National Quilting Day @ the Hudson Library & Historical Society

Enjoy the art and craft of quilting at the Hudson Library & Historical Society on Saturday, March 27. Festivities begin in the
Rotunda 11 a.m.-1 p.m. with music, demonstrations and displays by award winning quilters. The featured speaker is Fabric
Artist Rebecca Cross at 2:00 p.m. in the Flood Meeting Room. Cross will speak about and have samples of her work in the
traditional Japanese shibori process. It is done primarily in silk coupled with nuno-felting. “Shibori embeds memory in fabric
through color and form and echoes the way in which life experiences create multiple palimpsests as one proceeds forward in
time, while continually registering the accumulations of the past.”

Cross received her M.F.A. in Crafts from Kent State University, where she teaches Surface Design. Recently, she was a
Visiting Fellow teaching Composition and Art Criticism at Case Western Reserve University and an artist in residence at the
Hungarian Multicultural Center in Budapest, Hungary. She will be showing some of her work at the Artist As Quiltmaker XIV
at Firelands Association for the Visual Arts in Oberlin, Ohio this Spring.

The morning activities will feature Hammered dulcimer music by Alan Tramposch of Concord and the following
area quilters:

Judy Boyle-A seven-ribbon winner at the 2009 Streetsboro Quilt Guild Show, Judy has been quilting for 55 years. She is a
teacher of small quilts and is traditional in her design and fabric preferences. She will be joined by Vivian Copley who has
worked with appliqué. They will give away copies of the National Quilting Day’s instructions for the “Tie One On” Quilt.
Those who participate in this national project are urged to donate the 60”x60” quilt to a VA hospital, family of a serviceman
or woman or to someone serving overseas in the military.    

Julie Klopner-Having once won the Ugliest Quilt Award while in high school, Julie more recently won Best in Show, Judges
Choice and Best Hand Quilting at the 2009 Streetsboro Quilt Show. She will bring appliqué materials for demonstrations and
instruction and will display her award winning “Bug Quilt”.

Wendy Lewis- A non-traditional quilter, Wendy will be displaying her very exotic and beautiful landscape quilts. She has
 “a life long obsession with fabric combined with art” and is a designer, vendor and teacher. 

Marcy Moisoi-The owner of Katie Brooke Quilt Shop in Kent, Marcy will be demonstrating hand quilting.  She has been
quilting for 25 years and teaches quilting at the shop.

All ages are welcome and no registration is necessary. For more information, please call 330.653.6658 x 1010