Classes
Your $10.00 Class discount coupon for this year is in the Nov/Dec 2009 Chatter, page 11.
New members will receive the discount coupon in their packet.
Paper piecing Diva, Carol Doak
http://www.caroldoak.com
Oct.15,2010, Carol will teach paper piecing class "Perfect Points"
Learn tips and tricks for producing perfect points using paper piecing. This workshop features a block design from Carol's book 300 Paper-Pieced Quilt Blocks to learn how to choose fabrics, how to assembly-line paper piece, join blocks accurately, add the border and remove the paper. Also, how to measure correctly to cut the right fabric piece and how to place it correctly are covered. Using this small project, you will learn the entire process.
Oct.16,2010, class will be "Batik
Beauty, Easy Reversible Vest"
Learn an easy way to turn a basic vest pattern into a
one-of-a-kind reversible vest featuring a paper-pieced design
from Carol's book,
Easy
Reversible Vests-Revised Edition (September 2008
Martingale & Co.). This new edition of this best-selling book,
which sold over 101,000 copies, offers updated designs and
approaches to create a vest you will love making and love
wearing. It features the Batik Beauty vest on the cover, showing
the wonderful drama created by using a focus batik fabric on one
vest front and squares and alternating strips on the other vest
front. The radiant paper-pieced block adds just the perfect
detail. You will work on one vest side during the workshop and
the other side can be completed at your leisure.
WARNING!!!
These quick and easy vests are addictive!
Biography
Internationally award winning quilt maker, designer and teacher,
Esterita Austin, studied for her MFA in graphics and photography at
Pratt Institute. Her work has been exhibited in the American Museum
of Folk Art in New York City. Esterita's quilt "The Well" was a
prize winning piece in the museums international competition
"Quilted Constructions: The Spirit of Design." Esterita has been a
guest speaker at the museums lecture series "Artists Speak." Her
award winning piece is featured in the American Museum of Folk Art
magazine "Folk Art," Esterita’s work has been widely shown in
International museums and galleries as well as published in
magazines and books on fiber arts. As a female entrepreneur,
Esterita was featured on The Sally Jesse Raphael Show and on “Simply
Quilts” episode 1134. She has had an article on portraiture
published in Quilting Arts magazine Jan/Feb 2007. Esterita was also
written up in the "Threads" section of New York Newsday. 1 day Sheer fabrics
are the building blocks for a translucent, shimmering still life
that will glow and sparkle while adding depth to your finished
piece. You will be provided with a pattern and fabric kit to be
taught an easy fusing technique that will add more creative tools to
your fiber art repertoire.
Saturday, Jan 29, 2011 - Workshop:
Creating the illusion of Depth 1 day no
sewing machine ,all levels In this
workshop you’ll train your eye and sharpen your design ability.
Learn how to create the illusion of depth by working with three
design elements: perspective, value and light source. You’ll learn
an easy, no fail, technique of fusing. There is no accuracy with
seam allowances, no points to match and no sewing machines. This is
a loose technique that allows for greater freedom in construction.
Build your confidence to go beyond the quilt surface into its visual
depth.
Thursday, April 21,2010 7pm
Guest: Annette Kennedy
Lecture: The Making of a Quilt, from Photo through Paint. (See sample technique images below)
Perfect
Points Supply List
The use of textural and dimensional imagery has given Esterita's
work unique style. She brings creative energy to all of her
workshops, stimulating the imagination and invigorating the soul.
Sheers To You!
The Making of
a Quilt: From Photo through Paint
Lecture Description:
Original Photo
Unpainted Agave Quilt
Painted and Quilted Agave Quilt
Friday, April 22, 2011 Workshop : Painted Canyon
Saturday April23, 2011- Workshop: Painting Calla Lilies
Annette grew up in Kettering, Ohio. As a young girl she
learned to sew, crochet, knit, embroider, and do needlepoint from her mother
and grandmother. Drawing and experimenting with watercolors and pastels was
a much-loved pastime. Although she has never had any formal art
education, Annette has always loved to “create”.
As a young adult Annette worked in the dental laboratory
field fabricating crown and bridgework. After marrying her husband, who was
on a military career path, she had the opportunity to live in several
locations on the east and west coasts of the United States and in Puerto
Rico. During those years she worked as a cosmetologist and later as a retail
merchandiser for Hallmark Greeting Cards.
Annette learned to quilt as an adult from her mother and
grandmother who had been quilting for years, doing everything by hand.
Annette got hooked on quilting when her mother started piecing quilts by
machine and the process no longer seemed so time- consuming. After making
several traditional bed quilts over several years, in the summer of 2003
Annette then moved on to creating her own original landscape and pictorial
art quilts.
After her husband's retirement from military service in 2001, they have settled in Longmont, Colorado with their kitties. They have one son, Nathan, who is currently serving in the US Army JAG Corps.
updated July 19th, 2010