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Thumbnail Filmstrip of Confident Beginner - Explore Thread Painting/Coneflower Images
Description
Explore Thread Painting is an opportunity to use basic free motion skills to try something new and exciting! Robin will show you how to construct an appliquéd coneflower with her original art quilt pattern “Coneflower Garden” design. This little quilt will be thread painted to make it appear more like it’s embroidered. You will understand the appliqué process along with stabilizing your work of art. Once you have mastered this technique, you can use the skills learned in this class to add thread painting details on future quilts & wearable art projects making them so much more custom and realistic. This is a fat quarter friendly art quilt. Free original pattern included & will be handed out in the class.
Class Details
Cost: The class fee is just $60 per person + materials (see below)
Materials:
- To have taken a free motion quilting class or have tried free motion quilting with a free motion/darning foot, minimal experience required
- Fabric much like the Coneflower Garden sample photo, batiks recommended as they don’t fray
- FQ of background (dark teal green as shown), scraps of orange 3-5 colours, scraps of pink-purple, 3-5 colours, scraps of yellow, 3-5 colours- light to medium, small scraps of brown for the center
- You may also want to change the colours of your coneflowers, it’s your work of art
- Backing of your choice- 4” bigger all the way around than the FQ front
- Batting (80/20 recommended) – 4” bigger all the way around than the FQ front
- 1 strip 2 ½” x width of fabric for facing to match your backing (Robin to demo facing in class)
- A sewing machine with the ability to lower the feed dogs
- A free motion foot
- Decorative machine threads- variegated and solid embroidery threads etc. – An assortment of colours for shading from light to dark, yellow, pink, orange brown, black, please look at the project , please bring embroidery weight threads
- White Freezer Paper
- Small scissors (applique scissors are wonderful)
- Paper scissors
- ¼ m Light weight fusible web
- 1 m of medium weight fusible interfacing
- Microtex sewing machine needles – 80 or higher in size
- 505 basting spray or basting pins
- Sharpie fine marker
- Rotary cutter
- Ruler 6 x 24”
- Thread stand optional but helpful
- Manual for your sewing machine
- Paper and pen for notes
- Your lunch
- A willingness to have fun!
* There is a minimum of 6 participants for this class. If we do not have enough students to run the class, you will be notified via email and the cost of the class will be refunded.
Type of Product: Classes & Socials