This workshop is designed to restart your creative juices using unconventional quilting techniques on the sewing machine. We will make several studies that can be completed or used as inspiration for future art. Fusing, fracturing, free motion thread painting, color collage and mood magic are some of the techniques we will employ. (Experience and familiarity with sewing is necessary, quilting experience helpful.)

Are you in need of inspiration?  Is your spirit begging you to stretch, wake up and become vital?   Creativity sometimes gets stuck. In this class Tricia, uses her experience in quilt making as well as energy and bodywork, to lead you through a process to reconnect with your own vital inspiration. You will be treated to a lively day that incorporates playful exercises, guided imagery and plenty of time to collage and experiment on cloth as you relax and stimulate your inner landscape. The invitation of this class is to celebrate the essence of reawakened joy and creativity within you.

Are you in need of inspiration?  Is your spirit begging you to stretch, wake up and become vital?   Creativity sometimes gets stuck.  In this class Tricia, uses her experience in quilt making as well as energy and bodywork, to lead you through 3 hours of inspiration. You will be treated to a lively presentation that incorporates the latest research on creativity, followed by playful exercises both of mind and body.  Tricia then takes you through a guided imagery and the morning concludes with the assembly of a small collage, which celebrates the essence of reawakened joy and creativity within you.

This quilt is three-dimensional and with it, one is able to render two aspects of the same idea. We will work with a rose bud pattern that transforms into a rose in full bloom! By the end of class, you will not only have a breathtaking new wall hanging but the knowledge of a new technique to express your own original ideas in future quilts.

Don’t be mystified by new materials on the market.  This is a class designed to give you a chance to play with new products as you create a wonderful mermaid sample quilt. You will learn uses for Setacolour Transparent paints, TyVek wrap, Angelina, beads, foil, and permanent inks.  The result will be a small mermaid quilt to take home and hang for easy reference. 

Ready to dabble and dip in? In the class, participants will be given a hand-printed Setacolour background fabric to stamp and foil with sun and wind, a thermofaxed mermaid to embellish with beads, inks and colored pencils, and painted WonderUnder to experiment with transparent fused trees.  We will play with painted TyVek, heating it to create rocks and coral and then assemble the mermaid landscape using fused fabrics for hills and fields.  We will add Angelina to create shimmer in the water, and foliage onto the trees.  We'll end by hand appliquéing our embellished mermaid into her mysterious and inviting landscape. In the remaining time, participants can choose to layer and quilt their piece as they finish it to an 18"x14" sampler.

Relax as you paint and create your own original fabric.  Using Setacolour fabric paints,  learn about hard edge, soft edge, dry brush and other watercolor techniques., Take home some fresh ideas about color, 2 yards of painted fabric and add to your fabric stash!
Materials fee $5

Explore the world of color as you paint and create your own fabric.  Get excited to learn about hard edge, soft edge, dry brush and other watercolor techniques.  We will make cloth in the morning and then free motion quilt in the afternoon following the shapes, rhythms and intuitive gestures of our painted cloth. Materials fee $7

Fooling around with foil. An introductory class where you will learn how to use foil and its many applications with thermofax images, stencils, stamps, and freehand doodling as you experiment and make a sampler quilt top.  After taking this class you will have a working knowledge of how to use foil to embellish your quilts and garments.
Materials fee $10

Learn how to paint, bubble and manipulate TyVec, a versatile material for 3-D effects in your quilts.   We will construct a simple cell phone or scissors cover for you to take home as a sample of this technique.
Materials Fee:$5

Learn how to paint, bubble and manipulate TyVec, a versatile material for 3-D effects in your quilts and garments.  After learning about the properties of tyvec we will create a colorful and functional 3-d purse made from silk and manipulated tyvec. Impress your friends and add to your artwear collection.
Materials fee:$15