Glendale Quilt Guild

OB1 • Responding to the Surface
$130.00
Friday, 3/16/07                           
6 hours          8:00 AM – 4:30 PM
Saturday, 3/17/07                      
6 hours          9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
All levels • Machine require

The creative impulse will be combined along with one of a kind hand dyed fabric and nature’s lines and colors to create a powerful fiber piece. Students will develop a surface design in response to the lines and color of their fabric which has its own strong voice. In the morning, students will use visualization to develop a spontaneous design. By afternoon, central design will be satin stitched on the fabric. Decorative threads, machine embroidery and free-form organic quilting will add texture to the composition on the second day.

Supply List:

• Sewing machine with the ability to drop feed dogs, and a zigzag stitch.
• Free motion foot; Optional: open-toed embroidery foot
• BSS, BCT, DW.
• Machine needles 80/12 Embroidery & 70/10 Jeans Stitch
• Invisible and regular neutral colored thread; a variety of colors of decorative thread for embellishment - metallic, silver, variegated satins, etc.
• Bobbin thread: Bottom Line or YLI Bobbin Thread
• At least 42” x 42” piece of fusible batting
• 2 yards iron-on tear-away stabilizer
• Sketch pad and mechanical pencil (#2 - 0.7mm)
• Fabric marking pens (water or air – erasable)
• ½ yard fusible web “Steam a Seam 2” works well
• Optional: Several pictures of nature (leaves, trees, rocks, etc.)
• ½ yard or larger piece of unique hand dyed multi colored fabric with interesting lines and colors.
• 4 ¼ yard pieces of coordinating fabrics.
• 1 yard of fabric for backing.

OB3 • Prismatic Flowers              
$70.00
Sunday, 3/18/07                         
6 hours          8:30 AM – 4:30 PM
All levels • Machine required                                   
Lab Fee: $2.00

Playing with color, texture, depth and shading, students will manifest a small flower piece filled with light and energy. Choosing from one of Barbara's flower drawings eliminates the drafting and allows students to go right to designing with fabric The ingredients needed to create a flower are a playful spirit and a wonderful variety of multi colored shaded fabrics.

• Sewing machine with a zigzag stitch
• Invisible (monofilament) thread
• Bobbin thread in neutral color
• BSS, DW.
• 1 yard Sulky Totally Stable
• Fusible Web ¼ yard - Steam a Seam 2 regular, light weight
• Black permanent ink Sharpie pen, extra fine point
• Re-positionable or re-stickable glue stick
• Fabric: 15 ¼ yard pieces or scraps, multi colored containing your favorite color, i.e.; for Red Flower - red fabric with yellow areas, red with pink, red with green or blue, pink with fuchsia, any multi colored fabric containing red. Best are batiks, hand dyed, painted, marbled, and some novelty flowered fabrics. Solids or calicos do not work.
• ¾ yard background fabric - options will be discussed
• 1 yard fusible batting