2026 Session 3
Instructors
Sunday, April 19 – Friday, April 24
Priscilla Bianchi
Improv Curves and Circles
This hands-on workshop introduces students to design elements and principles; creating with curves, waves, and circles. Students will be encouraged to work spontaneously and intuitively without a plan, rulers, measurements, or templates. A kit of assorted hand-woven Guatemalan textiles is the basis for creating with color, movement, texture, rhythm, and ethnic flair!
Level: All Levels
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Andrea M. Brokenshire
CANCELLED
Floral Painted Applique on Silk
Sandra Bruce
Material Matrix
This technique uses piecing (no fusing here!) to interpret a gridded image composed of 2-inch finished squares. “Teo Toucan” will teach students a whole new way of creating a photo-based image. The emphasis will be on color/ value/composition and sharpening of piecing skills. Also covered are: how to grid photos, composition, and making a matched binding.
Level: Intermediate/Advanced
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Sandi daRoza
Fabulous Florals: Unleash Your Creativity
Make an everlasting floral arrangement. Learn about color, design, composition and how to create an interesting background. Students will explore how to collage fabric using raw edge appliqué and satin stitches. Embellishing with various hand stitches: embroidery and kantha stitches to add interest. Use your imagination to create your own whimsical interpretation.
Level: All Levels
Becky Goldsmith
Independent Study
Give yourself the gift of time to sew. Tap into Becky’s extensive expertise in all aspects of quilt-making as you design, color, and construct your desired project. Whether your project is pieced or appliquéd, traditional or improvisational, geometric or pictorial, and sewn by machine or by hand, this is your opportunity to create in a beautiful, uninterrupted setting.
Level: All Levels
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David Owen Hastings
Indi-Go-Modern
This is the perfect class to use fresh blue and white fabrics, either from Japan or from your stash. Start by stitching practice blocks from blue and white paper, then translate our ideas to fabric! Develop a minimal block design, set a theme and create variations, and combine them into a clean and modern quilt. Choose between three possible designs for your blue and white quilt.
Level: All Levels
MJ Kinman
Treasure Hunting
MJ Kinman created this workshop specifically for quiltmakers who want to create a quilt in which every piece is a different size and shape. The secret is her freezer paper piecing technique that transforms ideas into reality. While MJ finds her inspiration in gemstones, your inspiration might be landscapes, florals, portraits, or abstract images. MJ’s techniques apply to them all.
Level: Confident Beginner
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Sandra L. Mollon
Sandra’s Session 5 class has been moved to Session 3 due to last minute availability!
Fused Art Quilts from Photographs
Students select a photograph they wish to work from, get it enlarged and trace a pattern from which to work. Another option is to use any pattern by Sandra, which may be appropriate for beginning students who do not have an image they want to use. Students will select appropriate fabrics to use, which are then fused into place, enhanced with media, and quilted to create an art quilt.
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Level: Confident Beginner
Carly Mul
Freestyle Color Collage
Make a collage quilt (raw edge appliqué) without any pattern or design. Your fabrics will determine the flow of the colors and the finished result. It is a method where students learn to look and “listen” to their colors and are open minded for an abstract end result. This liberating and creative art class will completely change how you look at colors and fabric.
Level: All Levels
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Jane Sassaman
Abstracting From Nature
We will examine artists’ interpretations of nature before beginning to manipulate natural forms ourselves. Choose a plant subject to work through a set of design exercises. This subject needs to have a variety of elements… blossom, stem, leaves, etc. Our goal is to discover as much about the plant as we can before simplifying and exaggerating it.
Level: All Levels
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Sujata Shah
Architectural Dimensions
Transform architectural inspiration into stunning quilts by drawing from the beauty, structure, and geometric patterns found in both rural and urban architecture as you explore key design concepts such as geometric patterns, color schemes, textures, layers, perspective, and depth. Create quilts that evoke emotional responses through space, form, and dimension.
Level: Confident Beginner
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Laurie Mutalipassi
Artist in Residence