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Details
This page will change frequently as events and ideas occur. You can find information and inspiration if you are looking for either!
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| Upcoming Classes |
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If you have ever wanted to quilt your own quilt and have a personal say in the stitches, please check the schedule for a machine quilting class in your area - get to know your machine a little better and learn the basics of machine quilting!
Sept. 30 - October 3 - "Las Vegas" theme retreat in South Dakota. Woven Wire and Pathway to the Stars will be one day classes.
October 15 & 16 - Machine quilting at Quilts and Beyond in Prairie City, OR.
October 30 & 31 - Back in beautiful Baker City for a weekend of classes. Machine quilting will be one day and Dawn and I will decide what the second class will be - maybe something new!!
November 6 - Machine quilting at LaGrande with the Quilt Questors guild - 9 am at the Island City city hall.
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| Sisters Quilt Show Challenge |
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This my entry into a small challenge that we did for this year's Sisters Quilt Show. Jean Wells picked out the fabric. I stretched into some new areas of quilting and really enjoyed the creative process. This is titled "She has the Whole World on Her Head"
Participate in a challenge - it can bring new ideas into your quilting experience!
August 16 update - this quilt was juried into the NW Quilt Expo in Portland, OR. |
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| Laughing in the Cabin Retreat |
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Each April the Laughing in the Cabin Retreat is held at the Mazama Country Inn in Mazama, WA.
Registrations are available from Laughing Lizzie's, or by calling Colleen.
If you are looking for a weekend to get away from your winter blahs and seriously feed your creative and giving inner quilter, this retreat offers you the perfect combination of peaceful surroundings, expert assistance, powerful inspiration and the support of new found friends. There is no set workshop or pattern for participants - each person can work on her own ideas. Patterns and ideas will be available for those of you seeking inspiration.
The lodge has all the amenities, the rooms are very nice - a quilt on every bed - the food delicious and the setting is in the magnificent Methow Valley of North Central Washington.
Classes are woven into a sewing weekend of projects chosen by each person; a very unstructured and relaxed weekend that revives your body and creative quilter soul! Patterns by Colleen will be available for quilters who need to start something new!
Each year a new idea is premiered for the retreat, with a free handout to all who participate! I am cooking up something for next year - can't wait to get a chance to sew it up!
2011 Class will be the BIG BANG, taught be Kathy Peal from Pendleton, OR. This is a dynamic and fun quilt to make, so plan to spend the weekend cutting and sewing and laughing a LOT!! Look on the gallery page for more Big Bang quilts - Kathy has made quite a few and I will be posting photos as I get pictures taken - it is a fun project - it is hard to do just one!!
The quilters who come to a retreat are truly responsible for the event becoming a success. The group of ladies who have been coming to Mazama has changed each year, with new ideas and faces adding to our weekend. Each and every one of the retreaters has been inspirational in the creative department and comforting in the personal sense of support and appreciation for one another's efforts. All skill levels participate as equals, sharing ideas, thoughts, and lots of laughter!
Contact Colleen for details. The 2011 brochure is available as a .pdf - I will gladly email to interested quilters! |
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| Next on the Design Wall.......plus future events to look forward to! |
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Pathway to the Stars Patterns are now available!
If you are into jelly rolls - or Bali Pops - the quilt in the picture is my version of using the precut strips. It is going to be titled TWO + 2! and will be available soon.
Two Bali Pops and 2 yards of background fabric will result in this wonderful quilt that measures 78" square!
The first weekend of October I will be in South Dakota at the guild retreat featuring a Las Vegas Theme - it should be lots of fun! |
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| Krazy Horse Quilt Show |
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The quilt pictured is this year's raffle quilt "Shared Stitches", an original adaptation of the traditional Broken Star block. The quilt measures 94" square and features an original verse done in redwork. The quilt was designed by myself and constructed by members of the Krazy Horse Quilt group.
The winner of the quilt was Earlene Lamb of LaGrande. OR - a dedicated and enthusiastic quilter who will appreciate the work and sentiments contained within the quilt.
Check krazyhorsequilters.org for more details about the show, our challenge and other exciting ideas! |
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| Where do you teach classes? |
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Classes are available to store owners, retreat sponsors and guilds across the country. Colleen has taught in Texas as well as in Oregon and Washington.
Each year two or more new designs are available to offer as additional classes to those already published. |
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| A Quilter's Legacy |
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A Quilter’s Legacy
Rotary blade long dull,
this name gone from memory;
Who will sing my song?
What tales will spin my deeds?
The color of fire, dark of night, searing sun and fields of green.
Scattered squares amid swirling line and angle;
given form and name once colors are in place.
High spirits in command
lead disarray into history that will tell my story.
Blaze on reds, brood purple brood, stand faithful blue and calm my world green.
Work magic with the lines,
dancing rows and patterns a marching band frozen in time,
Lockstep line and color fuse visions of now for observers in the future.
Will they hear my call “Take me to town red!; light me up yellow; wavin’ in the wind green; hold steady brown; get out of my way orange; my heart is broken blue.
No safe, sane and exacting days and nights of life in My Day;
cut and stitched tales of a life that was electric, exhilarating and exhausting; creating crammed into life.
“When I am famous orange; pour me another drink purple; walk on me brown” These are the true blue buddies in a white on white life.
What will it be for me? Life is all sewn up with stitches,
each day what I make of it.
Color and design the mirrors of my soul,
inspiration surrounds me,
deep comfort in the company I keep.
They will sing the song of plenty, share a jump for joy,
and tell of love for the life that was.........
These quilts will speak my name and tell my story.
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