Mike McNamara: "Gentle Curved Piecing & Other Techniques".
Skill Level: All      
Supply List
Class List Saturday 10/17
Class List Sunday 10/18

Mac's unique, curved piecing techniques; layering stack-and-slice curved piecing, curve-as-template and 'floaters' - as well as a discussion on the relative importance of color and value. Your quilt will be created with the elements discussed above.

Elin Noble: "Alternative Marbling: The Basics"
Skill Level: No dye or paint experience necessary
Supply List
Class List Saturday 1/23 Updated 1/4/10
Class List Sunday 1/24 Updated 1/4/10

Experience the “oh wow” moments when the paint attaches to the cloth, freezing exotic imagery that is reminiscent of microscopic views of cells, geological forms, and cosmic observations. This class offers a fresh approach to the age-old tradition of floating paint on water and transferring the image to paper or cloth. This class focuses on the principles of surface tension and how to float color, understanding the relationship between the different surfactants to aid floating color, how to mix color, and many pattern manipulation techniques. Material Fee +/- $40

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Ami Simms: "String Quilting"
Skill Level: Beginning, Intermediate    
Supply List
Class List Saturday 2/20
Class List Sunday 2/21 Updated 1/4/10

Here’s a new twist on a time-honored technique to use up all your scraps. You won't work quite as hard as our foremothers did, but you'll come up with a terrific quilt top in a fraction of the time thanks to speed cutting and piecing techniques. You'll create patches from "stringed" fabric (narrow strips of fabric sewn together to make "new" fabric) and sew them with solid fabric patches to make blocks. This is a great workshop for fabric you've already got on hand, no matter what color. You'll get three block patterns and make one in class.

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Cheryl Rulewich Rezendes: "Creating Wearable Art Through your Artistic Intuition"
Skill Level: All
Class List Saturday 3/13

Using a basic vest pattern, scraps of fabric from old quilt projects, textile paints and any other surface design technique you want to use, participants will assemble a piece of wearable art in much the same way one would approach a jig saw puzzle. Only this time you don’t know what the finished puzzle looks like, until it’s done

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Wen Redmond: "Piecing in the Flow - an Intuitive Piecing Technique"
(Three Petite Collage Inspiration Art Pieces)
Skill Level: All    
Supply List
Class List Saturday 4/10
Class List Sunday 4/11

Flow is a place and a verb. The purpose of this class is to take you there. This is a Technique exploration class. We will explore direct cutting and piecing. We attempt to work without conscious planning or stress. We allow the intuitive part of ourselves to influence the process. There are NO MISTAKES. Mistakes are opportunities to change directions! Mistakes are directions from your intuitive self.

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