For quilters who have tired of following someone else’s patterns and are ready to expand into innovative design – but don't quite know where to start.

Discussion, how-tos, resources, and exercises on topics including:

• • When can you call a design your own?
• • How can you “become” creative?   What do you do if you can’t draw?
• • Where do you find inspiration?
• • How can you find more ideas than you will ever use in a lifetime?
• • Why do you need to learn basic color principles, drawing, and quilting techniques if you are going to make art quilts?   Aren’t they all just blobs of color with raw edges?
• • How can you tell if it’s any good?
• • How do you know when it’s “art?”

Ideas for art quilts begin with a phrase, a shape, a vague idea, a photograph, a sketch in a journal or notebook.

How do you turn that rough sketch into a finished actual-size drawing – and then turn the drawing into templates for cutting and sewing?
 

 
This workshop takes you through the complete process of translating an idea into fabric, from start to finish.   Topics covered will include:

• • Abstracting and simplifying the essential shapes;
• • Composing the figures for maximum impact;
• • Enlarging the finished drawing;
• • Analyzing the construction techniques necessary;
• • Determining and cutting the template pieces;
• • And preparing a plan to complete the sewing.

You’ll leave with a thorough understanding of the process, all the skills you need, and an itch to get started as soon as you get back to your studio!