FESTIVAL LONG BEACH 2023 - ALL classes

Use Posca markers on fabric to make the butterfly and Inktense to make the shadows. Learn all about value and how to mix colors. www.alessandravolker.myportfolio.com

"Quilt-As-You-Go" and use up your stash! So easy you can finish in a week. Perfect for both Modern and Traditional quilts. Missy Bleu is based on a Log Cabin block. Fall in love with this process because you don't even need to sew a straight line. Make a beautiful wallhanging or the perfect lap quilt quickly, easily, and beautifully. www.sewjean.com

Working with patterned fabrics and their colors, transform a face image into an almost realistic quilt by emphasizing the expression of the eyes and volume of the nose and mouth. With the fabric kit developed for this class, create your own version of the Blue Girl! www.marinalandi.com.br

Start by learning or being reminded of some basic embroidery stitches on a specially designed pre-printed sampler. Then learn some novel embellishment techniques that add to the fun and how Redford transfers her own designs onto dark-colored backgrounds. Go home with a second design transferred and ready to stitch. Enjoy the relaxed tempo and reconnect with hand work. www.catherineredford.com

Twist, wrap, shimmy, and shove the fabric down the pole all to create beautiful organic Arashi Shibori patterns. With Arashi translating to "Storm", this  modern approach to an ancient textile art will leave you with images of water, trees, lightning, and more. Using a set of three sizes of lightweight, stackable, acrylic tubes and Indigo colored fiber reactive dye, dye a collection of twelve different Arashi Shibori patterns. Also learn about the magic of thickened dye paint! www.dyehardsstudio.com

Do you think that piping is difficult, time consuming, and "scary"?  Pierce will teach you that it is not true! Learn how to make your own piping, and three different methods of inserting it into your project for perfect petite piping! Add this wonderful skill to your technique toolbox! www.vaune.com

Complete an English Paper Pieced tree wallhanging entirely by machine. Basting fabric to papers, joining the pieces, appliquéing the tree to the background, and quilting that aligns perfectly with the piecing will all be done by machine! The techniques are applicable to other EPP projects as well. www.carolquilts.com
SUPPLY LIST WILL BE AVAILABLE AFTER APRIL 15.

A modern take on the ancient art of Itajime Shibori. Fold, template, and clamp to create a bold and graphic garden full of fun and playful patterns. Used together for a quilt, or alone, each of your 22 inch square panels will inspire your quilting, beading, and embellishing talents. Your reusable tool kit will keep you exploring the fun and creative art of Itajime Shibori for years to come. Fiber reactive dye will facilitate a selection of color to choose from. www.dyehardsstudio.com

Wouldn't it be great to have a variety of free-motion fills for your quilts? Discover less-common borders, dividers, grids, and fills that will add interest and personality to your quilts. Quilting is more fun with a variety of choices! Some free-motion experience helpful. Different material will be covered than in Fearless Free-Motion Fills and Frills #2, but chocolate will be involved in both. www.quiltskipper.com

Using a fusible grid to position the fabric squares in a postage stamp table runner makes it easy to create a fabric arrangement that you like. Even better, the grid simplifies precision piecing so the pieced intersections align. The class project is a rectangular table runner, easily completed without binding. www.carolquilts.com SUPPLY LIST WILL BE AVAILABLE AFTER APRIL 15.

Learn how to thread sketch and play with colors using the tonal values and sharpies as the media to paint. www.alessandravolker.myportfolio.com

Impey will teach her unique collage and portrait techniques to make your own one-of-a-kind artwork. Be delighted and surprised at the "personalities" that evolve in your portrait as you collage your way through Impey's carefree and easy methods! Learn the quilting stratagies that make her portraits come alive and how she chooses the names and stories for her portraits. Everyone is sure to be sucessful using her process. She will even help you name your portrait! www.sewjean.com

A swing by a lake, a walk with your pet, or a photo of someone you love, there are so many moments to immortalize in textile art! Mix materials to make your quilt unique! In addition, Landi presents how to work with images in a photo editor and techniques to cut out the materials. www.marinalandi.com.br

Using a Jelly Roll or your own 2½ inch strips, create the centers for two different quilt tops. The sections left from creating the twelve-block large lap quilt top will create a six-block small lap quilt top. Very little is wasted from a Jelly Roll. Only special tool needed is an Omnigrid 98 L ruler or a large right angle triangle. Choose the border and binding fabrics for both quilt tops after they are pieced. www.flickr.com/photos/mgaylequilter

Gain hands-on experience with using Tyvek in two ways. Texture and paint  background circles and swirls, then custom paint an original Koi fish as unique as you. The possibilities for this upcycled embellishment are endless. Class project is approximately 16 inch square.  Sewing/quilting will be discussed in class, but done at home. www.laurettacrites.com

Kick up your ice-dyeing with this best selling technique! Focus on skill building as-you-go and dyeing with a specific intent. Fold, pleat, and bind a collection of amazing dyed fabric yards, some 22 inch squares and some 44 inch squares. After selecting from a rainbow of dye colors, ice-dye almost five yards of unique fabric as Lohbeck shares her tips and tricks for design, color, and dyeing! Also receive a reusable set of tools to help you carry on the adventure at home! www.dyehardsstudio.com

Learn a new and amazing collage/appliqué technique Errea calls "HEAT-SET". It allows you to create quilts easily and quickly with raw-edges that will NOT fray. This is a foolproof and very easy process, and the results are amazing. Errea will demonstrate each step as you make a gorgeous bird from the pattern provided. www.amazingquiltsbygrace.com

Get excellent results with walking foot quilting! Learn how to prepare your quilt and set up your machine. Make samples of straight-line quilting, stitching in the ditch, freehand curved lines, spiral quilting, and quilting with special stitches. Also learn to stitch short perfectly straight lines without marking. www.carolquilts.com SUPPLY LIST WILL BE AVAILABLE AFTER APRIL 15.

Cut and paste! Make a raw-edged, fusible-appliquéd, and quilted piece that not only looks like real stained glass but requires no fussy-edge treatments, no bias tape, no fussy quilting, and is quick, easy, and fun! www.phylliscullenartstudio.com

Haworth's sunflower workshop is a great introduction to fabric collage. From a choice of two patterns, create a small wallhanging suitable to wrap around a 12 inch canvas frame. This free-form technique uses glue and no fusible products for collage. Also learn about making your own pattern suitable for collage. www.janehaworth.com

It’s more fun to free-motion quilt when you have lots of designs to pull from! Join Lyon and learn a variety of less common borders, dividers, grids, and fills that will add interest and personality to your quilts. Some free-motion experience helpful. Different material will be covered than in Fearless Free-Motion Fills and Frills #1, but chocolate will be involved in both. www.quiltskipper.com

Sometimes an edge finish other than binding is a good option for a quilted piece. Time constraints, size, design, and how the quilt will be used are all relevant factors. Class includes finishing with a facing, pillowcase-style backings, self-binding with the backing, and finishing raw-edges with a machine blanket or satin stitch. www.carolquilts.com
SUPPLY LIST WILL BE AVAILABLE AFTER APRIL 15.

Repurposing clothing is a hot trend. Learn how to deconstruct old jeans and sew the denim into a new quilt using conventional sewing methods. Chandler will share her tips and tricks as she walks you through the process. www.sandraleedesign.com

Working from Haworth's pattern of Mia, the Scruffy Lurcher, learn to cut, layer, and glue fabrics using Haworth's free-form technique for fabric collage. Share a communal pile of scrap fabrics that Haworth and students will contribute to. Learn about using value and color in collage and how to make your own pattern suitable for this technique. Start work on this project in class but finish it at home. www.janehaworth.com

Learn to represent images using printed fabrics, respecting the concepts of light and shadow. www.marinalandi.com.br

Explore the fun and tasty technique of creating your background entirely of concave and convex pieces and curved seams which will serve as a background for your beautiful work. Study color and composition. Assemble with different applications giving full movement to the work. A therapeutic class full of surprises. www.estelamota.com

A creatively designed wallhanging can be a piecing challenge, but with foundations the project can go smoothly. If you can stitch on a line you can foundation piece. Curved spikes twirl around bands of color. The arcs are foundation pieced on interfacing. No more picking and tweezing tiny pieces of paper. Sneaky tricks are included. A variety of good quality fabrics and colors will be available. www.flickr.com/photos/mgaylequilter

Japanese Sashiko is more than a straight stitch, and Boro is more than a bunch of scraps. Explore these traditional techniques using Japanese-made tools and materials in a relaxed and supportive setting suitable for beginners and intermediate hand stitchers. www.theardentthread.com

With a line-drawing temporarily adhered to the back of white fabric, color it in with oil pastels, then use bits and pieces of printed fabrics to enhance the scene. Learn painting, landscape composition, and how to use an easy phone app to create a pattern from a photo. www.phylliscullenartstudio.com

This is pure fun! Let's play with squares of sheer fabric, layering them on a quilted background to create coasters or a quiltlette. This is a great class for a timid or new free-motion quilter. Experienced quilters can add plants, insects, animals, etc. This is a joyful class with a kindergarten attitude where everyone has fun! www.quiltskipper.com

Create easy, colorful flowers with a little wool roving, soap, and water in  two different styles. Then add some easy and fast bead weaving centers that look like you spent hours. Two fun techniques in one class with so many possibilities! Bet you can't make just one! www.phylliscullenartstudio.com

Let's rescue those UFOs and get those tops quilted! Lyon will help you create your own plan for quilting those tops. Class will discuss and create a quilting plan for the first ten students who submit their quilt images. This is a collaborative seminar-style class. All students will learn from the discussion of individual quilts. Let's get those quilts quilted! Students who would like to participate in having a design made for their quilt should see supply list for instructions. www.quiltskipper.com