Location: Shenendehowa United Methodist Church
Time: 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Member cost: $50; non-member cost $60; plus $2 for foundations

Using just six different foundation units from Carol's newest book, Carol Doak's Simply Sensational 9-Patch Stars, learn how to create dozens of star block easily and accurately using mix and match options and different fabric placement opportunities. The point, corner and center units in this newest book offer the opportunity to create over 2500 9-Patch Star blocks and the creative techniques you learn in this workshop will offer amazing creative opportunities using quick and easy foundation units.

About the artist taken from her website:

As a best-selling author, celebrated teacher and lecturer and award-winning quiltmaker, Carol Doak has geatly influenced the art and craft of quiltmaking for more than a decade, both in the U.S. and internationally. Her accomplishments include a sizable collection of popular books - Easy Machine Paper Piecing, Easy Paper-Pieced Keepsake Quilts, Easy Mix & Match Machine Paper Piecing, Show Me How to Paper Piece, Easy Reversible Vests, Easy Paper-Pieced Miniature Quilts, Your First Quilt Book (or it should be!), Easy Stash Quilts, 50 Fabulous Paper-Pieced Stars, Easy Paper-Pieced Baby Quilt, 40 Bright and Bold Paper-Pieced Blocks, 300 Paper-Pieced Quilt Blocks, Simply Sensational 9-Patch Stars and her recent release, Mariner's Compass Stars, is receiving rave reviews

Carol also released an updated version of her best-selling Easy Reversible Vests. With over one million books in print, it is no secret that Carol has raised the popularity of paper piecing, her trademark technique, to heights never before seen in the world of quiltmaking.

See some of her work and read more about her at her website: www.caroldoak.com.

Carol is also our November presenter; her lecture on Monday, Nov. 2, 2009 is entitled "Medallions Magic" and is teaching "Fire and Ice Mariner's Compass Stars" on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009.