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2010 Quilt
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Thursday, September 16, 2010
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Machine Quilting – Beginning
Cindy Needham 9am-4pm
Come join Cindy for a fun, very hands-on workshop which
will provide you with a solid foundation in machine quilting
skills. You will learn all about setting up your workspace,
special basting techniques, battings, threads and tools
during her morning lecture. The afternoon is spent learning
machine quilting skills, dialing in your tension, finding
your rhythm, and learning the techniques of quilting any
design. Also learn easy techniques for quilting feathers
and basic design tips to make your quilts come alive. Don’t
miss this opportunity to learn from such a gifted and talented
quilter and teacher.
Class Fee: $75.00
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FabriCreations
Patti Hyder 9am-4pm
This class is the perfect opportunity to put those beautiful
focal fabrics in your stash to work and create a one-of-a-kind
piece. Patti’s class will provide you with ideas and techniques
to create original wall art featuring a scenic or themed
print of your choosing. The possibilities are endless and
need not be complicated to be appealing. Simple lines and
complimentary fabrics can add surprising drama or whimsy
in framing or adding interest to your print. Bring the fabrics
you love, but don’t know what to do with and see what happens.
Class Fee: $55.00
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Exploring Landscape through Fabric
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Helene Knott 9am-4pm
If you have been meaning to attempt an art quilt, let Helene
guide you in this delightful class. Fabric choices can make
or break a landscape quilt. In this class students will
explore the process of using commercial fabrics to create
landscapes of atmospheric beauty and learn to look at both
fabrics and landscapes with a new perspective. The project
is fused for ‘instant gratification’ and students will leave
with a small scenic landscape quilt top ready to layer and
quilt. Chose one of two of Helene’s pattern kits complete
with muslin base, fabrics, pattern, fusible web, batting,
and backing. Fabrics vary with each kit. Play with Helene’s
other available fabrics or bring some of your own.
Class Fee: $55.00 Kit Fee: $18.00
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Hand-Painted Sunflower Handbag and T-Shirt
Melanie Chang 9am-4pm
Come try Melanie’s simple but beautiful dry brush technique
for painting on fabric. This is a unique chance to try painting
and quilting together! She will guide you through painting
a t-shirt and two panels for a purse in this 6 hour workshop.
No painting or drawing experience is required. Patterns
will be provided. This project is suitable for the beginner
as well as one who may have done fabric painting. The handbag
pattern is included in the kit fee but will be completed
later. Students should bring a pre-washed t-shirt (no fabric
softener).
Class Fee: $55.00
Kit Fee: $22.00 includes all supplies and pattern for handbag
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Quilting Design
Cindy Needham 9am-4pm
Does your creativity go on vacation when you stare at that
finished quilt top? Now that the time for quilting is here,
you don’t know what design is best? Well, come learn from
Cindy, our talented feature teacher. This class is designed
for those students who have a basic knowledge of quilting
and are ready to move forward to learning about design!
The morning session covers how to choose designs, working
with the “creatively pieced” quilt, designing outside the
box, dimension and movement, wholecloth quilting, and making
your borders fit. Students bring pieced tops and we spend
the afternoon designing and marking. She brings her huge
stash of stencils for the students to use during class.
Class Fee: $75.00
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Linen Ladies Workshop
Cindy Needham 9am-4pm
This class is Cindy’s passion and subject of her book, “Wholecloth
Linen Quilts”. She loves being able to create something
“new” out of something old. How many of you have a stash
of old linens and you don’t know what to do with them? Come
join Cindy for an inspirational, one-of-a-kind workshop
where she teaches you how to create a wholecloth linen quilt
from your stash of linens. You learn all the secrets of
creating your own heirloom. You spend the day marking and
designing with Cindy’s own stencil stash and become an exclusive
member of “The Linen Ladies Club.”
Class Fee: $75.00
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Panel Razzle Dazzle
Judy Johnson 9am-4pm
Have you looked at any of the many interesting panel fabrics
now available at local quilt shops and wondered if there
was something new and unusual you could do with them? Here
is an answer! Panel Razzle Dazzle combines blocks fussy-cut
from panel prints with pieced blocks made from identical
layers of stacked fabric. The construction process is easy
and the design possibilities are endless.
Class Fee: $55.00
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Your Own Village
Hilde Morin 9am-4pm
Hilde’s class is for those craving to express their creativity
using innovative piecing techniques. Design and create your
own village. . . learn improvisational piecing techniques
to create huts, houses, and curved landscapes. Learn to
put it all together into a free-form landscape quilt. You
will exercise strip and curved piecing techniques to create
individual quilt elements; create your own quilt diagram
and put it all together through improvisational piecing
techniques. Size of finished work varies.
Class Fee: $55.00
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Reversible
Table Runner (Christmas & Halloween)
Muriel Ferrari 9am-4pm
This is another wonderful project/technique class. Let
Muriel guide you in gaining the expertise to sew material
directly onto batting that is reversible and usable on
both sides and to join quilted pieces in a neat and pleasing
manner on both sides. This is a hands-on workshop to learn
how to make a reversible quilt by completing a table runner
that represents Christmas and Halloween. 
Class Fee: $55.00
Optional Kit Fee: $20.00 all inclusive
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Waterfall
Topper or Wall Quilt
Kathy Lindell 9am-12pm
This class with Kathy of Eagles Nest Designs is a bonus
because you get techniques plus a finished project to
take home. Learn techniques to cut free motion waves and
piece curves as well as raw edge appliqué with
this quick project. Learn easy techniques for cutting
without a ruler to obtain organic free motion curves.
Piecing techniques to get the curves to lie flat and a
second technique to get the same look without piecing.
This table topper is a fun way to use up an assortment
of coordinating smaller pieces.
Class Fee: $30.00 Pattern Fee: $9.00
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Three
Ways to Hand Appliqué
Sharon Tucker 9am-12pm
We all need handwork for when we’re on the go. This is a
good opportunity to learn valuable skills from Sharon. Take
the mystery out of hand appliqué with this technique-based
class. In this class you will learn three different methods
to do hand appliqué, including needle turn, freezer
paper and back basting appliqué, and appliqué
a variety of shapes onto your background. All three methods
give you the same result, just a different way of getting
there. You will go home with a good knowledge of different
ways to do hand appliqué and will be ready to start
an appliqué project of your choice.
Class Fee: $30.00
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Quilted Postcards
Bonnie Sabel 9am-12pm
Make a quilted postcard with the author of Positively Postcards!
Postcards are fun to make and offer a great opportunity
to “test drive” some creativity and art-quilt techniques
that one might be reluctant to try on a larger scale. Discover
the five basic techniques for designing quilted postcards,
and learn Bonnie’s construction techniques which are easily
adapted to Journal Quilts or other small quilts Bonnie says
that many of her postcards end up framed, and they make
beautiful home décor!
Class Fee: $30.00
Optional kits available at class for $4-8. Kit for insides
available $4.
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