Faithful Circle Quilters Guild - Columbia, Maryland

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FAITHFUL CIRCLE
QUILTERS
P.O. Box 6231
Columbia, MD
21045

May 2008

Pick a Crayon for Color My World Challenge!
Thursday, May 15, 2008
Monday, May 19, 2008
Come to the meeting and pick a crayon to inspire your challenge quilt. Details on our Anouncements Page.

No Meeting Memorial Day
Monday, May 26, 2008
There will be no Monday FCQ meeting as the church is closed for Memorial Day. Make a Warrior Quilt!

Sew In!
Saturday, May 31, 2008, 10am - 4 pm or so
Time for a Sew-In! Join us for "Windows Into the Jungle", an Attic Windows project led by Nancy Meier. For a description and supply list click here! Of course, everyone is welcome - if you don't want to do the project, bring your own work and enjoy the company of your fellow quilters.

June 2008

Monday Summer Party
Monday, June 2, 2008, 7 pm
We'll hold our annual summer party, elect officers, and present our love quilts to our charities. Sign up to bring a tasty treat and come join us! Bonnie Dank is heading up this festive event and has a theme of The birds and the bees and the flowers and the trees" so to decorate the hall, bring a quilt with a summery theme!

Thursday Summer Luncheon
Thursday, June 5, 2008, 11:30 am
We'll hold our annual summer luncheon, elect officers, and present our love quilts to our charities. Sign up to bring a tasty treat and come join us! Also, bring a pretty quilt to show everyone and decorate the hall for the party.

September 2008

Color My World Challenge Results!
Monday, May 15, 2008
Thursday, May 18, 2008
Bring your challenge inspirations to the meeting for Show and Tell - remember your crayon! Details on our Anouncements Page.

No Meeting Labor Day
Monday, September 1, 2008
There will be no Monday FCQ meeting as the church is closed for Labor Day.

October 2008

Workshop - "Transitions" - Virginia Walton
Saturday, October 4, 2008
Students will create a mosaic quilt with tessalations. Creating a cascade of color with Benartex Fabrics, this workshop explores the interaction of Fall Fabrics in a tessellated colorwash. Tessellation's create a mosaic with endless potential and are made with only one shape. Virginia's easy, curved piecing technique doesn't use pins or clipping when sewing this variation of a circular curve. This pattern and its clothing variation is from Virginia book "From Quits to Wearable Art" and can be seen in the Featured Teacher article in "Traditional Quiltworks", issue #78. Taught by the author and inventor of the Creative Curves Rulers©, the Creative Curves Ellipse Rulers©, and Books, plus the new Creative Curves Kaleidoscope Ruler©, and Book. See the example on her website http://www.creativecurves.com The class costs $40, and if you want to purchase her fabric, a kit is an additional $35 plus whichever of the creative curves rulers you may want to purchase.

Workshop - "Color" - Virginia Walton
Sunday, October 5, 2008
All the fabric is provided, over 1200 different fabrics, for the Color Workshop participants to use to create several examples of quilt patterns. Numerous quilts will be seen to illustrate the different principles being explored. Students will choose the fabrics to 'play' with among those available
This workshop is divided into 3 parts. Each part is then divided into 2 sections: mosaic designs and pieced block patterns. Part 1 is devoted to the use of solid fabrics. Exploring through exercises how the depth of color influences the overall look and impact of a quilt. Part 2 is devoted to the use of calico fabrics - no solids allowed. This is the most difficult section, to successfully combine these busy fabrics to create a "Country" or "Victorian" quilt. Part 3 is devoted to current fabrics - all the fabrics to be found in a quilt or fabric store. The solids are again available as well a s the calicos, jungle prints, novelty fabrics, paisleys, Jenny Beyer's and other fabrics.
See the example on her website http://www.creativecurves.com The class costs $40, and if you want to purchase her fabric, it will be an additional $25.

Lecture - Virginia Walton
Monday, October 6, 2008, 7pm
Virginia is an expert on color and will be bringing many examples of her work.

November 2008

Lecture - Marylou McDonald
Thursday, November 13, 2008, 10 am
FCQ member Marylou McDonald will share her legendary expertise on Baltimore Album Quilts.

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