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Design Notes
Volume 3, Issue 3 June 1, 2010 Feel like cruising?
Welcome Come with me to Alaska in Septem-
I’ve been spending a few spare minutes in the garden recently and ber 2010! We’ll be embarking from
Vancouver aboard the Holland
have loved rearranging plants, buying some new ones and trying to de-
America Zuiderdam and calling in at
cide where to put the vegetables for this summer. I’ve planted pota- Skagway, Ketchikan and Juneau as
toes for the first time in a long, long while. I put them along with toma- well as seeing the famous glaciers
toes and zucchini into some of my flower beds. I’ve been trying to work in Glacier Bay. Contact Sharon Sher
a little outside the box when it comes to planning the garden….why at Cruise Ship Centers 1-866-477-
can’t the beans and fuchsias live together? Who said lettuce couldn’t 4898. If you have questions about
be friends with daisies? I guess there might be self-styled gardening the workshops I’ll be offering, then
police just as there are those who think quilting has rules…………... email me at: info@susanpm.com

Next week I'm teaching Quilting Design at http://

www.quiltuniversity.com/ We'll be spending some time looking at design
sources and how we can be inspired by those designs around us. New Book

• Look at corners of rooms, places where there might be some picture

moldings, where there are joins of walls and floors.
• Look at the sidewalks downtown. We can see interesting manhole
covers, grating around trees and cement paths that have designs
stamped into them.
• Look around and find curves of interest, straight or crossing lines.
Think of repetition, pattern, sequence wherever it can happen.
• Pay particular attention to advertising in magazines and on billboards.
Take rubbings of windows, there is wonderful inspiration as close as your
local church or temple. Stained glass looks wonderful as a technique, but
think of the designs as quilting lines, too!
• Kid’s colouring books. Pick up a couple at the grocery store
• Post Cards. Who says you have to be on vacation to buy them?
• Sidewalks. Look down around you Here are bargello quilts like you've
• Your front door, the neighbor's front door never seen them before! Instead of
• Hub caps. They are neat, take a look streaking up and down, these 11
• Gift Wrap designs wave, twist, and curve to
• Birthday, seasonal and all purpose cards create beautiful shapes with incredi-
Scrapbooking has become popular and there are hundreds of different ble movement.
ideas for quilting designs. Consider using: I wanted to highlight this book as its
• different stamps (stamp a dark colour on paper and enlarge to the written by my dear friend Eileen
desired size) Wright who lives here on Vancouver
• precut border templates for tracing Island! She was a guest speaker at
• die cuts for gluing on pages (simple little motifs to enlarge) our local guild meeting and showed
• stickers for motif ideas her quilts from the book. They were
What other places could you find ideas for design? Send me in a picture truly amazing, such an uplift of col-
and I'll post them on my blog! You can register for the class anytime be- our and pattern. If you love Bargello,
fore June 12th. Just go to http://www.quiltuniversity.com/ this book is a must!
 Volume 3, Issue 3
Be a Group-
Group-ie!
Like many of you, I belong to several groups…..the quilters guilds in my
area, a regional fibre arts group and some national and international
On the Road Again!
associations. I support some of the groups because they offer educa- This year will be a busy one with travelling to
tional and networking opportunities, some because they are promote
different and interesting places….
quilting through publications and conferences.
Here’s a few that I promote quite actively because they offer so much If I’m in your area, please come and say hello. I
for all levels of quilters. Visit their websites or join their mailing lists and love to visit with friends!
see what might interest you:
June 3-5 Charlotte, NC North Carolina Quilt
Quilt Surface Design Symposium
Symposium
http://www.conniebloom.com/voice/
Quilt Art June 11-13 Victoria, BC Quilting in the Trees
http://quiltart.com/ August 4-5 Puyallup, WA Puyallup Valley
Find a Quilt Teacher Quilters
http://findaquiltteacher.com/
August 5-7 Bellevue, WA Block Party Quilters
Quilt Designers Yahoo Group
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/quiltdesigners/ September 11-18 Cruise to Alaska
Dyers List October 14-16 Atlanta, GA Georgia Quilt Show
https://list.emich.edu/mailman/listinfo/dyerslist
October 21-24 Toronto, ON Creativ Festival
Complex Cloth Yahoo Group
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/complexcloth/ November 16 Kitsap, WA Kitsap Quilters Guild

Put August on your calendar for the first Vancouver Island Surface And more for 2011….if you are interested in
Design Association Show in Ladysmith, BC. Email: my workshops, check them out at:
info@susanpm.com for details! http://www.susanpm.com

New Store!
I’ve started a new website to sell my textile
artist packs, thermofax screens ready for
printing and more. I think there are some
exciting products to tempt you.
Please check it out. If you order anything
and mention that you saw it in Design
Notes, I’ll add a special gift.
http://www.fabricimagery.com