in quilt history, lives in Dallas, Texas, where she coordinated Quilt Mania I and
Quilt Mania II, collaborative exhibitions bringing together twenty different
cultural institutions exhibiting quilts related to their institutional missions.
Former board member of the American Quilt Study Group and contributor to the
organization’s scholarly journal Uncoverings, Marian Ann has worked for thirty years
in the museum field.
Through her work as the curator of fashion and textiles for the
Tennessee State Museum, her work on the quilts at the Dallas Museum of Art as well as
her involvement with the world of quilting as a quilter, Dr. Montgomery brings a wealth
of knowledge of quilts.
Her Personal Quilt Tours of the Dallas Quilt Celebration get
repeat attendees and she provides an engaging program.
****February 21 Program, Diane Rose
Vision-impaired with glaucoma all her life, Diane Rose became blind as a
result of an accident in 1984, a mere four days before she was to undergo a
cornea transplant.
Not only has that condition not slowed her down, Rose has used it to serve as a
means to motivate others to achieve their true potential.
She has used her lack of sight as a springboard to give motivational
talks both within and beyond the context of her ministry, Rose of Sharon Ministries.
She has also received the “Barbara Jordan Media Achievement” Disability Award.
"The way I look at it, if I can do what I have done, without sight,
how much can you do?" she said.
Diane has now finished over 600 quilts and is working her way to 700 quilts!
She comes to the McKinney Quilters’ Guild to demonstrate her skills and techniques.
****March 20 Program, Stitched (the movie)
Stitched is a fun-filled documentary following three quilters racing to complete
their entries for the International Quilt Festival,
the largest quilt show in the nation.
The Houston show draws more than 50,000 quilters including three artists
who created some controversy with their work.
Quilting legend Caryl Bryer Fallert was the first to win a major prize
for her quilt made with a sewing machine.
She mentored Hollis Chatelain who caused a stir when she won an award for a painted quilt.
And Hollis mentored Randall Cook who sparked controversy with his quilt of a male nude.
In this 72-minute documentary, these quilters create their pieces to compete
in the 2010 quilt show.
****April 17 Program, Naomi Adams
Naomi S. Adams is a contemporary textile artist and teacher.
Her art quilts have been shown internationally, nationally, regionally,
and locally in diverse venues ranging from galleries to public works installations.
Naomi holds a B.A. in Interior Design from Washington State University.
She is an M.F.A. candidate in Studio Art, Fibers at the University of North Texas.
Naomi’s work is included in the Quilt National 2011 exhibition, and received
the "Most Innovative Use of the Medium Award."
She was awarded the 2010 Future of Quilting Award from the International
Quilting Association as well as the 2008 Olfa Young Designers Okada Award
from the American Quilter’s Society.
Naomi was proud to have a quilt included the Alzheimer’s Art Quilt Initiative
“Alzheimer’s: Forgetting Piece by Piece” exhibit.
Naomi’s topic is Designing and Organizing your Quilting Space.
We will learn how to assess how you work and your quilting processes.
Use this information to reorganize and rethink your quilting space so it is
working for you!
Gain useful information about storage, organization, and ergonomics as they
relate to quilting.
For more information on Naomi Adams, see her website,
killerbeedesigns.com
****May 15 Program, Melinda Bula. Melinda’s topic will be
“Discovering the Artist Within Through Quilts and Wearable Art
Award winning Quilt artist Melinda Bula started out working in the
interior design field designing wallpaper and fabric.
Now she is designing beautiful quilts and wearable art, which has always,
has been her first love.
Melinda love to use fabric and thread to create a fabric painting.
Only she is not using any paint. It’s all in the fabric colors you chose.
Her sense of color and design has won her numerous awards.
Best of Show 2004 at Pacific International Quilt Festival for the wearable art
Grapevine and, Best of Show, 2008 at Road to California for Monterey At Dusk.
1st 3rd place and Viewers Choice in Paducah in 2009, Best of Show at the IQA Chicago Show
just to name a few.
Her first book came out in 2007 called Cutting Garden Quilts, by Martingale/ Patchwork
Place her second book called Candy Cane Lane.
Melinda has been traveling the world teaching her flower techniques.
Teaching and inspiring other on there creative journey has been a thrill.
To watch a student finely get it is wonderful.
Each flower that my students create is a reflection of that persons own
style and personally.
You can see more of her work on her website
melindabula.com
And her blog
melindabula.blogspot.com
Melinda’s topic will be “Discovering the Artist Within Through Quilts and Wearable Art.”
****June 19 Program, Janice Vaine
Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Jan has resided in Jacksonville, Florida
for the past 35 years.
Married to her husband of 28 years, they currently share their home and lifes with
Doogan, an effervescent 3-year-old Wheaton terrier, Sophia, an 8-year-old mixed breed
sophisticated lady, and three curious kitties, Tigger, Josie, and Cookie.
There is never a dull moment in their household!
Jan has a love of vintage embroidery and antique quilts.
She studies them for their methods and techniques and how the early stitchers
created their designs using embroidery, stumpwork and ribbonwork.
These features, as well as their lovely handwork, are what inspire Jan to create
her fresh new designs.
Taking on the challenge of miniature work and downsizing vintage pieced and
applique quilts have also added to her design inspiration.
The old is new again.
In 2003, Jan was invited by Elly Sienkiewicz to be the quest designer
for the ancillary projects in Elly’s book, “Baltimore Elegance”.
In 2004, her love of sewing and designing blossomed into her pattern company,
The Graham Cracker Collection, (grahamcrackercollection.com).
And in 2011, Jan’s first book was published, “The Art of Elegant Hand Embroidery,
Embellishment and Applique.”
Jan enjoys sharing her love of needle arts with her students.
She brings 45 years of sewing and needlework to her work.
She is an experienced seamstress, quilter, appliqué enthusiast, pattern designer,
and teacher.
Her teaching credentials include the past five consecutive years at The
Elly Sienkiewicz Appliqué Academy in Willliamsburg, Virginia;
the Spring and Fall International Quilt Markets,
the International Quilt Festival in Houston, Texas; quilt guild retreats;
and her local quilt and sewing shops for over 20 years.
****July 17 Program, Game Night
****August 21 Program, Harriet Hargrave
Harriet Hargrave comes from a family of quilters.
Her grandmother, mother and several of her eight aunts quilted.
Her mother tried to teach Harriet to hand quilt in the early 1970s but to no avail.
Harriet mastered machine embroidery in the mid-1970s and adapted machine quilting
from those skills.
She was machine quilting when the local quilt guilds in Colorado thought machine piecing
was not kosher, let alone machine quilting!
Harriet was teaching machine piecing, appliqué and quilting through the adult education
system by 1978, and opened her store, Harriet’s Treadle Arts, alongside her mother
in April of 1981.
The store started out to be about machine arts but quickly was taken over by
machine quilting and piecing classes and supplies.
In 1987, the first edition of Heirloom Machine Quilting was released.
The first edition of Mastering Machine Appliqué was released in 1991.
From Fiber to Fabric, released in 1997, is the quilter’s bible for the care
and keeping of textiles.
The Art of Classic Quiltmaking which Harriet co-authored with her friend,
Sharyn Craig, in 2000, is the ultimate reference book for piecing techniques.
Harriet has also worked side-by-side with Hobbs Bonded Fibers to develop an
exceptional line of natural fiber battings to meet quilters’ needs.
P&B Textiles has printed five very successful lines of antique reproduction
fabric for Harriet.
In 1994, Harriet was chosen by a panel of her peers as one of the
88 Leaders of the Quilt World for a book that was released by the same
title out of Japan.
In 2006, she was nominated as Professional Quilter’s Teacher of the Year.
Harriet has taught worldwide since 1985, including teaching trips to England,
Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and every state in the USA.
She has definitely spread the word that machine quilting is okay, doable by anyone
with the desire to learn.
Our quilts are not machine quilted but “hand quilted with an electric needle™”!
Currently Harriet and her daughter, Carrie, are writing a series of books
for beginning quilters.
The first in the series, Quilter’s Academy Vol. 1 - Freshman Year,
was released in September 2009. The second in the series,
Quilter’s Academy Vol. 2 - Sophomore Year, was released in May 2010
and Vol. 3 - Junior Year will be available March 2011.
The subsequent volumes will be released once a year after that.
During our meeting, Harriet will lead a discussion about batting and give a brief Trunk Show of some of her quilts.
****September 18 Program, Guild Scrap Sale
****October 16 Program, Sara Moe
Sara Miller-Moe is a self trained fiber artist. She created her first masterpiece
on fabric in kindergarten when she painted a big red flower on a pastel pink dress
her mother made for her.
And as they say-an artist was born.
In 7th grade she was introduced to sewing in a home economics class and
began sewing her own clothes and making anything out of fabric.
For years she designed her own couture clothing much of which was worn for a career
in the computer industry.
In 2002, she landed a dream job as a Creative Consultant with Pfaff Sewing Machines.
To prepare to teach a class at a quilting expo, Sara sewed her first quilt.
The class was based on a book that incorporated curved quilt blocks using templates.
Despite her experience with sewing garments, sewing the curved blocks created
quite a challenge for Sara.
While putting together the blocks there was difficulty with the finished block sizes
and the seams lining up properly.
She quickly learned the pitfalls of using templates and of making quilts
with curved pieced blocks.
After teaching the class a few more times she witnessed firsthand the ongoing
problems with the existing curved templates commercially available.
She soon found herself launching a new business venture, Sew Inspired™
and the Sew Inspired Design System™, to help quilters create unique curved quilts
in an easier and more accurate way.
She has inspired thousands of art quilters to tap their creativity
by creating uniquely designed quilts.
Sara has been featured on the PBS Television Show, America’s Quilts Creatively,
numerous times.
She has traveled the United States teaching and inspiring other art quilters
with her unique designs and easy to use templates and methods.
She has won numerous awards at quilt shows across the country and is
an authority in the quilting industry for her out-of-the-box ideas and approach
to art quilting.
Sew Inspired™ was a launching pad for the incredible creativity that
lay dormant in Sara for so many years.
Her talents are far reaching including abstract painting, surface design;
changing the surface of anything with paint or fabric, art quilts, and mixed media works.
Sara’s love for creativity is evident by the masterpieces you will find throughout
her house including the leather couches she hand-painted and turned into art.
In June 2008, Sara was the first artist showcased at Keller City Hall for the
City of Keller Public Arts Board. She had over 65 pieces on display and for purchase.
A variety of her mixed media artwork and art quilts are currently on display at
Art251 in Keller, Texas. Sara will soon launch an online retail gallery where
her unique artwork will be for sale.
Sara combined her love for color and fabric with her computer experience when
she started designing her own fabrics for Blank Quilting of New York which have
been sold nationwide at quilt stores.
She is a member of the Dallas Area Fiber Artists, where she has held various
board positions over the last 5 years.
Sara’s out-of-the-box thinking continues as she recently added five
new design templates as add-on’s to the original Sew Inspired Design System™.
She is painting more now than ever along with creating inspiring mixed
media artwork.
She resides in Fort Worth, Texas with her dog Aggie and is the proud mother of two
children, Brian and Michelle, both Texas A&M Aggies.
****November 20 Program, Mini Auction
McKinney's Quilter's Guild Annual Fundraiser, Craziness and Mini Quilt Silent Auction
To see the Mini Madness 2009 Guidelines (still good for 2011), click here
Mini Madness Guidelines
****December 18 Program, the famous Guild Christmas Dinner Party!
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Quilt historian, Dr. Marian Ann J. Montgomery, has just completed revising the book on the honorees of The Quilters Hall of Fame.
The Quilters Hall of Fame, located in Marion, Indiana, honors master quilters as well as others who have had a significant influence in the world of quilting.
To date, 42 have been honored.
These include influential early 20th century designers like Marie Webster and Ruby McKim as well as those who spurred the quilt revival in the 1970s such as Jonathan Holstein and Gail van der Hoof and those that continue to create beautiful pieces of art today such as Jinny Beyer, Nancy Crow and Michael James.
Dr. Montgomery will share information on some honorees you likely know well and those you may not realize have influenced your quilting.
She will also sell copies of the book, The Quilters Hall of Fame; 42 Masters Who Changed our Art.
Marian Ann Montgomery, an independent museum and textile consultant with expertise in quilt history, lives in Dallas, Texas, where she coordinated Quilt Mania I and Quilt Mania II, collaborative exhibitions bringing together twenty different cultural institutions exhibiting quilts related to their institutional missions.
Former board member of the American Quilt Study Group and contributor to the organization’s scholarly journal Uncoverings, Marian Ann has worked for thirty years in the museum field.
Through her work as the curator of fashion and textiles for the Tennessee State Museum, her work on the quilts at the Dallas Museum of Art as well as her involvement with the world of quilting as a quilter, Dr. Montgomery brings a wealth of knowledge of quilts.
Her Personal Quilt Tours of the Dallas Quilt Celebration get repeat attendees and she provides an engaging program.
****February 21 Program, Diane Rose
Vision-impaired with glaucoma all her life, Diane Rose became blind as a
result of an accident in 1984, a mere four days before she was to undergo a
cornea transplant.
Not only has that condition not slowed her down, Rose has used it to serve as a
means to motivate others to achieve their true potential.
She has used her lack of sight as a springboard to give motivational
talks both within and beyond the context of her ministry, Rose of Sharon Ministries.
She has also received the “Barbara Jordan Media Achievement” Disability Award.
"The way I look at it, if I can do what I have done, without sight,
how much can you do?" she said.
Diane has now finished over 600 quilts and is working her way to 700 quilts!
She comes to the McKinney Quilters’ Guild to demonstrate her skills and techniques.
Not only has that condition not slowed her down, Rose has used it to serve as a means to motivate others to achieve their true potential.
She has used her lack of sight as a springboard to give motivational talks both within and beyond the context of her ministry, Rose of Sharon Ministries.
She has also received the “Barbara Jordan Media Achievement” Disability Award.
"The way I look at it, if I can do what I have done, without sight, how much can you do?" she said.
Diane has now finished over 600 quilts and is working her way to 700 quilts!
She comes to the McKinney Quilters’ Guild to demonstrate her skills and techniques.
****March 20 Program, Stitched (the movie)
Stitched is a fun-filled documentary following three quilters racing to complete
their entries for the International Quilt Festival,
the largest quilt show in the nation.
The Houston show draws more than 50,000 quilters including three artists
who created some controversy with their work.
Quilting legend Caryl Bryer Fallert was the first to win a major prize
for her quilt made with a sewing machine.
She mentored Hollis Chatelain who caused a stir when she won an award for a painted quilt.
And Hollis mentored Randall Cook who sparked controversy with his quilt of a male nude.
In this 72-minute documentary, these quilters create their pieces to compete
in the 2010 quilt show.
****April 17 Program, Naomi Adams
Naomi S. Adams is a contemporary textile artist and teacher.
Her art quilts have been shown internationally, nationally, regionally,
and locally in diverse venues ranging from galleries to public works installations.
Naomi holds a B.A. in Interior Design from Washington State University.
She is an M.F.A. candidate in Studio Art, Fibers at the University of North Texas.
Naomi’s work is included in the Quilt National 2011 exhibition, and received
the "Most Innovative Use of the Medium Award."
She was awarded the 2010 Future of Quilting Award from the International
Quilting Association as well as the 2008 Olfa Young Designers Okada Award
from the American Quilter’s Society.
Naomi was proud to have a quilt included the Alzheimer’s Art Quilt Initiative
“Alzheimer’s: Forgetting Piece by Piece” exhibit.
Naomi’s topic is Designing and Organizing your Quilting Space.
We will learn how to assess how you work and your quilting processes.
Use this information to reorganize and rethink your quilting space so it is
working for you!
Gain useful information about storage, organization, and ergonomics as they
relate to quilting.
For more information on Naomi Adams, see her website,
killerbeedesigns.com
****May 15 Program, Melinda Bula. Melinda’s topic will be
“Discovering the Artist Within Through Quilts and Wearable Art
Award winning Quilt artist Melinda Bula started out working in the
interior design field designing wallpaper and fabric.
Now she is designing beautiful quilts and wearable art, which has always,
has been her first love.
Melinda love to use fabric and thread to create a fabric painting.
Only she is not using any paint. It’s all in the fabric colors you chose.
Her sense of color and design has won her numerous awards.
Best of Show 2004 at Pacific International Quilt Festival for the wearable art
Grapevine and, Best of Show, 2008 at Road to California for Monterey At Dusk.
1st 3rd place and Viewers Choice in Paducah in 2009, Best of Show at the IQA Chicago Show
just to name a few.
Her first book came out in 2007 called Cutting Garden Quilts, by Martingale/ Patchwork
Place her second book called Candy Cane Lane.
Melinda has been traveling the world teaching her flower techniques.
Teaching and inspiring other on there creative journey has been a thrill.
To watch a student finely get it is wonderful.
Each flower that my students create is a reflection of that persons own
style and personally.
You can see more of her work on her website
melindabula.com
And her blog
melindabula.blogspot.com
Melinda’s topic will be “Discovering the Artist Within Through Quilts and Wearable Art.”
****June 19 Program, Janice Vaine
Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Jan has resided in Jacksonville, Florida
for the past 35 years.
Married to her husband of 28 years, they currently share their home and lifes with
Doogan, an effervescent 3-year-old Wheaton terrier, Sophia, an 8-year-old mixed breed
sophisticated lady, and three curious kitties, Tigger, Josie, and Cookie.
There is never a dull moment in their household!
Jan has a love of vintage embroidery and antique quilts.
She studies them for their methods and techniques and how the early stitchers
created their designs using embroidery, stumpwork and ribbonwork.
These features, as well as their lovely handwork, are what inspire Jan to create
her fresh new designs.
Taking on the challenge of miniature work and downsizing vintage pieced and
applique quilts have also added to her design inspiration.
The old is new again.
In 2003, Jan was invited by Elly Sienkiewicz to be the quest designer
for the ancillary projects in Elly’s book, “Baltimore Elegance”.
In 2004, her love of sewing and designing blossomed into her pattern company,
The Graham Cracker Collection, (grahamcrackercollection.com).
And in 2011, Jan’s first book was published, “The Art of Elegant Hand Embroidery,
Embellishment and Applique.”
Jan enjoys sharing her love of needle arts with her students.
She brings 45 years of sewing and needlework to her work.
She is an experienced seamstress, quilter, appliqué enthusiast, pattern designer,
and teacher.
Her teaching credentials include the past five consecutive years at The
Elly Sienkiewicz Appliqué Academy in Willliamsburg, Virginia;
the Spring and Fall International Quilt Markets,
the International Quilt Festival in Houston, Texas; quilt guild retreats;
and her local quilt and sewing shops for over 20 years.
****July 17 Program, Game Night
****August 21 Program, Harriet Hargrave
Harriet Hargrave comes from a family of quilters.
Her grandmother, mother and several of her eight aunts quilted.
Her mother tried to teach Harriet to hand quilt in the early 1970s but to no avail.
Harriet mastered machine embroidery in the mid-1970s and adapted machine quilting
from those skills.
She was machine quilting when the local quilt guilds in Colorado thought machine piecing
was not kosher, let alone machine quilting!
Harriet was teaching machine piecing, appliqué and quilting through the adult education
system by 1978, and opened her store, Harriet’s Treadle Arts, alongside her mother
in April of 1981.
The store started out to be about machine arts but quickly was taken over by
machine quilting and piecing classes and supplies.
In 1987, the first edition of Heirloom Machine Quilting was released.
The first edition of Mastering Machine Appliqué was released in 1991.
From Fiber to Fabric, released in 1997, is the quilter’s bible for the care
and keeping of textiles.
The Art of Classic Quiltmaking which Harriet co-authored with her friend,
Sharyn Craig, in 2000, is the ultimate reference book for piecing techniques.
Harriet has also worked side-by-side with Hobbs Bonded Fibers to develop an
exceptional line of natural fiber battings to meet quilters’ needs.
P&B Textiles has printed five very successful lines of antique reproduction
fabric for Harriet.
In 1994, Harriet was chosen by a panel of her peers as one of the
88 Leaders of the Quilt World for a book that was released by the same
title out of Japan.
In 2006, she was nominated as Professional Quilter’s Teacher of the Year.
Harriet has taught worldwide since 1985, including teaching trips to England,
Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and every state in the USA.
She has definitely spread the word that machine quilting is okay, doable by anyone
with the desire to learn.
Our quilts are not machine quilted but “hand quilted with an electric needle™”!
Currently Harriet and her daughter, Carrie, are writing a series of books
for beginning quilters.
The first in the series, Quilter’s Academy Vol. 1 - Freshman Year,
was released in September 2009. The second in the series,
Quilter’s Academy Vol. 2 - Sophomore Year, was released in May 2010
and Vol. 3 - Junior Year will be available March 2011.
The subsequent volumes will be released once a year after that.
During our meeting, Harriet will lead a discussion about batting and give a brief Trunk Show of some of her quilts.
****September 18 Program, Guild Scrap Sale
****October 16 Program, Sara Moe
Sara Miller-Moe is a self trained fiber artist. She created her first masterpiece
on fabric in kindergarten when she painted a big red flower on a pastel pink dress
her mother made for her.
And as they say-an artist was born.
In 7th grade she was introduced to sewing in a home economics class and
began sewing her own clothes and making anything out of fabric.
For years she designed her own couture clothing much of which was worn for a career
in the computer industry.
In 2002, she landed a dream job as a Creative Consultant with Pfaff Sewing Machines.
To prepare to teach a class at a quilting expo, Sara sewed her first quilt.
The class was based on a book that incorporated curved quilt blocks using templates.
Despite her experience with sewing garments, sewing the curved blocks created
quite a challenge for Sara.
While putting together the blocks there was difficulty with the finished block sizes
and the seams lining up properly.
She quickly learned the pitfalls of using templates and of making quilts
with curved pieced blocks.
After teaching the class a few more times she witnessed firsthand the ongoing
problems with the existing curved templates commercially available.
She soon found herself launching a new business venture, Sew Inspired™
and the Sew Inspired Design System™, to help quilters create unique curved quilts
in an easier and more accurate way.
She has inspired thousands of art quilters to tap their creativity
by creating uniquely designed quilts.
Sara has been featured on the PBS Television Show, America’s Quilts Creatively,
numerous times.
She has traveled the United States teaching and inspiring other art quilters
with her unique designs and easy to use templates and methods.
She has won numerous awards at quilt shows across the country and is
an authority in the quilting industry for her out-of-the-box ideas and approach
to art quilting.
Sew Inspired™ was a launching pad for the incredible creativity that
lay dormant in Sara for so many years.
Her talents are far reaching including abstract painting, surface design;
changing the surface of anything with paint or fabric, art quilts, and mixed media works.
Sara’s love for creativity is evident by the masterpieces you will find throughout
her house including the leather couches she hand-painted and turned into art.
In June 2008, Sara was the first artist showcased at Keller City Hall for the
City of Keller Public Arts Board. She had over 65 pieces on display and for purchase.
A variety of her mixed media artwork and art quilts are currently on display at
Art251 in Keller, Texas. Sara will soon launch an online retail gallery where
her unique artwork will be for sale.
Sara combined her love for color and fabric with her computer experience when
she started designing her own fabrics for Blank Quilting of New York which have
been sold nationwide at quilt stores.
She is a member of the Dallas Area Fiber Artists, where she has held various
board positions over the last 5 years.
Sara’s out-of-the-box thinking continues as she recently added five
new design templates as add-on’s to the original Sew Inspired Design System™.
She is painting more now than ever along with creating inspiring mixed
media artwork.
She resides in Fort Worth, Texas with her dog Aggie and is the proud mother of two
children, Brian and Michelle, both Texas A&M Aggies.
****November 20 Program, Mini Auction
McKinney's Quilter's Guild Annual Fundraiser, Craziness and Mini Quilt Silent Auction
To see the Mini Madness 2009 Guidelines (still good for 2011), click here
Mini Madness Guidelines
****December 18 Program, the famous Guild Christmas Dinner Party!
*********************************************************************
*********************************************************************
Stitched is a fun-filled documentary following three quilters racing to complete their entries for the International Quilt Festival, the largest quilt show in the nation.
The Houston show draws more than 50,000 quilters including three artists who created some controversy with their work.
Quilting legend Caryl Bryer Fallert was the first to win a major prize for her quilt made with a sewing machine.
She mentored Hollis Chatelain who caused a stir when she won an award for a painted quilt.
And Hollis mentored Randall Cook who sparked controversy with his quilt of a male nude.
In this 72-minute documentary, these quilters create their pieces to compete in the 2010 quilt show.
****April 17 Program, Naomi Adams
Naomi S. Adams is a contemporary textile artist and teacher.
Her art quilts have been shown internationally, nationally, regionally,
and locally in diverse venues ranging from galleries to public works installations.
Naomi holds a B.A. in Interior Design from Washington State University.
She is an M.F.A. candidate in Studio Art, Fibers at the University of North Texas.
Naomi’s work is included in the Quilt National 2011 exhibition, and received
the "Most Innovative Use of the Medium Award."
She was awarded the 2010 Future of Quilting Award from the International
Quilting Association as well as the 2008 Olfa Young Designers Okada Award
from the American Quilter’s Society.
Naomi was proud to have a quilt included the Alzheimer’s Art Quilt Initiative
“Alzheimer’s: Forgetting Piece by Piece” exhibit.
Naomi’s topic is Designing and Organizing your Quilting Space.
We will learn how to assess how you work and your quilting processes.
Use this information to reorganize and rethink your quilting space so it is
working for you!
Gain useful information about storage, organization, and ergonomics as they
relate to quilting.
For more information on Naomi Adams, see her website,
killerbeedesigns.com
Her art quilts have been shown internationally, nationally, regionally, and locally in diverse venues ranging from galleries to public works installations.
Naomi holds a B.A. in Interior Design from Washington State University.
She is an M.F.A. candidate in Studio Art, Fibers at the University of North Texas.
Naomi’s work is included in the Quilt National 2011 exhibition, and received the "Most Innovative Use of the Medium Award."
She was awarded the 2010 Future of Quilting Award from the International Quilting Association as well as the 2008 Olfa Young Designers Okada Award from the American Quilter’s Society.
Naomi was proud to have a quilt included the Alzheimer’s Art Quilt Initiative “Alzheimer’s: Forgetting Piece by Piece” exhibit.
Naomi’s topic is Designing and Organizing your Quilting Space.
We will learn how to assess how you work and your quilting processes.
Use this information to reorganize and rethink your quilting space so it is working for you!
Gain useful information about storage, organization, and ergonomics as they relate to quilting.
For more information on Naomi Adams, see her website, killerbeedesigns.com
****May 15 Program, Melinda Bula. Melinda’s topic will be
“Discovering the Artist Within Through Quilts and Wearable Art
Award winning Quilt artist Melinda Bula started out working in the
interior design field designing wallpaper and fabric.
Now she is designing beautiful quilts and wearable art, which has always,
has been her first love.
Melinda love to use fabric and thread to create a fabric painting.
Only she is not using any paint. It’s all in the fabric colors you chose.
Her sense of color and design has won her numerous awards.
Best of Show 2004 at Pacific International Quilt Festival for the wearable art
Grapevine and, Best of Show, 2008 at Road to California for Monterey At Dusk.
1st 3rd place and Viewers Choice in Paducah in 2009, Best of Show at the IQA Chicago Show
just to name a few.
Her first book came out in 2007 called Cutting Garden Quilts, by Martingale/ Patchwork
Place her second book called Candy Cane Lane.
Melinda has been traveling the world teaching her flower techniques.
Teaching and inspiring other on there creative journey has been a thrill.
To watch a student finely get it is wonderful.
Each flower that my students create is a reflection of that persons own
style and personally.
You can see more of her work on her website
melindabula.com
And her blog
melindabula.blogspot.com
Melinda’s topic will be “Discovering the Artist Within Through Quilts and Wearable Art.”
****June 19 Program, Janice Vaine
Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Jan has resided in Jacksonville, Florida
for the past 35 years.
Married to her husband of 28 years, they currently share their home and lifes with
Doogan, an effervescent 3-year-old Wheaton terrier, Sophia, an 8-year-old mixed breed
sophisticated lady, and three curious kitties, Tigger, Josie, and Cookie.
There is never a dull moment in their household!
Jan has a love of vintage embroidery and antique quilts.
She studies them for their methods and techniques and how the early stitchers
created their designs using embroidery, stumpwork and ribbonwork.
These features, as well as their lovely handwork, are what inspire Jan to create
her fresh new designs.
Taking on the challenge of miniature work and downsizing vintage pieced and
applique quilts have also added to her design inspiration.
The old is new again.
In 2003, Jan was invited by Elly Sienkiewicz to be the quest designer
for the ancillary projects in Elly’s book, “Baltimore Elegance”.
In 2004, her love of sewing and designing blossomed into her pattern company,
The Graham Cracker Collection, (grahamcrackercollection.com).
And in 2011, Jan’s first book was published, “The Art of Elegant Hand Embroidery,
Embellishment and Applique.”
Jan enjoys sharing her love of needle arts with her students.
She brings 45 years of sewing and needlework to her work.
She is an experienced seamstress, quilter, appliqué enthusiast, pattern designer,
and teacher.
Her teaching credentials include the past five consecutive years at The
Elly Sienkiewicz Appliqué Academy in Willliamsburg, Virginia;
the Spring and Fall International Quilt Markets,
the International Quilt Festival in Houston, Texas; quilt guild retreats;
and her local quilt and sewing shops for over 20 years.
****July 17 Program, Game Night
****August 21 Program, Harriet Hargrave
Harriet Hargrave comes from a family of quilters.
Her grandmother, mother and several of her eight aunts quilted.
Her mother tried to teach Harriet to hand quilt in the early 1970s but to no avail.
Harriet mastered machine embroidery in the mid-1970s and adapted machine quilting
from those skills.
She was machine quilting when the local quilt guilds in Colorado thought machine piecing
was not kosher, let alone machine quilting!
Harriet was teaching machine piecing, appliqué and quilting through the adult education
system by 1978, and opened her store, Harriet’s Treadle Arts, alongside her mother
in April of 1981.
The store started out to be about machine arts but quickly was taken over by
machine quilting and piecing classes and supplies.
In 1987, the first edition of Heirloom Machine Quilting was released.
The first edition of Mastering Machine Appliqué was released in 1991.
From Fiber to Fabric, released in 1997, is the quilter’s bible for the care
and keeping of textiles.
The Art of Classic Quiltmaking which Harriet co-authored with her friend,
Sharyn Craig, in 2000, is the ultimate reference book for piecing techniques.
Harriet has also worked side-by-side with Hobbs Bonded Fibers to develop an
exceptional line of natural fiber battings to meet quilters’ needs.
P&B Textiles has printed five very successful lines of antique reproduction
fabric for Harriet.
In 1994, Harriet was chosen by a panel of her peers as one of the
88 Leaders of the Quilt World for a book that was released by the same
title out of Japan.
In 2006, she was nominated as Professional Quilter’s Teacher of the Year.
Harriet has taught worldwide since 1985, including teaching trips to England,
Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and every state in the USA.
She has definitely spread the word that machine quilting is okay, doable by anyone
with the desire to learn.
Our quilts are not machine quilted but “hand quilted with an electric needle™”!
Currently Harriet and her daughter, Carrie, are writing a series of books
for beginning quilters.
The first in the series, Quilter’s Academy Vol. 1 - Freshman Year,
was released in September 2009. The second in the series,
Quilter’s Academy Vol. 2 - Sophomore Year, was released in May 2010
and Vol. 3 - Junior Year will be available March 2011.
The subsequent volumes will be released once a year after that.
During our meeting, Harriet will lead a discussion about batting and give a brief Trunk Show of some of her quilts.
****September 18 Program, Guild Scrap Sale
****October 16 Program, Sara Moe
Sara Miller-Moe is a self trained fiber artist. She created her first masterpiece
on fabric in kindergarten when she painted a big red flower on a pastel pink dress
her mother made for her.
And as they say-an artist was born.
In 7th grade she was introduced to sewing in a home economics class and
began sewing her own clothes and making anything out of fabric.
For years she designed her own couture clothing much of which was worn for a career
in the computer industry.
In 2002, she landed a dream job as a Creative Consultant with Pfaff Sewing Machines.
To prepare to teach a class at a quilting expo, Sara sewed her first quilt.
The class was based on a book that incorporated curved quilt blocks using templates.
Despite her experience with sewing garments, sewing the curved blocks created
quite a challenge for Sara.
While putting together the blocks there was difficulty with the finished block sizes
and the seams lining up properly.
She quickly learned the pitfalls of using templates and of making quilts
with curved pieced blocks.
After teaching the class a few more times she witnessed firsthand the ongoing
problems with the existing curved templates commercially available.
She soon found herself launching a new business venture, Sew Inspired™
and the Sew Inspired Design System™, to help quilters create unique curved quilts
in an easier and more accurate way.
She has inspired thousands of art quilters to tap their creativity
by creating uniquely designed quilts.
Sara has been featured on the PBS Television Show, America’s Quilts Creatively,
numerous times.
She has traveled the United States teaching and inspiring other art quilters
with her unique designs and easy to use templates and methods.
She has won numerous awards at quilt shows across the country and is
an authority in the quilting industry for her out-of-the-box ideas and approach
to art quilting.
Sew Inspired™ was a launching pad for the incredible creativity that
lay dormant in Sara for so many years.
Her talents are far reaching including abstract painting, surface design;
changing the surface of anything with paint or fabric, art quilts, and mixed media works.
Sara’s love for creativity is evident by the masterpieces you will find throughout
her house including the leather couches she hand-painted and turned into art.
In June 2008, Sara was the first artist showcased at Keller City Hall for the
City of Keller Public Arts Board. She had over 65 pieces on display and for purchase.
A variety of her mixed media artwork and art quilts are currently on display at
Art251 in Keller, Texas. Sara will soon launch an online retail gallery where
her unique artwork will be for sale.
Sara combined her love for color and fabric with her computer experience when
she started designing her own fabrics for Blank Quilting of New York which have
been sold nationwide at quilt stores.
She is a member of the Dallas Area Fiber Artists, where she has held various
board positions over the last 5 years.
Sara’s out-of-the-box thinking continues as she recently added five
new design templates as add-on’s to the original Sew Inspired Design System™.
She is painting more now than ever along with creating inspiring mixed
media artwork.
She resides in Fort Worth, Texas with her dog Aggie and is the proud mother of two
children, Brian and Michelle, both Texas A&M Aggies.
****November 20 Program, Mini Auction
McKinney's Quilter's Guild Annual Fundraiser, Craziness and Mini Quilt Silent Auction
To see the Mini Madness 2009 Guidelines (still good for 2011), click here
Mini Madness Guidelines
****December 18 Program, the famous Guild Christmas Dinner Party!
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Award winning Quilt artist Melinda Bula started out working in the interior design field designing wallpaper and fabric.
Now she is designing beautiful quilts and wearable art, which has always, has been her first love.
Melinda love to use fabric and thread to create a fabric painting.
Only she is not using any paint. It’s all in the fabric colors you chose.
Her sense of color and design has won her numerous awards.
Best of Show 2004 at Pacific International Quilt Festival for the wearable art Grapevine and, Best of Show, 2008 at Road to California for Monterey At Dusk.
1st 3rd place and Viewers Choice in Paducah in 2009, Best of Show at the IQA Chicago Show just to name a few.
Her first book came out in 2007 called Cutting Garden Quilts, by Martingale/ Patchwork Place her second book called Candy Cane Lane.
Melinda has been traveling the world teaching her flower techniques.
Teaching and inspiring other on there creative journey has been a thrill.
To watch a student finely get it is wonderful.
Each flower that my students create is a reflection of that persons own style and personally.
You can see more of her work on her website melindabula.com
And her blog melindabula.blogspot.com
Melinda’s topic will be “Discovering the Artist Within Through Quilts and Wearable Art.”
****June 19 Program, Janice Vaine
Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Jan has resided in Jacksonville, Florida
for the past 35 years.
Married to her husband of 28 years, they currently share their home and lifes with
Doogan, an effervescent 3-year-old Wheaton terrier, Sophia, an 8-year-old mixed breed
sophisticated lady, and three curious kitties, Tigger, Josie, and Cookie.
There is never a dull moment in their household!
Jan has a love of vintage embroidery and antique quilts.
She studies them for their methods and techniques and how the early stitchers
created their designs using embroidery, stumpwork and ribbonwork.
These features, as well as their lovely handwork, are what inspire Jan to create
her fresh new designs.
Taking on the challenge of miniature work and downsizing vintage pieced and
applique quilts have also added to her design inspiration.
The old is new again.
In 2003, Jan was invited by Elly Sienkiewicz to be the quest designer
for the ancillary projects in Elly’s book, “Baltimore Elegance”.
In 2004, her love of sewing and designing blossomed into her pattern company,
The Graham Cracker Collection, (grahamcrackercollection.com).
And in 2011, Jan’s first book was published, “The Art of Elegant Hand Embroidery,
Embellishment and Applique.”
Jan enjoys sharing her love of needle arts with her students.
She brings 45 years of sewing and needlework to her work.
She is an experienced seamstress, quilter, appliqué enthusiast, pattern designer,
and teacher.
Her teaching credentials include the past five consecutive years at The
Elly Sienkiewicz Appliqué Academy in Willliamsburg, Virginia;
the Spring and Fall International Quilt Markets,
the International Quilt Festival in Houston, Texas; quilt guild retreats;
and her local quilt and sewing shops for over 20 years.
Married to her husband of 28 years, they currently share their home and lifes with Doogan, an effervescent 3-year-old Wheaton terrier, Sophia, an 8-year-old mixed breed sophisticated lady, and three curious kitties, Tigger, Josie, and Cookie.
There is never a dull moment in their household!
Jan has a love of vintage embroidery and antique quilts.
She studies them for their methods and techniques and how the early stitchers created their designs using embroidery, stumpwork and ribbonwork.
These features, as well as their lovely handwork, are what inspire Jan to create her fresh new designs.
Taking on the challenge of miniature work and downsizing vintage pieced and applique quilts have also added to her design inspiration.
The old is new again.
In 2003, Jan was invited by Elly Sienkiewicz to be the quest designer for the ancillary projects in Elly’s book, “Baltimore Elegance”.
In 2004, her love of sewing and designing blossomed into her pattern company, The Graham Cracker Collection, (grahamcrackercollection.com).
And in 2011, Jan’s first book was published, “The Art of Elegant Hand Embroidery, Embellishment and Applique.”
Jan enjoys sharing her love of needle arts with her students. She brings 45 years of sewing and needlework to her work.
She is an experienced seamstress, quilter, appliqué enthusiast, pattern designer, and teacher.
Her teaching credentials include the past five consecutive years at The Elly Sienkiewicz Appliqué Academy in Willliamsburg, Virginia; the Spring and Fall International Quilt Markets, the International Quilt Festival in Houston, Texas; quilt guild retreats; and her local quilt and sewing shops for over 20 years.
****July 17 Program, Game Night
****August 21 Program, Harriet Hargrave
Harriet Hargrave comes from a family of quilters.
Her grandmother, mother and several of her eight aunts quilted.
Her mother tried to teach Harriet to hand quilt in the early 1970s but to no avail.
Harriet mastered machine embroidery in the mid-1970s and adapted machine quilting
from those skills.
She was machine quilting when the local quilt guilds in Colorado thought machine piecing
was not kosher, let alone machine quilting!
Harriet was teaching machine piecing, appliqué and quilting through the adult education
system by 1978, and opened her store, Harriet’s Treadle Arts, alongside her mother
in April of 1981.
The store started out to be about machine arts but quickly was taken over by
machine quilting and piecing classes and supplies.
In 1987, the first edition of Heirloom Machine Quilting was released.
The first edition of Mastering Machine Appliqué was released in 1991.
From Fiber to Fabric, released in 1997, is the quilter’s bible for the care
and keeping of textiles.
The Art of Classic Quiltmaking which Harriet co-authored with her friend,
Sharyn Craig, in 2000, is the ultimate reference book for piecing techniques.
Harriet has also worked side-by-side with Hobbs Bonded Fibers to develop an
exceptional line of natural fiber battings to meet quilters’ needs.
P&B Textiles has printed five very successful lines of antique reproduction
fabric for Harriet.
In 1994, Harriet was chosen by a panel of her peers as one of the
88 Leaders of the Quilt World for a book that was released by the same
title out of Japan.
In 2006, she was nominated as Professional Quilter’s Teacher of the Year.
Harriet has taught worldwide since 1985, including teaching trips to England,
Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and every state in the USA.
She has definitely spread the word that machine quilting is okay, doable by anyone
with the desire to learn.
Our quilts are not machine quilted but “hand quilted with an electric needle™”!
Currently Harriet and her daughter, Carrie, are writing a series of books
for beginning quilters.
The first in the series, Quilter’s Academy Vol. 1 - Freshman Year,
was released in September 2009. The second in the series,
Quilter’s Academy Vol. 2 - Sophomore Year, was released in May 2010
and Vol. 3 - Junior Year will be available March 2011.
The subsequent volumes will be released once a year after that.
During our meeting, Harriet will lead a discussion about batting and give a brief Trunk Show of some of her quilts.
****September 18 Program, Guild Scrap Sale
****October 16 Program, Sara Moe
Sara Miller-Moe is a self trained fiber artist. She created her first masterpiece
on fabric in kindergarten when she painted a big red flower on a pastel pink dress
her mother made for her.
And as they say-an artist was born.
In 7th grade she was introduced to sewing in a home economics class and
began sewing her own clothes and making anything out of fabric.
For years she designed her own couture clothing much of which was worn for a career
in the computer industry.
In 2002, she landed a dream job as a Creative Consultant with Pfaff Sewing Machines.
To prepare to teach a class at a quilting expo, Sara sewed her first quilt.
The class was based on a book that incorporated curved quilt blocks using templates.
Despite her experience with sewing garments, sewing the curved blocks created
quite a challenge for Sara.
While putting together the blocks there was difficulty with the finished block sizes
and the seams lining up properly.
She quickly learned the pitfalls of using templates and of making quilts
with curved pieced blocks.
After teaching the class a few more times she witnessed firsthand the ongoing
problems with the existing curved templates commercially available.
She soon found herself launching a new business venture, Sew Inspired™
and the Sew Inspired Design System™, to help quilters create unique curved quilts
in an easier and more accurate way.
She has inspired thousands of art quilters to tap their creativity
by creating uniquely designed quilts.
Sara has been featured on the PBS Television Show, America’s Quilts Creatively,
numerous times.
She has traveled the United States teaching and inspiring other art quilters
with her unique designs and easy to use templates and methods.
She has won numerous awards at quilt shows across the country and is
an authority in the quilting industry for her out-of-the-box ideas and approach
to art quilting.
Sew Inspired™ was a launching pad for the incredible creativity that
lay dormant in Sara for so many years.
Her talents are far reaching including abstract painting, surface design;
changing the surface of anything with paint or fabric, art quilts, and mixed media works.
Sara’s love for creativity is evident by the masterpieces you will find throughout
her house including the leather couches she hand-painted and turned into art.
In June 2008, Sara was the first artist showcased at Keller City Hall for the
City of Keller Public Arts Board. She had over 65 pieces on display and for purchase.
A variety of her mixed media artwork and art quilts are currently on display at
Art251 in Keller, Texas. Sara will soon launch an online retail gallery where
her unique artwork will be for sale.
Sara combined her love for color and fabric with her computer experience when
she started designing her own fabrics for Blank Quilting of New York which have
been sold nationwide at quilt stores.
She is a member of the Dallas Area Fiber Artists, where she has held various
board positions over the last 5 years.
Sara’s out-of-the-box thinking continues as she recently added five
new design templates as add-on’s to the original Sew Inspired Design System™.
She is painting more now than ever along with creating inspiring mixed
media artwork.
She resides in Fort Worth, Texas with her dog Aggie and is the proud mother of two
children, Brian and Michelle, both Texas A&M Aggies.
****November 20 Program, Mini Auction
McKinney's Quilter's Guild Annual Fundraiser, Craziness and Mini Quilt Silent Auction
To see the Mini Madness 2009 Guidelines (still good for 2011), click here
Mini Madness Guidelines
****December 18 Program, the famous Guild Christmas Dinner Party!
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****August 21 Program, Harriet Hargrave
Harriet Hargrave comes from a family of quilters.
Her grandmother, mother and several of her eight aunts quilted.
Her mother tried to teach Harriet to hand quilt in the early 1970s but to no avail.
Harriet mastered machine embroidery in the mid-1970s and adapted machine quilting
from those skills.
She was machine quilting when the local quilt guilds in Colorado thought machine piecing
was not kosher, let alone machine quilting!
Harriet was teaching machine piecing, appliqué and quilting through the adult education
system by 1978, and opened her store, Harriet’s Treadle Arts, alongside her mother
in April of 1981.
The store started out to be about machine arts but quickly was taken over by
machine quilting and piecing classes and supplies.
In 1987, the first edition of Heirloom Machine Quilting was released.
The first edition of Mastering Machine Appliqué was released in 1991.
From Fiber to Fabric, released in 1997, is the quilter’s bible for the care
and keeping of textiles.
The Art of Classic Quiltmaking which Harriet co-authored with her friend,
Sharyn Craig, in 2000, is the ultimate reference book for piecing techniques.
Harriet has also worked side-by-side with Hobbs Bonded Fibers to develop an
exceptional line of natural fiber battings to meet quilters’ needs.
P&B Textiles has printed five very successful lines of antique reproduction
fabric for Harriet.
In 1994, Harriet was chosen by a panel of her peers as one of the
88 Leaders of the Quilt World for a book that was released by the same
title out of Japan.
In 2006, she was nominated as Professional Quilter’s Teacher of the Year.
Harriet has taught worldwide since 1985, including teaching trips to England,
Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and every state in the USA.
She has definitely spread the word that machine quilting is okay, doable by anyone
with the desire to learn.
Our quilts are not machine quilted but “hand quilted with an electric needle™”!
Currently Harriet and her daughter, Carrie, are writing a series of books
for beginning quilters.
The first in the series, Quilter’s Academy Vol. 1 - Freshman Year,
was released in September 2009. The second in the series,
Quilter’s Academy Vol. 2 - Sophomore Year, was released in May 2010
and Vol. 3 - Junior Year will be available March 2011.
The subsequent volumes will be released once a year after that.
During our meeting, Harriet will lead a discussion about batting and give a brief Trunk Show of some of her quilts.
Her grandmother, mother and several of her eight aunts quilted.
Her mother tried to teach Harriet to hand quilt in the early 1970s but to no avail.
Harriet mastered machine embroidery in the mid-1970s and adapted machine quilting from those skills.
She was machine quilting when the local quilt guilds in Colorado thought machine piecing was not kosher, let alone machine quilting!
Harriet was teaching machine piecing, appliqué and quilting through the adult education system by 1978, and opened her store, Harriet’s Treadle Arts, alongside her mother in April of 1981. The store started out to be about machine arts but quickly was taken over by machine quilting and piecing classes and supplies.
In 1987, the first edition of Heirloom Machine Quilting was released.
The first edition of Mastering Machine Appliqué was released in 1991.
From Fiber to Fabric, released in 1997, is the quilter’s bible for the care and keeping of textiles.
The Art of Classic Quiltmaking which Harriet co-authored with her friend, Sharyn Craig, in 2000, is the ultimate reference book for piecing techniques.
Harriet has also worked side-by-side with Hobbs Bonded Fibers to develop an exceptional line of natural fiber battings to meet quilters’ needs. P&B Textiles has printed five very successful lines of antique reproduction fabric for Harriet.
In 1994, Harriet was chosen by a panel of her peers as one of the 88 Leaders of the Quilt World for a book that was released by the same title out of Japan.
In 2006, she was nominated as Professional Quilter’s Teacher of the Year.
Harriet has taught worldwide since 1985, including teaching trips to England, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and every state in the USA.
She has definitely spread the word that machine quilting is okay, doable by anyone with the desire to learn.
Our quilts are not machine quilted but “hand quilted with an electric needle™”!
Currently Harriet and her daughter, Carrie, are writing a series of books for beginning quilters.
The first in the series, Quilter’s Academy Vol. 1 - Freshman Year, was released in September 2009. The second in the series, Quilter’s Academy Vol. 2 - Sophomore Year, was released in May 2010
and Vol. 3 - Junior Year will be available March 2011.
The subsequent volumes will be released once a year after that.
During our meeting, Harriet will lead a discussion about batting and give a brief Trunk Show of some of her quilts.
****September 18 Program, Guild Scrap Sale
****October 16 Program, Sara Moe
Sara Miller-Moe is a self trained fiber artist. She created her first masterpiece
on fabric in kindergarten when she painted a big red flower on a pastel pink dress
her mother made for her.
And as they say-an artist was born.
In 7th grade she was introduced to sewing in a home economics class and
began sewing her own clothes and making anything out of fabric.
For years she designed her own couture clothing much of which was worn for a career
in the computer industry.
In 2002, she landed a dream job as a Creative Consultant with Pfaff Sewing Machines.
To prepare to teach a class at a quilting expo, Sara sewed her first quilt.
The class was based on a book that incorporated curved quilt blocks using templates.
Despite her experience with sewing garments, sewing the curved blocks created
quite a challenge for Sara.
While putting together the blocks there was difficulty with the finished block sizes
and the seams lining up properly.
She quickly learned the pitfalls of using templates and of making quilts
with curved pieced blocks.
After teaching the class a few more times she witnessed firsthand the ongoing
problems with the existing curved templates commercially available.
She soon found herself launching a new business venture, Sew Inspired™
and the Sew Inspired Design System™, to help quilters create unique curved quilts
in an easier and more accurate way.
She has inspired thousands of art quilters to tap their creativity
by creating uniquely designed quilts.
Sara has been featured on the PBS Television Show, America’s Quilts Creatively,
numerous times.
She has traveled the United States teaching and inspiring other art quilters
with her unique designs and easy to use templates and methods.
She has won numerous awards at quilt shows across the country and is
an authority in the quilting industry for her out-of-the-box ideas and approach
to art quilting.
Sew Inspired™ was a launching pad for the incredible creativity that
lay dormant in Sara for so many years.
Her talents are far reaching including abstract painting, surface design;
changing the surface of anything with paint or fabric, art quilts, and mixed media works.
Sara’s love for creativity is evident by the masterpieces you will find throughout
her house including the leather couches she hand-painted and turned into art.
In June 2008, Sara was the first artist showcased at Keller City Hall for the
City of Keller Public Arts Board. She had over 65 pieces on display and for purchase.
A variety of her mixed media artwork and art quilts are currently on display at
Art251 in Keller, Texas. Sara will soon launch an online retail gallery where
her unique artwork will be for sale.
Sara combined her love for color and fabric with her computer experience when
she started designing her own fabrics for Blank Quilting of New York which have
been sold nationwide at quilt stores.
She is a member of the Dallas Area Fiber Artists, where she has held various
board positions over the last 5 years.
Sara’s out-of-the-box thinking continues as she recently added five
new design templates as add-on’s to the original Sew Inspired Design System™.
She is painting more now than ever along with creating inspiring mixed
media artwork.
She resides in Fort Worth, Texas with her dog Aggie and is the proud mother of two
children, Brian and Michelle, both Texas A&M Aggies.
****November 20 Program, Mini Auction
McKinney's Quilter's Guild Annual Fundraiser, Craziness and Mini Quilt Silent Auction
To see the Mini Madness 2009 Guidelines (still good for 2011), click here
Mini Madness Guidelines
****December 18 Program, the famous Guild Christmas Dinner Party!
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Sara Miller-Moe is a self trained fiber artist. She created her first masterpiece on fabric in kindergarten when she painted a big red flower on a pastel pink dress her mother made for her.
And as they say-an artist was born.
In 7th grade she was introduced to sewing in a home economics class and began sewing her own clothes and making anything out of fabric.
For years she designed her own couture clothing much of which was worn for a career in the computer industry.
In 2002, she landed a dream job as a Creative Consultant with Pfaff Sewing Machines.
To prepare to teach a class at a quilting expo, Sara sewed her first quilt.
The class was based on a book that incorporated curved quilt blocks using templates. Despite her experience with sewing garments, sewing the curved blocks created quite a challenge for Sara. While putting together the blocks there was difficulty with the finished block sizes and the seams lining up properly.
She quickly learned the pitfalls of using templates and of making quilts with curved pieced blocks.
After teaching the class a few more times she witnessed firsthand the ongoing problems with the existing curved templates commercially available.
She soon found herself launching a new business venture, Sew Inspired™ and the Sew Inspired Design System™, to help quilters create unique curved quilts in an easier and more accurate way.
She has inspired thousands of art quilters to tap their creativity by creating uniquely designed quilts.
Sara has been featured on the PBS Television Show, America’s Quilts Creatively, numerous times. She has traveled the United States teaching and inspiring other art quilters with her unique designs and easy to use templates and methods.
She has won numerous awards at quilt shows across the country and is an authority in the quilting industry for her out-of-the-box ideas and approach to art quilting.
Sew Inspired™ was a launching pad for the incredible creativity that lay dormant in Sara for so many years.
Her talents are far reaching including abstract painting, surface design; changing the surface of anything with paint or fabric, art quilts, and mixed media works.
Sara’s love for creativity is evident by the masterpieces you will find throughout her house including the leather couches she hand-painted and turned into art.
In June 2008, Sara was the first artist showcased at Keller City Hall for the City of Keller Public Arts Board. She had over 65 pieces on display and for purchase.
A variety of her mixed media artwork and art quilts are currently on display at Art251 in Keller, Texas. Sara will soon launch an online retail gallery where her unique artwork will be for sale.
Sara combined her love for color and fabric with her computer experience when she started designing her own fabrics for Blank Quilting of New York which have been sold nationwide at quilt stores.
She is a member of the Dallas Area Fiber Artists, where she has held various board positions over the last 5 years.
Sara’s out-of-the-box thinking continues as she recently added five new design templates as add-on’s to the original Sew Inspired Design System™.
She is painting more now than ever along with creating inspiring mixed media artwork.
She resides in Fort Worth, Texas with her dog Aggie and is the proud mother of two children, Brian and Michelle, both Texas A&M Aggies.
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