Classes & Workshops

Quilting:

Summer Tapestry-1 Day
If you’ve been saving “bits and bobs” but didn’t know why, here’s a change to use them up. Using warm browns, golds, greens, rusts and blacks we will create a botanical art quilt that we will finish off with 3 appliqued leaves.
Instructor: Susan Clark
Date: Saturday April 12^th
Time: 9:30-3:30pm
Fee: $30 Members/ $60 Non-Members

Discharge Dyeing-1/2 Day
Instead of adding colour, in this class you will explore removing colour with bleach. Create yardage or invidual blocks for a quilt, using pine boughs, ferns and other natural materials.
Instructor: Judy Millard
Date: Saturday, May 24^th
Time: 9:30-12:30 pm
Fee: $15 Members/ $30 Non-Members

Let’s Start Quilting-5 Weeks
In five classes, you will learn all the basics of piecing by machine. We will turn four blocks into a table runner or wall hanging. You will be amazed how easily this happens!
Instructor: Vicki Bisset
Date: Starts Tuesday March 4^th
Time: 9:30-11:30am
Fee: $50 Members Only

Margie is a quilt artist and surface designer. Her love of colour is expressed through the fabric she paints and the quilts she creates.

Her early education includes a teaching degree from Queen's University in Kingston. She has been involved in quilt making, design and teaching for 20 years across Canada. She has exhibited and received a variety of quilting related awards and will be teaching at Quilt Canada in 2008.

Thursday, November 13, 2008 at Trinity United Church , Ingersoll at 7pm
Note the Date Change

It's time to forget about curved seams, templates and too many pins and follow a different Drunkard's Path. By using two simple shapes, a circle and a square, participants will create the basic Drunkard's Path unit block with machine applique. Three different freezer paper techniques will be used to make blocks in the morning session. In the afternnoon, participants will use a design wall and the blocks constructed in the morning session to create many different desings, both traditional and contemporary.

Start with a block, dyed or paitned fabric, batik, landscape or a gorgeous piece of cloth that you just can't bear to cut up. That is your inspiration. Bring lots of other fabrics to the workshop to play with. Make some patchwork to echo the colours of your complex cloth. Put it all together and let the quilt evolve on the design wall. This two day workshop provides the time for both structured activities and opportunities for creative designing.