About Pins & Needles Art Quilyting

The Pins & Needles Art Quilters group is a neighborhood circle formed from members of River City Quilter’s Guild.We meet once a month to exchange information about art quilts, to share and critique our work, to pursue exhibitions and competitions, and publishing options. We currently have over twenty dedicated members from varied backgrounds. We challenge our group monthly to try new techniques, or themes, to explore mixed media options, and to share new discoveries.

Our group’s work is regularly shown at the River City Quilter’s Guild annual show in Sacramento, California. Our members’ work has also been shown at several national and international shows, as well as in local venues.


Wednesday, June 4, 2014

Everything You Want to Know About Quilt Competions

Our presenter this month was Jan Soules 

Jan is an avid quilter, and winner of many  competitions. Her work has been published in many journals and magazines, and many of her quilts are out and about circulating the globe. We are proud to have her as a member of our group.


She talked about:

Reasons for entering a competition
How to find quilt competitions
How to enter quilt shows and how to fill out the entry forms
Recommendations on which shows to choose as you begin competing
How to properly pack your quilts for shipping
How to photograph yourself and your quilts
How to keep track of your entries

Jan shares her tracking system. 

Jan asked that we share some of our previous work that had been entered in competitions:

Artist: Jan Soules
Her first winning quilt.
Artist: Linda Bergman
Quilted Bag

Artist: Linda Bergman

Artist: Marie Nelson

Artist: Marie Nelson

Artist: Marie Nelson

Artist: Marie Nelson

Artist: Marie Nelson

Artist: Marie Nelson

Artist: Marie Nelson

We share recent work in "Show and Tell", at each meeting. It's great to see what our members are currently working on or experimenting with. 

Elizabeth McInnes experiments with paint on fabric.

Another example of Elizabeth McInnes' painting technique.

Artist: Marie Nelson
This piece is mounted on Timtex

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