Techniques

TECHNIQUES ONLY! ( 1-3 day workshop )

COURSE DESCRIPTION:

Specially designed for intermediate to advanced quilters who would like to apply an increased variety of techniques to their own work, this course if for quilters who, at this stage in their quilting life, are process-oriented learners. Besides knowledge and experience, your end product is a resource book filled with samples and clear, concise instructions.

Actual course content depends on the time available (budget 1.5 hours per module, or technique) and the interests/needs of the class registrants, who are asked to vote on the techniques they would like (listed on the following page).

SUPPLIES, MATERIALS, CLASSROOM REQUIREMENTS:

Generally, a sewing machine (with attachments and instruction booklet), usual machine and hand-sewing supplies, neutral-coloured thread (grey or tan), rotary cutting equipment, and a small plastic shopping bag of miscellaneous solid and printed. light to dark scraps from home (including a variety of shapes up to .5 meter) are the supplies required. Please bring a 1" binder, pen and loose-leaf paper.

For the classroom, access to electricity, 1 iron per 6 students, a display board and table for the instructor, and 1/2 - 1 table per student required. In locations which require air travel for the instructor, please supply a sewing machine for her use (Bernina #1230 or lower preferred).

Some modules require special classroom circumstances or student supplies, which are noted below (*). Once the modules have been selected by the students and committee, a prospective schedule for the workshop and any pre-cutting instructions will be sent for the participants.

There is a lab fee of $6 per day, which covers additional sample-making materials required by the student and supplied by the instructor.

For workshop locations which include air travel for the instructor, there may be a charge for the extra luggage fee or to send materials on ahead.

MAXIMUM NUMBER OF STUDENTS: 20

LIST OF TECHNIQUE MODULES

Choose 5 for a one-day course, 10 for a 2-day course, 15 for 3 days. We will attempt to cover all that the group has chosen in the time available, but please prioritize. *indicates additional supplies, or special classroom requirements

-Appliqué, Hand - includes freezer-paper, needle-turn, bias stems

-Appliqué, 3-dimensional flowers

-Appliqué, faced, machine & Appliqué, raw-edge, machine

-Appliqué, mock-hand (* blind hem stitch or ziz-zag,the ability to fully control stitch width, invisible thread)

-Appliqué, reverse, a la Pa `n´ Dau

-Appliqué, reverse, by machine, with satin stitch

-Appliqué, shadow, esp. for human figures, realistic pictorial

-Bias, continuous

-Bias seamed/2-coloured squares, 3 methods (* 6" rotary ruler with 45 degree angle line)

-Binding, 1/2" double-fold

-Blueprinting photos to fabric (* a black and white negative on transparency, made at a photocopy store, up to 8x10 size) (classroom requires access to water)

-Braided border

-Cathedral Window, by hand (tradional) and machine

-Chenille technique: layering/slashing fabric

-Confetti technique (impressionist "painting" with fabrics bits(*free-motion needle,spring,or "darning" foot, 6 tiny ziploc(tm) bags)

-Curved machine piecing, freeform and Drunkard´s Path

-Drafting techniques: 5-pointed stars, clamshells, ovals, hexagons, odd-sized block drafting, other useful quilty drafting (* sharp pencil, 12" ruler, eraser, compass)

-English Paper Piecing, Tumbling Block

-5 Enlargement techniques (*classroom requires overhead projector, opaque projector)

-Folded Star

-Foundation piecing, block 5" Snail´s Trail

-Foundation piecing, freeform

-Greeting cards, quilty ideas

-Hand-quilting (* a hand-held hoop or frame, size 10 or 12 quilting "betweens" needles, thimble)

-Label-Making with Pigma pens (* any Pigma pens you already have)

-Machine quilting (* free-motion sewing foot, even-feed foot)

-Marking methods, smorgasbord

-Phototransfer to fabric, miscellaneous techniques (* 4-5 photocopies of photos, some done on an old, powdered photocopier, 2 mirror-image colour or black & white laser copies)

-Pleating and tucking, free form and planned

-Poverty piecing, random tiny pieces for impressionistic or botanical subject matter

-Prairie points, traditional, novelty, and strip/quick methods

-Sashiko stitching

-Seminole piecing

-Seta color painting techniques, paint a little sky! (* sky photo for inspiration, *access to water)

-Stained glass, traditional technique (hand-sewing)

-Suffolk Puffs, dimensional one-patch

-Yoyos, Christmas tree ornament

QUESTIONS?

Call or Fax Gail Hunt: 250-962-0768 E-mail: gailhunt@shaw.ca