Houston 2025 Class (Kit) and Lecture

 

 Hello Quilty Friends!

Last week, the announcement came out!  I am happy to say that I am one of the 91 talented professionals teaching this year during the 2025 Houston Quilt Festival! 

The 2025 Houston class catalogue won’t be available online until early May but follow along with me …. some of the classes fill on the first day!   I’ll give you plenty of notice when enrollment is announced.

 IMPORTANT NOTE:  The Houston Festival is earlier than usual in 2025. Classes start Monday October 6, Preview night is Wednesday October 8, the show runs Thursday-Sunday October 9-12, 2025.

I attended the 50^th Year celebration in Houston last year!  Now, I’m one of 17 quilters make this grand debut admist offerings of 244 classes and 25 lectures.   This year’s Houston showroom has a sampler sessions and a NEW SHOW with Ricky Tims in concert 2025! 

Below is the list of my class and the phenomenal lecture I will be presenting.

SATURDAY (early - rise and shine – my friends) OCTOBER 11 @ 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM 

LECTURE:   ADMIRING HARRIET POWERS

SATURDAY OCTOBER 11 @ 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM

CLASS:   STARDUST WONDER  (Look for a new color mixed for Houston class)

This is a stunning but nifty-quick paper piecing class on Saturday afternoon.  The class runs from 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.  I’ve prepared a supply list and precut template/kit to guarantee your success!  Bernina is providing machines for this class. 

I look forward to sharing my Saturday Morning Lecture about the Bible Quilt created in 1886 by a sassy and classy African American woman of faith. 

 

Again - I hope to see you in Houston.  If not, drop by and say hi!  I’d love to meet you.

Beverly ~ Bquiltin 

Admiring Harriet Powers Via Houston Quilt Festival

           Admiring Harriet Powers ~ Quilt Lecture 10-11-2025 

I will be presenting!!!     I'm honored and excited.   What more is there to say!

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This is ME ! 

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The Houston International Quilt Festival 2025

But please.... my world of quilt friends.... there is soooo much to do!!!!!

Mrs. Harriet Powers ~ Ten Years ago!

 The Cloud /// Web /// truly keeps a record of everything!  I posted a blog in 2013....  On that post --- Krya Hicks commented a friendly hello! Such a smart-good woman!

So - since that initial fascination with the Afrono Quilters in NE OKC, I've been telling the story!  And I'm recreating my second Harriet Powers Bible Quilt!

This was the Pictorial Quilt that my friend Annette J. re-created in 2013 that I shared with my viewers.  

In just a few days, I'll share pictures of my own #1 and #2 Bible Quilt!

 I put my heart into in 2022-Metropolitan OKC Library adventure featuring this wonderful Folk-Art Quilter from Athens, GA.  Here's the outlandish story - true!  I've to date ... lost and/or totally misplaced this quilt following my lecture!  

Phenomenal Harriet Angeline Powers #1 - YR 2022

 I’m thrilled and enthralled —-submersed in the simplify of one woman’s life.   A life well lived!  1837 - 1910

I have a brick wall in locating my family’s generation … I dived as deep as possible into census and genealogical records as possible.  Here—-10-11 years 2024 might have new leads!

So I reimagine——I lay claim to the revealed life of women who walked and quilted creative tangibles!  Harriet Powers

This will be my second lecture on her life —- a it’s getting more grounded!  Lo and behold—I really lost-misplaced——CANNOT FIND THE QUILT !!!   

So I’ve stepped up in a new arena to the my Lady’s BIBLE QUILT

 

I wouldn't do justice without giving credit to supportive quilt author Kyra E. Hicks. I guess she's been on the scene of many years.... and had certainly set an inspirational stage for persons like myself. Equally engaging is her book "Martha Ann's Quilt for Queen Victoria." I spent days learning about Liberia and its history - past and present.

This I Accomplish: Harriet Powers' Bible Quilt and Other Pieces



ALSO: check this site for explanation of 15-block on aforementioned Pictorial quilt
American (Athens, Georgia), 1895–98
Harriet Powers, American, 1837–1910

http://www.mfa.org/collections/search_art.asp?recview=true&id=116166

Annettes quilt was finished with four-12 squares across --- by four-12' squares down..... and the border! Here's more!

Sq #6

Jonah cast over board of the ship and swallowed by a fish





Sq #7
God created two of every kind,
male and female












Sq #8

The falling of the stars on Nov. 13, 1833.
My favorite - True Story!!
The varmints rushed out of their beds









Sq #9
Two of every kind
of animal continued














Sq #10

Count'em!!
Seven Vials ~ angels of wrath.



beast and 10 horns
( :))) count'em again!!!)







Sq #11

Luvin' It !

Cold Thursday, 10 of February, 1895.
A woman frozen while at prayer.
A woman frozen at a gateway.
A man with a sack of meal frozen.

Icicles formed from the breath of a mule.
All blue birds killed.
A man frozen at his jug of liquor.




Sq #12










Sq #13




Sq #14





Sq #15







Sq #16

Quilters Applique the Harriet Powers Quilt

Sq #4

Seems as if I'm looking back at past quiltin adventures with my friends... as well as cleaning out the duplicates, and re-arranging my workdesk computer files: Thus I run across Annette's 2006 quilt photographs.

Sq #3

A group of probably 4 ladies shared a quilt pattern..... and I must have been taking care of my mother or other job responsibilities. They are retired, meeting on Mondays an Fridays for several hours, so I stop by on my lunch hour to take pictures and to be inspired!

Sq #2

What I love about African Afmerican color combinations.... is that the unthinkable on the usual color wheel.... becomes really cute. Annette always shops, buys and will quilt with some orange (this with purple).


Sq #1




As a new quilter back then, we know never to stifle creativity and individual likes!



There were weekly talks about the animals, the meaning of the circus, and the whales and on and on and on.....We learned the historical facts.....
Harriet Powers was born enslaved on October 29, 1837 in Clarke County, Georgia and reportedly began quilting a pictorial masterpiece at the age of forty-nine. Though she had sewn many other quilts in her lifetime---- this quilt was to be a diary of her spiritual life. In it -- she would combine local folktales such as a cold snap which struck Athens in February of 1895 along with Biblical truths to produce a fifteen-squared quilt.

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                                Harriet Powers' Bible Quilts and her Research