Half Square Triangles and Four Patch Class North Star Quilters...
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North Star Quilters Guild
Third Educational
Conference
Friday, October 17, 2014 —
Sunday, October 19, 2014
Alerus Convention Center—Ballroom 5
1200 42nd Street South Grand Forks, ND
www.northstarquilters.org
For questions contact:
Jolene Mikkelson at [email protected]
Phone: 218-791-2182
Or
Bev Solseng at [email protected] Phone: 701-317-0992
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National Faculty:
Frieda Anderson Pat Speth
Regional Faculty:
Pam Davis
Tina Hylton Mary Ellen Imdieke Lorraine LeBlanc
Nita Schultz Nancy Zimney
SA-1
Half Square Triangles and
Four Patch Class
SA-2
Duluth Trees
SA-3
Cartouche
Embroidered
Pillow
SA-4
Crazy Quilt Basics
With Hand
Embellishment
SA-6
Machine
Quilting
SA-5
Basket Weave
Quilt
SU-7
Borders the Nickel Quilt Way
SU-8
Fun Free Motion Quilting
SU-12
Diva Wallet
SU-11
Miniature Paper
Quilts
SU-9
Orion’s Belt
Table Runner
SU-10
Machine Stitched
Crazy Quilt
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Pat Speth is the creative master-
mind behind the five inch square
craze and a talented scrap quilter. Pat has written four books and
many patterns for quilts using 5”
squares. She enjoys discovering
traditional blocks, designing new
blocks, and teaching the methods
for working with these squares. After juggling her full-time job and her
quilting for many years, Pat moved into a full-time quilting
career in July 2003. “I have found my passion in life, and I
can’t imagine doing anything else.”
Pat Speth
I have always made things, and love the
process of creating. In college I majored in
art history and minored in ceramics, but returned to fiber because it was more satis-
fying. For years my focus was designing and
making clothing. All that changed in 1992,
when I realized all I wanted to do was make
quilts. I have been designing and making
original art quilts ever since.
It is hard to say what part of quiltmaking I like best. I love the
pure creativity involved in conceiving and designing a new quilt.
I love to piece and to fuse. I have found that by fusing smaller pieces, I can work out design issues. Then I like to make
a bigger, bolder statement and piece the same quilt in a large
format. Most of my work is machine quilted and nature in-
spired.
Every day I walk in a little woods near my home with my dog
George. Much of what I see there appears in my work. I discov-
ered hand dyeing fabric 20 years ago, and I now work almost
exclusively with my own hand dyed cottons and silks. I love the
dye process, and I particularly enjoy seeing the colors emerge
from the wet fabric.
Frieda Anderson
National Faculty
North Star Quilters Guild Education Conference Master Schedule
Friday, October 17, 2014 Ballroom 5
Pat Speth Lecture/Trunk Show 7:30 pm
Saturday, October 18, 2014 Ballroom 5
Pat Speth SA-1 “Half Square Triangles and Four Patch” 8:30 am - 4:30 pm
Frieda Anderson SA-2 “Duluth Trees” 8:30 am - 4:30 pm
Tina Hylton SA-3 Cartouche Embroidered Pillow
8:30 am - 12:00 pm
Mary Ellen Imdieke SA-4 Crazy Quilts Basics With Hand Embellishment”
8:30 am–12:00 pm
Nita Schultz SA-5 Basket Weave Quilt 1:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Lorraine LeBlanc, SA-6 Machine Quilting 1:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Frieda Anderson Lecture/Trunk Show 7:30 pm
Sunday, October 19, 2014 Ballroom 5
Pat Speth SU-7 “Borders the Nickel Quilt Way” 8:30 am - 4:30 pm
Frieda Anderson SU-8 “Fun Free Motion Quilting” 8:30 am - 4:30 pm
Nita Schultz SU-9 Orion’s Belt Table Runner
8:30 am - 12:00 pm
Mary Ellen Imdieke SU-10 Machine Stitched Crazy Quilt
8:30 am - 12:00 pm
Pam Davis SU-11 Miniature Paper Quilts 1:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Nancy Zimney SU-12 Diva Wallet 1:00 pm - 4:30 pm
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Vendors!
A limited number of quilt shops will
be vending during the conference
and will be open
to the public during class
hours and prior
to trunk shows.
Saturday Classes - Regional Faculty
Saturday morning
Tina Hylton
SA-3 Cartouche
Embroidered Pillow
Come and learn the basic embroi-dery stitches and then use them to make this stunning pillow!
Saturday morning
Mary Ellen Imdieke SA-4 Crazy Quilt Basics with
Hand Embellishment
Brief history of crazy quilting as well as tips and techniques for making a crazy quilt. Practice hand embellishment of your crazy quilt square.
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Saturday afternoon
Nita Schultz
SA-5 Basket Weave Quilt
This quilt uses a jelly roll and two additional fabrics. A 90° ruler is
needed for this project. The Crea-
tive Grid 45°/90° ruler is suggest-ed, but any 90° ruler will work as long as it measures 6½” from tip to base line. The partial seam technique is used in this block. The quilt finishes at 70” x 70”.
Saturday afternoon
Lorraine LeBlanc
SA-6 Machine Quilting
Have you always wanted to free-motion quilt your own table run-ners and other projects on your
own sewing machine? You will learn how to spray baste a quilt and how to quilt motifs without marking. We will also discuss thread, needles and other tools.
Regional Faculty
Sunday Classes - Regional Faculty
Sunday morning
Nita Schultz
SU-9 Orion’s Belt Table
Runner
Construction using the Common Bias cutting guides allows for easy and accurate floating stars. Using joined bias strips you create rectan-gles and squares. A template set is required for this project. Nice sharp points are produced using this method.
Sunday morning
Mary Ellen Imdieke SU-10 Machine Stitched
Crazy Quilt
Brief history of crazy quilting as well as tips and techniques for making a crazy quilt. Practice two machine embellishment techniques of your crazy quilt square.
Sunday afternoon
Pam Davis
SU-11 Miniature Paper Quilts Learn to make a miniature quilt suitable for framing, using simple paper cloth techniques and basic
color theory. Use fabrics or a com-bination of paper and fabric to cre-ate your quilt. Patterns provided or use your own.
Sunday afternoon
Nancy Zimney
SU-12 Diva Wallets
Dress it up or keep it casual—you’ll find it hard to make just one! This sassy wallet has 6 card pockets, 2 open pockets and a zippered pock-et. Complete it within the class. Makes a great gift! $20 kit fee, pay-able to Nancy, covers pattern, one frame and screwdriver.
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Faye’s Henhouse Quilts 37 Center Ave. N Mayville, ND 58257 701-786-3790 www.fayesquiltshop.com [email protected]
Owned and Operated by Faye Grandalen Over 3,000 bolts, Quilting Classes, Hand Guided Quilt Machine, Custom Quilts, Embroidery & Heat Press Ma-chines, Books, Patterns, Notions & Supplies, and Much, much more!
Pamela Gordon Davis is an art quilter and fiber artist. She has a degree in Textiles, Clothing and Design from the University of Minne-sota. She is a member of the North Star Quilters Guild and the De-signing Quilters group in Fargo. She is an Artist in the Classroom for the Grand Forks School District.
Tina Hylton lives near Reynolds, ND and is the mother of Marie (6)
and Asher (2). She belongs to the North Star Quilters Guild, has been quilting for 25 years and enjoys all quilting methods, especially em-broidery and fusible applique. She owns a pattern design company called Light on the Prairie., works at Quilter’s Eden and is a martial arts instructor by trade.
Mary Ellen Imdieke, Blaine, MN, has been sewing for nearly 60 years. “As kids, we all had jobs: wash dishes, wash clothes, do the
ironing, do the sewing.” At 13 she made a maternity dress for her mother! About 20 years ago, she saw a Crazy Quilt at the Smithson-ian American History Museum. That inspired her to teach herself to do Crazy Quilts.
Lorraine LeBlanc grew up on a dairy farm east of new Rockford, ND where she participated in 4-H for ten years. She attended the
University of North Dakota and has lived in Grand forks for 26 years. She joined North Star Quilters Guild in March of 1997 and has been machine quilting on her Bernina for ten years.
Nita Schultz is a quilting addict who loves to teach, create and decorate with quilts. Nita recently followed her passion by creating “What a Hoot Quilting”. She blogs at www.whatahootquilting.com and lives in Fergus Falls, MN.
Nancy Zimney is from Grand Forks and is a proud member of the North Star Quilters Guild. She has been quilting for eleven years.
SA-2 “Duluth Trees” All day Saturday
Raw-edge fusing makes quilting fun and fast. This woodland design is
simple yet elegant and naturally
suited for quiet reflection of the
passing seasons. Students will free
form cut tree shapes and, using a collage method, fuse them onto fabric
dyed in a colorway that speaks of
cabins, lakes and rivers. Each
student will create their own unique forest in the woods art quilt.
Lecture and Trunk Show “Frieda’s Fun Free Motion Machine Quilting”
7:30 pm Saturday
In this one hour lecture
and PowerPoint
presentation, Frieda will show you how she
uses her sewing
machine to achieve her beautiful award winning machine quilting
designs. Thread, needles, batting and other tools will be reviewed and the basting of large quilt projects will be covered.
SU-8 “Fun Free Motion Quilting” All day Sunday
Frieda’s award winning quilts have been
in many magazine articles and books. She will lead you through a series of fun
exercises where you will create one-of-a-
kind free form machine quilting without
marking or templates. Each exercise
leads you step by step in developing your
own style and expertise to free motion quilting with confidence.
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Lecture and Trunk Show “Fabulous Nickel Borders” 7:30 pm Friday
Turn a nice quilt into a WOW quilt by adding
easy-to-piece Nickel Borders. In this lecture we
focus on easy to piece borders that are made from 5” squares. I bring many of my quilts with
pieced borders and I walk you through my method of “auditioning”
borders.
SA-1 “Half Square Triangles and
Four Patch”
All day Saturday
These units could be considered the corner-
stones of quilting. Simple sewing and cutting
techniques will turn your 5" squares into many
great quilts. You can choose from 14 different quilts to make. Once you play with these units
on a design wall you may come up with a new
block of your own! You will also learn how to
make 2 different sizes of nine patches from 5" squares and sew a
mystery block! A handout will be given and discussed on how to
make your pieced border fit your quilt top. Rated: All skill levels.
SU-7 “Borders the Nickel Quilt Way” All day Sunday
Jazz up your quilts by adding easy pieced bor-ders. Unit construction methods will be taught
for these basic border units: Half Square Trian-
gles, Four Patches, Flying Geese, Picket Fence,
Hourglass Units, Small Wonders, and Combina-
tion Units. If time allows additional units will also be demonstrated. Learn how to fit any
pieced border to your quilt top. I utilize an inner spacer border and
we will practice calculating the size of this border. We will also go
through the steps and calculations needed to determine the num-
ber of border units needed when you are designing a quilt of your
own or adding a pieced border to a quilt that does not already have one. Worksheets will be provided.
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