Classes
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Create a Seascape in a Day
No need to be an artist to paint a seascape. Utilizing new and exciting water soluble Neocolor wax pastels everyone can express their artistic side. Working with pastels, we will first paint our landscape and then further embellish our painting with stitching and yarns.
This is a great class to break into thread painting to learn how to manipulate the machine to get the interesting textures that create a landscape. For those insecure about drawing, a landscape drawing is provided in the kit. Kit required.
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Surface Effects — 5 Day Seminar
Beginner/Advanced
Hone your skills in this five day intensive study course. Designed to provide an understanding in the latest dye techniques and to create multiple surface effects in foiling, bonding and fabric manipulation utilizing hand and machine techniques. At weeks end each student will have created a richly embellished, multi-dimensional art quilt.
Chemicals, dye, paints and pigments needed for the class are included in the price. PFD fabric not included. A complete list of fabric suppliers is provided for students. This is a great class for anyone wanting to get a basic understanding of many techniques and come away with a small multi-dimensional art quilt.
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Multi-Dimensional Embellished Cloth
Beginner/Advanced
Create richly embellished, multi-dimensional floral art quilt in just three days! Using hand-dyed cottons and silks, each student will learn to manipulate fabric into beautiful flowers an leaves. Rich colored depth will be achieved by layering sheer silk fabric. Kits of hand-dyed cotton and silks will be available for purchase at class. This is the perfect class for the student who want all the hand-dyed fabrics without the mess. I am always amazed at what the students produce in this class. Kit required.
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Create a Landscape in a Day
No need to be an artist to paint a landscape. Utilizing new and exciting water soluble Neocolor wax pastels everyone can express their artistic side. Working with pastels, we will first paint our landscape and then further embellish our painting with stitching and yarns.
This is a great class to break into thread painting to learn how to manipulate the machine to get the interesting textures that create a landscape. For those insecure about drawing, a landscape drawing is provided in the kit. Kit required.
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Things that Shimmer
Beginner/Advanced
1 day or combined
Shiva Sticks, Neocolor wax pastel and metallic fabric pigments will make your fabric shimmer with subtle highlights. Making your own personal marks on fabric with stencil stamps or freehand can be a wonderful way to get out of the quarter inch box! Working on hand-dyed or commercial fabric, we will start you on your way to creating “Fab Fabric” to quilt with. Kit required.
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Things that Stick
Beginner/Advanced
1 day or combined
This class is for you closet "Tech Heads." Play on fabric with foils, glues, heat guns, and all of those surface techniques you have been afraid to try on your own. Kit required.
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Things that Stitch
Beginner/Advanced
1 day or combined
Learn to create surface texture by hand and machine. There are various kinds of yarns and threads available to us today, but what are we to do with them? This class will demonstrate many new techniques that can be created by making simple adjustments to your machine. Kit required.
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Things that Sizzle and Burn
Beginner/Advanced
1 day or combined
Let’s make the fabric sizzle! Create beautiful lacy effects using felt and inexpensive prom fabrics. Students will employ embossing powders, soldering irons, and heat guns to make their creations “Sizzle and Burn.” Kit required.
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