New Mexico Quilters Association
"We're Enchanted With Quilting!"
Join NMQA's Community Service Committee every Tuesday to cut, sew, & quilt! Pick up kits and drop off work! Stay the entire time! Everyone welcome!
NMQA members donate more than 500 quilts per year to Albuquerque’s sick and needy children and adults. Community Service is a cornerstone of the organization! Our mission is to give the gift of warmth and love through beautiful handmade, lap-sized quilts.
We meet every Tuesday from 9:30 - 1:30. Bring your machine and favorite tools. We have the fabric. There are two restaurants at either end of the mall or you can bring your lunch to the refrigerator in our area.
“How to Balance the Use of Color & Patterned Fabric”
featuring Virginia Walton
Virginia A. Walton is a National BERNINA Ambassador and an international teacher (as well as being NMQA's President in 1986). She is the inventor of the CREATIVE CURVES RULERS, the CREATIVE CURVES ELLIPSE RULERS, as well as the non-curve CREATIVE CURVES KALEIDOSCOE RULER and the MULTI-ANGLE, WEDGE RULER. Virginia was chosen to design and make the 2007 IQA Raffle Quilt, “2nd Star From The Right”. Her specialties include easy sewing machine techniques (a ‘No Pins’ curved piecing method in particular) and color or fabric selection. Taught by the inventor and author, Virginia’s quilts can be seen in numerous national and international magazines and on theinternet in her website www.creativecurves.com and on YouTube.
We'll also have Show & Tell at the meeting! If you're attending in person, bring your item with you and if you're attending through zoom, send your photos to Kris Lange, klange@email.com at least 48 hours before the meeting.
"Friendship Forever" Workshop
with Virginia Walton
Using the Creative Curves Rulers, you'll learn to make curved patterns based on a square, half-square triangle, quarter circle and the matching inside curve – with seam allowances included. There are a wide variety of curved shapes that that can be created using either individual curved pieces or by doubling (or more!) the number of squares that are the basis for these Rulers.
Virginia Walton is the inventor of the rulers for the CREATIVE CURVES QUILTING SYSTEM, which substitutes curves for half-square triangles (circular curves) or half-rectangle triangles (oval curves). The following rulers have been designed by Virginia: the CREATIVE CURVES RULERS, the CREATIVE CURVES ELLIPSE RULERS, the KALEIDOSCOPE RULER, and the MULTI-ANGLE, WEDGE RULER. In addition there are numerous BOOKS, PATTERNS, and DVD’s that include patterns for the different rulers. As a lecturer and teacher, her specialties include easy sewing machine techniques (machine piecing curves without pins in particular) and color or fabric selection (how to combine fabric to create the effect desired in a quilt). As an international teacher, Virginia regularly teaches in the US, Europe, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand. Her original blocks and quilts are featured in many national and international quilt magazines. All of that, and she was a former NMQA president too!
Celebrate NMQA's 50th Anniversary Year by treating yourself to this fun workshop! Appropriate for Beginner to Advanced quilters!
Cost: $25 Member/$45 Non-Member, plus $35 Kit Fee payable to Virginia Walton.
NMQA Cancellation Policy: If NMQA cancels a workshop, you will receive a refund of the workshop fee via U.S. mail. However, due to contract obligations with instructors, NMQA is unable to provide refunds if you cancel your participation in a workshop and the Guild is not able to fill your place from a waiting list.
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