Thom Atkins
Quilting With Beads
Have you got design, color, and hand quilting down and want to add a new element? After learning the four basic stitches to sew beads onto quilts, come and learn how these stitches add points and lines of color as well as texture. More than simple embellishment, the beads become part of the design and do the quilting as you sew them on. Learn how to use beads as an integral part of your design, and then create a quilt using lots of beads. We will also take a peek at the infinite variety of color, texture, finish, size and shape of beads and what to do with them. Lab fee: $15.00
www.thomatkins.com
Level: Confident hand quiters,
intermediate
Christine E. Barnes
Color: Many Paths, Endless Possibilities
When it comes to color, there are rules—and they work beautifully whether you’re a traditional or a contemporary quilter. Time-honored blocks are the ideal framework for learning the basic concepts of value, temperature, and intensity. Modular exercises make mastery of the color wheel liberating and fun; transparency, luminosity, and opalescence are easily explored in both traditional and contemporary formats. Students work a series of block and collage exercises, and then, on Day 3, begin a quilt in either genre. (I provide three patterns, or you can bring your own traditional pattern, contemporary pattern, or original design.) Lab fee: $10.00
www.christinebarnes.com
Level: All
Cynthia Corbin
New Directions
First the idea! Then what? How do you take an idea through a process that leads to a truly unique quilt? This class is for the student eager to use what they know about quiltmaking and take it in new directions--beginning with generating and developing their own ideas, then using an approach to design that culminates in unique and personal work. Our goal is to design quilts that work and communicate—quilts that illustrate each student’s unique personality and vision. Students will explore the use of small studies to find and evolve their ideas. The studies will be preliminary work leading to a final project to be completed in class.
www.cynthiacorbin.com
Level: All
Supply List
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
Totally Tubular Triangles and More
TOTALLY TUBULAR Strip-Piecing is an innovative combination of Bargello and Seminole but with a twist. This class is about technique and training yourself to think in new ways about creating pattern. Learn the techniques by strip-piecing yards of triangles in any size and any angle. These strips of triangles will then be used to strip-piece even more intricate and unique patterns, which will be used as components in a quilt. TOTALLY TUBULAR is a good technique to add to any quiver of quilting skills.
www.ritahutchens.com
Level: All
Deb Karasik
Fireworks
The complexity of the “Fireworks” design will capture the interest of any quilter! Deb’s lively workshop will include the basics of paper piecing the QuiltMavens™ way, the use of color and placement to make your quilts sing, and free motion and marked quilting to bring the finished quilt to life! Surface embellishment and quilting motifs will also be covered. Lab fee: $15.00
www.quiltmavens.com
Level: Intermediate to Advanced
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
Sylvia Pippen
Sashiko and Appliqué
Create your own innovative hand sashiko and appliqué quilt inspired by Japanese and Polynesian designs. Simple design concepts and exercises will help you translate your idea into a pattern. No drawing experience needed! Lots of reference material will be available to spark ideas. Discover how to choose fabrics to illuminate and give dimension to your appliqué. Learn sashiko techniques and how to form perfect appliqué shapes with the iron over Mylar method. Embroidery embellishment and the fine points of finishing quilts will be covered.
www.sylviapippendesigns.com
Level: All
Lura Schwarz Smith
Imagery and Imagination: Inks, Paints & Digital Fabrics
Using textile inks, paints, pencils, pastels and other surface design materials, students learn to enhance digital imagery on fabric. Bring any digital fabric you may have, or use the class samples provided. Also learn successful tracing, shading and inking on fabric, working onto fabric from your own photographs on paper. We will explore design elements geared for the specific application of your individual projects, create a master pattern, and explore various construction methods, including a fast, free and easy free-form curved machine piecing technique. Lab fee: $35.00
www.lura-art.com
Level: All
Mary Sorensen
Radiant Sunburst – Needleturn Hand Appliqué Workshop
Working within the structure of a 54” x 54” wall quilt, the emphasis in this class is on refining your needleturn hand appliqué technique, achieving balance and unity in combining appliqué and piecing, and working with fabric freely to create depth, excitement, and textural interest. Master fundamental needleturn techniques including sharp points, smooth curves, and perfectly round circles. Learn straight-forward methods for dealing with small complex shapes, layering fabrics without bulk, and precision placement. We will work extensively with fabric selection and placement to emphasize subtle shading and depth in floral appliqué.
www.MaryAppliques.com
Level: Confident beginner to Advanced
Mary Lou Weidman
Celebrations of Life
This class is a process class centered on a time-honored tradition of thoughts in handwork. We will be exploring ourselves and those we love. Legacy quilts are those wonderful pieces that tell volumes about the women who produce them. All of us have something special to say and our thoughts today are often connected to our past and the future. You will be telling us about the people, places, or events that have touched you in some way. This is a class that touches the heart and the funny bone. Come prepared to approach quilting from a new angle and to have your heart touched in a new way.
www.marylouquiltdesigns.com
Level: All
Session III
Artist in Resident
Karen Flamme
