Bee's Knees Many Mini's Challenge

Sarah at Sarah's Fabrics has a challenge for KVQG members. She will give you a free fat quarter of this yardage from Terrie Mangat's Free-Spirit line The Bee's Knees if you will agree to make a mini quilt for the 2012 Mini Auction at the quilt show.
Here's the rules

• KVQG Members go by Sarah's in Lawrence to get your free fat quarter
• Do whatever you want with it and make a mini quilt about 18" to 24".
• Have the top finished by the July meeting and bring it.

There will be another Many Mini Challenge in July.

Here's more about the fabric at the
http://www.freespiritfabric.com/core-pages/gallery.php?gal_id=324&sw_id=4660&add=ok

Chris Wolf Edmonds Exhibit

Chris Wolf Edmonds

Detail of

Wild Flowers & Pollination

Chris Wolf Edmonds, one of the founders of the KVQG,

has a show opening next week in Kansas City.

Opening reception: Thursday, May 26, 2011 from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm.

An exhibition by Chris Wolf Edmonds titled “Studio Quilts drawn from Nature” will be on display at the Corridor Art Space (located within the Westport office of Gould Evans) beginning Thursday, May 26 and closing Tuesday, July 19, 2011.


The works in this show were constructed with hand painted and printed cotton fabric. Photo images by the artist were collected with a digital camera and downloaded to a computer where size, color and form were manipulated and then reproduced on cotton fabric and photo paper using a pigment based ink jet printer. The surfaces were pieced, layered with batting and backing fabric, machine quilted, mounted on hand painted boards and fronted with plexiglas.

Artist Statement: Kansas is a land bounded by horizons. The sweep of its terrain provides a stage for the spectacle of earth and sky, for the pageant of seasonal color shifts, for the parade of creatures across grasslands, water and flyways, for the grandeur of towering thunderheads and the grace of billowing grasses, for the rosy luster of dawn and the glow of sundown suffusing the air. All are part of a kaleidoscopic palette that makes my heart sing and provides a stimulus for my art.… for it is the nature of artists to manipulate the art of nature.

See Chris's beautiful website by clicking here:
http://www.chrisedmondsstudioquilts.com/Chris_Wolf_Edmonds/Chris_Wolf_Edmonds.html

Best of Show Full Size Quilt

Ilyse Moore won best of show at our recent exhibit in the viewer's choice awards (full-size quilt) with her applique Paradise in Kansas quilt, machine quilted by Frieda Smith.

Here's a more accurate view of the color when it was a top

She adapted a center from

Rose Kretsinger's Paradise Garden

And the border from another Kretsinger design

called a Kansas Quilt, with a border of parrots

She thanked everyone in the guild who'd supported her in the year it took to make the quilt, as she'd brought it in various stages and was grateful for advice and encouragement.

The label

Barbara Brackman made the first draft of the patterns copied from the vintage quilts and Ilyse modified the drawings.

See Rose Kretsinger's Paradise Garden by clicking here and scrolling to the bottom of the page
http://luna.ku.edu:8180/luna/servlet/view/all/who/Kretsinger,+Rose+Frances+Good

MiniQuilts for the Auction

Nancy Wakefield

Wonky Log Cabin

Carol Jones

A few quilts from the day meeting

Linda Frost

Tree of Life

Karen Hansen

Mostly details....Come to the quilt show to see the whole mini...And bid.

Anonymous, quilted by Marj Loyd

Connie Hadl

Liberated String Baskets

Betty Wright

A Cat is a Cat

Barb Lynch

Prime Number Escape

Ann Burgess

Off the Coast of Africa

Janet Perkins

Winter Solstice

Barbara Brackman

Ambergris Cay Belize

Georgann Eglinski

Quilt Show Boutique

We sell notions, books, fashion and decorating accessories, and small quilty things at the Boutique table at the Quilt Show to raise funds for the guild.

Patterns are always good sellers

Connie and Betsy are in charge. They suggest

• Package together unfinished blocks for an instant quilt kit.
• Clean out your drawers and donate second hand sewing notions

You can bring them to show check in on Friday April 28th or donate them ahead of time.

Contact them if you have questions.
Connie
whadl@sunflower.com
Betst
bweaver@ku.edu

Any kind of handwork is welcome.

Get Those Quilts Bound!

Our annual quilt show is April 30th and May 1st at the Fairgrounds in Lawrence. Hours are 10 to 5 on Saturday and Sunday.

Fill out your entry forms now so Barb and Mary Kay can plan. Click on the link here to see a form you can submit digitally.

http://www.kawvalleyquiltersguild.org/quilt_show_entry_form.html

Quilts with sleeves will be turned in on Friday afternoon April 29th at Building #21 at the Douglas County Fairgrounds on Harper Street in east Lawrence.

National Quilting Day

Celebrate National Quilting Day at the Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library with events beginning at 10 a.m. Saturday March 19th.

Guild members Deb Rowden and Linda Frost will talk about Kansas Quilt History and there will be demonstrations of various techniques and exhibits.

Take some time to sew that day too.

Reeze on the Cover

Reeze's "Romantic Posy Table Mat" is on the cover of the April 2011 Quilters World Magazine.

"Turn up the color with a modern Victorian palette.

The smaller posy border blocks are foundation-pieced to simplify the set-in seams.

Design by Reeze L. Hanson of Morning Glory Designs"

See Reeze's Etsy shop by clicking here:

http://www.etsy.com/shop/reezehanson

See more about the magazine by clicking here:

 http://www.quiltersworld.com/.

Too Bad for Sue

The Sun Sets on Sunbonnet Sue

Seamsters' Union

1979

There's been some recent correspondence about this quilt. It was not a guild quilt. It was an anti-guild quilt. There was a rash of Sunbonnet Sue quilts at show and tell for about a year, each cuter, lacier and more sentimentalized than the last.

Patty Boyer

Strangled by a Sunflower

Several artists learned to sew just for this quilt in 1979 and have never made another quilt block.

Here's some of the copy from the Quilt Index which pictures it because it is now in the collection of Michigan State University's gallery, donated by a collector named Kitty Clark Cole .

Twenty multi-colored applique blocks depicted Sunbonnet Sue being "done in" in a variety of ways. The blocks each measure 11 1/2" square.

The blocks are (from left to right, top to bottom): 1. Self-immolation, Cathy Dwigans 2. Dr. La Fong's Cure for Cuteness, Bryan Anderson 3. O.D., Nadra Dangerfield 4. Skylab Accident, Carol Gilham Jones

5. Sunbonnet Soup, Bette Kelley

6. Strangled by a Sunflower, Patty Boyer 7. Food For Worms, Nadra Dangerfield .

8. Sunbonnet Sioux, Bonnie Dill

9. Three Mile Island, Georgann Englinski

10. Eaten by a Snake, Nadra Dangerfield

11. Mummified, Gloria Hood

12. Struck by Lightning, Carol Gilham Jones 13. Tied to the Tracks, Georgann Eglinski 14. Lost in Space, Bette Kelley 15. Sunbonnet Sue-icide, Barbara Brackman 16. Squashed by a Rock, Barbara Brackman

17. Suestown, Guyana, Laurie Metzinger Schwarm

18. Jaws III, Nancy Metzinger 19. Died for Love, Nadra Dangerfield 20. Run in With the Mob, Georgann Eglinski

See the Quilt Index entry by clicking here:
http://www.quiltindex.org/pbd_family.php?kid=1E-3D-1

February First Step Quilts

The snow days contributed to a bumper crop of First Step Quilts. Fourteen completed quilts were donated this month, along with 5 tops. Here are a few we'll deliver to the kids.

This one was made by Lori Kukuk.

Here's another by Lori.

Linda Frost used up scraps to make this one, isn't it a great design? It measures 46" x 40". The pieced strips are 2" wide, the solid strips are 4 1/2" wide.

Connie Hadl donated this - simple, quick and a sweet quilt. One side is cotton, one side is soft fleece. She stitched it together pillowcase style and tied it to finish. It measures 34" x 42".

Pam Avara donated this cheerful little quilt from her collection. She donated another quilt made for  a challenge several years ago.

Nancy Almstrom donated this all flannel quilt - the blocks are 5 1/2" square.

Karen Warner's 33" x 36" quilt features a bold animal print. She also turned it pillowcase style, then quilted it.

Betty Wright went wild, she donated 5 quilts and 2 tops. This top is in the traditional brick pattern.

The rest of Betty's quilts were made with brightly colored 6" squares.

Joyce Wolf stitched a top (now being quilted) as she recuperated from eye surgery.

Someone slipped this pretty quilt in my bag, I am not sure who did. I'd love to know!

Thanks to Sammie Messick. She volunteered to be the First Step contact at the night guild meetings. If you'd like to help with this program, get in touch with Deb Rowden, drowden@sunflower.com. We've got 2 tops out to quilters, I have 3 more to be quilted.....