Members' Meeting ~ Saturday, September 11, 2010

Jewett Hall, UMA, Augusta

Door Prizes - Area 3

9:30 a.m. - business meeting
12:30 p.m. - guest speaker Debbie Bowles

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.

“It Doesn’t Have to Match”

It’s easy to get stuck in a personal rut in quilt making. This lecture and trunk show is filled with real quilts, overview demonstrations of some piecing or techniques and lots of tips and examples to get your inspiration flowing. You will go away with many ideas about teaching yourself to take small or larger risks in your quilt making; from fabric to design.

Debbie is also teaching workshops on Friday and Sunday. Learn more.