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In this 1-Day class you will learn and practice or enhance your free motion quilting skills. First we will warm up by free-motion quilting a number of patterns that can be used for continuous background quilting in art quilts. You will also learn how to sign your name on your quilt by using the sewing machine as a writing tool.
Then we will make one or more simple drawing on muslin sandwiches from patterns included in Grace’s kit. We will proceed to “draw” the designs with your sewing machine using thread. Kit for the class: $7.00.
This technique requires minimum effort and practice. You can execute it even if you do not feel comfortable with free motion quilting. We will review and practice free motion and discuss threads used in the process. Along with creating this quilt, this class will definitely improve your free-motion quilting skills, regardless of the level you are at now. At the end of the class, you will feel very confident of your quilting skills and be ready to attack any quilting challenges you might have in the future.
If color is important, Value is the key to creating exceptional art quilts. This workshop focuses on the important tools for creating inspirational botanicals, landscapes, and portraits. It will provide an overview of color harmony, color theory, the psychology of color and the expressive aspects of color and value. Then, we will focus on using Value to create a focal point, to set a mood in an art piece, to create 3-dimensionality or to give the perception of perspective in a landscape.
This is the FIRST of three classes in the ART QUILT SERIES. The others are Finishing your Textile Creation and From Inspiration to Quilt – Designing your Own.
In this 2-Day class you will create an art quilt top with the use of fabrics as an expressive medium.
You will use one of your choice of the teacher’s patterns and will learn how to create templates, for that pattern, and then use them to create a stunning Art Quilt Top. With guidance, you will choose fabrics in the correct colors and values to get the right results. In addition you will be introduced to a number of very easy Machine Applique techniques. Depending on the pattern you choose, these may be “turned edge”, “raw edge without fusing”, “free edge”, or a combination or two or more.
In addition, the teacher will introduce you to a stabilizer for appliqué work that is lightweight and flexible but stabilizes the quilts in an amazing manner. The teacher will provide your chosen pattern and the stabilizer.
Possible patterns for this class are:
 Eagle |
 Morning Glory Art Quilts |
 Tuscan sunrise and Tuscan sunset |
 Creamsicle Dawn |
 Popsicle Sunset |
 Melodic Swans |
 Papaver Rouge |
 Cygnus Negra |
 Poppies on Ice |
 California Desert Landscape |
 Red Onion Quilt |
 Flamingo Quilt |
 La Manzana Roja |
 Chardonney Rose |
 Point Beacon |
 Morning Glory Portrait |
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More images for Intro To Art Quilting:
 Spiders Galore |
 Spiders Galore 2 |
 Spiders Galore 3 |
 Tradescansia Facile |
 Why Not Black & White Spiderwort |
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In this 2-Day class and using a quilt top created in any of the previous classes taught by Grace, you will learn the finishing techniques, including invisible machine stitching, finding the best quilting patterns to complete the top and creating an art wall hanging you can be proud of. Techniques for selecting and placing borders, bindings and sleeves on art quilts will also be discussed and demonstrated. You will finish your quilt and make it into a beautiful hanging art piece.
Additionally, if there is anyone with unfinished projects of any sort: (traditional or contemporary, bed or wall quilts, piecing or appliqué, quilting, finishing a quilt, bags or wearable items), that needs to be finished, or assistance is needed, this class is for all these projects as well. I can help you get the questions answered and the project completed.
This class is for beginners as well as advanced students. In this 2-Day class you will learn a number of tools to enable you to design amazing and exceptional quilts.
We will start our journey by exploring the use of Value as the key to creating exceptional art quilts. Students will see Value in a new way and will be able to apply it to the creation and enhancement of their work.
Next, we will review a very easy and fool-proof “raw edge” machine appliqué technique using a simple pattern provided by the teacher. There are many to choose from. Bunnies, fruit, flowers and others.
Finally, using these new techniques, and with your own inspirational original photograph, you will continue on the journey of an art quilter by learning how to create a pattern to convert this photo into fabric art. We will explore picture composition, how to give your selection perspective, depth, 3-dimensionality, and how to enhance your focal point.
You will also learn to proportionately enlarge your drawing and prepare templates for your fabric art piece.
Students are encouraged to contact me by email in advance of the class to discuss their image choices and any other questions they may have at gracerrea@gmail.com.
The teacher will provide the “perfect gray scale” fabric used in the Value step, and pattern and stabilizer used in the machine appliqué exercise.
This 1-day workshop presents to the participants, steps required to turn inspirational original photographs(s) into fabric art.
Class will explore picture composition and will show how to enhance perspective and depth, how to proportionately enlarge the drawing from the photo(s) and how to incorporate multiple photos in one design. Then we will prepare templates to be used to create the art piece.
In a multiple-Day Workshop, we will use these templates to create a wonderful Art Quilt wall hanging using an appropriate machine appliqué technique.
In this workshop you will learn how to layer two or more fabrics and then, by cutting away one or more of these layers, allow the image to emerge with color and texture.
This technique is extremely easy and foolproof. You can use it to create wonderful stained glass like or mosaic like quilt look-alikes.
For a 1-Day workshop, I recommend choosing the simpler design of the “Orchid” quilt in order to learn the technique and complete this simple wall hanging. For a multiple-Day workshop, feel free to choose the “Flitting Butterfly.”
Whether you are a traditional or a contemporary quilter, you will find that the Trapunto quilting technique will provide you with an additional dimension for your quilts.
This class will show you how to use your sewing machine to make beautiful Trapunto designs.
The technique will easily allow you to “raise elements of the quilting design” to give a relief effect and increase the textural aspects of your quilt. It can be used in traditional blocks or in contemporary landspaces. Examples of both will be demonstrated.
This is a fun class that is easier than you would ever guess. With your sewing machine darning foot, we will embroider designs that you can later attach onto a quilt, vest or jacket. We will also learn how to do free-motion lettering and drawing with your machine.
You might even use this technique to create greeting cards, pillows, and many other things. This thread-play technique requires minimum effort and practice. You can execute it even if you do not feel comfortable with free motion quilting.
