Quilting Arts Workshop Previews

Creating Vivid Mixed-Media Fabric

Pokey — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 17:53:37 GMT

Discover how to create expressive and fun mixed-media fabric with a variety of supplies and techniques. Using everything from acrylic paint, layering, messy color, handmade stencils, handwriting, household tools, paint pens, colorful fabric spray, and so much more. We will explore all kinds of basic techniques that involve paint, color, and texture. Learn ways to alter the surface of fabric, paper, and recycled items, and transform them into one-of-a-kind mixed-media fabric to use in sewing and craft projects.

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Surface Design Sampler

Pokey — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 22:43:25 GMT

Can't choose which surface design technique you most want to learn? Try a little taste of each! Play along with Lyric as you learn to carve a stamp from a vinyl eraser, cut a stencil from freezer paper, and print with found objects. Learn some of the properties of the various textile paints available. Try out some improvisational screen printing, add some glitz and glamour with foil, and finish it up with a quick and easy photocopy transfer.

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Making Faces Preview

Pokey — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 22:31:20 GMT

Learn several techniques to create dramatic fabric portraits for your art quilts. This workshop is suitable for both beginners and advanced quilters. Discover how to manipulate your photos with computer software to easily fashion portraits of your loved ones with fused appliqué. Then learn how to use a photo to draw faces on fabric with colored pencils, pens, fabric paints, or inks. Extra bonus: basic lessons on how to draw faces freehand.

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Using Shibori to Mimic Pieced and Appliquéd Shapes

Pokey — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 22:27:13 GMT

This workshop teaches the basics of itajime or clamped shape resist. We will explore the possibilities for combining this shibori technique, fiber reactive dyes, discharge methods, and commercial fabrics. The workshop discusses dyeing and discharging with clamped resists, as well moving back and forth between these processes. The goal of this process is to craft fabrics whose patterning is reminiscent of pieced or appliquéd shapes.

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Drawn to Pen and Ink: Imagery for Art Quilts

Pokey — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 22:22:56 GMT

Think you can't draw? Following these easy steps you can turn your own images into drawings on fabric and make any project truly personal. This Workshop will show you how to create your own designs from images and includes simple pen and ink technique, painting on fabric, and all the ideas you'll need to create your own projects. You can add your own drawings, or one of the Catherine's, to quilts, bags, and anything you create with fabric!

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Stitch Imagery: From Photo to Fabric Fun

Pokey — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 16:48:24 GMT

Create whimsical fabric paintings from your own photos; no skill required. Turn a snapshot into a quick watercolor collage, then print it on fabric with Bubble Jet Set® and your inkjet printer.

Learn how to add interest with bleach discharge, ripped layers, stamping, and foiling. Pump up the juicy color with textile paints and oil pastels. Add the magic touch with free-motion thread sketching, and your stitched image is ready for use in quilts, purses, pillows or other mixed-media projects. No experience necessary!

Print, Collage, Quilt

Pokey — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 16:41:51 GMT

Learn how to use thickened dyes with printing techniques to create wholecloth quilt tops. Further explorations using collage and inspired machine-quilting techniques will help you see your surface-designed works-or-art through to completion. Plan, print, and sew with Melanie Testa.

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Free-Motion Illustrations for Art Quilts

Pokey — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 19:45:07 GMT

Use your scraps and favorite fabrics to create a detailed illustration with free-motion stitching and embellishment. Tina Givens, illustrator and fabric designer, shows you an easy patchwork technique to create strikingly detailed scenes and illustrations.

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Mixed-Media Painted Fabric

Pokey — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 19:41:46 GMT

Using textile paints, gel medium, and decorative printed images, create a fun, versatile fabric that can be used to make tote bags, fabric bowls, vessels, sculptural objects, or book cloth for making handmade and altered books.

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Collage Lace Scarves

Pokey — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 19:38:52 GMT

Learn to make a colorful, fiber-ful scarf - great for gifts and the fabric can be cut for use in other projects. Working on a base of water-soluble stabilizer, we'll create a lovely fiber collage. A grid of stitching is added to hold the fibers in place, then the stabilizer is washed away.

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Machine Needle Felting

Pokey — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 19:34:17 GMT

Easy and highly addictive, machine needle felting is an incredibly fun way to create your own unique fabrics for art quilts, wearable art, and home decor. In this class you'll discover how to combine machine needle felting with fabric collage, paint, free-motion embroidery, and embellishment. We'll practice our needle-felting skills by creating an abstract piece using a variety of fabrics and mixed media, and then transform a photograph of a landscape into a colorful and embellished needle-felted piece.

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Whimsical House Quilt

Pokey — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 19:30:59 GMT

Create a one-of-a-kind small art quilt using wool felt for the foundation and backing, with no binding. You will make it your own with the fabrics and embellishments that you choose to create your own "dream" house. Easy-to-follow techniques of fusing, free-motion quilting and embellishing will be discussed.

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Mixed-Media One-Page Book

Pokey — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 19:28:10 GMT

Make a small fiber book from one piece of fabric using a variety of surface design techniques and mixed media materials. Each of the eight "pages" of the completed book is the size of an artist trading card (ATC) and can be created to reflect a specific theme or topic.

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Soulful Doors

Pokey — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 19:21:39 GMT

Learn the secrets of creating the foundation for multi-faceted interactive doors. In this workshop we will explore: Fabric and paper altering: dyeing, stamping, burning and hand embellishing. We will cover how to create resin charms, papers and basic wirework. You will discover how to embed hidden elements and meaning into your piece along with the joys of machine quilting on paper and fabric.

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Painting Fabric for Wholecloth Quilts

Pokey — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 19:17:41 GMT

Award-winning art quilter Judy Coates Perez demonstrates her techniques for painting fabric with textile paints and shares her insider tips for painting success.

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