If you like flowers and would like to do some relaxing hand sewing, stay right here!
I can offer you beautiful appliqué quilts and techniques for hand needle turn appliqué,
as well as for making beautiful flowers from French and silk ribbons.

Flowers have always brightened my day, in any form from fabric to garden blossoms. I enjoy growing them in a garden to seeing them grow in fabric on a quilt. I like to go one step further and “gild the lily” by enhancing my floral appliqué quilts with embellished flowers made from beautiful ribbons. These ribbon flowers are a delight to make, fun to use and your hands are not soiled with dirt!

I hope you’ll visit further, as I’d like to share my love of flowers and floral appliqué with you.

Thank you and may flowers always brighten your day!

January 3                    Hannah Dustin Quilt Guild, Hudson NH
                                   Trunk show – America’s Quilted Garden Blocks, Dover, NH 

January 17                  Cocheco Quilt Guild Workshop, Lee, NH
                                   Trunk show – America’s Quilted Garden Blocks, Dover, NH          

February 9 – 12          Elly Sienkiewicz Applique Academy, Williamsburg, Virginia
                                   as Honored Quilter w/ Teaching, lecture, vending

March  9 - 18              Quilt Ventures Pennsylvania Tour with AQS Quilt Show

March  24, 25              Amoskeag Quilt Guild Quilt Show - vending

March 26                     Chelmsford Quilters Guild, Chelmsford, MA           
                                   Trunk show – America’s Quilted Garden Blocks

                                                      
April 20 – 29               Quilt Ventures Paducah Tour with AQS Quilt Show
                                   American Quilter’s Society – Teaching
 
May 4, 5                      Bedford Friendship Garden Quilt Show -vending, Bedford, NH

May 8                          Tewksbury Piecemakers Quilters Guild, Tewksbury, Mass.
                                   Workshop – Massachusetts Wreath
                                   Trunk show – America’s Quilted Garden Blocks and class

June 25 – July 1          Quilt Hawaii, Kauai Beach Resort, Lihue, Kauai, Hawaii

August 2-4                  Bayberry Quilt Show, Harwich, MA - vending

September 25             Nimble Thimblers Quilt Guild, Reading, Mass
                                   Trunk show – America’s Quilted Garden Blocks 

Sept 28 – Oct 7          Quilt Ventures’ New England Fall tour

October 13, 14           Cocheco Quilters Guild Quilt Show – vending, Rochester, NH

November  20             Maple Leaf Quilt Guild, Rutland, Vermont
                                   Trunk show – America’s Quilted Garden Blocks 

JANUARY, 2012

New Year’s Greetings to you and may it be a good year for you,
full of good health and happiness!

May you enjoy each day with some special time to yourself for stitching, even if it just 15 minutes!  Relax and enjoy wonderful feeling we share of working with fabric.

I love the promise of a new beginning offered with the new year. It’s fun to feel free with the idea of a clean slate. Begin new projects as a treat to yourself, but don’t worry about old unfinished projects. You probably didn’t finish them because you didn’t like them. Get them out of your house! Instead of that negative energy on the old unliked projects, pursue your new projects with pleasure.  Someone in your guild will love the challenge of your UFO.

I am looking forward a new venture with my newest book, America’s Quilted Garden Blocks.
I am creating Embellishment Kits for some of the state flower blocks that require specialized materials, that may be hard for you to find.  Please e-mail me for a list of kits that will be available. Fayequilt@comcast.net

Treat yourself to the gift of doing whatever you want this year – at least for the month of January! Enjoy yourself, you are special! And don’t forget to have some chocolate, too!

AMERICA’S QUILTED GARDEN BLOCKS
By
Faye Labanaris

A Quilted Celebration of America’s State Flowers

Faye’s newest book pays tribute to the beauty of America’s State flowers in this collection of 55 original designs
quilted as wall hangings.
Learn to use over a dozen different techniques to create
 the many different flowers for the
50 United States United States,
as well as, the District of Columbia and four US territories.
Clearly illustrated photo instructions will take you
from start to a successful finish.
CR_ROM Included with full size patterns
and interesting state and flower information

 Published by The American Quilters Society in 2011
Summer release

Order your autographed copy today for $24.95.
Send check or money order to the address below.
 Includes free shipping in the continental USA

To: Faye Labanaris
80 Mt. Vernon Street    Dover, NH 03820
E-mail: fayequilt@comcast.net
or Click HERE for the link to an order form.

Visit www.fayelabanaris.com