*2010 Event Dates*

The meeting begins at 7:30 P.M., doors open at 7 P.M.

Meeting Location: Southold Town Recreation Center, 970 Peconic Lane, Peconic, NY. unless otherwise noted.

NOTE: Due to scheduling conflicts with the Rec center, some meetings or workshops will be relocated to other locations. See below.

* General Membership Meetings *

Wednesday, August 4 - Business Meeting and Program: Barbara Arnold-  Who's Afraid of the Quilt Show Judge? Are you afraid of having your quilts judged? Learn what a judge looks for and why you should take advantage of this very important resource. Enjoy this easy and informative lecture with lots of quilts to show. Bring your questions - we will help you with answers.

Wednesday, September 1 - Business Meeting and Program: Cindy Zlotnick Oravecz: "Quilter's Fancy"... What's Weird and Wacky and New in the Sewing World. Watch Cindy pull all sorts of unusual projects from her sewing bag of tricks. The stories will be as wild and wacky as the projects.

Wednesday, October 6 - Business Meeting and Program: Karen McTavish: Wholecloth Trapunto Trunk Show: Wholecloth Trapunto Trunkshow Karen will share her examples of wholecloth trapunto quilting and use of a background filler with a longarm quilting machine that has been dubbed "McTavishing".

Wednesday, November 3 - Business Meeting and Program: Katherine Knauer: Tampering with Tradition: - this Powerpoint lecture explores how the artist finds inspiration in traditional quilt patterns, historic embroideries and other textiles and uses them as the basic building blocks of her very contemporary, often humorous work.  Described as a mirthful approach to the macabre" and "cheerfully apocalyptic",  Katherine’s quilts are comments on current events presented within a framework of traditional technique.  The juxtaposition of subject matter dealing with war and environmental degradation and a medium most often associated with comfort and warmth energizes her work and gives it a unique perspective.  

Katherine Knauer’s work has been included in numerous venues including two solo exhibitions and Quilt National (seven quilts in six different years).  She is the author of Stencil Printing on Fabric which was published in American Quilter in 1993.  Ms. Knauer uses quite a variety of techniques and continually adds new techniques to her repertoire. 

Wednesday, December 1 - Annual Holiday Social and Chinese Auction

*Workshops*

Sponsored by ELIQG to bring nationally recognized teachers to our area.

Held at Southold Rec Center, Peconic Lane, Peconic, unless otherwise noted, 9 A.M. - 4 P.M. cost $50.

Payment deadline is the month before the workshop occurs.

All workshops are skill levels: Beginner - Advanced.

Open to non-members if space permits for $60.

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Thursday, August 5 - Barbara ArnoldSashiko Workshop: Explore the beauty of this simple but challenging quilting stitch.  All skill levels. Hand sewing

Location: Southold, Peconic Rec. Center, 9 AM - 3 PM

Traditional Sashiko has a very different back than our traditional hand quilting stitch. Knots and jump stitches are common on the back or underside of Sashiko. Even so, the back or underside of your quilted item needs to be neat. If you are curious about how this looks see one of my samples. Many quilters still bury their knots and travel stitches. Either way is fine.

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Click here for Sashiko Registration Form

Thursday, September 2 - Cindy Zlotnick Oravecz

Victorian Wreath of Wildflowers Quilt Block Workshop

Location: Southold Recreation Center, 9 AM – 4 PM

Shape fabric and ribbons into colorful wildflowers that will bloom as a Victorian wreath on a 12-inch quilt block. This class will eature all-new techniques that are not from Cindy's first two books. Relaxing hand gathering stitches that do not have to be perfect will form flowers like the yellow sand Verbena, Milkwort, Prairie Acacia, Bunchberry, Camilla and the New York Ironweed. The quilt block can be part of an album quilt or trimmed with a 3-D swag border for a wall hanging.

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Thursday, October 7- Karen McTavish

Wholecloth Design workshop

Location: Southold Recreation Center, 9 AM – 4 PM

This is an all day class, where no quilting machines are needed. This is a class which results in a large wholecloth, which is easily marked by the student and is ready for trapunto, hand-quilting, or machine quilting by the end of class. This one day class is for anyone who would like to design an original wholecloth from scratch. Table space will be provided for each student. Instructor will also have many wholecloth quilts in the trunk show as wall as a small lecture on the history of wholecloth.

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Click here for design supply list

*Members Teaching Members Workshops*

Workshops offered by ELIQG members for ELIQG members:

Usually scheduled for the third Sunday of most months (depending on teacher availability),

at Southold Rec Center (Unless otherwise noted) from 9 A.M.- 4 P.M. and are $15.

Nov. 14 - (2nd Sunday) Marie Deuel: Paper Piecing @ the Peconic Rec. Center.

Interested in making those cute little blocks, but thought they were too challenging? Paper piecing is a fold and sew technique that allows for creating blocks with intricate designs with the ease of following steps in numerical order. The added benefit is in the use of small pieces of fabric to complete the designs.

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* 2010 Board Meetings *

July 28, August 25, September 29, October 27, November 17

*2011 Quilt Show Committee Meetings:

(pending) September 15, November 10, 2010, February 16, 2011, March 16, April 13, May 11