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One
Day Quilting Workshops, Six Hours Magic Wave
your magic wand over Sharla's extraordinary nine block layout and throw a spell
over checks, diamonds, triangles, and squares uncovering enchanted hidden gardens
of flowers, hearts, frogs, fish and beyond. Find extraordinary traditional blocks,
fascinating innovative designs and more wizardry using composition, repetition,
similarity and variation. The magic is that no two quilts will be alike. The
Dynamite Kaleidoscope One of Sharla's specialties is Kaleidoscope
quilts. Join her in creating beautiful form using the two-shape kaleidoscope block
for inspiration. The block is easy for beginners and still challenging for the
more advanced quilter. The beginner will learn strip piecing, cutting and good
point matching. The more adventuresome will explore the optical illusion designs
that explode off the surface creating shifting patterns and forms in an innovative
Kaleidoscope quilt. Creativity With Checks, Diagonals, Triangles &
Movement Mental roadblocks melt away when using traditional blocks
with checks, triangles and diagonal movement while experimenting with composition,
repetition, similarity and variation. Sharla will help you fuse all your creative
juices into a single synchronized explosion of inspiration and understanding.
Creative thinking will emerge and ideas for extraordinary quilts will flow. Looking
for the Glow Uncover the mysteries of how to identify a fabric's unique
color and texture components that make a quilt sing. Unravel the essence of a
color like red to reveal pink, rose and even maroons. Uncover the engaging qualities
of warms, cools and grays. Use the enticing qualities of light, medium and dark
to express a mood, feeling or experience. Walk away with new found eyes on what
to look for when selecting fabrics for your next exquisite quilt. Color
Illusions Do you feel you understand the basics of color theory and
want to push beyond the color wheel into the mysteries of why color is not
color until it interacts with another color. Then this is the class for you.
Beginners will also benefit as the class explores Joseph Albers' theories on why
red can shift to red violet or even orange at times. Hone your visual skills as
you use value pairing to find exact value matches and to create glow, contrast,
mud or opalescence. Explore how a single fabric appears radically different depending
on the second fabric choice. Develop a series of small quilts using textures,
solids, value and contrast as your tools for choice. Come away with a greater
appreciation of the nuances of color and texture. The Sewing Machine
and Applique! What a combination. Your next applique quilt won't know
what hit it when the versatility and speed of machine applique are added. This
workshop will cover 11 different methods of machine applique-invisible, decorative,
shadow, trapunto, satin, stain glass, soft edge and more.
Successful
Machine Quilting with Exotic Threads and Beads Exotic threads are
easy to use when the quilter knows which needle works best, how to adjust the
tensions (top and bobbin) and which threads work better in the bobbin. Leave this
workshop feeling comfortable using metallic, rayon, silk, embroidery cotton, yarn,
ribbon, ribbon floss, top stitching thread, pearl cotton, crochet thread, beads,
cross lock beads, and more. Explore Embellishments
and Textures On The Sewing Machine Quilts that use embellishments
and textures move from the flat 2-D into 3-D realm. Explore fabric manipulation
through bobbin work, tucking, pin tucking, decorative stitching, shirring, beading,
gathering, piping, hem stitching and more. Add ribbon and lace invisibly...ALL
while learning which foot, sewing machine needle and thread will make each job
easier. Speedy "Hand Look" Cathedral Windows on the Sewing
Machine You will be amazed at the time savings when using the sewing
machine to complete this small cathedral window quilt that has a hand-done look-all
in six hours! Successful Machine Quilting! Sharla uses her
15 years of machine quilting experience to offer an in-depth review of machine
quilting. The workshop will cover small to large projects, free motion quilting
with the darning foot and straight line quilting with the walking foot. Also covered
will be marking, batting, basting, binding and streamlined quilt-as-you-go methods. Machine
Embroidery and the Quilt Dispel the rumor that machine embroidery
is difficult to do. Learn monogramming, straight stitch, and shading techniques
to enhance and personalize the quilt. Come away with many ideas on how to use
machine embroidery to enhance previously printed fabric or create one-of-a-kind
textures and embellishments in the quilt.
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