EVENTS

See what this exciting event is all about! Six of the top artists from the Quilt Festival faculty will present this mixed focus, coordinated by Trudy Cleveland. Each will give a digital presentation or show-and-tell of their particular expertise. Then, spend fifteen minutes with each artist as they demonstrate the topics listed below. Go home with a booklet consisting of a handout from each presenter, new ideas, information on products and processes, and lots of enthusiasm.

 

Trudy Cleveland—Upgrade Your Quilt Toolbox

Upgrade your quilt toolbox by using household technology to improve your quilt process. Our smartphones, applications, printers, and laptops have features that can support our quilt process. A review of specific features that can help from start to finish in making a quilt. From choice of fabrics to photographing the final product, modern technology adds a new ways to look at the process. Let modern technology aid in color theory, palatte generating, calculating formulas, and image searches... Learn how our everyday technology applies to our quilting process. www.trudycleveland.com

 

Sara Hochhauser—No Mark Machine Quilting

Have you ever wished the design you have in mind would be easily transferred to your quilt or garment project? Sara will demonstrate how to resize designs to fit the space you want to quilt, whether it be a quilt top or garment. You will learn a method that allows you to quilt anything without marking. www.sara-elizabeth.com

 

RaNae Merrill—T-Shirt Quilts 1 Block at a Time

Someone has asked you to make a t-shirt quilt for them. The bag of shirts has been sitting there for a while and you're dreading it. You don't know where to start. Look at the process in a new way—instead of sewing all the shirts together, making a stretchy top that is difficult to quilt, quilt the T-shirts individually, before joining them. The process is easy and fun, and will save you money and your sanity! www.ranaemerrillquilts.com   

 

Marla Senter Morris—Specialty Yarns from the Sewing Studio Lecture

Most fiber artists are multi-craftual—meaning knitters spin and weave, quilters knit and crochet, weavers spin and dye. This demo explores the sewing room as an option to create yarn. The scrap box is a great place to start with bits of fabric, thread, and ribbons. Marla has worked with textiles in various forms since childhood, including making trim. She uses her creativity to recreate specialty yarns she'd seen, and to create new ones she'd love to use. These yarns add texture and color to weaving, knitting, and sewing projects. A variety of techniques are used to create these yarns—and many will translate to enhanced sewing skills.

 

Catherine Redford—Walking Foot Quilting—Take the Scenic Route, Add Hand Stitching

Catherine combines her two loves by adding hand stitching to her walking foot quilting for maximum impact. Find out how she does it. She has lots of samples of different machine stitched grids and hand embroidery combinations that will have you planning your quilting before you even start piecing your quilt top. www.catherineredford.com    

 

Carol Wilhoit—Quilting with Color

Quilt in color! The color of the quilting thread has a big impact on the final appearance of a quilt. And why limit yourself to a single color of quilting thread in a project? Learn tips for selecting thread colors for your quilting and how to anticipate the impact of thread color. See many examples of the difference that thread color makes. Leave ready to have fun as you bring your quilt to life with colorful thread. www.carolquilts.com

 

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

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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.com 

Sara 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.com 

Cyndi 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

See what this exciting event is all about! Six of the top artists from the Quilt Festival faculty will present this mixed focus, coordinated by Carling Mabry. Each will give a digital presentation or show-and-tell of their particular expertise. Then, spend fifteen minutes with each artist as they demonstrate the topics listed below. Go home with a booklet consisting of a handout from each presenter, new ideas, information on products and processes, and lots of enthusiasm.

June Colburn—Designing a Signature CHOP Asian artists and craftsmen have used a carved seal and vermilion ink to sign their work for centuries. For us it's an unexpected way to sign our textile work. See how anyone can create a design using their name, which can be machine- or hand-embroidered directly on work or on a separate fabric to attach to the work. The design could also be made into a silk screen in various sizes to be printed on new wearable art, quilts, and home decor accessories. An interesting way to design a business logo, too! The demo will show you how. www.junecolburn.com

Carling Mabry—Quilt-As-You-Go Without Bulky Seams In this focused forum, Carling will share practical techniques for using Quilt-As-You-Go methods, especially when working with bulky seams and quilting on a domestic sewing machine without a longarm. Learn how to break a quilt into manageable sections, reduce bulk at seam intersections, and plan construction to keep layers smooth. She'll cover strategies that make quilting large or heavy pieces achievable at home. Perfect for quilters who want confident, professional results using the sewing machine they already have. www.carlinglovescats.com

Swan Sheridan—Creative Label Making Don't know what to do with your quilt labels?  Join in this awesome demo and find out how to make your quilt labels both informative and exciting with a variety of techniques. Let Swan show you how to use your strongest skill sets to make your labels both special and long lasting. We'll look at the details that make your process an easy and rewarding one! www.swanamity.com

Michelle Trimble—Stunning Sunbursts Curious about trying improv, but don't like the wonky vibe? Overwhelmed by all the options? Choosing constraints at the outset of an improv project can not only lower the decision-making burden that can seem overwhelming, it can also ensure your composition finishes with dramatic flair. In this demo, you will see options for making an improv block, and experiment with variables that will alter the look of each variation. Take home step-by-step instructions for this block so you can start your improv journey tomorrow! www.quiltingchemistry.com

Kimberly Werth—Stretches and Strength Building for the Sewist If you love to sew but hate the aches and pains that come after, this forum is for you! We'll explore the ergonomics of sewing and take a deep dive into stretches and strength building. Results will speak for themselves with a few simple habits that are tailored to their body and sewing style. It's absolutely possible to make sewing even more enjoyable!

Carol Wilhoit—Best Walking Foot Quilting Tips Quilt with your walking foot, and finish your own quilts! Learn how to stitch a spiral with straight lines using several techniques that make walking foot quilting easier and more accurate. See the impact of thread color and learn how to quilt accurate shapes and straight lines without marking the quilt. The presentation will also cover how to achieve sharp points when you pivot, and how to know when to pivot to get evenly spaced stitched lines. www.carolquilts.com