Fine art to funky traditional: life and quilting
Janice Chesnik, a member of the Dawsonville Heart & Hand guild, was at our soiree at Sew Memorable this week and she showed this beautiful Kaleidoscope quilt:
Can you tell that Janice used to make the real thing? She and her husband made kaleidoscopes for over 25 years. And she’s friends with Paula Nadelstern, who is scheduled to be coming to the metro Atlanta (including the Dawsonville area) in January 2010.
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Beautiful quilts. I am the program planner for early Bird Quilt Guild and am beginning to gather teacher information for programs and workshops.
I am also a Hoffman Challenge winner and a teacher myself.
Would love any input or help you can give on recommended teachers for a small gild wiht a limited budget.
Hi Barbara – one of the best ways for a guild with a small budget to afford speakers is to collaborate with other guilds in inviting them and splitting the cost. Look for local teachers so you don’t have to reimburse a lot of travel costs, and by doing these two things you should be able to afford some top-notch speakers.
Hi Barbara – Good for you that you volunteered to do programs and workshops for your guild. That’s a big job. The best advice for guilds on a limited budget? Coordinate with other area guilds to pay for a workshop. You divide the cost among your guilds and everyone wins. It’s also a great way for quilters to get to know others outside of their own guilds. I am unusual in that I’ll teach a workshop to a large number of quilters: I taught one in October to 70 quilters. Most workshop instructors limit their classes to 20, which doesn’t allow you to pool your resources as effectively, but you can still have that speaker do a lecture. You can download my workshop brochure from my Color Mastery website, and I guess I should put it here too, shouldn’t I?