North Star Quilters Guild

Third Educational

Conference

Friday, October 17, 2014 —

Sunday, October 19, 2014

Alerus Convention Center—Ballroom 5

1200 42nd Street South Grand Forks, ND

www.northstarquilters.org

For questions contact:

Jolene Mikkelson at jomikkelson@msn.com

Phone: 218-791-2182

Or

Bev Solseng at beverlysolseng@gmail.com Phone: 701-317-0992

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National Faculty:

Frieda Anderson Pat Speth

Regional Faculty:

Pam Davis

Tina Hylton Mary Ellen Imdieke Lorraine LeBlanc

Nita Schultz Nancy Zimney

SA-1

Half Square Triangles and

Four Patch Class

SA-2

Duluth Trees

SA-3

Cartouche

Embroidered

Pillow

SA-4

Crazy Quilt Basics

With Hand

Embellishment

SA-6

Machine

Quilting

SA-5

Basket Weave

Quilt

SU-7

Borders the Nickel Quilt Way

SU-8

Fun Free Motion Quilting

SU-12

Diva Wallet

SU-11

Miniature Paper

Quilts

SU-9

Orion’s Belt

Table Runner

SU-10

Machine Stitched

Crazy Quilt

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Pat Speth is the creative master-

mind behind the five inch square

craze and a talented scrap quilter. Pat has written four books and

many patterns for quilts using 5”

squares. She enjoys discovering

traditional blocks, designing new

blocks, and teaching the methods

for working with these squares. After juggling her full-time job and her

quilting for many years, Pat moved into a full-time quilting

career in July 2003. “I have found my passion in life, and I

can’t imagine doing anything else.”

Pat Speth

I have always made things, and love the

process of creating. In college I majored in

art history and minored in ceramics, but returned to fiber because it was more satis-

fying. For years my focus was designing and

making clothing. All that changed in 1992,

when I realized all I wanted to do was make

quilts. I have been designing and making

original art quilts ever since.

It is hard to say what part of quiltmaking I like best. I love the

pure creativity involved in conceiving and designing a new quilt.

I love to piece and to fuse. I have found that by fusing smaller pieces, I can work out design issues. Then I like to make

a bigger, bolder statement and piece the same quilt in a large

format. Most of my work is machine quilted and nature in-

spired.

Every day I walk in a little woods near my home with my dog

George. Much of what I see there appears in my work. I discov-

ered hand dyeing fabric 20 years ago, and I now work almost

exclusively with my own hand dyed cottons and silks. I love the

dye process, and I particularly enjoy seeing the colors emerge

from the wet fabric.

Frieda Anderson

National Faculty

North Star Quilters Guild Education Conference Master Schedule

Friday, October 17, 2014 Ballroom 5

Pat Speth Lecture/Trunk Show 7:30 pm

Saturday, October 18, 2014 Ballroom 5

Pat Speth SA-1 “Half Square Triangles and Four Patch” 8:30 am - 4:30 pm

Frieda Anderson SA-2 “Duluth Trees” 8:30 am - 4:30 pm

Tina Hylton SA-3 Cartouche Embroidered Pillow

8:30 am - 12:00 pm

Mary Ellen Imdieke SA-4 Crazy Quilts Basics With Hand Embellishment”

8:30 am–12:00 pm

Nita Schultz SA-5 Basket Weave Quilt 1:00 pm - 4:30 pm

Lorraine LeBlanc, SA-6 Machine Quilting 1:00 pm - 4:30 pm

Frieda Anderson Lecture/Trunk Show 7:30 pm

Sunday, October 19, 2014 Ballroom 5

Pat Speth SU-7 “Borders the Nickel Quilt Way” 8:30 am - 4:30 pm

Frieda Anderson SU-8 “Fun Free Motion Quilting” 8:30 am - 4:30 pm

Nita Schultz SU-9 Orion’s Belt Table Runner

8:30 am - 12:00 pm

Mary Ellen Imdieke SU-10 Machine Stitched Crazy Quilt

8:30 am - 12:00 pm

Pam Davis SU-11 Miniature Paper Quilts 1:00 pm - 4:30 pm

Nancy Zimney SU-12 Diva Wallet 1:00 pm - 4:30 pm

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Vendors!

A limited number of quilt shops will

be vending during the conference

and will be open

to the public during class

hours and prior

to trunk shows.

Saturday Classes - Regional Faculty

Saturday morning

Tina Hylton

SA-3 Cartouche

Embroidered Pillow

Come and learn the basic embroi-dery stitches and then use them to make this stunning pillow!

Saturday morning

Mary Ellen Imdieke SA-4 Crazy Quilt Basics with

Hand Embellishment

Brief history of crazy quilting as well as tips and techniques for making a crazy quilt. Practice hand embellishment of your crazy quilt square.

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Saturday afternoon

Nita Schultz

SA-5 Basket Weave Quilt

This quilt uses a jelly roll and two additional fabrics. A 90° ruler is

needed for this project. The Crea-

tive Grid 45°/90° ruler is suggest-ed, but any 90° ruler will work as long as it measures 6½” from tip to base line. The partial seam technique is used in this block. The quilt finishes at 70” x 70”.

Saturday afternoon

Lorraine LeBlanc

SA-6 Machine Quilting

Have you always wanted to free-motion quilt your own table run-ners and other projects on your

own sewing machine? You will learn how to spray baste a quilt and how to quilt motifs without marking. We will also discuss thread, needles and other tools.

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Sunday Classes - Regional Faculty

Sunday morning

Nita Schultz

SU-9 Orion’s Belt Table

Runner

Construction using the Common Bias cutting guides allows for easy and accurate floating stars. Using joined bias strips you create rectan-gles and squares. A template set is required for this project. Nice sharp points are produced using this method.

Sunday morning

Mary Ellen Imdieke SU-10 Machine Stitched

Crazy Quilt

Brief history of crazy quilting as well as tips and techniques for making a crazy quilt. Practice two machine embellishment techniques of your crazy quilt square.

Sunday afternoon

Pam Davis

SU-11 Miniature Paper Quilts Learn to make a miniature quilt suitable for framing, using simple paper cloth techniques and basic

color theory. Use fabrics or a com-bination of paper and fabric to cre-ate your quilt. Patterns provided or use your own.

Sunday afternoon

Nancy Zimney

SU-12 Diva Wallets

Dress it up or keep it casual—you’ll find it hard to make just one! This sassy wallet has 6 card pockets, 2 open pockets and a zippered pock-et. Complete it within the class. Makes a great gift! $20 kit fee, pay-able to Nancy, covers pattern, one frame and screwdriver.

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Owned and Operated by Faye Grandalen Over 3,000 bolts, Quilting Classes, Hand Guided Quilt Machine, Custom Quilts, Embroidery & Heat Press Ma-chines, Books, Patterns, Notions & Supplies, and Much, much more!

Pamela Gordon Davis is an art quilter and fiber artist. She has a degree in Textiles, Clothing and Design from the University of Minne-sota. She is a member of the North Star Quilters Guild and the De-signing Quilters group in Fargo. She is an Artist in the Classroom for the Grand Forks School District.

Tina Hylton lives near Reynolds, ND and is the mother of Marie (6)

and Asher (2). She belongs to the North Star Quilters Guild, has been quilting for 25 years and enjoys all quilting methods, especially em-broidery and fusible applique. She owns a pattern design company called Light on the Prairie., works at Quilter’s Eden and is a martial arts instructor by trade.

Mary Ellen Imdieke, Blaine, MN, has been sewing for nearly 60 years. “As kids, we all had jobs: wash dishes, wash clothes, do the

ironing, do the sewing.” At 13 she made a maternity dress for her mother! About 20 years ago, she saw a Crazy Quilt at the Smithson-ian American History Museum. That inspired her to teach herself to do Crazy Quilts.

Lorraine LeBlanc grew up on a dairy farm east of new Rockford, ND where she participated in 4-H for ten years. She attended the

University of North Dakota and has lived in Grand forks for 26 years. She joined North Star Quilters Guild in March of 1997 and has been machine quilting on her Bernina for ten years.

Nita Schultz is a quilting addict who loves to teach, create and decorate with quilts. Nita recently followed her passion by creating “What a Hoot Quilting”. She blogs at www.whatahootquilting.com and lives in Fergus Falls, MN.

Nancy Zimney is from Grand Forks and is a proud member of the North Star Quilters Guild. She has been quilting for eleven years.

SA-2 “Duluth Trees” All day Saturday

Raw-edge fusing makes quilting fun and fast. This woodland design is

simple yet elegant and naturally

suited for quiet reflection of the

passing seasons. Students will free

form cut tree shapes and, using a collage method, fuse them onto fabric

dyed in a colorway that speaks of

cabins, lakes and rivers. Each

student will create their own unique forest in the woods art quilt.

Lecture and Trunk Show “Frieda’s Fun Free Motion Machine Quilting”

7:30 pm Saturday

In this one hour lecture

and PowerPoint

presentation, Frieda will show you how she

uses her sewing

machine to achieve her beautiful award winning machine quilting

designs. Thread, needles, batting and other tools will be reviewed and the basting of large quilt projects will be covered.

SU-8 “Fun Free Motion Quilting” All day Sunday

Frieda’s award winning quilts have been

in many magazine articles and books. She will lead you through a series of fun

exercises where you will create one-of-a-

kind free form machine quilting without

marking or templates. Each exercise

leads you step by step in developing your

own style and expertise to free motion quilting with confidence.

Frieda Anderson

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Lecture and Trunk Show “Fabulous Nickel Borders” 7:30 pm Friday

Turn a nice quilt into a WOW quilt by adding

easy-to-piece Nickel Borders. In this lecture we

focus on easy to piece borders that are made from 5” squares. I bring many of my quilts with

pieced borders and I walk you through my method of “auditioning”

borders.

SA-1 “Half Square Triangles and

Four Patch”

All day Saturday

These units could be considered the corner-

stones of quilting. Simple sewing and cutting

techniques will turn your 5" squares into many

great quilts. You can choose from 14 different quilts to make. Once you play with these units

on a design wall you may come up with a new

block of your own! You will also learn how to

make 2 different sizes of nine patches from 5" squares and sew a

mystery block! A handout will be given and discussed on how to

make your pieced border fit your quilt top. Rated: All skill levels.

SU-7 “Borders the Nickel Quilt Way” All day Sunday

Jazz up your quilts by adding easy pieced bor-ders. Unit construction methods will be taught

for these basic border units: Half Square Trian-

gles, Four Patches, Flying Geese, Picket Fence,

Hourglass Units, Small Wonders, and Combina-

tion Units. If time allows additional units will also be demonstrated. Learn how to fit any

pieced border to your quilt top. I utilize an inner spacer border and

we will practice calculating the size of this border. We will also go

through the steps and calculations needed to determine the num-

ber of border units needed when you are designing a quilt of your

own or adding a pieced border to a quilt that does not already have one. Worksheets will be provided.

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