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Karla Alexander

July Meeting Highlight: Karla Alexander’s Trunk Show

2015-08-14
By: Dawn
On: August 14, 2015
In: MPS News

Karla Alexander was the featured speaker at the July 28 MPS meeting. Karla, who lives in Salem, is a nationally known quilt designer, author, teacher, and designer of specialty rulers. Her patterns are available under the name Saginaw Street Quilt Company. MPS members were treated to a trunk show featuring many of the quilts pictured in her eight books, including her latest book Stack, Shuffle and Slide: A New Technique for Stack the Deck Quilts (That Patchwork Place, 2014). Karla’s “stack the deck” method of cutting layers of fabric and rearranging them in various clever ways results in colorful one-of-a-kind quilts. Some of the cutting is done freehand whileRead More →

Karla Alexander is coming to MPS…

2015-04-03
By: Dianne
On: April 3, 2015
In: Articles

And you don’t want to miss the opportunity to spend some time with this talented quilter! Karla will be speaking at the Metropolitan Patchwork Society’s July 28th meeting with a presentation called “Lift the Quilts out of Your Stash”.   She will encourage us to view our stash in a whole new way as she leads us on an exploration of the traditional and untraditional methods we can use for our quilting projects.  She will also inspire us to put our personal stamps on our quilts by exercising our own creativity.  She speaks to all experience levels, making her discussions enjoyable for both beginning and long-timeRead More →

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