CLASSES AT QUILTED STRAIT
TINY ART QUILTS, FABRIC JOURNALS, ARTIST TRADING CARDS and other mixed media collage, an introduction:
Use all the luscious scraps you've collected, not to mention buttons and bits of trim to create small (18" on a side or less) Art Quilts, start pages for a Fabric Journal, or make a whole raft of the popular 2.5" x 3.5" artist trading cards. For these small collates in fiber, we'll play with photo transfer onto fabric, beading, painting, applique, piecing, embroidery, and much, much more with patterns and examples to get your creative juices flowing.
These small, quick projects are a great break from making full-sized quilts.
Supply List:
Materials: One square yard or a roll of thin quilt batting, a selection of fabric scraps (cottons, silks, upholstery, or velvets), a yard or more of light-weight iron-on interfacing, a yard or more of Heat ‘n Bond or other double-sided bonding agent, a yard or more of stiffener like buckram, Timtex, or some of the other more modern ones, a hand-sewing kit (needles with large eyes, scissors, pins, thimble), UHU glue stick or Eileene’s tacky glue.
Whatever you have of the following—a small selection: fabric paints like Lumiere, rubber stamps and inks, large grommets, felt, upholstery fabric, sequins, rhinestones, jump rings, buttons, bias tape, cording, tulle, Inks that are permanent on fabrics, like Fabrico pens, a selection of fibers/embroidery thread, beads, lace, found objects, trim, photo-transfer images on fabric, collage images in paper, acrylic gel medium, odd playing cards, stickers, mesh and other thin metal, paper fasteners, rivets. A sewing machine, if you have one. Six small magazine images, acrylic gel medium.
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 ANCESTOR DOLL: Create a family heirloom and learn exciting new techniques! Using a 2” x 3 1/3” Xerox copy of a photograph, you will learn how to make a personalized laminated paper face for a pieced doll body with contrasting arms and legs or a simple abstract body. You will also learn about jointing with buttons and adapting and changing basic patterns. The doll will be embellished with antique-style buttons and beads to complete the Ancestor theme, or you may choose a contemporary body shape and embellishment. This is an opportunity for Paper Folks to learn cloth doll making techniques and for cloth doll makers to learn how paper can expand your design repertoire. Alternative photo transfer techniques to cloth will be discussed. You will also have the opportunity to experiment with (and perhaps complete) four to six additional paper faces or to design a different body type for further doll making.
Students should bring: A working sewing machine, hand sewing tools: scissors, needles, thread, a long or doll maker’s needle, and a spool of button and carpet thread or other heavy thread to coordinate with your doll colors. 1# bag of fiberfill, stuffing tool, 1 fat quarter of cotton fabric for the arms and legs and 7 coordinating scraps of cotton for piecing the body. Antique or new beads, buttons, lace, embroidery thread for embellishment.
Xerox copies of photos of interesting or familiar faces, approximately 2 1/2” from the top of the head to the shoulders. Both color or black and white are fine. I like the effect of colored pencils on black and white photos for an antique effect. Paper scissors, colored pencils (face colors), a flat brush, approximately 1/2” to 1” across, a container for paint water.
FABRIC PINS:
Use your fabric scraps in creating designer pins, embellished with buttons and beads. Finish a project--or several--in an afternoon. Make Fabric Pins to wear and give as gifts...no outfit should be without one! We'll use scraps of quilt batting and buckram to build a foundation, then piecing and embroidery for the embellishment. Pamela will supply the buckram and pin backs. Come prepared to make several new pieces of stunning jewelry!
Supplies: Small pieces of a variety of cottons and other fabrics, light-weight iron-on interfacing, decorative threads, beads, buttons, charms, lace.
Button and Carpet or other heavy thread
Fabric scissors, pins, hand-sewing needles, and your general sewing kit. An ultra-fine point sharpie for pen for tracing patterns. A sewing machine, if you wish, but not necessary.
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