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March Program by Marcia Christopher

Book Review Page 7 Digital Submissions Article Page 8-9 Artist Profile 0 Exhibit Opportunities Page 11

Front Range Contemporary Quilters welcomes Anne McKenzie Nickolson presenting

" Combining New Technology with Traditional Processes"

Monday, March 17, 2008 Socializing at 6:30 pm

Business meeting followed by Show-and-Tell at 7pm Anne McKenzie Nickolson at 8pm Westminster Recreation Center

In this lecture, Anne will discuss her work and its various influences, which include North American Ribbonwork Appli-qué and European Painting. Through the use of the computer in designing her pieces, she can pre-construct the works on the monitor, changing and adapting layers as necessary, and creating more complex pieces than she could otherwise. Her interest in working with fabric goes back to her early childhood when she learned to sew, embroider, knit and cro-chet. These interests turned toward art making as she earned a BFA in Textile Design from Northern Illinois University, and an MFA in Textile Design from Indiana University. She has been a practicing, exhibiting fiber artist since 1977. Her early work involved pieced, appliquéd, embroidered works which often involving dyeing and airbrushing. A natural evolution of ideas led to layered, pieced and appliquéd pieces which became quilts in 1997. Art quilts have been Anne's main body of work since that time. Her works have been exhibited in 32 states, 12 countries and 5 continents, including the last 5 Quilt Nationals. She has received several grants in support of her work from the Indiana Arts Commission and a Creative Renewal Grant from the Arts Council of Indianapolis. She has done commissions and has work in many public collections including Chase Man-hattan Bank in New York City, AT&T in Kansas City, and the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Publications include arti-cles and feature photographs in “American Craft”, “Fiberarts”, “Dialogue Magazine”, “Surface Design Jour-nal” ,“Popular Patchwork”, and numerous books. For more information please visit Anne's website at www.annemckenzienickolson.com.

President’s Letter Page 2 Membership Page 3 FRCQ Exhibit Registration Page 4 Newcomer’s Page 5 Workshop Registration Page 6

March 2008 Bits and Pieces

Bits and Pieces is the monthly news-letter of the Front Range Contempo-rary Quilters. Submission of art quilt related articles from members is wel-comed. These should be no more than 350-400 words or ½ page, written in New Times Roman in size 10 text spacing 1.5. The editor and the Board reserve the right to edit for length, content and space. Deadline for sub-missions to the newsletter is the 17th of the month prior to the publication. Email or send articles and items for submission to the publication to: [email protected] Kathy Keating 13237 Teller Lake Way, Broomfield, CO 80020 (303-465-0262). Bits and Pieces is a benefit of mem-bership in Front Range Contempo-rary Quilters and is not available by subscription. Membership in FRCQ is $30 per year, due and payable January 1 of each year. Dues may be sent to membership chair. Terise Harrington, 2014 E. Stratford Ct., Highlands Ranch, CO 80126 Change of Address: Please notify membership chair, Ter-ise Harrington, for any change of address . (303-791-2124) [email protected] Advertising Policy: Classes offered by members are printed for free in the section called “Member Classes”; business cards of members or businesses with services of interest to our members are printed for $5 per issue; ¼ page, $20.00 per issue; ½ page, $40.00 per issue; full page, $80.00 per issue. All advertis-ing should be submitted along with payment to the newsletter editor by the deadline. 2007-2009 Board Members President: Greg Katz 720-851-6736 ~ [email protected] Secretary: Mary Marchand Treasurer: Deidre Adams Members: Terise Harrington Exhibits: Melody Randol Programs: Marcia Christopher Workshops: Faye Anderson Newsletter: Kathy Keating Other Contacts Web site: Kathy Keating Newcomers: Carol Ann Waugh Martha Dyckes Yahoo List: Jeanne Lounsbury

President’s Letter by Greg Katz

“Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridi-culed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self-evident.”

-Arthur Schopenhauer This is the second version of this month’s President’s message. I had written the first one and following the Newcomers meeting last night decided to create with a begin-ner’s mind. There was some discussion about the article written by Melody Randol in the February newsletter. It’s interesting because the article is simply reflecting back to the membership the information the board has been absorbing. FRCQ is celebrating its twentieth anniversary. If you look at our history, the photo-graphs from years of show-and-tell, the publications on the newsstands, you’ll know that everything changes with time. When Melody sent me her article “Who are we now?” to review prior to its publication I was ecstatic because I believe for any pro-gress to ever be made the issues need to be discussed. I’m not sure why we’re so afraid of discussing change? I don’t know for sure but I can’t believe the founding mothers would have wanted a static organization. What I can tell you about static organizations is that they die. When there is no new energy introduced the system feeds on itself until there is nothing left for sustenance. As you can tell I’m not afraid of change. I love moving from the “what if” and trans-lating it to “what next”. I can’t thing of an organization that has been primed for change more than FRCQ. We’ve been the leader in the medium for years. You have put us on the map with your exhibitions, your national and international teaching, and the publications you headline. I can’t believe you would want the organization to col-lapse because we didn’t embrace change. I understand that new can be scary. I also know that we can’t be all things to all peo-ple. I don’t have all the answers, but I do know that without engaging in a dialogue we’ll never know the true potential of the organization. As Melody stated in the arti-cle, if you are interested in being an active part of the dialogue then you have to let me know. Don’t sit on the sideline and complain. Let me take a moment to punctuate that we are not going to change anything without a thorough process. We will engage the services of a professional facilitator who will help us explore our next steps as an organization. It’s imperative that a facilitator helps us sort through the issues because we are too close and emotionally involved. Having a fresh pair of eyes will help us clear the muck, smoke out the concerns and help us map a course for the future. Whatever changes we make whether it be the logo, the name of the organization, how and where we exhibit; it’s all in honor of the founding mothers who had a vision. We’ve passed the adolescent stage of organizational development and we’re starting our adult years. This is our opportunity to expand what’s possible because we have the knowledge, the talent and the resources to continue a legacy that is near and dear to my own heart. I hope you’ll take this journey with me… Greg

Greg Katz, FRCQ President www.gregkatz.com


Member News

The March ’08 issue of Machine Quilting Unlimited, highlights three FRCQ artists: Gwen Hatchette, Kit Robinson and Mary McCauley. Gwen’s painted silk piece, Fantasy Silk Garden, is the cover quilt and she is interviewed by publisher Vicki Anderson. Kit’s article traces her journeys in art quilting and features four of her quilts, including her latest piece, Goddess of High Main-tenance. Mary McCauley’s piece, Mesa Spirit Tree: Moon Dancing, is the full page Jaw Dropper. Kate Cox has won Best Use of Color for Ebb & Flow at the Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival XIX. Kelly Gallagher-Abbott’s ongoing series on ‘AutoSketch9® for Quilters; Designing Quilting Patterns and Motifs can be seen in the last 4 issues of Unlimited Possibilities, published by Meander Publishing. Kelly’s quilt, Dragonfly, is on the cover of the January edition and several more of her quilts are featured along with an interview by publisher Vicki Anderson. Kelly has also recently written a self published book, AutoSketch9® Demystified: Using Auto Sketch for Designing and Quilting Patterns for your Statler Stitcher®. March 22 - May 18, 2008, Don't Fence Me In: Contem-porary Quilts from the Piecemakers, Longmont Museum and Cultural Center, 400 Quail Rd, Longmont, 303 651 8374. March 21, 7-9pm opening reception. Kelly Gallagher-Abbott has been the curator of the Hoffman Challenge® for the past several years. To com-memorate the 21st birthday of the Hoffman Challenge®, she has written articles on the Challenge, which are pub-lished in the March ’08 edition of AQS, the Premier issue of MQU, and the Jan/Feb issue of Piecework. Over the Moon Ovations invites you to hear Carol Wat-kins, "An Art Quilter Speaks: Piecing together my art and my life", Boulder Public Library, April 26, 3-5pm in the Canyon Auditorium. Kit Robinson has a quilt featured in the March ’08 edi-tion of UPM and her art quilt, Corner Musicians, is the Jaw Dropper for the Premier issue of MQU.’ Carol Ann Waugh's quilt "Let the Sunshine In" has been juried into the "Up in Stitches" exhibit sponsored by the Yeiser Art Center in Paducah, KY. The show will run from March 8 - May 3, 2008.

Member Classes

Patty Hawkins, teaching a one day class (9 to 5) Satur-day, March 29, @ the LONGMONT MUSEUM, in con-junction with the DON'T FENCE ME IN art quilt exhibi-tion, COLLAGE, the ESSENCE (Haiku) of WESTERN LANDSCAPES! $50. fee, all levels. No machine. Carol Watkins has spring classes beginning March 1st. To see the schedule and register for classes go to www.CarolWatkins.com.

Carol Waugh's "Six Degrees of Separation" has been juried into New Fibers 2008. The show will be hung at the University Art Gallery in Ypsilanti, MI from May 9 through June 12th. The show then travels to the Wil-liam Bonifas Fine Art Center in Escanaba, MI from June 26 through July 24th. A full color catalog showing the pieces in the show will be published.

All FRCQ members are encouraged to submit your new FRCQ logo ideas to the FRCQ Logo Contest in celebra-tion of our 20th Anniversary! The logo image file should not exceed 1MB. 300 dpi resolution is preferred, but not required. The logo must be submitted in one of the following file formats: .png, .gif, and .jpg. Your submission must be totally and entirely origi-nal. No copyrighted material can be used; it must be your original design. The winning logo designer will receive: • A free membership for 2009 (value $30) • A gift certificate for $100 to your favorite art supply,

quilt or other creative outlet source • A two month spotlight on the homepage of the

FRCQ website showcasing you and your design By submitting an entry, you are granting Front Range Contemporary Quilters (FRCQ) full ownership and copy-rights of the image(s). FRCQ reserves the right to alter the logo’s color and size to fit various applications. Your submission must be emailed by March 31, 2008 to Kathy Keating at [email protected] to be consid-ered. Voting will be held at the May meeting.

FRCQ Logo Contest


FRCQ 2008 Exhibit Registration ***Please read all the fine print.***

SPECIFICATIONS • Each quilt must have at least 2 layers held together by hand or ma‐

chine quilting, embroidery, tying, etc. • Diptychs, triptychs, framed, mounted, and 3‐dimensional works may

be submitted. Glass is prohibited. • The vertical dimension of any work must be more than 18” and less

than 72”. • The horizontal dimension must be more than 18” but has no maxi‐

mum size restriction. • The work must be original and the result of independent or group

effort. All entrants must be FRCQ members. • All work must be completed within the last three years. • Work submitted CANNOT have previously been displayed in any

FRCQ exhibition. • Each quilt must have a 4” top hanging sleeve or other sufficient

means necessary for work to be hung on a wall. • All work will be wall hung. Labeled hanging slats are to be provided

by the artist. • Artist name and contact information must be permanently attached

to back of work. • Quilt must be clean, in good condition, and delivered in a labeled

cloth bag. • Accepted work will be insured for 60% of the sale price only while in

Sangre de Cristo Arts Center. • Work may or may not be for sale. Sangre de Cristo Arts Center will

handle all sales and retain a 40% commission. • All work must be displayed for the duration of the exhibit. • Failure to meet the above conditions will disqualify the entrant. FEES & ELIGIBILITY Entrants may submit up to three entries and must be FRCQ members. Please submit diptychs and triptychs as one entry. The $25 entry fee is non‐refundable. HOW TO ENTER Please mail entry to Melody Randol, 427 Clubhouse Court, Loveland, CO 80537. Entries must be postmarked no later than 15 JULY 2008, and include:

Completed entry form with signature CD with images $25 check or money order payable to FRCQ

All entries must include digital images in JPEG (.jpg) format on CD‐ROM (which will not be returned). Submit 1 full and 1 detail image for each entry. Each image must be a MINIMUM of 1800 pixels on the longest side for jurying. However, note that the Sangre de Cristo Arts Center will need some larger images for printed publicity. If you have larger images, up to 3000 pixels, use them for your submission so they can be considered for this purpose. Image file names must consist of your last name, the title of the quilt, and whether it is a full or detail image, separated by underscores, for each submission (e.g., lastname_title_full.jpg, lastname_title_detail.jpg). Label your CD with your full name and the titles of each entry. NOTE: All communication for “Altered Threads” (including notification of acceptance) will be done via email. For clarification or more information, please contact Melody Randol, [email protected], FRCQ Exhibits Chair.

Altered Threads Works by FRONT RANGE CONTEMPORARY QUILTERS

Hosted by SANGRE DE CRISTO ARTS CENTER

PUEBLO, COLORADO NOV 1, 2008 – JAN 17, 2009

Artist’s Name____________________________________________ Address_________________________________________________ City/State/Zip____________________________________________ Phone (H)_____________________(W)_______________________ e‐mail__________________________________________________ Entry #1. Title____________________________________________ Year completed 2005 2006 2007 2008 Dimensions: W_______________H___________________ Sale Price _______________________________________ Materials and Methods____________________________________ _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ Entry #2. Title____________________________________________ Year completed 2005 2006 2007 2008 Dimensions: W_______________H___________________ Sale Price _______________________________________ Materials and Methods_____________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ Entry #3. Title____________________________________________ Year completed 2005 2006 2007 2008 Dimensions: W_______________H___________________ Sale Price _______________________________________ Materials and Methods_____________________________________ ________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ TIMELINE

I wish to enter the above items in “Altered Threads” and agree to abide by the stated rules and decision of the juror. I grant FRCQ and Sangre de Cristo Arts Center permission to copy and use photographic images of my work in the publicity and promotion of FRCQ and SDAC and their activities. Signature________________________________________________ Date____________________________________________________

15 JUL 2008 Last day for entry postmark

25 AUG 2008 Notification sent to artists

15 SEP 2008 Exhibit pieces collected at FRCQ meeting

1 NOV 08—17 JAN 09 Exhibit open to public

19 JAN 2009 Exhibit pieces returned at FRCQ meeting


April 21, 2008 Greg Katz www.lifeisapilgrimage.com Becoming An Artist From The Inside Out

June 16, 2008 Lloyd Rich www.publishingattorney.com What's Mine, What's Yours, and How to Tell the Difference

August 18, 2008 Jo Fitsell www.jofitsell.com/test Being Authentic: A Rocky Road but Worth the Effort

Newcomer’s Schedule

Seeing Nature: Creating Art A talk by Carol Watkins to the Newcomers Group

It is not just seeing nature, but feeling it, hearing it, touching it, experiencing it in all its many facets that drives the art of Carol Watkins. Whether it be a columbine in bloom, a twisted limb on a skeletal tree, an array of rosehips or a quiet pond frozen over in mid-winter, Carol brings her warmth of feelings for the out-of-doors to her work and helps us all make connections that are meaningful and poignant. She begins with photographs, many, many photographs of nature from vistas to close ups, finding tremendous variety in the textures, colors and composition of the natural world. She manipulates these in magical ways to superimpose bloom-ing sunflowers in front of an old blacksmith’s shop or to add Christmas balls to a field of stones. Her imagination is boundless. The photographic images then become the backbone of her flowing thread work. She builds up textures and colors over the fabric, softening the images, but sharpening their thoughtful, subtle messages. The results are calming and beautiful, passionate and perceptive. The Newcomers were thrilled to hear Carol speak of her work and to gain insights into her creative process. A self-taught artist, Carol shows us all that art springs from the capacity to view with world with wonder and openness.

February Newcomer’s Program Review by Martha Dyckes


Alison Schwabe Workshop — May 24-25, 2008

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Currently living in Uruguay, Alison Schwabe was born in Aus‐tralia in 1946. She has lived in many parts of Australia’s Out‐back and several cities, and has spent 6 years in United States of America. Living in the USA in the late 1980’s Alison came into contact with quilt making and learned the traditional piec‐ing and construction skills. Known as ‘quilts’, in many of parts of the world such quilted textiles traditionally function as bed coverings. From her contact with this traditional craft form comes the presence of grids and repeated design units in most of Alison’s quilts, which are intended for hanging on walls as do the more familiar woven ‘tapices’. Alison’s current textile works are non‐traditional forms of the traditional English and north American crafts of patchwork and quilting. Textures and shapes of landscape have always inspired her work, but she is now more interested in the shaping forces of nature operating on landscape, the process and results ap‐pearing as a metaphor for Life. In addition to exhibiting, she writes magazine articles on con‐temporary quilting, lectures and teaches workshops, and un‐dertakes commission work. In this workshop, Alison will teach the techniques and proc‐esses involved in creating her textile art. Students will use very simple traditional patterns or build their own designs. Learn‐ing will be through sample making. Please visit Alison's website, alisonschwabe.com, to view de‐tails about the workshop and review her impressive resume.

Alison Schwabe Workshop Quilting with an Attitude

Saturday May 24, 9:30am‐4:30pm Sunday May 25, 1pm‐5pm

Longmont Museum 400 Quail Rd

Longmont CO 80501

Please review current Workshop Registration Policies in your FRCQ Membership Directory.

Please PRINT and include all information requested:

Name_____________________________________________ Address___________________________________________ City_____________________ State_______ Zip__________ Phone ___________________ E‐mail____________________________________________

Workshop 1.5‐Day Tuition $75.00 Tuition checks must accompany your registration.

__I have enclosed my tuition check for $75.00 payable to FRCQ __I am a current FRCQ Member __I am not a current FRCQ Member and I enclosed my check for $30.00 payable to FRCQ for membership dues.

Mail registration by standard U.S. mail to : Marcia Christopher 2947 Little Valley Rd Estes Park CO 80517 ([email protected])


Deconstructed Screen Printing Kerr Grabowski, 2007 (DVD)

If you missed the FRCQ workshop with Kerr Grabowski two years ago, here is your chance to learn screen printing with thickened dye and how to create the wonderful organic designs she is known for. For those of you who don’t know the process, Kerr uses thickened dye instead of paint on her screens, first creating a texture on the back of the screen with dye paste and any item that will leave an imprint. When dry, the imprint will slowly deteriorate with each pull of clear or colored dye across the front of the screen, leaving behind ever-changing marks. The dye on screens is easily washed out, as opposed to paint, which must be washed out before it dries.

This comprehensive and well organized two-disk DVD set runs 3 ½ hours. The first disk guides you through making your own screens, how to choose the necessary other tools, how to make thickened dye, how to finish your fabric (or paper), and work with all the chemicals needed to create colorful cloth. This disk really demystifies the screen printing process.

The second disk handles the creative aspects of Kerr’s outstanding work and demonstrates soy wax as a resist on your silk screen, how to create a variety of textures using almost anything: craft paper, leaves, stencils, rug mats, twine, even a rubber glove. She shows how to use a syringe-type extruder to write or paint dye onto the screen, ways to paint on thickened dye with a brush, and a variety of other techniques. There are two galleries of Grabowski’s creations and some samples from her students, all of which are stunning.

Grabowski is a delightful teacher and in the four-day workshop we had a lot of fun, including painting a portrait of neighbor with the extruder. The disk is equally lively, often amusing, and you can easily go back to a specific chapter to review techniques. Also included with the set is a small booklet detailing chemical recipes, dyeing and printing terms, along with places to buy materials. My only criticism of the DVD set is that Kerr frequently looks at a monitor positioned just below the camera throughout the demonstrations, which is a bit disconcerting since she is not looking at you. But you learn so much about this captivating process watching the DVDs, I think you can easily overlook this weakness.

This is a fun and fairly easy technique to add to your arsenal. Buy the DVD set directly from Kerr Grabowski, www.kerrgrabowski.com. It is also available from www.dharmatrading.com.

Book Review by Carolyn Anderson

Anne McKenzie Nickolson www.annemckenzienickolson.com Workshop: Appliqué and Reverse Appliqué March 18, 19, 20, 2008 Location: TACtile Textile Arts Center, Denver Alison Schwabe www.alisonschwabe.com Workshop: Quilting with an Attitude May 24-25, 2008 Location: Longmont Museum, Longmont Nita Leland www.nitaleland.com Workshop: Creative Color and Design for Quilters July 22, 23, 24, 2008 Location: First Plymouth Church, Denver

Workshop Schedule

Cas Holmes www.casholmes.textilearts.net Workshop: Beyond the Surface, Paper, Textiles and Mixed Media September 19, 20 and 21, 2008 Location: High Peaks Camp, Estes Park

DON’T MISS OUT! There is still space available in the March 18‐20

Anne McKenzie Nickolson workshop “A New Look at Applique and Reverse Applique”

at TACtile Textile Arts Center, Denver

Complete description in the January or February Newsletters or contact Faye Anderson at

[email protected] or 303‐581‐0366

If you are from out‐of‐town FRCQ member’s have offered lodging in their homes near the workshop.

As you’ve no doubt heard by now, jurying for the upcoming Front Range show at the Sangre de Cristo Arts Center in Pueblo will be done with digital images instead of slides. For many of you, this is great news and long overdue. If you’ve never done a digital submission, though, you might be wondering what to do. This article will cover some basic aspects of digital imaging.

Image File Management First of all, you must have a basic familiarity with your computer and know how to move images back and forth from the computer to a CD and vice versa. Depending on your particular computer setup, there are many different ways to do this, and comprehensive coverage of computer basics is beyond the scope of this discussion. If you don’t know how to move files around, you will be better off asking your photographer to give you files saved to the specifications for the show and burn them to a CD for you.

Many of us have some kind of photo organizing software that wants to capture images right away when you connect your digital camera or insert a CD or memory card. On the Mac, it is usually iPhoto, and on the PC, it can be any number of things. For organizing your family photos, these can be very helpful, but for managing your digital submissions, it is much easier to bypass this functionality and manually copy the images to a designated folder on your machine.

Photography You’ve heard this many times before, but it cannot be overemphasized: Have your work professionally photographed. Unless you’ve invested in a really good camera, a good setup for hanging and lighting the quilt, and hours upon hours learning about photography, white balance, and color correction, you probably are not going to end up with an image that shows your work to its best advantage if you try to do it yourself. You’ve probably also heard that many great quilts are rejected from shows because of poor photography. This is not an urban legend — the photography really is critical.

I will also add that your photographer should by now be shooting digital. Some people lament the passing of slides, say-ing that slides were a more accurate representation of the original image. But in my work as a graphic designer on publi-cations featuring art quilts, I have seen literally thousands of photographs of quilts, and I will state unequivocally that a professional-caliber high-resolution digital image beats a scan of a slide every time. Even the best quality scan of a slide can only hold so much detail, because a slide is a tiny piece of film: only 1 x 1.5 inches. Plus, if you take your slide to a quick-turn photo processing service that charges $1.49 for a scan, it will be done by a machine that doesn’t analyze the tone and contrast of the film, thus greatly compounding the problem and guaranteeing that you’ll end up with a flat, grainy scan.

Submission Specifications Now, let’s say you’ve gone to your photographer, come back with your CD of images, and copied them to the designated folder on your computer. Now it’s time to read the specifications for the particular submission you’re entering and pre-pare the images accordingly.

Here are the specifications for the Sangre de Cristo show:

All entries must include digital images in JPEG (.jpg) format on CD-ROM (which will not be returned). Submit 1 full and 1 detail image for each entry. Each image must be a MINIMUM of 1800 pixels on the longest side for jurying. However, note that the Sangre de Cristo Arts Center will need some larger images for printed publicity. If you have larger images, up to 3000 pixels, use them for your submission so they can be considered for this purpose.

Image file names must consist of your last name, the title of the quilt, and whether it is a full or detail image, separated by underscores, for each submission.

Examples: lastname_title_full.jpg lastname_title_detail.jpg

Label your CD with your full name and the titles of each entry.

So you see that your image needs to be a minimum of 1800 pixels on the longest side. This is the information you are looking for to tell you what the resolution of your image needs to be.

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Preparing Your Digital Submission (Part 1) by Deidre Adams


Image Resolution There are many ways to determine the resolution of your digital im-age. On Windows XP, go to Start > My pictures. You will see a window that looks like the image to the right. If your window isn’t showing thumbnails like this, choose Tiles from the pop-up menu on the right as shown. In this example, the resolution of the circled image is 800 x 600 pixels. You can see that the dimension of the longest side is 800, which is less than the 1800 pixels required for our digital submission. This will not work, so you would need to go back to the photographer and get a higher resolution image at this point. Another way to determine resolution in Windows is to locate the file in Windows Explorer (NOT Internet Explorer), right-click the file-name, choose Properties, go to the Summary tab, and click the Ad-vanced button. The pixels dimensions will appear in the Advanced window. If you are using Mac OS X, you can locate the image in a Finder win-dow as shown on the image to the right. When you click on the file name in column view (see the circled icon near the top of the illustra-tion) the dimensions are shown at the bottom of the info column. In this case, the image is 1920 pixels on both sides, so it will work for the submission specifications. If you have Photoshop or Photoshop Elements, you can change the resolution of your image. The next article in this series will discuss this in further detail, but for now, just know this: You can decrease the resolution without fear of noticeable degradation of your image. (NOTE: Do this only after making a copy. Treat your original as a master file, never to be touched.) Unless you really know what you are doing, though, NEVER use software to increase the resolution of your image. Doing so will result in blurriness and/or stairstepped “jaggies” on diagonal and curved edges. Instead, have the quilt re-photographed at high resolution. In the case of the Sangre de Cristo exhibition, we have a minimum of 1800 pixels on the longest side, so if your im-age meets that minimum, you’re good to go. (If the resolution of your image is higher, go ahead and send it — your image might then be considered for the printed promotional materials for the show.) Give the file a name as de-scribed in the specifications on the preceding page. Be sure to include one full view and one detail for each submission. If you are submitting 3 quilts, that means a total of 6 images. When all the images are ready, burn them to a CD, label the CD with your name and the titles of your quilts, and you are ready to go on to filling out the entry form and completing your submission.

Preparing Your Digital Submission (Continued)

Windows Image Resolution

Mac Image Resolution


• Kate Adams • Sharon Barnes • Melody Brooks • Ruth Chandler • Carolyn Fineran

FRCQ Welcomes the following New Members!

• Kelly Gallagher-Abbott • Indrani Gunawardana • Veronika Krejci • Sue Macaskill • Kathy Mitchell • Lee Morrow

• Cindy Mueller • Pamela Thiele • Heather Thomas • Dianna VanderDoes • Ruth Walcoff


“Lynda MH Faires” While many of us strive to become "Renaissance" women, combining traditional roles for women with contemporary opportunities and challenges, Lynda seems to epitomize the best of both worlds. She grew up amidst several talented seam-stresses including great-aunts who were quilters and her grandmother who taught her to sew. She also had a keen talent for academics and completed a Ph.D. in Chemistry and worked for several years as a research chemist. While her daughter was growing up she made her own and her daughter's clothing. When her daugh-ter grew up, Lynda thought she was probably done with sewing, but a couple of boxes of fabric and notions seemed to keep following her around. When her grandmother died in 1988, she inherited some furniture and a set of Vic-torian crazy quilt blocks made by her great grandmother, and those blocks began to work a kind of "voodoo" sewing magic. She started sewing more and more and was taking longer and longer lunches to check out the fabric stores. In the course of looking for fabric, she found herself in the midst of a "hotbed of contemporary fabric art" in Boulder, joined FRCQ in 1990, and was inspired by the "founding mothers" of FRCQ to start making art quilts. Although she enjoyed a very successful career as a Research Chemist for the US Geological Services, she found her passion for fabric and sewing kept growing. It was an adjustment to leave the man's world of science and blend into the primarily woman's world of quilting, but she's found a great love in being part of a supportive group of women who are all pursing their passions for art and fabric. She describes her return to sewing as a "coming home kind of feeling" and feels that "because I grew up sewing, it had a sense of deep familiarity." Along with her Buddhist practice, both her sewing passions and the support of FRCQ and Piecemakers have sus-tained and helped her keep balanced through difficult life events in the last few years. Lynda is the primary caretaker for her husband, a world-renowned physicist, who was diagnosed with Alzheimer's in 2000. She also lost her own mother less than a year ago. Despite these challenges, she has continued her love of travel, journeying to India last year. Lynda has received numerous awards and honors, but notes that being an invited teacher for 10 of the last 12 years at the Houston Quilt Festival has been one of her favorites. With her scientific knack for understanding machinery, she helps her students overcome their fears. She specializes in teaching improvisational patchwork and various creative machine stitchery skills. She's thoughtful as a teacher, noting that "I really try to teach people self-confidence, both in their technical ability and in their own innate creativity." She describes her own work as highly improvisational: "I

don't know what the whole thing is going to look like before I start, even though the work itself may be highly structured". Lynda has also been invited for the 5th year to create an art-fashion ensemble for the Bernina Fashion Show which premiers every year at the fall Houston Quilt Market and then travels for two years. Lynda notes, "I love doing that show…it gives me the structure to carry out such a complex and time-consuming project." The garment ensembles she has made are unique creations, exquisitely tailored, and highly evocative for the viewer. Seeing a garment ensemble close up trans-ports you to another time, place, or culture - perhaps a Medieval hall for a sumptu-ous celebration or a Tibetan mountain trail with gaily fluttering flags. You can see Lynda's work in the "Don't Fence Me In" exhibit, opening March 21 at the Longmont Museum or on her website: www.lyndafaires.com. You'll also be

able to see this quilt (Magic Isosceles Triangles) in an upcoming issue of Fons and Porter's, Love of Quilting.

Artist Profile by Susan Hazaleus


March 7, 2008 2009 Quilting Arts Calendar Contest “Celebrating Home” www.quiltingarts.com March 7, 2008 “Transforming the Elements” Artisan’s Center of Virginia Waynesboro, VA www.artisanscenterofvirginia.org March 14, 2008 “The Festival Gallery of Quilt Art: Town and Country” Houston, Chicago, and Long Beach Interna-tional Quilt Festivals 2008 www.quilts.com March 15, 2008 “PASTE-UP 2008” Ayer Lofts Gallery Lowell, Massachusetts www.paste-up.com March 15, 2008 “International Fiber Collaborative” Syracuse, NY www.internationalfibercollaborative.com March 15, 2008 “Bend, Fold, Manipulate” ACA Gallery, Toronto, Canada www.acagallery.com March 27, 2008 “The Silver Screen” International Quilt Festival/Long Beach Long Beach, California www.quilts.com March 27, 2008 “Surf’s Up” International Quilt Festival/Long Beach Long Beach, California www.quilts.com March 27, 2008 “West Coast Wonders” International Quilt Festival/Long Beach Long Beach, California www.quilts.com March 31, 2008 “Direct Art Competition: Volume 15” Fall 2008 Magazine Distributed by Barnes and Noble and Borders Nationally, www.slowart.com

Exhibit Opportunities by Christi Beckmann

April 1, 2008 “FUSION: A Compilation of Colorado Fiber Arts” Fremont Center for the Arts Canon City, Colorado www.fremontarts.org April 30, 2008 “ART QUILTS LOWELL 2008” Brush Art Gallery Lowell, Massachusetts www.thebrush.org May 9, 2008 “The Sky’s the Limit” Houston, Chicago, and Long Beach In-ternational Quilt Festivals www.quilts.com May 30, 2008-SAQA MEMBERS ONLY “A Sense of Time” International Quilt Festival Houston, Texas www.SAQA.com June 6, 2008 “THREADLINES 2008” Missouri State University Art and De-sign Gallery Kansas City, Missouri http://uncommthreads.org/blog/threadlines-exhibition/ June 15, 2008 “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” Altered Esthetics Gallery Minneapolis, Minnesota www.alteredesthetics.org June 20, 2008 “4TH Annual Fiber art Exhibit” Santa Cruz Art League Santa Cruz, California www.scal.org July 1, 2008 “Fiber Arts Celebration 2008” Escondido Arts Partnership Escondido, CA www.escondidoarts.org July 4, 2008 “Freedom: The Fiber of Our Nation” The Textile Center Minneapolis, Minnesota www.textilecentermn.org

July15, 2008 “Animal Art II-Critical Habitat” Altered Esthetics Gallery Minneapolis, Minnesota www.alteredesthetics.org August 15, 2008 “Tales From the Black Lodge” Altered Estheticds Gallery Minneapolis, Minnesota www.alteredesthetics.org August 30, 2008 “Breaking Traditions 2008” American Sewing Expo Novi, MI www.fibraartysta.com September 5, 2008 “Quilt National ‘09” Dairy Barn Arts Center Athens, Ohio www.quiltnational.com September 12, 2008 “Sacred Space” Nativity Episcopal Church Bloomfield Township, MI www.sacredspaceartquiltexhibit.com March 2008 (solo exhibition opportunity) NCAR COMMUNITY ART PRO-GRAM National Center for Atmospheric Re-search Boulder, CO www.ucar.edu/outreach/art_gallery/calendar.html MULTIPLE DEADLINES (publication) ALTERED COUTURE Belle Armoire and Somerset Studio www.stampington.com (publication) SEW SOMERSET Somerset Studio www.stampington.com (Exibition opportunity) ART IN EMBASSIES PROGRAM www.aiep.state.gov


Natural Dye Studio

6339 Niwot Road 303‐530‐0193

Moving Sale

Friday, March 14 Saturday, March 15

8 AM – 2 PM

Natural dyes, textile paints, fabric Cranbrook 48” double beam loom, fiber, remnants, yard goods, quilter fat quarters,

scraps, big padded tables, artistic tools, wood blocks, dye pots, books, magazines, inspiring objects and surface design tools.

Silk scarves, Peace Flags, Wall Art.

Great Prices! Great Fun!

American Craft Council: www.craftcouncil.org

Colorado Quilting Council: www.coloradoquiltcouncil.com

Handweavers Guild of America, Inc.: www.weavespindye.org

Handweavers Guild of Boulder: www.handweaversofboulder.org

National Quilting Association: www.nqaquilts.org

Quilt Colorado: www.QuiltColorado.com

Rocky Mountain Creative Quilters: www.r-m-c-q.org

Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum: www.rmqm.org

Silk Painters International: www.silkpainters.org

Studio Art Quilt Associates: www.saqa.com

Surface Design Association: www.surfacedesign.org

The Appliqué Society: P.O. Box 89, Sequim, WA 98382

American Craft: www.craftcouncil.com

Art Calendar: www.ArtCalendar.com

Artforum: (no website)

Artnews: www.artnews.com

Belle Armoire: www.bellearmoire.com

FiberArts: www.fiberartsmagazine.com

Ornament: (no website)

Quilters Newsletter: www.quiltersnewsletter.com

Quilting Arts: www.quiltingartsllc.com

Selvedge: www.selvedge.org

Shuttle, Spindle & Dyepot: www.weavespindye.org

Surface Design: www.surfacedesign.org

Organizations of Interest Periodicals of Interest

Mark your calendars March 17 — Program Meeting Anne McKenzie Nickolson Speaking “Combining New Technology with Traditional Processes”

April 21 — Newcomer’s Meeting Greg Katz “Becoming An Artist From The Inside Out” May 19 — Program Meeting Alison Schwabe speaking "Everything Old is New Again” June 16 — Newcomer’s Meeting Lloyd Rich speaking “What's Mine, What's Yours, and How to Tell the Difference” July 21 — Program Meeting Nita Leland speaking August 18—Newcomer’s Meeting Jo Fitsell speaking “Being Authentic: A Rocky Road but Worth the Effort” September 15 — Program Meeting Cas Holmes speaking “Beyond the Surface” General Meetings @ Westminster City Recreation Center—7:00 PM

Newcomers Meetings @ College Hill Library—7:00 PM Note: If an FRCQ meeting is cancelled for any reason, a notice will be posted on the website at www.artquilters.org.

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