Classes

  Joen Wolfrom will give a    talk on Thursday April 15, 2010,

 All at the Henderson Convention Center

These beautiful quilts are representations of Joen's work

Summer Blooms curved piecing class
Friday, 4/16/2010   9am – 4pm  (Class length: 1 day )

Create a happy, blooming flower quilt, using this curved-piecing, freezer paper technique. Draw your own flower design or learn how to transpose a small flower image to one in the size you desire. Besides helpful curved-piecing hints, you will be presented with many ideas for creating beautifully realistic flower designs.
       

 Lighting up your quilts  
Saturday and Sunday, 4/ 17+18 /2010   9am – 4pm   (Class length: 2 days)

You will be surprised at how easy it is to light up your quilts with such illusions as luminosity, luster, shadows, and highlights. In class, you will create your own fabric light illusions. You will leave class with a wide array of lighting ideas to use in your future quilts.

May 7, 2010

Dena Crain from Kenya

Brought to Las Vegas in conjunction with the Desert Quilters of Nevada and Las Vegas Quilt Guild.

SPECIAL EVENT/CLASS with DENA CRAIN

FRIDAY, MAY 7, 2010, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm

United East India Building

4045 Spencer St.  (At the corner with Flamingo)

In a cooperative effort between Desert Quilters of Nevada and Las Vegas Quilters, we are excited to announce a class by Dena Crain.  Dena comes to us from Kenya, where she helped to found the Kenya Quilt Guild.  Her quilts have been the subject of several solo art exhibitions. She teaches on Quilt University, an online educational facility for quilters.  She also travels and teaches internationally.  We are fortunate that she will be in Las Vegas visiting her family, and has agreed to teach this class for us while she is here.

Description:  Students work quickly and easily with gradated fabrics, freehand rotary cutting and piecing techniques, and a variety of trims to create a suitable embellished background that shifts gently from one value to another, or from one color to another, or both!

Working with found objects, students carefully cut shapes out of the background fabric in sets. The shapes are repositioned to alter value, color, and pattern. They are then reset into the background using decorative machine stitches for additional embellishment as well as secure construction.

Stacked layers will be quilted quickly and easily by machine, and the quilts will be bound with Fuss Free Binding, Dena’s easy machine binding technique.

Every student will turn a simple value study into a stunning art quilt of their own design. Anything is possible as the design and construction methods progress, and lucky coincidences are bound to occur.

Class may include “World of Color,” a digital presentation on color physics which explains what color and value are and how they work together.

Focus of Class: Construction, composition, embellishments