Beginner to Advanced
Advanced beginner, intermediate and advanced skill workshop
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Advanced Beginner through Advanced
Advanced Beginner through Advanced
Advanced Beginner through Advanced
Beginner to intermediate skill workshop
Advanced beginner, intermediate and advanced skill workshop
Beginner to intermediate skill workshop
Intermediate to advanced skill workshop
Intermediate to advanced skill workshop
NOTE: This class is currently not available.
Limit: 18 students in 2 day class
20 students in 2+ day class
Recommended Format: 2, 2 1/2, 3 or 4 day workshop
Explore the common hexagonal pattern and endless variety of structural details synonymous with a snow crystal. The class covers a unique machine-piecing technique and both color and fabric guidelines for translating this pure gem of nature into fabric.
Supplies (* will be available for purchase in class)
1. Graph paper with an eight-to-the-inch grid and a bold inch line; one sheet per student will be provided by instructor. |
*2. Sheets of see-through plastic template material with an eight-to-the-inch grid and a bold inch line. |
3. A thin 12" x 2" ruler made of clear plastic with accurate one-eighth-inch grid lines. |
4. Well-sharpened pencils with ample and accessible erasers |
*5 .Extra fine-point permanent marker, Ex: PILOT® Extra Fine Point Permanent Marker, SCA-UF. |
6. A method for marking dark-colored fabric. Consider white chalk pencil that can be sharpened to a fine point or extra-fine, light-colored jelly pens (must be permanent) |
7. Fabric scissor |
8. Template/paper scissors |
9. Set-up for rotary cutting, including a rotary cutter, ruler and mat |
10. Sewing machine with well-defined quarter-inch seam allowance guide. |
11. General sewing supplies |
12. See-thru ziplock baggies to hold templates |
Color: Class examples are in diverse blues, silver and white against dark blue ground. Stick to a color family with flexibility. If it catches your eye, bring it!
Fabric: Important: Intricately printed fabrics with at least 6or 12 on-grain motifs which are identical and bilaterally symmetrical; in other words, the motif can be divided into identical halves by a line passing through the center. Also good: mirror-imaged motifs printed off-grain (ie: paisleys).
Background: Access to 2 yards of dark allover print which reads as solid.
Also: 1/4 to 1/2 yards of big and small all-over prints including textures, gradations, stripes, marbled, stuff speckled with silver. Bring prints on a background similar to the quilt's intended background.
For examples, please see:
Snowflakes & Quilts or Kaleidoscopes & Quilts (C&T Publisher) by Paula Nadelstern.
QNM: PHOTO FINISH, Dec '95.
American Quilter, Spring '94, Patchwork Quilt Tshushin, 1997 #78