Glendale Quilt Guild

BW1 • The Liberating Log Cabin    
$65.00
Friday, 3/16/07 
6 hours     8:00 AM – 4:30 PM
All levels • Machine required

What fun we will have as you explore the endless possibilities with Wendy’s freeing, spontaneous, no-rule approach - odd size strips and odd size centers! Following demonstrations and a show and tell, you will play with some of your favorites and choose to construct multiple sample blocks to take home for future reference, or focus on one or two to construct a quilt top.

Supply List:

• Rotary cutter, mat, ruler
• Sewing machine and basic sewing supplies
• 8-10 fabrics for sampler blocks: ¼ yard cuts or FQs of all values from very light to very dark, various scale prints, theme fabric, favorite fabrics from your stash. May be up to 45 fabrics in small quantities. The key is value and variety.

BW2 • Photo Album Quilts -
Picture Image Appliqué                
$65.00
Saturday, 3/17/07                  
6 hours          8:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Intermediate • Machine optional
Pattern Fee $10.00

Learn the process of creating simple figurative and pictorial quilts from a photograph. You will use Wendy’s original design pattern “Little Gardener I” and learn picture image appliqué using include freezer paper, glue stick and machine appliqué. You will gain the confidence and the knowledge how to use one of your own cherished photos in an original piece.

Supply List:

• Pattern “Little Gardener I”, finished size 18” x 24”.
• 3-4 washable white glue sticks (Ross, Scotch, or Avery).
• Freezer paper 1½ yards x 15” (instructor will have for sale).
• Black, blue, red and green ultra fine tip permanent markers.
• BSS for piecing; scissors for paper.
• Masking tape and Scotch tape.
• Ziploc bags for storing pattern pieces and a few paper clips.
• Sewing machine optional: Assembling the appliqué will take all morning. If you are fast, you may use machine in the afternoon, otherwise you do not need to bring it. You decide.
• Gray bobbin thread, monofilament thread in clear and smoke
• Darning foot for free motion machine appliqué.
• A cherished photo - figure profiles are easier to work with.
• 8” x 10” color copied enlargement of the cherished photo.
• Several sheets of tracing paper and white copy paper.
• Several sharp pencils.
• 1 yard Craft Décor Bond by Pellon Fusible stabilizer (heavier) from Joanne Fabrics. Do not use Craft Fuse.
• Fabric: Bring more for more options. Consider geometrics, realistic prints, abstract, hand dyeds, batiks, prints with movement, fabrics with mottled backgrounds.
• Background: 22” x 24”. Hand dyed, TOT, or mottled, contrasting with the figure and flowers. Optional: for a pieced background - 5” to 10” scraps or FQs of 5-7 fabrics for sky (light/medium to light) and 6-8 for ground/garden (medium, medium dark, dark).
• Little Girl Hair: 3-4 FQs of same color: brown, blonde, brown, or red.
• Shirt: 4-5 FQs of different values of the same color.
• Face and arm: 1 FQ of skin tone contrasting with the background. A tone on tone or a mottled in lighter values.
• Flowers: Small scraps of pink and yellow and 2-3 darker scraps for centers and petals.
• Flower stems: 1 yard of a dark green yarn or several 16” strips of a dark fabric
• Optional: DW

BW3 • Stitch to the Finish Line
with Machine Quilting           
$65.00
Sunday, 3/18/07
6 hours          8:30 AM – 4:30 PM
All levels • Machine required

Learn all you need to know about machine quilting from supplies needed, specialty threads, to using the walking foot and the darning foot for free-motion quilting. As a group, we will discuss options for quilting the layered projects you bring.