701 – A Portrait Quilt Anyone Can Do $70
Patt Blair www.pattsart.com
All Day Skill Level: All
Don’t think you can draw? I will show you that you can!! You will learn basic design elements; do some simple drawing exercises and experience drawing and painting tools and techniques to create your own portrait quilt designed from your 8 X 10 photograph/s.
Supply List: Downloadable supply list
Kit Fee: $38 includes 1/2 yd flesh tone or white fabric, 6 inks and applicators, acetate tracing sheet, oversized drawing paper. Additional inks will be available for purchase in class.
702 - Fabulous Fusible Summer Rose $70
Melinda Bula www.Melindabula.com
All Day Skill Level: All
Learn the basic for building a Fusible Flower quilt. The class works from the NEW Rose pattern. You will learn the steps of developing a flower art quilt by how color works to make a flower look real, how to use the fusible and lay out of design. I encourage creativity while assisting those who may feel timid about color and design. All skill levels can master these flowers and make them their own. The students will get 80% of their flower done in class. Next, Melinda will demo her “Renegade Thread Play”, which is a simple method of free-motion quilting (don’t get nervous, she’ll break it down into simple steps.) This technique adds detail and highlights to your flower quilt. NO SEWING MACHINE NEEDED FOR THIS CLASS.
703 – Day and Night Tablerunner $70
Eleanor Burns www.quiltinaday.com
All Day All Levels
Day & Night will mystify, enchant and entertain you! It is magical! No smoke and mirrors: the technique is just totally awesome! The pattern is made from strips! Using the acrylic template, included in the back of the book create the illusion. In class, you are taught to make the main star block and then create a bonus project from the cut a-ways. Sewing Machines for this class provided by BABYLOCK. NOTE: This is the same class as 603, do not sign up for both.
Supply List: 11,12,27,30, Stiletto, Wooden Iron, InvisiGrip, 6” x 12” or 4” x 14” Ruler, 6” Square-up Ruler, 9 ½” Square-up Ruler, Kaleidoscope Ruler, 6 ½” Triangle Square-up Ruler, Glo-Line Tape, Day & Night book by Eleanor Burns.
Kit Fee: $40. Kit includes all fabric to complete the two table runners including the binding. Backing and batting sold separately. The colors in the kits will vary.
704 – Textile Digital Photography $70
Gregory Case www.gregorycase.com
All Day Skill Level: Confident Beginner
This beginners’ class is for those of you who are either frustrated with your own photography efforts to capture the beauty and color of your quilts/ textiles or for those who are thinking about starting to photograph your work. While it will be helpful to have some knowledge of your own Point & Shoot and/or SLR camera, we will cover camera basics (exposure, aperture, shutter speed, ISO settings, etc.). We will cover photographing your quilt and textiles both inside and outside using natural light and “studio” lights as well as how to process your raw, Tiff and JPEG files for print and web. This class is designed to help the beginner photographer create more consistent and efficient results in their photography efforts.
Supply List: We recommend you bring to class your camera (with fully charged batteries and memory cards), your camera’s owner’s manual, a tripod if you have one and a laptop if you have a recent version of Photoshop, Lightroom, Photoshop Elements or Aperture loaded in your computer.
705 – Cardinal $80
Emily Martin
All Day Skill Level: All
Our chipper little cardinal shown sitting on a sprig of holly is done on a 10” block and can be used with others of his kind or will hold his own nicely on a pillow. The bird is made easier by building him off the background on lightweight interfacing. Learn how to make those sharp points and smooth gentle curves that make a design look professional.
Supply List: 9,10,11,12,35,36, red and green silk thread for appliqué, (available for purchase in class), .01 black Pigma pen, Needles for appliqué and embroidery, pincushion.
Kit Fee: $15. All fabric needed for this block are in the required kit ~ borders are not included. Pattern provided.
706 – Wholecloth Design $80
Karen McTavish www.designerquilts.com
All Day Skill Level: All
Description-This is an all day marking class that will result in a large wholecloth, which is entirely marked by the student and is ready for trapunto, hand quilting, or machine quilting by the end of the class. This class is for anyone who would like to design an original wholecloth from scratch. Karen will have many wholecloth quilts in a trunk show as well as a small lecture on the history of wholecloth. All stencils are provided by instructor for student use in class.
Supply List: Bring rulers of long length such as Omnigrid. Fabric: white or off-white, tone on tone ok, no dark fabrics. Must be washed and pressed and squared up before class-no larger than 60 x 60. “Whitework Quilting”, published by OnWord Bounds Books (available in class for purchase)
Kit Fee: $10: Includes necessary marking pens
707 – Whimsical Garden $70
Debbie Kuennen-Baker
All Day Skill Level: All
This fun, funky flower collage will help you master the ins and outs of machine appliqué. See how easy it is to get smooth curves and corners. Learn how the newest features on the Pfaff machines make mitering corners and tapering in and out of points a breeze. You will also see how your choice of thread color can emphasize or blur your appliqué. Sewing Machines For this Class Provided by PFAFF. Please Note: Same Class as 605 do not sign up for both classes.
Supply List: 9,12,13,33,34, Teflon pressing sheet.
Kit: Includes all fabric, threads and supplies needed for class project.
708 – Trapunto by Machine $70
Paula Reid www.battsintheattic.com
All Day Skill Level: Confident Beginner
Description- Using techniques that were pioneered by Hari Walner, Paula teaches you how to easily attain that beautiful raised look without timeconsuming stuffing or cutting holes in the back of your work. In 6 hours, most participants will complete an 18” project. Sewing Machines for this class provided by BERNINA.
709 – Light the Way $70
Cathy Van Bruggen www.cathyvb.com
Skill Level: All
All Day Create a seascape featuring a lighthouse sitting on the seashore. Learn a new approach to needle-turn technique, “Appliqué the Easy Way”™. Smooth curves, sharp points, deep valleys, and an invisible stitch are easy to accomplish using Cathy’s time saving techniques. Embroidered embellishments will be shown.
Supply List: Downloadable supply list. Pattern: $10.00 (available in class or on-line.) The Sewlite will also be available in class or pre-order online.
Optional Kit: $50 includes pattern and all fabric for quilt top and embellishments. Please pre-order online at website above before December 15.
710 – Wedge Frenzy $80
Virginia Walton www.creativecurves.com
All Day Skill Level: All
Fantastic blocks and quilts are possible with this unique, NEW (non-curve) ruler from Creative Curves. With the “Multi Angle” ruler students will learn to combine 5 to 60 degree angle wedges to create original designs. The ‘starting to sew’ positions built into the ruler for each size angle take all the guesswork out and insure success with these unusual shapes.
Supply List: 1,2,8,9,12,13,18,26,28,31,32,33,34. Fabric: 1 yd. light for background.
Kit Fee: $25 includes Hoffman Batik Fabrics for Wall hanging excluding background. Additional Supplies: New Multi-Angle, Wedge Ruler $27.95
