Sue Benner
Floral Arrangement:
Creating Fused Flower Quilts
Beautiful flowers, concentric pattern, 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. Plus, this construction method can be applied to other designs. Create a small study quilt, then move on to a larger, more involved art quilt.
www.suebenner.com
Level: All
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Sandy Bonsib
Sweet Treats--Quilts and the Recipes that Inspired Them
Create any quilt from Sandy’s book, Sweet Treats. This book features twelve dessert-inspired quilts with delicious names like Key Lime Pie (shown), Caramel Sundae, Mud Pie, Chocolate Decadence, and Apple Crisp, to name only a few. Ten matching recipes from Sandy’s kitchen are included in the book. All of these quilts look intricate, but are easy to make from just 2 simple blocks. In addition to spending a relaxing week of sewing on the dessert quilt you choose, you will also learn Sandy’s secrets for working with color and value principles in simple, straight-forward quilter’s language.
www.sandybonsib.com
Level: All
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Circles and Squares
This class is developed to advance your color, design and workmanship skills while working within the structured style of a Mandala and eight divisions of a circle. This style of quilt is designed symmetrically, incorporating concentric circles and squares and radiates from the center out. Using mirrors for both design and color composition, students are encouraged to compose their own quilt although a pattern and instructions for the class project, with additional borders, will be provided. Students will construct their quilt using precision sewing techniques, rotary cutting and templates to achieve quality workmanship. Borders options will also be discussed.
www.sallycollins.org
Level: Intermediate to Advanced
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Ann Fahl
Garden Embroideries
Put your favorite flowers in a warm patchwork setting. Students in this workshop will explore the possibilities of pieced environments for use as a background. This becomes a foundation of your project for the week. We will fuse a garden design, learn the basics of free-motion embroidery and thoroughly discuss decorative thread, its uses and challenges. Methods of machine quilting will be discussed as well as other embellishment possibilities. This class is designed for the student that wants to fully explore the use of the sewing machine to create an original design.
http://www.annfahl.com
Level: Intermediate to Advanced
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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 blocks on the journey of innovation. The first morning involves visualization and creative group brainstorming sessions geared to move the design process along. I show slides of my quilts and discuss how they were conceptualized and later that day begin work facilitating group discussion enabling each student to formulate a design plan in their own pieces. The remainder of time is spent with the students drawing patterns and sewing their quilts. Instructions on pattern drawing and curved machine piecing will be covered in class.
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Level: Confident Beginner to Advanced
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Cara Gulati
Curves for Cowards
Do curves in quilts make you quiver with fear or delight? In this 5 day workshop we will explore different techniques from curved-seam piecing to appliqué so that you can conquer your fears and delight your senses! Color gradations will be explored because they are fun and effective. You will be designing your own blocks from which you can choose to make a top or to start a new project. If desired, machine quilting and binding by machine demos will be offered. In the end, you will be delighted that all your fears are gone! See you there!
www.doodlepress.com
Level: All
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Cindy Needham
Stepping Stones to Beautiful Quilting
This class will provide you with a solid foundation of machine quilting skills and techniques. Your week will begin with guidance on free motion quilting designs and techniques, special basting techniques and tips. You will be treated to an Open Thread Bar where you will learn to successfully use decorative threads, learn to do thread painting and embellishing. You will also participate in a design workshop where you will learn to make good choices in your quilting designs using your own unquilted tops and learn to create a linen wholecloth quilt out of antique linens. My stencils are available for your use in designing and marking your tops. Lab fee: $10.00
www.cindyneedham.com
Level: Confident Beginner to Advanced
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Katie Pasquini Masopust
Transforming the Still Life
We will work from a white still life, drawing it in many different ways to learn about value, shadows, texture, highlights and different kinds of perspective. We will learn how to draw together by learning to really see through blind contour drawings. We will add color, exploring many different color schemes and their impact. Then images will be projected on to the still life to create color, texture and drama. Several abstract drawings for quilts will be the end product of the class. Lab fee: $10.00
www.katiepm.com
Level: All
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Barbara Shapel
Painted Color Blocks
This class is for the individual who is interested in creating an original fiber art piece. Participants will create a quilt using 5-9 different fabrics cut into any size blocks and circles they want (no pattern will be given). In addition, students will paint a feature block that will be used in the quilt. We will be discussing proportion and the Golden Rule, design elements, and working successfully with color. Machine appliqué techniques will be used, along with free-motion machine quilting techniques to finish your piece. Lab fee: $10.00
www.barbarashapel.com
Level: Intermediate
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Kerby C. Smith
Point and Shoot Fabric
Use your “point and shoot” digital camera to create your own quilt fabric. Improve your picture taking skills on a photo walkabout led by award winning photo artist, Kerby Smith. In the classroom you will be given a simple and easy way to process your images for printing on fabric using the computer program: Adobe Photoshop Elements. Improve the quality of your family photos for a memory quilt. Use the pictures you take or scans of your old photos to learn the secrets of getting good color on fabric. In class, select your best images to be printed on fabric for your quilt project. Lab Fee: $60.00 (includes the fabric we print for you in class)
www.thedigitalquilt.com
Quilting Level: All Photography Level: Beginning
(Point and Shoot Cameras Only)
Computer Level: Intermediate
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Mary Lou Weidman
Celebrations of Life
This class is a process class centered on a time honored tradition of thoughts in handwork. We will be exploring ourselves and those we love. Legacy quilts are those wonderful pieces that tell volumes about the women who produce them. All of us have something special to say and our thoughts today are often connected to our past and the future. You will be telling us about the people, places, or events that have touched you in some way. This is a class that touches the heart and the funny bone. Come prepared to approach quilting from a new angle.
www.marylouquiltdesigns.com
Level: All
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Session I
Artist in Residence
Wilda Northrop
