August 9 Meeting

Table Demos   

Non-Caloric Sweet Treats

•  Charlotte Williams (using honey buns, turnovers and display table layer cakes, jelly rolls, honey buns, turnovers and etc.),

•  Betty Lawson (using layer cakes),

•  Kathy Jones (using jelly rolls for string piecing)

•  Reta Lawrence (using charm packs).

•  Shirley Chai  will be doing rail fence.

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Coming September 13, 2010

Jan Hickman

Contemporary Quilt Artist

      Jan Hickman started quilting 26 years ago, after 20 years of creating traditional quilts she wanted to create original artwork through fabric in all of her quilts.  She began experimenting with her own designs and found great pleasure in crating one of a kind quilts.  Many of her current quilts are created using fabric that she has either hand-dyed or painted herself.  She uses many different techniques in her piecing, appliqué, embellishing and quilting.

     In 2002, Jan’s originally designed quilt named “Breaking with Tradition” received Best of Show at the Great Arkansas Quilt Show.  “Breaking with Tradition” now makes its home at the Arkansas Historical Museum.  Many of her originally designed quilts are also part of several private collections.

     Jan has taught contemporary quilt classes In Harrison, Mt. Home, and at the Ozark Folk Center.  Last winter Reta took another class at the Folk Center and dropped in on a class that Jan was teaching all of her students were having a wonderful time and learning a great deal.  She is excited about Jan’s program “Thanks Marie but don’t look now” and her workshop “Tsukineko Meets Aloe Vera”.

Workshop - Tsukineko Meets Aloe Vera

Sept. 13, 2010

1:00pm – 5:30pm

Class limited to 15

Supply List:

1/3 yard PFD white Kona Cotton

Tsukineko All Purpose Ink

            Green Apple

            Sedona Clay

            Lemon Yellow

            Tangerine

Soft brushes #8, #6, #4, & #2

.01 Black fabric marking pen

Aloe Vera Gel

Styrofoam plate

Paper Towels

     Four people can share the ink, aloe Vera Gel, plates and paper towels.  Jan purchased her brushes at Wal-Mart in a pack with white bristles and blue handles.  After some research, Reta Lawrence was unable to find a local source for ink; therefore after QUEST’s July meeting she will order 4 of each color of ink that is required for the class.  These may be purchased from Reta for $4.26 each (includes sales tax). For more information about the class, please contact Reta at 501-767-4872 or check out her website at http://www.retas-sewingdreams.com

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Coming October 11

Joyce Becker

Workshop - "Mini-Landscape Collage"

     A prize-winning quilter, Joyce R. Becker focuses her art, writing, teaching and lecturing on landscape quilts.  Joyce's books, Beautifully Embellished Landscapes & Luscious Landscapes, Simple Techniques for Dynamic Quilts were published by C&T Publishing.  Joyce's DVD, Joyce Becker Teaches You Landscape Quilting, is informative, educational, & entertaining.  Feeling blessed to have such a creative profession; Joyce volunteers throughout the quilting community and is one of the founding board members of the Association of Pacific Northwest Quilters.  Many articles authored by Joyce have been published in national quilting magazines. 

     Joyce was a featured guest on the Home and Garden Television Network's "Simply Quilts," episode #834.  She also appeared on episode #113 of a new PBS series, "M'Liss's World of Quilts".  She recently taped a promotional video for the Tsukineko Company.  Her quilts have been displayed internationally in contests and invitational exhibits and have appeared in books, magazines and on television.  An article by Joyce was published in Quilting Arts Magazine in the fall of 2004, Page 88; "Expand you Horizons -  Landscape Techniques". 

     Joyce's lively sense of humor and positive attitude result in lectures and workshops that inspire, inform and entertain quilters as she travels throughout the world.  Joyce teaches and lectures throughout the United States for guilds and large conferences, such as the International Quilt Festival in Houston, TX, and has also traveled to New Zealand, Hawaii, and Canada to teach and lecture.

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Coming November 8, 2010

Nova Montgomery

Program - "A Century of Progress"

Workshop: "Winging It"

This is such a happy quilt!  It just makes you smile!

With the dimensional (floppy) wings, the dragonflies look like they are going to take flight any minute!

Nova uses a pattern created by Ruth Jensen for the basic design of this quilt, but she has revamped the piecing technique with her characteristic style of simplifying methods.  This finished quilt measures 43" square.