{"id":7330,"date":"2025-10-01T19:24:52","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T02:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amadorvalleyquilters.org\/Wordpress\/?page_id=7330"},"modified":"2025-10-03T13:40:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T20:40:52","slug":"may-2026-program","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.amadorvalleyquilters.org\/Wordpress\/program\/may-2026-program\/","title":{"rendered":"May 2026 Program"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Guest Speaker: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jeanwellsquilts.com\">Jean Wells<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Lecture:  Inspired Designs<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amadorvalleyquilters.org\/Wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/JeanWells.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"260\" height=\"364\" src=\"https:\/\/www.amadorvalleyquilters.org\/Wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/JeanWells.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7332\" style=\"width:259px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.amadorvalleyquilters.org\/Wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/JeanWells.png 260w, https:\/\/www.amadorvalleyquilters.org\/Wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/JeanWells-214x300.png 214w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Jean has been quilting for the last thirty-nine years, writing books, and operating The Stitchin\u2019 Post (stitchinpost.com)&nbsp;&nbsp;in Sisters, Oregon. During that time she has experimented with many different piecing and quilting techniques and worked in series that became books and lectures sharing her ideas with thousands of people. The latest \u201cseries\u201d to become a book the summer of 2012 is Journey to Inspired Art quilting. My quilts have been juried into many of the International Quilt Festivals in Houston, the Pacific West Quilt Fest, Mancuso shows in San Francisco, and reside in private collections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She mostly cuts free-hand, creating organic style line work. Recurring themes in her quilts have to do with natural configurations &#8211;rocks, trees, grasses, flowers, and the landscape. They are the common thread running through her mind as she works intuitively designing quilts letting the design take on a shape of its own. Nature and the world around her is her main source of inspiration. She is fascinated with line, pattern, color, and texture and how to design with these elements. In this ongoing process exploration is her theme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can see her commissioned quilts at the Five Pine Conference Center, Sisters City Hall, and Shibui Spa here in Sisters, Oregon; and Gateway Canyons in Colorado.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In July 2010, Jean became the 40th inductee into the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.quiltershalloffame.net\/celebration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Quilter&#8217;s Hall of Fame<\/a>&nbsp;in Marion, Indiana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jean&#8217;s favorite quote is &#8220;Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.&#8221;<br>&#8211;Ralph Waldo Emerson<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">No Workshop in May<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guest Speaker: Jean Wells Lecture: Inspired Designs Jean has been quilting for the last thirty-nine years, writing books, and operating The Stitchin\u2019 Post (stitchinpost.com)&nbsp;&nbsp;in Sisters, Oregon. During that time she has experimented with many different piecing and quilting techniques and &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amadorvalleyquilters.org\/Wordpress\/program\/may-2026-program\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":3907,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-7330","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amadorvalleyquilters.org\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amadorvalleyquilters.org\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amadorvalleyquilters.org\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amadorvalleyquilters.org\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amadorvalleyquilters.org\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7330"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.amadorvalleyquilters.org\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7402,"href":"https:\/\/www.amadorvalleyquilters.org\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7330\/revisions\/7402"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amadorvalleyquilters.org\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amadorvalleyquilters.org\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}