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Sue Holdaway-Heys
"Create Your Own
Landscape or Floral Art
Quilts" |  |
May 17th-20th 2010
Optional set up May 16th 4:30-6:30pm
In
this supportive and creative atmosphere you will create an original
fabric composition that is an artistic interpretation of a favorite
vacation or garden photograph. With the luxury of digital photography
you may have immediate documentation of a pleasing composition. A
landscape or still life transfers easily from these photographs to a
quilt.
Using one of your own personal photographs for
inspiration we will make a quilt top approx. size (40” x 40”) using my
collaged and fused method. This method requires no patterns and any
style, size, and subject matter will work. In this fun four day
workshop we will talk about composition, color and color combinations,
and all the elements that make a visually strong quilt. We will also
experiment with water –based paints and pencils to see how they can be
used in quilts.
Machine quilting is another layer that adds to
the quilt and we will look at each top and discuss the quilting
possibilities. Some students may be ready to begin quilting in class.
(I will encourage it) A sewing machine capable of free motion quilting
will be needed.
Sue
is a professional quilt artist from Ann Arbor MI. Her work has been
shown in AQS, IQA, Visions: The Art Of the Quilt (1992), Visions: Quilt
Expressions (1998) and many other prestigious shows. She has won many
awards including the American Quilt Society Show, The Ella Sharpe
Museum, and The Ann Arbor Art Center. Her work is represented in many
public and private collections including a doll in the White House
collection. Sue's work has been published numerous times.
Larger Quilt Supply List
You will complete an approx. 40” x 40” quilt top
-3 photographs of a favorite landscape or flowers (we will choose 1) enlarged to 9”x 11” at Kinko’s is helpful
-Lots of fabric… (Wide variety) of small prints/solids (also your scrap bag)
-One large piece of flannel for design board (4’x4’)
-Small sharp scissors
-T-pins or straight pins
-Rotary cutting supplies (cutting mat, cutter with new blade, Plexiglas ruler)
-4 yards of a newer fusible (I will have Steam a Seam lite (NOT II) you may purchase in class
-Sewing Machine in good working order, with knowledge of how to drop the feed dogs and free motion foot or darning foot.
-Low loft batting and backing large enough for quilt top
-Variety of threads for matching and contrast
-Microtex sharp needles 80/12
-Safety pins
-Enthusiasm :)
ANY Questions at all email sue shhart@aol.com or call 734-971-4980
www.sueholdaway-heys.com
Click Here to Download Workshop Registration Form
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