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Lectures

Creative Process

The Quilted Tradition...Inspirational Lecture

A Playground of Mixed Techniques in Pictorial Quilting

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Workshops

Design and Construction for Front to Back Pictorial Quilting
Understanding Design
Machine Sashiko
Landscapes to Love
Easy Animal Appliqué
Pictures to Patterns; Your own Appliqué Designs
Little Quilter
Puffin Possibilities

Lecture/Trunk Show 45-60 minutes
Topic:  The Creative Process 

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? Is it a good idea to submit your work for judging by others? Quilting is often the one thing we can control. 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.

Landscapes to Love

Landscapes to Love - 1 or 2 day
NO Drawing required!
Limit 20 students, no minimum,

• Create depth and dimension in your composition by simple tricks of fabric selection

• Play with fabric paints, inks, discharge and over dying to create those realistic hi lights and shadows

• Creating the Background or negative space

• Learn how to Mix and Match techniques, crazy piecing, diamonds, and squares, collage with raw edges, machine appliqué.

• Quilting the Landscape Quilt.

 Day 2- Designing your own quilt or choose from Kathy’s landscape patterns as a starter.Begin with the background, then use

            hand, machine or fused appliqué to add your individual landscape elements.

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Design and Construction for Front to Back Pictorial Quilting

Two-day workshop.
NO Drawing required!
Limit 20 Students, No Minimum 

 Day One- 

Morning- We will review basic principals or tools to help you with the design of pictorial, traditional or contemporary quilts. This Power Point Video lecture features many examples for the visual learner in all of us. 

Afternoon- Bring a 4 x 6 photo with sharp details of a focal point to start your own pictorial quilt design. Examples include a pet picture, light house, sun flowers etc. Medium to large shapes in the photo will be most successful. 

 Where do I start? • Tackling major characters or focal areas • Secondary characters or landscape accents • Defining the Background or negative space • Auditioning Borders  •Quilting the Pictorial Quilt. 

 Individual design time for each student. Construction Plan- Discussion of various techniques and how they can be used for constructing your pictorial quilt. 

Extremely Important for the Hosting Venue! 

Physical Requirements for Classroom: The ability to darken the room for projection! 4 X 4’ solid smooth surface where paper can be tacked to the wall for drawing. One area per ten students) large rectangular table for teacher demonstration and books. Tables for students (they do not need a large area to spread out) 2 extension cords Hanging system for 3 quilts/ portable design wall. 

 Day Two- 

Morning – You don’t have to be an artist to add pictures of birds, flowers or animals to your quilt blocks or designs for your own pictorial compositions. Learn how to turn your pictures in to PATTERNS that can be appliquéd to any size quilt block or top. Have fun manipulating commercial fabrics to add texture and dimension to your characters or landscapes. This morning you will practice making paper patterns for a butterfly and Humming bird. 

Afternoon- Learn to appliqué free object animals to your quilts. 

 In this class we will make a Machine Appliquéd Swan using my pattern. She will be constructed as free object that can be placed on a future quilt block or garment. 

 The skills learned in this afternoon session will help you construct any free object you want to make in Pictorial Quilting. 

Show and Share Wrap-Up 

 Bring your quilt projects and tell us what worked well and what areas were problems. We all learn from each quilt we make. Celebrate the growing artist within you. 

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Understanding Design

Limit 20 students, No Minimum,

5- hour Workshop 

Design Principals are wonderful tools. They help you make choices. They give you a framework to organize your thoughts when developing a plan for your traditional, contemporary or pictorial quilt. USE them to analyze why some areas are successful and others not as dynamic as you had hoped.

 “This class taught me to look at quilts in a whole new way”

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Machine Sashiko

Yes, you can DO IT and its lots of fun.  You will leave with a beautiful silk sashiko sampler suitable for displaying.  Learn about threads, needles and personalized designs.

Add Sashiko quilting to those luscious Japanese fabrics.  Enhance your free motion quilting skills while creating something that you will be proud to show off.

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Puffin Possibilities  

1 day -
In this workshop you will learn the possibilities of Free Object Appliqué by making Puffins. Learn both Machine and Fused Appliqué.    

 Agnes and Walter have never met a vest, block or quilt top that they wouldn’t want to be placed on.

2 or more days-
Create your own seascape quilt featuring three adorable puffins that can be appliquéd to the background scene. Discover secrets of landscape design, picking appropriate fabrics, and making your own simple appliqué patterns. Have fun learning about pictorial quilting from front to back while making a quilt that is uniquely yours.

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Pictures to Patterns; Your own Appliqué Designs

20 students maximum/ no minimum
6 hour class
Beginners

You don’t have to be an artist to add pictures of birds, flowers or animals to your quilt blocks.   Personalize your quilts by adding your own patterns for appliqué designs. We will learn how to turn your pictures in to PATTERNS. Your digital photo program can assist you. Play with fabric choices, inks, paints, etc, to create dimension and realism in your appliquéd objects.

Leave with a bird, flower, and dolphin paper pattern.
Cut out a fabric hummingbird ready to appliqué when you get home.

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Easy Animal Appliqué

6- hour Workshop
Limit 20 students maximum, No minimum
 

Learn to add pictorial images to your quilt blocks or designs.  

In this class we will make Swan and Puffin using my patterns. These animals are constructed as free objects that you can be placed on a future quilt, garment or block.  We will use two different construction methods, so that you can choose what is right for you. Machine /Hand Appliqué,  Fusion with Raw Edges.  

The skills learned in this workshop will help you make a Modified Paper Foundation Pattern for any object you want to make in Pictorial Quilting.

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