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Dancing Trees
Tutor: Frieda Anderson
Skill level: All
No machine work
Materials fee: $33.50
This is a project using Frieda’s pattern. Fusing techniques will be learned and students will come away with a 20” x 24” quilt top. Fused appliqué is one of the methods Frieda uses to make award winning quilts like Dancing Trees. In this workshop students will make this quilt, using fusing, scissors and a rotary cutter with a deckle blade. A kit of hand dyed cottons is required, dyed specifically to produce the desired results. Frieda will supply decorative deckle blades for use in class.
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Double Wedding Ring
Tutor: Sandra Chandler Lawhon
Skill level: Intermediate. No curve
piecing experience required
Materials fee: $25. Kit will include
at least 1-1/2 yards of top quality
cotton fabric, accurately die cut in
pieces matching the Just Curves
acrylic templates, as required
for sewing.
The Double Wedding Ring ranks as one of the most “I want to make that” quilts, but is also one of the most feared because of the curved piecing. In this class you will use Sandra’s Curve Master Presser Foot which allows easy sewing of curves with no pinning or clipping, making the quilt accessible to all quilters regardless of
experience. Sandra provides all tools needed for use in class.
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Mono-Printing Magic
Tutor: Sue Dennis
Skill level: All
No machine work
Materials fee: $3 for
printing plate
In this technique class, you will be
introduced to the technique of mono-printing and discover the joy of easy colour mixing and mark making to produce one-off unique prints. Release your inner artist and, under the guidance of your tutor, enjoy the new found freedom of this technique. Since 2008 Sue has been using mono-printing in her work
and it features in her Anthill series.
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An Adventure into Texture
Tutor: Annette Morgan
Skill level: All. Knowledge of free
machine stitching is useful
Explore plenty of new textile
art techniques in this class and
complete a new piece of fabric which you have created. Layers are
created using cotton and polyester sheers and after machine stitching,
soldering irons and hot air guns will make their appearance! The resultant fabric can be framed, made into a needle case, bag or other small item.
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Power Stripping
Tutor: Brenda Gael Smith
Skill level: All
Learn the secrets of ‘power stripping’!
Enjoy these striking designs that grow quickly with minimum fuss and maximum fabric economy from selvedge to selvedge. Jelly rolls welcome! Choose from a selection of more than a dozen original, fresh designs or make up your own using colour and design principles shared in this class. I deal for beginners seeking to master strip piecing skills or for more experienced quiltmakers looking for a fun day of stash busting.
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| TWO DAY CLASSES |
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Sewing the Land
Tutor: Sue Benner
Skill level: All • Machine work is optional
Each participant will create at least one landscape quilt about 10” high x 20” wide, along with a small study exploring fused, collaged, and quilted landscapes. Sue will show you how to look at the landscape, analyse it, and translate it to fabric. She will also cover fusible basics, working with non-traditional fabrics, and quilting and binding the fused quilt. A second image can be started with time permitting. You will see the landscape with new eyes!
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Saffron Sari
Tutor: Susanne Cody
Skill level: Intermediate, some previous appliqué experience is advisable
Handwork, with demonstration of machine pieced sections.
Materials fee: $5 optional, for
colour copy of the quilt pattern
if required
This exquisite medallion quilt is predominantly appliqué with some
machine piecing. Techniques used include template covered shapes and bias stems (easy method) using Roxanne’s Glue Baste-lt. Machine piecing of triangles will be demonstrated. Students will gain clear knowledge of Sue’s appliqué method and confidence in colour selection and fabric choices.
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Earth, Wind, Fire
Tutor: Rosalie Dace
Skill level: Intermediate to
advanced
Investigate the range and qualities of features like rich earth browns, cool air and water blues and greens, and blazing hot fire colours. Students will make a series of small abstract studies then make their own abstract colour-rich quilt tops. Emphasis in this class will be on colour variation and choice, contrasts and subtlety, tonal value, texture and pattern. Students will make several small studies and at least one larger piece.
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Breakaway
Tutor: Pam Furniss
Skill level: All
What a treat there is in making this quick and easy single bed size quilt! So many new and fun techniques with interesting designs created using a simple paper folding method. Create your own shapes or use the designs provided. Put the quilt together using the quilt-as-you-go technique and learn how to adapt this method to any quilt you make. For those wishing to make the quilt using the traditional method, instructions will be given.
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Playing on the Surface
Tutor: Gloria Loughman
Skill level: All
Create an abstract design while improving machine embroidery and appliqué skills. The class begins with a segment on design principles and advice on how to choose effective colour combinations. Breaking up the background into smaller segments, students then decorate the surface of each one, adding detail with machine embroidery. Easy construction techniques are demonstrated and quilting options discussed.
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Yes , You Can Free Motion Quilt
Tutor: Deborah Louie
Skill level: Beginner to intermediate
Materials fee: $10 for extensive
notes in a professionally printed booklet
Gain the confidence to free motion quilt and get experience with the darning foot. Learn to look at patterns and break them down to achieve a beautiful result. Swirls, spirals, flowers, stars, echo and shadow quilting, stunning textures for blocks, backgrounds, borders and sashes are all included so you can add individual styling to your quilts.
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Floral Wreath
Tutor: Lessa Siegele
Skill level: Some previous piecing
experience is needed
Come and learn what you can create using Lessa’s favourite 60 degree triangle ruler. Make a pieced quilt top which looks like appliqué. The three stars twirling in the centre surrounded by flowers and buds give the illusion of a circle. It is rotary cut and machine pieced. Pre-cutting fabric strips before class will see an almost finished quilt top in two days. It could become the centre of a larger medallion quilt.
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Creative Colouring
Tutor: Julie Haddrick
Skill level: All
No machine work, no sewing
Materials fee: $105 for three sets of paints
This three day technique class is designed especially for quilters who wish to personalise fabrics and create unique, one off materials. Learn tricks of the trade used by prize winning quilters to create realism in their quilts. Use art techniques on your quilts. Create detailed fabric for features like faces, hair, feathers, leaves, petals, shadows and textures. Learn how to include text on a quilt. Hand colour fabrics for backgrounds like landscapes, skies and water, or border fabrics or to
create feature fabrics and themed fabrics for special quilts. These simple techniques will open your imagination to lots of
possibilities. This is not a dyeing workshop. Students will explore the use of fabric inks, paints, textas and crayons. Techniques demonstrated include tonal shading, colour embellishment, watercolour and wash colouring, solar printing, stencilling and stamping fabrics for your individual quilts.
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