Picture This!

Becky's Cabin Quilt

Lenore Crawford is a master at making a fabric “painting” combining fused fabrics, raw edged appliqué and fabric paints. Her “Port of Cassis” won Best Wall Hanging at the 2011 American Quilters’ Society show in Paducah using these techniques.

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Bringing Out What’s Within

Isabelle's Flower

Vikki Pignatelli’s class “Creative Self-Expression: Curves, Improvision & Dimension” included the basic concepts and construction methods for all of her techniques: Crazy about Curves, Improvisation with Curves, Manipulations/Dimension, Openings and Color.

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Lone Stars

Ginny's Lone Star Quilt

You don’t have to be from the Lone Star State to love Jan Krentz’s modern take on the traditional Lone Star pattern!

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Iron Maidens

Julie's Fused Dog

The Chicago School of Fusing came to New Braunfels with Laura Wasilowski’s class, “Translating Ideas Into Fabric”.

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Log Cabin Comes Out Of The Woods

Ruth's Log Cabin Diamonds

Flavin Glover realized long ago that log cabin patchwork could become a design foundation that offered versatile pattern options, depth, movement and opportunities for color play.

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The Other Side of the Garden

CJ's quilt

If Jane Sassaman’s class was one side of the garden, Melinda Bula took her students to the other side with realisim in her “Fabulous Fusible Flowers” class.

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Drawing Impared? Tragically Literal? Hardly.

Paula's Orchid

Nature is an endless source of inspiration. In Jane Sassaman’s class “Abstracting From Nature”, students examined a wide variety of artists interpretations of nature before beginning to manipulate natural forms themselves.

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Show & Tell

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For this year’s Spring Seminars, we invited returning students to bring quilts from classes they took in prior years for Show & Tell.

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Happy Birthday Doris!

Happy Birthday Doris!

Meet Doris! She celebrated her 92nd birthday this week during our Spring Seminars and was an inspiration to us all.

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Happy Birthday Jan!

Happy Birthday Jan

Jan Krentz celebrated her birthday with us today! In her spare time, Laura Wasilowski whipped up a birthday cake and her students created a fabric card for her. Happy Birthday Jan!!!