Special Guest Stars

Lenore Crawford - Fabric Art by Lenore Crawford

After working in a hospital lab and then chemical research for many years, Lenore Crawford wanted to pursue her passion for art as a full-time endeavor. She has worked in many different media including pen and ink, acrylics, wood, and others and became intrigued with fabric.

She has developed her own fiber art style and technique and calls it “Impressionistic Fabric Blending” using 2” squares of hundreds of different fabrics cut randomly and assembled to create a sort of fabric “painting”. Currently she is using fusing and fabric paints to create her fiber art. She has been lecturing on and teaching the fusing technique she developed to quilt guilds, private students, and quilt shows nationally and internationally. She has won numerous prizes for her work at art shows and quilt shows across the country.

Her technique has been published in the Quilters’ Newsletter Magazine and American Quilter Magazine, and her electronic book called “Impressionistic Fabric Blending – Create Your Own Art Quilt” has been well received. She was also featured on Kaye Wood’s Quilting Friends PBS program in Episode #1607. A native Midlander, Lenore loves to travel to France to visit with friends and hike in the mountains with her children and husband.

Pam Clarke  -
Designs with Lines

Pam Clarke has been quilting since the late 1960's and sewing for 46 years. She lives in Spokane WA and grew up in Sacramento CA. Pam has been machine quilting and teaching machine quilting, piecing and appliqué classes since 1988. She is the owner of Homes Stitches a professional machine quilting business that was started in 1988. Her work can be seen in several published magazines and books. She quilts for Debbie Mumm, K-P kids, Fiber Mosaics, Mary Lou and Company, Fabric Sales, Kaufman, Bernantix, Retta Weirheim and Martingale. To this date she has quilted over 7000 quilts and has made several hundred. Pam has appeared on Quilt Central and with Linda Taylor for PBS. She has also been featured in Fons and Porter as a Celebrity Quilter.

Designs with Lines, is another business that was started by Pam Clarke in 1998. This technique was designed to help speed up the quilting process by using simple lines as a guide to create individual designs. Pam has been creating her own stencils for several years and this technique is used for the home machine quilter or the longarm machine quilter. She has available 8 videos From Beginning to the Advanced Machine quilter, along with Sketchbooks full of ideas to go along with her stencils.

Pam has also expanded her business this year to include Log Cabin Dry Goods, the largest retail and machine-quilting store in Spokane. With A-1 machine rentals, drop off quilting services, a broad range of classes, high quality, low cost fabrics, die cut services and meeting rooms, Pam is excited to see Log Cabin Dry Goods grow.
In 2009 Pam was voted Teacher of the year for the Home Machine Quilt Show in Salt Lake City, UT.

Also appearing at the festival, national and internationally sewing and quilting designers and educators sharing their tips and solutions that include, Barbara Crawford, Kathy Ruddy, Lorraine Henry, Bobbie Bergquist and Barbara Callahan.

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Special Exhibits

FABULOUS Visiting/traveling Quilt Displays from all across the United States.

We will be featuring a large variety of exhibits and displays for your enjoyment. Go take a look, there's something for everyone!

Quilts on the Wall:
Fiber Artists

“GATES”
A Collection of Quilt Art for Exhibit By Quilts on the Wall: Fiber Artists
Gates lead to gardens, dreams, ideas, heaven, and hell, places whimsical or real. A collection of twenty-three quilts from Quilts on the Wall artists explore the idea of a gate's use, each in the artist's own particular idiom of fiber art and personal viewpoint. Embellishments, computer modifications, inks, acrylics, beads, pearls, fusing, cottons, silks, wools, roving, organza, canvas, felt, tulle, metallic threads and paints, discharged and rusted fabrics, screen printing, stencils, stamps, hand and machine piecing and quilting are all represented in this very eclectic display of quilts. www.quiltsonthewall.com


Quilters Treasure’s 8th Annual Challenge

Photo of GRAND PRIZE WINNER "LIFT UP YOUR HEART"
By Shirley Malia

QSC Expos is thrilled to host the winning entries of Quilters Treasure’s 8th annual challenge, which were announced at Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival February 24th of this year in Hampton, VA. The theme for the 2011-2012 challenge was “Soaring to New Heights in Quilting,” and entrants used the challenge fabric “Golden Eagle” from the Quilters Treasure line of fabric. A new Wearable Art category was added in 2006. You will enjoy 15 winning quilts and jackets from the 8th annual challenge on special display. Thank you to Quilters Treasure for sponsoring this special exhibit. We know our attendees will enjoy it!

Quilters Treasure thanks their sponsors for this challenge: Superior Threads, Singer Sewing Machine, Morgan Products, Hobbs Bonded Fibers, Quilters Rule and Barb’s Original. The 2012-2013 Quilter’s Treasure’s 9th challenge was announced February 23, 2012; visit www.QuiltersTreasure.com for details and an entry form.


“Old Quilts Made New” Special Quilt Display
sponsored by Pam Clarke, Teacher, Quilter and Collector!

Pam has been collecting vintage quit tops since she started quilting in1970. She just loves the older fabrics and loves finishing quilt tops whether by hand or machine. In her collection she has tried to keep the quilting in the traditional style of that era. She uses her quilting talents and makes no changes or re- sets the top unless it is in really poor condition. Pam says, “I feel that every quilt deserves to be finished, and it is my goal to complete all the ones I’ve collected.”

Her favorite quilts are Log Cabins, Dresden Plates and Grandmother’s Flower Garden. She has found these tops everywhere she travels; in antique shops, on E-bay etc. Pam has a few appliqué quilts in her collection, but these are very rare to find and in good condition. She teaches a class called, “Blending the Old with the New,” and it is one of her favorites. In this class she discusses how to finish these tops, fixing any problems before quilting and cleaning, along with a slide show of over 50 quilts. Check out all of Pam’s classes on the class schedule. Be sure and stop by this special quilt display area and see Pam’s fabulous quilts!

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