Tracey Brookshier
Japanese Jigsaw
Tracey’s easy-to-piece design is a modern interpretation of the traditionally tricky Japanese pine bark pattern. You will learn her technique in class and apply it to the project of your choice – either a traditional lap or bed quilt; an art quilt; or a background for an appliqué quilt. (Appliqué techniques will not be taught in this class).
www.traceybrookshier.com
Level: Confident Beginner to Advanced
Jane Davila
Layers of Meaning
Working within a theme, you will create a series of small art quilts. Develop your theme using techniques such as direct and indirect inkjet photo transfers, block printing and found object printing. Explore the concept of personal imagery by creating your own motifs to incorporate into your work. Layer your compositions with collage and printing using quilting as the element of line, and end with a wide assortment of very unusual edge-finishing techniques. Lab fee: $30.00
www.janedavila.com
Level: All
Sylvia H. Einstein
Divide and Conquer
We will make a landscape with trees or blocks with shapes resembling letters or trees by cutting the fabric and inserting strips. In the first case we start with a light fabric (sky) and work from the top down. If we do blocks we choose one or several fabrics as a background and again insert strips. You can write runes (old Nordic script) and piece your name or a message. You will discover other possibilities while working intuitively in developing your own quilt.
www.sylviaeinstein.com
Level: All
Diane Gaudynski
A Quilting Journey
Take “A Quilting Journey” with Diane in this techniques oriented class. Relax and learn free motion machine quilting skills on a small pieced wall quilt that will include how to stabilize, order of quilting, design choices, choosing and quilting freehand and marked designs. Background motifs will also be explored as well as feather designs. By progressing from the beginning stages of doing the machine quilting on an actual quilt to the final border techniques, you will learn what it is like to plot and plan your next quilting adventure. Your machine skills and knowledge will improve dramatically.
www.dianegaudynski.net
Level: Experienced Beginner - Advanced
Gwen Marston &
Freddy Moran
Collaborative Quilting -
The Parts Department
This class will feature the Moran/Marston way of designing original work, which makes the job easy and fun. In the same way that you audition fabric, you can also audition the very parts themselves that make up your quilt. Making the parts first, without any preconceived idea about how they might be used, is fun, stress-free and liberating and takes the guess work out of designing.
This is a process class and is team taught by Moran and Marston. All students will get together with Freddy and Gwen for overall discussions on process and approaches to design and both teachers will be available for consultation for all students.
www.gwenmarston.com
Level: All
Ruth B. McDowell
Designing from Nature
We begin the class with an introduction to the methods and techniques I have found successful in my quilts. Then, using the images the students bring, we will discuss the translation of images from nature into pieced quilts. Each student will begin their own pieced design, using subjects and seaming techniques attractive to them. Individual time with each student will help them find options and solutions. Some students will work on developing a design within a repeated block format; others may choose to work from a full size freehand drawing.
www.ruthbmcdowell.com
Level: Advanced
Reynola Pakusich
Overlapping Circles
Using the teacher’s class-handout patterns, enjoy developing the interplay of fabrics to create circles which appear to overlap. With the teacher’s guidance in fabric selection, you will be able to make some of the circles appear to lap behind the next circle while others will appear to lap over another circle. Following work with the prepared designs, each student will be encouraged to begin an original Overlapping Circles design, make fabric selections and continue with the curved piecing construction.
www.reynola.com
Level: Intermediate to Advanced
Elly Sienkiewicz
Love Birds in a Wreath
Elly’s unique approach to appliqué eases preparation and makes the stitching both relaxing and utterly successful. Then comes delight in learning all that makes appliqué elegant: smooth flat shapes with fine definition. Learn classic miniature appliqué but also the modern ultrasuede option. Learn “off block” reverse appliqué buds and “unit appliqué” layered flowers. Inked and embroidered embellishment gives this piece a masterpiece finish. Lab fee: $8.00
www.ellysienkiewicz.com
Level: Confident Beginner to Advanced
Kerby C. Smith
Digital Photography for Quilters
The digital revolution has come to quilting and you can create fabulous fabric from your own pictures. This five day class shows you how to get the most out of your digital camera, whether it is a “point and shoot” or a 35mm digital camera. A photo walkabout gives you hands-on camera time with award winning photo artist, Kerby Smith. In the classroom you will be given a simple and easy way to process your images for printing using the inexpensive computer program, Adobe Photoshop Elements. You will learn the secrets of getting good color on fabric. Have valuable old family photos you would like to print on fabric for a special quilt? A session on restoration of old photos in Elements will be included in the class as well as a walk on the wild side for those who want to manipulate ordinary pictures into extraordinary images for printing on fabric. Lab fee: $60.00
www.thedigitalquilt.com
Quilting & Photography Levels: All
Computer Level: Intermedate
to Advanced
Marcia Stein
Picture This!
Learn to machine appliqué a quilt top using your own photo for inspiration. Choose among several methods of stitching a narrow zigzag over raw, fused, and turned-under edges. We’ll discuss how to achieve depth, when and how to add design elements, and how to simplify your design without sacrificing its essence. No drawing skills required.
www.marciastein.com
Level: Confident Beginner to Advanced
Session II
Artist in Resident
Annie Smith
