Friends of the
East Grand Rapids Library
sponsored
Ami Simms’
FULL- DAY QUILTING
WORKSHOP
"TWISTED SISTERS"
Begin your own machine-pieced masterpiece!
Saturday, February 2, 2008
10:00am - 4:30pm
East Grand Rapids Community Center, Lower Level 746 Lakeside Dr., SE E. Grand Rapids, MI
$50.00 Workshop , includes:
CLASS FEE: $33.00 + REQUIRED TEMPLATE & PATTERN: $17.00
SKILL LEVEL : BEGINNER or INTERMEDIATE
Class space is limited. Please sign -up at the EGR Library now.
Library Phone: 616 - 647- 3880
Program Contact Information - Mary Dersch
E-mail: derschmary@netscape.net
Phone: 616-241-2092
Ami Simms is the author of eight books on quilting, Picture Play Quilts, How To Improve Your Quilting Stitch, Invisible Appliqué, Every Trick In The Book, Classic Quilts: Patchwork Designs From Ancient Rome, How NOT To Make A Prize-Winning Quilt, Creating Scrapbook Quilts, and Fun Photo-Quilts & Crafts. She is also the creator of the WORST Quilt in the World Contest®.
Ami has been leading workshops and giving lectures on quilting throughout the United States since 1982 and has taught quilting in Australia, Canada, England, Italy, the Netherlands, and New Zealand, and has also led quilting tours to Italy, the Netherlands, and Hong Kong. Up until 1983 she taught public school (second graders, then senior citizens). In 2005 she was named Teacher of the Year by Professional Quilter Magazine.
She has also appeared on television on the Home & Family Show, on "Simply Quilts" on HGTV and was a featured guest on Kaye Wood’s PBS show “Kaye’s Quilting Friends” with a segment on Twisted Sisters. She was most recently a guest on "Quilter's Toolbox." on QNN.
Ami’s interest in quilting began in 1975 while she was working on her undergraduate thesis in anthropology that focused on the old order Amish of northern Indiana. She boarded with an Amish woman and learned to take her first quilting stitches under her watchful eye.
Ami has completed over 200 quilts, of varying sizes, in both traditional and contemporary designs, both hand and machine quilted. Her quilts have been featured in several national magazines, a handful of books, and have been exhibited in juried competitions in California, Florida, Illinois, Kentucky, Michigan, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, and Wisconsin.
A resident of Flint, Michigan, Ami lives with her husband, Steve, and daughter, Jennie.
http://www.AmiSimms.com
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