CLASS PROGRAM • THURSDAY APRIL 12
CLASSES: 10AM TO 5PM LUNCH: 1PM TO 2PM
ONE–DAY CLASSES
Inspirational Colouring
Tutor: Kim Bradley
Skill level: All
All handwork
Materials fee: $25 includes all materials required for class including a pre–quilted fabric sandwich, and pencil and paper for notes. Pencils, pastels, pigments, inks and textile medium will all be provided for students to use in the class.
This class will demonstrate how to add a variety of colour items to your work including ink pencils, pastels, pigments and pens. This technique class will teach students how versatile adding colour to your quilts can be – explore adding dimension to appliqué and dimension and depth to quilting.
Image shows an example of colouring, not class project. Click here for Class Requirements.
Totally Tubular Triangles
Tutor: Rita Hutchens
Skill level: Advanced beginner to expert
OPTIONAL: Materials fee: $40 includes 1.1m of high quality batik fabric for all three exercises cut, sewn and pressed into three different strata. Or use your own fabric and sew beforehand.
Class is process oriented. Magic bias friendly, tube strip–piecing technique and a simple formula makes long rows of triangles from strips in any angle or size, including miniature, without paper, templates or waste. Students learn to make bias tubes and work in any angle or size and will complete several exercises, exploring variations of techniques. Lots of information, eye candy and unique ideas for using these triangles to create borders, blocks and components for quilts will be provided. Click here for Class Requirements.
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Free–motion Quilting: A Great Beginning
Tutor: Deborah Louie
Skill level: Beginners to intermediate
Materials fee: $5 for extensive notes
A technique class: If you've always wanted to free–motion quilt your own work, this class is for you. Deborah will guide you through her very popular techniques, step–by–step, to get you free–motion quilting in no time.
This practical approach will have you quilting swirls, flowers, hearts, geometric patterns, stars and more by the end of the day. You will even quilt with some stencils for sashes, borders and fillers. Click here for Class Requirements.
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Precision Piecing
Tutor: Philippa Naylor
Skill level: All
Materials fee: $8 for detailed instructions, pattern and colour copies
A practical workshop to help you achieve prize–winning accuracy – there'll be masses of techniques, information and advice on every stage of the piecing process. Fabric selection, using the correct rotary–cutting methods, sewing accurate seams, matching points and pressing are examined in detail with extensive demonstrations. Make a perfectly sized, 'no–points–lost' block, add double borders with beautiful mitred corners and never be frustrated again! Patterns supplied. Click here for Class Requirements.
TWO–DAY CLASSES
Antique Sampler
Tutor: Sue Daley
Skill level: Basic patchwork skills needed
All handwork
Materials fee: A: $70 (required) for pattern incl pre–cut papers and acrylic templates. And optional: B: $60 for a fabric starter pack incl background plus assorted fabric, totalling 2.7m fabric.
This is a project class that will cover: English paper piecing, fussy–cutting fabric, needleturn appliqué, reverse appliqué, bias–strip appliqué. Instruction will be give to master all the above techniques, while working on the Antique Sampler quilt.
Click here for Class Requirements.
Confetti Naturescapes
Tutor: Noriko Endo
Skill level: Intermediate
All handwork
Materials fee: $20 for patterns, papers, paints.
Bring assorted fabric scraps in a variety of light, medium and dark. Students will create impressionist naturescapes, using machine embroidery techniques, working with transparency and texture, quilting and painting.
Enjoy the process of changing your scraps to resemble impressionist paintings under Noriko's guidance. Take home a medium–size wall hanging. Click here for Class Requirements.
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Pemberley
Tutor: Katrina Hadjimichael
Skill level: Confident beginner, some appliqué experience an advantage
All handwork
Materials fee: $105 includes extensive notes, photographs and patterns organised into a folder, plus the full kit of laser cut paper templates and Perspex peepers, which have been cut specifically for Pemberley.
This exquisite design was inspired by an 18th century quilt featured in the book 'Quilt Treasures of Great Britain'. Whilst the class will concentrate on appliqué skills (English basting method) required for the centre of the quilt, all patterns and a kit of paper–piecing templates and perspex fussy–cutting templates to make the entire quilt will be available.
Students will improve their appliqué skills and perfect the art of fussy–cutting. Make a confident start to the quilt centre and gain skills to complete the quilt after the class. Image shows the centre of the quilt. Click here for Class Requirements.
Mystery AppliquÉ
Tutor: Michele Hill
Skill level: All
A project and machine appliqué technique class based on designs from the Royal Exhibition Building.
From Michele: "Come and join me as we explore the history and splendour of Melbourne's Royal Exhibition building. I have appliqué projects 'in progress' that reflect the ornamental patterns on the interior of the building… so for now the projects are a mystery! Several of the patterns can be turned into blocks, centre medallions or long strippies that will allow you the choice of making a bed quilt, table or bed runner, cushions or wall hanging.
All patterns will be provided. Along with the history of the building you will also learn to perfect your machine appliqué. You should complete a small project in the workshop." Click here for Class Requirements.
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Jacobean Star
Tutor: Chris Jurd
Skill level: Experience with foundation piecing desirable but not essential
Materials fee: $10 for pattern, foundation patterns, templates and papers for centre
A project class to make this foundation–pieced spinning circle centre for a machine pieced eight–pointed star. Learn to machine–piece curves in the star background, sew set–in seams and sew mitred seams on the borders. English paper–pieced diamonds will be hand appliquéd on this stunning wall or sofa quilt, finished size 55″ square. Click here for Class Requirements.
The Patterned Landscape
Tutor: Gloria Loughman
Skill level: All
Materials fee: No kit but Tear–away, Steam a Seam and suitable hand–dyed fabrics will be available (optional).
Choose an interesting tree shape and position it on a background of wonderful shapes to create your own unique abstract landscape quilt. let go of perspective and realism and enjoy building a stunning background using circles, squares, ovals, diamonds or irregular shapes. Shapes can be overlapped or discreet units. Bring your own tree design or use one of Gloria's tree patterns which include boab trees, fan palms, old gnarled trunks or free flowing branches.
Learn about colour and design principles so that your finished quilt will be an eye–catching celebration of colour. Some decorative stitching will be completed, and then most of the background will be stitched as part of the quilting process. Different finishing techniques will be discussed including faced edges and narrow borders and bindings. Click here for Class Requirements.
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Crazy About Curves
Tutor: Vikki Pignatelli
Skill level: All
Materials fee: $7 for patterns
Students will quickly master the basic concepts of Vikki's flexible, 'no rules, no fear' technique. With this method –a meld of piecing and machine appliqué – learn to create even sharp curves and narrow points effortlessly. NO measuring seam allowances, NO easing together unruly seams and NO matching points. Begin by using a small, simple teaching pattern and quickly progress to designing a free–form pattern.
Includes basic and advanced curved construction techniques, simple improvisation, hints on colour, contrasts, texture, and creating movement in your work; painless mitring, splicing seams; finishing techniques and ideas, curvy borders and extending the quilt top design into the borders and binding. Click here for Class Requirements.
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FOUR–DAY MASTERCLASS
Creating A Realistic Landscape
Tutor: Kay Haerland
Skill level: Enthusiastic beginner + up
Materials fee: $12 for class notes, shared materials, paints etc
Working with a small–format landscape as a project, you will learn Kay's approach and techniques for creating realistic landscape quilts.
A large number of skills will be covered in this challenging master class, including fabric selection, perspective and light concepts, plus embellishment approaches for a variety of surfaces (water, ground, vegetation etc). You will be transforming your fabrics with lace, stamping, tulle, embroidery, heat stressing, 3D effects and threadwork with water–soluble stabiliser. Soon you will be exploring your creativity in your own designs! Click here for Class Requirements.
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Note. Pictures do not always represent the student outcome in class; they may represent what can be achieved with the techniques learned.
