Workshops with Debbie Bowles
Friday, September 10 and Sunday, September 12, 2010
Debbie came to quilt making via a lifetime of garment and craft sewing. Debbie’s approach to design, quilt making and teaching draws on her experiences as an elementary school teacher, Cub Scout Den Mom and junior high school and church volunteer work as she leads each quilter to have fun while creating something that pleases them and is uniquely their own.
Through her pattern company, Maple Island Quilts and her books, Cutting Curves from Straight Pieces and Dancing Quilts from Straight Pieces (published by American Quilter’s Society) and Quilts for the Dorm, Debbie offers achievable, slightly non-traditional projects with enormous design possibilities for all skill levels. She calls her style controlled inventive.
Debbie teaches regularly at shops, guilds and events held throughout the US and internationally. She has appeared twice on Simply Quilts “622 – Confusion” and “749 – Pagodas”, on PBS’s M’Liss’s World of Quilts and Lifetime Real Women’s American Quilter.
The Maple Island Quilts pattern line has 40 titles and is sold globally through the wholesale market to shops and the retail market at the web site, www.mapleislandquilts.com.
Debbie’s quilts have been used in consumer and industry magazine advertisements and articles for many fabric companies. Her quilts travel worldwide to quilt shops. She frequently lectures for major fabric companies at industry shows. Currently Debbie has a quilt traveling with the Alzheimer’s Art Quilt Initiative throughout the US and was nominated for the 2010 Teacher of the Year by the International Association of Professional Quilters.
 Carnival or Amazing
Friday, September 10
9 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Fireside Inn, Auburn (exit 75 off I-95 )
Please choose one pattern as you register.
 Carnival - Gather a collection of fat quarters, cut and stitch some quick and gentle curves and you will end with this eye popping quilt filled with movement. You will learn the rotary cut and machine stitched curve technique have success right away. Become a quilter with curves!
Amazing
Keep your viewers guessing about how you created this maze that spirals from the inside to the outside and on to the next block. These 20” blocks create a bold look when you choose two highly contrasting fabrics. |
 Pagoda or Hot Shots
Sunday, September 12
9 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Husson University, Bangor
(Broadway exit 185 off I-95)
Please choose one pattern as you register.
 Hot Shots - Small squares become hot shots when they float on top of the blocks. You can work within a color family or choose a multi color group of fabrics. This is an easy, fun and achievable project to stitch and if you like your fabrics you will like your finished project! Choose your size from the 4 sizes in the pattern.
 Pagoda - 12” blocks that have curves going around the center – how did you do that? Choose good contrast for the three fabrics and be prepared to become a quilter with curves. You will learn the inventive rotary cut and machine stitched curve technique while creating your unique blocks and a spectacular curvy quilt. Choose a small wall piece, 32” x 32” using only 4 blocks or lap size, 60” x 72”. Pattern also includes 9 block wall size.
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To Register for One or Both Workshops
- Workshop Fees
- PTQG members = $50
- non-members = $65
- To register for a workshop, send the completed form with your check payable to Pine Tree Quilters Guild and a #10 (business-size), self-addressed, stamped envelope.
- To allow everyone an equal opportunity to register for the workshops, registrations will not be processed until after July 1.
- If more than 25 people register for a workshop, participants will be selected on a lottery basis from all registrations postmarked by June 25 and received by July 1.
- Registrations received after July 1 will be accepted provided there are still openings, on a first come, first served basis until the class is full.
- If you have any questions, contact Callie.
- Confirmations and supply lists will be sent by July 19
- August 5: Cancellation deadline for refund if there is no waiting list.
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2011
May 13 & 15 with Kim Diehl (Pocatello, ID)
September 9 & 11 TBA
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