SS01 – Fabric Painting Phil Beaver Style $160
J. Phil Beaver Two Days
Each participant will successfully paint beautiful fabrics for producing sunflowers, poinsettias and other familiar subject matter. The hand painted fabrics then become the materials used to create table runners, tote bags, placemats, apparel, quilts, wallhangings, pillowcases or other projects of similar size. Skill Level: All.
Supply List: 1,2,5,8,9,10,12,14. Other Supplies: safety pins, spritz bottle. On Day One bring only items 9,10,14 and spritz bottle. Wear old clothes to paint, it is permanent! DO NOT bring sewing machines until Day Two. Fabric: background and backing fabric not to exceed 72”, batting not to exceed 72”. It is best to wait and buy fabric from the vendors at the show. Kit Fee: $40, includes 2 yds. PFD fabric, paints, salt, brushes, wooden frames for stretching fabric, fabric glue, freezer paper, fusible web and patterns for sunflowers and poinsettias.
SS02 – Painting Landscape Fabrics $160
Mickey Lawler Two Days
This class is a great introduction in the use of non-toxic transparent permanent textile paints on cotton fabric suitable for quilts. Students will spend the first day becoming familiar with the various effects that the watercolor paints produce when diluted and applied with brushes, sponges and bottles. Students will also experiment with mixing colors and manipulating fabric to paint special effects pieces for skies, sunsets, water, leaves, earth and others. The second day gives the opportunity to develop more sophisticated color combinations, as well as creating individual painted landscapes and other landscape techniques for interesting results. Students generally complete about 3-6 yds. of fabric pieces if weather is good and are able to dry fabric outdoors. The designs produced are a combination of planning and serendipity, and give students a hands-on basis for future exploration in hand-coloring fabric. Skill Level: All.
Supply List: 9,10. Other Supplies: kitchen sponges, 2 natural sponges, 7-10 cheap 1”-4” natural bristle brushes,two 2” sponge brushes, apron, plastic bags, rubber gloves, small box of coarse sea or kosher salt, 2 pieces of 20”x30” piece of 1/4”-3/8” FoamCore, spring style clothes pins, permanent marking pen, paper towels, 10-15 cottage cheese-style containers, light weight to medium-weight plastic drop cloth (clear or white only)-cut into 15-20 pieces 2ft x 1.5ft, plastic plant mister bottle. Fabric: 3-6 yds. of white 100% cotton and small amount of silk. Kit Fee: $25, includes unlimited use of paints and other supplies.
SS03 – Easy Pieces: Creative Color Play $170
Margaret Miller Two Days
This is a fun, fast sewing workshop, which yields a quilt top plus working plans for many more. Students work with two different versions of a rotary cut and quickly sewn block, creating blocks and mirror images of the blocks at the same time. Each block contains six values (light to dark), and is composed of only two shapes (triangles and wedges), which are easy to cut (no templates). Combinations and rotations of the blocks on the design wall yield hundreds of quilt possibilities. Skill Level: All.
Supply List: 1,2,7,8,13,26,27,29,30,31,32,33,34,36. Book: Easy Pieces by Margaret Miller. Other Supplies: 6” or 6 1/2” square acrylic ruler. Fabric: range of 8-10 fabrics in two color families with values from very light through medium to dark. Min. 1/2 yd. each. Optional but nice: Olfa Rotating Mat.
SS04 – North American Wildflowers and Sashiko $160
Sylvia Pippen Two Days
Sashiko is an effective and easy way to embellish appliquéd wildflowers. Choose a pattern from Sylvia’s Wildflower quilt or bring your own flower design. Learn pattern transfer, sashiko techniques and how to choose and fussy cut fabrics for your flowers. I will show you how to pre-form perfect appliqué shapes with the iron-over Mylar method, ready to appliqué. Invisible appliqué and embroidery embellishment will be covered. Skill Level: All.
Supply List: 9,10,11,12,14,15,21,26,27,31,35,36. Other Supplies: Wildflower pattern available in class or from teachers website, DMC embroidery thread in black, yellow, orange, red and white, appliqué needles, Baste-it fabric glue, white transfer paper, #100 silk YLI thread in light and dark neutral color or your favorite appliqué thread, packet of Clover small to medium assorted sashiko needles, sashiko thread white or light green, thread conditioner, fine line permanent black marking pen. Fabric: (only if you choose not to purchase kit online) Background: 1/2 yd. of indigo, for appliqué: scraps of various batiks and other cotton fabrics. Kit Fee: $1.00, includes heat resistant Mylar.
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