Thom Atkins
Quilting with Beads
This is a class for those who enjoy hand work, designed to teach you the basic bead embroidery stitches as done on a quilt. Working on a sampler, we will practice the stitches and some of their many variations. We will look at what the application of beads does to the surface of a quilt and how to incorporate beads into the design of a quilt. After learning the basic stitches, you may continue to work on your sampler or work on a piece you had already begun with the application of beads as a part of the design. Lab Fee: $25.00
www.thomatkins.com
Level: Confident hand quilters, Intermediate
Nancy S. Brown
Wild Animal Hand Appliqué
Featuring Monterey Bay Animals
In this class you will learn all about hand appliqué while working on a small wall-hanging featuring four 8” blocks depicting animals from the Monterey Bay Area (a sea otter, a pelican, a treefish in a kelp forest and a sea turtle). Topics will include basic needleturn techniques, curves, points and how to layer a complex appliqué pattern. Once you learn the basics, I will show you how to design a pattern of your favorite animal from a photo, how to choose fabrics and how to execute your pattern. You will then have a choice of working on the patterns, your individual project, or both.
www.nancybrownquilts.com
Level: Confident beginner to Advanced
Melinda Bula
Impressionists Flower Bouquet
Learn how to make a beautiful Impressionist Flower Bouquet out of fusible fabric and thread. This class will cover the history of the flower bouquet over the years, the masters who painted them and how they laid out their designs. Students will bring a photo for inspiration. They will learn the basics of Melinda’s fusible technique - how color and values make flowers look real. Learn how to finish and add sparkle to your flower bouquet quilt. Some students will work from their own photo and others may choose to use Melinda’s flower patterns collection. Lab fee: $25.00
www.melindabula.com
Level: All
Rosemary Eichorn
Fabric Collage with Exquisite Embellishment
Develop your quilting design potential using fabric collage to make an art quilt or art wear such as a jacket or vest. You’ll learn the techniques in Rosemary’s classic book, The Art of Fabric Collage, and then stretch to include those novelty fabrics, elegant laces, and elaborate ribbons you’ve been collecting. You’ll learn easy free motion stitching methods using traditional and novelty threads and materials such as Tyvek, Lutradur, Fantasy Film, Crystalina and Angelina fibers, Model Magic and distressed fabrics. Lab fee: $15.00
www.sewjourn.com
Level: Confident beginner to Advanced
Sylvia H. Einstein
Dancing Rings, Contemporary Double
Wedding Ring Variation
Pieced rings based on the classical Double Wedding Ring pattern are given a new, one-of-a-kind look. The width of the rings are different which allows symmetrical or asymmetrical placement, the blocks are bigger which makes for easier sewing and the large rings leave enough room to play with the gorgeous fabrics now available. I will show you how to draft the pattern. We will each design a quilt and begin to piece a top. Templates will be available.
www.sylviaeinstein.com
Level: Intermediate to Advanced
Colorful and Creative Log Cabin Diamonds
For the experienced quilter ready to create blocks full of color that looks three-dimensional. Students will learn a process of piecing logs cut on angle to create diamond-shaped Log Cabin blocks. Select from the Diamonds that Shine Block or Log Cabin Tumbling Block in various design layout grids to suit your preferences. Be inspired by Diamonds that Shine, Log Cabin Tumbling Block, Shadow Dance and Rio Street Dance within the Gallery of my website. Settings and border options will be discussed and planned. Lab Fee: $5.00
www.flavinglover.com
Level: Confident Beginner to Advanced
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Design Dreams? Get them on your table and into your quilt
Students will learn to create and prepare one-of-a-kind personal designs. They get to know various possibilities, how to develop an idea and how to transfer it into a real, sewable model (maquette). Main subjects are: collages with paper or mini-fabric-scraps, blotting with watercolor, inventing or transforming blocks, use of a picture as a base for color and design and the effect of irregularly shaped blocks. Students will experience all the necessary steps from the model (maquette) to sewn quilt-blocks, such as: use of grids, enlarging, preparing patterns for irregular shaped blocks, extending color and design variations.
www.ursulakern.ch
Level: All
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Peggy Martin
Paper Piece the Quick-Strip Way
Love to paper piece but hate the slow pace? Or have you avoided paper piecing because of frustration, mistakes or confusion? Quick-Strip Paper Piecing revolutionizes paper piecing by making it much faster, easier to learn, and almost foolproof! Easy design methods for drafting your own blocks and borders will be presented in class, from simple to complex designs with a traditional or contemporary look. Choose your own designs to make your project, or select blocks from my two books, Quick-Strip Paper Piecing and Paper Piece the Quick-Strip Way. Setting and border options will be explored. This is easy for beginners. Lab Fee: $5.00
www.peggymartinquilts.com
Level: All
Kathy McNeil
Landscapes to Love
Learn the secrets that will make your landscapes come alive. Create your unique landscape from a copyright free photo. Explore the elements of landscape design. Bring dynamic, depth, color, movement and balance to your composition. Play with fabric paints, inks, discharge and over-dying to create those realistic highlights and shadows. Use hand, machine or fused appliqué to create your scene. This class is designed to develop creatiity in design, construction techniques and free motion machine quilting. Lab Fee: $10.00
www.kathymcneilquilts.com
Level: All
Brenda Papadakis
Dear Jane®
At last you have a chance to be immersed in stitching your Dear Jane® quilt! Spend five glorious days making blocks and triangles. You will learn twelve techniques that you can use making your Baby Jane. Appliqué, hand-piecing and accurate machine piecing with freezer paper templates are a few of the skills you will learn making these four-and-a-half inch blocks. Learn the “Jane Tricks” of several of the more difficult blocks in Jane’s Civil War quilt. A few of these challengers are Papa’s Star, Wagon Wheel, Junko’s Rose Garden and “Nasty” Nan’s Naiad.
www.dearjane.com
Level: All
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Jill Schumacher
Free Motion Heirloom Machine Quilting
Come join Jill for an adventure in free motion machine quilting. Easy to understand exercises and lessons will be explored, giving you the confidence to become an accomplished machine quilter. Learn to successfully control your quilt on your machine, which will include all of the basics and gradually take you to the successful completion of beautiful feathers, designs and wonderful background stitches plus learn the art of Trapunto by machine. Each student will have the opportunity to complete several quilted wall hangings, as well as marking and quilting a quilt.
www.quiltmakertothequeen.com
Level: Beginning to Intermediate
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Session IV
Artist in Residence
Jody L. Whalen
