"Happy Villages" - Karen Eckmeier

Explore the freedom of fabric collage! No seams to piece or match, no lines to trace ... Just free form cutting of step and window shapes. Step by step your little village will magically come to life. Finished size 16 1/2 inch square

Book highly recommended:
(Happy Villages Book $ 16.95)

Technique: Fabric Collage

All Levels ~ available as Half Day Workshop (leave your sewing machine at home for this introduction to fabric collage. Projects can be completed at home either by machine or by hand)

1 Day Workshop (A layer of tulle and machine stitching will complete your fabric collage project)

Saturday, August 6, 2011
9:00am - 4:00pm
$65.00

Layered Waves - Karen Eckmeier

This technique workshop is an introduction to playing with Layered Curves and Peaks. Students will learn how easy it is to create a textured fabric with wild curves and dramatic points using Karen's layered/topstitching approach. You will be able to use your Layered Waves fabric in traditional or contemporary designs, as impressive borders, in eye catching wearables. market bags, and much, much more!

Layered Waves Book

Sunday, August 7, 2011
9:00am - 4:00pm
$65.00

Drawing for Quilters - Elin Waterston

Draw without fear! Learn basic drawing techniques that will enable you to depict a subject realilstically and transform it into fabric art.

Saturday, August 6, 2011
9:00am - 4:00pm
$65.00

 

 

Fabric Collage - Elin Waterston

In this workshop, students will learn design fundamentals by creating a collage with a photograph or other image (printed or transferred onto fabric) as a centrl focal point as well as experiment with abstract collage compositions, learn construction techniques nd how to incorporate found objects and ephemera into their collages.

Sunday, August 7, 2011
9:00am - 4:00pm
$65.00

 

 

Free Seminar - Carol Racine

Details coming soon

Saturday & Sunday, August 6 & 7, 2011
1:00pm & 3:00pm
Free

 

 

Zentangle - Pat Ferguson

As a Certified Zentangle instructor, Pat will guide students through this relaxing, easy to learn method of creating beautiful images from repetitive patterns. Utilizing pen and paper, students will see how valuable this technique is to quilters and artists wanting to break "machine quilter's block" or expand and develop their own machine quilting style.

Saturday, August 6, 2011
1:00pm - 4:00pm
$40.00