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Birds on a Wire: Learn Geese on Edge Technique, #37523
What a fun use of the Wing Clipper I and Tucker Trimmer! Learn a variation of the Geese on Edge technique. Start with a simple square, add logs, add a goose, and repeat. There are lots of possible variations! Birds on a Wire pattern offers five sizes and ten different variations using the same technique and fabric. If you want a larger quilt, you can just add more blocks. This is a fabulous project to use up scraps! You can use mixed scraps, Fat Quarters, Fat Eights, etc. for the bright fabrics. The background can be a mixed of fabrics, as well, or yardage. It is important to have enough contrast between your background fabric and the bright fabric. You will need an accent fabric (shown in black here). Neutrals are a great choice for the accent. You want the accent to have contrast from your background fabric, but it can be a few shades away to just create a shadow (taupe with white, grey on black, etc). Or you could go with high contrast (black on white or white on black). Birds on a Wire Pattern (Sew on the Go) and Studio 180 Design’s Wing Clipper™ and Tucker Trimmer I™ are required for workshop.
Color and Quilting 101, #35501
The purpose of this workshop is to arm you with the tools and knowledge to build your own color plans for your blocks, quilts, and other projects. Learn how to make the most of your fabric choices to create the effects you're looking for. Whether you're a traditional quilter or modern quilter, you'll improve your skills and sharpen your eye. This workshop will include an audio-visual component and hands-on fabric play! Michelle will discuss how to identify a fabric's overall color, shading, and tone, then show you how to read and use the Color Wheel. Explore Analogous, Complementary, Split-Complementary, and Triadic color plans in fabric! Appreciate colors that just naturally look good together! You'll dive deep into your stash and figure out how to arrange your fabric, analyze your fabric, and augment your stash with wise purchases. By the end of class, you will look at your fabrics in a whole new way.
Diamonds in the Sky: Piece Brilliant Diamonds, #37529
Michelle designed this dazzling quilt for Studio 180 Design. Diamonds in the Sky creates a brilliant four-piece diamond that really radiates, plus a beautiful alternating block that gives this quilt dimension and allows it to shine! If you want high contrast, use assorted bright fabrics for your diamonds and a dark or light background. Learn how to use Deb Tucker’s Corner Beam® as you make this fun quilt. The class will include step-by-step instructions for use of the Corner Beam®, as well as tips on matching points and piecing on-point quilts. You will also learn strip piecing techniques and general machine piecing hints and tips that you’ll use again and again. This quilt shimmers!
Family Traits Quilt: Use Your Stash!, #37517
Family Traits is a terrific Stashbuster Quilt that comes together simply, creates a quick delightful quilt, and that helps you master the V Block (Peaky and Spike). Family Traits features Sisterhood and Brotherhood Blocks, plus a Border Block. All blocks are constructed using the same V Block method. This is the perfect design to use up medium and large-scale prints. The use of a large-scale print for the corner squares will give a scrappy look. Alternatively, could uses scraps in similar colors to get the same affect. The center square of both Blocks is the perfect place to fussy cut a beautiful fabric with a featured element, such as a butterfly. While this quilt is designed to utilize your stash, do not ever be afraid to purchase some, if not all new. Family Traits comes together easily with the Studio 180 Design’s V Block™.
Sparkle to the 9th: Piece a Unique Block, #37112t
Michelle designed this quilt combining two of her favorite quilt blocks, the Rambler and V Star. This quilt literately sparkles! If you collect or love fat quarters, this is the quilt to make. It makes fabulous usage of fat quarters, and it is perfect for any color background. For the most sparkle, go with a high contrast between your background fabric and fat quarters. Michelle used a green accent fabric throughout her chain; you could elect any color, but try to use your accent color minimally within the fat quarters so that it pops! Registration for this class includes show admission for Thursday.
Summer Star Quilt: Use Your Scraps!, #37506
A quick and easy summer Carpenter Star that is a great use for those scraps, fat quarter, or yardage you have been collecting. Great quilt for those pre-cuts! Six sizes offered in the pattern! All sizes are made with the same number of units; the size of the half square triangle units determines the size of the quilt. Step-by-step instruction and diagrams included for all six sizes. For the most dramatic effect consider a Split-Complementary color plan, colors opposite each other on the color wheel, picking colors from the warm side (orange/pink) and then across to the cool side (blue/green). If you would prefer a more blended effect, consider a Complementary color plan (colors next to each other on the color wheel such as blue and green). Comes together easily with the Tucker Trimmer III or I (depending on the size).
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