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QUILTS! Crazy Quilting with Tradition! Stack Shuffle & Slide! Two-Color Quilts! Block of the Month!

Crazy Quilt Mixing with Traditional Patchwork!

Two Color Quilts and Block of the Month Patterns!

Stack, Shuffle and Slide Your Fabric!

Get the MOST Out of Your Mind!

June 4, 2014

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Mark Lipinski introduces The Slow Stitching Movement

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JOIN ME, LIVE, FOR THE WEBINAR THAT WILL CHANGE YOUR QUILTING LIFE

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JUNE 19, 2014

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Quick, fast, easy. In our busy, multitasking world, those buzzwords capture our attention. But speed can kill creativity and the enjoyment of our creative pursuits.

Maybe what we really need to do is slow down, enjoy the process, and create fiber art that we’re really proud of. But how?

This NEW and ILLUMINATING web seminar introduces a revolution within the quilting industry, The Slow Stitching Movement, launched by international quilting personality Mark Lipinski. With Mark as your inspiration and guide, The Slow Stitching Movement web seminar will prepare you for a higher form of creativity and important quiltmaking.

With this web seminar you’ll learn to:

Approach your quilt making in a totally different way.
Recharge your passion for patchwork.
Engage the connection between your body, your quilts, and your legacy. .
Expand your creativity, self-esteem and even your spiritual journey.
Tap your right brain, to train and develop your imagination.
Find the creative genius in you.
Implement your creative thought in today’s too-fast world.
Heal your life, emotions and boost your physical health.
Create groups and habits to support your creative vision.

If you’ve hit a creative wall, if you have more fabric and notions than you do inspiration, if all of your quilts are beginning to look alike, or if you’ve been quilting for years and have nothing wonderful to show for it . . . The Slow Stitching Movement is for you.

Mark brings years of professional and personal experience to the seminar, as he explores with you informational and transformational message of The Slow Stitching Movement.

There will be an opportunity for discussion through a question-and-answer session during the web seminar, and after.

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MR. ELECTRIC is in the house for Segments 1 and 8!

We’re talking about:

Cats in my Garbage?

then

9 Ways To Get The Most Out of Your Mind

Here’s the link to read the article we discussed.

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Meet

Authors, Teachers, Crazy Quilters, Designers

ALLIE ALLER

VALERIE BOTHELL

About Allie and Valerie…

Allison Aller has been stitching, sewing, knitting, and writing since she was a child….and that child is alive and well in the joyful work she creates today in the field of crazy quilting.

After earning her degree in Design and Environmental Analysis from Cornell University in 1977, Allie has been quilting non-stop. She made bed quilts, Broderie Perse, stained glass quilts, and landscape quilts for two and an half decades and these approaches still inform her creativity…for the past twelve years, the sumptuous and liberating genre of crazy quilting has been her focus. She is currently fascinated by the confluence of vintage traditional quilting and crazy quilting.

Her work has appeared in Quilters Newsletter Magazine, American Quilter, the $100,000 Quilt Challenge, Needlepoint Now, and the Way to Womens Wellness Art Bra Calendars (cover, 2007), as “guest artist” in several books, and in her own “Allie Aller’s Crazy Quilting, C & T Publishing, 2011. Her second book, co-authored with fellow crazy quilter Valerie Bothell, is due out in May 2014.

She is an instructor for http://www.Craftsy.com and teaches “Crazy Quilting” online for them.

Her awards include:

First Place, Crazy Quilts, American Quilters’ Society Show in Nashville, TN 2003
Second Place, Embellished Quilts, International Quilt Association Show in Houston, TX 2008
First Place, Alliance for American Quilts’ My Quilts/Our History contest, 2008
Second Place, Embellished Quilts, International Quilt Association Show in Houston, TX 2010
First Place, The Great Pink Bandana Challenge, Simplicity Creative Group, 2011
Grand Prize, DMC Memories Contest, 2013

Her first commercially produced pattern, “Pretty Crazy”, offers an introduction to crazy quilting for those who want to work by machine, not by hand. It is offered by Brookshier Design Studio.
Her publisher, C & T, has also come out with a deck of playing cards featuring details from some of her quilts, and included her work in their “Quilted Masterpieces” Datekeeper.

Allie has been blogging steadily since 2005 and invites you to come visit her blog, AlliesInStitches, where she posts works-in-progress photos, tutorials, and links to other fine stitchers’ works. Note especially the rich archive of subjects in the keywords on the right side of her blog. She serves on the board of the Quilt Alliance (formerly the Alliance for American Quilts) a non profit organization dedicated to documenting, preserving, and sharing the work and stories of quilters around the world..

She enjoys teaching crazy piecing and embellishment, and loves meeting other stitchers all over the country at both national conferences and local guilds. Her workshops, lectures, and teaching schedule can all be found in separate pages on her blog.

Her other passion is gardening, which she shares with her husband, Robert, in their country home outside of Portland, Oregon. They have two wonderful grown sons, and a fabulous soon-to-be daughter-in-law!

Valerie Bothell Has been happily teaching crazy quilting from her home in Wichita, Kansas, for the last 17 years. She has hosted the Victorian Stitchery Retreat for the past seven years in her hometown. Traveling and teaching is very rewarding to her, and she always looks forward to every opportunity to share her love of crazy quilting. She has been married 20 years and has four very handsome sons.

Allie and Valerie’s book, Quilting – Just a Little Bit Crazy a Marriage of Traditional & Crazy Quilting

Cross traditional crazy quilting with favorite pieced quilt patterns and today’s machine quilting methods, and what do you get? Crazy fun for all kinds of quilters, even those who don’t like handwork. Allie Aller and Valerie Bothell’s guide offers an exuberant mixture of vintage and modern, hand and machine work, and clever ways to make traditional quilts a little crazy. Includes 10 projects in sizes from small wall hangings to bed quilts; photo instructions for 15 crazy quilt and silk ribbon embroidery stitches; and tips for combining crazy quilting with machine piecing and embroidery.

Carole Samples (to whom the book is dedicated) with Allie Aller and Valerie Bothell

Some of the fabulous projects from the book, Quilting – Just a Little Bit Crazy…

To Visit Allie’s Blog CLICK HERE

To Visit Valerie’s Website CLICK HERE

ORDER Quilting…Just a Little Bit Crazy by CLICKING HERE

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Meet

Author, Teacher, Designer, Quilt Shop Owner

BERNADETTE KENT

About Bernadette…

Bernadette can’t began quilting when a friend of hers dropped by with a small project designed to keep Bernadette busy while she was home with her second child. At that time, Bernadette did not know what I quilt was!

Her three children, Ashley Nicole, Colton Elliot, and Taylor Graeme, kept her busy shuffling them to gym meets, piano lessons, soccer games, and every other event they could dream up. While she waited for each child, she stitched. As you stitch, her love of quilting grew. The more she sewed, the better she became.

In 1999 she opened a small quilt shop, Traditional Pastimes, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. She has been designing quilts, bags and miniatures since 2001.

Bernadette’s book, Rubies, Diamonds and Garnets, Too (click on the link to order your copy)

A Sparkling Block-of-the-Month Quilt. The breathtaking sparkle of diamonds and the deep, dramatic reds of rubies and garnets have bewitched us for centuries. They conjure visions of luxury, wealth and beauty. Through time, we’ve used them as tokens of our love and esteem for those we cherish. Translate those same jewel tones into fabric and you have the makings for an electrifying quilt that, much like a perfect gem, will be handed down for generations. The quilt was used as The Kansas City Star’s Block-of-the-Month program and highlights 13 block designs. A second version uses the same patterns but gives you the opportunity to make a much larger quilt by adding two more large blocks and 12 smaller blocks.

Here is a sampling of the Block-of-the-Month quilts from Bernadette’s book:

Check out Bernadette’s Quilt Shop, TRADITIONAL PASTIMES:

CLICK HERE to Visit Bernadette’s Website

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Meet

Designer, Teacher, Lecturer, Author

KARLA ALEXANDER

About Karla…

Quilt designer and author, Karla Alexander lives in beautiful Salem OR, with her youngest son William, Husband Don and family dog, Lucy the almost black lab. Her two older sons, Shane & Kelly, currently attend college. Karla Alexander is the author of Stack the Deck! Crazy Quilts in 4 Easy Steps!, Stack a New Deck!, New Cuts for New Quilts, Baby Wraps! and her most recent book Color Shuffle, due for release in October of 2009.

Karla was a featured artist on Simply Quilts with Alex Anderson in July of 2002. A featured quilter in the Fons and Porter magazine, Oct. 2007, a contributor to the 2008 quilt calendar by Martingale & Co. as well as the book Creative Quilting,Volume II and Skinny Quilts II. All books were published by Martingale & Co, That Patchwork Place.

In addition to her books, she has released her own line of patterns under the name Saginaw Street Quilt company. She has been a featured teacher at many quilt retreats and has taught thousands of students how to quilt using a variety of methods including her own stack methods. She has made hundreds of quilts with hundreds more waiting to be made!

Karla’s philosophy regarding quilting is to enjoy the process, learn from your experience and take what you learn from one project on to the next. As a teacher she enthusiastically inspires her students to discover and create their own individual style in their quilt making journeys. With all the many things to worry about, she believes quilting isn’t one of them, but rather a time to experience the “creative flow” & enjoy!

Karla’s book, Stack, Shuffle, and Slide; A New Technique for Stack the Deck Quilts (click on the link to order your copy)

Karla Alexander has won fans around the world with her gorgeous quilts and innovative techniques. Now she takes a new approach to her popular stack-cut-and-shuffle idea—with amazing results.

Control the color placement in your design by adding a new step—the slide—to Karla’s stack-cut-and-shuffle method
Be inspired by Karla’s use of color—from light and airy prints to batiks to bold, graphic fabrics—and create quilts with a traditional or modern aesthetic
Select from 15 creatively different designs that give everyone from beginners to seasoned quilters something fresh and new