Amazing Quilts by Grace

Quilts and Workshops by Grace Errea

From Inspiration to Amazing Quilt Top – Multiple Days Seminar

Do you have an inspirational photo that you have been dreaming of making into quilt but just do not know how to tackle the process?  Learn how to create that pattern and get the quilt top created from the person that creates patterns and quilts from photos for all her own quilts and Hoffman fabric as well.

In this Workshop you will learn all the techniques your need to create amazing quilts from beginning to the end.  We will use and apply the following:

1) Using a Photo to create pattern for a quilt.

2) Discuss photography and composition.

3) Value and how it relates to working with fabrics

4) “Heat-Set” Collage with Teamplates

In this multiple Day workshop we will start our journey by exploring the use of Value as the key to creating exceptional traditional and art quilts.  The teacher will provide her “Value Matching Tool” and the “Periodic Value in Color Chart” that will help in this process.

MATILIJA-PHOTO-AND-QUILTThen we will learn how to create a pattern from a photo provided by the teacher as part of the kit.  You will be guided to see shapes you never saw before, and with the help of value you will be able to make the pattern.  There will be no drawing but only tracing!

But we are not finished yet.  Grace will provide an enlarged pattern to complete the process of pattern creation.  Then, to introduce you to her new, easy to learn and use, Heat-Set “Collage with Templates”  technique Grace will provide another very simple pattern to learn and practice the technique.  This technique is so new and revolutionary; you will use nothing else once you try it.  The results are always amazing.

This technique leaves the quilt and the fabric soft and manageable, not stiff and board-like, as fusible webs and glues tend to do. This technique produces a no-fray raw edges as a result.  You will be amazed and love the process and the results! and will never go back to fusing, gluing, or pinning and stitching with nylon thread, ever again!

Armed with this techniques and all that you learned in the previously, we will now work with your own photos that have inspired you, and with guidance, will create a transparency pattern so that you can then enlarge it and create your own amazing piece of art.

julie_juliequiltBring your favorite flower, animal and/or portrait, even selfies.  Your photos should have a distinct focal point.  (Note:  Please do not bring landscape photos).

At the completion of the class you have a quilt top well on its way, and you would have started the releasing of the artist within and creating art quilts that are so striking you and everyone around will be amazed.

1) you will have mastered a number of new techniques that you will love,

2) you will have a pattern created of your own inspiring photo and will begin the journey of another amazing quilt.

This class requires a kit provided by the teacher that contains The Value Matching Tool, the Periodic Value in Color Chart color photos and a pattern to learn pattern making techniques, the Heat-Set product along with a Dispensing Bottle and Pins used in the technique.  (Kit fee to teacher: $39.00)

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