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Newsletter Archive (2010)
Welcome to our Newsletter Archive. Previous 2010 Quilting Adventures newsletters appear here with the most recent ones first. Use the links below to jump to a particular issue or to 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009 archives or the current newsletter.
 
   
   
2010 Archive
 
 
 

April 16, 2010

Alice and Barbara at Creations Shop Hop

Wonderful rain! Creeks on the rise... Sheriff's warnings not to cross high water on the roads... and undaunted by it all ... shop hop.

It has been the tradition at QA.. to offer a $75 discount on spring registrations during the Bluebonnet Patchwork Trail Shop Hop each April. Now this is really early planning since we are talking about registering in April 2010 for next spring, March of 2011. But it seems to work for us, we get the majority of our registrants signed up by the end of Shop Hop each year and we have the joy of playing at Creations for 4 days with the "Crew".

 
Creations Shop Theme

This year's theme is "Under Construction" as you can see by the pictures.

We'll be at the shop through Sunday taking registrations. Check out our wonderful 2011 faculty online or by brochure.

But if the creeks are too high, or the rain too heavy or the distance too far for you to Shop Hop this year, we are applying the discounts to registrations that are phoned in, faxed, or postmarked during these four days.
 
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Barbara and Alice
 
 

January 22, 2010

Have you heard what we’ve heard? Recently we were reviewing our spring teachers and found this prodigious and delightful input about them.

Did you know, for example, that Sue Nickels (Week 2) recently sold her quilt, Golden Feathers for $1,200 in the first annual World Quilt Federation Smackdown event to support the Alzheimer’s Art Quilt Initiative? Way to go, Sue!

The Parts Department ladies, Gwen Marston and Freddy Moran continue exciting us with their new books. Gwen has Liberated Quiltmaking II awaiting us in spring, 2010. And have you seen Gwen and Freddy’s second Parts book, Freddy and Gwen Collaborate Again? All of this awaits us in QA’s Week 2!

And, can you wait to see Karen Stone (Week 1) this spring and congratulate her on her big win at the IQA show--the Mayfield Studio Masters Award for Innovative Artistry for her beautiful quilt Clam Session? Awesome!

What about Esterita Austin’s fabulous opening piece on her website www.esteritaaustin.com? Titled Incommunicato, Esterita says it so well. Join Esterita in Week 1 and you will never see the same again!

We’ve discovered Susan Cleveland's newest book, Marvelous Miters. Known for precision extraordinary, Susan never disappoints.

Cara Gulati is holding a big surprise for us, in a new book, promised “soon.” Cara, is it ready for QA, Week 3?

And it was a pleasure to find Marsha McCloskey’s latest design from her inventive mind—a ruler that does it all, of course it is titled—the Feathered Star Ruler! Won’t this be fun to use with Marsha in Week 1?

Ann Fahl and her sense of detail spread over in her blog at www.annfahl.blogspot.com. She says, “My parents encouraged us to find a passion.” Indeed, color and thread—passion it is. Ann’s sense of color is fabulous. We can’t wait—Week 3 at Quilting Adventures.

Check out your favorite teachers in each of Quilting Adventures weeks—March 7-12, March 14-19 and March 21-26. These opportunities are for you. Give yourself a gift of learning—a week with your favorite quilting faculty. Details on our Spring Seminars page.

Meanwhile, we've been busy preparing for future seminars...
 
Helen working on 2011 brochure
  
Helen working on 2011 brochure
Helen has been hard at work on the
2011 Quilting Adventures' brochure.
  
Barbara and Alice have been
researching future teachers.
     
Helen ready for Christmas
    
But of course, it is not all work...
Webmaster Sharon snapped this picture
of Helen dressed up for Christmas
while shopping at Creations.
Aren't those sunglasses wonderful?
   
 
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Barbara and Alice
 
 

January 5, 2010

New Year's!  It's our opportunity to reflect on the past and to look toward the future with a sense of renewal.  What a wonderful path we have been on with Quilting Adventures.  

There has been great joy watching the laughter and the enthusiasm at QA as new quilt projects took shape and new friendships were made.  We have been blessed by the most marvelous support from the Creations gals and the extended QA team.  And we are thankful for the continued enrollments of so many friends in this tough economic year.  Go-fers John and George continue to encourage and support this adventure which makes us marvel at their good nature and at our luck at having them in our lives.  

The coming year is sure to be filled with new and renewed friendships, more laughter, more fabric for the stash, too many quilts started and too few completed. The work we see ahead of us is more than offset by the anticipation of the time we will spend with all of you.  We rejoice at the prospect of this coming year!

Our New Year's wish for you ... a sense of wonder at what lies ahead... an openness to see the world and your art with new eyes... the joy of gathering with friends.  We'll see you in March!
 
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Barbara and Alice
 
 
     
 

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