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• ARL QU Workshop - Deborah Boschert - Captivating Compositions

  • Start
    March 24, 2025
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  • End
    March 31, 2025
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  • Schedule
    2 sessions
  • Location
    Zoom
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    20 registrants

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  Workshop Limit = 20 people

  Open to Big QU: Feb 14, 2025, same price

  Signup Deadline: Mar 12, 2025

  
  

  Cost = $35 (no extra taxes or credit card fees)

  
  

  Workshop: Explore eight design guides that get the creative juices flowing. Look at examples of captivating compositions from fine art and the quilt world. Create a “sketch” for each of the design guides using fused fabrics. Learn to edit, audition and improvise using a super helpful design checklist. Consider adding details with machine and hand stitching. Your completed set of fabric sketches can be used for reference and inspiration for future art quilts.
  
  Skill Level: Appropriate for all levels.
  

  
  

  Kit: Recommended (but you can use your own fabric if you want).

  Kits must be ordered by 03/08/2025 (2 full weeks before the date of your workshop).  Kits can only be sent to US addresses.
  Each person orders their own kit - Kits are ordered directly from her website! 

  
  

  More details, Supply Lists, Kit info: https://www.deborahsstudio.com/captivating-compositions-workshop

  Video: Short video workshop description
  

  
  

  
  

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• ARL QU Zoom Bee

  • When
    March 31, 2025
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    7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom

  
  

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• ARL QU Workshop - Joan Radell - Happy Feet! Sneakers Class

  • When
    April 05, 2025
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    9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
  • Location
    Artistic Artifacts, 4750 Eisenhower Avenue, Alexandria, VA 22304
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  Workshop Limit: 21 people

  Signups Open: 9/10/2025 at noon ET
  

  Open to Big QU: 02/14/2025

  Signup Deadline for all: 03/01/2025
  

  
  

  Cost: = $120 (no extra taxes or credit card fees) (Cost of Workshop is $35 and the Kit fee is $85).
  

  
  

  In-Person Workshop: Happy Feet! Sneakers Class

  Let's have Happy Feet all year 'round!  Make a fun pair of hi-tops or classic sneakers from your favorite fabrics.  There is some pre-class homework to prepare for this workshop.  The class fee includes a kit that has your sneaker soles, padded insoles, sneaker pattern, waxed thread, needle, eyelets and the Happy Feet! book.  
  
  Supply List (updated Jan 29, 2025): Quilted Sneaker Class Supply List Updated v3 2025 (2025.01.29).pdf
  

  
  

  Kit: Required and the $85 kit cost is already included in the $120. 
  

  Kits must be ordered by 03/01/2025.  QU will order the kit, so the QU Registration Form will request size in European Unisex size (between 36 and 47), and sole color of black or white.  There is no need to size up.  These shoes fit most similarly to Birkenstock or Dansko.  Converting from US sizing to EU sizes is not an exact science.

  

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  Please note that soles are not available for sizes under 36, and above 47.  For women’s sizes over 41, please check the extended size conversion chart at the Happy Feet! Kit listing at bucklebeebags.com. 
  

  
  

  Shoelaces: available for purchase at workshop
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

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• ARL QU Lecture - Nancy Hershberger - The Art of the Landscape

  • When
    April 07, 2025
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    7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom

  Lecture: The Art of the Landscape

  Speaker: Nancy Hershberger

  Flyer: Nancy Hershberger 042025.pdf
  

  Nancy is an award-winning fiber artist / art quilter from Breezewood, Pennsylvania.  She loves to create with fabric, thread and with a little bit of ink.

  Website: https://www.nancyhershberger.com/

  
  

  
  

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• ARL QU Business Meeting

  • When
    April 14, 2025
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    7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
  • Location
    Goodwin House Auditorium

  
  

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• ARL QU Zoom Bee

  • When
    April 21, 2025
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    7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom

  
  

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• ARL QU Sit and Sew – Auditorium 1pm-5pm

  • When
    April 26, 2025
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    1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
  • Location
    Goodwin House Auditorium

  
  

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• ARL QU In-Person Bee

  • When
    April 28, 2025
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    7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
  • Location
    Goodwin House Art Room

  
  

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• Love In Every Stitch - QU Event (all members invited)

  • When
    May 04, 2025
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    2:30 PM - 6:00 PM
  • Location
    Woodson High School, Fairfax, Virginia

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   The Registration Code for this event was sent to all QU Members.

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      Note - If you are using the Wild Apricot App, hold down the above link and select OPEN LINK to get to the flyer. 

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• ARL QU Zoom Bee

  • When
    May 05, 2025
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    7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom

  
  

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• ARL QU Business Meeting

  • When
    May 12, 2025
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    7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
  • Location
    Goodwin House Auditorium

  
  

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• ARL QU Lecture - Candyce Grisham - The Dresden Reimagined

  • When
    May 19, 2025
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    7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom

  Program Flyer: TBD

  Lecture: The Dresden Reimagined
  

  My journey with the Dresden block into the Modern quilt world, art quilts and publishing. How do you go from a quilt you made to a pattern to a book? I will also include a trunk show. 
  

  Bio: I have been fascinated with fabric, sewing, and quilting since the age of nine, when I took my first sewing class and won a prize for my corduroy jumper and print shirt with a necktie. When I saw an ancestor’s quilt in the Smithsonian at age thirteen, I was hooked. I taught myself to quilt from books and used cardboard templates and scissors to make my first quilt, a Log Cabin. It has been a love affair ever since.  
  
  I love using fabrics, themes, and colors from nature, although I lean more to bright fabrics with a lot of prints. Many of my works have a “tradition-with-a-twist” quality, and although I rely on inspirations from generations gone by, they also have a contemporary feel. I have dabbled in fiber art, challenges, traditional quilting, and modern quilting, and I love it all.  
  
  I have taught quilting for more than thirty years and love teaching and exploring with students as much as creating. I have been lucky to have quilts and fiber art pieces juried into shows with Missouri Fiber Artists, the American Quilter’s Society in Kentucky, the International Quilt Association in Houston, and the National Quilt Association in Ohio, as well as into many local and regional shows and displays.  
  
  I published my first pattern on the Dresden quilt (of course!) in 2015 and my second in 2018. My book Dresden Quilt Blocks Reimagined was published in 2019. I live with my husband, Tom, in both rural Missouri and urban St. Louis with our Golden rescue, Bella. I have two sons who as adults have followed in their father’s footsteps, and we could not be prouder. They are wonderful partners, and I hope I will get to pass on some of my love of quilting in their direction.
  
  Website: https://icandyfiberart.com/teaching/ 

  Speaker Bio: Bio Candyce Grisham Dresden Reimagined book.docx
  

  
  

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• ARL QU Workshop - Candyce Grisham - Dresden Springtime

  • When
    May 24, 2025
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    10:00 AM - 4:45 PM
  • Location
    Zoom
  • Spaces left
    17

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  Workshop Limit: 20 people (open to all of QU on April 30, 2025)
  

  
  

  Cost: $35 (no extra taxes or credit card fees)

  
  

  Workshop: Dresden Springtime

  
  

  These Dresden plates have always reminded me of flowers, or stars or fireworks but mostly flowers. In this class we will make just a few plates, learn some different edge and piecing techniques, explore colors and layout, learn to make bias stems and create our own “gardens”. Ideal for making just a few. Use your favorite “flower” fabrics whether in prints or solids.

  
  

  Use a solid background or piece one.  Applique by hand or by machine.  Lots of choices but unique and fun.
  

  
  Skill Level: Confident Beginner and Beyond
  

  
  

  Supply List: Springtime supply list v2.pdf
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  Speaker Bio: Bio Candyce Grisham Dresden Reimagined book.docx
  

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• ARL QU Sit and Sew – Auditorium 1pm-5pm

  • When
    May 24, 2025
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    1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
  • Location
    Goodwin House Auditorium

  
  

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• ARL QU In-Person Bee

  • When
    May 26, 2025
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    7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
  • Location
    Goodwin House Art Room

  
  

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• ARL QU Zoom Bee

  • When
    June 02, 2025
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    7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom

  
  

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• ARL QU Business Meeting and Summer Potluck - 4pm-8pm

  • When
    June 09, 2025
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    4:00 PM - 8:00 PM
  • Location
    TBD

  
  

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• ARL QU Zoom Bee

  • When
    June 16, 2025
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    7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom

  
  

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• ARL QU In-Person Bee

  • When
    June 23, 2025
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    7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
  • Location
    Goodwin House Art Room

  
  

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• ARL QU Sit and Sew – Auditorium 1pm-5pm

  • When
    June 28, 2025
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    1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
  • Location
    Goodwin House Auditorium

  
  

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• ARL QU Zoom Bee

  • When
    June 30, 2025
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    7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom

  
  

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• ARL QU Zoom Bee

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    July 07, 2025
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    7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom

  
  

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• ARL QU Zoom Bee

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    July 14, 2025
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    7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom

  
  

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• ARL QU Zoom Bee

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    July 21, 2025
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    7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom

  
  

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• ARL QU Sit and Sew – Auditorium 1pm-5pm

  • When
    July 26, 2025
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    1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
  • Location
    Goodwin House Auditorium

  
  

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• ARL QU In-Person Bee

  • When
    July 28, 2025
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    7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
  • Location
    Goodwin House Art Room

  
  

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• ARL QU Zoom Bee

  • When
    August 04, 2025
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    7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom

  
  

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• ARL QU Business Meeting

  • When
    September 08, 2025
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    7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
  • Location
    Goodwin House Auditorium

  
  

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