Elizabeth Barton
Seven Steps to a Successful Art Quilt:
Developing one’s own voice
The main emphasis of the workshop is on the basics of good design: the steps from the initial idea to the formulation of a strong composition. Design exercises help to develop the ability to discover, improve and critique composition ideas. The secondary goal will be that of developing one’s own unique style. We will explore color choice, construction (piecing, appliqué, layering, etc.) and continuing design choices during the construction process, machine quilting and all finishing techniques to make for a successful art quilt.
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Level: All
J. Phil Beaver
Sunflowers and Poinsettias
Each quilting student will successfully paint beautiful fabrics for producing sunflowers, poinsettias and other familiar subject matter. Finished work by students become small quilts, wall hangings, apparel, and other choices of similar size.
Returning quilters may experience a more progressive workshop where more challenging materials and subject matter are presented. Lab fee: $45.00
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Level: All
Sylvia H. Einstein
Scenic Road to California
Quarter circles are endlessly fascinating. They can be pieced in rounds; off-center or traditionally, they can meander across the surface in an intuitive way with backgrounds from light to dark creating paths. We’ll design with bigger blocks for dramatic effect and the class will focus on manipulating large-scale, printed and unusual fabrics but subtle effects are also possible.
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Level: Intermediate - Advanced
Valerie Hearder
Collage: Fabric Constructions
Move outside the traditional quilt grid to the spontaneity of free form collage design. Participants learn to look for design cues within the fabric, which allows the fabric to lead the design. Using mainly fusible appliqué techniques, this workshop is a fresh way to look at the design process and encourages participants to trust their own artistic vision and intuition and work in a highly spontaneous way with the fabric.
Lab fee: $20.00
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Level: All
Jan Krentz
Diamond Landscape Design
Create an impressionistic quilt or wall hanging with a pieced background and appliqué or embellishments. You may create a quilt of your own inspiration, or follow the Monet Water Lily quilt design. Participants will compose “textile paintings” inspired by Impressionist art or personal photos with a collection of fabrics, and add detail with surface embellishments. Lab Fee: $20.00
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Level: Intermediate to Advanced
Don Linn
Exploring Classic & Contemporary Machine Quilting
This workshop will start with the basics of machine quilting and will build on this foundation. Students will do a variety of exercises in free-motion quilting from simple doodling to working on complex feathers. After the exercises students will work on a whole cloth piece with premarked feathered designs. Marking your own contemporary whole cloth quilt top using designs that I will have available is an option. Experience will also be gained in working with clear and colored threads. Students are encouraged to bring a lap-sized quilt of their own to work on. Lab fee: $50.00
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Level: All
Terrie Hancock Mangat
Scraps, Paint, Thread and Beads
Inspired by a combination of scrap bag quilting and crazy quilts, this mixed media approach will light your CREATIVE fire. The eclectic mix of fabrics found in traditional scrap bag quilts is set off by the paint, embroidery and embellishments – the trademarks of Victorian crazy quilt makers. The student can choose to express an idea or abstract image, and should come with several ideas to draw from. How to express an idea, composition, color, value, texture and scale of imagery within the fabric and ingredients will be among the things discussed.
www.terriestudio.com
Level: Intermediate - Advanced
Maxine Rosenthal
One Block Wonders -- Hexagons
This is an unusual method of designing a quilt. Instead of starting with a particular pattern or design and then trying to find fabric that will fit that design, this method begins with the fabric. One piece of fabric does all the work because it contains all the colors you need and all the design elements. If you like the fabric, you will like your quilt. The sewing is easy – all straight seams but the final product has much more energy and movement than that one piece of fabric. We will also explore some unusual ideas for borders. These are one-of-a-kind quilts!
Level: All
Elly Sienkiewicz
Baltimore: Beginner Basics to
Elegant Elaborations!
Almost paradise! Lush flowers, bursting buds, classic urns, warbling birds and lyre wreaths. Stitching this beauty (and learning all the critical details of hand appliqué’s art and Album design) in the sweet company of fellow quilters. Two blocks (customized size, suitable for Album Quilt or framing) introduce you to the ease of Baltimore Elegance. Then the joys of embellishment from ribbonwork; Ultrasuede and dimensional appliqué; to padding, stencil shading, inkwork and embroidery.
Lab fee: $10.00
www.ellysienkiewicz.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
Colleen Wise
Exploring Emerald City
This easy block offers an elegant, architectural, three-dimensional look. The block is easy to construct, but oh, the knowledge we will gain along the way! Incorporating shadows and shading into our blocks and settings creates a sense of depth. We will warm up with some gentle exercises in value recognition, pattern drafting and shadow theory. As we work through the design process, we will develop an eye for value, texture, and scale, both within our fabric choices and in our overall compositions. By the end of the week, each student will have a unique Emerald City quilt, based on her particular design and fabric choices
www.colleenwise.com
Level: Advanced Beginner to Advanced
