2016 Lectures and Trunk Show

Lecture One:

'She Designs In Her Nightgown and Sews In Her Barn'
The Evolution of tURNING TWENTy®

Duration: 60 - 90 minutes

Description:
A whimsical, but realistic, look into the day-to-day life of designer Tricia Cribbs,
aka The Queen of tURNING TWENTy®!

While tickling your funny bone, Tricia will show LOTS of her quilts and share the story of her quilting journey.  
As an added bonus, she will also share her stitchery designs.  
This lecture will keep the audience laughing and is always a big hit!

Because Tricia's designs go way beyond tURNING TWENTy®, we will bring along a huge Trunk Show!  
You might be surprised at the versatility of her designs.  
Most everything we show has a pattern available if you want to make it yourself!

Tricia's patterns, books, kits, and machine embroidery CDs will be available if you'd like to take something home.

If you want to stay a bit longer and share or ask questions, that's great with us!  
Tricia loves sharing thoughts and ideas with quilters everywhere we go!

Reviews:
Lots of energy and very inspiring. ~Kim

Enjoyed the lecture very much.  Always like to see lots of quilts and hints that help complete the project.  ~Nita

Lecture was so much fun.  Tricia is a great speaker.  I feel motivated to quilt again!  ~Lisa

Lecture was wonderful.  Tricia is so friendly, down to earth, and a great sense of humor.  Appreciate her and her husband bringing us so many quilts!  Thank you!  ~Chris

Great lecture - liked seeing lots of quilts.  Informal and chatty.  ~ Gloria

I really enjoyed it.  I'm glad I got to go.  It was light hearted and fun.  ~ Barbara Ann

It was a joy to hear Tricia speak and share her thoughts behind her patterns.  She is a delight!  It is amazing to see how she has grown in her talents.  ~ Gail

Tricia is warm, caring and funny.  Her quilts are beautiful!  ~Kathy

The lecture has been so inspiring.  Your description of "working in the barn" was so fun to listen to.  Your quilts are so beautiful and make me want to continue quilting and keep trying to make them more colorful.  I hope to watch if you do any more in this area so I can attend.  Thank you so much for a great weekend.  You have a great partner in Gary also.  ~ Maggi 

Loved seeing all the samples.  Lecture was casual and very enjoyable.  Would do again for sure!
~ Christine

Best presentation we've had all year! ~ Julie 

It was the best program we have had in a long time!  ~ DIanne

Thank you so much for being you.  Your family and all you shared was delightful.  Please don't change a thing about your lecture.  ~ J

What a delightful lecture.  Absolutely loved it!  Your qilts are beautiful and you are just charming.
~ Nancy

Really, really enjoy it - so much fun - made me want to go home and sew another TUrning Twenty!
~ Marie

You are so funny.  Love your presentation!  I came to the meeting tonight after just hearing you last week.  You are just as funny the 2nd time around!  ~ Anna

It was wonderful.  Very funny and entertaining.  ~ Lorraine

Enjoyed the family stories - made one feel right at home.  Thank you!!  ~ Sherry

Awesome speaker.  Brings audience with her on her journey through her quilting and business building.  Thoroughly enjoyed the lecture and your family.  ~ Lynne

Your program was so entertaining!  Loved your personal stories!!  I will certainly recommend your program to any guild that I attend.  Thank you.  ~ Lou 

Absolutely hilarious - enjoyed it very much.  ~Dennisa

Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful.  Friendly, helpful, understanding, patient.  Enjoyed the day.
~Jane

Got me excited about quilting again.  Thanks so much!  ~ Kim 

Loved the whole presentation, very informative and we all did a lot of laughing!  Beautiful quilts.  Really enjoyable evening.  ~ Pat

Lecture Two:

Ta–Dah!

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—used as mock fanfare to call attention to something remarkable   :)

Duration: 90 minutes

Description:
How many times have you struggled attempting to piece a border and match (align) the design of the beautiful print you are working with?

We all love those beautiful wide borders, but how sad to see the seam line glaring at us about midway down the side of my finished quilt.
I mean, why do we CHOP off the lovely design? Well, of course, we can buy enough fabric to cut borders from the LENGTH rather than width, and I do that sometimes.

But, I’ve developed a foolproof way to piece any fabric, perfectly matching the print…..EVERY SINGLE TIME. Nobody will see the seam line, and the fabric design just appears to flow non-stop down the sides of your quilt.

You know me, I’m all about FAST, EASY, FUN.  You will find yourself using this technique for more than borders, it’s fun and anyone can master it.

Oh, and absolutely NO SPECIAL TOOLS REQUIRED!  You have everything you need at home right this minute, except maybe that beautiful print you’ve been drooling over.

After this, we will cover a few additional quick tips that I use in my daily sewing.

We will also discuss:
Binding your quilt
Fast, Easy, Fun hanging sleeves.

A full 90 minutes is required to cover everything I’d like to share in this session.

Bring a notepad, you’ll want to take notes.

Reviews:
I loved seeing Tricia again.  The partial seams and binding finishing techniques are very interesting and helpful AND seeing all the REAL quilts was great.  I'm looking forward to class tomorrow.
~ Teresa

Very good lecture.  Did not expect such in depth demos.  They were great information.

Fantastic!  Learned several new tenchniques.  Can't wait until tomorrow!
~ Sharon

Really enjoyed it.  The lecture flew by So many good tips and tgechniques.  Thank you so much.
~ Carol 

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