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News let terGENERAL MEETING: WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12, 2005 JANUARY 2005VOLUME XXV NO. 7

Lura Schwartz SmithJourney of an Art QuilterWednesday, January 12, 2005, 7:00PMMy earliest quilts were done in my teens, working with my mother. Neither of us knew anything about quilting, and somehow we never researched it beyond reading those ladies’ home magazines that included an occasional quilt pattern at the back. We made a lot of tied quilts, using the awful cot-ton-poly fabrics available then - making just about every possible mistake in blissful ignorance and having a wonderful time. We did quilt a few too, with carefree toe-catcher stitches and knots neatly tied at the back. We loved our quilts and found them beautiful, not knowing any better.

In college, as an art major at San Francisco State University with an em-phasis in painting and drawing, Lura became interested in the possibilities

of fabric as an art medium, and for her fi nal project in her senior painting class, she produced her fi rst art fabric wall piece. It was somewhat three-dimensional, minimally quilted, used felt weight pellon for a batting, and was pictorial in content. Lura thought of it as painting with fabric, using mainly appliqué and soft sculptural techniques.

From then on, she continued to work on these wall pieces, showing and selling them in galleries in Sausalito, Santa Bar-bara, and Santa Monica, California. During this time, her work was being collected by various people, including Kenny Loggins, the musician, who purchased several pieces from the Santa Barbara gallery for his private collection. All this time, Lura was very unaware of the emerging quilt world, and continued to explore her own fabric techniques.

After a hiatus in serious fabric work of several years, Lura moved to the Sierras in California. There she joined a quilt guild and discovered a whole network of quilters’ magazines, books and shows. Along with various illustration and graphic work, she continued to work with fabric. Lura has been especially interested in exploring new techniques of getting images onto fabric. In 1996, she did a piece using photocopying, hand painted fabric, and free-form piecing called SEAMS A LOT LIKE DEGAS which was awarded Best of Show in Quilters Newsletter Magazine’s Artistic Expressions competition at Quilt Expo V in Lyons, France. In 1999, this quilt was chosen as one of “The 100 Best American Quilts of the Twentieth Century”, an exhibit at the 1999 International Quilt Festival in Houston at the Quilt Show of the Mil-lennium. In April of 2000, “LETTING GO: GAIA SERIES” was awarded Best of Show in the “Quilts Crossing Boundaries” competition at the International Quilt Expo VII in Strasbourg, France. In October, 2002, “Dancing Peace” (shown here)

was awarded Best of Show at Pacifi c International Quilt Festival XI, Santa Clara, California. And in January, 2002, at the fi rst Great International Quilt Festival at Tokyo, three of her quilts were part of a special exhibit which was entitled “30 Distinguished Quilt Artists of the World.”

Lura is currently exploring further ways of working with fabric and ex-pressing images of the inner life. “It is a very exciting time to be an art quilter, as fabric is beginning to fi nd acceptance as an art form, and so many quilters are working in such innovative styles.”

The program is titled Journey of an Art Quilter.

This slide talk is a lighthearted retrospective look at the devel-opment of Lura’s work, covering almost 30 years of textile work and play. She will show some things that worked, and some that didn’t, but were fun learning experiences. Some of the current techniques that Lura uses and teaches will also be shown. A small trunk show will be presented after the lecture.

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PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE

Happy New Year!

We are looking at a countdown to the March 11th -13th Quilt Show. The time will be moving along quickly! As you consider your responsibilities for this great event, begin the prep-arations early so that no one will be stressed at the end and that everyone will have an enjoyable time. We know that it is important that the members and our visitors, once again, will enjoy the Glendale Quilt Show. There are many responsibilities still available, so if you wish to be involved contact Marilyn Green!

If you are working on a quilt please en-ter it in the Show! As Kirsten Reed re-minded everyone, you don’t need your quilt completed in January, just the form completed and a picture. Kirsten has also agreed to take the picture! The forms need to be sent or given to Kirsten by January 15th. That is only a few days after the January 12th meeting, so remember to fill out the information and let us all enjoy seeing your quilt hung in the Show. I prom-ise, you will enjoy it as well. There is nothing better than seeing your own quilt hung at the Show.

We have a very interesting workshop scheduled for Saturday, January 15th with Lura Schwartz Smith. This will be an innovative/art workshop and dif-ferent from the ones held in the Fall. Look at your calendar and try to fit this day into your busy schedule.

We now are offering the entire Quilt Show class registration on-line. Go to

our web page: www.glendalequilt-guild.org and click on the “Work-shop/Registration Icon.” When that page is opened, you will see in red “You May … register for classes on line here”. When you open that page, a listing of classes will appear, and an opportunity to register for classes on-line as well as lectures will be available. Richard Huber, our Webmaster, has accommodated an additional “secure site” for credit card use. At least one class is al-ready filled! So sign up soon!

It is also possible to order tickets to the Awards Banquet, and the three-day or one-day advance Quilt Show tickets on this same page. Once you register for your classes, you can charge the fees to your credit card. The other items, such as lectures and advance tickets for friends, are listed on that page as well.

The Guild has also made it possible to pay for your Show Merchandise by credit card and you will be able to purchase items from the Gallery on-line as well.

Please let us know if you have questions or any concerns with the registration forms that are on our website. We appreciate knowing about any problems that might oc-cur. Again, my e-mail address is as follows: ruth1quilt4@earthlink.net. I welcome all your ideas and com-ments.

May your New Year be filled with all of your special “Quilt” wishes!

Ruth

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Hospitality

GENERAL MEETINGJANUARY 12, 7:00PM

GLENDALE CENTRAL LIBRARY

SPEAKER: LURA SCHWARTZ SMITH

MEETING NEWS

Jan. 14 , 2005: Loving Hands. 1-5PM at Q is for Quilts, 620 S. Gle-noaks Blvd, Burbank.

Jan. 24, 2005: 2005 Quilt Show Committee: Glendale Central Li-brary, 7:00PM. Interested in working on next year’s show? Come to the meeting! Call Marilyn Green if you have questions at: 818.846.8842.

Jan. 6, 2005: GQG Board Meeting; at Marilyn Green’s. Please RSVP 818.846.8842; or xrayxray@pacbell.net if you wish to attend.

FUTURE PROGRAMS & WorkshopsJanuary 12, 2004 Lura Schwartz Smith “Journey of an Art Quilter”January 15, 2005 Lura Schwartz Smith Workshop “Designiing Art Quilts”February 9, 2005 Harriet Hargrave “The Inside Story”February 12, 2005 Harriet Hargrave Workshop “The Basics of Heirloom Quilting”

To sign up for a workshop, please call Mary Beth Kile at:818.790.4402

If your last name begins with:

P, Q, R, S & TIt is your turn to bring

Refreshments.

JANUARY IS THE GUILD’S ANNUAL BIRTHDAY

CELEBRATION!

The Glendale Quilt Guild’s Founder, Carol Andrews, will be at the General Meeting and we will be having a BIG birthday cake to celebrate this event.

Don’t miss the January Meeting!

COMMITTEES

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GLENDALE QUILT SHOW SALES GALLERY ENTRY FORM

Suggestions for the sales items: Handmade/sewing related items such as wall hangings, quilt tops (finished or unfinished), quilt block sets, dolls, vest/wearable art, etc. The Guild will retain 25% of the sales price of all items - unless the item is 100% donation or some other percentage above 25%. Please fill out all applicable blanks on the form. If the form is incomplete, your item may be excluded from the Sales Gallery. If you are placing multiples of the same item, only one form is required. Simply indicate the number of items in the appropriate blank.

Name: Phone: ( ) Address: Glendale Guild Member? Yes/No If No, Member contact name: Name of Item(s): Measurement/size: Quantity: Hand Pieced: Yes/No Hand Quilted: Yes/No Hand Appliquéd: Yes/NoMachine Pieced: Yes/No Machine Quilted: Yes/No Machine Appliquéd: Yes/NoPercentage donating to the Guild: 25% 50% 75% 100% (circle one) Selling Price: Minimum price you are willing to accept:

Please describe item. List details, materials or other interesting facts such as history or occasionfor which it was made: Questions, please contact: Sandy Rogers @ 626.967.1752

All forms must be submitted no later than February 20, 2005 and delivered by March 1, 2005. Please be considerate of the time it takes to catalog all of these items and to fulfill your requests.

If you smoke while you sew, please have all items aired out (smoke free) before submitting.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

I hope all of you have or had a great Christmas season. I know that all of my relatives gathered at my home for one week of wonderful family times, great conversations, lots of hugs, and many superb dinners around the table. There were five grand nieces and nephews, one grand niece on the way, four dogs and lots of laughter. It was all over too soon.

But what is not over is preparation for the March Quilt Show. All of the Committee Chairs have been busy as little elves emailing, snail mailing and phoning registra-tion requests, quilt entries (we need your quilts), hotel room reservations, etc. Let’s all get our room reserva-tions made, and our items for the Sales Gallery finished. Start bringing your Sales Gallery items to the meetings, or call Sandy Rogers for drop-off times. Please remem-ber to have a Sales Gallery Form filled out for EACH item that you are submitting.

The Quilt Entry Form can be downloaded from our web-site, www.glendalequiltguild.org., if you do not have that form.

Ann Hunter, Registration Chairman, tells me that one workshop is already closed, MM1 “Strips that Sizzle”. Please tell all of your friends about signing up for classes thru our website, and that they can use their credit cards now online for that purpose. Our Members need to get their class reservations first, so start signing up online and beat the rush. Our Show merchandise (shirts, pins, t-shirts, totes) have been debuted with great success. We all look good in the Hilo Hattie Hawaiian shirts, dressed up with the acces-sories. You can purchase the items at the Meeting with a check or credit card. How far we have come!!!! Our next Meeting for the Show Committee is January 24, 2005 at 7PM at the Glendale Library. I will see all of you before that at the General Meeting on January 12, 2005. Meanwhile, have a safe and sane New Year and I hope Santa brought you all what you needed or wanted. MARILYN GREEN2005 QUILT SHOW CHAIRMANXRAYXRAY@PACBELL.NET

WORKSHOPS

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JANUARY WORKSHOP

SUPPLIES

Lura Schwartz Smith’s DESIGNING ART QUILTS

Date: January 15, 2005 Time: 9:00 AM - 3:30 PMLocation: Glendale Library (unofficial location please call Mary Beth to confirm)Cost: $25 or $15 with voucher Make your reservation with Mary Beth Kile 818.790.4402

We are all artists, whether or not we have yet discovered it. As quilters, we have a wonderful medium in which to explore our artistic potentials, and the tools of our time allow us to produce exciting, original images in our quilts we may never have believed possible, regardless of our known drawing abili-ties (or “lack” of them). In this workshop, you will learn some of the basic elements of design, do a few simple, fun drawing exercises, and become acquainted with some of the many easy tools and techniques available to us all to help design and produce original art quilts with images you choose. Bring photographs or simple drawings and learn to design your own art quilt pattern. All skill levels are welcome, and the words “I can’t draw” are outlawed! Visit my Student Gallery pages under Classes on my website to see beautiful student projects done in my workshops. We will be using fabric pens, inks and paints, so come dressed to play and have fun. There is a $10 kit fee per student. www.quiltart.com/2004journals

Photograph(s) or simple drawing(s) (your own, to avoid copyright issues) for use in producing a pattern – bring several if you wish to combine elements or work with more than one image. Clear, informative photos are easiest to work with, any subject matter that has meaning for you.

8-1/2”x11” photocopy of above, or computer printout of similar size, if original is smaller, for ease in tracing (black and white photocopy is fine) - bring originals.

At least four 8-1/2”x11” pieces of muslin (pressed to freezer paper if desired).

Lightbox, if you have one (students may share).

FEBRUARY WORKSHOPHarriet Hargrave’s THE BASICS OF HEIRLOOM QUILTING

Date: February 12, 2005 Time: 9:00 AM - 3:00 PMLocation: TBACost: $25 or $15 with voucher Make your reservation with Mary Beth Kile 818.790.4402

Heirloom Machine Quilting - 6 hour workshopWhen she first introduced free motion quilting in 1984 at Houston Quilt Market, Harriet set the quilting world on its ear, and has been changing the look of quilting ever since. Heirloom Machine Quilting is Harriet’s favorite class to teach, as the

enthusiasm of the students is contagious. This is the class she is famous for.

Unique machine quilting techniques that will turn quilt tops into heirlooms in a fraction of the time it takes to hand quilt will be taught. The actual sewing is a small part of machine quilting, and the beginning of the class is lecture filled with valuable information so that the student knows what to expect and how to avoid the pitfalls along the way. A thorough discussion of preparing the quilt top to quilt, work space, threads, needles, etc. will be covered.

Hands-on exercises will be used to develop machine quilting skills, from walking foot, ditch quilting, to free motion feathers. Harriet is a master at teaching students “how to learn to machine quilt”. Most of all, encouragement and excitement is taught, giving students permission to become great machine quilters.

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NEW MEM BERSHAPPY BIRTH DAY!

MEMBERSHIP

Mary Bolas 1/2Becky Gong 1/3Patricia L. Ing 1/3Kris K. Kline 1/4Sandy Rogers 1/4Susan Vite 1/5Loreen S. Haring 1/8Marty Boles 1/9Loretta Bradley 1/10Koharu Nakamura 1/10Carol Meadows 1/11Susan M. Bollotte 1/12

Frida V. Martinez 1/13Susan A. Walker 1/13Rosio J. Torres 1/17Mona G. Hobson 1/20Anita Vigil 1/21Marcia Katz 1/21Ella Abrahamson 1/24Sherryl E. Zurek 1/25Dorthea R. Corrigan 1/28Nicole J. Osborn 1/30Vicki C. Pacifi co 1/30

DECEMBER POTLUCK

Music by Arroyo

Repertory Theatre and

La Salle Preparatory High School

Show and

Share

Guild Members enjoy-ing the Potluck

Martha Borders 4/6

Sandy Tocalino 10/6

PLEASE ADD THIS CONTINUING MEMBER TO YOUR ROSTER:

Georgia A. Morton 7/28

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CALENDAR OFEVENTS

MEETING REPORTS

Jan. 14-16, 2005: Road to California, Ontario Convention Center. www.road2ca.com

March 11-13, 2005: The Glendale Quilt Show “Island Holiday”. The Burbank Hilton Hotel, Burbank, CA. www.glendalequiltguild.org.

March 19, 2005: The Ber-nina Fashion Show; Knotts Berry Farm; Charles M. Schulz Theater, 8039 Beach Blvd., Buena Park.

March 30 - April 3, 2005: Pieceful Harbor Retreat. A quilting get-away with Mar-garet J. Miller and Nancy Lee Chong. Picturesque Gig Har-bor, Washington. www.prqc.com/phr; 360.568.7778

Workshop Survey

A Big Thank You to all of you who returned the workshop survey circulated at our Holiday Party! Any input from the Guild Mem-bers is greatly appreciated and will influence future choices and organization of future workshops. Please feel free to talk to me if you have any requests or comments regarding workshops. Thank you again to those of you who have already communi-cated comments and ideas regarding our Guild’s workshops.

Mary Beth KileWorkshop Chair

2005 QUILT SHOW ENTRIESDEADLINE JANUARY 15TH

By the time this newsletter reaches you, the deadline for quilt entries will soon be upon us. Last year’s show was such a suc-cess; full of diversity, color, and imagination. It was inspiring to see so many beautiful quilts and the show left us all with a sense of awe. Be sure to share your creations again this year and remember that this is your opportunity to share your love of quilts with family, friends and the general public. It is also one of the ways that you can show support for the Guild. Without your entry there will be one less quilt in the Show.

I will be at the January 12th General Meeting, outside the au-ditorium with camera in hand to take pictures of your entries. Please bring your completed entry form with you. If you do not have an entry form, please call me at 626.836.9305 or email me at gqg2005@earthlink.net and I will get one out to you right away. The entry form is also available for download from our website at www.glendalequiltguild.org (Acrobat Reader 4.0 or higher required). Your quilt does not have to be finished by the deadline, but will need to be done in time for the Show. You can also choose whether you wish to have your quilt judged.

I look forward to seeing your quilts and hope that you will enjoy participating in the Show!

Kirsten ReedQuilt Acquisition Chair626.836.9305

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GENERAL GUILD INFORMATIONVOLUME XXV NO. 7

www.GlendaleQuiltGuild.org

Glendale Quilt Guild, Inc., is a non-profit corporation. The purpose is to contribute to the knowledge of and to promote the appreciation of fine quilts, quiltmaking, and collecting; to gain knowledge of quilt

techniques, patterns, history, and quiltmakers through educational meetings, travel and friendship. Meetings are held the 2nd Wednesday of every month at the Glendale Central Library Auditorium,

222 East Harvard St. Glendale, CA.

Social time: 6:30-7:00pm. Meeting begins at 7:00pm. Guest fees $5 per meeting.

Membership dues are payable July 1 and are delinquent at the end of the August General Meeting. Active members, $20; Seniors (62+ yrs.), $15; Affiliates, $25; Newsletter Only $20.

The Newsletter is a monthly publication of the Glendale Quilt Guild. Members are invited to

submit items of interest for publication by submitting them at the General Meeting or by e-mailing to Susan Vite: smvite@aol.com.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE IS THE FIFTH DAY AFTER THE GENERAL MEETING.

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Workshop Polices

The following policies apply to Glendale Quilt Guild Workshops.

1. If you are interested in taking a Workshop, it will be necessary for you to submit the class fee on the date that you sign up in order that a space will be reserved in your name. Workshop costs currently are as follows: Glendale Quilt Guild members $25, and non-members $35.

2. Refunds will only be allowed in the event that you have a serious emergency and are unable to attend the Workshop, or if there is another person on the waiting list who is interested in taking your place. Please notify the Workshop Chair as soon as possible if you cannot attend.

3. Refunds will be provided to all participants should the Glendale Quilt Guild cancel the Workshop.

Mail your Workshop checks made payable to the Glendale Quilt Guild, to Mary Beth Kile, 5054 Westslope Lane, La Canada, CA 91011, 818.790.4402.

I love taking the Glendale Quilt Guild Workshops because the quality of the teachers are the best you can find, the price is wonderful, and it has been a way for me to meet new friends as a new member to this quilt guild.

- Rosio Torres -

MEETING: WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12, 2005 7:00 PM GLENDALE CENTRAL LIBRARY 222 E. HARVARD BLVD, GLENDALE

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