Ann Fahl
Garden Embroideries
Stitch your favorite garden flowers and leaves in a warm patchwork setting. Students will explore the possibilities of pieced environments for use as a background. This becomes a foundation for fused fabric, machine appliqué, free-motion embroidery, and exploration of thread on your garden favorites. 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 free-motion embroidery and original design.
www.annfahl.com
Level: Intermediate - Advanced
Gail Garber
The Goose Is Loose
Understand the process of creating your own original design star quilt. All aspects of this type of contemporary quilt design will be covered from stars, to borders, to free-form flying geese. It’s simple and easy with a ruler and a compass, even for those of you who hate math. We will start with design, drafting and color theory. Once you feel comfortable with the drafting, you will continue developing and stitching your own design.
www.gailgarberdesigns.com
Level: All
Diane Gaudynski
A Quilting Journey
Take A Quilting Journey with Diane in this techniques oriented class. Learn free motion machine quilting skills on a small pieced wall quilt that will include stabilizing, order of quilting, design choices, freehand and marked designs. Backgrounds will also be explored as well as feather designs. By progressing from the beginning stages of machine quilting an actual quilt to the final border techniques in it, you will learn what it is like to plot and plan your adventure yourself after you leave this exciting class.
www.dianegaudynski.net
Level: Experienced Beginner - Advanced
Peggy Martin
Paper Piece the Quick-Strip Way
Love to paper piece but hate the slow pace? Quick-Strip Paper Piecing revolutionizes paper piecing by making it much faster, easier to learn, and almost foolproof! Blocks are quickly pieced by sewing multiple units on strips with an assembly-line technique. Simplified methods for drafting your own blocks will also be presented in class. A variety of blocks and borders will be explored, from simple to complex designs. Lab fee: $5.00
www.peggymartinquilts.com
Level: All
Ruth B. McDowell
Designing from Nature
We begin the class with an introduction to the methods and techniques I have found successful in my quilts. Then, using the images the students bring, we will discuss the translation of images from nature into pieced quilts. Each student will begin their own pieced design, using subjects and seaming techniques attractive to them. Individual time with each student will help them find options and solutions. Some students will work on developing a design within a repeated block format; others may choose to work from a full size freehand drawing.
www.ruthbmcdowell.com
Level: Advanced
Susan Louise Moyer
Silk Painting, Color, Design & Reverse Appliqué
The focus of this workshop is to create beautiful patterns and textures on silk that can be incorporated into a reverse appliqué design. Flowing iron set paints, water-soluble resists and wax will be used to create washes, shades and blends, texture, images and design. Students will learn a simple reverse appliqué technique and progress toward developing a more original design that incorporates the unique silk patterns they will create during class. Lab fee: $55.00
www.moyerdesign.com
Level: All
Sylvia Pippen
Tropical Fusion: Combining Hand Sashiko, Embroidery and Appliqué
Design and construct a wall hanging inspired by the flamboyant flowers and quilt traditions of the Pacific Islands. Learn how to use Japanese and Polynesian designs in your pieced or appliquéd quilts. Embellish your quilts with Japanese Sashiko, Tahitian Tifaifai embroidery, and learn appliqué techniques: Hawaiian needle turned, paper pieced, iron over templar, curves and points. Color choice, design concepts, and the fine points of finishing quilts will be covered.
www.sylviapippendesigns.com
Level: All
Louisa L. Smith
A New Twist on Strips ‘N Curves
If you enjoy strip-piecing, this is the class for you! This class has put a new twist on the procedure of Strips and Curves. Some of the new designs include: The Swirl, Half Clamshell, Free-Form Curves, Strips ‘n Circles as well as Crosscutting and Overlapping, which will use the old familiar template sets. If you have experimented with Strips ‘n Curves before or if you are a first timer, the creative designs from my new book, will definitely inspire you.
Lab fee: $9.95 - $49.95
www.quiltescapes.com
Level: All
Carol Taylor
Sensuous Lines, Curves, Circles & Use of Value
This workshop is a combination of three of Carol’s workshops that feature couched yarns as a main design element. Sensuous Lines & Curves, Arc-i-Textures and a long skinny quilt emphasizing value order. Once you learn the techniques, you will be able to create ALL THREE of these quilts easily. Carol shares the secrets of piecing them and in the second part of the class you will learn to couch in circles to make what Carol calls “Arc-i-Textures”. You will also learn something about composition, textures, and circular quilting.
www.caroltaylorquilts.com
Level: All
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. 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 and to have your heart touched in a new way.
www.marylouquiltdesigns.com
Level: All
Jean Wells Keenan
Intuitive Landscape Design
Let the flowing forms in nature be your inspiration in this design exploration workshop. Land, water, sky, rocks; details in leaves and wood can all be starting off points for this process. Line is the focal point of design in this workshop. Several exercises are planned to build your confidence in piecing, color, value and design skills. Then the emphasis will be on the planning and execution of an original design focusing on a color palette that excites you using inspirational photos that you have brought along. Lab fee $8.00
www.stitchinpost.com
Level: All
