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Quilters Take Manhattan on Friday

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Workshops

Crossing Paths Signature Quilt

Victoria Findlay Wolfe’s Home Classroom
Friday, September 23, Two 3-hour sessions (9:00 am – 12:00 pm and 1:00 – 4:00 pm
Tickets: $65 per person. Limited to 8 students/session. Sold out, but you can be added to the waiting list during registration.

Make some memories….and a fun Signature quilt block! Experience the precision of Sizzix and play in Victoria Findlay Wolfe’s scrap bins to make your own mini quilt.  Bring nothing but yourself to her loft home and working classroom.  All machines and supplies are provided. Registrants will be advised of location address.

 

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Friday Tours

Tours of the Garment District

Celebrity Tour Guides Paula Nadelstern, RaNae Merrill, and Diane Rode Schneck
Friday, September 23
Meeting point to be determined, registrants will be notified. Please wear comfortable shoes and leave plenty of time to arrive at your meeting place!
Tickets: $40 per person/ per tour

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9:30 am – 12:30 pm
Tour the Garment District with Paula Nadelstern, (limited to 20 people)

Quilter and fabric designer Paula Nadelstern has lived and worked in New York City her whole life. Come on a special 3-hour tour of the Garment District that starts in the Benartex office where Paula designs fabric including a glimpse at Paula’s about-to-premiere collection and the textile software she uses to color. Then you’ll go on to shop at her favorite haunts selling fabrics, beads, fabric flowers, feathers, leather, trims, buttons and more.

 

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Friday, September 23
9:00 am – 12:00 noon
Tour the Garment District with RaNae Merrill, (limited to 15 people)

Visit the fabric district of NYC with quilter, author and teacher, RaNae Merrill. During the tour you’ll visit the office of Quilting Treasures where they will present the process of creating a fabric collection, show examples of recent collections and give you a sneak peek of designs in progress. Then walk through the garment district with RaNae to explore some of her favorite fabric stores as well as bead, trim and notions shops.

 

 

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Friday, September 23
10:00 am – 2:00 pm
Tour the Garment District with Diane Rode Schneck, (limited to 15 people)

Join NYC quiltmaker and fabric fanatic Diane Rode Schneck for a shopping tour of some of her favorite stores in the Garment District and neighboring areas. Fabric, trims, beads and more, including M&S Schmalberg, Beads World and Mood! Wear comfortable shoes, bring a bag for all your treasures and be prepared to shop till you drop! [/one_third_last]

Friday Scavenger Hunt

Friday, September 23
3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
The City Quilter Scavenger Hunt
133 W 25th St, NYC (start and end)
Tickets $40 per person, (limited to 25 people)

Read instructions carefully:
For intrepid explorers with sturdy walking shoes, this will be a great way to make new friends and see the city from a quilter’s point of view. You will be walking between the Garment District and Times Square. (No cab rides allowed!)

This isn’t the sort of scavenger hunt where you’ll have to find some object hidden in a bush in Central Park. Each team will have to go to certain locations and take group selfies doing prescribed actions. We’re still working on the complete list of challenges, but you may have to visit the famous Mood fabric store and take a picture while holding clashing fabrics. Or, get your photo taken with someone walking down Seventh Avenue who looks like he/she ought to be a contestant on Project Runway. The fabric sponsor of this outing is Marcus Fabrics, so you’ll have to visit their offices in the Garment District, and take a picture of yourselves with the free fat quarters they give your group.

The hunt will begin and end at City Quilter. Event judges will examine cell phone photos from each group leader to tally the results: you can earn extra points for things like a creative team name. There will be refreshments at the end and the winning team members will receive fat quarter bundles of City Quilter’s New York City-themed fabric, as well as special winner buttons to wear at FIT on Saturday.

There will be five teams of five: you can sign up as an individual, or a group of up to 5 people. We’ll fill out the teams for parties of less than 5.

Note: additional information will be sent to those who sign up for the Hunt. You’ll receive names and contact information for your teammates a week or so before the event in September, but you won’t get a detailed list of the stops included in the Hunt until it begins on September 23.

Friday Museum Events 

Costume Tour at the Museum at FIT
Friday, September 23 – 10:00 am – 11:00 am (classroom portion; galleries open to the public from 12 pm – 8:00 pm)
Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology
Seventh Avenue at 27 Street, New York City 10001-5992
Tickets: $25 per person. (Limited to 25 people)

This hour-long tour takes place in a classroom where guests sit around a large table as the FIT Museum curator gives a brief history of fashion through the decades of the 20th century using a rack of garments from the collection. Included on the rack are designs by important American, European and international designers such as: USA – Claire McCardell, Oscar de la Renta, Adrian; France – Christian Dior, Christian Aujard, Chanel, Courreges: Italy – Valentino, Giorgio di Sant’Angelo. After the tour guests are welcome to tour the museum’s galleries. The Costume Tour ends at 11 am, but participants are invited to come back to the museum to tour the galleries between 12 noon and 8:00 pm.

 

 

 

Tour of the American Folk Art Museum
Friday, September 23, 10:30 am – 12:00 pm
American Folk Art Museum
Long Island City, Queens
Tickets: $40 per person (Limited to 25 people)

Enjoy a curator-led tour of their masterwork quilts: “Painted, Pieced, and Padded: Quilts from the American Folk Art Museum”. The group will meet in Manhattan (location to be announced) and take the subway together to AFAM.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Whitney Museum of American Art
Friday, September 23, 2:00 pm
99 Gansevort Street, New York, NY 10014
Tickets: $50 per person (includes museum admission). (Limited to 25 people)

 The Whitney Museum’s new site opened May 1, 2015 and includes approximately 50,000 square feet of indoor galleries and 13,000 square feet of outdoor exhibition space and terraces facing the High Line. An expansive gallery for special exhibitions is approximately 18,000 square feet in area, making it the largest column-free museum gallery in New York City. Additional exhibition space includes a lobby gallery, two floors for the permanent collection and a special exhibitions gallery on the top floor. We have our tour guide at 2:00 pm for an hour who will discuss the Whitney permanent collection and answer questions. Then the museum is ours to explore on our own. Instructions will be given on picking up your ticket at the museum and where and when the group will assemble.

 

Behind the Scenes at the Metropolitan Museum’s Renowned Textile Center
Friday, September 23, 2:00- 4:00 pm
1000 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10028 
Tickets: $50 per person – includes museum admission. (Limited to 25 people). Sold out, but you can be added to the waiting list during registration.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has been collecting textiles since 1879 and owns thousands of important pieces made between 3000 BC and the present including one of the world’s finest collections of quilts. Our guide inside the Met’s Ratti Center will be Amy Bogansky. She’ll show us some of her favorite quilts, guide us through the center’s restoration areas and take your questions. Participants in the tour can spend as much time as they wish touring the museum before and after our event. (The museum is open until 9 pm on Fridays.) You’ll be given instructions on picking up your ticket at the museum and where and when the group will assemble to tour the textile center.
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Friday Broadway Outing

Quilters Take Broadway: BEAUTIFUL – The Carole King Musical
Friday, September 23
7:30 pm – meeting point to be determined, registrants will be notified. Curtain time: 8:00 pm
Stephen Sondheim Theatre
124 West 43^rd Street, New York, NY 10036
Tickets: $120 per person. (Limited to 30 people)

“BEAUTIFUL is the inspiring story of Carole King’s remarkable rise to stardom, from being part of a hit songwriting team with her husband Gerry Goffin, to her relationship with fellow writers and best friends Cynthia Weil and Barry Mann, to becoming one of the most successful solo acts in music history. Along the way, she made more than BEAUTIFUL music, she wrote the soundtrack to a generation.”