Eggstravaganza 2010

Eggstravaganza
January 16, 2010
Mark your calendars to attend this “egg-citing” quilting day. Classes, projects, and vendors fill your day with fun, food and friends while hatching quilting techniques, learning new methods, visiting local quilt shops all in one place—St. Marks Lutheran Church, 675 N Mulford Rd., Rockford, IL 61107

Registration begins October 15, 2009. Sign up for a registration form today in class or email slatersewso@comcast.net
Hatched by the Feathered Nest

Programs to choose from:

Quilt Guilds, Church Groups, and Meetings——Schedule your own Hen Party !!

We are always more than happy to come to your group and “show and crow.” This old hen (and sometimes my best hen friend) lead your group in hatching new ideas and having an eggciting time. Choose from one of the following:

1. Roadblock Pattern Trunk Show—This series of patterns feature Donna’s basic “Sew, Press, and Cut” method putting you on the road to designing and creating with these basic patterns.

2. Strip Addiction—A Fix for Fabraholics. Use your stash and many different colors in the Feathered Nest’s technique of loops. Learn color secret, some nesting methods and improve your quilting techniques.

3.Scrapples Newest book using different size strips with no matching seam allowances, all in one color way with different values. Excellent class on colors, values, and building a unique design in an easy way. Scrapples is named for scraps of purple, but you can use any color you want.

Quilt 101

Quilt 101

Classes for everyone. Hancock Fabrics has partnered with The Feathered Nest to host a beginning quilt class called Quilt 101.

Have you ever asked yourself, where do I begin? What supplies do I really need? How do I pick the fabric for my project. Will I be able to finish? If you have, then Quilt 101 is the class for you. This class walks you through the steps to create a 42"x 42" wallhanging from picking the fabric to binding the finished quilt. Need to brush up on skills? Come join the fun.

$45.00 includes the pattern and three sessions. Hancock gives discount coupon for your purchases at the store.
Evening class 6:30-8pm--10/12/,10/26, and 11/2.
Daytime class 1-3PM--10/16,10/23/, and 10/30

Sign up and pay at the register of Hancock Fabrics, 5836 E. State Street, Rockford, IL 61108.

For questions call 815-275-7465 or email slatersewso@comcast.net

Scrapples

Scraps and purple! This is my newest book and sending to the printer today. It should be available in October or November.

To contact for speaking, comments, or ideas email at slatersewso@comcast.net

Strip Addiction Book

Newest book! Four colored pages of designs made with 2 1/2 inch strips. Scrappy Trails, Checkered Chicken, and Scrambled Eggs are "eggciting designs to mix and make! The price is $17.00 for an autographed copy. E mail slatersewso@comcast.net or call 815-282-1838 and leave your name and number.

Creative Cutup Quilt Group

Creative Cutup Quilt Group from Oelwein hosted a beautiful quilt show in Oelwein, Iowa August 19. The Feathered Nest was invited to be a vendor and did we ever have a good time. Lots of new friends were made and new ideas were discussed and shared. It was an excellent show and we will be going back next year. On Saturday night we went to Gunder, Iowa and ate the biggest hamburgers I have ever seen. (This was the recommendation of some of the locals) On the way we saw about ten quilt boards on barns. We visited a quilt shop in West Union and were close to the one in Postville. Both of these were vendors at the show as well as a quilt shop of St. Ansgar. Lots of new shops to visit, explore, and shop.

On the Road Again

October 19 the Forreston Quilt Guild is having a Hen Party workshop at 1pm and guild meeting at 7Pm. The Feathered Nest is eggcited to do a return visit and will be featuring Scrapples.

Scrapples

Scrapples

This is my newest pattern that I am working on. I call is Scrapples as it is all from scraps of purple. Queen size, all strips, no matching--it is a wonderful way to create in one color family.

Pink color rendition of my purple scraps. I finished this quilt and gave to my good friend Dorothy. It is made from all scraps of pink!!!! Now I am working on a blue and yellow one. Merry Christmas!

Hatching new ideas

Need a program for your guild? Hatching new ideas and creating while having a hen party is what we do best. Donna Slater and Colleen Gift share, cluck and create so the whole group can learn while enjoying an eggciting time. Contact us at slatersewso@comcast.net to book your party. We also can do 3 or 6 hour workshops. We love to quilt and we love to explore new quilt stores and make new quilting friends. Go Chicken is a game with fabric strips , exercise to the Chicken Dance, and have a Hen Party.

Petunia City Quilters

On May 4 I am looking forward to a Hen Party with the Petunia City Quilters in Dixon, IL. In the afternoon there will be a workshop on Scrappy Trails and the evening guild meeting will be show and tell of our progress as well as ideas and methods for scrap piecing a treasure of your own.

Eggstravaganza 2009

Fashion show---------
Favorite wear for the day--

It was very snowy, but most of the hens made it.

Hen Party where we passed around fat quarters! Everyone went home with something.

Mark your calendars for next year 2010! Looking forward to another Eggstravaganza!

Sew and Do Sudoku

Check this out!!

Sew and Do Sudoku Quilts is the new book released in November.2006. Featured projects are patterned after Sudoku Puzzles. They are addictive and fun. Billie Lauder and Donna Slater co-authored the book and you will find many puzzles with solutions plus patterns for quilts, a table topper, apron and other exciting projects. You can purchase this book and my other patterns at www.easymade.com. Also if you email me at slatersewso@insightbb.com with a check for 15.95 I will send it to you with free shipping cost.

Road to My Heart







Road to Freeport

Road Block Patterns

The six Roadblock patterns are available and can be purchased at www.easymade.com . Or send me a check for $8.00 per pattern and I will pay the shipping to Donna Slater, 6308 Parks Edge Drive, Loves Park, IL 61111. You can email at slatersewso@comcast.net
for any questions.


Road to Bethlehem



This quilt is "Why did the Chicken Cross Over the Road?" and uses the pattern block CrossRoads. This quilt is for sale for $500.00 and features chickens in purples and yellows. An original quilt you can purchase at slatersewso@comcast.net