Nancy Crow

Strip-piecing is a very fluid way of creating fabric vocabularies out of one’s existing fabrics that have been cut into various size widths, selvage to selvage, and then sewn together in composed groupings. Lots of fabrics will be used in this exciting but intense class that will cover important exercises in fabric-making and composition. Color, value, contrast, gradations, shape and line will be explored in a creative manner while students cut-out and sew together a very large range of strip-pieced fabrics. Students will be using both solid colors and bold commercial graphic prints, stripes, and plaids. Two or more small compositions will be made from the completed fabrics. All compositions will be approached intuitively as FUNDAMENTAL practice towards BEING READY for the more advanced composition classes that Nancy offers.

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Katie Pasquini Masopust

This class combines painting and quilting. Using Acrylic paint the students will create layers of imagery onto thin canvas, applying fused fabrics and many layers of thin fluid acrylic paint. A color scheme is chosen and two to three canvases are painted within that color scheme. Then these canvases are cut apart and combined to create a complex composition. The reconstructed canvas is then layered with batting and backing and stitched. These stitched pieces can then be stretched on a frame ready to hang or inserted into a quilt of the same design to create a many textured creation.

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Judi Blaydon

Collage+Cloth=Quilt

The collage+cloth=quilt process offers experimental designing possibilities that can free you from
predetermined assumptions and constraints. Elements and fragments of those images will be combined in collage compositions that may be classic or abstract, powerful or subtle, lyrical or dramatic, symmetrical or not, suggestive of a landscape [or not] -- leading to unexpected and innovative designs. Judi’s process, solidly grounded in classic design principles yet fluidly accommodating of different aesthetics, fosters extraordinary creativity.  She teaches you how to design a quilt by combining elements and images from your own photographs.  Thus, the quilt you make is a purely individual expression of your own composition as well as of your fabric and finishing choices.

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In this class students will use nature as a starting point in their study of the magic of color as they discover the myriad varieties and ever-changing palettes of the natural world. Using nature as a source of inspiration, students will investigate the range and qualities of features like rich earth browns, cool air and water blues and greens, and blazing hot fire colors.
The class will begin with a general interactive discussion on color theory and how this applies to color in nature.  After viewing slides and other visual material, students will make a series of small abstract studies based on the visual material they have seen. They will then make their own abstract color-rich quilt tops. Piecing and stitching techniques will be demonstrated and discussed where needed.
Emphasis in this class will be on color variation and choice, contrasts and subtlety, tonal value, texture and pattern,
By the end of the class students will have heightened their color sensitivity, learnt how to choose appropriate fabrics that best enhance their color choice, and will have made several small studies suitable for development, and at least one larger piece.
Short discussions and critique sessions form an integral part of the class dynamic. 

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We will spend the first half of each day painting en plein air (painting outside). The first painting will be a guided painting with your instructor suggesting the order and the values to be used for each of the zones (foreground, middle ground, distant). This painting will be done in the morning before it gets too hot. In the afternoon we will fine-tune the paintings indoors after a short critique. Then we will put backing and batting and machine stitch the surface. The second day, each student can choose to do another guided painting, or one on their own of a different land formation. In the afternoon we will again fine-tune critique and quilt our paintings. These paintings can then be stretched onto a frame suitable for hanging or collaged into a larger quilt of the same design. You don’t need to know how to paint to take the class -- abstract or realistic it doesn't’t matter, we will all have fun painting outside in a relaxed way.

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In the class the students will explore the effects of acrylic paint on silk and other fabrics, experimenting with ways to manipulate the fabrics - layering with low-relief objects, folding, masking, etc. to affect the way the paint will dry and create fascinating results. Also included will be design exercises and beginning an abstract composition using the painted cloth. Further development with the focus on realizing the expressive potential of the painted cloth, completing a first composition and creating a second. We will work quickly and directly with the cloth, making decisions based on visual responses. Hand stitching and finishing techniques will be demonstrated. The creative process, and objective observations will be discussed.

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Rosalie Dace

Line Dance

Line is one of the most vital elements of design . This class offers you the opportunity to have fun with line and make it work for your quilts, by adding movement, texture and vitality in smooth, graceful, sharp, crisp or fuzzy lines.
Learn to explore what sensitive, subtle or bold lines can do for your compositions. In this hands-on class, discover the secrets of embroidery, trapunto, piping, couching and quilting by hand or machine to give your quilts that extra zing. Students will make several small studies or one large wall quilt using line in many sensitive and exciting ways.

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