Schweinfurth hosts quilting classes

AUBURN -- The Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center hosted the last in its series of quilting classes taught by quilting experts from around the globe on Sunday.

The Schweinfurth's extremely popular Quilts=Art=Quilts exhibit draws many locals, but the quilting workshops this year -- an extension of the "Quilting By the Lake" series -- drew students from across the United States and Canada.

The workshops, which, span over three weeks, teach quilting students everything from fundamental techniques such as "piecing" to more advanced and little-known procedures such as fabric dying and "Nuno" felt making, the focus of one of yesterday's classes.