2027 Session 5
Instructors
Wednesday, April 28 – Monday, May 3, 2027
Carly Mul
Freesyle Color Collage
Freestyle color collage is a way to 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. There is a technique that you can learn to look at fabrics and what they can do for you in this creative process.
Level: All Levels
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David M. Taylor
Animal Artistry through Applique
David’s quilts are often mistaken for paintings, and that makes him very happy. His technique evolved from his love of jigsaw puzzles. Topics include a unique pattern drawing method and layered, turned-edge freezer paper appliqué. A strong emphasis is placed on fabric selection and using those fabrics wisely. Student images need preapproval by email.
Level: Intermediate
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Deborah Boschert
Photo Inspired Art Quilt Collage
Turn photographic inspiration into original art quilt collages in this creative, technique-rich workshop. Rather than simply replicating an image, you’ll learn how to identify key design elements and visual details and use them as a springboard for your own unique compositions. Explore a variety of methods for mark-making and surface design. Create layered collages using raw-edge fused appliqué. Add dimension and texture with machine quilting and hand embroidery, treating stitch as an expressive design element. Each day, Deborah will also introduce simple creative exercises designed to get your ideas flowing and support your personal art-making practice.
Level: All Levels
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Gwen Weedon
Ocean Art Quilt
In my Ocean Art Quilt workshop, you’ll learn a free-motion curved piecing technique with three guaranteed points to help you successfully create your own ocean-inspired art quilt. We’ll explore how to choose cool or warm color palettes that work cohesively to create movement and depth, using both intuition and design principles. You’ll also learn essential art quilt basics, including working with curved bias and maintaining structure. We’ll combine batiks, geometrics, hand-dyed fabrics, sea-themed prints, and familiar Grunge fabrics. You’ll complete a one-of-a-kind ocean quilt and bring home a lasting memory from Asilomar in beautiful Monterey, California—likely the first of many.
Level: All Levels
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Julia Graves
Shimmering Triangles
Make this gorgeous quilt that gives the effect of water rippling in a stream. It is a perfect pattern to showcase beautiful fabric, especially large-scale prints, but you can use any genre of fabric, including going scrappy! You will achieve the shimmer by applying easy-to-understand color and value concepts that you can also use to enhance all your future quilts! This quilt looks complicated, but it is actually quite easy to construct. You will learn a quick piecing method for half-square triangles with perfect points.
Level: Confident Beginner
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Julia McLeod
Reclamation!
Build a quilt with reclaimed textiles that demand different preparation and piecing techniques than typical quilters’ cottons. Students will learn to: identify different fibers and fabric structures; dismantle garments and ‘harvest’ usable fabric; combine varied textiles in one quilt; and accurately piece, appliqué and layer even the most challenging textiles. Traditional, modern, and art quilters will gain new skills and discover the joy of reclaiming unusual textiles.
A separate $25 kit fee applies.
Level: Intermediate
Kathy Doughty
Any Road… An Organic Applique Sampler
Organic Applique is all about using fabrics that you love to create unique projects. Any Road is made using all my favourite Organic Applique techniques, including fussy cutting, Broderie Perse, making stems, and applying composition ideas to create your own unique project. Make it as a whole cloth or compose the piece with blocks…all intensions are welcome!
Level: All Levels
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Libby Williamson
Stitch Stampede
Let’s Play with Clay …. and get Stamping! Create a collection of unique clay stamps (birds, flowers or any designs), then print the images onto fabric. Details will be added with paint markers, free-motion and/or hand sewing. These separate pieces will then be arranged and attached to the background fabric, in any shape or size, creating a wonderful composition.
Level: Confident Beginner
Maria Shell
Riffing on Tradition
In this workshop, we combine the basic design elements of art with the traditional quilt block to create interesting, new, and dynamic improv quilt units. The workshop begins with a presentation of design elements—line, shape, pattern, composition, motion, and color. We will look at a variety of quilts from all traditions of quilt making to see how individual makers use design elements to create original quilt compositions. From there, students will begin to stitch their own quilt blocks based on design elements. We will stretch, distort, bend, multiply, color, and explore our rich tradition of quilt making. The final result will be a unique quilt composition.
Level: Confident Beginner
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Priscilla Bianchi
New and Improved The Stripe Revolution!
This fun, exciting class will blow your mind! In this newly expanded version of her masterclass, Priscilla presents various techniques and ways to use stripes in quilts effectively. She demonstrates a wide array of simple and surprising ways, along with many new samples, to create an infinite variety of easy geometric shapes with stripes. Shen then encourages students to recreate all the samples, and through this experimentation, they will decide which design to focus on to make a quilt. The many samples presented, plus the kit of assorted hand-woven Guatemalan textiles (provided in class), with its incredible array of colors and patterns, offer endless creative possibilities.
Level: All Levels
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Timna Tarr
Scrappy Snacks: Small Designs with Big Impact
Learn how to play with color and pattern with a low-stakes commitment. Timna will demonstrate how to dig through your scrap bag to make stripey mini circles. Each circle is its own color study but will play well with others so you can turn them into a larger project. Be careful though, these circles are like potato chips – you will want a whole handful.
Level: Confident Beginner
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Youngmin Lee
Bojagi, Stitching Happiness
Bojagi, Korean wrapping cloths, were used not only to wrap or carry items but also to convey blessings. The act of making one is a heartfelt gesture, filled with wishes for the recipient’s happiness. Youngmin will introduce jogakbo—a patchwork style of bojagi—using distinctive techniques. Youngmin will share the secrets behind achieving the delicate transparency of jogakbo. Students will also explore the philosophy of fabric recycling and sustainability. Rooted in ancient tradition, bojagi offers endless possibilities for contemporary expression. Youngmin will guide students to create artwork through an intuitive and spontaneous design process, blending timeless craft with modern aesthetics.
Level: All Levels
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