Make Your Best Quilt with Lisa Erlandson of L.E. Quilts Virtual Lecture
Make Your Best Quilt with Lisa Erlandson of L.E. Quilts Virtual Lecture
Monday, February 24, 2025
6:30 PM - 7:15 PM CST
Class Fee: $15 WMQFA Member / $20 Non Member
Enjoy this Virtual Lecture from the comfort of your home, and join us over Zoom with renowned AQS Certified Appraiser of Quilted Textiles, lecturer, quilt show judge, teacher, quilt historian, and owner of L.E. Quilts - Lisa Erlandson
Lecture Description:
Make Your Best Quilt
What does a judge see when they look at a quilt? How does an appraiser determine the value of your quilt?
This lecture examines the features a judge may look for in choosing a winning quilt as well as the qualities of a quilt that may increase or decrease the appraised value. More importantly, we will talk the simple things you can do to improve your skills. Even if you never intend to enter your quilt into a competitive contest or have it appraised, you want to make the best quilt you are capable of! Tips will be given to help you make the best quilt you can, whether the quilt is heading to a contest or to cover a loved one.
This lecture will be held exclusively on Zoom. Before the virtual lecture, registered attendees will receive an email with a link. The lecture will NOT be recorded for later viewing.
About Lisa Erlandson:
Lisa Erlandson is a compulsive quilt collector whose habit has led to several quilt-related specialties.
She is an AQS Certified Appraiser of Quilted Textiles, lecturer, quilt show judge, teacher and quilt historian. She also owns Le Retreat House in Gainesville, Texas.
She learned to sew as a child but considered it punishment (and maybe it was). She re-discovered sewing in the mid 1980s as a drama teacher and made her first quilt in 1991.
Lisa has an extensive collection of antique quilts that she shares during many of her lectures. She has spoken internationally and teaches and lectures at venues from small local guilds to national quilt shows. She also judges quilt shows ranging from county fairs to statewide shows. She is a past president of the American Quilt Study Group.
She wrote the pattern instructions for quilts made by AQSG members and published in the 2013 book “Revival! A Study of Early 20th Century Colonial Revival Quilts” published by Kansas City Star Books. She has served as the designer for multiple AQSG Quilt Study books. Lisa also contributed a chapter in Mary Kerr's book "Southern Quilts."
Lisa is also a quilt maker and has quilts published in "Quilts: Patriotic and Presidential" and "The Quilter's Night Before Christmas: A Treasury of Tradition", both by Sue Reich.
Lisa has a Master of Arts degree in Public Communication from the University of North Texas.
She taught junior high school, high school and college before deciding to focus on the quilt world.
