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• March Meeting with Nanette Zeller - Creative Journey: Finding your Artistic Voice

  • When
    Mon, March 27, 2023
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    9:30 AM - 11:30 AM
  • Location
    Zoom Platform Online

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  From a young age, Nanette was driven by the desire to create, but her life was also filled with plot twists and challenges. It wasn’t until she embraced her creative spirit that the magic happened and the artistic journey came full-circle. In her lecture, Creative Journey-Finding your Artistic Voice, Nanette shares motivational techniques to feed your inner creative and find confidence to develop your own artistic style.

  Nanette has been sewing since she was 10 and quilting since 2001. She is an author, instructor and award-winning artist whose artwork and writings have been published internationally. Her work has been featured on the Quilting Arts TV and in Quilting Arts Magazine.

  Nanette earned a master’s degree in wildlife biology from North Carolina State University. She found her artistic voice in 2005 when she began combining her skills to create nature-inspired innovative mixed-media textile art (generically referred to as art quilts). Her work is heavily embellished with thread to create beautiful textures.

  
  

  Learn more about Nanette at her website: https://www.nanettesewz.com/

  
  

  
  

      

  
  

  
  

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• Workshop: Nanette Zeller: Paint with Thread

  • When
    Tue, March 28, 2023
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    9:00 AM - 3:30 PM
  • Location
    ZOOM
  • Spaces left
    11

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  Thread painting, frequently referred to as free‐motion embroidery, adds color and texture to an art quilt. This workshop teaches basic techniques needed to color with thread using a sewing machine. In a hands‐on process, Nanette will show students how to successfully use fabrics, stabilizers, threads in their thread painting projects. Students will learn techniques to layer and blend thread colors. Tips will be presented to help students develop their own style and use their newly found free-motion embroidery skills in their quilting projects.

  • Session: March 28, 2023, 9:00 am to 3:30 pm
  • Fee: $50 (members), $70 (non-members)
  • Location: Zoom online platform
  • Supply list: TBS

  
  

  Questions can be directed to Sandra Woodard, woodard_sandra@yahoo.com

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• April Meeting with Sheila Collins - Creative Explorations

  • When
    Mon, April 24, 2023
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    7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
  • Location
    First Congregational Church, 1980 Hamilton Ave, San Jose, CA 95125

  Our very own Sheila Collins joins us with her lecture, Creative Explorations, that takes us though her creative journey from juried art festivals to quilt challenges and commissioned pieces. Then her workshop the next day, Posies in the Sunshine, provides you with the foundation to create beautiful dimensional flowers.

  Sheila's art has been published in Stitch Magazine, and three times her art has been selected by Cherrywood Fabrics to travel internationally with their Challenge exhibits. Sheila also had a One Woman Show Exhibit, Creative Play With Appliqué at The Pacific International Quilt Festival in 2021.

  
  

  Learn more about Sheila at her website: https://sheilacollins.us/

  
  

  
  

      

  
  

  
  

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• Workshop: Sheila Collins - Posies in the Sunshine

  • When
    Tue, April 25, 2023
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    9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    Westhope Presbyterian Church-Social Hall, 12850 Saratoga Ave, Saratoga, CA 95070
  • Spaces left
    16

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  Flowers are a favorite subject, and this class will provide you with the foundation to create beautiful dimensional flowers. The flowers feature a fabric covered button for their centers. You will also learn how to create this wonky woven background. Whether you’re a seasoned veteran when it comes to fusible appliqué, or a newbie to this medium, you will learn some fresh approaches that you can incorporate into other pieces, too.
  

  • April 25, 2023, 9:00 am to 4:00 pm
  • Fee: $50 (members), $70 (non-members)
  • Location: In-person at Westhope Presbyterian Church-Social Hall
  • Supply list
  • Class requires separate purchase of Posies In The Sunshine pattern for $12, available for download at etsy.com/shop/SheilaCollinsFabArt, or on the day of the workshop.

    

  Questions can be directed to Patty Hair, patty.hair@comcast.net

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• Workshop: Kathryn Pellman - Paper Dolls for Grown Ups

  • Start
    Sat, May 20, 2023
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  • End
    Tue, May 23, 2023
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  • Schedule
    2 sessions
  • Location
    ZOOM
  • Spaces left
    19

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  Use your imagination, fusible applique, conversational prints, free cutting, and free motion applique to create a small cartoon featuring your own unique fashionistas.  Learn how to draw figures, style hair, create dresses, shoes, and handbags. Finished Project:  8" - 14" with one or more fashionistas.

  This workshop is divided into two parts: a one hour pre-class and a four hour workshop.

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    Part 1-Saturday, May 20, 10AM. This will be a prep-type class where Kathryn will discuss materials and supplies needed for the class, one hour.

    Part 2-Tuesday, May 23, 9:30 AM. This will be the main portion of the workshop, four hours.

  • Fee  (includes $8 handout fee for instructor):
  • • Workshop fee Members-$58 (must  be a member both at sign-up time and day of workshop)
    • Non-members-$78
  • Location: Zoom online platform
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  Questions can be directed to Sandra Woodard, woodard_sandra@yahoo.com

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• May Meeting with Kathryn Pellman - Word Salad, Fashionistas & Girlfriends

  • When
    Mon, May 22, 2023
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    9:30 AM - 11:30 AM
  • Location
    Zoom Platform Online

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  Fun, entertaining, and amusing with Word Salad, Fashionistas and Girl-friends and a few Angry and Not So Angry Women, Kathryn chronicles how quilting frames and tells the story of her real and imagined life and her love of storytelling that took her from fashion design to traditional, hand-pieced miniatures to quilts to sleep under to cartoon quilts to fashionistas and angry and not so angry women.

  
  

  Learn more about Kathryn at her website: https://www.kathrynpellman.com/

  
  

  
  

      

  
  

  
  

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