Meeting Date: Monday, December 20th, 2021
Doors Open: 6:30PM for mixing
Meeting: 7:00PM – 9:00PM
VancouverMQG’s December guest lecturer is Mary Elizabeth Kinch!Â
Mary Elizabeth will be presenting her trunk show, “THE WONDER OF SMALL BLOCKS”. The secrets of small block and small pieced quilts will be revealed during this inspirational and informative trunk show of stunning full-sized quilts made with small pieces. Find out why small blocks and small pieces are so addictive and how the chaos theory of quilting will change your life! You may think you will never make a full-size quilt with so many small pieces, but after this presentation you will know that you can never say never!
Mary Elizabeth Kinch is a professional quiltmaker, designer, teacher, speaker and co-author of two best-selling books, Small Blocks, Stunning Quilts and Small Pieces, Spectacular Quilts. As you may gather from the titles, small pieced quilts make her weak at the knees. She has been a featured guest on The Quilt Show with Alex Anderson and Ricky Tims, and
her work has been shown at international quilt shows, juried into the AQS Paducah and Quiltcon. Recently her quilt “Fallout†won Best Quilt Outside USA at the Vermont Quilt Festival as well as a Purple Ribbon for Exceptional Merit. Her work has been featured in many international quilting publications and she is a frequent contributor to Curated Quilts
Magazine.
Mary Elizabeth believes in “Quilting with Abandonâ€, stretching traditional boundaries and creating quilts with a subtle salute to the past. She is enthusiastic about our quilting heritage and the lessons to be learned from the antique and vintage quilts she studies and collects. Her recent work examines colour, as well as the interpretation of traditional quilt designs through “gestured appliqued lines†and the quilting stitch.
When not quilting, Mary Elizabeth designs interior residential projects where she uses a simple, elegant, well-edited approach, embracing colour and light, to create homes where her clients can relax and live life. She lives in Toronto and her kids would tell you she has “lots†of fabric!