Alex Anderson
Stars
If you love stars and fabric, this class is for you! Learn the tricks of creative and successful fabric selection, accurate and efficient piecing techniques with stars made from different shapes. Based on Alex’s book, Simply Stars, this workshop will allow you to create and learn in a safe environment. Basic quilting knowledge and rotary skills required.
www.alexandersonquilts.com
Level: Confident Beginner to Advanced
Judith Baker Montano
Basic Crazy Quilting
Join Judith for four and a half days of exclusive instruction and attention in the making of a crazy quilt. Each student will create four crazy quilt squares with the choice of making them into a wall hanging or a larger crazy quilt. Judith will guide you through the basics of crazy quilting using the “Montano Center Piece Method”, color theories and fabric choices. Upon the completion of the blocks, the emphasis will be on Victorian embroidery stitches, silk ribbon embroidery, using ribbons, lace and beading as embellishments.
www.judithbakermontano.com
Level: All
Melinda Bula
Fabulous Fusible Flowers
Turn a favorite flower photo into a Fabulous Fusible Flower art quilt. Learn how to use fabric and thread, as an artist uses paint and pencil, to create a beautiful art quilt using only fabric, thread and fusing. We will start with your own flower subject matter and break it down into simple shapes to build upon. You will look through the eyes of an artist as you learn their techniques for color, layout and design while developing your own creative style. Next, you will learn how to finish your flower using Melinda’s technique, Renegade Thread Play, which is a simple method of free motion quilting.
www.melindabula.com
Level: All
Sue Benner
Floral Arrangement; Creating
Fused Flower Quilts
Beautiful flowers, concentric patterns, symmetry, block design, fusibles, using silks and sheers, and lots of fun are all included in this class. Learn Sue’s layered technique for cutting, assembling and arranging flowers as done in her extensive Flower Series art quilts. This class will give you the opportunity to use gorgeous fabrics and expansive color.
www.suebenner.com
Level: All
Sally Collins
Feathered Star Medallion
This class is developed to advance your design, color and workmanship skills. Working within the simple structure of a 15” Radiant Feathered Star block, students will have the opportunity to draft the star in any size; re-design or fracture the space within its shapes; use mirrors and fabric to color the star; then, precisely sew the star together. A pattern for my star will be provided; although, students are encouraged to design their own medallion quilt. Options and ideas for medallion style sets and borders will also be explored.
www.sallycollins.org
Level: Intermediate to Advanced
Janet Fogg
Innovative Traditionals
Innovative Traditionals is not a technique class. It is an idea generation class. Come prepared to take your favorite traditional quilt block on the journey of innovation. The first day involves visualization and group brainstorming sessions geared to move the design process along. I will show slides of my quilts and discuss how they were conceptualized and later work one-on-one with each student to help formulate a design plan for their own pieces. The remainder of the time in the workshop is spent drawing, sewing and enjoying as a group the wide variety of projects in process.
http://janetfoggquilts.home.comcast.net/
Level: All
Rose Hughes
The Dream Landscape
Ever see a beautiful scene that you know would make an amazing quilt? In this workshop you will learn how to capture and translate your favorite landscape photographs into colorful designs and unique fabric art. You will create your own dream landscape while learning and using Fast-Pieced Appliqué techniques and embellishments. Learn the secrets of how this technique uses machine piecing and appliqué to simplify complicated curves and circles.
www.rosehughes.com
Level: Intermediate to Advanced
Velda E. Newman
Creating Realism
Experimenting with fabrics to produce nature’s wide range of textures and colors is the focus of this five day workshop. We will explore the use of discharge (using bleach), ink, crayon and pencil work, foil and painting. The students will be taken through the process of developing an original composition using the overhead projector and making individual patterns. Lab fee: $20.00
www.veldanewman.com
Level: All
Kathy Sandbach
No Straight Lines Allowed . . . or very few
Machine quilting at its best -- free motion and mainly unstructured with a no-mark approach. This class is designed for all levels, from beginners to advanced.
Quilting is unmarked and sometimes unplanned. Free form, feathers, stars, vines and whimsical designs for almost every project are included with tips for perfect borders, batting, basting, binding, and blocking.
www.machinequiltlady.com
Level: All
Lura Schwarz Smith &
Kerby C. Smith
Digital Images to Art Quilts
Learn the secrets of turning your images into fabric and using that fabric to create dynamic art quilts. We will demystify the process of taking your family photographs, drawings and artwork and turning them into digital files to create unique fabric. If you bring your digital camera, award winning photographer Kerby Smith will take you on a half-day photo field trip. The goal is to print your images using pigmented inks on to six pieces of fabric as the basis for a quilt top. Lura Schwarz Smith will teach you to use various textile inks, paints and oil pastels to enhance your digital images. Techniques such as free-form paperless curved machine piecing or fusing combine your digital fabrics with other fabrics to create an exciting wall art quilt.
Lab fee: $50.00
www.lura-art.com
www.thedigitalquilt.com
Level: All
Laura Wasilowski
Fusing Fun! Fast, Fearless Art Quilts
Toss the templates and trash the rulers! Fusing is free form art making at its best. Working with fusible web on fabric, learn basic fusing techniques like free cutting, strip fusing, confetti collage, playing blocks, and improvisational assemblage. Pick up new skills in component collage, bias and texture fusing, and woodcut quilt design. In this class you will create multiple pieces of fun, fast, free, fused fiber art and get loose, really loose. Lab fee: $20.00
www.artfabrik.com
Level: All
