First Presbyterian Church Quilt Exhibit, Flint, Michigan

First Presbyterian Church in Flint, Michigan will be a host site September 13 - September 15, 2012. The show is part of the Flint Festival of Quilts, an annual Flint quilt exhibit centered around the Michigan Quilt Artists Invitational held at the Greater Flint Arts Council.

First Presbyterian Church’s Liturgical Arts Ministry has created space to display quilts.  We are currently seeking quilters wishing to display their work as an expression of faith, a shaper of faith, or an inspiration to faith.  This year’s theme is “Fabrics of Life.”

If you would like to register to exhibit a quilt at First Presbyterian Church, please fill out this entry form <== Click here!

*Liturgical Arts Ministry at First Presbyterian Church Flint

PURPOSE

Created in God’s image, we create.  Among the things we know for sure about God is that God is ceaselessly creative. And we know that God is a very, very good artist.

Human beings are created in the very image of God.  God fashioned the clay figures of a man and a woman.  As God blew breath into those figures that divine creative spirit was blown into humanity and that spirit dwells in each of us. This aspect of divine breath is engaged through the creative or artistic process. 

Art has the ability to connect us uniquely, incarnationally, with God’s spirit. In the creative process we engage more deeply the deep meaning and mystery of our faith.

The Liturgical Arts Ministry hopes to encourage our congregation’s ability to engage art as an expression of faith, a shaper of faith, and an inspiration to faith.

2012 Raffle Quilt

It’s finished!!!

The 2012 raffle quilt for

The Evening Star Quilt Guild

 Tickets are $1 each and are available from any guild member.  The quilt will be raffled at our November, 2012 guild meeting.

This quilt was designed by: Lisa Burmann (drawn on EQ6), Lee Collins, Charlotte Coucher and Carolyn Mackaness. Custom quilted by guild president Lisa Burmann. It features invisible machine applique in the center blocks and hand applique in the outer borders. The pieced blocks in the center are by guild members. Measures as a Queen/King size.



For more information on the Evening Star Quilters, please contact:

• Lisa Burmann, President
• Caron Mosey, Vice President

July 2012 Helpful Hint

Top Ten Pressing Tips is the topic for July's 

Helpful Hint.  

Click here to read all about it!

Quilt School: New feature in our monthly newsletter!!!

You’re never too old or experienced to learn something new.  Welcome to “Quilt School,” where each month you’ll pick up a new nugget of quilty information you might not have known.  This month’s topic: Two Color Quilts.

Traditionally, the name “two color quilt” really meant “two fabric quilt,” with both fabrics being solids.  The now-famous red and white quilt exhibit held recently at the American Folk Art Museum in New York is a perfect example of the two color quilt. Another example is this indigo blue and white “Restored Pinwheel” quilt, assembled from antique blocks and quilted in 1983 by your editor. But two color quilts do not have to include white.  They can be any two fabrics put together to create one quilt… even cheddar and blue!   

Even though a scrappy quilt might pull a variety of materials from two different colors, remember that a scrap quilt does not follow the traditional definition of a two color quilt.  I know… it’s confusing!

Patsy Thompson Lecture and Workshop

 

JULY 25 and 26, 2012

The Evening Star Quilters are sponsoring a trunk show and workshop by PATSY THOMPSON (Domestic Machine Quilting). It's time to drop the feed dogs and learn how to machine quilt on your domestic machine! Wednesday evening will feature a trunk show and Thursday will be the workshop on Patsy's fantabulous feathers.  For info, please visit http://eveningstarquilters.blogspot.com. 

To read more about Patsy, go to www.patsythompsondesigns.com. You don't have to be a member of the Evening Star guild to attend!

The lecture will be held July 25th at:

Davison-Richfield Senior Center

10135 Lapeer Road, Davison, Michigan at 6:30 PM

Guest Fee: $5.00. 

Patsy’s workshop will be held July 26th, 9:00am – 4:00pm:

South Flint Church of the Nazarene
4075 East Atherton Rd., Burton, MI 48519

Karen Kay Buckley

Do you live in the Michigan area?  Karen Kay Buckley will be teaching an applique class sponsored by  the Evening Star Quilters in Flint, Michigan

Thursday, May 31st, 2012
9:00pm – 4:00pm

If you are interested, click here to take a look at this pdf.

Karen limits her classes to 25 students, but is willing to add another day if we can fill this workshop quickly.  (She needs to know so she can book her flight from Pennsylvania).   Please contact Lisa Burmann by March 30th, 2012 if you are interested in attending.

Have you visited Pinterest?

 

Pinterest is an online pinboard. Organize and share things you love… like QUILTS!  If you’d like to see what you can do with it, visit Caron’s page at http://pinterest.com/caronmosey/ .  To get started on your own, you’ll need an invitation from somebody, but lots of people from our guild are already on there, so that won’t be difficult!

BARBARA BRACKMAN now has a Pinterest board for CIVIL WAR quilts... http://pinterest.com/materialculture/quilt-civil-war/

Sharon's President Quilt

Sharon received her President's quilt at the January 2012 meeting.  Isn't it gorgeous?  

(Photo cropped to remove background as much as possible)

Grosse Pointe Farms: Free lecture by Ami Simms Feb. 16, 2012

Ami Simms will be presenting a free lecture called "Quilting & Caring: The Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative" at Christ Church (61 Grosse Pointe Boulevard, Grosse Pointe Farms, MI 48236) on Thursday, February 16th at 6:30 p.m. It is open to the public.

From Ami:

“Statistically, one in three people know someone with Alzheimer's. For one in 10, that person is a caring for someone with Alzheimer's. Because I tell the story of my caregiving and advocacy experience through quilts, I think this presentation would be of interest to you. There will be a question and answer time at the end, and I will be bringing small format art quilts to sell. All profits fund Alzheimer's research.

The Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative is an all-volunteer national charity. Working with quilters throughout the US, we have raised more than $690,000 for Alzheimer's research. I am a quilter. My mother had Alzheimer's.”

Foundation Pieced Evening Star Lady

If you haven't yet made an Evening Star Lady to hang in our meeting room at the Senior Center, go to this link and print off the pattern, drafted in Electronic Quilter by Lisa Burmann.

Click here to get the pattern

Evening Star Lady

Do you have an Evening Star Lady hanging on the wall at our meetings in the Davison Senior center?  Do you need the pattern?  You can get it online if you still need to make yours!

Get it here by clicking!

2011 Quilt Challenge Reveal

In early summer of 2011, the Evening Star Quilters were given a challenge.  The rules were:

• The quilt had to be a completed (quilted and bound) 25" square quilt including a quilt label.
• You could only use a total of 2 fabrics ‐ the fat quarter given and an additional fabric of your choosing.
• You could have it quilted by another quilter if you'd like. You had to give credit on the quilt label for the quilter.
• You were welcome to embellish the piece. You could use
  ribbons, beads, buttons, decorative threads, etc. Ribbons
  could not be used as a third fabric.
• You could make your piece using any method of quilting you
  like. Applique, piecing, foundation piecing, fussy cutting,
  etc.

 

Everyone participating in the challenge was given  a fat quarter from the same bolt of fabric.

 

 

 

At the December 2011 meeting the quilts were revealed.  They were gorgeous, and everyone deserved to be called a winner!

		Challenge Quilts 2011 VIEW SLIDE SHOW DOWNLOAD ALL

 

Guild members voted for their favorite quilts, and the following ladies won Viewer’s Choice:

1st place:  Shirley Miles            2nd place:  Mary Seymour

       

Great job, everyone!  And what fun we had!

2012 Guild Challenge: Marvelous Miniature Stars!

Marvelous Miniature Stars!

The challenge this year is to make a quilted piece that features star block/blocks. The challenge is that the blocks used in the quilt need to be 3" square or smaller! 

This is a great opportunity to work on your piecing, pressing and appliqué skills.

Here's the challenge info:

•          Contest starts January 1, 2011 and will end at the May 30^th meeting. Viewers will choose 2 quilts for 1^st and 2^nd place. Winner will receive a gift certificate to a local quilt shop.
•          3" square (or smaller) Star Blocks. Any kind of star/stars can be used.
•          You can use multiple sizes of blocks – but they can be no larger than 3".
•          Can be pieced, appliquéd, foundation pieced or any combination of all of these.
•          You can use any fabrics/colors you like.
•          The quilt can be any shape you want – as long as it fits in the perimeter requirements.
•          The minimum size of the quilted piece is 54" perimeter. (Example: a 12" x 15" rectangle equals a 54" perimeter - 12+12+15+15=54).
•          The maximum size of the quilted piece is 144" perimeter. (Example: a 36" x 36" square equals a 144" perimeter - 36+36+36+36=144).
•          You can add borders if you like.
•          Please add a hanging sleeve and a quilt label to the back.
•          Quilt must be quilted and bound. You are welcome to have it professionally quilted – just be sure to give credit to the quilter on the quilt label.

We hope you will enjoy this challenge! Because we're using stars as the feature – these quilts will be eligible for the quilt show at the Longway Planetarium! The sky's the limit – so be creative!

No meeting Nov. 30th!!!

The Davison Senior Center is closed for the rest of today due to a power outage.  Because of this, there will be no quilt guild meeting tonight, Wednesday, November 30th.  

Please help spread the word!

Caron Mosey

Web and Newsletter Editor, Evening Star Quilters

REMINDER: Winter Weather

A quick reminder: 

If the Davison Senior Center is closed due to weather, there will be no guild meeting.