CLASS POLICIES

• Please come early enough to be set up for the start of the class. Doors will open at 9:00 AM; class begins at 9:30 AM
  
  
• Be prepared. This includes having all items on the supply list, sewing machine in good working order, and basic sewing supplies. It is also a good idea to bring an extension cord, power strip, an iron and an ironing surface that may be shared with other students.
  
  
• Cell phones should be silenced during class. If you need to make or take a call, please exit the classroom.
  
  
• Visitors are very distracting to the teacher and other students, and should not be in the classroom.
  
  
• If you have to leave the class early, please sit in the back.
  
  
• If you need to cancel your attendance in a class, you will receive a full refund only if your spot can be filled from a waiting list. Non-members may register for a workshop 60 days prior to the class, providing there is an opening, at the non-member's price of $55.00.
  
  
• In consideration of others, please refrain from wearing perfumes.
  
  
• Lunch is on your own. Some venues will allow you to eat in the classroom which means you can brown bag it; otherwise, you will have to go out or eat your bagged lunch outside the classroom. An hour is built into the class time for a lunch break, which is flexible and could affect the end time of the workshop.
  
  

For additional information on any of our programs or workshops, please contact Carole Thiel at ctquilt@comcast.net.

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2011 EVENTS:
    August   l    September   l    October   l    November   l    December   

2012 EVENTS:
    January   l    February   l    March   l    April   l    May   l    June   

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AUGUST 2011

DARLENE ZIMMERMAN is best known as The Feed Sack Lady. She began her career designing quilting tools for EZ Quilting. She has published many books with her newest book Fresh from the Clothesline due out in late 2011. She is noted for her design of 30's fabric collections, most recently for Robert Kaufman Fabrics. Darlene has published articles and patterns for quilting magazines and self-published for her company, Needlings Inc. She will show us how creativity in quilting can be learned by being creative in our colors, settings and border use. Her trunk show will inspire you to view quilts from a different perspective and re-evaluate all quilts you are currently making. Learn to take your quilts beyond ordinary to extra ordinary.

FRIDAY WORKSHOP: FINISHING SCHOOL - Learn how to make, mark and bind all types of edge finishes on quilts. You will make bound samples of scalloped, notched and shaped edges such as hexagon edges (as in Grandmother's Flower Garden quilt), ice cream cone borders, and wavy edges. You will also learn how to make (and finish) prairie point edgings, and how to add a flange. The class will include a professional's tips on perfect bindings and no-lump joints for a fabulous finishing touch on all your quilts! This is a no-stress class as you will only be making samples. Easy Scallop tool required.

Lecture held at Concorde Banquets, Kildeer, IL (see map)

Vendor for the night: A Touch of Amish
Barrington, IL

Workshop held at the Barrington Library, Barrington, IL. (see map)

Date	Event	Name	Supply List
Thurs, Aug 18	Lecture/Trunk Show 7:15pm	From Ho-Hum to WOW!
Fri, Aug 19	Workshop 9:30am-4:30pm	Finishing School	supply list

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OCTOBER 2011

JOANIE ZEIER POOLE is an author, pattern designer, teacher, and award winning quilt maker. She has been a quilter all of her adult life and a practitioner of Heirloom Machine Quilting on a domestic sewing machine for over eleven years. She began as a student of master quilter Diane Gaudynski, but has since taken her craft to a level where she taught alongside her mentor and other top instructors at the Harriet Hargrave Machine Quilting Celebration. She uses this technique, along with her innovative applique and thread illustrations, to create original designs expressing her personal stories. Her quilts have been exhibited at major quilt shows, earning many awards including First Place-Custom, at the Milwaukee Machine Quilters Show 2010. The art of Heirloom Machine Quilting has enabled Joanie to create intricate designs on the quilt surface through refined free-motion. They display quilted images through thread illustration, unusual background fabrics and quilted textures. Travel with Joanie on an in-depth journey through the process of the making of these award-winning quilts, answering the questions; "How did you do that? And where do I start?"

FRIDAY WORKSHOP: FABULOUS FILLER WHOLECLOTH CHRISTMAS STOCKING OR MINI QUILT - This original design features both unmarked freehand fillers, as well as more formal, marked background patterns. You will receive instruction to successfully complete each step of the process including: selecting and preparing appropriate supplies, stabilizing the fabric, marking the design, pin basting the layers and setting up your machine. Time is planned to practice essential free-motion basics including perfecting the tension of your machine to build your confidence and achieve meticulous results. Complete kit including pattern will be available for purchase.

SATURDAY WORKSHOP: LECTURE/DEMO AND SASSY SEWING TOOL CADDY - The morning session will be a lecture/demo consisting of navigating and stitching directions for machine quilters. Joanie takes you on an adventure of understanding the process of machine quilting - from planning intelligently to beginning and ending your stitches, to what to stitch first, last and why. During the afternoon session you will learn hands-on easy free-motion quilting. You will learn to listen as the printed fabric indicates how it can be quilted without any marking! Fabric has been chosen for the Sassy Sewing Tool Caddy to get you stitching leaves, curls, pebbles, spirals and headbands without any frustration. This is a great workshop for beginners and beyond. Complete kit including pattern available for purchase.

Lecture held at Concorde Banquets, Kildeer, IL (see map)

Vendor for the night: Judy's Quilt N' Sew
Hampshire, IL

Friday workshop held at the Arlington Heights Memorial Library, Arlington Heights, IL. (see map)

Saturday workshop held at the Elk Grove Library, Elk Grove Village, IL. (see map)

Date	Event	Name	Supply List
Thurs, Oct 20	Lecture/Trunk Show 7:15pm	Sentimental Journey
Fri, Oct 21	Workshop 9:30am-4:30pm	Fabulous Filler Christmas Stocking or Whole Cloth Mini Quilt	supply list
Sat, Oct 22	Workshop 9:30am-4:30pm	Lecture/Demo and Sassy Sewing Tool Caddy	supply list

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NOVEMBER 2011

DEBRA HENNINGER is the author of Hobo Quilts. She is also an active member of the quilt community. Debra is the owner of three quilt shops in the Peoria area and she operated and organized quilt cruises and retreats. She is also a history and railroad enthusiast . Hobo Quilts is based on the "Secret Language of Riding the Rails." It's about the fascinating world of the depression-era hobo through the culture's hidden language of signs and symbols, all translated into more than 55 original quilt blocks.

Lecture held at Concorde Banquets, Kildeer, IL (see map)

Vendor for the night: Quilt in Joy
Huntley, IL

There are no workshops scheduled for November due to the Thanksgiving Holiday.

Date	Event	Name	Supply List
Thurs, Nov 17	Lecture/Trunk Show 7:15pm	Hobo Quilts

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DECEMBER 2011

There is no meeting in December. Enjoy your holidays!

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JANUARY 2012

JULIE HENDRICKSEN is the owner of J J Stitches. She is also a pattern and fabric designer. Her newest Windham fabric collection, in red, brown and cheddar, will soon be available. She is well known for her extensive collection of antique quilts and her reproduced quilts using current reproduction fabrics. You can find her quilts in American Patchwork and Quilting magazines. Julie will share her extensive antique quilt collection with us at her presentation and provide us with tips on creating our own antique replica quilts using current reproduction fabrics.

Lecture held at Concorde Banquets, Kildeer, IL (see map)

Vendor for the night: JJ Stitches & Company
Sun Prairie, WI

Date	Event	Name	Supply List
Thurs, Jan 19	Lecture/Trunk Show 7:15pm	Enjoying Antique Quilts

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FEBRUARY 2012

LYNN SCHMITT CIBULKA has a degree in Fine Arts in Interior Design. She spent over 20 years working within the commercial interiors industry and as a free lance designer. She found her way into quilting about nine years ago and worked at a local quilt shop, A Touch of Amish in Barrington, IL, for eight years where she began teaching and designing. Most recently she had been teaching at various guilds and was invited to teach on a cruise by Quilter's Emporium last year. She has had quilts published in American Patchwork and Quilting and Need'love publications with two more quilts which will be published in 2012 in American Patchwork and Quilting and Quilts and More. Lynn's lecture will be an overview with quilts, on how she came to this place in her design evolution, and the new avenues it is opening as she develops "Eclectics", which she says is the most exciting part of this growth.

SATURDAY WORKSHOP: "ECLECTICS" MIXED MEDIUM, THE NEXT STEP - The interest of this workshop is in the depth of color and texture and how to work with mixed medium textiles - large and small scale prints, cottons, wovens, linens, silks and appliqued hand-dyed wools - to piece a small quilt. How to work with these dissimilar elements will be a large part of this workshop. You will explore sewing techniques and touch on some construction knowledge of the fabrics and how to handle them. their limits and advantages. This project will have some wool applique and may use some couching with yarn. These embellishment techniques will be explored as well.

Lecture held at Concorde Banquets, Kildeer, IL (see map)

Vendor for the night: Quilter's Destination
Arlington Heights, IL

Saturday workshop held at the Rolling Meadows Library, Rolling Meadows, IL. (see map)

Date	Event	Name	Supply List
Thurs, Feb 16	Lecture 7:15pm	My Crayon Box and How I Learned to Use It
Sat, Feb 18	Workshop 9:30am-4:30pm	Eclectics . . . Mixed Medium, the Next Step	supply list

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MARCH 2012

PAMELA GOECKE DINNDORF is well known for her pattern design company, Aardvark Quilts. Pam has been obsessed with the magic of color since as far back as she can remember. Her career path has followed several avenues: fashion, interior design, and now quilt design. She is inspired by vintage quilts and repetitive shapes in the world around us. She is currently working with C&T Publishing on a new book. Pam will present a parade of quilts which are unique in their exploitation of color and squeezing every ounce of magic from each of the glorious fabrics. She promotes diversity and creativity in fabric choices and encourages each quilter to create a unique and personal statement. Included in her presentation are tips and suggestions for enhancing the life and depth of your quilt aesthetics.

FRIDAY WORKSHOP: STRIPES SQUARED - This workshop will be a simple hourglass block, split into as many as eight different stripes, creating multi-dimensional effects. . . by using a wide variety of stripes. You will learn how to work easily with templates, explore color relationships, and create additional depth by playing with the placement of your chosen stripes.

SATURDAY WORKSHOP: PAPERWEIGHT - In this workshop you will recreate the effect of peering down into an old-fashioned paperweight to see cross sections of multicolored cylinders with strip piecing and the use of a Kaleidekite Ruler. You will learn to strip-piece, cut with a special ruler or templates and piece octagons to the background without working with a tight set-in seam and still achieve a flat seamed top. Also included are a lot of color and design tips. This workshop is intermediate level.

Lecture held at Concorde Banquets, Kildeer, IL (see map)

Vendor for the night: Pieceful Gathering
Fox River Grove, IL

Workshops held at the Barrington Library, Barrington, IL. (see map)

Date	Event	Name	Supply List
Thurs, Mar 15	Lecture/Trunk Show 7:15pm	Adventures in Color
Fri, Mar 16	Workshop 9:30am-4:30pm	Stripes Squared	supply list
Sat, Mar 17	Workshop 9:30am-4:30pm	Paperweight	supply list

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APRIL 2012

CAROL WILHOIT began quilting before the Bicentennial and has continued to make quilts ever since. Carol, a physician, had an Internal Medicine practice in Glen Ellyn for fifteen years, but more recently, she works as a medical director for a large insurance company in Chicago. Over time, with trial and error and help from books, magazines and quilt teachers, friends and family, Carol has learned how to organize and store her fabric, tools, books, magazines, thread and projects so that they are easy to find and use.

Is your fabric stash so overwhelming that you aren't able to locate the piece you want? Can you find that wonderful tool that you bought at a quilt show last year? You know you have a book on machine quilting, but you can't recall the exact title. Can you retrieve it from your bookshelf? You're ready to start quilting - if only you could find the spool of perfect variegated thread that you know you have. Learn some practical ideas on how to organize and store your fabric, tools, thread, and books so that they are readily accessible. Knowing how to approach the task of organization is a major leap towards getting it done! Her demonstration will include how to fold and store fabric so that it's easy to view and locate, labeling, using your computer as a tool and some ideas for actually using your stash.

Lecture held at Concorde Banquets, Kildeer, IL (see map)

Vendor for the night: Harvest House Quilting
Plainfield, IL

Date	Event	Name	Supply List
Thurs, Apr 19	Lecture/Trunk 7:15pm	Get Your Stash Together: Organization for Quilters

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MAY 2012

FLAVIN GLOVER is a quilt designer and teacher, an author and pattern designer. She has a degree in Clothing, Textiles and Related Arts. Innovative log cabin and geometric patchwork quilts composed of many fabrics in vibrant colors has become her trademark. In addition, she has created numerous quilts inspired from landscapes and architecture. Her quilt, "Row Houses", was selected one of the 100 Best American Quilts of the 20th Century. Several of Flavin's pictorial log cabin quilts are featured in HGTC's Simply Quilts. Her lecture and trunk show will show us what happens when log cabin blocks are stretched, dissected, elongated and turned to create log cabin quilts beyond the ordinary. Some colorful designs are updated adaptations of old blocks given new life. Other featured quilts are filled with newly designed blocks. This display of color and fabric play will inspire you to look again at log cabin patchwork.

FRIDAY WORKSHOP: COLORFUL AND CREATIVE LOG CABIN DIAMONDS - This workshop is designed for the experienced quilter ready to create blocks full of color that look three-dimensional. Choose from a variety of blocks and design layout grids in order to suit your preferences. Learn accurate, streamlined construction techniques for blocks with logs cut on 45 degree or 60 degree angles. Explore how to use color and value to enhance the illusion of depth. See the designs develop as you cut and sew blocks in class. Be inspired!

SATURDAY WORKSHOP: LOG CABIN HOUSES - This workshop is designed for all levels of the Log Cabin enthusiasts who want to learn the construction techniques used in Row Houses, Around the Corner, Tuscan Village and Freshly Painted and Carolina Row Start to build a log cabin house quilt using a basic traditional square blocks or a multi-width log rectangular courthouse steps block. You can adapt the scale of the block and personalize your own color scheme. This hands-on class enables you to machine or hand stitch your blocks as you learn the ins and outs of the featured quilts.

Lecture held at Concorde Banquets, Kildeer, IL (see map)



Vendor for the night: Acorn Quilts
Rockford, IL

Friday workshop held at the Rolling Meadows Library, Rolling Meadows, IL. (see map)

Saturday workshop held at the Elk Grove Library, Elk Grove Village, IL. (see map)

Date	Event	Name	Supply List
Thurs, May 17	Lecture/Trunk Show 7:15pm	A New Look at Log Cabin Quilts
Fri, May 18	Workshop 9:30am-4:30pm	Colorful and Creative Log Cabin Diamonds	supply list
Sat, May 19	Workshop 9:30am-4:30pm	Log Cabin Houses	supply list

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JUNE 2012

LAURA WASILOWSKI is both a contemporary quilt maker and creator of hand-dyed fabrics and threads. Her pictorial art quilts, made from fused fabrics and hand embroidered or machine quilted, are collected and exhibited internationally. Laura's narrative quilts begin with her unique hand-dyed fabrics and are inspired by stories of family, friends and home. She has an undergraduate degree in Costuming from the College of St. Benedict, St. Joseph, MN and a Masters of Art degree in Fiber from Norther Illinois University, DeKalb, IL. She is owner of ARTFABRIK, a lecturer, surface designer, quilt instructor, pattern designer, and author of Fusing Fun and Fuse-and-Tell.

FRIDAY WORKSHOP: STITCH AFTER FUSING - A well-placed embroidery stitch on the surface of fabric brings a quilt to life. It lends the surface additional color, pattern, definition, and texture. In this class you will make a small flower quilt from a pre-fused fabric kit. Basic embroidery stitches are reviewed using brilliantly colored pearl cotton threads (also part of the kit). Learn to entice the viewer closer to your art with free form, unfettered embroidery. (No sewing machine needed.) A purchased kit is required.

SATURDAY WORKSHOP: TINY HOMES - Create a little house quilt and receive a degree in Architecture from the Chicago School of Fusing at the same time! In this workshop we explore the many techniques of fusing: free cutting, layering, college building, improvisational design, and more. The result is a whimsical neighborhood placed in a colorful landscape setting and made from beautifully hand-dyed fabrics. (No sewing machine needed.) A purchased kit is required.

Lecture held at Concorde Banquets, Kildeer, IL (see map)

Vendor for the night: Quilters Haven
Rockford, IL

Friday workshop held at the Elk Grove Library, Elk Grove Village, IL. (see map)

Saturday workshop held at the Rolling Meadows Library, Rolling Meadows, IL. (see map)

Date	Event	Name	Supply List
Thurs, June 21	Lecture/Trunk Show 7:15pm	Stitchertunities
Fri, June 22	Workshop 9:30am-4:30pm	Stitch After Fusing	supply list
Sat, June 23	Workshop 9:30m-4:30pm	Tiny Homes	supply list

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