September 17, 2020 Guild Meeting
ZOOM Meeting
Guild Meeting & Lecture: 1:00 pm
Lecture: Challenge Yourself
Discover the world of Quilt Challenges and the many opportunities awaiting you (and your quilts!). Join me as I recount my adventures (including a few misadventures) while participating in quilt challenges at both the local and national/international level. I hope to inspire you by sharing my own quilts and their stories, along with tips/tricks that I hope will inspire and encourage you to enter your own quilts, regardless of style or level of experience/skill! Presentation includes a slide show followed by a trunk show including 25+ of my challenge quilts.
Speaker Background:
Mel Beach is a San Jose, CA based quilt artist, teacher and lecturer,
who breaks away from tradition by adding her own modern, beautifully textured and colorful twists. She loves stretching her creativity through her completion of 80+ quilt challenges at the local and international level. Her quilts draw upon her inquisitive nature of asking "What If?", “Why Not?”, working in a series, comedy improv studies, along with her love of nature, photography and sketching.
Mel is passionate about teaching/lecturing, with a focus on quilting on a domestic machine and modern quilting techniques. Starting in 2016, Mel has taught for quilt shops, guilds and quilt shows throughout CA, with engagements in OR, WA, NV, NB, and NY, and several large venues: Road to California, Pacific International Quilt Festival, and Craft Napa.
Her quilts have been exhibited locally, juried into national quilt shows and traveling exhibits, published in books/magazines, earned awards/ribbons and selected as Finalists. She is a Michael Miller Brand Ambassador and AccuQuilt GO! Getter. Mel was featured on Quilting Arts TV (series 2500 and 2600) and The Quilt Show with Alex Anderson and Ricky Tims (episode 2112), and has published articles with Quilting Arts Magazine and The Craft Industry Alliance.
Blog https://pieceloveandhappiness.blogspot.com/
Gallery of A Slice of Improv Quilts https://melbeachquilts.com/gallery#/slice-of-improv/
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/melbeachquilts/
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/melbeachquilts
Pinterest https://www.pinterest.com/mbeach128/
