Unexpected Combinations Retreat
With Janet Fogg
At FivePine Lodge & Conference Center
Monday - Friday, Sept 28 - October 2, 2009
$575 (includes instruction and meals,
Friday's instruction ends at noon.)

In this workshop, Janet will help you explore the creation of unexpected imagery. Compositions form this class involve unusual juxtapositions of subject matter which do not occur in reality, giving your quilts concept and dimension that might not otherwise be achieved. Exercises in creative thinking will generate ideas for individual quilt projects to be designed and sewn in class. Janet will demonstrate how to combine images into a drawing for projection, pattern drawing, and curved machine piecing. Come prepared to unleash your creativity and design a quilt that is not only beautiful, but conceptual as well.

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The Value of Value Retreat
With Carol Taylor
At FivePine Lodge & Conference Center
Monday - Friday, Sept 28 - October 2, 2009
$575 (includes instruction and meals)

Want to learn how to use value to make your quilt stand out and "flow" from light to dark, while making a vertical or horizontal quilt? This retreat emphasizes a simple, hands-on method of learning to use fuse patchwork with couched circles. Here is a chance to use some of those fancy and unusual fabrics that you've been attracted to, but didn't know how to use. We will tame them by fusing, and learn to mix them with other textured-looking fabrics. See http://www.caroltaylorquilts.com/ for more information on Carol.

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Carol Taylor is staying on at the Stitchin' Post after her weeklong 2009 Sisters Art Quilt Symposium
retreat. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from the
best in the industry!

Sensuous Lines and Curves Workshop
$75 (lunch included)
Saturday, October 3 9-3:30 pm

If you love the look of those really skinny lines and curves but don’t know how to make them, this is the class for you. Carol will share her secrets for piecing them, so your practice blocks become a lovely 41"x36" wall quilt.

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Thread Painting Pansies Workshop
$75 (lunch included)
Sunday, October 4 9-3:30 pm

Want to add more thread to create depth, but lack the expensive embroidery machines to do it? Carol will show you how to create your own thread painted pansy using the free motion zigzag method. It’s like coloring with crayons, except you use threads to make solid areas and then blend thread colors to create realistic and dimensional pansies. You’ll also learn bobbin drawing, how to make lacy and confetti centers, and how to incorporate couching with these designs.

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Born in Zambia, Sue’s folk-art imagery reflects her multi-cultural background and her fascination with folk art from around the world. Inspiration comes from memories collected during her African childhood, a sojourn in the green South of England, and time spent in the United States.

Red Clover Workshop
$150 (includes lunch)
Wednesday & Thursday,
October 21 & 22, 2009 9-3:30 pm

This pattern was designed for Australian Homespun Magazine and is combination of cotton fabric and hand dyed wool, velvet, and raw silk. Embellishments of buttons, beads, hand-dyed rick-racks, and yarns add texture and interest to your project. Choose a color combination that pleases you. With Sue’s encouragement you will then play with texture and embellishments to create your piece.

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Altered Textile Workshop
$150 (includes lunch)*
Friday & Saturday, October 23 & 24 9-3:30 pm

This workshop focuses on having fun with embellishments. Arrive with your block already appliquéd and then spend your time embellishing a one-of-a-kind piece of art. Sue will teach you embellishment techniques including shadowing, beading, embroidery, ribbon play, and dimensional art. A kit will be mailed to you ahead of time so come prepared to be creative.

*Additional cost of kit and wool for appliqué - $32

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One of our most popular teachers returns to the Stitchin’ Post in November, 2009. Karen Stone began quilt making in 1986, teaching in 1990, and publishing her designs in 1993. Her quilts have won numerous awards, including first prizes in international competitions, and have appeared on covers of Quilter’s Newsletter Magazine, and several catalogs. Her Indian Orange Peel design received the People’s Choice Award at Quilt National ‘95, and she has appeared on HGTV’s Simply Quilts.

Windsor Gardens Workshop
With Karen Stone
$75 (includes lunch)
Tuesday, November 10 9-3:30 pm

This quilt is a leafy gala of fabric, color, free cutting, and free-motion stitching. The playfulness of the design lends itself to the use of lots of print fabrics.

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New York Beauty Workshop
With Karen Stone
$150 (includes lunch)
Wednesday & Thursday,
November 11 & 12 9-3:30 pm

Paper foundation piecing, curved piecing, a drafting lesson (for those interested), and an informal lecture/discussion on organization of color in quilts will be covered in this two-day workshop. Students may use blocks with variations from Karen’s New York Beauty or Cinco de Mayo quilts.

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Decorative One-Patch Workshop
With Karen Stone
$150 (includes lunch)
Friday & Saturday, November 13 & 14 9-3:30 pm

As in Karen’s fanciful clamshell blocks, this class is about improvisation and execution. A wide variety of techniques will be presented – patchwork, appliqué — both hand and machine. You choose the one-patch shape you would like to work with – either clam, triangle, diamond, or square. However, Karen will suggest the 60-degree diamond, which makes a fabulous star.

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At FivePine Lodge & Conference Center**
Thursday, March 4, 1 - 4 pm &
Friday - Sunday, March 5 - 7, 2010
$360 (includes lunch Friday - Sunday & daily snacks)

Gwen Marston and Freddy Moran have joined forces again to teach this special class based on their new book Freddy & Gwen Collaborate Again. This is a design and color class, with the primary focus on helping the quilters design their own original works. This dynamic duo team-teach the same way they collaborate on their quilts: Freddy concentrates on Color and Gwen offers design insights based on common historical formats. They will demonstrate many of the techniques used to make quilts in this book.

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*Book purchase required: Freddy & Gwen Collaborate Again ($24.95, less 15% class discount)

**Lodging not included in price. We will send information on lodging to you when you register, so you can make yourown arrangements.

At the Stitchin' Post
Monday - Tuesday, March 8 - 9, 2010
$150 (includes lunch)

Quilts made in strong colors by the amish were the first quilts to be viewed as art. Of late, the dazzling assortment of new prints has justifiably attracted great attention, and solids have been regulated to the back burner. This class is meant to be a reminder that solids have their own distinctive characteristics, which shouldn't be overlooked by the quilter intent on doing original, abstract work.

Working with free-form improvisational construction, you will create your own original quilts using Gwen's easy design concepts and techniques. This class is good for the beginning, advanced, traditional, or art quilter. Come join the fun as Gwen shows you her easy methods for creating your own original quilts. Gwen's new book is a valuable resource for this class, and is available here at the store.

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*Book purchase required: Ideas and Inspirations: Abstract Quilts in Solids ($25.95, less 15% class discount)

We are finalizing the details of Janet’s three-day Textile Picture Workshop at the Stitchin’ Post. More details will follow in our Fall 2009 Class Schedule, so stay tuned!

Joen Wolfrom and Sue Benner will be our resident artists for 2010.

Joen Wolfrom travels throughout the world to teach and lecture about innovative quilt making techniques, design, color, block-play exploration, creativity, and other topics, and to jury and judge quilt shows. Joen’s focus during her week here will be Magical Colors & Sensational Quilts.

Sue Benner is a full-time studio artist creating art quilts and other dyed and painted fabric constructions. She is known for her brilliant dyed and painted textiles, her bold, expressionistic style, and underlying sense of order. Sue will be here to teach two inspirational and technical workshops and to describe her work and life as an artist.

We will have more information on these workshops this Fall.