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Carol Mesimer has donated all the patterns from her beautiful Baby Baltimore quilt project to TAS. The first series of patterns can be found in the March/April 2008 TAS newsletter. It is a stunning quilt and promises to be a fun project. |
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TAS member Kathy McNeil from Tulalip, Washington has won the hand appliqué Best of Show award at Pacific International Quilt Festival for her quilt "Gone Fishin". Kathy says "Lucky the puppy is quite pleased and so am I". Congratulations, Kathy!! |
| For the past year and a half we have had the privilege of featuring an appliqué mystery quilt project in our newsletter. The "Mystery Quilt" was designed by TAS member and teacher Phyllis D. Miller of Murray, KY. We are starting to get photos from some of our members who have worked on the project. Their work is spectacular and everyone enjoyed Phyllis D. Miller's design. | |
| Clara Gibson of the Cozy Quilt Appliquérs chapter from San Diego created this beautiful quilt and added a hummingbird to the center. Clara says "I couldn't wait for the border edition in the Nov/Dec newsletter! The hummingbird is from a pattern by Jane Townswick that I saved from a February 2007 "Quilter's Newsletter Magazine" ... I have been looking for an excuse to use it." |
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Sally Coble's shows her work in progress. Sally is from the "As The Needle Turns" chapter. Their chapter used the mystery quilt project as their challenge for the year. Sally is using embroidery to accent several places on her quilt. |
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Sandy Mitchell shows her finished mystery quilt. Sandy is a member of two Arizona TAS Chapters, "Spooling Around" and "Scattered Threads". Sandy and her fellow chapter members got a jump on the mystery quilt when they had designer Phyllis D. Miller come to Arizona and teach an appliqué workshop. This is Sandy's first attempt at hand appliqué and we can't wait to see what she does next. |
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Zoe's Painted Posie© 2007 La Veda Longfellow Myers has a wonderful article and lesson on coloring appliqué blocks using paint and ink in our November/December newsletter. These color photos show the four different steps involved |
| We have invited our members to write an article for our newsletter. This column is called "Creativity, Originality & Ingenuity...Members Share Their Experiences" The subject is of the members choosing and the subject should be something that inspires them or a favorite technique or even an experience. The author of the article chosen to run in the newsletter will win a FREE one year membership renewal. Our first column has been submitted by Denise in Massachusetts. While we did not have enough room to run all of Denise's photos in the newsletter we are posting them here for all to enjoy. |
New York Beauty in Purple, Yellow, and Green; Pattern from a book by Valori Wells 
There's No Place Like Home; Pattern from Quakertown Quilts, entitled: "All Around the Town" 
Truly Trapunto; Pattern by Keryn Emmerson of Australia |
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New TAS member Bernadine Heller-Greenman has submitted photos of two mixed media wall hangings. The pieced and quilted fabrics also include glass beads with some larger Kazuri beads from Kenya and sequins. The beadwork is so intricate we are also including two photos showing some of the detailed bead work The quilt to the left is called Africa and is approximately 24" high and 16" wide. |
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The beading Quilt to the right is "The Writer" and is approximately 19" high by 18" wide. |
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Joylene Bouma shares a photo of her quilt "Botanika". Here is what she says about the quilt: "I love Robyn Pandolph fabric so about 75% of this quilt was from her fabric and the rest batiks. Robyn designed this pattern "Botanika" and Amidon Quiltworks taught it as a block of the month class. The quilt is hand appliquéd and hand quilted and was finished in 2006. I used the freezer paper-spray starch method of appliqué taught by P3DESIGNS.COM. My daughter also likes this "turn of the century look" so the quilt now is in her new home". |
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TAS member Bunny Leighton has created this beautiful design to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of TAS. The design is called "10 Years of TAS" and was one of the featured patterns in our Sept/Oct 2007 Newsletter. |
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Kathy McNeil of Tulalip, Washington. shares her beautiful quilt "Walk With Me". Kathy will be teaching at the 2007 Seabeck Retreat and is working on designing a special pattern for the class. Kathy’s website is www.kathymcneilquilts.com take a moment and visit her gallery to see some of the other magnificent hand appliqued quilts she has created. |
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"Bougainvilleas on Vines" created by Ruth Peskett, Centreville N.S. (formerly of Chilliwack B.C.) Ruth writes …When our quilting group went to Quilt Festival, Houston, followed by a Gulf of Mexico cruise in Nov. 2004. The quilt was designed and taught by Maureen Goldsmith, Chilliwack, B.C. I particularly enjoyed doing the bead embellishing. What a wonderful souvenir of our quilting trip! |
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This quilt was made by the TAS maniacs in Plymouth, WI submitted by Chapter Leader Elayne West as a charity quilt for the Wisconsin Soldiers Home and is to be raffled off. It is a pattern designed by Piece O' Cake. |
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TAS member, Bunny Leighton, designed "Christmas Morning" especially for our Nov/Dec 2005 newsletter. This charming wall hanging make a perfect Christmas project. |
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We are running a series of butterfly patterns in the newsletter called "Butterfly Fantasies". These patterns were designed by Geri Waechter. Luella Kephart is a member of Geri's TAS chapter and created this quilt from Geri's patterns. Thank you very much for sharing your photo with us, Luella |
| These two wall hangings were created from the pattern "Stained Glass Star" donated to the TAS newsletter by Joan Bouwmeester and Debbie Bouwmeester-Fasek of Three Swan Studios. The patterns appeared in our Nov/Dec 2005 newsletter. |
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TAS member, Lois Watkins, has donated several "delightful" patterns to the newsletter. This pattern, "Daisy Delight" appeared in our Nov/Dec 2005 newsletter. |
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Detail of "Daisy Delight"
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Linda Yantis, of
Chandler, Arizona created this beautiful quilt. It is called "Springtime in
the Rockies" and was one of our featured patterns in our Nov/Dec newsletter.
Linda designed the pattern and very kindly shared it with our TAS members. To
see more of Linda's work visit her website at:
http://www.lindayantis.com
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I am a new
member to TAS, although not new to hand applique. My upcoming exhibit of ten
quilts will be on display at The Museum of American Quilter's Society Paducah,
KY, this October-January. I would like to submit a MAQS named my exhibition after this quilt, which raised $16,000.00 for a 20 year old Leukemia patient that needed a Bone Marrow Transplant. I am thrilled that she has done very well and is getting her hair back. The story is on my website www.kathymcneilquilts.com Thank you for the newsletter. I am so glad someone told me about this organization. Kathy www.kathymcneilquilts.com |
| This quilt, "Norway in Appliqué" was designed and stitched by TAS member Linda Yantis. Linda designed this as a block of the month series. She has been designing patterns for three years. We all look forward to seeing more of Linda's work. |
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"I Come to the Garden" is another block of the month pattern series designed by Linda Yantis. Note her clever use of appliqué detail in the border. |
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I just got news from my friend, a member of the Clark County Quilt Guild, that I won 2nd place in appliqué wall hangings, out of the 275 quilts!!! There is a story on this quilt. I asked Joyce to find me an antique quilt, no rush, just a nice one, with preference that it would be made of feed sack fabrics. And she did, she found me a bright yellow double wedding ring quilt, and the segments were made of feed sack fabrics. One day she called me, if, instead of paying her back for the quilt, I would like to make her a Spring Appliqué quilt. So I did, I designed and made it for her and we exchanged the quilts in November last year, after the Houston Quilt show, when I returned home with her to Vancouver (WA). She saw a picture before, but she was trilled with the result. And now she entered the quilt in the show... and I won. I got the ribbon and she got the quilt. I think this is an example of real friendship amongst quilters. Marilou Vandierendonck, Belgium |
| This block was stitched and designed by TAS member Linda Giesler Carlson. It is called "Coxcomb Crossing Baskets" and is a 20 inch block. Linda is known for her beautiful 4-Block quilts, and is the author of several books on the subject. This pattern along with an interview with Linda can be found in the May/June 2004 TAS newsletter. |
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This block "Heavenly Delight" is the first of four patterns we are running in the TAS newsletter. This pattern series was designed by Tina Keenan. It appeared in the November / December 2003 newsletter. |
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This is our second in a series of patterns designed by Tina Keenan. "Nature's Joy" is a delight. The butterfly could be either appliquéd or embroidered. Contact Information for Tina is above! This was a feature pattern in our January / February 2004 newsletter. |
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"Spring Love" is the third pattern in Tina Keenan's pattern series. This pattern appeared in our March / April 2004 newsletter. |
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"Sweet Bouquet" is the last pattern in a four part series designed by TAS member Tina Keenan. This patterns series has been featured over the last four issues of our newsletter. "Sweet Bouquet" appeared in our May / June 2004 newsletter. |
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"Joy II" is the name Tina has given her completed project. She has added a checkerboard style sashing to the blocks. |
| A new pattern series, designed especially for the TAS newsletter, premiered with our May/June 2003 issue. These patterns were called “Country Run” and were designed by TAS member, Bunny Leighton. Bunny created a wonderful and whimsical wall hanging featuring 4 blocks. In each block was an adorable farm animal running, to where, we do not know… | |
| The first pattern, in our May / June 2003 newsletter featured a running rooster and also a tea cozy. Bunny wanted to show other ways in which the patterns could be used. With each pattern came a wonderful alternative suggestion on how to use the pattern. |
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Our July / August 2003 issue found an adorable wooly lamb as the second block pattern. Bunny suggested we try this as a wool appliqué and apply it to the bottom of a vest. |
| When the September / October 2003 issue rolled around, our intrepid designer offered a running pig for our block motif and wrote a very witty article on “Breaking the Rules”, this included instructions for a tote bag that broke all the rules! |
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We were all in suspense waiting for the final block in the series, and could hardly wait for our November / December 2003 newsletter to arrive to see what our last country run animal would be. Bunny surprised us with an adorable running bunny. Somehow I think that was most appropriate, this pattern series did keep our Bunny hopping! With the final block, Bunny revealed what the center medallion would look like and offered a page of motifs to help us personalize our wall hanging. |
| Thank you, Bunny, for providing our readership with some very delightful patterns and great suggestions for alternative ways to use our blocks. If you would like to see more of Bunny’s work, you can visit her web site at http://www.bunnypublications.com | |
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The Rainshadow Rhodies Chapter in Sequim, Washington. Created this quilt as a non-profit fund-raiser for the Jeff Caterina Foundation. With permission from the designer, they altered the pattern a little and had a lot of fun making the quilt. Read more about this project in our November / December 2003 newsletter. |
| The Gathering Basket Appliquérs Chapter of Ocala, Florida, and the Quilts in Bloom Chapter of Belleview, Florida, joined together to display their completed work at a local quilt shop. The display was called "A Gathering of Blooms" to incorporate both names of each chapter. These are a few of the winning quilts. Large quilt category winner was Carol Crow. Wall hanging winner was Loretta Kremer both from Gathering Basket Appliquérs chapter. The winner for first attempt at appliqué went to Gwen Pearsall from the Quilts in Bloom chapter. Beautiful work ladies! |
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Jeanne Gagnaux of
Holland has submitted this pretty project. The "Iris" pattern was
designed by Jaydee Price and is the current FREE pattern
available as our gift to you when you renew your membership. Thank you Jeanne
for sharing your work with us, you do beautiful work.
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Mary Tozer finished this wall hanging based of
Patterns from Ellie Sienkiewicz’s book “"Best of Baltimore Beauties:
Part 2": Pattern #1: "Heart Wreath of Roses", Pattern #2:
"Heart Wreath of Acorns", Pattern #3: "Heart Wreath of
Cherries" (I altered this one and used holly leaves instead of the pattern
leaves), Pattern #4: "Heart Wreath of Tulips”). Elly says in her book
that the "Heart Wreath" blocks were inspired by blocks created by
Carol W. Jones. : The right two blocks were completed in 2001 for inclusion in
Elly's book. The left two blocks were completed in December 2002. The quilt will
be hand quilted this spring (2003). When I stitched the two blocks for the book, I had visions of setting them with two other blocks with similar ones representing each season. Each block has some sort of dimensional aspect to it. From left to right, top to bottom: the Winter block (Holly wreath) has stuffed circles. The Spring block (rosebuds) has half circle folded rosebuds. The Summer block (tulips) has the center petal as an "altered" half circle folded rosebud. The Fall/Autumn block (acorns) has French knot caps. |
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Two women, Lynn Cooper and Alice Calhoun, met at a class and the next thing they knew, three California TAS chapters, Camellia Grove Chapter from Elk Grove, the Sierra Needlers of Auburn, and the Turning Points in Grass Valley, formed a 100 mile long chain with one common goal…produce a quilt for the Sutter Hospital Breast Cancer Center Auction in Sacramento, California. It was decided they would use 30 blocks from Elly Sienkiewicz’s books. Right in the middle of the project they learned that the Sacramento area had been selected as the site for the 2003 TAS Annual Meeting and Quilt Show. They had their work cut out for them, but the end result is this beautiful quilt. The winner of this beauty titled “California’s Baltimore Garden” received a queen size, hand appliquéd, hand quilted work of art and Sutter Hospital’s Breast Cancer Center received $4,700 to continue their work in Breast Cancer. We at TAS are very proud of these wonderful, caring women. They represent the best of what we hope our chapters and our organization can be.
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This beautiful
table runner was created by TAS member Jeanne Gagnaux of Holland. The pattern
was designed by Darlene Christopherson and was featured in our January/February
2002 newsletter.
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Members of the Yuma, Arizona TAS chapter "Yuma Crossing" have created this beautiful "bird" quilt. They designed it for the cities annual birding festival. In addition to the birds it contains flora and fauna and even bugs native to Yuma, Arizona. |
| This beautiful quilt titled "Cinnamon Stitches" was made by Mary Tozer of Minnesota. Mary used a series of patterns from Piece O' Cake Designs. These patterns were inspired by 18th century woven coverlets. The blocks are 20" square. Here is a link to Piece O' Cake Designs website. |
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This bright and lively quilt called "Dolce Farniente" is the latest appliqué creation from Marilou Vandierendonck of Belgium |
| Fran Snay of Burleson, Texas shares several of her beautiful quilts with us. You can see more of Fran's work at her website at http://www.quiltsbyfransnay.com | |
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Fran's first piece is called "Never Say Never" included is a close up photo showing some of the blocks used in this quilt. |
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Here is the CLOSER photo of the "Never Say Never" piece!! |
| Fran's Dresden plate is appliqué plates and teapots called "Dazzle me with a Spot of Tea" |
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| AND.... Another close-up of Fran Snay's work! |
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"Cordially Yours" by Fran Snay |
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Thank You Fran for the CLOSEUP photos! It's GREAT to bring out the DETAIL! |
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Autumn Fruits is a beautiful quilt created by TAS member Marilou Vandierendonck of Belgium. We will be running the patterns for this quilt beginning with the May / June 2002 issue of the newsletter. Thank you Marilou for your pattern donation! |
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Zoe Albert of the Marigolds, TAS chapter in Kamloops, B.C., shares this photo of the beautiful TAS banner they made to display at their first community project! |
| Teri Henderson Tope, of Worthington, Ohio sent in several pictures of her quilts. Thanks to Teri for her photos and comments. | |
| "Quilt #1 was sewn for a Mardi Gras Challenge. I borrowed the design from a poster for the New Orleans Jazz Arts Fest. It is fused, machine appliquéd and machine quilted. The blue satin ribbon hanging with the quilt is from a funeral procession my brother-in-law happened upon while in New Orleans." |
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"Quilt #2 was a UFO (unfinished object) I was challenged by a group of quilter friends to see who could get the most of their UFO's finished in the year 2000 ( I finished two out of about 103 UFO's ). This quilt center was one of the first log cabins I made. It was machine pieced in an era when all quilts were pink and blue ( 15 years ago). Anyway I pulled it out and decided to appliqué the borders. I called this Northern Lights, but my husband calls it Nuclear Winter." |
| "Quilt #3 is from Anita Shackelford's book. I call it my study of reverse appliqué or, if you can print it, 'Those Damn Deer' ! |
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