Prices quoted are for members only; non-members slightly higher (+$10).
IMPORTANT: Only payment in full reserves your workshop space. In order to hold your spot in any class, you must pay for it now. Make checks out to Naples Quilters Guild, and mail them to Linda Biondino. Her address is in the roster.
The guild does not provide refunds. If you are unable to attend, YOU must find your replacement. The program chairman will maintain a waiting list, but it will be your responsibility to fill your spot.
NOTE - New Classroom Location: Our workshops and Gathering Stitches are now held at the Golden Gate Community Center, 4701 Golden Gate Parkway. Please note if you bring your own lunch: the kitchen is no longer available to guild members on workshop days. A McDonald's is right across the street, and there are several other places to eat, like "Subway" in the general area.
Future workshops are up to you! Because attendance at workshops has fallen off in recent years, we have adopted a far more conservative policy in booking future teachers. Although the guild underwrites some of the expense of our teachers, our Standing Rules mandate that workshops shall be self-sustaining. We have calculated that with all the expenses (travel, teacher fees and an increase in GGCC fee) a minimum of 15 participants is our break-even point. In fairness to our teachers and to enable us to avoid paying for things we can’t use, we must decide at least 30 days in advance whether we will have a workshop or will need to cancel it. We simply cannot wait until the day before.
What can you do to help?
Support the guild and take some classes! Sign up today! Try something new. You’re bound to develop some new skills and you’ll definitely have a good time while making new friends and strengthening old bonds.
Talk to your friends and suggest teachers that several of you would like us to contact for the 2008-2009 year. We’re always looking for ideas, and we want to be sure we are hiring the people you truly want to see.
If you have any questions or want to sign up for any of our wonderful classes,
Send your checks made out to NQG to: Linda Biondino(Please see our directory for Linda's mailing address.) bionfam@embarqmail.com
You will translate pictures, line drawings, photographs, into piecework - a technique that gives slightly more abstract look to the subject. You will make a patchwork of animals, landscapes, buildings or anything you choose. you may opt to get intricate enough that your friends will think you have applique instead of pieced. This is a different approach to pieced pictures than you may have learned elsewhere and is applicable to pictures ranging from block size to a full size quilt. your perfect may be simple or more challenging depending on your skill level. Below are some examples of Charlotte's pieced pictures.
Applique for Realism Design Class - Saturday, March 20, 2010
Use photos to make patterns for realistic applique figures. This class elaborates on the techniques explained in her book, Faces & Places - Images in Applique and its sequel Focus on Features - Life-like Portayals in Applique. We will peel into Charlotte's sometimes intricate and tricky study in applique and reverse app;ique. She assures us that the mastery of the technique is well worth the extra effort. We will woik on the project shown below. Also shown is a more intricate design (for when we have mastered the technique!)
Marci specializes in strip-piecing, machine quitling and specializes in creating techniques and tools to make quilting frustration-free. SHe is regognized internrationally for her ezpertise in quilting. MArci enjoys sharing ideas that simplify th eprocess of quilting. Narci graduated with a batchelor;s and master;s degree in math. In 1993 she started Alicia's Attic with the concepts that combine her love of math with her love of quilting. Quilting became a great way to share her knwoledge with others. As an admirer of traditional quilts, Marci was inspired to author books Not on your Grandmother's TM Quilts. This series uses the traditional patterns people associate with their grandmother and simplifies the technique.
Oh, My Stars - Friday April 16, 2010
This workshop will teach you star making techniques from her new book, Oh, My Stars.
There will be star making techniques for beginners as well as more advanced techniques for those quilters who like to reach for the stars.
Learn how traditional designs come together using rotary cutting and strip-piecing method without set-in seams to make dazzling star quilts. The possibilities for this quilt are endless just by changing the layout and the color selections.
Speedy 3D Quilts - Honeycomb Waffle and Hollow Cube - Saturday April 16, 2010
You can make these impressive 3-dimensional optical illusions with simple value selections, once you know the trick. Build the blocks using strip-piecing method, so it's fast too! In fact it is easy enough for a confident beginner to do. It;s your choice to make each of the 3 blocks or make one block many times. Join our class and see how your blocks stack up.
