Art Quilt Lectures and Workshops

Kathy provides a playground for students to learn, be inspired, and nurtured while trying on new skills and having fun!

All lectures and workshops presented in video Power Point. Each student will feel as though they have their own front row seat.

Photo courtesy of Peter Moore

Lectures: $350.00
Workshops: (6 hours) $500/day

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Classroom Requirements

Instructor-- Slide screen or white wall for power point. 2 tables for class samples, patterns and demos materials. Quilt rack (if possible) for teacher quits. Kathy will need to briefly borrow a student machine for demos. Bernina if possible.

Students- design wall or 20 x 24 inch foam core board/batting for a design wall. 4 irons and ironing boards per 20 students.

Maximize your individual time learning the joys of pictorial applique. KATHY"S HOME STUDIO - Tulalip, WA 360 659 4002

I am available to teach any of my workshops at my home studio. 6 students minimum/ 8 maximum ( more if no machines required)

$50.00 a day.

There is a Comfort Inn ( 360-658-1339) 6 miles from my home for two day classes.

Deposit of $50.00 per student necessary to hold date. No refunds. Contact me if you have a group that are interested.

Lecture/Trunk Show 45-60 minutes Topic: The Creative Process, Front to Back Pictorial Quilting with Kathy's award winning quilts. The journey of creation often involves jumping out of your usual comfort zone. Parts of the process frustrate and intimidate us. How can we overcome the blocks that stand in the way of us joyfully expressing our own unique creative voice? Let me share the stories of my quilts with your group. Quilting is often the one thing we can control. Creativity has many proven health benefits. Let me inspire confidence in your creative process. Lecture/ Trunk Show 45- 60 minutes Topic: The Quilted Tradition (Inspirational) Fiber is the worlds oldest know craft. Women have always had a special relationship to fabric. Historically quilts have been a way for women to express their artistic vision, to bring color to their life, to make political statements, and to preserve family stories. Today this craft is being taken to a whole new level of diversity in personal expression. Loosing yourself in that creative process also brings wonderful health benefits. Find your creative voice and the healing power that it brings. Lecture/Trunk Show 45-60 minutes Topic - *A Playground of Mixed Techniques in Pictorial Quilting* Through this slide lecture and trunk show of award winning quilts, learn how to use a full palette of techniques to enhance and construct the image in your mind. If the thought of hand appliqué or machine piecing curves makes you want to bolt from even trying pictorial quilting, this lecture will give you the confidence to begin. To sustain our spirits quilting has to be fun and there are enough techniques for everyone to find that sense of freedom and joy in creating.
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Landscapes to Love; One or Two day---Limit 20 students, no minimum, (This is my most popular class. Students love and appreciate the second day so that they can really get going on their own quilt). CLick here for materials list. Click here for: Tips for choosing the right photo for your quilt. Let’s get you started on the never ending joys of landscape quilting. Design your unique landscape quilt from a favorite photo. Optional; if you are new to art quilting or the world of applique, purchase one of Kathy's patterns for a starter. $10.00 pattern fee. I will have all of my patterns with me. You may also order them before class. See patterns. Day One.- Learn the secrets that will make your landscapes come alive. Begin auditioning and the layout of your landscape scene. We will review design principles to create a more dramatic composition. Simple tricks of fabric selection will be covered to create depth and dimension in your composition. • Play with fabric paints, inks, discharge and over dying to create those realistic hi-lights and shadows. • Kathy will demonstrate how to mix and match traditional piecing with hand, machine or raw edge applique. DAY TWO- Individual construction time for your beautiful landscape quilt. Build your confidence with Kathy right there to help with construction and design decisions. Use hand, machine or fused applique to add the individual landscape elements to your background scene. Pictorial quilting: design, drafting and applique construction. . *Two day workshop-*---NO Drawing required! Click here for Materials List Click here for :Tips to choosing the right photographs for your project. Do you have a favorite photo, waiting to become a quilt, but you don’t know where to start? Learn how to turn your photo of an animal, bird, building, or other focal object into an applique pattern for a wall hanging. This compact seminar will give you the three basic tools to begin your journey into pictorial quilting. Learn to create pleasing and dynamic compositions. Draft your photo into a line drawing of shapes and values from which pattern templates can be made. Learn the art of layered applique to bring realistic form and dimension to those subjects. What applique technique should I use? Kathy will demonstrate hand, machine, and raw edge applique. You can mix and match all of these techniques within your composition. Choose what works best for you. Discuss the background scene for your focal object; traditional blocks or a landscape scene, it’s up to you. *Let’s get you started on the grand journey of pictorial quilting.* Optional- Beginners new to the world of applique and art quilting, may choose to purchase one of Kathy’s animal or bird patterns to use instead of their own photo this time. The whole class will still prepare you to use your own photo’s in future wall hangings. Two to three 9 x 11 photos of focal objects still required for practice in drafting line drawings for this workshop. Extra- Have fun manipulating commercial fabrics to add texture and dimension to your characters or pictorial settings. Demonstration includes fabricpaints, inks, overlay’s and discharging to create the perfect shading for your pictorial objects or blocks. *Individual Pattern fee will be charged if the student chooses to use one.*
ANIMALS TO LOVE One day workshop with Kathy McNeil *$10.00* *pattern fee for the one animal of your choice.* FUN, FAST, FUSIBLE AND OH SO BEAUTIFUL! Choose which animal scene calls to your heart. Learn the playful freedom that comes with fusible applique. Each scene will introduce you to the art of layered applique, using value to capture high lights and shadows, and machine embroidered embellishments. Ready to quilt it when they return home! Click here for Materials List Birds of Happiness________________________________________________________________
--- $10.00 pattern fee One day workshop with Kathy McNeil If you love applique and have always wanted to try pictorial images, let's make one of these beautiful birds together. Pattern comes with optional background scene. Learn the steps of layered applique. Choose hand or machine applique techniques to create each bird as a free object. Kathy will teach you how to make those fussy points easy. Your beautiful bird will be ready to applique to the background that you create at home. "Bring your unique vision to some of natures most beautiful birds". Finished size of Heron- 22 x 29 full scene Finished size of Swan -20 x 22 full scene Finished size of Puffin - 22 x 26 full scene Click here for materials list to Puffin IClick Here for Materials List for Heron Click here for Materials List for Swan _____ DESIGN PRINCIPALS FOR EVERY QUILT STYLE________________________________ One Day Workshop with award winning designer Kathy McNeil Beginning to Intermediate level workshop. Train your eye and build your confidence in designing quilts with dynamic movement, color, depth and perspective. USE THESE TOOLS TO MAKE SURE YOUR QUILTS HAVE THAT DYNAMIC LOOK. Understanding Basic Design Principals, will give you the confidence to design your own original: Traditional, Contemporary or Pictorial compositions. Let's work together to bring your original ideas to life. *“This class taught me to look at quilts in a whole new way.”* *Bring block patterns, photo's and fabrics that inspire an original design. Bring quilts or quilt tops that you would like to share or have feedback on the design, color, or composition.* CLICK HERE FOR MATERIALS LIST



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