The Maine Event

Just two weeks til the Maine Event. I want to remind you (and myself) of a few important things.
The schedule of events now looks like this. Please note the times and events.

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Schedule of Events

Friday Sept 14^th

Til 6:30 pm Tour Belfast shops and Galleries

6:30 pm Dinner at The Mermaid Pub, 121 East Main St Searsport

8pm Wine, Cheese, and Hors D'oeuvres reception at the Capt. Nickels Inn (with registration)

Saturday Sept 15^th

Captain AV Nickels Inn

10am Zendoodles with Sandra Betts, New Brunswick, Canada

Noon  Lunch at the Inn(w/registration)

1 pm Extreme Texture, with Michele O’Neil Kincaid

3pm Unique Framing Technique with Beth Berman

7pm Dinner Banquet

8pm Show and Tell

Sunday Sept 16^th

10am Chasing Inspiration with Lois Hooper, New Brunswick, Canada

One room AT THE INN has opened up so feel free to grab it at 207-548-1104

• The registration fee is payable when you arrive - no need to send any checks.
• Make sure you let me know if you need vegetarian or vegan meals IF you haven't done so yet.
• There will be some sewing machines and a few ironing boards at the Inn. If you have a light weight, easy to carry machine bring it. If not, don't worry.
• BRING THINGS FOR THE SHOW AND TELL
• Your registration fees includes the wine reception Friday night and the Saturday lunch between the workshops.
• The dinner at the Mermaid Tavern will include three choices plus one vegan choice because of the size of our group.

Materials lists:

Extreme Texture

One or more pieces of whole cloth or simply pieced backgrounds aprox. 20 x 20”.

Cotton batting and backings to fit though the finished piece will be smaller

Hand and machine quilting threads of your choice

Fibers and beads to embellish

Sewing machine with piping (edge stitch) and free motion feet

Basic sewing supplies (for hand and machine)

Zentangles requirement list

6 to 8 sheets of regular copy paper

Fine black Sharpie pen

Coloured pencils/ watercolour pencils/inktense/colour markers- whichever colouring tools you prefer

If you want to carry this further to using on fabric you can add the following but I am not asking you to bring these supplies due to the limited amount of time for the presentation. This is generally a full day workshop.

Optional: 

12inch x 12 inch square white cotton and similar in black

Black permanent marker pen

Black and white thread

2 bobbins (one wound with white, one with black)

Flat dense batting such as thermolam

Sewing machine –clean, good working condition, new needle

Regular sewing supplies

Free motion foot

Halo, slider or hoop

Decorative threads such as metallics, rayon

Extra fabric for sashing, borders, backing and binding- your preference for finishing

 

 Chasing Inspiration /  Lois Hooper /  Sunday morning

Exercises in developing new designs. Lois will be using various exercises to help participants mine their creativity and spark new ideas. Please bring pencils and paper.

If you need to contact me email me at beth dot from dot maine at gmail dot com