The Challenge Quilts are being offered on eBay. Please see below for details.

Fifteen talented quilt/fiber artists agreed to participate in the Museum’s Capital Campaign “Innovation/ Restoration” Quilt Challenge, and the stunning results are the works of art you see here. 100% of the funds raised through sale of these pieces will benefit the restoration.

All the remaining quilts are being offered on eBay, at the Museum’s eBay page.  The quilts may also be purchased through the Museum Store and are currently on display at the Museum.

We thank the following artists for taking part in the Innovation/Restoration Challenge:  Thom Atkins, Jo Baner, Teri Bever, Opal Cocke & Amy Cowan, Karin Franzen, Anne Gillihan, Sonia Grasvik, Geoff Hamada, Louise Harris, Trisha Hassler, Luke Haynes, Marjorie Horton, Vivian Kapusta, Helen Remick, and Lorraine Torrence.

Photos by Mary Cairns Photography.

Please select a thumbnail below to see a larger view, details, the back of the piece, title and artist label, and pricing . . .

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The Restoration of the La Conner Quilt Museum SOLD

by Thom Atkins

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Rising from the Ashes…       SOLD

by Jo Baner

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Leftovers       SOLD

by Teri Bever

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Layered…From the Ground Up   SOLD

by Opal Cocke & Amy Cowan

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Still Life with Tulle

by Karin Franzen. Click on this photo for more photos and to read more…

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Fragment

by Anne Gillihan

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Brown Round-A-Bout       SOLD

by Sonia Grasvik

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by Geoff Hamada

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Floral Maze

by Louise Harris

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I Thought You Had the Key   SOLD

by Trisha Hassler

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Untitled

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Untitled    SOLD

by Majorie Horton

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Renovation Project Manager    SOLD

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Starburst (Yoyo 12)

by Helen Remick

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Reconstruction I

by Lorraine Torrence

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Bring show & tell, projects to work on, an Ott light if you need one (+ extension cord), and your lunch.

At left, is a close-up of one of the crazy quilts in our permanent collection, a full image appears below.

To read about this quilt, click here.

At right is an appliqué quilt from our permanent collection. Liberty in America, by Ruth Carol Coombe was the Washington State winner in The Great American Quilt Festival, sponsored by the Museum of American Folk Art in celebration of the Statue of Liberty Centennial.

Photo by Kathleen Kok.

Presented by the La Conner Quilt &Textile Museum; hosted by the Museum of Northwest Art on Saturday, February 25 at 6pm. This event will be located at 121 First Street, La Conner WA. We will be serving light hors d’oeuvres and refreshments. Please call the La Conner Quilt & Textile Museum to make a reservation at 360-466-4288.

$5.00; free for members of La Conner Quilt & Textile Museum and the Museum of Northwest Art.

Included in the lecture are:  preparing for the journey west, friendship quilts, utilitarian quilts, new patterns from the trail, and fabric diaries from the trail. Excerpts from diaries will document the fortitude and amazing spirit of pioneer quilters, including one woman who survived the trek west, settled in Oregon and during her lifetime completed 14 quilts and raised 9 children!

$12, includes admission to all Museum exhibits. $5 for members. 

At left, Friendship Quilt made in 1969.

Susan Olds:  Art historian, artist and curator with over twenty years of professional experience in the arts. Susan earned a B.A. in art history with honors from the University of California, Irvine. She attended graduate school at Cal State Long Beach where she continued her studies in art theory and contemporary art.  Susan’s teaching experience includes over twenty years of presenting art lectures in the Seattle region. An independent lecturer since 2004, Susan currently presents art and literature lectures and workshops through the King County Library System, Kitsap Public Libraries, the La Conner Quilt Museum, Eastside Fine Arts Association, Museo Art Academy and artEAST in Issaquah, Washington. Since 2008 Susan has been a member of the Up Front Gallery, an artist co-op in Issaquah where she teaches art workshops and exhibits her mixed media art.

Don’t miss this two-day trunk show of remarkable fabrics–for quilting, fashion, and home decor. A unique fundraiser for the La Conner Quilt & Textile Museum.

StashFest, a fundraising event for the La Conner Quilt & Textile Museum, has collected artisans and small companies with unique fabric offerings for a two-day sale on March 31 and April 1, 2012. Nine presenters have been chosen, by invitation, to bring their wares:

• Elin Noble, world-renowned dyer from Massachusetts, with her clamp-dyed cottons and colorful threads
• Lorraine Torrence, a favorite local quilting leader, with her international collection of fabrics, patterns and clothes
• Dean and Linda Moran, master dyers from Arizona, with a phenomenal collection of marbled fabrics
• Leah Weinstein, from British Columbia, with organic and naturally dyed cottons from TenFold Organic
• Patricia Belyea, an artisan quilter from Seattle, with her extensive collection of vintage Japanese yukata cottons
• Ellen Dooley, a bead artist from the Pilchuck area, with her lampwork glass beads for embellishing
• Margot Myers, a batik artist from Bellingham, with cotton yardage printed with her own copper stamps
• Beverly Hunnicutt, a Japanophile and tailor from Seattle, with a huge selection of vintage kimono silks
• Mayo Earnest, a quilter from Anacortes, Mayo is sharing her collection of artisanal Guatemalan cottons, including world-renowned ikat patterns

Hours:  Saturday are 11 - 5 and on Sunday, 11 - 4.

One hour before the show opens to the public, there will be a Preview Sale for 100 lucky shoppers. Tickets are $12 and the preview includes refreshments as well as a special door prize.

Please visit www.stashfest.com

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Museum Media Contact: Kathleen Kok, curator@laconnerquilts.com

Event contact: Patricia Belyea, patricia@stashfest.com

 Do the tulips and other flora of Washington inspire you? Here’s your chance to create a quilt or fiber art piece AND benefit the Museum! We invite you to create and contribute a small piece that will hang on the first floor from April 1-30, 2012.

Help us reach our grant match! These pieces will be priced at $200 or less and 100% of the proceeds from the sales of these works will go towards the Capital Campaign. This event will be promoted in the official Skagit Valley Tulip Festival Guide.

Please keep the piece at or below dimensions of 24” x 30” and add a 2” hanging sleeve when appropriate. Affix a permanent label on back of your work with the title and your name. Please include a note with your name, address, and phone number for our records.

We encourage you to be creative and experiment with a variety of fabrics, fibers, and textiles. You can help us quilt, knit, weave, stitch, cut, dye, and embellish our way to our grant match!

Call 360-466-4288 if you have any questions.

Shown above a quilt from our 2011 Challenge:   Tulips at the Window by Betty Kincaid

Just $15 for members and $18 for non-members.

• Non-Members:  $18.00  
• Current Members:  $15.00  

Admission to all exhibits is included.

To learn more about Carol and her work, visit www.caroltaylorquilts.com.

Do you love the look of those really skinny lines and curves, but don’t know how to make them? Now is your chance to learn.  Carol shares the secrets of piecing them, and you can make those practice blocks into a lovely wall quilt (41 x 36) full of those “sensuous lines and curves”!

We will start with piecing simple lines that you cut improvisationally on small pieces of fabric that will turn out to be 7 ½” blocks. The middle section of “sensuous lines and curves” is made by couching and becomes the centerpiece for the quilt. All of this is done with no pinning and a minimal amount of measuring to free you up and allows you to think outside of the box. You’ll also learn how to finish your quilts with facings instead of bindings.

You’ll be thrilled with the resulting small quilt, which you can do in any 4-5 basic colors you like. Check Carol Taylor’s website to see more quilts Carol has made using these same techniques in her Linear Series, and then come make your very own version.

$125;  One-Day Workshop;  includes lunch.

Register online or call the Museum at 360-466-4288 to register for this Workshop. Minimum 20 attendees.

Carol will also be teaching Arc-i-Textures on April 17. See more here…

The Best Western Cottontree Inn is offering a special rate to students of the Carol Taylor Workshops. Click here to see their rate flyer, CottonTree Inn.

For lodging in La Conner click here. 

Want to create a small (15 x 15) unique quilt of your very own and learn something about composition, textures, and circular quilting?  Then this is the class for you!  This is a chance to use some of those fancy and unusual fabrics that you’ve been attracted to, but didn’t know how to use. We will tame them by fusing, and learn to mix them with other textured looking fabrics. And you won’t need much of any one fabric…even scraps will do.

You’ll learn a bit about composition and how to balance it with both color and size.  You’ll learn about fusing and how to finish your quilts with facings as opposed to bindings. And Carol will also teach you how to quilt and couch those “perfect” circles that have almost become a trademark on her quilts. You’ll be thrilled with the resulting small quilt, which you can do in many different color schemes, and hang in your own home or give as a gift.  Visit Carol Taylor’s website to learn more about this dynamic quilt artist.

$125;  One-Day Workshop;  includes lunch.

Register online or call the Museum at 360-466-4288 to register for this Workshop. Minimum 20 attendees.

Carol is also teaching Sensuous Lines and Curves. Read more…

The Best Western Cottontree Inn is offering a special rate to students of the Carol Taylor Workshops. Click here to see their rate flyer, CottonTree Inn.

For lodging in La Conner click here.