May 19 & 20: Long Island Fleece and Fiber Fair. Hallockville Museum Farm, 6038 Sound Avenue, Riverhead. Featuring the many facets of harvesting, processing, and working with animal fiber from sheep, llamas, alpacas, and rabbits. Demonstrations and workshops will take place throughout the day including shearing, wool dying, spinning, sheep herding, and many other activities. There will also be a fiber market where vendors will sell yarn and fiber-related products. Fee. For a list of participating vendors. ELIQG will be demoing quilting techniques throughout the day, 10 AM – 5 PM.
APPRAISALS AT THE ELIQG QUILT SHOW: Written appraisals will be available at the ELIQG 2012 Quilt Show with Joyce M. Fischer who is an AQS Certified Appraiser of traditional and non-traditional quilts. Joyce Fischer has been appraising, and judging quilts for over 8 years and specializes in the appraisal of antique quilts, contemporary quilts, art quilts, as well as other textiles including garments. Joyce has appraised for historical societies, private collectors as well as major quilt shows on a national and international basis. Joyce offers written appraisals for insurance, fair market and donation/estate values. Each item being appraised is unique and specifically analyzed by Joyce. Written appraisals are available this year at a show special fee of $35 for ELIQG members ($45 for non-members), checks made payable to Joyce Fischer. (Quilts hanging in the show may be judged, or bring quilts to be appraised, see form for more details on contacting Joyce for a 30 minute appt for carry-ins).
Pillowcases for charity
On April 15, 2012, 15 ELIQG members worked like Trojans with their sewing machines, rotary cutters and sergers and created 80 pillowcases for Sloan Kettering Children’s Cancer Center, Winthrop Hospital, Schneider Childrens’ Hospital and Stony Brook University Hospital. Thank you ladies!
Quilts stolen in Texas
As you may have heard, quilt designer and teacher Karen Combs was robbed of her teaching quilts, supplies and more while staying at a motel in New Braunfels, Texas. Her rental car was broken into, and the suitcase with her quilts were stolen.
You can see Karen’s quilts at her website: http://karencombs.wordpress.com/2012/03/18/quilts-stolen/
Karen has a signature style – very geometric – and these quilts are important to her work and her livelihood. So if you know a quilter in Texas, or you will be going to Texas, help share this and maybe she’ll get her quilts back.
COMING TO ELIQG in 2012!
ELIQG 2012 Quilt Show Judge: Linda Luggen, from Cincinnati, Ohio
Quiltmaker, quilt teacher, lecturer, designer and NQA Certified Judge, Linda Luggen has spent over thirty years sharing her knowledge of quilts and quiltmaking. She designs many of her own appliqué patterns. Her color sense and multi-layer techniques have led her to a new world of freedom in creative appliqué designs that she loves to share. Her quilts have won awards nationally and have been published in Lady’s Circle Patchwork Quilts and Great American Quilts. Her home and quilts were featured in Romantic Homes. Her article on judging was published in the NQA Quilting Quarterly and in the Vic Quilter (a Victoria, Australia quilt magazine). She has taught seminars and lectured nationally. At a Cincinnati Fall Flower Show at Coney Island she was the featured artist, displaying 20 quilts pertaining to flowers and nature. She has served as Secretary, Vice-President and Program Coordinator, and President of the Ohio Valley Quilters Guild. She worked as co-facility coordinator for the Sew Near To My Heart Quilt Show in Cincinnati. Linda is a National Quilting Association Certified Judge and has served as Nominating Committee Chairman and Chairman of the Midwest Judges Retreat.
May 30th ELIQG General Meeting & Lecture, Location: SCCC Riverhead Campus, Library building. Lecture- Stories Live On Through My Quilts by Linda Luggen. This is a lecture of sharing the story of quilts in my family. I show you the quilts as I tell the stories of my family from the late 1800s through the Great Depression and on to the present. I also show the quilts I am making today and reflect on the inspiration my past has given me. The showing is approximately 20 quilts.
ELIQG Quilt Show: June 2 & 3, 2012, “Life LIberty and the Pursuit of Quilting”, Suffolk Community College, 121 Speonk-Riverhead Road, Riverhead, NY
ELIQG Quilt Show Lecturer Phyllis Hatcher, Annapolis, MD
Phyllis Hatcher has an A.B. degree from Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pennsylvania and a M.Ed. degree from Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. She has been trained and tested as a certified appraiser by the American Quilter’s Society Appraiser Certification Program in Paducah, Kentucky and is a member of the Professional Association of Appraisers – Quilted Textiles. Phyllis completed the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s three credit graduate course “History of Quilts”. Phyllis is the author of The Victorian Redwork Sampler Quilt and has published articles in the Quilting Quarterly magazine of the National Quilting Association and Quilters Newsletter. Phyllis was the curator of several quilt exhibits such as “Small and Smaller: 100 Years of Crib Quilts and Doll Quilts” (with Judi Gunter) at the Vermont Quilt Festival and Quilter’s Hall of Fame and “More Is Better” at two national quilts shows. She is past president of both the Annapolis Quilt Guild and Baltimore Appliqué Society and is currently serving on the Board of Directors of the Quilters Hall of Fame in Marion, Indiana. Phyllis lectures on quilt history and teaches quilting classes and workshops. Phyllis Hatcher currently appraises at large and small quilt show venues including Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival in Hampton, Virginia (February); Quilt Fest of New Jersey in Somerset (March); American Quilter’s Society Show in Paducah, Kentucky (April); Annapolis Quilt Show in Maryland (June), Quilt Odyssey in Hershey, Pennsylvania (July); Pennsylvania National Quilt Extravaganza in Oaks-Greater Philadelphia (September), and the World Quilt Show Florida, West Palm Beach (November). The value conclusions expressed are based on the appraiser’s best judgment and opinion and are not a representation or warranty that the items will realize the stated value if offered for sale at auction or otherwise.
Lecture details:
Saturday, June 2, 2012, 11 AM & 2 PM,
Sunday, June 3, 2012, 12 PM & 2 PM
“150 Years of Quilts”: is a lecture and show of quilts from the 1820’s to the 1970’s by Phyllis Twigg Hatcher. See how quilts of each era have their own beauty and what makes the quilt an example of its decade.