Roger Winchell to speak at July MPQG meeting

Mountain Piecemakers Quilt Guild will be meeting in Burnsville Town Center on Thursday July 13.  We will meet at 6:00 for social time with meeting beginning at 6:30. The program will be by Roger Winchell from Asheville.

Roger Winchell is not your typical quilt designer and maker. Following a 40-year career in physics, mathematics, logistics, and computers, he retired in 2004. After trying several hobbies and volunteer activities, he took a quilting class on a dare from his wife, Katie, herself an accomplished quilter. His first finished quilt, Deconstructing Cubes won Viewers’ Choice at the Asheville Quilt Show in 2010. Almost every year since then he has produced one or two show quilts which have either won ribbons or been juried into national quilt shows.

Roger began presenting quilt programs in 2016 and has given them at quilt guilds across the Southeast (and once in his hometown of Ithaca, New York). He presents his quilts with anecdotes about what inspired him from his education, career, and life as a male quilter in a female dominated field. He also offers classes based on his “outside-the-block” designs.

His quilts are all original designs. He uses standard piecing methods for many but has adopted a method from Ann Holms AQS book ‘No Sewing Until You Quilt it’; a variation on fusible applique which allows you to piece just about anything you can draw. He pieces, quilts, and binds his quilts on his home machine, a Janome Horizon 7700. Besides competition quilts he makes charity quilts and quilts for many of his friends and neighbors. He is 77 years old and hopes to keep quilting for another 20 years (at least).

Visitors are welcome. Join us for this exciting program.

We are preparing for our annual quilt show Aug 4 and 5 inside the Town Center during the Mt. Mitchell Crafts Fair. Tickets for the 2023 opportunity quilt are available on our website at Mountainpiecemakersquiltguild.org.

 

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