Workshops
2010-2011 Workshops
9:00 am until 4:00 pm
ACA unless otherwise notified
Registration will be on Monday, September 20th in the 2nd Floor Classroom
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October 23 & 24 |
"Portraiture"
Workshop Session One: Saturday, October 23rd 9:00-4:00 ACA Rehearsal Hall
Workshop Session Two: Sunday, October 24th 9:00-4:00 Rehearsal Hall
Guest Speaker: Membership Meeting, Monday, October 25th
Workshop: 1 Day Portraiture
There really isn't any preparation. In all of my one days we work from a pattern since it's color and value studies we're focusing on, not original design. In the multi day classes they design their own work. After this class they should be able to take a photo (which we will discuss) and translate it into a pattern.
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November 6 & 7 |
Workshop One: Saturday, November 6th 9-4 ACA Rehearsal Hall
Workshop Two: Sunday, November 7th 9-4 Rehearsal Hall
Speaker: Membership Meeting, Monday, November 8th
The Magic Square
With the "Magic Square" you can learn the use of big bold prints and other unusual fabrics. It is a deceptively simple block with a lot of possibilities.
With a square diagonally divided into four sections we will design many lovely quilts.
For the beginning to advanced student.
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January 15 & 16 |
Pat Delaney
Crab Tree Lane Studios
Abington, MA
“Mock on the Wild Side"
Workshop: Saturday, January 15th Mock Applique – 9-4 Rehearsal Hall, ACA
Workshop: Sunday, January 16th – Mock Applique 9-4 Rehearsal Hall, ACA
Speaker: Membership Meeting, "Under the Bed Clothes", Monday, January 17th
Take a Mock on the Wild Side:
An intro to mock appliqué techniques (sewing workshop)
Mock hand appliqué, a method of machine work, is much faster than hand appliqué, yet it looks nearly identical. We'll explore various shapes and curves, and by the end of the class, we'll end up with a large block suitable for a quilt block or pillow top. Once the technique is mastered, virtually all appliqué designs can be done with heirloom quality by machine.
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February 26 & 27 |
Jennifer Beaven
Jennifer Beaven's Blog
"Paint, Stitch and Embellish"
Workshop One: Saturday, February 26 – Paint, Stitch and Embellish
Workshop Two: Sunday, February 27 – Paint, Stitch and Embellish
Speaker: Membership Meeting, Tuesday, March 1st
With this process, you will be able to begin with a simple image and develop it into a satisfyingly complex original quilt. We will look at ways to refine a personally meaningful image and plan a design. (You don’t need to know how to draw.) We will use easy techniques to add line and color to white cotton fabric.
You will learn and practice several useful stitches for outlining, shading and highlighting areas of your work. We will play with ways to use a variety of embellishments to give your piece a dynamic surface.
Using the repetition of simple actions, marks and stitches is a powerful way to produce a quilt that is both personally meaningful and visually compelling
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March 19 &20 |
“Capturing Summer to create floral quilts with organza”
Check out the April/May 2008 Quilting Arts Magazine Article
Workshop One: Saturday, March 19th Floral with Organza, Rehearsal Hall 9-4
Workshop Two: Sunday, March 20th Floral with Organza, Rehearsal Hall 9-4
Speaker: Membership Meeting, Monday, March 21st ACA
Taken from Sylvia’s web site:
“As a textile artist I like to explore different ways to express my vision. My work usually combines free motion machine embroidery* with dyed and painted fabrics.
My realistic pictures using nature as my muse are framed and sold through galleries. Inspiration for some of these works comes from my hikes in favourite parks, Frontenac, Charleston and Algonquin in Ontario and Banff National.
I also like to work on other more abstract textile pieces and collages designed to be hung as art quilts rather than constrained with a frame. In these I use all kinds of visual imagery to express my thoughts.
I love to garden, I lose count of the hours when I am outside tending flower beds. Wetlands with their myriad of plants and animals are some of my favourite places. Watching birds and amphibians bring me great pleasure. I work at my sewing machine with my binoculars at my side feeling fortunate that I can work at what I love to do.”
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April 9 & 10 |
Ursula Kern, Basil, Switzerland
http://www.ursulakern.ch
"Bugs and Flowers Created in Irregular Polygons"
Ursula worked as a professor for color, free-hand drawing and textile design at the School of Design in Basel for about 30 years.
Workshop One: Saturday, April 9, ACA Rehearsal Hall 9-4, Bugs and Flowers
Workshop Two: Sunday, April 10, ACA Rehearsal Hall 9-4, Bugs and Flowers
Speaker: Membership Meeting, Monday, April 11th
Workshop
We start with modifying the flowers of " Grandmas flower-garden". Then the students learn to draw irregular polygons and to fill them into drawings of flowers, fish, butterflies an other flat subjects.( no special drawing skills necessary) They transfer the forms to thick paper and cut templates. Those who don t know already, learn how to sew them together by hand. Some easy shaped subjects can also be sewn by machine.
Preparing the design-work for a quilt will be realized by collages of paper and/or fabric-scraps. The enlargement to block-size will be explained and practised. A more or less finished block will prove, how the quilt will look.
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May 14 & 15 |
Workshop One: Saturday, May 14th, Rehearsal Hall 9-4, Art Quilt Creativity Blueprint
Workshop Two: Sunday, May 15th, Rehearsal Hall 9-4, Art Quilt Creativity Blueprint
Speaker: Membership Meeting, Monday, May 16th
In creating art quilts and original pieces, ideas sometimes spring to mind, but often
they need to be enticed, coaxed and persuaded out! How does one stimulate and
generate creativity? Can it be done? I believe it can! In this workshop I will be
sharing my particular methodology for how I go about creating and constructing my
contemporary quilts. Including my working ideas diary for “A Day in the Life of…”
series.
Then, using the very personal theme of ‘home’ and fabric as our medium we will
create a fabric piece while discovering that you can force your creativity by building
and implementing a Creativity Blueprint of your own. Unleash the creative creature
within, free up your thinking and express those hidden ideas and feelings on the
theme of ‘home’. It promises to be fun with a splash of Australian stories from
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