Pictorial fabric art of the San Blas Islands - molas - are vibrant, colorful, creatively cut and stitched layers of cloth. See how those designs reflect the lives of today's small island women who daily create and wear them. Include molas in your own quilt making! (PowerPoint with trunk show)

Workshop: Create the Chesapeake Crab using only four fabric squares.

Red & White, Blue & White: Quilts of Distinction

What is the secret of those graphic two color quilts? Why have red and white and blue and white quilts never lost their popularity in over two hundred years? What made the red and White exhibit in New York City so exciting? See what creates a quilt with such strong visual impact that it is rarely forgotten. (Brief PowerPoint with trunk show)

Workshop: Create the Indigo Sand Dollar block using Phyllis' new pattern.

Boring Quilters Don’t Make Headlines

Phyllis’ humorous edition of amusing news stories was inspired by Jay Leno’s and David Letterman’s versions of funny and strange headlines. Each of these actual quilt stories was published in newspapers in the 1800's and early 1900's. Actual quilts and textiles from those early time periods will accompany the news. Join in the laughter.

150 Years of Quilts

is a lecture and show of quilts from the 1820’s to the 1970’s by Phyllis Twigg Hatcher. See how quilts of each era have their own beauty and what makes the quilt an example of its decade. This lecture is also of interest to non-quilting groups such as historical societies.

Workshop: Inking and Laurel Wreath. Create a block to honor a historic monument or even your own house using a simple inking and applique.

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   Small and Smaller

Crib quilts radiate universal charm, appeal, and delight. They are as fun and entertaining as they are revealing, sharing with us everyday life in the past. Although the quilts differ in pattern, design, color, fabric, piecing, and appliqué, these share an endearing quality and span more than one hundred years. (Approximately 25 actual quilts made especially for babies and children will be shown.)  

Do you have quilts that you know nothing about? No clues? Bring them to the "Quilt Detective" lecture and let Phyllis crack the case. Perhaps you've acquired some from family, purchased one in a shop, or experienced a late night on eBay. Watch Phyllis determine and explain the approximate date using a myriad of mysterious clues. Some great stories and bits of textile chronicle are waiting to be discovered. (Monetary values will not be determined.)

Buy Me, I'm Best

Novel and entertaining methods have always been used to sell thread, sewing machines, and fabric to quiltmakers. Phyllis shows how companies marketed their goods to sewers and quiltmakers from 1875 to 1950. Actual quilts, fabrics, textile commemoratives, advertising trade cards, and feedsack related items will be shown.