Niagara Community Newspapers North Bay - North Bay Nugget Norwich - Norwich Gazette Orillia - Packet and Times Ottawa - The Ottawa Sun Owen Sound - Sun Times Oxford - Oxford Review Paris - Paris Star Online Pelham - Pelham News Pembroke - Daily Observer Peterborough - Peterborough Examiner Petrolia - Petrolia Topic Picton - County Weekly News Port Colborne - Inport News Port Elgin - Shoreline Beacon Port Hope - Port Hope Evening Guide Sarnia - Observer Sarnia - Sarnia This Week Sault Ste Marie - Sault Star Sault Ste Marie - Sault This Week Seaforth - Seaforth Huron Expositor Simcoe - Simcoe Reformer St. Adult classes include pottery with instructor Gabby Neuschwander, Fine Arts Medley with instructor Linda Hanneson as well as several quilting classes to choose from with instructor Pat Crandell. The arts centre has many fantastic workshops coming in the new year, such as oil painting (Bob Ross-style), monoprint, watercolour, stained glass with instructor Ruth Brownridge, and a framing and matting workshop. Collectors are invited to submit entries of a piece of furniture with a story, to be exhibited in the gallery at the Portage and District Arts Centre. For more information, or to register for classes and workshops, contact the Portage and District Arts Centre or drop by â” we are located in the William Glesby Centre, 11-2nd St.

You might stencil flowers, vines, and butterflies on walls as a colorful accent, using paint colors matched to your fabric or wallpaper choices. You might get star-shaped rubber stamps (or sponges) and dip into wall paint to create your own star border, decorate furniture, or make random stars all over the walls or ceiling. Find colorful borders and fabrics featuring stylized simple flower shapes in hot colors, and match these with some plain fabrics for ruffles, valances, and window seat pillows. These flower shapes would be easy to enlarge on a copy machine and trace onto the walls in random patterns, then paint with wild colors matched to the fabrics. Then use either light colors (pink, sky blue, pale green) or set the white off against bright clear colors like grass green or marine blue. Embellish the walls with faux painted castle walls, murals, and blue skies for a truly memorable girl’s room.

Through the display of 30 pieces, the exhibition will illustrate the visual connections between Amish quilts and mid-20th century art and show how variations in the quilts reveal the choices of individual Amish communities. The quilts are drawn from collections at the International Quilt Study Center & Museum at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, each representing distinct Amish communities. The art world took note of the remarkable similarities between quilts and modern art in 1971 when an exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York exhibited pieced quilts on walls normally reserved for works by contemporary artists. Renno/Peachey Amish quilts are similar to midwestern Amish quilts, but are distinguished by their black backgrounds juxtaposed with bright fabrics of golden yellow, blue, purple and green.

Wetzlerâs own past experience once centered on alterations, but recently the stash of piecework for quilts has been pulled out and her basement transformed into a snug little quilting shop. It was natural, then, to take the leap into buying her latest sewing machine, a computer-guided longarm quilting machine with a 14-foot table. Unsure what to do when CoreSource announced its closing in the spring of 2007, Wetzler felt a readiness for change and her thoughts quickly turned to quilting. With that machine, Wetzler can pick one of countless designs to embroider onto a quilt, easily change its size and spacing, sew perfect circles, intricate patterns and corner designs and even make different motifs in each square of a quilt. Kimball Avenue Quilting quietly started as Wetzler familiarized herself with the machine through a few of her own projects, some work for the local quilt guild and making mission quilts for Our Redeemer Lutheran Church, where she attends.