COLLAGE THREAD-PAINTED JACKET OR VEST

Using visual imagery in fabrics, and a free-from cutting technique, you will design a unique themed garment. I will show you how to choose colors, balance and layout fabrics to create a flowing design, tricks to set raw edges, and machine threading in my EKG style. Texturizing, bindings and sculpted edges, closures and signing will be discussed.

• 2 Day - Intermediate - Advanced
• Sewing Machine (with fast reverse)

FROM SCRAPS TO RICHES

Don't know what to do with all those leftover fabrics from sewing projects? Is there a silk shirt, linen pants, or a rayon skirt buried in your closet? Recycle into a designer wearable art garment.

This workshop introduces you to a new and playful technique that can be adapted to jackets, vests, or garment accents; as well as wall quilts. I will show you how to blend colors, manipulate fabrics, and texturize your design for a very dramatic look. Drop, scrunch, twist, twin-needle, machine stitch and optional hand beading.

• Intermediate: For all sewers & quilters
• Choice of 1 or 2 Day

MINI LANDSCAPE CARDS

In this 2-hour workshop, you will design a miniature landscape using itty-bitty scraps of fabric. We will explore raw edge appliqué using Steam-a-Seam, depth of field, and embellishing techniques. Your mini work of art will be set into a die cut blank card, ideal for framing.

• Beginner - 2 hours
• Sewing Machine Required

LANDSCAPE ART

Play with colors, shapes and textures. From your stash of small fabric scraps, you will design a landscape painting. Free-form cutting technique, fusing, and blending colors. Lots of machine stitching will be used to paint your scene: how to create trees, grass, highlights. Your work of art can be embellished with beads, then framed.

• Beginner - 1 Day
• Sewing Machine Required

COLLAGE WALL HANGING

You will create an original garden quilt from visual imagery in fabrics. Using a cut and paste raw-edge appliqué technique, you will fuse, thread paint, texturize, sculpt the edges, and embellish. An old quilt project can be used as a foundation to build your garden.

• Intermediate - 1 or 2 days
• Sewing Machine Required

SCRAPS TO RICHES WALLHANGING

You will design your quilt around a theme. Cut, drop, scrunch, play, fray, fuse, stitch, and texturize, to create a work of art. Sculptured edges and beading will be explored. Raw silks, linens and cottons are ideal for this project, as well as recycled clothing and fabrics ends.

• Intermediate - 2 Day
• Sewing Machine Required

STARSCAPE WALLHANGING

Create an impressionistic landscape within a pieced star. A free-form cutting technique is used to cut curved strips of fabric. These strips are sewn together by machine into a landscape and accented with decorative stitches. Balance, focal point, blending colors, and unusual settings will be explored. Your scene is then set into pieced eight-pointed star, for a finished 16” block.

• Beginner 1 day
• Sewing Machine Required