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WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION:
This workshop, which has been designed with an intermediate student in mind, will introduce students to the amazing possibilities offered by using cotton, silk and velvet fabrics together in a contemporary quilt. It is planned to take place over two successive days, six hours each day. This gives participants an opportunity to sample the concepts discussed.
The workshop can easily be expanded to three or more days, allowing for students to plan and begin their own quilt.
Discussion:
Working with different fabrics in the same quilt
- Properties of each fabric
- Appropriate threads
- Sewing techniques
The Perpetual Star Block
- The traditional block
- The contemporary block
- Block modifications:
- Traditional piecing
- Paper piecing
- Using templates
- Block size
- Using more than one block size within the same quilt
- Sizes are relative
- Seam allowances
- Choosing fabrics and colors
Planning a quilt top
- Block placement
- Embellishments
- Borders and bindings
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Working with leftovers
- Color groupings
- Piecing leftover squares
Finishing touches
- Stitching
- Beading
- Embellishments
Materials and supplies:
Please note: the following supplies are for a two-day workshop. Longer workshops will require additional supplies. Further details are available upon request.
It is always difficult to judge exactly how much fabric an individual student will use in a workshop, and unfortunately it is impractical to suggest that each student should bring their entire fabric stash. Therefore, the following suggestion is made:
Each student should bring a minimum of 8 fabrics from the following color groups:
Yellow
Orange
Red
Violet
Blue
Green
Within each color group, fabrics should range from light to dark, patterned and un-patterned (no calico or solid colors). They can contain more than one color, as long as most of the color falls within a color group. Batiks and medium to large florals are welcome. Each fabric piece should be equivalent to a fat quarter or larger.
Additionally, students are encouraged to bring along any fabric scraps (the more, the merrier)
- Rotary cutter
- Cutting mat
- Rotary ruler
- Needles - for both hand and machine sewing
- Sewing machine in good working order
- Plenty of thread
- Freezer paper
- Scissors
- Ruler
- Iron
- Table-top ironing board or pad
- Paper and pencil
- Eraser
- Light-weight iron-on interfacing
Finally, every quilter has quilting/sewing "goodies" that they find make quilting life easier. Feel free to bring them along, as long as they don't take over your "workshop world".
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