Confetti Naturescapes

Tutor: Noriko Endo

Skill level: All

Bring leftover assorted fabric pieces and scraps in a variety of light, medium and dark. Students will be given exercises to develop impressionist naturescapes. Enjoy the process of transforming your scraps into an impressionist textile 'painting'. This is the one day version of the Thursday-Friday class. Click here for Class Requirements.

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William de Morgan

Tutor: Michele Hill

Skill level: All

A quilt project and machine appliqué technique class. This quilt has been inspired by historical tiles of William De Morgan (1839-1917). His process of development is fascinating and Michele had the wonderful opportunity of photographing a huge collection in the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery in 2010. Only a few colours were used in the original tiles and this is reflected in the quilt. So inevitably the workshop is not just an appliqué workshop but also a history lesson and picture show. Click here for Class Requirements.

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Sawtooth Patterns

Tutor: Rita Hutchens

Skill level: Advanced beginner-expert: must be able to use a rotary cutter and sew an accurate ¼″ seam

Let go of your fear and make the bias your friend. Strip-piece half-square triangles and sawtooth borders from a checkerboard any size including miniature, without paper, templates, waste or problems with the bias. Participants become experts at this technique by making a stash of Sawtooth borders, in four different coordinated colourways. These are combined with each other to develop patterns which will compose a small quilt with a unique ethnic look and feel. This technique is a must for your quilting tool box. Click here for Class Requirements.

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FMQ: Coloured Flowers, Leaves & Feathers

Tutor: Deborah Louie

Skill level: Intermediate

Materials fee: $5 for notes

This is a practical technique workshop, but a small project will be started. You will learn: Free-motion quilting of flowers, leaves, tendrils, formal feathers, echo, shadow and shells background quilting. Also colouring techniques using colouring pencils are used in this class.

Outcomes will include: More confidence with free-motion quilting, and free forming original-design flowers for blocks, borders and backgrounds. This is quilting that looks like appliqué - it's a flowing, soft, quick and easy technique to give your quilts a new individual style. Click here for Class Requirements.

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TAP that Book

Tutor: Lesley Riley

Skill level: All
All handwork

Materials fee: $15

A project class where you will learn about TAP transfers, altering techniques, fabric collage skills and 8-fold Lutradur book construction. You will create a small Lutradur and fabric book. In her first book, Quilted Memories, Lesley provided in-depth fabric collage instruction. Lesley's second book, Fabric Memory Books, explored the many ways fabric can be used to create unique, non-traditional books. Her third book, Fabulous Fabric Art with Lutradur covered a myriad of techniques using Lutradur, an excellent material for constructing books. In her fourth book, Create with Transfer Artist Paper, Lesley explores iron-on TAP transfer techniques. Combine the skills presented in all four books in this hands-on book-making experience!

You will learn how to pattern Lutradur for your pages and then create pages of nature- and bird-themed fabric collage with supplied TAP Transfer Paper images, text and your fabric. You will leave class with a beautiful book in hand or well on your way to completing a very personal work of art. This is a chance for those new to either fibre art or bookmaking to explore either medium, as well as a wonderful new approach for seasoned book or fibre artists. Apply the techniques to make art quilts. Click here for Class Requirements.

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