Join us for a full day of quilting! Event will take place at the Washington County Fairgrounds. Features include lectures, vendors, contests, gallery, prizes and more!
Join us for a full day of quilting! Event will take place at the Washington County Fairgrounds. Features include lectures, vendors, contests, gallery, prizes and more!
Class Fee: $125 Non Members/$100 Members with code
Class Description: Carol Butzke is an AQS Certified Quilt Appraiser based here in Wisconsin. Throughout her workshop, you will gain insight on how to recognize the evolution of quilt styles, patterns, techniques, and colorations from the early 1800s to mid-20th century. As well as learn about women’s history through hands-on interaction with the material culture of the past. We ask that as a participant you bring one antique/ vintage quilt to the class to study and share with the teacher and other students for a more meaningful and immersive experience.
Please select only one quilt to bring to class. Time will be limited.
Supply List:
Notebook
Pen or Pencil
(1) Quilt **optional
Camera (phone for for images) **optional
$30/$25 WMQFA Members
RESCHEDULED TO APRIL 22
Join Fabulous Fads exhibition Co-Curator Carol Butzke on a tour through the museum’s current exhibition, then be delighted with a trunk show featuring more treasures from Carol’s personal collection.
Join us for a full day of quilting! Event will take place at the Washington County Fairgrounds. Features include lectures, vendors, contests, gallery, prizes and more!
Description
Starting with a favorite work of art, develop your own unique modern quilt design. Be inspired by shapes, colors, structure, or the feeling you get and design a block or whole quilt with an eye on modern minimalism
This workshop is a 6-hour live-stream event, conducted on Zoom, consisting of live instruction
Join us for a full day of quilting! Event will take place at the Washington County Fairgrounds. Features include lectures, vendors, contests, gallery, prizes and more!
Do you need space to work on a project? Or would like a second opinion from other sewers/crafters/fiber artists? Join us on the third Thursday of each month from 10:30am- 3:30pm to work on some of your UFO’s (unfinished objects) or just to get together with like minded people and work on something that you love?
Join us for Fiber Club on the Third Thursday of each month!
We have great space for laying out large quilts!
Join us for our free Family Fun Day. Enjoy fiber arts themed crafts, scavenger hunt, the current exhibition and take part in creating a Community Art Project!
Do you need space to work on a project? Or would like a second opinion from other sewers/crafters/fiber artists? Join us on the third Thursday of each month from 10:30am- 3:30pm to work on some of your UFO’s (unfinished objects) or just to get together with like minded people and work on something that you love?
Join us for Fiber Club on the Third Thursday of each month!
We have great space for laying out large quilts!
About Susan Carlson
I've been creating art with fabric since 1983 while attending the Maryland Institute, College of Art. There, I used any excuse I could to use fabric as an art medium for my illustration assignments. I painted on fabric, inked, dyed, drew with thread, did traditional piecing, appliqué and reverse appliqué. My influence was my mom, who trained as a dressmaker and seamstress. From her I inherited my love of fabric. I think it's the tactile nature of it. My husband has more than once noted that when I shop for fabric, my hands are as busy fondling fabric as my eyes are drinking in the pattern and color.
As I continued to experiment with fabric for a few years after college, I yearned for something more immediate, more like painting and less like construction. In 1990 I drew on my collage skills, though this time with fabric and not paper, though still using glue. Since I had approached quilting from an art direction rather than a traditional one, I didn't realize how out-of-the-box gluing fabric was. A true quilter was not supposed to glue. But that's what I did, and I've never looked back. And there's even raw edges! As you may have figured out, I don't worry too much about what I'm not supposed to do.
I grew up in a crafty household with parents who like to "figure things out" and made things to sell. My mom sews and my dad does woodwork. The first decade of my career (the 1990s) I spent a lot of time making small quilts—16 x 20 inches or so—to sell. My first ones were mostly of fish—I must have made a thousand of them. I started to teach my fabric collage process in 1994 and slowly the teaching overtook the production of pieces for shows or galleries. These days I concentrate on making the quilts I want to make, usually for myself, unless they're commissioned. I make on average one big quilt a year allowing me to put a lot of myself into every piece. They're not usually for sale, but I do submit them into quilt shows, and use them as examples for my teaching.
By the end of 2016, I will have spent fifteen weeks teaching. For a homebody like me, that's a lot. I try to limit teaching to one week per month on average. But between prepping for a trip, travel, teaching, and recovering from a trip, each week of teaching actually uses up about two weeks of my time and energy. Which helps to explain why the remainder of the year I want to concentrate on my own work.
Do you need space to work on a project? Or would like a second opinion from other sewers/crafters/fiber artists? Join us on the third Thursday of each month from 10:30am- 3:30pm to work on some of your UFO’s (unfinished objects) or just to get together with like minded people and work on something that you love?
Join us for Fiber Club on the Third Thursday of each month!
We have great space for laying out large quilts!
Do you need space to work on a project? Or would like a second opinion from other sewers/crafters/fiber artists? Join us on the third Thursday of each month from 10:30am- 3:30pm to work on some of your UFO’s (unfinished objects) or just to get together with like minded people and work on something that you love?
Join us for Fiber Club on the Third Thursday of each month!
We have great space for laying out large quilts!
Join us for a free virtual program with guest speakers Valerie Davis from Milwaukee Public Museum and Rose Gallenberger from Wauwatosa Historical Society for a discussion of quilts in the exhibition and book, Wisconsin Quilts: Stories in the Stitches. Also enjoy the second part of the virtual tour of WMQFA’s current exhibit, Wisconsin Quilts: Stories in the Stitches, before the exhibition closes Sunday, August 29.
Do you need space to work on a project? Or would like a second opinion from other sewers/crafters/fiber artists? Join us on the third Thursday of each month from 10:30am- 3:30pm to work on some of your UFO’s (unfinished objects) or just to get together with like minded people and work on something that you love?
Join us for Fiber Club on the Third Thursday of each month!
We have great space for laying out large quilts!
Tuesday, July 20, 3pm-5pm
Join curators from the world's largest quilt collection for a virtual tour of the International Quilt Museum at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. See the exhibitions, including "Abstract Design in American Quilts at 50," and go behind the scenes of the museum's state-of-the-art collections storage.
This tour is available through a special collaboration between IQM & WMQFA. Members of both IQM & WMQFA are eligible for the discounted rate of $25.
https://www.internationalquiltmuseum.org/
Please note, this is a LIVE virtual tour and behind-the-scenes program with IQM staff via Zoom webinar. You will need a code/link to access the program, which will be sent to your registered email address approximately one week prior. The program will be recorded. After the program, all registered attendees will be given a link to view the program for up to 30 days.
Do you need space to work on a project? Or would like a second opinion from other sewers/crafters/fiber artists? Join us on the third Thursday of each month from 10:30am- 3:30pm to work on some of your UFO’s (unfinished objects) or just to get together with like minded people and work on something that you love?
Join us for Fiber Club on the Third Thursday of each month!
We have great space for laying out large quilts!
Anyone from age 12 and up is invited to sign up for this day fun workshop! Register for yourself, for a child or grandchild or even sign up together.
Do you need space to work on a project? Or would like a second opinion from other sewers/crafters/fiber artists? Join us on the third Thursday of each month from 10:30am- 3:30pm to work on some of your UFO’s (unfinished objects) or just to get together with like minded people and work on something that you love?
Join us for Fiber Club on the Third Thursday of each month!
We have great space for laying out large quilts!
Join us for a free virtual tour of the museum’s current exhibition Wisconsin Quilts: Stories in the Stories. Enjoy learning about the stories behind the quilts and the history of the museum.
Do you need space to work on a project? Or would like a second opinion from other sewers/crafters/fiber artists? Join us on the third Thursday of each month from 10:30am- 3:30pm to work on some of your UFO’s (unfinished objects) or just to get together with like minded people and work on something that you love?
Join us for Fiber Club on the Third Thursday of each month!
We have great space for laying out large quilts!
Do you need space to work on a project? Or would like a second opinion from other sewers/crafters/fiber artists? Join us on the third Thursday of each month from 10:30am- 3:30pm to work on some of your UFO’s (unfinished objects) or just to get together with like minded people and work on something that you love?
Join us for Fiber Club on the Third Thursday of each month!
We have great space for laying out large quilts!
Join WMQFA Curator Emily Schlemowitz for a virtual tour of our current exhibition Remnants. Hear about the incredible work of the twelve contemporary fiber artists in Remnants, while getting a special look at the exhibit.
Do you need space to work on a project? Or would like a second opinion from other sewers/crafters/fiber artists? Join us on the third Thursday of each month from 10:30am- 3:30pm to work on some of your UFO’s (unfinished objects) or just to get together with like minded people and work on something that you love?
Join us for Fiber Club on the Third Thursday of each month!
We have great space for laying out large quilts!
Join us for a full day of quilting! Event will take place at the Washington County Fairgrounds. Features include lectures, vendors, contests, gallery, prizes and more!
Do you need space to work on a project? Or would like a second opinion from other sewers/crafters/fiber artists? Join us on the third Thursday of each month from 10:30am- 3:30pm to work on some of your UFO’s (unfinished objects) or just to get together with like minded people and work on something that you love?
Join us for Fiber Club on the Third Thursday of each month!
We have great space for laying out large quilts!
Do you need space to work on a project? Or would like a second opinion from other sewers/crafters/fiber artists? Join us on the third Thursday of each month from 10:30am- 3:30pm to work on some of your UFO’s (unfinished objects) or just to get together with like minded people and work on something that you love?
Join us for Fiber Club on the Third Thursday of each month!
We have great space for laying out large quilts!
Join Martha Sielman, Executive Director of Studio Art Quilt Associates (SAQA), for a fascinating tour of art quilts telling the history of the Art Quilt Movement from 1960-today. See works by Nancy Crow, Michael James, Caryl Bryer Fallert-Gentry, Katie Pasquini Masopust, Ricky Tims, and more! Learn how art quilts have changed over the past 60 years with innovations in surface design and technology. An hour of inspiration and gorgeous art quilts!
This program is FREE, but donations are greatly appreciated! Click here to join: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82511811923
Do you need space to work on a project? Or would like a second opinion from other sewers/crafters/fiber artists? Join us on the third Thursday of each month from 10:30am- 3:30pm to work on some of your UFO’s (unfinished objects) or just to get together with like minded people and work on something that you love?
Join us for Fiber Club on the Third Thursday of each month!
We have great space for laying out large quilts!
Do you need space to work on a project? Or would like a second opinion from other sewers/crafters/fiber artists? Join us on the third Thursday of each month from 10:30am- 3:30pm to work on some of your UFO’s (unfinished objects) or just to get together with like minded people and work on something that you love?
Join us for Fiber Club on the Third Thursday of each month!
We have great space for laying out large quilts!
