Mayflower Quilter's Retreat: Devastating Fire

Our 2009 Teachers

Heather Stewart

Well known for her colour workshops, Heather has taught for guilds and shops across Canada and throughout the U.S. Having quilted since childhood, today she works full-time preparing and giving workshops and lectures. Even her new hobby of beading creeps into the quilt studio from time to time and becomes part of an art quiltlet or fabric doll.
Kathy Higgins
Kathy has taught workshops for many guilds and retreats (as well as at the Cotton Patch in Bedford, Nova Scotia), ranging from machine piecing and machine quilting to hand appliqué and hand quilting. Kathy is an organizer for the “The Quilt” project exhibit and auction and her quilts have been exhibited at Alderney Landing, Dartmouth, Comfort and Joy, Halifax, the Mary E. Black Gallery Halifax, the Kennebacasis Valley Quilt Show in Quispamsis, N.B., and the Sussex Vale Quilt Show in Sussex, N.B. and at the Kitchener-Waterloo Quilt Festival.
Joen Wolfrom

In the early 1980s Joen began thinking about ways to create sophisticated landscapes in fabric. The whimsical, country-style appliqué she'd been doing didn't produce the artistic effects she sought. Determined to solve this technical problem, she began a trial-and-error process that eventually resulted in her strip-pieced landscape technique. Today, her method is widely used by textile artists and quiltmakers around the world.

Inspiration

Joen Wolfrom: Visual Coloring: A Foolproof Approach to Color-Rich Quilts
Struggling with color? Visual Coloring offers a practically foolproof technique that lets quilters analyze the colors and proportions found in nature, then duplicate the effects in beautiful quilts and other projects. Tons of photographs, fabric-swatch examples, and a gallery of idea quilts show the way, and five simple yet richly colored quilt projects let readers try out what they’ve learned.
Joen Wolfrom: A Garden Party of Quilts: 7 Pieced Projects for Flower Lovers
Let renowned color expert Joen Wolfrom show quilters everywhere how to create seven spectacular flower quilts, blooming with traditional tulips or whimsical modern marigolds. Best of all, these fabulous flowers are all completely machine pieced, with step-by-step instructions that make them breezy as a spring day.
Valerie Hearder: Points of View: Landscape Quilts to Stitch and Embellish (That Patchwork Place)
Step into your own gorgeous landscape scenes by using the incredible texture, color, and pattern that fabric provides. No tricky technical techniques here--simplicity is the goal in these artful, small-scale representations of nature's scenery.

As many of our regular Retreat quilters know there was a devasting forest fire in Halifax 2 weeks ago, the Purcell's Cove area, that destroyed 8 homes. http://www.cbc.ca/canada/nova-scotia/story/2009/05/01/ns-halifax-fire-evacuation.html As many of you know one of those houses was home to our own friend, quilter and Retreat supporter Anna Healy. She and her husband have lost everything. From treasured family heirlooms to quilts to her stash to pins and needles and rotary cutters. Now Anna has to make a list and show proof to the insurance company that these items were in her house. Do any of you have photos of Anna's quilts from past Retreat show and tells? Please check through what you have and if anything at all comes up please let Barb Robson know at robsonbh@eastlink.ca Anna is looking for pictures of her appliqued flowers quilt that she did through a Block of the Month class at the Hope Chest.