Empire Quilters GUILD SHOW

EMPIRE QUILTERS QUILT SHOW!

My home quilt group is having a show! Please come!

I have two quilts in the show, "Lace" and  "Clouds, Green Trees, and Walt Whitman"....I will be there Sunday, March 29th, on my Birthday! YIPPEE! That will be fun! My husband said he will come walk through it with me, what a good man!  hehe!  ( Hard to get him to a quilt show)

Will you be in NY for the Empire quilt show?

So many fun things happening, check the  schedule for times of lectures and see the beautiful quilts!

Barbara Brackman, Paula Nadelstern, Roderick Kiracofe, Amelia Peck, Elizabeth Warren!

Don't Miss it!

Saturday, March 28, 2015 at 11 AM.

The subject is Collecting Quilts: How and Why

Famed collectible quilter and designer, 

Paula Nadlestern, will moderate panelists:

Roderick Kiracofe, collector and author of 

 Unconventional and Unexpected.

Amelia Peck, Curator of the Textile Division, the

 Metropolitan Museum of New York.

Elizabeth Warren, Curator of the acclaimed Red and

 White Quilt Show featuring the quilts of collector

 Joanna Rose.

At 2 PM on March 28, 2015 

Quilt Patterns: Trends, Fads & Regionalism



Barbara Brackman, author of several well-known references on 

patterns and fabric history, will discuss quilt patterns over the past 

200 years. Patchwork fashions---like hairstyles and wallpaper--- 

become the rage and then passe. She will trace how patterns have 

been passed around and how some have become a few fads in 

quilt history.



On Sunday, March 29, 2015 the program times are reversed:



At 11 AM Barbara Brackman, author of the Encyclopedia 



Quilt Patterns: Trends, Fads & Regionalism




Barbara Brackman, author of several well-known references on 

patterns and fabric history, will discuss quilt patterns over the past 

200 years. Patchwork fashions---like hairstyles and wallpaper--- 

become the rage and then passe. She will trace how patterns have 

been passed around and how some have become a few fads in 

quilt history.

 
At 2 PM on Sunday, March 29, 2015 
The program on Collecting Quilts: How and Why will be held.

Famed collectible quilter and designer, 

Paula Nadlestern, will moderate panelists:

Roderick Kiracofe, collector and author of 

 Unconventional and Unexpected.

Elizabeth Warren, Curator of the acclaimed Red and

 White Quilt Show featuring the quilts of collector,

 Joanna Rose.

Sue Reich, noted collector, curator and quilt appraiser,

will replace Amelia Peck.

Groups are welcome. For more information please
contact Mary Butler c/o Info@empirequilters.net

Saturday 3/28/15 10AM – 5PM 
Sunday 3/29/15 10AM – 4PM

Location: Fashion Institute of Technology (Seventh Avenue @ 28th Street, NY)

Admission: $10/person or $18 for both days; 10% discount for groups of 5 or more. (Email: EQgroupsales@gmail.com.)

Over 250 Quilts on Display Plus Vendors.