Quilting: Georgia’s Heavenly Stars! with Ronnie Ashford – G26070310
Georgia O’Keeffe loved the red and gray hills of Ghost Ranch, and the glorious night skies. She would climb onto the top of her house and lay on the roof and watch the night skies. So, let’s join Georgia in creating a few quilted stars.
All skill levels of quilters are welcome, even those “brand new, never have sewn a stitch want to try it out quilters”. Star Blocks offer certain challenges, and many quilters shy away from patterns with star blocks in them. Sharp points are essential for a star block, and this course will provide you with tips, techniques and shortcuts to give your stars crisp points, matching seams and blocks that lay flat. Instruction and guidance will be provided for all the components involved in making a quilt. We will learn how to cut accurately, sew a 1/4” quilter’s seam, match seams, keep the points, how to design and draft quilt blocks and quilt layout possibilities. Together we will share some of the newest tools of the trade along with practical tips, resources, and techniques from fellow quilters. There will be ‘Star Patterns’ aplenty available from beginner to expert, depending on your skill level and guidance to help you create your own wall hanging, snuggle quilt, or an art piece. Best of all let’s create memories and new friendships as we quilt together.
Instructor
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Ronnie Ashford
Rogene E. Ashford “Ronnie” from Tulsa, OK, has created “Art” since early childhood. At about eight years old, she got into trouble for creating a very large mural in charcoal on the side of the freshly painted stucco garage! She learned to do embroidery at an early age and remembers playing under the quilt frame while her mom, aunties and grandmother stitched and talked. She studied art through high school and college. Throughout her life, she has tried her hand at many art mediums; two mediums of her art have always been paint and thread. Ronnie is an award winning quilter and is active in several local quilt guilds. She has a small ministry of refurbishing older sewing machines and getting them to gals that would love to have a sewing machine, but cannot afford one. Ronnie currently works as a Mental Health Therapist and an Adjunct Professor at Southern Nazarene University. She enjoys family, friends, art, her chickens, gardening, handwork, music, painting, quilting, reading, walking/running and writing. Her philosophy in life is “Laugh Loudly, Live Fully, Love Deeply and Never Ever Go Backward!’’