Esterita Austin
Realism to Abstraction
In this class you will be guided through a series of design exercises to create an original abstract composition. Using your own photograph as a starting point you will be shown how to translate your design into a workable pattern and from there create an original fiber composition. A variety of fusing and painting techniques will be incorporated in the construction. Lab fee: $20.00
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Level: Intermediate - Advanced
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Judith Baker
Montano
Landscape / Seascape
Create a One-Of-A-Kind art piece that can be framed and hung with pride in your home. Judith will guide you through the process of creating a fine art landscape or seascape using fabrics instead of paint and using threads and ribbons for texture. You will learn how to use traditional embroidery stitches for added details. This seminar takes you from crazy quilting to fiber art at its most creative.
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Level: All
Sue Benner
Composition Quartet: four techniques
for fused quilts
Each day of this workshop is devoted to different composition challenges. Day one explores squares and rectangles, day two experiments with curvilinear shapes, day three works with the collage-and-cut process and day four deals with landscape. Using step-by-step directions with lots of creative options, each student will make four small quilts. Sue will also cover fusible basics, working with non-traditional fabrics. By the end of this workshop experience, construction ideas will abound!
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Level: All
Nancy S. Brown
Wild Animal Hand Appliqué Featuring the Undersea Wall-Hanging
In the first part of this workshop you will learn all about hand appliqué while working on a long wall-hanging (8 ½ x 41”) depicting ocean life from a shorebird on top to a deep sea anglerfish on bottom with a tide pool, a sea turtle, a monk seal and a jellyfish in between. Basic needleturn techniques as well as curves, points and how to layer complex appliqué patterns will be covered. Once the basic techniques are understood you will learn how to design an appliqué pattern of your favorite animal from a photograph, how to choose fabrics and how to execute your pattern. No drawing experience is required. You can then choose to work on the undersea pattern or your own individual project or both.
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Level: Confident Beginner to Advanced
Melinda Bula
Fabulous Fusible Flowers
Turn your favorite flower photo into a Fabulous Fusible Flower art quilt. Learn how to use fabric and thread like an artist uses paint and pencil to create a beautiful art quilt. You will start with your own flower picture and break it down into simple shapes to make your own pattern. You will look through the eyes of an artist as you learn techniques for picking the right color while developing your own creative style. Next, you will learn how to finish your flower using Melinda’s technique, Renegade Thread Play, which is a simple method of free motion quilting. Optional Lab Fee: $20.00 for limited edition pattern.
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Level: All
Sally Collins
Feathered Star Medallion
This class is developed to advance your design, color and workmanship skills. Working within the simple structure of a 15” Radiant Feathered Star block, students will have the opportunity to draft the star in any size; re-design or fracture the space within its shapes; use mirrors and fabric to color the star; then precisely sew the star together. A pattern for my star will be provided although students are encouraged to design their own medallion quilt. Options and ideas for medallion style sets and borders will also be explored.
www.sallycollins.org
Level: Intermediate to Advanced
Jeannette DeNicolis Meyer
Working in a Series
In this class we will work in a series to explore how design, composition, and construction choices enhance and support the intent of our artwork. Starting with some loosening-up design exercises, students will generate several compositional ideas before beginning their initial series in which they will play with figure and ground, color and contrast, line and shape, texture and depth. Students will use the information, ideas, and inspiration from this series to begin their next, more personal one. Lab fee: $10.00
www.jdmeyer.com
Level: All
Lynn Koolish
Piecing Ruth McDowell Style
Either as preparation for Ruth McDowell’s Designing From Nature class or on its own, this workshop will give you the skills you need to machine piece a quilt using the techniques and blocks from Ruth McDowell’s piecing books. The class includes piecing practice as well as discussions of design, color, fabric selection, and how to make borders an integrated element of your quilts. You will also be able to select a project from any of Ruth’s books to work on.
www.lynnkoolish.com
Level: All
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Cindy Needham
Creative Machine Quilting – Breaking out of your box!
This class is designed for those quilters desiring a creative foundation in their machine quilting skills. Your week will begin with instruction on different basting techniques and free motion quilting designs. You will be treated to an Open Thread Bar where you will learn to successfully use decorative threads in your machine and learn to do thread painting. A day devoted to creating a vintage linen wholecloth quilt will finally solve the dilemma of what to do with Grandma’s old linens! Lab fee: $10.00
www.cindyneedham.com
Level: Confident Beginner to Advanced
Brenda Papadakis
Dear Jane
At last you have a chance to be immersed in stitching your Dear Jane® quilt! Spend five glorious days making blocks and triangles. You will learn twelve techniques that you can use making your Baby Jane. Appliqué, hand-piecing and accurate machine piecing with freezer paper templates are a few of the skills you will learn making these four-and-a-half inch blocks. Learn the “Jane Tricks” of several of the more difficult blocks in Jane’s Civil War quilt. A few of these challengers are Papa’s Star, Wagon Wheel, Junko’s Rose Garden and “Nasty” Nan’s Naiad.
www.dearjane.com
Level: All
Carol Taylor
Piecing It Together with Circles &
Sensuous Lines
Carol will teach 20 different improvisational piecing techniques and really free ways of creating designs. Learn to play with color, value, and design without anxiety. We’ll make strip sets, circles, offbeat squares, skinny lines, couching and even add a little fusing. You will be encouraged to experiment with color, value, and design. All construction methods are fast and easy! Tired of that precise cutting and those exacting patterns? Then this is the workshop to free you up, expand your creativity, and allow you to just have fun with some spontaneous sewing.
www.caroltaylorquilts.com
Level: All
Session I
Artist in Resident
Joe Cunningham
