2014 Program Schedule

Kaw Valley Quilters Guild

Programs for 2014

Eula

January 20^th & 21^st

“Embroidered Quilts”

Eula Lang & Of One Mind

Jacquie

February 17^th & 18^th

“Maker, Quilter, Artist…a Journey”

Workshop: “Piecing Hexagons by Machine”

Jacquie Gering

Elsie

March 17^th & 18^th

“Winning Stitches”

(hand quilting)

Elsie Campbell

KVQG Annual Quilt Show

April 5^th & 6^th 

Crown Toyota  3430 Iowa

Lynne

April 14^th & 15^th

“Kansas Troubles:

Layered Patchwork Technique”

Lynne Hagmeier

 Julie

May 19^th & 20^th

“Crazy Quilts”

Julie Craig

Kelly

June 16^th & 17^th

“Layer Cakes, Turnovers & Jelly Rolls! Oh My!”

 Workshop: “Sliced Layer Cake”

Kelly Ashton

Victoria

July 14^th & 15^th 

“15 Minutes of Play”

Workshop: “15 Minutes of Play”

Victoria Findlay Wolfe

Betty

August 18^th & 19^th

“Yikes!  How Should I

Quilt This?”

Betty New

September 15^th 

KVQG Mini-Retreat

2:00-8:00 pm

Douglas County Fairgrounds

Lorraine

October 20^th & 21^st

“My Passion for Miniature Quilts”

Workshop: “Paper Piecing Miniature Blocks”

Lorraine Olsen

November 17^th & 18^th

Country Store

December 15^th & 16^th

Happy Holidays Fun!

Kansas City Regional Quilt Festival

Several quilt guilds in the KC area are planning for a collaborative quilt festival in June, 2015. Kaw Valley is one of the sponsoring guilds.

Dates and location have been chosen:

June 19-21 2015
Overland Park Convention Center in Overland Park, Kansas

The group has a website on which they describe the event, the sponsors and the guilds involved:
http://kcrqf.com/

"The Kansas City Regional Quilt Festival will allow you to see showcased quilts from area guilds, shop with a variety of vendors and learn from some of the area’s top quilters. Don’t miss this exciting opportunity – make your plans now to attend the 2015 Kansas City Regional Quilt Festival."

The planners are thinking of something on the scale of the Road to California exhibit or the AQS show in Des Moines with many national and local vendors, workshops and demonstrations and a regional exhibit to show our quilts to a wider audience.

Isn't that last years opportunity quilt

in their publicity photo?

See our guild page at their website:
http://kcrqf.com/kaw-valley/

The organization's officers include Nancy Wakefield, president; Lynn Droege and Janette Sheldon, vice presidents and co-chairs; Cheryl Williams, treasurer; and Sarah Rathgen, secretary.

It's still 18 months away so the website is in its first stages. But check it often. Notice the KCRQF logo over on the right. You can click on that for the next year and a half and see what's new in the planning.

It's not too early to think about renting a vendor's booth, however:
http://kcrqf.com/vendors/

You get a discount if you rent by January 1, 2014.

Original Sewing and Quilt Expo November 21-23

Priscilla Kibbee

If Leaves Were Blue

From the SAQA exhibit

Deux-US

The Original Sewing and Quilt Expo is scheduled for Overland Park

November 21, 22 & 23, 2013

Overland Park Convention Center 

6000 College Blvd., Overland Park, KS 66211

Check their webpage:

http://www.sewingexpo.com/OverlandParkKS.aspx

Priscilla Kibbee

If Leaves Could Choose

One of the exhibits will be SAQA's  (Studio Art Quilters Association) traveling show:

Deux-US: Two Ideas, Two Inspirations, Two Complementary Quilts 

Juror: Katie Pasquini Masopust;

"Artists create their works to help them answer questions. Deux, is a visual conversation that expresses the questions and ideas important to each artist.  Two works show side by side, inviting the viewer to find the connections between them, and see how the artists handle the challenges of composition and technique."

Your Do List

Jerrye reminds us that we need to add these items to our Do-Lists for Early November.

• Renew 2014 KVQG Membership  
• Attend the Country Store Nov.18 & 19
• Bring three 10" x 10" pieces of fall color fabrics to the Nov. meeting.
• Tell your families you would like to receive a gift certificate for a 2014 KVQG Workshop.
• Join in the FUN and offer your help when you are asked.
• Bring friends to the Nov. meeting.

2014 Opportunity Quilt

Half-Square Triangles

Sammie has finished her donation

for our 2014 fund raiser.

It's 95 x 107".

Thanks to Sammie for a dramatic contribution to the guild.

Tickets for sale at meetings.

Kid's Quilts

Deb recently posted that the Pieces for Pediatrics project, which gives a quilt to every child admitted to the Lawrence Memorial Hospital, has logged in their 612th gift.

We help by donating quilts of any size (the kid's go up to 18 years old.) Zach above is very pleased with his space ship quilt. Dinosaurs, robots, superheroes and pink princesses are always welcome.

As are donations of fabric, kid-themed or otherwise.

See Marla's blog post about Zach here:
http://piecedthings.blogspot.com/2013/10/zachary-and-his-quilt.html

Deb's here:
http://debrowden.blogspot.com/2013/10/612-quilts.html

And a newspaper story about the first donation in 2010 here:
http://www2.ljworld.com/photos/2010/dec/27/205007/

Edge 4.0 Exhibit

Majesty by Ruth Powers

Guild members Janet Perkins and Ruth Powers have pieces in a juried exhibit in Merriam this month.
Edge 4.0 Down to Earth will be up until November 2 at the Tim Murphy Gallery:
http://www.merriam.org/DocumentCenter/View/595

The Last of the Wetlands by Janet Perkins

A list of artists:

• Dora Agbas - Kansas City
• Dianne V. Dockery - Kutztown, PA
• Patty Hawkins - Estes Park
• Debi Kibbee - Omaha
• Janet Perkins - Lawrence
• Ruth Powers - Carbondale, KS
• Karen Stiehl Osborn - Omaha
• Judith Trager - Boulder
• Carol Watkins - Lafayette, CO
• Charlotte Ziebarth - Boulder

Ruth has two pieces: Longhorn Splashdown and Majesty

Carol Jones Exhibit in Manhattan

January, February and March

by Carol Gilham Jones

Carol Jones's series of twelve calendar quilts is at the Strecker-Nelson Gallery in Manhattan.

The Gallery has two floors and her work is hung on the street level, their Pop-Up Gallery.
Upstairs is a painting exhibit: Flint Hills Masters

See more about the Gallery here:
http://www.strecker-nelsongallery.com/GalleryPage.htm

And here's a link the the Gallery's Facebook page.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151771451429064&set=pb.106546269063.-2207520000.1380828941.&type=3&theater

Yarn Bomb on Mass

While strolling down Massachusetts Street the other day Roseanne came across a yarn bombed tree.

Not surprisingly in front of the Yarn Barn.

Nearby was a tape bombed parking meter.

Roseanne's Hoffman Challenge

Roseanne Smith

Gilded Wald

2013 Hoffman Challenge Entry

Our Roseanne Smith has been notified that her entry in the 2013 Hoffman Challenge contest has been juried in to the traveling exhibit. Her wall quilt will be on the road until October, 2014.

For 25 years Hoffman Fabrics have been asking quilters to use a,

 shall we say, challenging piece of fabric in innovative ways. 

The 2013 print is above.

Roseanne fussy-cut the leaves to frame her diamond star

and machine quilted details.

Take a bow, Roseanne!

Read more about the 2014 Hoffman Challenge here:
http://www.hoffmanchallenge.com/index.html

See all the quilters who got in to the traveling show here:
http://www.hoffmanchallenge.com/2013challenge/traveling_items13/alphabetical_list_of_traveling_quilts_2013.pdf

Ronnie Elmore from Manhattan who spoke at our guild a few months ago also had his quilt juried in.