2010 Class Descriptions
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See the Class Schedule for days and times of classes.
Kathie Alyce | Charlotte Warr Andersen | Maggie Ball | Sandy Bonsib | Kari Carr
Augusta Cole | Pepper Cory | Kay Capps Cross | Krista Day | Nancy Eha | Beth Ferrier
Flavin Glover | Brenda Henning | Kathleen Moorehead Johnson | Nancy Mahoney
Cathy Miller | Vikki Pignatelli | Janett Rice |
Tracy Trevethan | Laura Wasilowski
T01T: Sky Painting and Landscape Construction—
Class Length: Two Days, Thursday and Friday
Skill Level: All
Fee: $20.00 for paint and pattern
In this 2-day class, you will spend the first day hand-painting your sky fabric, and the second day, you will construct your own personal landscape scene using the basics from Kathie’s patterns. Wear old clothes or an apron for painting.
Landscape Supply List
Class Length: Full Day, Saturday
Skill Level: All
Fee: $30.00, includes pattern and template
The teacher will demonstrate all of the current variations of the Flip Flop Block using the curved acrylic template that she designed. You then will work on the design of your choice. Kathie will help with color and construction techniques. She recommends that students make a small project during class, such as a lap quilt or a placemat.
Flip Flop Supply List
Class Length: Two Days, Wednesday and Thursday
Skill Level: Intermediate
Fee: $2.00
Starting from photos, you will make patterns for realistic appliqué figures and then work through the techniques to create them. You may choose animals, landscapes, flowers, or Charlotte's favorite, portraits of people. The class is an intricate and tricky study in appliqué and reverse appliqué, but mastery of the technique is well worth the extra effort. Hand appliqué is the focus, but a machine option will be demonstrated.
Pictorial Appliqué Supply List
F02A: Machine Quilt Geometric Patterns without Marking
Class Length: AM, Friday
Skill Level: All
Fee: $3.00
This workshop involves designs, many of them of sashiko origin, which Charlotte developed on a silk quilt that she did not want to launder; therefore marking the quilt was undesirable. Using tools and techniques, you practice four to five quilting patterns from Charlotte’s book, One Line at a Time.
Machine Quilt Geometric Patterns Supply List
S02D: If I Were a Carpenter - but I'm a Quilter—
Class Length: Full Day, Saturday
Skill Level: Intermediate to Advanced
This class puts architecture into pictorial quilts. You may desire to do a rendering of your own home, a city landmark, or a world-recognized structure. Topics will cover how to go about designing a pattern, choosing fabric, and deciding whether to construct the quilt in piecework or appliqué.
Carpenter - Quilter Supply List
T03D: Gateway to Mongolia — The Ölzii or Never-ending Knot
Class Length: Full Day, Thursday
Skill level: All
The Ölzii, or never-ending knot, is a traditional Mongolian motif symbolizing the dynamic expanse of the universe and the endless cycle of rebirths. You may use either a dark or light background with contrasting ölzii and border to create this attractive crib-sized quilt. Shading with similar values in the ölzii adds to the subtle woven effect.
Gateway Supply List
Class Length: Full Day, Friday
Skills Level: All
For those who enjoy instant gratification with an element of surprise, these pinwheels will delight, excite, and may become addictive. Bethany Reynold’s Stack n’Whack inspired Maggie’s technique, but she adapted it so that the pinwheels float on the background fabric. With this simple and forgiving method, all the pinwheels have precise sharp points and look awesome.
Kaleidoscopic Pinwheels Supply List
Class Length: Full Day, Saturday
Skill Level: Intermediate
Create new and interesting blocks by inserting a lattice into a traditional favorite, the Ohio star, or select any 9-patch block. The pattern is wide open for individual interpretation, and Maggie will discuss a variety of options. Maggie encourages students to experiment by using different lattice fabrics within the block and planning a larger lattice pattern extending beyond the block boundaries to enhance the overall quilt design. Maggie’s useful tips for precise piecing of ½ square triangles will make the blocks look pristine.
Ohio Star Supply List
T04D: Patchwork Party: A Potluck of Quilts and Desserts—
Class Length: Full Day, Thursday
Skill Level: All
Choose the quilt that you want to make. To choose your favorite quilt, go to Sandy's website, www.sandybonsib.com; click on Patchwork Party: Even More Quilts and Desserts; then choose the quilt you want to make. When you click on the picture of each quilt, you will get the fabric requirements, supply list, and cutting instructions.
This collection of quilts all use two simple blocks as its building blocks: the Four Patch and the Half-Square Triangle. Sandy will provide a pattern in class, including a dessert recipe, for the quilt you choose. You are free to contact Sandy to discuss options for your quilt.
F04D: Small Bites: A Potluck of Smaller Quilts and Desserts—
Class Length: Full Day, Friday
Skill Level: All
Choose the quilt you want to make from 9 quilts in Sandy’s newest collection of colorful, diverse, and delicious dessert inspired quilts. To choose your favorite quilt, go to Sandy's website, www.sandybonsib.com, click on Fresh Out of the Oven!: Small Bites Quilts, then choose the quilt you want to make. When you click on the picture of each quilt, you will get the fabric requirements, supply list, and cutting instructions.
These quilts all use two simple blocks as their building blocks: the Four Patch and the Half-Square Triangle. Each quilt measures no more than 50 inches x 50 inches. Sandy will provide a pattern in class, including a dessert recipe, for the quilt you choose. To make a larger quilt using one of these patterns, plan on repeating the pattern the desired number of times, and adjust fabric selection and yardage needed.
S04D: Lopsided Hearts: No Seam Rippers Allowed!—
Class Length: Full Day, Saturday
Skill Level: All
Use up those extra strips from previous projects! Make scrappy blocks with hearts or other motifs in the centers; cut them askew to create lopsided blocks; then combine them to make a wonderfully fun and colorful quilt. Blocks will be different sizes; so Sandy demonstrates techniques for fitting them together. Choose a variety of fabrics in your favorite colors if you prefer that to Sandy's multi-colored quilt and come for a day of learning, playing with fabrics, and fun!
Lopsided Hearts Supply List
T05D: Ah Ha! Easy Mitered Framed Borders
Class Length: Full Day, Thursday
Skill Level: All
Fee: $9 for required pattern
Experience the fun of creating an easy mitered corner…REALLY! It is simple and fun and turns out perfect every time! With this technique you will make a quilt that features a charming scalloped border. You will want to make this unique quilt again using the optional sizes provided with the pattern.
Ah Ha! Supply List
F05D: M and M Mystery — Our Town
Class Length: Full Day, Friday
Skill Level: All
Fee: $5.00
Inspired by the beauty of a small Minnesota town, you will find this unique quilt a pleasure to sew and display. Stroll along with the fun, easy steps to decipher the clues and finish this M & M (Manageable Mystery) quilt. New and fun techniques make solving this mystery intriguing. Additional patterns using techniques will be available.
M and M Mystery Supply List
Find the cutting directions at www.NewLeafStitches.com.
S05A: Spice Rack Table Runner—
Class Length: AM, Saturday
Skill Level: All
Fee: $9 for pattern
Spice up your table with this fun topper! Easy assembly and trimming result in its unique shape, which will get rave reviews. Inside corners? No problem! 45-degree angles are a snap when using Clearly Perfect Angles (recommended notion). The quilt is adorable in any color combination for any occasion.
Spice Rack Supply List
Class Length: Full Day, Thursday
Skill Level: All
A Cutting Bee is so much fun, and this class has been getting rave reviews! You will use 1/2 yard cuts of fabric, cut strips, share with others, and begin a new scrap quilt, all in one class. You will have many, many possibilities from this sharing session. Make new friends and a new quilt to cherish forever from this group project. No two quilts will be the same
Cutting Bee Supply List
Class Length: Full Day, Friday
Skill Level: All
This quilt is so easy and yet so striking! You can use your stash and see wonderful results. For this quilt to pop, you must use a sharp contrast of lights and darks. Augusta used batik fabrics in her quilt, but regular fabrics work well also. You will make nine-patch blocks and split nine-patch blocks, and together they will form a star! This quilt has the simplicity of a nine-patch quilt as well as the flexibility of a log cabin quilt. The setting possibilities abound.
Batik Star Supply List
S06D: “Quilting in the Quarry” Mystery Quilt
Class Length: Full Day, Saturday
Skill Level: All
This quilt will measure 60” X 84” without borders. If you would like borders or if you would like a larger quilt, please buy extra amounts of fabric accordingly. I always buy more fabric than needed. My philosophy is more is better!!.
Choose a focus fabric you LOVE! Add a background and two accent fabrics. The large accent can be a medium print, and it is the larger of the two accent pieces of fabric. The small accent can be a smaller print and is the smaller of the two accents. Augusta hopes this hint will help you have a successful mystery experience.
Quarry Mystery Quilt Supply List
W07D: Two Blocks are Better Than One
Class Length: Full Day, Wednesday
Skill Level: All
Fee: $5.00
If you're the sort of quilter who hates piecing identical blocks, this is the class for you! You're never bored when creating with more than one pattern. You will design and cut a wall hanging in class.
Two Blocks Supply List
Class Length: AM, Thursday
Skill Level: All
Using narrow strips of fabric, you sew this classic block by hand in class just as the Pineapple pattern was first made in the 1800s. It's a gentle introduction to hand sewing and a great project for using scraps, even those noncotton fabrics you've been waiting to work into quilts.
Pineapple Block Supply List
F07D: Swartz Creek Scrap Quilt
Class Length: Full Day, Friday
Skill Level: All
The original quilt top features pinwheels and four-patches in a dazzling array of period prints. You assemble this quilt in rows, and you decide how big you want to make the quilt at any time during its construction. The Swartz Creek Scrap Quilt uses even tiny bits of fabric, and additionally, you will learn basic color and design rules that will aid you in designing future multifabric quilts. A fun class that both novice and advanced sewers will appreciate.
Swartz Creek Supply List
S07D: Foundation Piecing Fabulous Stars
Class Length: Full Day, Saturday
Skill Level: All
Fee: $5.00 includes patterns and 1 yard tear-away foundation
Pepper's quilt Starry Night Sampler was Oxmoor House's 1997 calendar quilt and sold over 150,000 copies. This class includes five foundation-pieced stars that build from novice to complex designs.
Fabulous Stars Supply List
Class Length: Full Day, Wednesday
Skill Level: All
Fee: $8.00 for pattern
($48.00 optional kit is available; pre-order directly from Kay)
This huge bag is great for carrying your mat and tools and fabric and sink to class. You also can use it to carry your quilts to Show-n-Tell! You can start it and finish it in this class time! Instant gratification, I‘m all for it! This class uses foundation piecing and quilting as you go. Pfaff will provide sewing machines for class.
Scrap Bag Supply List
Class Length: Full Day, Thursday
Skill Level: All
Fee: $22.00 for book
($45.00 optional kit is available; pre-order direct from Kay)
Get slap-happy and break out of the anal-retentive-mixy-matchy blues, working on a foundation-pieced, completely fun and wonky quilt. You will share strips and practice grabbing and going. No peeking allowed! Pfaff will provide sewing machines for class.
Break Out Supply List
Class Length: Full Day, Friday
Skill Level: All
Fee: $8.00 for pattern
($48.00 optional kit is available; pre-order direct from Kay)
Using the Baby, Oh Baby! pattern, you will play with texture and layering prints as you freewheel through this fun and relaxed quilt. No templates and no stress; that is Kay's kind of quilting! This class is perfect for duos working together as one person can cut free-form shapes while his or her partner stitches. Pfaff will provide sewing machines for class.
Raggy Edges Supply List
S08A: Wool and the Kattywompus Kats—
Class Length: AM, Saturday
Skill Level: All
Fee: $8.00 for pattern
($42.00 optional kit is available; pre-order directly from Kay)
Come with your hands, wool, and some groovy beads, and you will make these crazy cats. No previous beading experience is necessary. You don’t even need a sewing machine! You will play with texture, wool, and beads to create a contemporary wool table rug with personality.
Kattywompus Supply List
Class Length: AM, Thursday
Skill Level: All
Fee: $25.00 includes firing of project and all glass and tools needed
The art of glass fusion has become a high-demand process in recent years. You can learn to create a fun, one-of-a-kind piece using the trendy art of glass fusing. No prior experience is required, but check out the Fusion: Glass Jewelry class for more fun Fusion projects. You will create (1) 4 x 4 inch glass tile in class.
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F09A or T09P: Glass Fusion — Jewelry—
Class Length: Choose AM (F09A) Friday or PM (T09P) Thursday
Skill Level: All
Fee: $15 includes firing of pieces and all glass and tools needed
This class is great for glass-fusion beginners! Learn the basics of glass fusion by making three pendants. Show off your art at the show by wearing a necklace you made or give them as gifts. For more fusion projects: check out the Fusion: Glass Tile class. Pendants will be ready for pick-up after firing.
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Class Length: Full Day, Thursday
Skill Level: All
Fee: $13.00 includes thread, needles, beads, directions, etc.
Learn to replicate traditional Crazy Quilt embroidery stitches with seed beads, coined Crazy Beading by Nancy. Then explore embellishment options including petals and grapes. Nancy will also cover variations of beaded edging. Techniques taught are great for quilts, art quilts, and crazy quilts.
Crazy Beading Supply List
F10D: Beaded Dragonfly and Sashiko—
Class Length: Full Day, Friday
Skill Level: All
Fee: $25.00, includes patterns, beads, needle, thread, wings
Create an approximately 5-inch-wide by 3- to 4-inch long beaded dragonfly, complete with metallic machine embroidered translucent tulle wings. (Instructor provides premade wings.) Then pick a traditional Sashiko pattern to bead, substituting short bugle beads for thread stitches. A great addition to an Asian-inspired, garden-themed quilt or crazy quilt!
Dragonfly Supply List
S10A: Bead-dazzling Spider and Web
Class Length: AM, Saturday
Skill Level: All
Fee: $10.00 includes bead, needles, thread
Add sparkle and dimension to your quilt project with this traditional crazy quilt motif in a 3-D beaded form. The instructor will cover additional ideas for applying the beaded stitches taught in class for other motifs.
Spider and Web Supply List
S10P: 3D Beaded Ultra Suede Flowers
Class Length: PM, Saturday
Skill Level: All
Fee: $9.00
Learn several beading embellishment stitches and the beaded edging stitch as you construct and bend your flowers into 3-D shapes. The instructor encourages creativity, as no two student flowers will be alike! The instructor provides several patterns in the workshop. The flowers are a great addition to art garments or quilts.
Flowers Supply List
Class Length: Full Day, Thursday
Skill Level: All
In this workshop, you will learn how to take advantage of the speed of machine quilting without sacrificing the look of traditional hand quilting. From basting to binding, Beth will cover the basics and more. You will receive tons of information on batting, fabric, needles, threads, washing and care.
Machine Quilting Basics Supply List
F11D: Hand Appliqué by Machine—
Class Length: Full Day, Friday
Skill Level: All
This class is an introduction to all the nuts and bolts of beautiful applique. Learn how to imitate the look of fine hand appliqué with your sewing machine. Beth's nifty, deluxe appliqué technique will take you from novice to appliqué goddess in one class!
Hand Appliqué by Machine Supply List
Class Length: Full Day, Saturday
Skill Level: Intermediate and advanced
(Stubborn beginners are welcome)
You will explore scads of free-motion designs that don’t require marking the quilt, including feathered wreaths and border garlands. The instructor will discuss specialty threads and bobbin quilting.
Romancing Supply List
W12D: Introduction To Kaleidoscope Patchwork
Class Length: Full Day, Wednesday
Skill Level: Confident beginner and up
Fee: $2.00
Take another look at basic Kaleidoscopic blocks to see new design possibilities. Various-sized blocks provide the opportunity to design with a focus on color, movement, and fabric. You may wish to combine other patchwork blocks in the background to enhance movement or add intensity. As you stitch the patchwork, exciting secondary designs can emerge when the blocks are joined together.
Kapeidoscopic Patchwork Supply List
T12P: The Versatile Log Cabin Block (design class)
Class Length: PM, Thursday
Skill Level: All
Fee: $3.00
See what happens when Log Cabins join side by side with various geometric patchwork blocks. In this design and drawing workshop, break away from traditional Log Cabin; learn techniques for using a variety of block sizes and how to manipulate color to enhance your design. Go home with original design ideas sketched and color plans determined, ready to select fabrics to cut and piece.
Versatile Log Cabin Supply List
F12D: Colorful and Creative Log Cabin Diamonds
Class Length: Full Day, Friday
Skill Level: Intermediate to Advanced
Fee: $3.00
For the experienced quilter ready to create blocks full of color that look three-dimensional. Choose from a variety of blocks and design layout-grids to suit your preferences. Learn accurate, streamlined construction techniques for blocks with logs cut on 45º or 60º angles. Explore how to use color and value to enhance the illusion of depth. See the designs develop as you cut and sew blocks in class. Be inspired by Diamonds that Shine, Log Cabin Tumbling Blocks, and Rio Street Dance.
Log Cabin Diamonds Supply List
S12D: Integrating Patchwork Designs into Log Cabin
Class Length: Full Day, Saturday
Skill Level: All
Fee: $3.00
This class is a hands-on workshop for those wanting a unique Log Cabin quilt with a different look. Learn to add extra design dimension and interest by joining Log Cabin blocks with various simple geometric patchwork blocks. Use a variety of blocks or select as few as two to develop a striking overall design. The block layouts of Checkers in the Cabin and
Spring Star illustrate block possibilities. If playing with color, cutting up fabric and sewing it back together appeals to you, come ready to experiment with many blocks.
Integrating Patchwork Supply List
Class Length: Full Day, Thursday
Skill Level: All
Pre-cut 2 1/2” strip packs are so much fun! The preliminary cutting is already done. In the class, you will construct a lap-sized quilt with the strips, and you can create a second smaller design from the leftover tidbits.
Mood Swing Supply List
Class Length: Full Day, Friday
Skills Level: All
A traditional design with rays split to the center, eliminating the appliqué center. Foundation piecing is the key to success! Brenda will teach her Stitch-Press-Trim approach to foundation paper piecing. She will introduct triangulations in the pieced border.
Split Ray Supply List
S13D: Forget Me Not Table Runner—
Class Length: Full Day, Saturday
Skill Level: All
Fee: $24.00 includes book and interfacing
(you may oreder an optional complete kit directly from Brenda for $50.00)
This table runner is a terrific introduction to Quilt-As-You-Go Stained Glass. This class provides a streamlined stained glass technique using fusible interfacing, fabric glue, and fusible bias tape. You apply rotary cut strips and squares to fusible interfacing to create the body of the table runner. You use freezer-paper templates to cut the forget-me-not pieces. Learn how to place the bias tape in sequential order, negotiate curves, and miter corners. The table-runner top constructed in class will be ready to hand or machine stitch. This class is a very busy six-hour period. Most students will not actually sew in class.
Forget-Me-Not Table Runner
Class Length: Full Day, Thursday
Skill Level: All
Learn easy paper foundation piecing to make the curved flying geese. Then learn to piece the curved seams to finish the block. Kathleen will provide papers to make two blocks in class and will then talk about different ways to set your blocks to make striking quilts.
Circling Geese Supply List
Class Length: Full Day, Friday
Skill Level: All
Using Cheryl Phillips' Cut-A-Round ruler, you will cut and piece circles into their background blocks. Then you will use fusible applique to finish the leaves on the blocks. Learn to do blanket stitch by machine to finish the edges. Finally, you will do a free-form curved border to finish the quilt.
Moonlight Leaves Supply List
S14D: Stacked Four-patch Posies in a BQ Setting—
Class Length: Full Day, Saturday
Skill Level: All
This fast and easy quilt is from Debbie Bowles' pattern BQ Quilt. You will feature great fabrics in the large squares, cheater panels, or pieced blocks. This design is a great pattern when you need a quilt in a hurry!
Four-Patch Posies Supply List
Class Length: Two Days, Thursday and Friday
Skill Level: All
In this two-day class, you will learn five different feathered star blocks. You also will learn cutting shortcuts and piecing techniques for accurate triangle squares and perfect piecing results. Nancy provides optional setting instructions and pattern for each student.
Feather Star Supply List
S15D: Electronic Quilt (EQ6) Design Software
Class Length: Full Day, Saturday
Skill Level: Beginner, but you must know how to use your computer
Nancy designs all of her quilts using this versatile and user-friendly software program. She uses a laptop and projector for workshops to allow everyone to see and follow along. You will see how to develop an idea into a stunning quilt and will participate in designing the final quilt. You will gain confidence in designing quilts in this fun and informative setting. This class requires that you provide your own EQ6 manual and program that you have loaded on your laptop.
Electronic Quilt Supply List
F16A: Mock Mola: Raw Edge Machine Reverse Appliqué
Class Length: AM, Friday
Skill Level: All, but some free motion experience required
This machine appliqué class is a great way to use holy fabric that you can't bear to cut up. You will learn this technique by working on a small project using two layers of fabric, plus batting and backing. Free motion machine stitching will attach all the layers together. Then you cut out the top layer to reveal the design. All you will have to do at home is bind it!
Mock Mola Supply List
Class Length: PM, Saturday
Skill Level: All
The quilt features a very classy looking turtle, made with fabric scraps and hand appliqué. Students will learn freezer-paper appliqué using three techniques and the best situations for each. This charming turtle pattern will be ready to finish in the car or in front of the fire at home, a perfect hand work project to carry anywhere!
Turtle Supply List
T17D: Scrap The Pattern: Improvisational Curves—
Class Length: Full Day, Thursday
Skill Level: All
Fee: $6.00
This relaxing, impromptu approach to piecing curves offers students total freedom in quilt-making. With a play-as-you-go spirit, you learn to create an improvisational log cabin block or make other blocks shaped as circles, ovals, curvy rectangles or teardrops and arrange them into a free-form contemporary quilt. You also explore painless mitering, adding improvisational borders, bindings and other finishing techniques.
Improvisational Curves Supply List
F17D: Adding Dimension and Manipulations to Quilts—
Class Length: Full Day, Friday
Skill Level: All
Fee: $6.00
This class offers a no rules approach to quilt-making and surface design, so come with a playful attitude and desire to explore the unlimited possibilities. Using Vikki’s unique techniques from her second book, this fun class includes constructing improvisational pleats, strips, tubes, faced shapes, wrinkling fabric and more to obtain dimension and texture on quilt tops.
Manipulations Supply List
S17D: Color Your Quilt Beautiful
Class Length: Full Day, Saturday
Skill Level: Beginner to Intermediate
Fee: $6.00
The class begins with interactive discussions about the basic principles of color and design, especially in relation to fabrics and quilting. Vikki will cover the different types of contrasts that y ou can use in your work, juxtaposition of colors, mood, symbolism of colors, and some basic rules of design. She will devote the rest of the class to playing and experimenting freely, with the focus on color and achieving contrasts and balance.
Color Your Quilt Supply List
T18D: Fun with Design and Composition
Class Length: Full Day, Thursday
Skill Level: Beginner to Intermediate
Art quilts can be both attractive and easy if you follow a few basic concepts. Sign up for this class and have fun creating original art quilts using basic design fundamentals and some quick fusing techniques. This class focuses on exploratory technique, not a project. You will create several small art-quilt tops using the elements and principles of design.
Fun with Design Supply List
Class Length: Two Days, Friday and Saturday
Skill Level: All
Squares and rectangles form the basic shape of the majority of quilts made today. In this class, you will make collaged art quilts in any shape imaginable... and with ease. This technique lends itself to huge shape variations and fun embellishments according to the preferences of the creator. You can find photographs of several examples in the gallery at www.Janettricefiberart.com.
Carefree Collages Supply List
T19D: The Mysteries of Color Theory
Class Length: Full Day, Thursday
Skill Level: All
Fee: $10.00
Do you have trouble choosing fabric colors for projects? This one-day class introduces you to the color wheel as a quilter’s tool. Learn how colors work together and how value choices affect your quilting projects. Create your own quilter's workbook as you do exercises using fabrics and paints.
Color Theory Supply List
Class Length: Full Day, Friday
Skill Level: All
Fee: $15 includes dyes, handouts, and other equipment
In this class, you will explore a low-water immersion dye process using primary colored dyes (fiber reactive MX dyes) and the colors obtained by mixing them. You will use two different sets of primaries that will yield hundreds of colors in a wide range of values when mixed. This class will teach a practical understanding of color theory, including how to mix in grays and blacks and what their relationship is to purer, more intense hues. Using the dye-recipe handouts as a guide, you will apply the basic techniques of dyeing by dyeing value gradations, tints, shades, and textures. Sutdents will explore the process of over-dyeing as time allows.
Hand Dyeing Supply List
Class Length: Full Day, Saturday
Skill Level: All
Fee: $10.00 for pattern
It only looks complicated! This fabulous quilt features paper piecing and curve piecing. Learn the easiest and most accurate methods for these techniques! You will tackle straight-line paper piecing as well paper piecing around a curved piece. You will use Tracy’s New Firecracker Pattern.
Firecracker Supply List
Class Length: Full Day, Wednesday
Skill Level: All
Fee: $25.00 kit includes hand-out, templates, and hand-dyed fabrics and threads
Are you a frustrated interior designer? Need at least one room in your home that is neat and inviting? Like a dollhouse in fabric, create a room of your own complete with wallpaper, flooring, furniture and accessories. Learn fusing techniques like free-cutting, collage-building, bias-fusing, fused weaving, and other textural devices to make your colorful interior setting. Laura provides furniture templates and a kit of hand-dyed fabrics; just bring your imagination.
Inside Stories Supply List
Class Length: Full Day, Thursday
Skill Level: All
Fee: $25 includes flower patterns, hand out, pre-fused hand-dyed fabrics and threads, and an embroidery needle
A well-placed embroidery stitch on the surface of fabric brings a quilt to life. It lends the surface additional color, pattern, definition, and texture. In this class you will make a small flower quilt from a prefused fabric kit. Basic embroidery stitches are reviewed using brilliantly colored pearl cotton threads (also part of kit). Learn to entice the viewer closer to your art with free form, unfettered embroidery.
Stitch after Fusing Supply List
F20T: Fusing Fun! Fast, Fearless Art Quilts
Class Length: Two Days, Friday and Saturday
Skill Level: All
Fee: $20 includes hand out, fabric, and thread for initial project
Toss the templates and trash the rulers! Fusing is free-form art making at its best. Working with fusible web on fabric, discover fusing techniques like free cutting, strip fusing, confetti collage, playing blocks, and improvisational assemblage. Because fusing is fast and free, you quickly invent your own design language to explore. In this class, you will create multiple pieces of fun, fast, free, fused fiber art and get loose, really loose. As an added bonus, learn tunes from the Chicago School of Fusing Glee Club and graduate with an advanced degree in Fusology.
Fearless Supply List
Kathie Alyce
Charlotte Andersen
Maggie Ball
Sandy Bonsib
Kari Carr
Augusta Cole
Pepper Cory
Kay Capps Cross
Krista Day
Nancy Eha
Beth Ferrier
Flavin Glover
Brenda Henning
Kathleen Johnson
Nancy Mahoney
Cathy Miller
Vikki Pignatelli
Janett Rice
Tracy Trevethan
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Laura Wasilowski
