Americana Quilts

Georgia Bonesteel tours across America for this new thirteen week patchwork and quilting series. Learn the regional interests as we visit museums, shops and conventions. Meet the makers of unique quilt art, plus learn your sewing machine potential. Focus on patchwork fashion for two continuous shows.

UNDERWRITERS: Bernina of America, Coats & Clark, Gammill Quilting Systems, Prym Dritz Corp. & Milliken & Company.

Closed Captioning by Collins and Omnigrid, Inc. Produced by The University of North Carolina Center for Public Television.


Show 1201: Stitch By Number
Evaluate my sampler teaching quilt and see how the embroidery module operates.
Meet Laura Wasilowski.

Guest: Laura Wasilowski: www.artfabrik.com Email: laura@artfabrik.com


Show 1202: Fisherman’s Coats
View the Awaji Island Fisherman’s coats at the Fowler Museum of Cultural Art, UCLA campus. Learn the art of sashiko stitching for a youths kimono and a soft box.

Guests: Marla Berns: www.fmch.ucla.edu or Email: karynz@arts.ucla.edu
Sharon Takeda: Email: stakeda@lacma.org

Book: Japanese Fishermen’s Coats: $30.00 plus postage
Contact:University of Washington Press, PO Box 50096, Seattle, WA 98145-5096
Phone 206-543-8870


Show 1203: Nature of Fabric
Discover Iris Aycock’s work at the Southern Highland Craft Guild in Asheville, NC. Experiment with this unusual method for leaf pounding on fabric along with foil pressing, and a Setacolor review. Linda Taylor from Melissa, TX demonstrates her air brushing technique.

For further leaf pounding information, send SASE to:
1203 Show
PO Box 96
Flat Rock, NC 28731

Southern Highland Craft Guild at The Folk Art Center, Asheville, NC: www.southernhighlandguild.org

Iris Aycock, leaf pounder, Email: iaycock@hiwaay.net

Guest: Linda Taylor: www.lequilters.com
Email: Linda@lequilters.com
www.thequiltingschool.com
phone: 800-893-2748

October Glory quilt by Hallie O’Kelley, 2910 East 17th Street, Tuscaloosa, AL 35404


Show 1204: Vested Interests, Part I
Follow the step by step completion of a woven patchwork vest and a unique Tumbling Blocks design. View Rachel Clarks colorful garment collection. Novelty stitches on silk are also explored.

Garments featured in Georgia Bonesteel's Quiltmaking Legacy book

Guest: Rachel Clark: Email: info@rdkc.com
www.rdkc.com



S
how 1205: Vested Interests, Part II
The Americana Collection for grandchildren are the feature garments. More on Rachel Clark. Two crazy patch techniques for quilted handbags are demonstrated.

Guest: Rachel Clark: Email: info@rdkc.com
www.rdkc.com


 
Show 1206: Cajun Quilters
Visit the Heartstrings Quilt Shop in Lake Charles, LA plus a hands on demonstration from Judy Holley on the Wacky Nine patch.

Heartstrings Quilt Shop closed, but the new shop is:
Quilts Bayou
327 W. Prien Lake Road
Lake Charles, LA 70601
www.quiltsbayou.com
email: quiltsbayou@bellsouth.net
phone: 337-477-9322

Guest Teacher: Judy Holley, Email: THOO8JK@cox.net
Featured Book: Cut-Loose Quilts by Jan Mullen (C & T Publishing)



Show 1207: Notable Notions
Update the latest tools of the quilt trade that make it fun, easy and accurate. Meet thimble maker extraordinaire, Tommie Jane Lane from Boone, NC. Learn My Millennium Medallion Quilt.

Guest Thimble Maker: Tommie Jane Lane, www.thimbles2fit.com Email: tjlane@boone.net
Phone: 888-246-3154



Show 1208: Let’s Get Connected
See the many methods for making the quilt connection on a long arm quilting machine. Watch Linda Taylor execute these potentials for garments and quilts.

Guest: Linda Taylor, 4964 US Highway 75, North, Melissa, TX 75454 www.lequilters.com
Email: Linda@lequilters.com
www.thequiltingschool.com
phone: 800-893-2748


Show 1209: Teach The Teachers
"Log on" to the latest sewing machine methods to digitize your designs. Visit a special school for professional quilt makers as they learn. Meet Susan Fears, Jennifer Gigas and Marlene Bryant.

Guests: Susan Fears, Email: sfears@berninausa.com
Jennifer Gigas, Email: jgigas@berninausa.com
Marlene Bryant

Paper Plate Quilt, Anna Marie Tucker

We are sorry to report that Anna Marie Tucker has passed away.

Printed Treasures, (www.printedtreasures.com, info@printedtreasures.com) photo and pattern transfer onto cotton fabric, by Milliken. Available at Quilt Shops.


Show 1210: Girl Scout Quilt Alert
Join a Brownie and Girl Scout summer camp as The Western North Carolina Quilters Guild introduces embroidery and patchwork. Meet Mary Lou Weidman, a folk artist.

Guest Guild, Western North Carolina Quilters Guild, http://WesternNCQuilters.org

Guests: Betsy Lemon, Email: tech4quilters@yahoo.com
Mary Lou Weidman, www.Marylouquiltdesigns.com and Email: Lattegirl@aol.com
Linda Taylor, www.lequilters.com and Email: Linda@lequilter.com

Johnson Farm: Henderson County Education Foundation
www.historicjohnsonfarm.org

Email:jfarms@henderson.k12.nc.us


Show 1211: Applique Folk Art
Freedom Escapees take on a folk art rendering by Edward Larson that depicts 18 years of dedicated, challenging and fun classes.

Freedom Escape Quilt Retreat Contact: Lee R Lundahl, Email: lgr4491@aol.com

Edward Larson, Email: EdsArtSF@aol.com


Show1212: What’s Up In Wyoming
Meet Carole Liebzeit to view her vast garment inventory and classy clothes. Tour the Stitch’n Time Shop in Jackson Hole, Wyoming with the owner, Kim Kerr.

Stitch’n Time Quilt Shop, 955 Alpine Lane, PO Box 13070 Jackson Hole,WY 83002
www.stitchntimeinc.com or Email: info@stitchntimeinc.com, Owner, Kim Kerr
307-733-6800
888-565-5634


Guest: Carole A. Liebzeit, Email: cliebzeit@gmail.com

Quilting In The Tetons, Contact Mary M. Martin, PO Box 1708, Jackson, WY 83001
www.mmartin@tetonwyo.org


Show 1213: North Carolina Quilt Symposium
Come home to NC for a grand quilt convention and conclusion to the series. Meet DeeDee Triplett, Kristin Steiner and Gerald Roy.

Asheville Quilt Guild, www.main.NC.us/AQG

Guests: Laura P. Casey, Email: mzsweetpea@charter.net
Connie W. Williams: Email: twooaksdr62@toast2.net
DeeDee Triplett, Email: rdtriplett@earthlink.net

Kristin Steiner, Email: kristin@kristinsteiner.com
1 Nob Hill Rd., Columbia, SC 29210
www.kristinsteiner.com
803-561-0134

Book: A Southern Album

Gerald Roy
PO Box 432
Warner, NH, 03278
email:pilgrimroy@tds.net

Book:Vintage Quilts, Identifying, Collecting, Dating, Preserving & Valuing