Karen Bolan Online Presentation: Learn with Every Quilt
Friday, October 4th, 6:00pm-8:00pm
Free for CRS members
Zoom link is the regular virtual meeting link and was sent in the event announcement.

Every quilt is a learning experience. This lecture catalogs Karen’s quilting journey through the lessons learned from her quilts. View a gallery of original quilts while we take an entertaining stroll through her development as a modern quilter. While she learned some lessons from renowned teachers, others she learned the hard way! Get ready for a few laughs and a lot of good advice; whether you choose to follow is up to you.

Karen Bolan Online Workshop: Piece Curves & Play with Transparency
Saturday, October 5th, 9:00am–3:30pm
Zoom workshop
Registration Required

Are you intimidated by curves but love precision piecing? Start the Cool as a Cactus quilt in class, featuring pieced curves, a unique border treatment, and color palette that features transparency. Class will begin with an exercise in creating transparency effects, then we work from paper templates to accurately cut and piece large diameter curves. Learn to cut and precisely piece large-diameter curves from templates, assemble a quilt top with pieced borders, and plan a color palette that includes a transparency effect.

Students must purchase the digital pattern. https://www.karenbolan.com/shop/p/cool-as-a-cactus-quilt-pattern
Leave class with at least one block and border complete.
Workshop Supply List

Early bird registration is $45.
After September 14th, registration is $55. Nope. Still $45 for CRS members.

Limited to 16 attendees.

Registration is closed. This class has taken place.

Registration opens for nonmembers and other chapter members ($55) September 15th.

About our speaker:

Karen Bolan is a quilter in Santa Rosa, California. Drawn to the layers of design and expression possible in quilting, she loves the learning that comes from experimenting. She endeavors to find efficiencies in process and material use. Her designs are out of the box, and integrate a love of geometry, experimentation, interconnection, depth, and texture. Her work has been featured in magazines including Curated Quilts, Modern Quilt Guild Journal, Make Modern, and Modish Quilter, and her quilts have been exhibited at local and international quilt shows including Pacific International Quilt Festival and QuiltCon. You can learn more about Karen’s work by visiting her website at www.KarenBolan.com.