2023 Programs and Workshops
February 2023 - Revised
Eliu Hernandez
Presentation and Trunk Show
Eliu Hernandez is a textile artist specializing in and obsessing over reclaimed materials in his original designs. Sewing and quilting seem to help keep his itchy hands and itchy brain in check.
Bio:
As a Colorado-based fiber artist, Eliu Hernandez, has been playing and working with reused materials for a long time. He has been sewing and quilting for 11 years.
Enjoying the process as much as the finished pieces, Eliu continues to hone his skills in harvesting and applying reclaimed materials in all of his work.
Eliu is a husband, a recent dad and a chiropractor. He’s allowed to make art in his free time, which he doesn’t have much to spare.
Presentation and Trunk Show
Eliu Hernandez is a textile artist specializing in and obsessing over reclaimed materials in his original designs. Sewing and quilting seem to help keep his itchy hands and itchy brain in check.
Bio:
As a Colorado-based fiber artist, Eliu Hernandez, has been playing and working with reused materials for a long time. He has been sewing and quilting for 11 years.
Enjoying the process as much as the finished pieces, Eliu continues to hone his skills in harvesting and applying reclaimed materials in all of his work.
Eliu is a husband, a recent dad and a chiropractor. He’s allowed to make art in his free time, which he doesn’t have much to spare.
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February 2023
Paper Foundation Piecing Workshop (Date Changed!!)
Thursday, March 2, 2023
Time: 9:30 am – 2:30 pm
Location: Eaton Library located at
132 Maple Avenue, Eaton, CO 80615
Cost: $25 (make checks payable to Pieceable Friends Quilt Guild)
Lunch will be included. Please let Cindy know of any dietary restrictions you may have.
Supply List:
*Additional Info:
The star pattern pictured below will make a 12-inch finished square block. Additional smaller star sizes will be available at the class. Please let Karen Kafka know what size you would prefer in advance.
Fabric choices: Batiks and solids can be cut any way without being concerned about wrong or right side.
Directional fabric or fussy cutting is not recommended unless you have extra fabric. (It will be challenging to figure out without the pattern)
Also, the cutting chart for the 12" block is available for download below.
Thursday, March 2, 2023
Time: 9:30 am – 2:30 pm
Location: Eaton Library located at
132 Maple Avenue, Eaton, CO 80615
Cost: $25 (make checks payable to Pieceable Friends Quilt Guild)
Lunch will be included. Please let Cindy know of any dietary restrictions you may have.
Supply List:
- Sewing machine with presser foot to see stitching line and adjustable stitch length
- Fabric
- Thread (neutral or matching)
- A washable glue stick of any kind (optional)
- Pencil
- Scissors
- Rotary Cutter
- Rotary Cutting Mat (minimum size- 6” x 12”)
- Ruler, 6x6, 6x12, 0r 6x24
- Add-a Quarter Ruler or Clear Ruler with ¼” marking
- Flat-Head Quilting Pins (like flower head pins)
- Usual Sewing Supplies (seam ripper, stiletto or purple thang)
*Additional Info:
The star pattern pictured below will make a 12-inch finished square block. Additional smaller star sizes will be available at the class. Please let Karen Kafka know what size you would prefer in advance.
Fabric choices: Batiks and solids can be cut any way without being concerned about wrong or right side.
Directional fabric or fussy cutting is not recommended unless you have extra fabric. (It will be challenging to figure out without the pattern)
Also, the cutting chart for the 12" block is available for download below.
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March 2023
Panel Palooza - Zoom only Meeting
Cyndi McChesney has been quilting for over 40 years and has enjoyed a wide-ranging and fulfilling career in the quilting industry including as a quilt shop owner, custom quilt maker and instructor at national shows, guilds and quilt shops.
Cyndi achieved the distinguished title of National Quilt Association Certified Teacher of the Year, has won awards in the Hoffman Challenge, the Colorado State Fair, Mancuso Visuals #1 2020, for Best Long-arm Workmanship and the Vermont Quilt Festival 2021 for Exceptional Merit.
Cyndi’s first book, Fun with Panels, came out in 2022 by C&T Publishing. Her passion for quilt making is evident in comments from her students and in her never-ending quest to find new techniques and skills to share so that quilting is a fun, enjoyable life-long endeavor.
Cyndi McChesney has been quilting for over 40 years and has enjoyed a wide-ranging and fulfilling career in the quilting industry including as a quilt shop owner, custom quilt maker and instructor at national shows, guilds and quilt shops.
Cyndi achieved the distinguished title of National Quilt Association Certified Teacher of the Year, has won awards in the Hoffman Challenge, the Colorado State Fair, Mancuso Visuals #1 2020, for Best Long-arm Workmanship and the Vermont Quilt Festival 2021 for Exceptional Merit.
Cyndi’s first book, Fun with Panels, came out in 2022 by C&T Publishing. Her passion for quilt making is evident in comments from her students and in her never-ending quest to find new techniques and skills to share so that quilting is a fun, enjoyable life-long endeavor.
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April 2023
Lecture
My Fabric Collage journey!
Elizabeth Radi started quilting and sewing in the 80’s. Her first ever quilt being hand pieced and hand quilted. With many traditional quilts under her belt over the years, there was just something missing. While at a local quilt show, she saw an animal portrait and was just awestruck by the eyes. She told her companion that she wanted to make eyes like that some day. Fast forward to present…
Her raw edge fusible applique fabric collage animal portraits with free motion quilting have been feeding her soul as of late, since 2019 when she took her first class.
Samples from her Laura Heine early days to present day influences will be shown during her lecture.
Elizabeth Radi started quilting and sewing in the 80’s. Her first ever quilt being hand pieced and hand quilted. With many traditional quilts under her belt over the years, there was just something missing. While at a local quilt show, she saw an animal portrait and was just awestruck by the eyes. She told her companion that she wanted to make eyes like that some day. Fast forward to present…
Her raw edge fusible applique fabric collage animal portraits with free motion quilting have been feeding her soul as of late, since 2019 when she took her first class.
Samples from her Laura Heine early days to present day influences will be shown during her lecture.
Workshop
Fabric Collage Animal Portrait Workshop
By Liz Radi
Tuesday, April 25, 2023
9:00 am to 3:30 pm
Eaton Public Library, 132 Maple Avenue, Eaton, CO 80615
Fees: $55
Lunch will be included. Please let Cindy Sater know of any dietary restrictions you may have.
To register, please contact Cindy Sater by April 18, 2023. Checks may be made out to Pieceable Friends Quilt Guild.
A detailed instruction sheet will be emailed once you are registered.
By Liz Radi
Tuesday, April 25, 2023
9:00 am to 3:30 pm
Eaton Public Library, 132 Maple Avenue, Eaton, CO 80615
Fees: $55
Lunch will be included. Please let Cindy Sater know of any dietary restrictions you may have.
To register, please contact Cindy Sater by April 18, 2023. Checks may be made out to Pieceable Friends Quilt Guild.
A detailed instruction sheet will be emailed once you are registered.
May 2023
Jeananne Wright
Gather up the Fragments…Civil War Quilts
Quilts and the Civil War are interwoven in a way that will enlighten and entertain the audience. This trunk show features 1840-1870 quilts, including authentic Civil War quilts. Find out what kinds of quilts were made for the soldiers and what kinds might have been used on the Underground Railroad.
Gather up the Fragments…Civil War Quilts
Quilts and the Civil War are interwoven in a way that will enlighten and entertain the audience. This trunk show features 1840-1870 quilts, including authentic Civil War quilts. Find out what kinds of quilts were made for the soldiers and what kinds might have been used on the Underground Railroad.
September 2023
Lecture
Signature Quilts: Precious Memories
Scotti McCarthy from the Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum will delight us with a trunk show and slide show called Signature Quilts: Precious Memories.
Friendship quilts brought precious memories to their recipients. There were many varieties of signature quilts, those made for friends traveling to faraway places and quilts made for weddings, births, deaths, and fundraising purposes. Quilt historians look to these quilts as personal histories with beautiful stories. Learn research techniques and how to enjoy the past through signature quilts.
Scotti McCarthy from the Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum will delight us with a trunk show and slide show called Signature Quilts: Precious Memories.
Friendship quilts brought precious memories to their recipients. There were many varieties of signature quilts, those made for friends traveling to faraway places and quilts made for weddings, births, deaths, and fundraising purposes. Quilt historians look to these quilts as personal histories with beautiful stories. Learn research techniques and how to enjoy the past through signature quilts.