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Last minute change: Please reserve your lunch voucher by June 12 in order to have lunch during all four festival days. More info HERE (click on: "HERE")
LYRIC KINARD:
# 7 BEAD IT LIKE YOU MEAN IT
Add beads of all shapes and sized to your quilts and wearable art, easily and after you are done quilting and here's the prize: no knots or mess on the back!
Learn to embellish in a way that adds to the overall design instead of looking like an afterthought. Students will create a small fabric collage on batting, learn different beading techniques, and come home with a small art-quilt. Techniques will also be taught for applying beads to clothing.
Class length was listed incorrectly in the brochure, this is the correct time and length:
No sewing machine required. 3 hrs.Friday, 10 am
All levelsFee $ 23
CLASS HAS OPENINGS
LYRIC KINARD:
# 8 APLI - PUNTO TO GO
Painlessly create beautiful designs with intricate detail, perfect for wearables, blocks, borders or accents. Long flowing, curly borders or pictures with the sharpest points and thinnest lines imaginable are possible with this easy method using fusible web. Combine fabrics such as silk and wool for wearables or stick to quilting cottons tried and true. Give your design that extra punch with the added dimension of trapunto... without all the slitting and stuffing!
Class time and length was listed incorrectly in the brochure, this is the correct time and length:
Sewing machine required. 3 hrs.Friday, 2 pm
All levelsFee $ 23
CLASS HAS OPENINGS
SUSAN BRITTINGHAM:
# 1 AMAZING ARCHITECTURAL APPLIQUE
Have you ever wanted to make a portrait of your home in fabric? Capture the beauty of an old building in a quilt?
In this class we will learn how to use applique and stitching techniques, laces and trims to do just that.
Bring a photo of the house, building or architectural feature that you would like to create in fabric.
We will make a pattern of the scene, learn about applique methods that will help create the scene, create
shadows to enhance depth and begin to bring the scene to life with applique and embellishments.
Please contact Susan if you are not sure about your skill level (sbritt@swva.net).
Sewing machine required. 6 hrsFriday, 10 am
Intermediate Fee $ 46
CLASS HAS OPENINGS
KATHY SEVEBECK:
# 10 FABULOUS FOLDS SWEATSHIRT
In this 6-hour sit-and-sew workshop, you will learn how to remodel a purchased sweatshirt into a tailored jacket.
The remodeling includes fitting, a method of applying a great in-seam pocket shaped to stay in place while providing plenty of room for car keys, check book and cell phone and an easy binding to finish the edges.
You will decorate the jacket with fabric strips that have been snipped, flipped and tucked to provide interesting design elements.A fabric triangle, loop and decorative button make the closure at the top of this very wearable arty jacket that you will enjoy wearing on all but the hottest days.
Sewing machine experience required.
Sewing machine required. 6 hrsFriday, 10 am
Confident beginner Fee $ 46
CLASS HAS OPENINGS
Cancellation Policy: Cancellations made prior to May 17 will be refunded. The registration, handling and admission fee is non-refundable. There are no refunds for cancellations received on or after May 17 so we can make a final commitment to our teachers.