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Jan Soules
 April 17, Tuesday (General Meeting)
Guild member and Featured Quilter for our 2011 Quilt Show, Jan Soules, will present a trunk show of her award-winning quilts and offer tips and tricks for making beautiful and interesting quilt borders. Join us for an interesting and informative evening with this talented quilter!
| April 21, Saturday (Workshop)
Using Binding, Jan Soules
Jan will lead us in a workshop to create quilts with curved piecing using binding. The technique is easy to learn and the results are stunning!
Note regarding Curved Piecing class in April: "It has come to my attention that the stabilizer I recommended for the class, Soft'N Sheer is no longer available in the area or very hard to find. I recommend any non woven stabilizer (non fusible), such as Pellon True Grid 810 or 820. Also Pellon Easy pattern #830 would work. These products are available at JoAnns." Jan Soules
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Jan Soules has been selected as the featured artist for the 2011 quilt show. She moved to the Sacramento area in 2006 after retiring as a Customer Service Supervisor for VTA in San Jose. She began her quilting career in 2000 when her expectant daughter asked for a baby quilt for Isabelle, her first granddaughter. Little did she know what that little quilt would lead to.
She says she became very passionate immediately and began taking every class she could to learn all the tools and techniques from experienced teachers.
 She has never settled on one style, preferring to mix appliqué and pieced blocks using her sense of color and design to create her “treasures.” Choosing colors and fabrics are her favorite part of the process and she carefully selects each piece in her so called “scrap” quilts. In the past year, Jan has experimented with her own designs and has joined a small art group. She has also begun to dye some of her own fabric.
Her accomplishments include two Best of Show awards and three Best Use of Color awards in local guilds, along with numerous first place ribbons. Jan currently has her quilt “Sunrise, Sunset” in the AQS 2011 engagement calendar.  She has had quilts juried into AQS shows in Paducah, Knoxville, Nashville, Des Moines and Lancaster. Her quilts have been exhibited in several Mancuso shows, including PIQF, Road to CA, the California State Fair, and the Hoffman Challenge traveling show. In 2007 her paper pieced quilt “Cracker Jacks” was a finalist in the $100,000 quilting challenge.
In addition to her passion for quilting, Jan is an expert tournament bridge player and travels around the country competing with her husband, Gary. Of course they visit every quilt shop along the way!
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