Florida
Quilt Network
- Newsletter #73
April
8, 2004
Quilting Friends,
As
you can see by the length of this newsletter, our Quilt Show season is winding
down. There are a few exciting
opportunities left in Florida, so if you don’t have your fill yet, hop to
it! Since I’m heading out today for some family camping, I’ll make
this note short!
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CALENDAR OF EVENTS: (Newsletter number follows)
2004
April 3-May 15 Quilt Exhibit in New Smyrna Beach www.atlanticcenterforthearts.org (#72)
April 6-May 16 Quilt Exhibit in Delray Beach
www.quiltersmarketplace.net (#69)
April 9 & 10 2 Polymer Clay Workshops in New
Smyrna Beach www.atlanticcenterforthearts.org
(#72)
April 15-17 Elinor Peace Bailey Workshop in Pace quiltingstation@bellsouth.net (#69)
April 20 Moneca Calvert Lecture in Boca Raton Smyrna3@aol.com (#65)
April 21-24 AQS Quilt Show in Paducah, KY www.AQSQuilt.com
April 21-26 Fiber Artist Retreat in New Smyrna
Beach www.atlanticcenterforthearts.org
(#72)
May 1 New Art Quilt Group in Ft. Myers Fiberplay@aol.com (#72)
May 7-8 Quilt Show in Miami http://communitylink.gopbi.com/groups/quiltfest
(#71)
May 7 Bead Workshop
in New Smyrna Beach www.atlanticcenterforthearts.org (#72)
May 8 Free Motion Workshop in New Smyrna Beach www.atlanticcenterforthearts.org (#72)
May 13-15 Fiber
Artist Workshops in New Smyrna
Beach www.atlanticcenterforthearts.org
(#72)
May 19-23 Creative Retreat in Lake City http://fabricartshop.com (#73)
July 24-25 Stephanie Kimura Workshop in Palm Beach trudyf@aol.com (#70)
August 18-21 AQS 2004 Quilt Exposition in Nashville,
TN www.AQSQuilt.com
Sept 24-26 Quilt Show in Jax www.quiltfestjax.com (#68)
Nov 13-14 Quilt Show in Clearwater http://quilterscrossing.net/ (#71)
2005
Jan 8-15 Quilters Cruise www.americanquilterscruise.com (#69)
Jan 28-29 Quilt Show in The Villages RFlint5630@aol.com (#72)
Feb 25-26 Quilt Show in Tampa
lotsofquilts2005@yahoo.com
(#64)
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May 19 - 23, 2004
I CAN'T BELIEVE I DID THAT!
Creative Retreat
Spend your days creating your fabrics, planning
your creations and executing your unique piece to take back home with you. You will be working within a small group of
4-6 students. This will give you plenty
of opportunity to receive all the information and guidance you can soak
up. The activities will be split up to
provide you with some breathing time in between exuberant action. Evenings will be active but also
relaxing.
Contact:
Barbie Swanson, QUILTWITCH
FABRIC ART SHOP http://fabricartshop.com
EASY GLIDE Tools born here!
Lake City, FL 386-755-0179
Wholesale & Retail
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LEESBURG SHOP HAS
MOVED
A QUILTERS DREAM of
Leesburg has moved to a new location.
The new shop is
just a hop, skip and
a jump from the old location. We have
moved just four
blocks West and are
now located at the West end of the Historic Downtown
Shopping area of
Leesburg. Our new address is 703 West
Main Street, about
1/2 mile from
US27. Come visit and see the
changes. We think you will like
it. The new store is much larger with a spacious
classroom area and a large
showroom for lots of
fabric. Our regular hours are 9:00AM
to 5:00PM,
Monday through
Saturday. Classes are available for
beginning through
advanced quilters. Some evening classes available. Hope to see you soon.
Connie Czernuch
A Quilter's Dream,
LLC
125 W. Main Street
Leesburg, Fl
34748
352-728-1482
a_quilters_dream@earthlink.net
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PRESS RELEASE
Atlantic Center for the Arts at Harris House
New Smyrna Beach,
FL 32168
Contact: Mary
McBride
mmcbride@atlanticcenterforthearts.org
386.423.1753
Forty-one global fiber artists will be featured at Atlantic
Center for the Arts at Harris House, 214 South Riverside Drive, New Smyrna
Beach, in Considering Quilts 2004, Fiber Artists Explore the Quilt, a juried exhibition, held April 3 –
May 15, 2004. Miss Peggy’s Day School
of Edgewater is sponsoring the exhibition.
An opening reception with several of the artists in
attendance will be held on Saturday, April 3 from 4 to 7 PM. It is free and open to the public.
On May 8, a second exhibition, Explorations by Innovators, will open at the Hester Merwin Ayers
Gallery at Atlantic Center for the Arts, 1414 Art Center Avenue. This exhibition will feature the works of
internationally renowned fiber artists including Pamela Allen, Jette Clover,
Maxine Farkas, Rayna Gillman and Vikki Pignatelli. Works will also be featured by local quilter Amy Koester and
polymer artists Karen Woods. The exhibition, which presents works by
Considering Quilts instructors, is open from 10 AM to 4 PM, Monday through
Friday. It ends May 15.
Florida quilters are
being offered a 30% discount on this and all other quilt-related classes.
In conjunction with the exhibitions, there is the retreat Allen
& Farkas on the Far Side at ACA from April 21 to April 26,
featuring Pamela Allen of Kingston, Ontario and Maxine Farkas of Lowell,
Massachusetts. Both are featured on
www.quiltart.com and in Quilting Arts
magazine. The retreat is $325 for
the classes (including lunch) and $325 for room and board at ACA. The retreat begins with dinner at 5:30 PM
and a lecture, The Sewing Machine: My Favorite Power Tool!, by local quilter
and WESH TV Channel 2 newscaster Mark Middleton on Wednesday, April 21. The
dinner is by reservation only for $15. Interested parties should call
386-423-1753 as soon as possible as there is a limit on space. On Thursday,
April 22, Farkas will present Art Quilt History 101 or “Everything I Ever
Wanted to Know, I Learned on the Internet,” and Allen speaks on Dumpster
Diving for the Sake of Art on April 24. All lectures are free and open to the public. They take place in
the Joan James Harris Theater at Atlantic Center for the Arts, 1414 Art Center
Avenue at 7 PM.
The exhibitions end in May with a lecture and several
workshops. Local fiber artist Amy Koester, who recently started as fiber arts
group which meets in Palm Coast, will teach To Bead or Not to Bead on
May 7 and Zen of Free Motion on May 8 (classes are each $65 including
lunch). Rayna Gillman, recently
featured on HGTV Simply Quilts, Quilting Arts magazine, and www.quiltart.com, will present an
interactive lecture, Creative Courage or “Taking the Leap,” at 7 PM on May 13 in the Atlantic Center at
Harris House Annex. The workshops by Gilman are Surface Design with Found
Objects, May 13-14 ($150 including lunches) and Introduction to Image Transfer,
May 15 ($100 including lunch). Vikki
Pignatelli, author of Crazy about Curves
will feature her Crazy about Curves methods on May 15 ($100 including
lunch). More information about the classes can be obtained at
atlanticcenterforthearts.org.
Artists featured in both exhibitions are at the top of their
field in fiber arts. They manipulate fabrics with dyes, paints, heat,
stitching, stretching, folding, twisting, and adorning to create their visions.
The Harris House exhibition features works no wider then 24” including several
sculptures. When asked to explore the
quilt form, they pushed outside traditional squares, formal patterns and
customary materials. There are paper
embellishments, crotched wire, glass squares, and watch parts along with beads,
feathers and safety pins attached to the wall hangings. Juror Jette Clover, Cocoa, featured in
FIBERARTS magazine in the past two issues, said the artists did an excellent
job of exploring quilts in new ways.
Most of the quilt artists are award winners from the United
States, Japan, Canada and Belgium.
The exhibitions are free and open to the public. Gallery
hours for Atlantic Center at Harris House are Tuesday through Friday from 10 to
4 PM, and Saturdays from 10 to 2 PM.
For more information workshops and lectures, or for digital
images, contact Mary McBride, 386-423-1753 or
mmcbride@atlanticcenterforthearts.org.
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Simply Quilts April, 2004 Schedule
HGTV: Eastern Standard Time
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Apr 06, Tuesday |
08:30 am
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#531 Pine Tree Patchwork
with Lois Arnold |
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Apr 07, Wednesday |
08:30 am
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#532 6 Hour Quilt with Kaye
Wood |
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Apr 08, Thursday |
08:30 am
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#533 Color From The Heart
with Gai Perry |
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Apr 09, Friday |
08:30 am
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#1004 Juke Box with Sharon
Schamber |
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Apr 12, Monday |
08:30 am
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#1005 Trapunto with Karen
McTavish |
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Apr 13, Tuesday |
08:30 am
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#534 Whodunnit Quilting
with Billie Lauder |
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Apr 14, Wednesday |
08:30 am
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#535 FAN-tastic Sport Quilts
with Karen Roossien & Jennifer Lokey
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Apr 15, Thursday |
08:30 am
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#536 Breathtaking Beads
with Nancy Eha |
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Apr 16, Friday |
08:30 am
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#1006 Fabric Bowls with
Linda Johansen |
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Apr 19, Monday |
08:30 am
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#1007 Ribbon Applique with
Wendy Grande |
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Apr 20, Tuesday |
08:30 am
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#537 Mennonite Quilts with
Barbara Garrett |
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Apr 21, Wednesday |
08:30 am
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#538 Quilting Creations
with Helen Squire |
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Apr 22, Thursday |
08:30 am
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#539 Quilting in the Raw
with Paula Reid |
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Apr 23, Friday |
08:30 am
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#1008 Wish Upon a Hunter
Star with Jan Krentz |
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Apr 26, Monday |
08:30 am
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#1009 Sketch to Quilt with
Yvonne Porcella |
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Apr 27, Tuesday |
08:30 am
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#540 Clues in the Quilt
with Jacqueline Tobin & Serena Wilson |
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Apr 28, Wednesday |
08:30 am
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#541 Jacobean Rhapsodies
with Pat Campbell |
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Apr 29, Thursday |
08:30 am
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#542 Snails Trail with
Debbie Caffrey |
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Apr 30, Friday |
08:30 am
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#1010 Scrapbag Wars with
Kelly Gallager |
Simply Quilts April, 2004 Schedule
DIY: Eastern Standard Time
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Apr 06, Tuesday |
01:30 pm
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#713 All Around The World
with Leela Cherian |
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Apr 07, Wednesday |
01:30 pm
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#715 Stained Glass Quilts
with Marie Morel-Seroskie
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Apr 08, Thursday |
01:30 pm
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#716 African Mask Quilt |
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Apr 09, Friday |
01:30 pm
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#717 For The Birds with
Jaynette Huff |
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Apr 12, Monday |
01:30 pm
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#718 'Hand' Applique by Machine
with Beth Ferrier |
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Apr 13, Tuesday |
01:30 pm
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#719 Patchwork Picnic with
Nancy Martin |
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Apr 14, Wednesday |
01:30 pm
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#720 Long Arm Quilting with
Linda Taylor |
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Apr 15, Thursday |
01:30 pm
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#721 Quilts For Chocolate Lovers
with Janet Jonew-Worley |
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Apr 16, Friday |
01:30 pm
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#722 Heirlooms, Past,
Present & Future with Nancy Kirk
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Apr 19, Monday |
01:30 pm
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#723 Ghost Layers with
Katie Pasquini |
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Apr 20, Tuesday |
01:30 pm
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#724 Quilting with Kids
with Barbara Eikmeier |
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Apr 21, Wednesday |
01:30 pm
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#725 No Dragons with Jean
Ray Laury |
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Apr 22, Thursday |
01:30 pm
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#727 The Perfect Stitch
with Didi McElroy |
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Apr 23, Friday |
01:30 pm
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#728 Applique Artistry with
McKenna Ryan |
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Apr 26, Monday |
01:30 pm
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#729 Quick Quilts with
Nancy Martin |
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Apr 27, Tuesday |
01:30 pm
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#730 Strips & Curves
with Louisa Smith |
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Apr 28, Wednesday |
01:30 pm
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#731 Log Cabin with Attitude
with Darra Duffy Williamson
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Apr 29, Thursday |
01:30 pm
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#732 Decorating with Quilts
with Nancy Smith & Lynda Milligan
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