565. EVENT—FRIDAY SAMPLER
*$35
Friday
Morning Event // 10 AM-Noon
Twenty-three Festival teachers at separate tables around the room offer continuous demonstrations of particular techniques and methods. Enrollees circulate around the room informally and receive a booklet consisting of a handout from each participating teacher.
Ruth Ann Berry—Short Cuts to 3-D Quilts
Create the illusion of 3-D with color, value, and contrast using measured strips cut at 60 degree angles and assembled in vertical rows. Learn how to use an exciting new template to achieve the "wow" effect of 3-D faster than ever before without the need to cut and piece all triangles. www.quiltersclinic.com
Amy Brofford—TBD
Trudy Cleveland—Use Your Smartphone To Enhance Your Quilt Process
Trudy will demonstrate how to use the features on your smartphone, and applications, to aid in the quilting process. From start to finish, each chapter of quilting can be enhanced by using smartphone technology. Fabric selection, layout placement, quilting designs, organization, and taking images of your completed quilt.... your smartphone can help in every phase of quilting. Discover hidden features in our smartphones that will make you say...I didn't know you could do that! www.trudycleveland.com
June Colburn—Scarves and Shawls—The No-Fit Wearable Art!
Every woman's wardrobe should include a few versatile scarves and some shawls! Envision creating them, as you watch a trunk show full of examples, from easy to more complex, from neutral to full of color. Try some on! They instantly change your usual clothes to something special. Learn about fabric choices, styles, sizes, and shapes, with many tips for fun, fashionable projects using your sewing and quilting skills. Something for everyone! www.junecolburn.com
Phyllis Cullen—Chop It Up! Impressionist Collage
We can cut prints and batiks into "paint daubs" and fill in the picture outlines as we "paint" with fabric scraps to create an impressionist scene. A quick demo coupled with a guide to landscape rules will get you on your way. An easy app to create a line drawing of your photo scene will be demonstrated. www.phylliscullenartstudio.com
Jaimie Davis—Dynamic Details: Designing with Derwent Inktense Pencils
Explore ways to "paint" on fabric with Derwent Inktense pencils. Whether you want to paint a whole quilt or just add shadows and highlights to existing fabrics, these pencils are a versatile, clean, and easy-to-use way to add dynamic details to your projects. Derwent Inktense Pencils are watercolor pencils in strong, vibrant colors which work beautifully on their own or can be mixed together to create rich, subtle tones. They can be used either dry for rich, intense color or combined with aloe vera gel to create a vivid translucent effect on fabric. Once dry, the color is permanent and can be worked over with other media. www.loopytulips.com
Kathy Dunigan—Beautiful Broderie Perse-lique'™! Design, Sew, and Go!
Broderie Perse-lique'™ is a great addition to your quilts. Kathy has a fabulously easy "new way" to make Broderie Perse beautiful! Get a close up look at Kathy Dunigan's unique way of using this fabulous technique of "days gone by" and leave knowing you can duplicate it at home using her easy, no fail process. www.kathyduniganappliqueacademy.comSara Hochhauser—Foundation Pieced Miniature Pin
Sara will demonstrate how to create a decorative one-of-a-kind pin with foundation piecing. You will see how to do miniature foundation piecing along with the techniques needed to finish your piece into a pin to wear. www.sara-elizabeth.com
Jennifer Hynes—Get Control of Your Fabric Stash with Crochet
Too much fabric and not enough quilting time? Pick up a crochet hook and solve the problem! Beginner crochet skills can let you use that lovely fabric in new ways to make rugs, placemats, handbags, even three-dimensional containers. You'll need to cut fabric into uniform strips, then organize based on color. A jumbo crochet hook will do the job. View the demonstration, get quick crochet stitch instruction, and see great ideas for using your fabric stash in a new way.
Beverly Kirk—Kawandi Style Quilting
Kawandi stitching is mindful, meditative, improvisational, always less than perfect because it is made one scrap at a time. This popular type of hand quilting is a way to use easy big hand-stitches to create beautiful mats, runners, and full sized quilts using nothing but scraps. Kawandi means "quilt" and Siddi men and women stitched these coverings by using a simple running stitch in concentric rounds from the outside edge towards the middle, catching all the layers of fabric to fashion a quilt. The quilt starts at the top right corner and stitching continues in a counterclockwise spiral with hand-sewn patches of different sizes. www.bquiltin.com
Rachelle Ludwinski—Mandala Design Made Easy: Five Stitches, Endless Possibilities
Beautiful, embroidered mandalas do not require dozens of specialty stitches. In this demonstration, learn how five simple embroidery stitches can be combined, repeated, and varied to create intricate mandala designs. Discover how changes in spacing, size, thread, and placement transform basic stitches into stunning patterns. You'll see how organized repetition creates movement, texture, and visual interest while keeping the stitching approachable and enjoyable. Whether you are new to embroidery or an experienced stitcher looking for fresh design ideas, you'll leave inspired to create your own unique mandalas using stitches you may already know. www.threadsandmore.comCyndi McChesney—Help, My Panel is Wonky!
Wonky and skewed panels come with the challenge of creating panel quilts. Discover the simple secrets for straightening all types of panels for use in existing patterns or your own designs. www.cedarridgequilting.com
RaNae Merrill—The 1-Hour Quilt Top
Use the power of border prints and strip sets to make beautiful quilts that you can assemble quickly and easily in about an hour. The quilts can be rectangular, square, or diamond-in-a-square in any size. Watch RaNae complete whole quilt tops during the 2-hour sampler period! Great for making multiple quilts for family, charity, or coordinating decor. www.ranaemerrillquilts.com
Mona Young Redlich—PatchworkPlay™ Fabric Stamps—Turn Prep Time Into Stitch Time
A challenge when hand piecing is the time it takes to hand mark patches before being able to begin stitching. To solve that problem, Mona created PatchworkPlay™ Fabric Stamps which reduce hand piecing prep time by as much as 90%! Mona will demonstrate the ease of the hand piecing prep, which takes mere seconds and creates consistent stitching lines for precise piecing. PatchworkPlay™ Fabric Stamps' accuracy also allows a quilter to "play" by combining patches from different stamps, making traditional or original blocks and quilts. In the Sampler, we'll stamp, play, and stitch with PatchworkPlay™ fabric stamps!
Kyra Reps—Dots, Mandalas, Turned Edge Appliqué using the APLIQUICK®™ Tools
Let's talk about mandalas and turned edge appliqué using the APLIQUICK®™ tools! Kyra will show you how she grids her mandalas out and how you can achieve perfectly turned edge appliqué with ease using the APLIQUICK®™ TOOLS! www.quiltingtranquility.com
Dena Rosenberg—Quick, Easy Appliqué Stems
Learn how to make easy appliqué stems. This technique doesn't need any fancy tools, no glue or starch, just a bias strip. Students will learn how to easily make stems of different thicknesses effortlessly. www.denarosenberg.com
Swan Sheridan—Free-Motion Quilt Planning
Join Swan to talk about how to plan your free-motion quilting for any project. From making design decisions and choosing thread, to having the right tools and creating an order of operations, you'll leave this demo with a great start towards creating the right plan for your projects! www.swanamity.com
Joyce Teng—Fabric Mania: 10 Ways to Create Custom Fabric
Have you ever wanted to transform a piece of dull fabric into something original and fun? Have you needed to create fabric with a specific color palette? Joyce will demonstrate 10 unique media techniques for creating printed and colored images on materials ranging from silk to cotton to polyester. www.teacherstamp.com
Denise Tipton—The Basics of Smocking Embroidery
This demonstration will show the basics of smocking embroidery, including pleating fabric, patterns available on the market today, and a few simple stitches that can be used to make most smocking designs.Michelle Trimble—Creative Use of Circle Rulers for Curved Piecing
Do you love sewing curves, and like the precision cutting of templates, but don't like accumulating all the extra plastic associated with custom templates? Learn to use circle rulers, like the Circle Savvy Ruler by Creative Grids®, to cut a variety of shapes based on a quarter circle, and you won't have to purchase a custom acrylic template for each design you want to do! Not only will you save on the plastic associated with multiple acrylic templates, you'll learn how to use the Circle Savvy Ruler in an unconventional way to cut pieces in a more fabric economical manner! www.quiltingchemistry.com
Debby Walters—Very Vast Versatility of Drunkard's Path Blocks
Start with that old favorite—the Drunkard's Path. Now let's add a half circle. Move a seam over 1/2 inch. Change the size. Flip the direction of your curve. All these changes can create soooo many variations and soooo many new designs. You won't believe your eyes!!! www.stripsandcurves.com
Debbie Wendt—Perfect Bindings Every Time
Perfect bindings every time. Learn flawless mitered corners and no-fuss join of binding end seams using Debbie's Brilliant Bindings tool and techniques. www.wendtquilting.com
Carol Wilhoit—Make Small Gifts from Scraps
Scraps and larger leftover fabric pieces make wonderful little gifts! Receive a pattern for a quick and easy card case that is a perfect size for a gift card, a small stack of business cards, or a few credit cards. See a demonstration of how the card case is made and how the pattern can be varied. You will also see examples of other small items that can be made from your stash and scraps. Use some of your beautiful fabrics and quickly have a stack of fun gifts to share with friends and family! www.carolquilts.com
*CLASS PRICE - $35 + $0 KIT FEE - $ = $35
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