2027 Session 4
Instructors
Friday, April 23 – Wednesday, April 28, 2027
Becky Goldsmith
Choose Your Own Adventure: Independent Student
Give yourself the gift of time to sew! Join Becky and lean on her years of quilting know-how as you design, color, and bring your project to life. From designing and choosing colors to piecing, appliqué, and everything in between, you’ll get the support you need. Whether you love working by hand or machine, prefer traditional or improv, geometric or pictorial, this class is your chance to dive into what you love most. Bring a brand-new idea or a work in progress—either way, you’ll feel right at home!
Level: All Levels
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Carolina Oneto
Improvisational Garden
In this 5-day retreat, we will explore color in motion — creating our own fabrics that transition through hue, value, and saturation across the full chromatic sphere. These color transitions will form the foundation for expressive, abstract flowers. Once our blooms are complete, we’ll design and piece improvisational backgrounds that bring rhythm, depth, and harmony to each composition. Carolina will guide you through color exploration, fabric creation, and composition development, helping you craft a vibrant, personal quilt where color and form flow together naturally.
Level: Intermediate
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Jamie Kalvestran
Quilt Like An Artist – Faces & Figures
I want you to fall in love with the work you create! This workshop is a deep dive into the experimental “Quilt Like an Artist” method, where you’ll design and stitch a figurative-portrait art quilt using a series of approachable, “easier-than-they-look” techniques. Together, we’ll explore the art of creating faces and figures while uncovering your unique artistic voice, in a process that is playful, liberating, and full of delightful surprises.
Level: All Levels
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Kathy Doughty
Star Tracking
You will love this class if you enjoy making dynamic designs with simple techniques using 60 degree angles. Star Tracking comes alive using scraps or a coordinated collection of fabrics in diamonds, triangles, and strips. Feel free to make it as you see fit or play with the shapes to create your own design.
Level: Confident Beginner
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Libby Williamson
Tea Bag Revival
Paper tea bags, steeped, dried, and emptied, are the foundation for these magical artworks. By applying paint with mark-making techniques, a stash of beautiful paper and fabric will be created. The tea bags are then collaged, free-motion, and hand-stitched. These precious pieces are arranged onto fabric to create a wondrous composition in any theme you choose.
Level: Confident Beginner
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Lisa Mortell
Garden Friends
Whether you’re interested in creating the entire quilt or simply want to make a single block, this class will guide you through every step of the embellished wool appliqué and embroidery process. You’ll learn how to prepare pattern pieces, achieve a precise layout, and master a flawless appliqué stitch for raw-edge wool. From there, we’ll explore a wide variety of embroidery stitches and discover creative ways to combine them in ways you haven’t tried before. By the end of the class, you’ll leave feeling confident and inspired, ready to complete this quilt or take on any embellished wool appliqué project.
A separate $25 kit fee applies.
Level: All Levels
Maria Shell
Get in Shape
One of the most important design elements is SHAPE. In this workshop, we GET IN SHAPE by identifying and using shapes from our everyday lives to create dynamic quilt compositions. We will explore the following improv techniques: finding inspirational shapes in our daily lives, translating those shapes into piece work that we can use as subject matter for our quilts, and arranging those shapes into dynamic pieced compositions that feature excellent figure-ground relationships!
Level: Confident Beginner
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Sandra Bruce
Scrap Vortex
As quilters, what do we all have, regardless of the kinds of quilts we make? Scraps! Put those saved scraps and treasured bits to work to create a beautiful Scrap Vortex quilt. Many block styles and techniques are used to achieve a lively menagerie of color. You can create a rainbow effect or a more striped look in almost any size or configuration. There are no limits—this may be the most freeing quilt you’ll ever make. All types of fabric are welcome, from batiks and focal prints to stripes, polka dots, and solids. This workshop guarantees fun and new ways to combine materials in ways you may never have considered before.
Level: All Levels
Sandra Mollon
Art Quilts from Photographs
Learn to adapt a photograph into a realistic art quilt. Workshop participants select an image 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. Cutting your pattern, choosing fabrics and fusing them into place, the use of media, and quilting techniques are all covered during the workshop.
Level: Intermediate/Beginner
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Stacey Coffee
From Photo to Fabulous
You’ll learn to create one-of-a-kind textile art using raw-edged applique and your favorite photograph. I’ll guide you through every stage of the creative process—from selecting a great image, choosing the perfect fabrics, and how to design your own unique pattern. We’ll cover how to design a background that enhances your subject and explore techniques to add depth and dimension with free-motion quilting. And the best part? During 1-on-1 instruction with me, you’ll master the secrets behind creating realistic eyes using silk and mixed media. Students are always amazed at what they’re able to accomplish in this fun, immersive workshop.
Level: All Levels
Veruschka Zarate
Nordic Whimsy
Nordic Whimsy is a technique-forward quilting workshop that explores how Foundation Paper Piecing and turned-edge appliqué can work together within a single, cohesive design. Drawing inspiration from Scandinavian folk art and modern geometry, this class teaches students how to strategically assign structure to FPP elements while using appliqué to introduce movement, softness, and decorative detail. Students will learn how to plan and construct a mixed-technique composition, focusing on precision piecing, seam direction, alignment, and shape continuity within FPP units, alongside appliqué preparation using freezer paper, starch, and glue-basting for clean, professional edges. Emphasis is placed on construction sequencing, layering order, and decision-making, helping students understand not just how to execute each technique, but when and why to use them together. This workshop centers on transferable skills and problem-solving strategies that empower students to confidently combine FPP and appliqué in future quilts and original designs. Students leave with a deeper technical understanding and a versatile framework for approaching mixed-technique quilting with intention and creativity.
Level: All Levels
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Vicki Assegued
Marvelous Mixed Media Weaving on a Simple Loom
Weaving is an exceptionally satisfying art form, especially when learning the basics, and then going way beyond them to create a super vibrant and exciting piece. In this workshop, you’ll learn many stitches and techniques for creating a fabulous and unique weaving, filled with color, texture, multiple fibers, fringes, tassels, and decorative elements. No art or weaving experience is necessary, and all levels are most welcome.
Level: All Levels
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