May 19 – Linda Sullivan
Join us Sunday, May 19, when we host Linda Sullivan of Colourwerx. Her presentation will include a workshop teaching foundation and precision piecing.
April Program/Workshop
Sunday, April 21, 10:30 am
Tina Curan https://www.tinacurran.com/
Whimsical Garden: My most popular workshop, this pattern uses two techniques — regular piecing to make the background and raw edge appliqué to make the foreground. What’s fun about these quilts is they all come out differently, based on what students bring to class.
Quilting Day
World Wide Quilting Day, International Quilting Day, National Quilting Day. Three names for the same day/event. It’s all about celebrating the world of quilting. March 16, 2024.
Past-President Sue dropped off 2 quilts to Sierra Vista Hospital to be given to two babies. We were a little late in getting them delivered in time for World Wide Quilting Day, but the babies won’t care!
What did you do to celebrate?
March Program Sunday, March 17.
Our program for this month will be Allie McCathren presenting her Seaglass Workshop. Allie is an artist with a background in marine biology. She lives in Houston, TX with her three sons. Her love of science and nature tends to find its way into her work, whether she intends it or not.
Allie works primarily with fabric and thread, but is also a painter, working with acrylics and watercolors. She uses fabric as if it were paint, working with color arrangement and texture to create her art quilts. She is a modern quilter who uses a lot of improv techniques in her work. She loves working with scraps of fabrics that one may not think work together. It can be difficult to figure out how to use scraps efficiently, especially if they don’t seem to “work” together.
Alliee will guide you through her process of organization and usage of scraps so that you may learn to look at fabric in a new way.
This is a 5 hour workshop. Therefore, we will move the starting time for our meeting to 11:00 a.m. Sunday, March 17.
March Sit and Sew
There’s a lot of activity during our monthly Sit and Sew. Join us the 2nd Friday of each month. 9 am – 3 pm. SBCC, 2180 Palisades Avenue, Los Osos, CA. Some of us save hand work to bring just so we don’t have to cart our machines from home.
Join us April 12.
Jennifer Houlden: February 18 2024
Join us Sunday, February 18, 2024
1:30 pm via Zoom
Contact us at bearvalleyquilters@gmail.com for the link.
You can find out more about Jen and her quilting adventures at quiltsbyjen.ca
Creating Contrast in Your Quilts: Adding the WOW Factor!
One of the keys to great artwork and quilts is color and contrast!
This trunk show explores the effective use of contrast to create dimension, movement and
visual harmony while supporting the initial attraction of color in great quilt designs.
Using contrast in the form of fabrics with different textures, patterns and
value is one of the first steps to creating contrast in quilts and textile art.
Adding embellishments such as thread play, couching, beading, painting, and
other mixed media can also create contrast by adding dimension and texture within the piece. Most importantly a design or concept is needed to expand on. Using some or all of these different techniques – the ideas will be never ending.
Join Jen as she explores the world of contrast and learn a few tips, tricks and techniques
that you can incorporate into your quilt making and art to boost the contrast
in your work. And learn how you can achieve that WOW factor in your quilts.