The Champlain Valley Quilters' Guild of Vermont meets at 7 PM on the first Tuesday of each month, September through June, at the Essex Alliance Church on Old Stage Road, Essex Junction, Vermont.  Please join us if you can at 6:30P for socializing.

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The purpose of this Guild shall be to promote an interest in the art of quilting for the members and the community, to educate members and the community in all aspects of quilting and to provide an encouraging environment in which members may share, practice, and exchange ideas related to quilting.

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The Guild needs your support.

  Click on Forms above for a Membership Application.  You can fill it out online and then print it and stop by the Membership table at any Guild meeting to pay.

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 Our next meeting will be April 4, 2014

  Gyleen Fitzferald (Maryland)  http://www.colourfulstitches.com

                             

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 Gyleen Fitzgerald was born in Philadelphia, PA but grew up in Taiwan and Japan. Those formative years in the Far East developed her love for simplistic artistry. She began needlework at the very young age of four and has since pursued artistic expression in drawing and quilt making. Her quilts blend color, pattern and texture to provide a contemporary essence to traditional quilting. Her strength as a quilter is demonstrated by the infusion of engineering tools and techniques to simplify visually complex quilts. She shares her enthusiasm for quilting through interactive lectures and workshops. Her written works center around haiku poetry, quilt project books, patterns and magazine articles and of course. the crème de la crème, children’s books. She obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering at Drexel University and opened Colourful Stitches in 1999. Her first subsidiary, FPI Publishing, was launched in 2005 with the publication of her first two books. Her second subsidiary, Tools by Gyleen, launched in 2010 with the Pineapple Tool. In 2011, she obtained her first Trademark for the Butterfly Seam. Gyleen has appeared on The Quilt Show and Lifetime TV promoting finishing antique quilts and the new spirit of traditional quilting. April 1, 2014 Lecture The Shape of Things to Come The Shape of Things to Come is about moving beyond the box or 90 degree shapes (squares, rectangles, half square triangles and quarter square triangles). It focuses on the 60 degree angle of diamonds, pyramids, cones and hexagons. The concept is what you can do with 90 looks spectacular when you translate it to 60. The lecture is a trunk show starting with a one patch quilts and moving to more complex looking quilts based on tile work. The lecture will include quilts from Gyleen’s new book “Polygon Affair”, which releases February 2014.

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