“Whoopee!!” she says — arms outspread in celebration.  Fall is her favorite season.  Fall’s the time to take a class!  Join my New Art Center quilting class for 12 weeks of surface design exploration:

Class is designed for artists drawn to fabric & fiber and for experienced or new quilters.  Fabric is a unique medium – offering drape, texture, color, pattern, and sometimes narrative and history as well.  It can provide creatives who are faint of heart a way in.  We will explore how to get started and how to continue, once begun.

A twelve-week class allows for a relaxed pace.  Participants can choose to try something new every week, or use the class as a structure in which to start and finish a substantial project (or both).  Either way, you will end up with some finished work.  We will explore many surface design techniques, including:  incorporating found objects; stamping with ink; thread drawing by machine; couching; beading; bobbin-work; strip weaving; and three different image transfer processes.  You will employ several methods of connecting fabric – raw-edged appliqué, appliqué under tulle, traditional appliqué, and piecing.  Hands and machines will stitch, depending on preference

Rotary cutting will be demonstrated and used, and among the finishing techniques taught will be mitre-cornered cloth binding, so that one could use the class as a springboard to traditional quilting, if desired.

Online registration available at: The New Art Center
*No classes on 9/29 and 11/24

P.S. Readers, I have (temporarily?) changed my user name to – “sewmanypossibilities”

Corny, I know.