Huntington Quilters

Quinipet Quilt Retreat, Shelter Island

Huntington Quilters — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 02:38:21 +0000

Thank you for another wonderful weekend at Quinipet! It was a wonderful weekend, with lots of fun, great company and companionship. Can’t wait to see the projects at the guild meeting in May – and they’ll all be finished, right?

Let the Games Begin!

Photos from Cheryl Almgren Taylor’s workshop this weekend

Huntington Quilters — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 02:13:15 +0000

It looks like everyone had a great time at this workshop! Hope to see the finished projects at the Guild Meeting in May.

Openings available for Joe Cunningham workshop on May 2

Huntington Quilters — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 00:49:12 +0000

The Evening Star Quilters, in Mineola, is having Joe Cunningham, a.k.a Joe the Quilter as our guest speaker on Thursday, May 2 nd.

He is also offering a hand quilting workshop Called “Big Easy Stitches”. We have some openings if anyone in your guild is interested in attending. Please forward the flyer attached to this email to your members. It includes all of the necessary information.

Thank you for helping to spread the word!

Joe Cunningham workshop details

Donna Russell

Program chair

Evening Star Quilters,

Mineola, NY

Amazing New Stitch Erase App!

Huntington Quilters — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 01:16:55 +0000

Alex Anderson is at it again! Look at this amazing new app for quilters!

April Block of the Month

Huntington Quilters — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 01:13:06 +0000

Ozark Tiles Workshop with Pat Yamin

Huntington Quilters — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 13:07:11 +0000

Huntington Quilters gathered on March 9 at the Northport Library for a day long workshop with Pat Yamin. After seeing Pat’s wonderful presentation of quilts old and new at our March meeting, we were eager to master her Ozark Tile quilt. Pat provided us with the hints we needed to use her handy templates, and then all in attendance went to work cutting and sewing under Pat’s watchful eye. Some enjoyed piecing by machine, while others pieced their blocks by hand. There was concentration, laughter, and a bit of unsewing now and then, and by afternoon, some marvelous Ozark Tile motifs were on their way to completion. It will be fun to see the finished quilts at upcoming meetings’ Show and Tell time.

Pat Displays Her Antique Quilt

Quilters Paying Attention

Another Vintage Quilt

Pat Showing How to Cut

Using the Brooklyn Revolver

Quilters Love to Shop

Detail of Vintage Quilt

Hand Piecing Her Ozark Tile Quilt

Machine Piecing Her Ozark Tile Quilt

Choosing the Next Bunch of Colors

Hard at Work on Their Blocks

Pondering the Next Seam

Quilters Taking Time for a Chat

Love all those colors

Detail of a vintage quilt

Anita’s Arrowhead Block – Instructions for Raffle Quilt

Huntington Quilters — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 16:14:30 +0000

March 2013 Block of the Month

Huntington Quilters — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 02:40:43 +0000

Bus Trip to Somers Show May 4th

Huntington Quilters — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 02:37:16 +0000

Bus Trip on Saturday, May 4th!

Depart 8:30 am promptly at the Park and Ride, Route 110, LIE Westbound,

Please arrive at 8:15 am

Exhibition at Brooklyn Museum Showcases Quilt Masterpieces

Huntington Quilters — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 02:24:44 +0000

“WORKT BY HAND”

Brooklyn Museum, Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY

March 15–September 15, 2013

Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, 4th Floor

“Workt by Hand”: Hidden Labor and Historical Quilts showcases approximately thirty-five American and European quilt masterpieces from the Brooklyn Museum’s renowned decorative arts collection. The exhibition examines the impact of feminist scholarship on the ways historical quilts have been and are currently viewed, contextualized, and interpreted. Spanning two centuries of quilt making, the exhibition features superlative examples of the most iconic quilt designs and techniques, including the “Barn Raising” or “Log Cabin” style, the “Garden Basket” style, “Double Wedding Band” designs, the “Rose of Sharon” pattern, and the Amish “Sunshine and Shadow” style, as well as a variety of album quilts.

“The exhibition considers how issues common to the craft and handmade nature of quilting practices, such as anonymity, authorship, and collectivity, have affected the interpretation and reception of quilts. It also examines the historical designation of quilts as crafts rather than art objects and the shift in the late twentieth century, under the influence of modernism, toward a formalist appreciation of quilts as works of abstract art. This shift, and its implications for the way quilts have been seen and understood, will be explored by the quilts being presented both vertically—as they are now frequently shown in museums and galleries—and horizontally, as though on the beds for which they were originally designed.