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Charlotte Warr Andersen

Charlotte will be coming September 23-24, 2009.
 

Lecture - It's Got the Look

Fabrics, chosen with a painterly eye, are used to creatively enhance subject matter—it applies to both contemporary and traditional quilts, but especially to pictorial quilts. We'll look at the fabrics and the resulting pieces that were cut from them. The aim is to gain new approaches and attitudes toward purchasing fabric.

This workshop involves designs, many of them of sashiko origin, which Charlotte developed on a silk quilt that she did not want to launder - therefore marking the quilt was undesirable.  Using tools and techniques you will practice 4 - 5 quilting patterns from Charlotte's book, One Line at a Time.

Layered Landscapes Workshop

Bring your favorite landscape photos to class and turn one into an appliqué design. Then working from the pattern you have created, learn to layer the landscape so no backing muslin is needed. Fabric and color choices will also be discussed in order to achieve desired reality. Techniques from the landscape portion of my book, Faces & Places - Images in Appliqué.
    Student's supplies: Basic sewing kit, needles (I like 11 or 12 sharps), thread to match fabrics, pins, scissors (small, fine ones that cut all the way to the point), pencil, removable fabric markers, notebook, masking tape, overhead projector transparency film (available in class for 25 cents a sheet), black permanent fine-tip marker, black dry-erase fine-tip marker, 18" x 24" drawing paper, landscape photos - snapshot size, fabrics in amounts, colors and textures appropriate for portraying your landscape - give yourself as wide a selection as you can. If you have a light box and can bring it, please do so; one is not required for every person.
For two or more day class you may choose to make a larger project. Bring paper large enough for the project you have in mind and fabrics in the amounts, colors and textures appropriate for portraying your landscape in a larger size.
1 day workshop - For intermediate and up skill level