The purpose of NILAG is to promote longarm machine quilting throughout Northern Illinois as well as providing a means of communication, education, and collaboration for all those who are interested in and practitioners of longarm and mid-arm machine quilting.
On August 7, 2021 Our own Kathleen Herbach gave a wonderful trunk show called: “Lessons Learned”. This was a Zoom presentation where every guild member had a front row seat. Kathleen shared over 75 quilts with lots of close up of her amazing designs, quilting, binding and finishes. Now we have the inspiration to add a little something extra to our next projects.
June
5th, 2021 the guild welcomed Kathleen Riggins. Her lecture Combining Designs in Modern Ways
was held via Zoom. This was a fast-paced lecture filled to the brim with
excellent quilting information. We learned about straight line quilting ideas, grid
designs, swirls, feathers and how to combine them. Although the lecture was full, her book, The
Building Blocks of Free-Motion Quilting, has more than 57 ideas for combining
quilting motifs. https://kathleenquilts.com/
On April 3rd, 2021 guild member Kathy Downie presented her program on Art Quilt Finishes. This was a Zoom lecture where we able to see, close up, all of Kathy's art quilts and competition level, wearable art. Kathy shared methods for finishing those special art pieces and answered tons of questions. Looking forward to what is yet to come from Kathy.
In
Feb 2021, the guild offered a Zoom lecture by Stephanie Hackney from Hobbs
Bonded Fibers. Stephanie’s presentation explained all the different types of
batting and stuffing products offered by Hobbs. As the Director of Sales and
marketing, Stephanie is certainly an expert. We had a jam-packed lecture that
taught batting selections by type of bat, loft considerations and type of
quilting. A free download of the Hobbs product reference chart is available on
their web site https://www.hobbsbatting.com/products/
This Dream Big
Panel quilt was custom quilted by Susie Wong. It has two layers of batting in
it - Tuscany Wool batting as the top layer and Tuscany Silk batting as the
bottom layer.
It was unfortunate that due to the Covid Pandemic, we had to cancel several meetings in 2020. We have re-worked our program line-up to accommodate Zoom programs/lectures.
