Rosemary Eichorn
Fabric Collage With Exquisite Embellishment
Develop your quilting design potential using fabric collage to make an art quilt or artwear such as a jacket or vest. You will learn the techniques in Rosemary’s classic book, The Art of Fabric Collage and then stretch to include those elegant laces, ribbons, silks and satins you have been collecting. Free motion stitching methods using traditional and novelty threads will be incorporated. We will also include embellishment techniques such as bobbin couching, beading and distressing fabrics, surface design techniques, and alternative materials such as Tyvek, Fantasy Film, Crystalina and Angelina fibers and metal shim. Lab fee: $10.00 - $15.00
www.sewjourn.com
Level: Confident Beginner to Advanced
Ann Fahl
Garden Embroideries
Stitch your favorite garden flowers and leaves in a warm patchwork setting. Students will explore the possibilities of pieced environments for use as a background. This becomes a foundation for a garden design with: fused fabric, machine appliqué, free-motion embroidery, and exploration of thread on your garden favorites. Methods of machine quilting will be discussed as well as other embellishment possibilities. This class is designed for the student that wants to fully explore the use of free-motion embroidery and original design.
www.annfahl.com
Level: Intermediate to Advanced
Cara Gulati
3-D Explosion
Would you like to create your own art quilt, but not sure where to start? Learn to draw curved lines and choose fabrics to create an explosion of the third dimension- depth! Then construct your new creation and get suggestions for the quilting design to enhance the illusion.
www.doodlepress.com
Level: All
Jan Krentz
Beyond Lone Star Design
Experience an adventure with the NEW Lone Star quilt. Learn basic construction techniques, precision piecing and design methods. Create your own contemporary Lone Star quilt design with exciting options. Class incorporates a variety of quilting techniques including design, basic drafting, rotary cutting, piecing, blocking paper foundation piecing, and set-in seams.
www.jankrentz.com
Level: Intermediate to Advanced
Suzanne Marshall
Nine Wacky Birds
Hand stitching a “wacky bird” is bound to make you laugh! What could be more fun than that? Each student will receive nine wacky bird patterns from which to choose – the birds distinctly different from each other. Tips will be given for needle-turning and perfecting sharp points, inside curves, rounded corners and smooth edges. We’ll use take-away appliqué for pattern placement (no markings on the background or transparent overlays), making the multi-pieced bird fit together with ease. Embroidery will help define the bird from the background. Lab fee: $18.00
www.suzannequilts.com
Level: All
Peggy Martin
Paper Piece the Quick-Strip Way
Love to paper piece but hate the slow pace? Quick-Strip Paper Piecing revolutionizes paper piecing by making it much faster, easier to learn, and almost foolproof! Blocks are quickly pieced by sewing multiple units on strips with an assembly-line technique. Simplified methods for drafting your own blocks and borders will also be presented in class, from simple to complex designs. Choose blocks you have designed to make your project (or select blocks from my two books Quick-Strip Paper Piecing and Paper Piece the Quick-Strip Way). Easy for beginners to learn and a fast, fun technique for all skill levels.
www.peggymartinquilts.com
Level: All
Katie Pasquini Masopust
Transforming the Still Life
We will work from a white still life, drawing it in many different ways to learn about value, shadows, texture, highlights and different kinds of perspective. This is a drawing class so don’t be afraid if you can’t draw, we will learn how to draw together by learning to really see through blind contour drawings. We will add color, exploring many different color schemes and their impact. Then images will be projected on to the still life to create color, texture and drama. Several abstract drawings for quilts will be the end product of the class. Lab fee: $10.00
www.katiepm.com
Level: All
Velda E. Newman
Creating Realism
This class throws all the rules of stringent design out the window. First we will explore lots of machine techniques for texture and shape. Next will be the basic lessons for how to paint on fabric using acrylics, along with how to paint “shape” into a piece. We will also be using other mediums such as watercolor pencils, pastels & crayons.
Subjects that work well for this class are fruit, vegetables, shells, baskets, flowers or leaves. Once the techniques are mastered, you can move on to your own ideas for composition. Lab fee: $20.00
www.veldanewman.com
Level: All
Laura Nownes
Two (or More) Quilts From
One Cut of Fabrics
There are a variety of patterns that can be created from the same cut of fabrics. Choose from one of the designs Laura has made or come with a willingness to be inspired and create your own. The goal is to have fun strip piecing fabrics of your choice, then cut them to make two (or even more) quilt tops. Don’t plan to ask for a take home bag as there will be no leftovers from this class!
www.dianaandlaura.com
Level: All
Louisa L. Smith
One Patch Plus
In just three easy steps: Color, Design and Theme, we will create beautiful quilts. Starting with a color source such as a picture or photograph, collecting the fabrics you see in this source, designing with simple shapes the base (or quilt top) and by embellishing further on the theme. Some of the designs we will explore are: The Kite, The Half Clamshell, The Curved Diamond, the Curved Kite, The 6” Flowing Ribbon and “Quick & Easy Ninepatches”, etc.
www.quiltescapes.com
Level: All
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 V
Artist in Resident
Rhonda Montgomery
