LECTURES:

Lecture fees: $300.00 plus travel and local accommodations.
ALL lectures (except Three points of View and Cheap Tricks) NEED A CAROUSEL PROJECTOR. The use of a microphone depends on the size of the group and the size of the room.

QUILTS AS AMERICAN FOLK ART:
A trip through the rich past of American quilt making. Meet the best quilt makers in our past, some are anonymous and some are famous. Move into the present and take a look at some of today’s quilt makers who will make the future take notice. Quilts are not only priceless and cherished as unique pieces of people’s lives they are also a legacy of folk art .

THEY DIDN’T HAVE MUCH BUT THEY SURE HAD PLENTY:
A look at the scrap quilts of our predecessors through the quilts and diaries and journals of nineteenth and early twentieth century quilt makers. Features old photographs and the thoughts of women from our quilting legacy.

THREE POINTS OF VIEW; HISTORIAN, APPRAISER, AND JUDGE:
A look at how quilts are viewed differently and similarly when looking at them through the viewpoint of these three positions. Each of these points of view turns a different critical eye to the quilts. Some quilts are important in all three views while others find a warm spot with only one. Is a quilt’s sentimental value overridden by its monetary value? Who can tell if today’s prize winner will be important in fifty years.

CREATING SPARKLING SETS:
Intended to stimulate new and creative ideas for putting your quilts together with spark and sparkle. No more plain lattice strips or blank alternate blocks. We will take a look at some more interesting alternatives to conventional setting arrangements.

CARRIE HALL-”the blocks, the woman, and the work”:
Insights into the woman who undertook the daunting project of actually constructing a block from every known and published pattern of her era. We will reflect on the original book, The Romance of the Patchwork Quilt in America, look at selected blocks, their current storage in the collection of the Spencer Museum at the University of Kansas, and their impact on the development of quiltmaking in the twentieth century. And finally we will look at the new work done with these blocks.

AMISH QUILTS-TRADITIONAL MID-WESTERN OLD ORDER AMISH:
A survey of quilts made for use in Old Order Amish homes, the styles, colors and quilting motifs most chosen by these strictly religious ‘simple ‘ folk. The lecture includes a cursory discussion of the lifestyle which impacts so strongly on the Amish quilts.

CHEAP TRICKS:
Hints and short cuts, especially some really cheap replacements for some of the expensive tools and gadgets we all seem to collect. Lots of fun and a chance for the audience to share some of their good ideas.

ENGLISH MEDALLION QUILTS:
This is an introduction to the style of quilt first brought to our shores by our English cousins and which had an important early influence of the style quilt popular in the last quarter of the 18th Century and the first half of the 19th Century. You will see examples of English quilts and their derivative American quilts for their period of popularity. Explore the important elements of the English quilts and the techniques of construction and a brief comparison of the quilting motifs which you might find along with the differences found in American quilts.