Note: Pictures are available to give you ideas and insight into the workshops.
The Funky Garden of Free-form Flowers
Enter a relaxed world of fusible applique’ and create your personal garden, arranging whimsical, raw edged motifs. Begin with flower patterns and let them take you off on your own shear-bliss, creating free-form flowers. Critters are optional! You will make a pictorial wall quilt while learning to make bias stems, double sided appliques, and how to use paper backed fusibles to your advantage. Discussion on threads, stitching, and embellishing will show you how to turn so-so projects into sensational creations.
Contemporary Visions Plus 21st Century Broderie Perse
Choose your inspiration: a mental image, a photograph, a magazine picture, last night’s dream, instructor’s pattern, etc. Convert this to a “plan” and learn two very easy methods to develop your vision into the landscape of your dreams! The elements are stitched together, and the fun of embellishing begins. Enter Broderie Perse... cutting motifs from fabrics to enhance your design. You will learn how to stitch to your advantage and turn fine into fantastic! Bodacious applique pieces can add to these as well.
Simple PIecing Treasures
Choose from patterns created for intermediate and advanced kids summer quilt camps. My fifth year campers actually tested the patterns and were able to sew a quilt top in one day! (Move over, Mrs. Burns!). That means you could bring batting and quilt or you could begin a second quilt top! I’m working on having yardage needs for various sizes of the quilts...which will be available mid-January.
Weaving on the Bias
We can show you how all sorts of ways to weave fabrics - open, closed, straight, free form, and on the bias! Bias weaving offers the option of raw edges without fusibles and using any number of fabrics from two to twelve! You can make these simple or involved ... then embellish them... or not... and hang them on the wall... or... oh no, put them on your table! Broderie Perse methods can be added to weavings, making them one-of-akind creations. Beading is also highly acceptable. If you have a fondness of batiks, you will be happy to know that they show off very well in this project.
Some Assembly Required Trunk Show, etc.
You will be among the first to see the quilts from Margie’s new book, Some Assembly Required, and see a program based on the design portion of the book. (Book release is summer/fall 2011).
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