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February 18 – Nanette ZellerAn Artistic Journey, Finding Your Own Voice In this trunk-show style lecture and slideshow, Nanette shares her journey of discovering her own artistic voice. She describes learning how to quilt with traditional piecing and then switching to mixed-media art.  Her journey of self-discovery will provide us with inspiration and confidence to seek our own quilting style. www.nanettesewz.com March 18 – Nicole Neblett (Mama Love Quilts)Less is More: Making Minimalists Modern Quilts Nicole is the mama behind Mama Love Quilts (www.mamalovequilts.com), an online resource for modern quilting enthusiasts. As a modern quilting designer, instructor, and blogger, she provides quilters with the inspiration and information to create their own modern quilts. April 8 – YouLet Your Ingenuity Shine! Bring Your Favorite Tool or Common Object that you use in making quilts or fabric art. Come to the meeting prepared to show and talk about your favorite tool or object. Bring a sample showing how you have used it. These “tools” can be anything – your favorite chair cushion, the ruler you couldn’t live without, the reminder you hang above your sewing machine, the gripper that prevents your foot pedal from leaving the room. We hope this program will not …

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January 22: Silent Auction Out with the old and in with the new – at least new to you! Sort through your sewing room, closets and drawers for fabric, notions, rulers, patterns, orphan blocks, books, etc., for our auction. This is a great way to pass along those quilting items you don’t use or want and make room to bring home some things you do want! Money raised supports the guild. Bids start at $1, and increase in $1 increments, no cents! Bundle items so bids can start at $1. Print out your bid sheets and fill in a starting bid for each item before the meeting.   February 19: Deb Johnson – “Journey as a Quilter: Trying to fit a square peg into a round hole and other life’s lessons learned along the way……. (Never say never in quilting!)” I started out in 1988, wanting to be a traditional quilter. I loved antique quilts especially of the civil war era and was a little too uppity in my convictions about color and form. I was never going to hand piece, do applique, do hexies, or anything abstract or modern. Life has a way of picking us up and shaking us out and several years ago, my eyes and …

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June:  “Sharp Points the Easy Way.”  Trunk show by Rosemary Summers, Certified Instructor for Deb Tucker’s Studio 180 Design.  The trunk show will feature quilts made with Studio 180 Design Tools and highlight how to use the tools with any quilt pattern.  Selected tools and patterns will be available for purchase.  Checks or cash only.   July:  “Every Quilt Tells a Story”  Trunk show of mini quilts based on Civil War events, trips to historic places and family history, by Susan Pierce of High Point.  Patterns will be available for purchase.  Check her out on Facebook at Miss Susie Quilts.    August:  “Finishing UFOs”  Lecture by Karen Comstock.  Karen loves to come visit guilds to talk about quilting and finishing UFO’s. By showing samples of her work and discussing the creative process she poignantly and humorously illustrates with stories from her own life, emphasizing the role of her friends and family in her quilt design.  http://www.quilttricks.com   September:  “A Behind the Scenes Look at Quilt Judging” Ever wonder what goes on behind closed doors when you submit a quilt for judging? Curious about what the judges are looking for? Want to know what makes a winning quilt? Evelyn Judson and Suzan DeSerres …

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Our April program was on sewing machine maintenance and simple techniques to keep your machine clean and running smoothly. Adam (adard.5000@gmail.com) does sewing machine repair at: Studio Stitch in Greensboro 336-288-9200  and Sew Original in Winston Salem 336-760-1121 This site had a good review of the points Adam made at the meeting: Spring Cleaning for your Sewing Machine. 

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Lee has been creating since she first discovered crayons at age 2! She’s from a family of quilters and learned everything from her mother, affectionately known as The Guru. She loves all things fabric – from zippy pouch to queen size quilt – and everything in between. With a love of color and bold graphic shapes, Lee enjoys designing patterns and teaching all types of classes, while sharing her adventures on her blog, www.maychappell.com. She is a trained graphic designer which shows in her clean aesthetic. Her work has appeared in multiple publications, including Stitch, Quiltmaker & Modern Patchwork. She is an active member of the Triad Modern Quilt Guild. Lee lives in beautiful North Carolina with Mack the Chihuahua.

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Author, teacher and fabric designer Nancy Mahoney has enjoyed making quilts for over twenty-five years. An impressive range of her beautiful quilts have been featured in many books and over 175 national and international quilt magazines, with more books and patterns in the works. She also has created over 100 quilt patterns for a number of fabric manufacturers. Nancy has designed 15 fabric collections for P&B Textiles and Clothworks. With the belief that making a quilt should be fun, Nancy’s goal is for her students to have a good time, learn something new, and make a quilt that they will enjoy for many years. Visit her website www.nancymahoney.com for more information and free patterns.

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Mari de Moya is a former DOQ member who now lives in Fayetteville. Mari’s educational background is in art and anthropology, with a specialty in Asian art. Over the years she has held numerous positions relating to art teaching and management in museums, schools and even her own home art business. In addition to being a quilter, Mari is also a potter and painter. At the March meeting Mari will be speaking to us about incorporating Asian fusion motifs into our quilting.

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This month, Gayle will be speaking to us about her 2015 quilt challenge: making one donation quilt per week! Gayle is a former DOQ member and is part of the Cherry Creek Lane Quilt Bee. Gayle began quilting 20 years ago, and quilting has been a joy in her life ever since. She designs and constructs both custom quilts and her show quilts, which have won her 1st place prizes at quilt shows. She is the proud owner of a Gammill Long Arm Machine, but her specialty is foundation applique. In addition to her involvement with CCLQB, Gayle also is a member of a donation group that meets at the Hillsborough Senior Center.

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(Note: Date is 2nd Monday) Start of the new year right by cleaning out your sewing area to make room for cool new stuff. Help our guild by donating and purchasing at the Silent Auction; it’s a fundraiser for our guild’s operating expenses. This year we are asking you to bundle your treasures together so that that each bundle can have a starting bid of at least one dollar — NO COINS allowed – all bids will increase in even dollar amounts. Print out and label your Bid Sheet. Any items that are left at the end of the auction will be donated to the Scrap Exchange if you don’t want to take the home with you. – Bring items and bid sheets – Bring $1’s and checkbooks – Have Fun!

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Board Members President: Cynthia Latta Program Chair: Annelise Gorensek Workshops Chair: open Secretary: Ella King Treasurer: Jennifer Bellamy Membership: Eunice Caswell Outreach and Education: Jean Fetterman Newsletter Editor: Karen Wysocki Service Positions Bee Keeper: Tonya Krout Donation Quilts: Mary Ed Williams Door Prizes: Cheryl (Kelly) Nelson Facebook: Diane Bidgood Guild Liason: open Hospitality:  Diane Bidgood Holiday Blocks: open Historian: Vicky Price and Deborah Houser Librarian: Rosemary Summers and Cathy Ely Newcomers: Bibby Moore, Bo Herman and Diane Whitfield Photographer: open Publicity: Merrillie Brown Website: Carrie Porterfield

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Tammy is originally from New Jersey and moved to North Carolina 6 years ago for a “change of pace”. When spending time in her sewing room, she is either working on a quilt or sewing a new bag/purse. She has recently added machine and hand embroidery to her obsession of handmade loveliness. Most of the classes Tammy teaches at Thimble Pleasures are various bags and some quilts. Her other interests include gardening, cooking, baking, and reading while playing with her two young sons. When she is not hanging out at the quilt shop or playing with her boys, she works as a nurse practitioner at The Cancer Center at UNC. Her career reminds her daily of the importance of embracing the ones (and hobbies!) she loves.

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Chellie LaPointe, outreach and education coordinator, will speak about creative reuse, and programs at the Scrap Exchange. The Scrap Exchange is a nonprofit creative reuse arts center located in Durham, North Carolina. Their mission is to promote creativity, environmental awareness, and community through reuse. Since 1991, they have been collecting materials from local businesses and residents and distributing these reclaimed materials through a variety of programming. Their creative reuse arts center contains a retail store, an Artist Marketplace, an art gallery, a Design Center to host classes, a Make and Take room for open studio art-making, interactive art installations like our Rio de Reuse, and much more.

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Quilting outside the box and inside the Triangle Michele Wilkie, current president of the Triangle Modern Quilt Guild, will present a program on the modern quilt movement. As defined by the Modern Quilt Guild: “Modern quilts are primarily functional and inspired by modern design. Modern quilters work in different styles and define modern quilting in different ways, but several characteristics often appear which may help identify a modern quilt. These include, but are not limited to: the use of bold colors and prints, high contrast and graphic areas of solid color, improvisational piecing, minimalism, expansive negative space, and alternate grid work. “Modern traditionalism” or the updating of classic quilt designs is also often seen in modern quilting.” The Triangle Modern Quilt Guild is a Chapter of the Modern Quilt Guild for residents of the Triangle region of North Carolina, who are interested in non-traditional, modern quilting. They meet on the second Sunday of the month @ Spoonflower Greenhouse.

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Joanne and Kelley Jones will speak about their adventures as quilt shop owners, and their precision, laser cut, pre-fused quilt kits. Ye Olde Forest Quilt Shop is located in Greensboro with easy access from I-40. They are a friendly, modern eclectic quilt shop located in the heart of North Carolina with an emphasis on old-fashioned customer service! The provide high quality quilting fabrics, longarm quilting tools, quality threads and quilting notions.

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The Nimble Thimbles are a group of quilters who enjoy getting together regularly to share our quilting obsession adventures. We love to celebrate, help and inspire each other – and consider the resulting accumulation of many UFOs a small price to pay! We’ve been meeting for about 8 fun-filled years and enjoy every minute of it. During the DOQ May meeting we will be showing both our group and individual projects throughout the years. To see more of what we’re doing, visit our blog. Our night group is open to additional membership and meets monthly at the Orange County Library. Any interested quilters should contact Joy Murphy for further information.

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I have been a quiltmaker since 1972 when I saw an antique quilt at a rummage sale, purchased it for $1.00, and on the way home fell in love! From that moment I wanted to learn to make quilts and sought out quiltmakers, usually elderly ladies, who could teach me the art. Ever since I’ve been collecting quilts, making quilts myself, writing books about them, designing needlework tools, and sharing my love of quilting by teaching and lecturing. I’ve written articles that have appeared in Quilter’s Newsletter Magazine, Traditional Quiltworks, American Patchwork & Quilting, the FabShop magazine, and Ladies Circle Patchwork Quilts.

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A native of Culpeper, Virginia, I learned various needle crafts from my mother, grandmothers, and Sewing 4-H club. As a young girl, I remember sitting on my grandmother’s shady back steps hand piecing Four Patches in the summertime. (The basketful of Four Patches with gargantuan running stitches is my longest running UFO!) In 1976 when the U.S.A. celebrated its bicentennial, there was a resurgence of interest in colonial crafts. That’s when the quilting bug bit me! Bed quilts, baby quilts, and wall quilts–all are of interest. I find inspiration from traditional quilt blocks and settings, but I applaud the Modern Quilt Movement as well. I enjoy the challenge of designing with parameters: challenge blocks/quilts, Jelly Roll and Layer Cake quilts, stash quilts, block swaps with friends. Visit Aby’s blog at abyquilts.wordpress.com and share her joy of quilt making!

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February program canceled due to snow will be rescheduled for November 2015. Among Elaine’s work are the whimsical collages that depict Chapel Hill, and the illustrations to the children’s book “Goodnight Carolina.” Elaine says of her work, “My artistic process begins with the simple, pure memories of my childhood. I strive to conjure up the essence of those good times and capture them through whimsy and color, stitching them together with a sense of humor and delight.  My process begins by approaching each textile collage with a simple sketch. Then through snips and cuts, my scissors, like a painter’s brush, slowly reveal the image. Layer upon layer of fabric, stitched into place using a variety of colors and textures, brings the piece to life. In each piece I create, my hope is to evoke the kind of pleasure and delight of childhood, when life is simple, sweet, and full of endless possibilities.” To see more of her work visit Elaine’s website www.elaineoneil.com.

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Roxane Lessa has been teaching since 2008, and loves to share the joy of art quilting. She is an award winning art quilter who has exhibited in many shows, including Houston International Quilt Festival, Tactile Architecture, In Full Bloom, and PAQA South shows. She continues to explore new ways to use the fiber medium to create art and share with her students. She also has a weekly blog that shares new work, videos, tips and techniques, and upcoming exhipits, www.blog.roxanelessa.com You can see her work at www.roxanelessa.com. She lives and works in Raleigh, has 2 daughters and a lazy studio cat.

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Susan Brubaker Knapp, will present a one-hour digital slide show and trunk show based on her book, Point, Click, Quilt! This lecture focuses on tips for taking better photographs, and then turning them into art quilts. This is an inspirational and detailed look at her process: tracing the photo; enlarging the line drawing; using it to trace the fused applique pieces for the quilt; creating a positioning overlay; and then cutting, positioning and fusing the pieces before thread sketching and quilting. A trunk show of pieces from the slideshow and additional work follows, and questions are welcome. Susan started quilting as a hobby, but turned into a passion and a business. She now teaches nationally and internationally, hosts “Quilting Arts TV,” and has produced numerous patterns, two books, and four workshops on DVD. She grew up in Mt. Lebanon, Pa., a suburb of Pittsburgh, and earned her B.A. in English at Allegheny College (Meadville, Pa.) and her M.A. in journalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She now lives near Charlotte, N.C., with her husband, Rob, and two daughters. Susan loves traditional hand quilting and needleturn appliqué, but has embraced innovative machine techniques. She started making art quilts in 2005. …

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Kevin Womack is a textile artist living in Lynchburg, Virginia. In 1986, Kevin was introduced to quilting by his maternal grandmother. Having always loved the legacy of family quilts, he decided to have her teach him the tradition. Over the years, Kevin studied with many accomplished textile artists and developed a love for hand dyeing and patterning fabrics with surface design techniques. His experiments produce a line of unique fabrics and clothing that he exhibits and sells. To see more of his work visit www.KevinWomackArt.com

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Time to get your quilts ready for the show. Quilt turn-in is at our regular guild meeting — Monday, August 18. All quilts must have a label with the quilt’s name and your name and address (email or street). If your quilt is being judged you need to cover the label by pinning or basting a piece of fabric over the label so that the judging is anonymous. Also, all quilts over 2 feet wide must have a 4 inch hanging sleeve. Have you ever dreamed of owning your own little fabric shop full of beautiful quilting fabrics, patterns and notions too? Vernett Zimmerman of “ABC Quilting with Nana” has a cute store tucked away on Webb Avenue in Burlington. She will speak to us after the quilt take-in, about the trials and tribulations of owning a quilting shop. Please join us and bring your questions for Vernett.

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Our program for Monday, July 21 will be presented by Amanda Murphy of “Amanda Murphy Design.” Amanda is a fabric designer for Blend Fabrics and her lines include Topiary, Holiday Bouquet, Bonjour Mon Ami, Bella, Veranda, Swiss Chocolate and Ambrosia. Her fabrics combine shapes from nature in a variety of scales with a playful modern twist. Amanda teaches machine embroidery and applique for Craftsy and has a book out entitled “Color Essentials: Crisp and Vibrant Quilts.” She also blogs and designs patterns. She lives in Charlotte, NC. Visit her website at Amanda Murphy Designs

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These are not just your Grandmother’s String Quilts! String Quilting has a colorful history and can create exciting elements when mixed with traditional patchwork shapes! String quilts from small to large will fill the listeners with ideas and inspiration to dig into their own stashes and sew up a storm of strings! Quilts from Scraps & Shirttails, Scraps & Shirttails II, Adventures with Leaders & Enders, and my latest book, String Fling will be featured. DOQ members please wear your nametag and sign-in. Non-DOQ members fee for the lecture is $10.

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May will be small group presentations on finishing your quilts for the show. Bev Metz and Sarah Porreca will demo two different techniques for binding. Susan DeSerres will demo blocking your quilts so your quilt will be flat and straight. Judy Corley-Lay will demo making and attaching a sleeve. Labels for your quilts will also be demonstrated by Evelyn Judson. Each demo will have its own table and members will move between tables to see the various items. This is a tradition before our quilt show and even experienced quilters may come away with a new trick or two!