Tuesday Afternoon Program with Jean Mitchell

Bill and Jean

from a LJW photo by Thad Allender

Do plan to stay for the afternoon program Tuesday after the regular guild meeting at the Spencer Museum of Art at the KU campus.

At 1:30 on  April 15, Jean Mitchell will discuss her quilts in the gallery, talking about the themes and symbols in the pieces.

Gallery Talk Virginia Jean Cox Mitchell

1:30 – 2:30 PM / Spencer Museum of Art, Gallery 316

See more here:

http://www.spencerart.ku.edu/programs/calendar.shtml 

A photo of Jean by Jim Richardson from the National Geographic archives.

Darke County Sampler Block 4

Block 4

The Eagle

The pattern for this simple eagle is in your April newsletter.

It finishes to 18" square.

Eagles are almost a necessity in the Ohio samplers.

The banner on ours is hard to see here. We made

it white on ivory. May change it and make it darker.

The Sunnyside Album from the international

Quilt Study Center and Museum

Most of them have similar layered wings and tails;

many feature a banner in the beak.

Some have both arrows and olive branch but

many are quite warlike with arrows only, as above.

They often have stars floating behind them.

This is one of the oldest versions of this eagle I've seen.

"Remember the Giver."

1898, The Peter Shank quilt

The stars are most often free-hand cut, 6-pointed stars

with circles atop.

Four pointed stars....

Here's a version with layered circles and an empty banner.

A 20th-century eagle

Many of the shields have reverse appliqued

stripes. Some tails have two layers of

feathers, some three.

Eleanor Burns sells a Go Cutter set to cut

a similar eagle.

And if you need more block ideas

see if you can find Jan Patek's

Miami Valley Album Quilt pattern from 2010.

April Meeting: Lynne Hagmeier from Kansas Troubles

Lynne

April 14^th & 15^th

“Kansas Troubles:

Layered Patchwork Technique”

Lynne Hagmeier

Lynne is from Bennington, Kansas. She is a well-known author, pattern designer and one of Moda's premier fabric designers.

Read more about Lynne at her webpage:

http://www.ktquilts.com/about-us.htm

See more about her newest Moda fabric, Token of Friendship, in shops this month:

http://storefront.unitednotions.com/storefrontCommerce/attributebrowse.do?selectedAttributeRefinementString=Delivery+Date+%3D+%27April+2014%27&path=B2C02192014%2F%2F%2F%2FUserSearch1%3Dkansas

More Minis

Amber by Beverly Kipp

Bidding is over this afternoon on the charity miniquilts.

Wheat and Sky by Carol Gilham Jones

They are going fast!

May Basket by Joyce Colton and Linda Frost

Quarter Time By Betty Wright & Ronna Robertson

Shadow Boxes by Sammie Messick

Linear by Deb Rowden and Kathe Dougherty

Let's Explore Some New Techniques

by Ronna Robertson

Roseanne Talks at 2:00 Sunday

Roseann's smaller quilts

Smithtown

And four more of the full-size quilts

Kansas Troubles

Featured Quilter Roseanne Smith: 2 Today

Roseanne has 14 quilts in her own personal quilt alcove

at the Kaw Valley Quilters Guild annual show.

Here are a few...

She talks today Saturday April 5, 2014

at 2:00 and again tomorrow at 2.

Click here to see more about the quilt show this weekend.

http://kawposting.blogspot.com/2014/03/quilt-shows-on-final-four-weekend.html

MiniQuilt Auction

Pickup Sticks Jr.

by Sara Chappell

Bid early and often in our Mini Quilt Auction.

When I photographed this bidding form

it was empty but I bet it isn't now. See

the quilt at the top.

Some of them may be already gone by the time you get out to the Quilt Show because they have a Buy-It-Now price.

BBBlock by Georgann Eglinski

Stars and Stripes, one of Linda Frost's patterns

for the block of the month

by Kathy Gyles.

Posies by Sandy Morgan Cockrum

There are PLENTY of them. Thank you members...

Dancing Leaves donated by Mia Bernina.

And Mia Bernina.

Bring Your Quilts Friday, April 4

We are accepting quilts for the quilt show on Friday April 4th from 11 am to 5 p.m.
 Crown Toyota,  3430 Iowa St, Lawrence, KS.

We'll begin hanging them about noon  Get there early to get your quilt in a good spot.

Questions?
http://www.kawvalleyquiltersguild.org/faqs-about-the-quilt-show.html