Workshop Description:

Fiona’s Curvaceous Squares technique involves piecing squares together to make two new pieces of fabric, which are carefully layered, and then cut using freehand rotary cutter techniques to create curves. Add insets of contrasting fabrics in colours that work with your two colourways. Make your own continuous bias tape to cover the cuts and add drama to your quilt. The result is a quilt with curvaceous flowing lines but no curved piecing!

In this workshop you will make the quilt top only, but there will be discussion of finishing techniques, including suggestions for machine quilting.

This workshop is for all skill levels.

 

Workshop Description:

Fiona Hammond will show you how to make her bead-embellished brooches. You will create one brooch in the workshop. Several bead-embellishment techniques, and construction techniques for the brooches, are taught during the workshop. Fiona will also explain how these techniques can be used in other jewellery (e.g. necklaces and earrings) and on your quilts or other textile art pieces. Templates will be provided in the class notes, but you may also create your own shapes and designs if you prefer. You will also create your own display quilt for your brooch. This is a small quilt-as-you-go style skewiff log cabin, made in fabrics to complement your brooch. Come along and have some fun with beads and fabrics, and let your creativity soar.

  Topics covered in the workshop:

• Several bead-embellishment techniques: beaded backstitch, bead couching, bead stacks, and picot edging
• Beading techniques for fringes and branched fringes
• How to construct/create the Bead-Embellished Brooches
• Ideas on how to incorporate similar bead-embellished shapes or techniques into jewellery and textile pieces/quilts
• Construction techniques for mini display quilt: quilt-as-you-go onto batting; skewiff log cabin technique; colour layout ideas for display quilt

In this workshop you will create your own version of Fiona’s Celtic knot quilt “Meditation Upon Hidden Mysteries of Ancient Times”. Fiona will show you how to use the Clover Fusible Bias Tape Maker and the Clover Mini Iron to make your Celtic knot. She will also show you how to use raw-edge appliqué to create a flow of fabric leaves over your quilt, and finish with echo quilting (free-motion machine quilting). Playing with non-standard quilt shapes is also an enjoyable feature of this workshop.

Topics covered in the workshop:

• Raw-edge appliqué
• Making bias strips using the Clover Fusible Bias Tape Maker and Clover Mini Iron (for the Celtic knot)
• Using a pieced background
• Creating a quilt with an unusual outer shape
• Echo quilting (free-motion machine quilting)

Create your own version of Fiona’s galaxy quilt “Cosmic Catherine Wheel”. The main design element of this small wall quilt is the bead embellishment around a glass cabochon. You will learn several bead-embellishment techniques and also play with raw-edge appliqué and free-motion machine quilting. The result will be a small (approximately 35 cm square) wall quilt with loads of bling!

Topics covered in the workshop:

• Several bead-embellishment techniques – beaded backstitch, bead couching, bead stacks, peyote stitch cabochon bezel
• Raw-edge appliqué
• Free-motion machine quilting