WORKSHOPS
GENERAL INFORMATION
All workshops accommodate participants at any level - no sewing skills or drawing skills are required. Experienced quilters will find finishing easy, no-sew finishing options are also provided. Supply kits are available for all classes. You just need to provide a rotary cutter (any size), scissors, a small cutting mat, and your sense of adventure!
Workshops always include several skills to learn to make your projects unique:
I do all this by providing a design that will be used as the basis for practicing the various skills and trying the various techniques. Then I help each student with their individual variations, and in planning further work.
All workshops are great for individuals attending in-person or via Zoom, or can be tailored to private groups or guilds for up to 20 students. Zoom workshops are recorded for endless re-watching by students for a full year. Students attending a live workshop will receive a link to a recorded Zoom class on that technique. All classes are personalized, interactive, and fun!
Check out upcoming workshops and events on our CALENDAR. For details on specific workshops, use the links below. Questions on creating a workshop for your group or guild? email Phyllis.
Currently available workshops: Live or Zoom:
All workshops accommodate participants at any level - no sewing skills or drawing skills are required. Experienced quilters will find finishing easy, no-sew finishing options are also provided. Supply kits are available for all classes. You just need to provide a rotary cutter (any size), scissors, a small cutting mat, and your sense of adventure!
Workshops always include several skills to learn to make your projects unique:
- Digital assisted pattern creation
- Easiest possible techniques for applique or collage
- Art principles for composition, contrast, and impact
- Critical evaluation and fine tuning, including unrestricted post class help via email for each student
- Sources for ideas-best techniques for any subject
- Embellishment techniques with paint, ink, oil stick, thread, beads, polymer clay, chain, metal, foils, unusual fabrics
- Special enhancing techniques including thread sketching, needle felting, needle lace, bobbin work, fabric manipulation including 3D work, improvisational picture piecing, etc.
- Quilting techniques including subject appropriate, designs, free motion
I do all this by providing a design that will be used as the basis for practicing the various skills and trying the various techniques. Then I help each student with their individual variations, and in planning further work.
All workshops are great for individuals attending in-person or via Zoom, or can be tailored to private groups or guilds for up to 20 students. Zoom workshops are recorded for endless re-watching by students for a full year. Students attending a live workshop will receive a link to a recorded Zoom class on that technique. All classes are personalized, interactive, and fun!
Check out upcoming workshops and events on our CALENDAR. For details on specific workshops, use the links below. Questions on creating a workshop for your group or guild? email Phyllis.
Currently available workshops: Live or Zoom:
For information, or to sign up on an individual basis for our 5 session in-depth Quilted Portraits Class Series, please go to www.quiltedportraitsandmore.com
WILD! FABRIC COLLAGE ANIMALS
Use bits and pieces of printed fabrics to "paint" an animal portrait. Add a bit of tulle and some simple quilting and you will have created your unique masterpiece. No drawing skill needed just bring your sense of adventure! The results are wild, whimsical, and totally believable! CLICK FOR MORE INFO.
EASY STAINED GLASS QUILTS
Make a raw-edge fusible, appliquéd, and quilted piece that not only looks like real stained glass but requires no fussy edge treatments, no bias tape, no fussy quilting, and is quick, easy, and fun! This class is appropriate for beginners, who will learn basic free-motion quilting as well. CLICK FOR MORE INFO.
WILD! FABRIC COLLAGE FLOWERS
We'll use scraps of your liveliest prints in three values of one color, or of all the colors you want to combine to create your own tropical flower. Easy non-fussy snipping and sticking and then a bit of thread and you have a piece of art unlike anyone else's. So easy, free and fun! CLICK FOR MORE INFO.
LAYERED PORTRAITS
Students in this class will learn the layered portrait technique. Includes how to cut, fuse, quilt, manipulate photos and how to draw contour quilting lines; plus a custom pattern for each student based on a supplied photo. Amaze your friends and family! CLICK FOR MORE INFO.