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Lectures listed below can be scheduled for your quilting or
non-quilting groups. Lectures are commonly 45 minutes to 1 hour long but
may be modified to meet the needs of your group. Good or bad, I do
not like slide presentations so all my lectures include lots of real
quilts and quilt tops. Travel expenses and lecture fee are
required. Contact me for additional information at
info@dotcollinsquilter.com.
Lecture fees are currently $200 each. Travel fee is based on
actual travel cost (flights) or current IRS mileage travel allowance (driving
range). Meals and rooms are to be provided by the hosting organization
unless otherwise arranged.
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- Yesterday's Charm in Today's
Quilts
- You can do anything in plaids and stripes!
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I have
over 30 quilts and quilt tops which demonstrate that any type of quilt
can be done effectively using plaid and striped fabrics, alone or
combined with other fabrics. Also, quilts made with today’s
reproduction fabrics to give you the charm of yesterday’s quilts have
been added. The collection for this lecture is ever changing with new
quilts added.
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- Color and Value Theory -
How to Choose Colors for your Quilt
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Why Colors work together and a fail-proof method to choose
colors to make your quilt one that you love!
I bring examples of quilts and
quilt tops that prove the theories work.
- Beyond Stack and
Whack - Adding Your Own Creativity to this Technique
- A trunk show of "Stack and Whack" quilts - a few made
from the books written by Bethany Reynolds and many others where the
techniques were utilized in other designs.
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After making one or two, you
may want to “stretch” and add your own creativity to make your own
unique quilts by combining S&W technique blocks with traditional blocks
or using other arrangements and sizes of the “Stack and Whack” blocks. I
have many samples of quilts made with this technique – both from the
book and modified creatively.
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- New Lecture! A
New Home for Orphans
- Using individual blocks from a variety of sources, create
unique quilts with simple settings.
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Sets of blocks, fabric photo
transfers, or even t-shirts, anything you want to feature in a quilt –
you can create quilts that are unique with settings as simple as squared
sashing or by combining them with small pieced blocks.
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- New Lecture!
Unusual
Border Ideas and Sample Quilts
- Lecture includes suggestions and samples for creating unusual
borders for your quilt tops.
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Many of my quilts
have been created with unique borders, most are simple to construct and
incorporate techniques and blocks utilized in the quilt. The most
"sought -after" border is my curved border which I am working up into a
class or workshop to be available in the future. I will have many
samples of quilts
that resulted from my approach to unusual borders to fuel your own
creativity.
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- Stained Glass
Process Lecture
- Process lecture/demo on a simple technique to create Stained
Glass quilts.
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I do a
process lecture/demo on my techniques for Stained Glass quilts and show
examples of designs. The process includes an easy way to accomplish
stunning quilts and tools to make the task easy. The lecture will
include a free block pattern and a demo on the process of making the
block. The techniques can be adapted to all stained glass designs and
many appliqué pattern designs.
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- Know and Respect your
Quilting Tools
- We are so lucky to have numerous tools to make our quilting
easier, faster, more accurate, and more fun than previous generations
experienced.
The tools available to quilters
today are numerous. Many we now consider basic - like the rotary cutter
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efficient and effective. I will cover information on tools and tips
that I have learned, provide a handout for each attendee. Includes
lecture/demo on Rotary Cutting 101.
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- Process Lectures
- A lecture presentation on the process of making any of the
quilts listed for workshops can be done.
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Generalized
instructions and information will be available to attendees but not the
specific workshop instructions/patterns. One example of this is the
Stained Glass quilt process lecture listed above.
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- New Lecture! The
Stories Behind the Quilts
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Trunk show of 30 or so quilts and the stories that go with them.
Quilts of
all sizes and styles will be included – can share as much about the
making them as the group desires. This lecture is suitable for
non-quilting groups as well as quilting groups.
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