Quilt Challenges can spur you on to heights you never thought you would scale.  Some of your best work might come from group challenges.  In this lecture you will explore many different challenges and the art work that resulted.  Various techniques used will be explained. In addition, the lecture will deal with challenges encountered in designing and executing personal quilt.  Many small quilts will be shown to illustrate the lecture.

So many possibilities! You choose a theme and the rest will be smooth sailing.  The 8 inch New York Beauty block will go together easily.  The paper pieced center arc has dramatic sharp points.  Gentle curves join the finishing arcs.  Once the blocks are finished, they can be twisted and turned to make an exciting collage of color and design. 

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Our judge, lecturer, and featured teacher is Lois Smith of Rockville, Maryland.  Lois is a teacher and judge certified by the National Quilting Association.  She has experience teaching and judging both nationally and internationally.  Her quilt, Golden Memories of Christmas, won Best of Show in the 1988 Houston Quilt Festival and was the first machine quilted piece to win that honor.  Summertime Sampler is in the permanent collection of the National Quilt Museum in Paducah, Kentucky.  Lois is the author of Fun and Fancy: Machine Quiltmaking (AQS 1989) and Lois Smith’s Machine Quiltmaking (AQS 1997).