Arapahoe County Quilters

 

 Programs 2004

January 8, 2004  -   Demo Night

February 12, 2004   -  Pam Clark  "Design with Lines"

Pam has been quilting since the late 1960's and sewing for 46 years. She lives in Spokane, WA and grew up in Sacramento, California.  Pam has been machine quilting and teaching machine quilting, piecing and appliqué classes since 1988. She is the owner of Home Stitches, a professional machine quilting business that was started in 1988. You can read more about Pam at http://www.homestitches.com.

March 11, 2004   June Ryker  "Log Cabin and Beyond"

Come and listen to local quilt artist June Ryker, author of the book "Dance of the  Logs". June was born in Nebraska and lived in North Carolina and Wisconsin prior to moving to Colorado where she discovered quilting. She has 2 daughters and 10-year old twin grandchildren. She began her quilting career at Quilts and Other Comforts in Denver in 1974 and later taught quilting classes there. She teaches locally, nationally and internationally.

Log cabin designs are her specialty and she designs many of her own patterns, teaching them in classes and selling them through her business "The Quilted Lady".

April 8, 2004  -   Darleen Zimmerman  "All My Favorite Quilts"

    Darlene is a noted quilter and fabric designer. She loves to take traditional blocks and find ways to easily rotary cut the pieces as well as find new settings and new interpretations of old blocks. Darlene designs reproduction fabrics for Chanteclaire, Inc. and is a tool designer for EZ Quilting by Wrights.

May 13, 2004  -   Potluck Dinner and Election of New Officers

June 3, 2004  -   Fat Quarter Quilting Bee - 20th Year Celebration

Note that our June meeting is being held on the FIRST Thursday of the month, so that there is no conflict with our Quilt Show, which runs June 10-12.

The Fat Quarter Quilting Bee is one of the many bees affiliated with Arapahoe County Quilters. They have been together since 1983 and will present a program sure to please the audience. (The members refuse to disclose exactly what the program entails.)

July 8, 2004    Lynn Kough

                A quiltmaker since 1965, Lynn is known for her work in color and design. She is the author of Stretching Tradition: New Images for Traditional Quilts (Quilt House Publishing, 1995) and Quiltmaking for Beginners: A Stitch by Stitch Guide to Hand and Machine Techniques (Quilt Digest Press, 1999). 

 Lynn lives outside of Phoenix, Arizona and teaches through the country and abroad. Visit her web site at http://kough.home.att.net/. 

August 12, 2004 - Carol Doak  "Medallion Magic"

 As a best-selling author, celebrated teacher and lecturer, and award-winning quiltmaker, Carol Doak has greatly influenced the art and craft of quiltmaking for more than a decade. Hailing from Wyndham, New Hampshire, her trademark technique is paper piecing. Carol is a very modern quilter and most of her new books come complete with a CD-Rom for printing out templates.

 Read more about Carol at www.caroldoak.com. 

    Lynne started her company, Kansas Troubles Quilters in 1989 with 2 partners. She designs and creates primitive country quilts.from her studio in Bennington, Kansas. See more of her work at www.ktquilts.com. 

October 14, 2004    Rachel Clark

Rachel Clark is a contemporary folk artist and teacher from San Francisco. She has been designing wearable art for twelve years. She is a frequent guest on the popular television program "Simply Quilts".

You can see more of Rachel's wonderful creations at www.rdkc.com.

November 11, 2004    Hari Walner

Hari Walner is known for her expertise in machine quilting, and she has appeared on HGTV's Simply Quilts. Hari lives in Loveland, Colorado.

December 9, 2004    Holiday Potluck