Starlight Guild Show

October 8-9. Starlight Quilt Guild Show at Bishop Miege High School, 5041 Reinhardt Dr., Roeland Park.

Charity Auction Quilts

Focus

by the Sewhatevers

Members and small groups have been busy making and donating quilts to Lawrence area fundraisers. This one will be auctioned off for the benefit of Kansas Advocates for Better Care, a group that works for residents of care homes.

Their Stand By Me event will be October 23 at the Marriott Suites in Lawrence.

 

The challenge was to take a large scale print, cut the same star points from different parts of the print and choose a background.

Click here to read more about the event:

http://www.kabc.org/news-and-events.html

August Meeting Snapshots

A selection from a great A.M. show and tell.

Two scrappy quilts by Rosie G.

Barb finished her Carrie Hall Sampler

(She had to take time out to live in Korea.)

Tiny leftovers from Marge's studio inspired these two quilts.

Nebraska Quilt Shows: New and Old Quilts

Janet Perkins, A Winter's Morning

OMAHA
Janet has had a quilt accepted in the juried exhibit

Considering Red
Sunderland Gallery, Cathedral Cultural Center 701 N 40th St, Omaha, Nebraska

September 18, 2011 - November 18, 2011



The Edge, Group Exhibit, Kansas Art Quilters.
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English Mosaic, about 1820.

LINCOLN
Currently on Display at the Quilt Museum at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln:


■Elegant Geometry: American and British Mosaic Patchwork--- up through1/8/12

■Nebraska Quilts and Quiltmakers--- up through 10/2/11

■Second Time Around: Quilts Re-made by Joan White--- into 2012

Lectures

10/25 Noon Tuesday Talk “The Art and Science of Patchwork Tessellations”, Dr. Barbara Caron, IQSCM Assistant Director

See the Elegant Geometry exhibit on line:

http://www.quiltstudy.org/exhibitions/online_exhibitions/mosaic/mosaic1.html

Antique Quilts from Show and Tell

Detail of an applique quilt dated 1861 that Marj brought.

The applique stitching is amazing

It's dated in the quilting and in cross stitch.

It was made by an ancestor in Pennsylvania and descended in the family to Marj's cousin.

Sara C brought a most interesting silk top to the July meeting. It looks to be pieced of striped silks that were left overs from a necktie company.

They are string pieced to cotton backings. That red and black print looks to be about 1880-1900,

which is when silk quilts were very popular.

 Susan F brought one her grandmother had made.

Spencer Collaborative Quilt

Douglass’ Kansas Color Light Artillery Battery (Union) Soldiers

In spring 2011, quilt artist Marla Jackson worked with ninth-graders to create a quilt picturing a group of soldiers from the first infantry of African American troops during the Civil War.

Marla Jackson

The quilt is featured in an exhibition called The First Colored Troops of Kansas at the Spencer Museum of Art in Lawrence. Several of Jackson's quilts will also be on display in the Lobby Gallery until September 18, 2011.

Click here for more information:
http://www.spencerart.ku.edu/exhibitions/colored-troops-kansas.shtml

Marla will be the speaker at our October 17th and 18th meeting, where her topic will be
"Visual Literacy."

Sarah's Challenge

Sarah's Fabrics issued a challenge

See more at the May 29th  post by clicking here:

http://kawposting.blogspot.com/2011/05/bees-knees-many-minis-challenge.html

Karen

About 50% of the people who took the fat quarter showed their work at the July meetings.

Ruth and a Butterfly

Everyone saw something different in the fat quarter

Andrea added her own hand dyes

Janet added more from the Bee's Knees line

Deanna saw china

Linda added a bull to the china shop

Someone (who???) saw mosaic tiles

The kind you see at the Plaza in Kansas City

They'll all be sold at the spring Quilt Show for charity.

Stay tuned for another Sarah's Challenge.

Fantasy Flower Garden Block of the Month

Liz Campbell is doing our 2011-12 Block of the Month. She's giving directions for fusible applique using the machine so if you've wanted to learn more about this technique this is the perfect place to start.

Here she is with the first flower

July's Anemone

The blocks are 10"

Of course you can do these using any applique technique you like.

Log Cabins from the Quilt Show

Christina Berger

Home on the Free-Range Chickens

Sheryl Schleicher, Camille Lechliter

Machine pieced and machine quilted by Camille Lechliter

Carol Gilham Jones

Deb Rowden

Two more with no names

Barbara Brackman

Save Those Spools

Marge is collecting all kinds of spools for the children's art projects at the Ballard Center Pre-School in Lawrence.

Any size, plastic, wood, cones, etc.
There's a bowl over by the library cart at meetings