Instructor

Proffetty, Heidi
Heidi Proffetty is a professional quilter, educator, designer and recreational photographer. She is most known for her mosaic style of art quilts and uses her original technique along with a digital die cutting machine to create her quilts. Along with quilting, she has been creating and teaching her method of decorative stitch art designs using ordinary sewing machine stitches. She is also a regular contributor to the Janome Sewing Machine’s Maker/Artisan program where she frequently provides free sewing and quilting related projects. Heidi lives in Massachusetts and when she isn’t quilting, she’s enjoys spending time with her two teenage daughters, flying with her husband, relaxing on a beach, baking and beekeeping.

Instructor Workshops

Introduction to Decorative Stitch Art with Sewing Machine Stitches, #39542

Stitching with Style
Thursday, 5:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Van Buren Room
Proffetty, Heidi
Beginner, Intermediate
$70
Plus Kit and Materials Fee

Learn a fabulous new technique, Decorative Stitch Art with Sewing Machine Stitches. Many sewing machines come with hundreds of stitches. How fun would it be to create some stitch art designs using all these wonderful stitches? You can custom stitch art designs to embellish quilts, clothing, home décor, items or as stand-alone pieces of art. Join Heidi as she shares her creativity and teaches you how to do this technique. There will be plenty of oohh’s and aahh’s in class! And you’ll leave excited to go home and create your own stitch art designs.

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Janome

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Making Mosaic Art Quilts, #31806

Lectures
Thursday, 3:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Eisenhower Room
Proffetty, Heidi
All Levels
$15
Plus Materials Fee

In this one hour lecture, Heidi will share how she creates different styles of mosaic quilts. First, explaining how she works from her own photographs to make figurative and non-figurative mosaic quilt designs, Then, how she draws upon ancient tile artwork reimagining her own Moroccan mosaic tile quilt designs. She’ll discuss both traditional and innovative methods for drawing and tracing designs and fabric cutting techniques. Lastly, she’ll share some of her tips for professionally finishing a mosaic quilt. This lecture will give you just enough insight into Heidi’s creative and inspirational mosaic quilt making process to make you want to learn more. Supplies are not required for a lecture, although you may want to bring a pen and paper to take notes.

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Mini Poinsettia Mosaic, #37516

Piecing
Friday, 8:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Van Buren Room
Proffetty, Heidi
All Levels
$70
Plus Kit Fee

Heidi Proffetty is a multiple-award-winning quiltmaker for her mosaic quilts. Learn her mosaic technique while you create a beautiful mini mosaic art quilt. Heidi will discuss each step she takes to create a mosaic quilt from a photograph, including how to draw shapes, how to recognize values in the photos and translate them to the correct colors, and how to choose just the right fabrics for your quilt design. She'll discuss both innovative and traditional cutting/design techniques and she'll show you how to do her amazing NEW technique of putting the mosaic design together without the need for a light box or fabric marking tools. Once you've built your design, you'll layer the quilt, do some simple free-motion quilting and finish it off with a pretty binding and just a touch of fairy dust glitter.

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Janome

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The Beauty of a Mosaic Quilt: Winter Deer, #37531

Piecing
Saturday, 8:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Truman Room
Proffetty, Heidi
All Levels
$70
Plus Kit Fee

Bring the beauty of mosaics to your quilt making. Learn about Heidi Proffetty’s mosaic quilt making techniques while you peacefully puzzle together a winter deer mosaic design. She’ll discuss and demonstrate the steps to create a mosaic quilt from a photograph, such as drawing the mosaic shapes, recognizing values in photos and how to translate them to colors, and choosing fabrics. Heidi offers traditional, digital design, and cutting techniques. She will show you how to do her amazing NEW technique of putting the mosaic design together without the need for a light box or fabric marking tools. Plus, her tips for successfully finishing the quilt.

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Tropical Moroccan Quilt Tile, #33102w

Appliqué
Wednesday, 8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
McKinley Room
Proffetty, Heidi
Beginner, Intermediate
$125
Plus Kit Fee

Bring the art of Ancient & Modern tile making to your quilting. Use color, symmetry and interweaving shapes to create your own unique quilt tile design. Learn about making Moroccan mosaic designs of your own. Heidi will discuss both innovative digital, traditional design, and cutting techniques. She will show you how to do her NEW placement technique for placing the mosaic design together without the need for a light box or fabric marking tools. Using a supplied kit, you will be hand cutting your mosaic fabric pieces, puzzling together your own beautiful 12" x 12" Moroccan Mosaic quilt tile and finishing your project off with free motion, micro-stippling quilting. Registration for this class includes show admission for Wednesday.

heidiproffetty.com

Janome

Sold Out

Introduction to Decorative Stitch Art with Sewing Machine Stitches, #39542

Proffetty, Heidi
Thursday
Van Buren Room

Learn a fabulous new technique, Decorative Stitch Art with Sewing Machine Stitches. Many sewing machines come with hundreds of stitches. How fun would it be to create some stitch art designs using all these wonderful stitches? You can custom stitch art designs to embellish quilts, clothing, home décor, items or as stand-alone pieces of art. Join Heidi as she shares her creativity and teaches you how to do this technique. There will be plenty of oohh’s and aahh’s in class! And you’ll leave excited to go home and create your own stitch art designs.

heidiproffetty.com

Janome

Making Mosaic Art Quilts, #31806

Proffetty, Heidi
Thursday
Eisenhower Room

In this one hour lecture, Heidi will share how she creates different styles of mosaic quilts. First, explaining how she works from her own photographs to make figurative and non-figurative mosaic quilt designs, Then, how she draws upon ancient tile artwork reimagining her own Moroccan mosaic tile quilt designs. She’ll discuss both traditional and innovative methods for drawing and tracing designs and fabric cutting techniques. Lastly, she’ll share some of her tips for professionally finishing a mosaic quilt. This lecture will give you just enough insight into Heidi’s creative and inspirational mosaic quilt making process to make you want to learn more. Supplies are not required for a lecture, although you may want to bring a pen and paper to take notes.

heidiproffetty.com

Mini Poinsettia Mosaic, #37516

Proffetty, Heidi
Friday
Van Buren Room

Heidi Proffetty is a multiple-award-winning quiltmaker for her mosaic quilts. Learn her mosaic technique while you create a beautiful mini mosaic art quilt. Heidi will discuss each step she takes to create a mosaic quilt from a photograph, including how to draw shapes, how to recognize values in the photos and translate them to the correct colors, and how to choose just the right fabrics for your quilt design. She'll discuss both innovative and traditional cutting/design techniques and she'll show you how to do her amazing NEW technique of putting the mosaic design together without the need for a light box or fabric marking tools. Once you've built your design, you'll layer the quilt, do some simple free-motion quilting and finish it off with a pretty binding and just a touch of fairy dust glitter.

heidiproffetty.com

Janome

The Beauty of a Mosaic Quilt: Winter Deer, #37531

Proffetty, Heidi
Saturday
Truman Room

Bring the beauty of mosaics to your quilt making. Learn about Heidi Proffetty’s mosaic quilt making techniques while you peacefully puzzle together a winter deer mosaic design. She’ll discuss and demonstrate the steps to create a mosaic quilt from a photograph, such as drawing the mosaic shapes, recognizing values in photos and how to translate them to colors, and choosing fabrics. Heidi offers traditional, digital design, and cutting techniques. She will show you how to do her amazing NEW technique of putting the mosaic design together without the need for a light box or fabric marking tools. Plus, her tips for successfully finishing the quilt.

heidiproffetty.com

 

Tropical Moroccan Quilt Tile, #33102w

Proffetty, Heidi
Wednesday
McKinley Room

Bring the art of Ancient & Modern tile making to your quilting. Use color, symmetry and interweaving shapes to create your own unique quilt tile design. Learn about making Moroccan mosaic designs of your own. Heidi will discuss both innovative digital, traditional design, and cutting techniques. She will show you how to do her NEW placement technique for placing the mosaic design together without the need for a light box or fabric marking tools. Using a supplied kit, you will be hand cutting your mosaic fabric pieces, puzzling together your own beautiful 12" x 12" Moroccan Mosaic quilt tile and finishing your project off with free motion, micro-stippling quilting. Registration for this class includes show admission for Wednesday.

heidiproffetty.com

Janome