OCTOBER 2007 QUILTING, KNITTING, & SEWING CLASSES |
Folk Art Fantasy
Joanne Myers
Mon, Oct 1, 15 & 29 10-1 pm
Advanced Beginning,* BSS**
$35
For those of you who have tried appliqué and want to learn more, this is the perfect class for you. Joanne will help you recreate Karen Kay Buckley’s gorgeous floral wall hanging from the McCall’s December 2006 magazine Quilting with the Pros II. You will use reverse appliqué and freezer paper for templates.
*Some appliqué experience recommended (fusing is an option)
**Magazine purchase required:
McCall’s December 2006 Quilting with the Pros II, $5.99;
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Quilting 102
Lawry Thorn
Tue, Oct 2 9:30-1:30
Beginning, BSS
$20
Like Quilting 101, we will learn basic quilt piecing but focus on half square and quarter square triangles. Lawry will lead you through basic techniques of cutting, pressing and stitching. Finishing techniques will be covered as you work on a pillow or tablemat using squares and triangles. Instruction will be given to enlarge and make a small quilt using the techniques learned in class. [Sign Me Up] |
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Beginning Crochet
Debi Pryor
Fri, Oct 5, 12 & 19 6-9 pm
Beginning
$35
Learn the basic chain, single crochet, double crochet, and shell stitches. Debi will also cover adding yarns, decreasing and increasing stitches and granny squares. The result? Confidence with your crocheting and cute samplers to take away with you.
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Fractured Image
Johanne Gibson
Fri, Oct 5 9:30-4:30 pm
Advanced Beginning, BSS
$30 |
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Learn a unique way to take your large-scale prints and create a one-of-a-kind masterpiece! During class, you will fracture a design, reassemble it on a design wall, choose borders that enhance your quilt and go home with your partially completed quilt top. We will be using strip cutting and easy piecing to add this new dimension. This technique lends itself to almost any large-scale print. Floral and Asian prints are especially beautiful. |
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Dot to Dot
June Jaeger
Sat, Oct 6 9:30-4 pm
Advanced Beginning, BSS*
$40 |
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This technique workshop will cover machinepiecing circles. That’s right, no appliqué! Using a black and white background, you will work with high and low contrasts to enhance this lap quilt. Some circles will float and others will blend creating an intriguing eye-catching design. We will spend time learning how to keep the eye moving throughout the quilt using color, value and intensity.
*Book purchase optional: Pieced Curves So Simple by Dale Fleming ($24.95) less 15% class discount |
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Log Cabin Fragments
Joanne Myers
Mon, Oct 8, 22 & Nov 5 1-4 pm
Advanced Beginning, BSS*
$35
Using Linda Jenkins’ festive Log Cabin Fragments pattern in her book, Amish Inspired Quilts, Joanne will walk you through each step in making a gorgeous table runner. You will make 8 log cabin blocks, apply simple appliqué at each end of the runner and learn finishing techniques. This is the perfect class for those that wish to try appliqué without a huge commitment.
*Book purchase required: Amish Inspired Quilts by Becky Goldsmith & Linda Jenkins ($26.95) less 15% class discount
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Beginning Knitting: Make a Scarf
Sally Brittain
Tues, Oct 9, 16 & 23 9:30-12:30 pm
Beginning
$35
Have you seen all the beautiful knitted scarves on the market and wish you could make one for your very own? This is the class to take. Sally will teach you about yarns, needles, and knitting gauge. Then, you will roll up your sleeves and learn how to cast on, knit and purl, and bind off.
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Pattern and Color Exploration in Quilt Making
Jean & Valori Wells
Tue, Oct 9 6-9 pm
All Levels
$20
Jean and Valori are teaming up to present a variety of ideas on working with color as well as printed fabric in quilt making. Explore principles of color such as value and proportion and learn how printed fabric (sometimes with many colors) works into the design process. Valori comes to quilting with an art school background as well as with fabric design experience and Jean comes with 37 years of fabric selection and quilting background. Gain confidence in how to work with color and fabric.
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Shifting Perspectives Workshop with Lorraine Torrence
Wednesday-Thursday, October 10-11, 2007
(See Retreats page for details) |
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Knitted Socks
Sally Brittain
Thurs, Oct 11, 18 & Nov 8 9:30-12:30 pm
Intermediate
$35
Do you love to wear fun, funky socks? Well now you can learn to make them. Join Sally and learn this step-by-step process of knitting in the round and making the heel and toe.
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Design Essentials Workshop with Lorraine Torrence
Friday-Saturday, October 12-13, 2007
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Quilt Design Exploration
Jean Wells
2nd Sat of each month,
Oct 13, Nov 10, Dec 8,
Jan 12 & Feb 9
10-2 pm
Intermediate, BSS
$45 |
Do you want to branch out and start designing your own quilts? Jean can help you facilitate this process with exercises on paper and with fabric. You will explore grids, block configuration, cutting without rulers, designing from nature, intuitive color work, and come away with a journal full of ideas and samples for future quilts.
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Turning Twenty…Again
Terri Kirchart
Sun, Oct 14 9-4 pm
Beginning, BSS*
$30
Turn 20 fat quarters into a beautiful quilt! This quilt can be made in several sizes and the fat quarters are all cut into the same pieces. Stack them up and cut them all at once. This is the perfect class for the beginning quilter.
*Pattern purchase required, Turning Twenty… Again designed by Tricia Cribbs ($10.95) less 15% class discount |
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Intuitive Quilting
Jean Wells
Mon, Oct 15 & 22 6-9 pm
Intermediate, BSS
$30 |
Do you want to explore quilt design in a more intuitive way? Do you want to explore new ways of working? In this class we will do some cutting without rulers, which creates gentle curves and some nice design lines. You can work on one design and create a small wall hanging or pillow, create four similar images and put them into a four patch setting for a wall quilt, or design a larger quilt that does not use the repeated block format. Jean will also incorporate a short color exercise to help you focus on color relationships and value.
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Crazy 9 Patch from Your Stash
Ruth Ingham
Tues, Oct 16, 23, 30 & Nov 6 1-4 pm
Intermediate, BSS
$45 |
Using your stash, you will make nine different squares by piling up fabric and cutting through all of the layers at once. The pieces are reassembled in different arrangements to make nine different blocks using a mathematical formula. Each block is joined with contrasting strips.
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Let’s Play With AnglePlay
Lawry Thorn
Thur, Oct 18 & 25 9:30-1 pm
Advanced Beginning, BSS*
$30
Work with templates and learn technique while Lawry walks you through several of the block samples covered in Margaret J. Miller’s AnglePlay Blocks book. Purchase the AnglePlay templates, or bring your own template plastic and copy the template patterns from the book. We will explore blocks in the first class. In the second class, you will start your own project.
*Book purchase required: AnglePlay Blocks by Margaret J. Miller ($19.95) less 15% class discount |
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Sticks & Stones
Tonye Phillips
Fri, Oct 19 10-4 pm
All Levels
$30 |
Have design fun with the ¼" bias tape maker! Using the Clover bias tape maker, Tonye will share with you how much fun she has using this nifty tool. It is like magic! Tonye will help get your creative juices going in order for you to create some of your own designs or recreate your own version of her simple, graphic design. Tonye loves to appliqué by hand, but you could also use the machine if that is your thing. Watch out, it is addicting!
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Home Décor Roundup with Jean, Valori and Friends
Saturday, October 20
10:30-3:00
$20 - includes light lunch
Reservations Required
Plan now to attend a day of stylish decorating with Jean, Valori and friends. They will be sharing valuable decorating ideas and demonstrating projects and techniques such as: shower curtains with liners (how to put in grommets); duvet covers (plain and simply pieced); placemat ideas for holiday giving as well as your home; tablecloths (how to plan yardage and ideas to personalize them); pillow talk (basic construction and ideas to make them special); table setting and centerpieces; and color ideas in decorating (how to balance colors in a room). [Sign Me Up] |
Kaleidoscope
Terri Kirchart
Sun, Oct 21 9-4 pm
Advanced Beginning, BSS*
$30 |
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Kaleidoscope quilts are fascinating and interesting to construct. Terri will take you through the basics of fabric choice, cutting and construction. This is a technique session. The supply list will give you extensive instructions on fabric selection as the fabric makes the quilt.
*Book purchase required: Kaleidoscope ABCs by Marti Mitchell ($20.95) less 15% class discount
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Persian Poppy Shawl
Catherine Childress
Mon & Tues, Oct 22 & 23 9:30-12:30 pm
Advanced Beginning
$30 |
We will knit shawls in Kaffe Fassett’s Persian Poppy pattern. This will require you to carry multiple yarns across the pattern. We will focus on utilizing Kaffe’s approach to integrating color into the pattern to create a beautiful shawl that reflects your personality.
Book purchase required: Kaffe Fassett’s Pattern Library by Kaffe Fassett, ($34.95) less 15% class discount
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Bargello Tree
Johanne Gibson
Fri, Oct 26 9:30-4:30 pm
Advanced Beginning,* BSS**
$30 |
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This strip-pieced Bargello Tree makes a wonderful seasonal wall hanging. Christmas fabrics, batiks, jewel tones all work well in this design. Learn the strip pieced Bargello technique and some great embellishment tricks. You should go home with your tree at least half finished.
*The pre-class preparation requires reading the first part of the pattern and sewing strip pieces. **Pattern purchase required: Bargello Tree ($9) less 15% class discount |
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Evening Out at Twigs
Friday, October 26 6:00 - 8:00 pm
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Playful Portraiture
Catherine Conkey
Sat & Sun Oct 27 & 28 10-4 pm
Advanced Beginning, BSS
$45
In this design class, you will learn to combine traditional piecework with fusible appliqué and satin stitching to depict stylized images of people in context with their life stories. Choose the subject of your design. Cathy will guide you as you create a simple drawing for a small wall hanging-sized portrait and show you the fusible interfacing appliqué technique and how to draw simple faces with satin stitching. Capture a wonderful memory in this fun and playful class. [Sign Me Up] |
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Basic Knitted Mittens
Tonye Phillips
Mon, Oct 29 10-4 pm & Mon, Nov 5 10-1pm
Advanced Beginning
$35 |
Have you a lways wanted to learn how to make mittens? This is a super easy pattern found in the book Weekend Knitting by Melanie Falick. Tonye will get you startedwith working on double pointed needles. Using bulky yarn, this pattern zips right along once you get the hang of it. These mittens are a great gift for someone extra special – like maybe you?
Book purchase required: Weekend Knitting by Melanie Falick, ($24.95) less 15% class discount
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