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May 15, 2013                7:30 - 9PM    Italian-American Club, Walpole

 
Ami Simms                    Website:  http://www.amisimms.net/
Lecture: “Living With Quilts:  A Survival Guide”

This tongue-in-cheek presentation teaches creative coping strategies for quilters.  Topics include how to:

• pad your house (quilt display and storage); 
• appropriate more studio space (why stop with the spare bedroom?);

• eliminate pesky distractions (cooking and cleaning);
• increase storage capacity (batting goes in the oven);
• the best way to deal with the guilt of UFOs (ignore it)!

Ami is the author of eight books on quilting, creator of The WORST Quilt in the World Contest® and founder/executive director of the Alzheimer’s Art Quilt Initiative. She has lecturing and leading workshops on quilting across the United States and internationally since 1982.  In 2005, Professional Quilter Magazine selected her as Quilter of the Year.

She has made more than 200 quilts of varying sizes, in traditional and contemporary designs, both hand and machine quilted. Her quilts have been featured in several national magazines and a few books. They have also been exhibited in juried competitions across the US.

May 16, 2013          9:30AM - 4PM  All About Quilts

Ami Simms
Workshop:  “Twisted Sisters”

In this pattern, light and dark fabrics are stitched or "sistered" together, sliced, and recombined to make twisting pinwheel-type blocks that fit together with or without sashing strips. Other options include floating the pinwheels, folding 3-dimensional block centers, and experimenting with leftover chunks, bits, and pieces to create more quilts. You’ll have a lot of choices.

Skill Level: Beginning, Intermediate

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