Anna Maria
Born in 1972, Anna Maria was raised in a house full of her dad’s paintings and with a closet full of her mom’s handiwork. Beds were warmed by the hand-loomed wool blankets from her Greek grandmother and she was kept warm by beautiful hand-knits from her American grandmother. Spending hours in fabric shops with her mom and sister on the weekend was as normal as designing her Barbie’s first wardrobe using the family trunk of fabric scraps.
Anna Maria earned an honors BFA in Drawing from the University of Tennessee in 1995 before opening a small handmade clothing shop with her mom the same year. Designing and sewing a clothing label while managing a shop for five years primed her for a career in textiles and small business.
Lectures
This lecture will be presented at the Monday, September 23rd, 2024 7:00 PM Meeting.
A presentation that goes in depth on Anna Maria’s unique composition styles, and her adventurous variations on those themes.
This lecture will be presented at the September 24th, 2024 9:30 AM Meeting.
An auto-biographical presentation of Anna Maria’s quilts from the beginning.
Workshops
FEATHER BED
Monday, September 23rd, 2024
9am – 4pm
$80 – Members
Non-Member Registration will open in Mid-July
Congregational Church of Christ
40W451 Foxmill Blvd, St. Charles, IL 6017
Back and better than ever, Anna Maria will teach us her tricks for this classic pieced feather block! This workshop has been retired but since we missed out in March 2020 Anna Maria is bringing this workshop out of retirement for us.
APPLIQUE STORIES
Tuesday, September 24th, 2024
6pm – 9 pm
$50 Members
Non-Member Registration will open in Mid-July
University of Illinois Extension
535 S Randall Rd, St. Charles, IL 60175
Multiple techniques for appliqué, raw and turned, by machine and by hand, are shared on top of a lesson in composition. Learn to see fabrics in a completely different way as you hunt for special elements to join as starring roles or the supporting cast in your appliqué story.
FOLK FLOWER QUILT
Wednesday, September 25th, 2024
9am – 4pm
$80 Members
Non-Member registration will open in Mid-July
University of Illinois Extension
535 S Randall Rd, St. Charles, IL 60175
Anna Maria shares how to use machine reverse applique to create this simple but stunning floral block that can be combined very specifically with others, or more sporadically with some solid blocks for a varied look. She offers tips of scaling the block to suit each quilter’s hopes for their finished design. Anna Maria has plenty of time to work with students one on one for fabric selection process.