| Anelie Belden Thoroughly Modern Dresden Forget everything you thought you knew about Dresden Plate quilts. The new Dresdens are colorful, clever, and fun; nothing stodgy or old-fashioned here! With Anelie's new stitch-and-flip piecing technique you are sure to have successful construction of the Dresden Block. There are so many design possibilities with different size blocks – 4" to 24" blocks, 5 different edges, and hundreds of designs that can be created by moving the blocks around. Quilters can use their creativity to achieve a contemporary or traditional design. Try this fresh take on an old favorite. www.dresdenquilt.com Level: All Supply List |
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Judy Farrow Designing with Pattern and Repeated Images There is an appeal to ordered, repeated images and an indescribable delight in discovering intricate patterns within them. Explore natural and man-made sources of pattern for inspirational starting points through all phases of creating a design and the associated construction techniques. Students will be guided through a series of design exercises and sewing techniques but each will work on their own designs. Students will prepare a sketch book of pattern samples, created from paper and fabric collage. Students will develop a master cartoon and create an illustration board for their chosen design. You will not have a finished project just the begining of a masterpiece. Level: Confident Beginner to Advanced Supply List |
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Meri Henriques Vahl Layered Fabric Collage The sky's literally the limit with this playful and free-wheeling technique. Just bring your favorite photograph or idea for inspiration (landscapes work great!). If you want to add people to your quilt, Meri will teach you a simple, fool-proof method of doing so. In addition, once you've free-motion quilted this part of your Art Quilt, she will show you an easy way to add borders – or more sections to create a work of any size. Then, when you've completed your borders, you will only have to machine quilt the outside edges, add binding, and stand back and admire! www.meriartquilts.com Level: All Supply List |
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| Judy Irish Machine Quilting....Plain and Fancy This class is for all who want to learn or improve their machine quilting on their home machines. My approach is non-technical and practical. If you have wanted to learn to machine quilt in a non-threatening and fun atmosphere, this is the class for you! Students will learn many free motion designs in a doodle style that can be done with marking. I would say that my quilting is more "artsy" with some whimsical designs thrown in for fun! In class we will work on sample practice pieces, a small wall sized sampler quilt, and finish with a small thread-painted wall hanging. www.wildirishrowsquilting.com Level: All Supply List |
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| Rami Kim Folded Fabric Elegance — 3-D Textures Rami will take you to the enchanting world of three-dimensional textures for your quilts, wearable art, and bags, using her book, Folded Fabric Elegance. Students will learn all these exotic techniques to fold lotus blossoms, Asheeah tulips, lightning bugs, mirror-imaged continuous prairie points, North American smocking by hand and machine. You can create distinctively beautiful quilts, art-to-wear and bags. Let's have fun manipulating fabrics and adding three-dimensional textures. www.ramikim.com Level: All Supply List |
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Marjan Kluepfel Free Form Fiberscapes How to Create Textural Fabric Collages In this class you will create free form fabric collages using many different surface design techniques and fabric manipulation and sculpting. Find out how exciting it is when you don't have to follow the rules. Learn about essential design principles to make a beautiful fantasy view or bring that inspiring photograph. This is a class suitable for new and experienced quilters. First we will paint a beautiful sky, sunset or sunrise. Then we will create a fabric collage using fused appliqué, free motion machine embroidery and thread painting plus other embellishments to provide extra texture. www.marjankluepfel.com Level: All Supply List |
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Libby Lehman Shapes: Simple to Spectacular Even if you failed geometry, you will love this class. We will take the basic square, triangle and circle and turn them into works of art! Along the way, Libby will show you designs such as Radiant Circles, Twist and Turn Squares and Tapered Triangles. Foolproof piecing, easy perfect circles, standout bobbin drawing and many other techniques make this class a real winner. www.libbylehman.us Level: All Supply List |
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Wendy Mathson Storm at Sea "The Wendy Way" Quilters have loved this pattern for years, intrigued by how straight line piecing gives the illusion of curves. Storm at Sea may be an old favorite, but it doesn't need to be pieced the old-fashioned way! In this class you'll learn my innovative TRIMplate® piecing technique which allows you to make the units quickly and easily, without sacrificing accuracy. This is a trim-after-you-sew method with no templates, no paper piecing, and no bias on the outer edges. Students will work on one or more projects of their choice. We will explore the vast design potential of Storm and Sea, which can be anything from traditional and scrappy to innovative and contemporary. www.QuiltsbyWendy.com Level: All Supply List |
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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 dif- ficult 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 Supply List |
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Sue Spargo Travel Journals Sue's quilts are inspired by many life experiences drawn from the countries in which she has lived or has been privileged to visit. You will use your own life experiences to create a one of a kind "Fabric Journal Quilt" to document your own life experiences using textural fabrics, hand dyed wools, embellishments and ethnic beads. We'll start with a textural pieced background using a combination of fabrics and then an appliquéd tree which will be filled with your own journey. The imagery using wool, taffeta, silk, velvet, embroidery stitches, beads and words will be explored. You will finish by designing an outer border that will enhance your quilt. www.suespargo.com Level: Intermediate to Advanced Supply List |
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Terry Waldron The Art of Landscapes This class is for those who truly LOVE the land and water and sky. There are no patterns because Nature is not as simple as a pattern. She LOVES variations and imperfections! In this class students will learn Terry's own "Rough Cut" technique to chew out tree trunks, leaves and grassy hills. We'll learn aerial perspective and the four principles of composition that will make your landscapes sing. Students will practice her style of machine drawing with the feed-dogs DOWN. We will DRAW the roughness of bark, the stubble of grass and the glide of water with our machines. www.terrywaldron.com Level: All Supply List |
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