(5 hours-Advance Beginner, Intermediate)
A bog coat is an ethnic garment that is loose fitting and very versatile. It's great for traveling since it folds easily and you get two coats out of the space for one. Since you work on a flat surface, it can be pieced, appliqued, embellished with beads or whatever you want to create. This one day class will focus on a basic jacket using two fabrics, one for each side, and a third fabric for contrasting sleeve and front bands.
In the morning, each person will make a muslin pattern for her coat based on her own measurements. This pattern can then be used for future coats. In the afternoon, we will quilt together the two sides of the fashion fabrics and cut out the coat. Then we will add sleeve bands, sew the sleeves and add the strip of fabric that covers the seam. Adding the front bands and finishing the garment will be done at home. I will also give you other ideas of how to create your own original bog coat.
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Fabric Manipulation Vest
(5 hours-intermediate)
This class will teach six different techniques that use fabric manipulation to achieve unique design elements. The directions will cover all six but we will only have time in class to start each one. If you do not wish to do a vest, these techniques could be done as samples and then incorporated into any of your quilting projects. A basic level of quilting skill and knowledge of your machine is helpful for this class. If you want to make a vest, some garment sewing knowledge would be good also.
Sweatshirt Jacket
(5 hours-intermediate)
Take a basic sweatshirt, cut it open and piece your fabrics to it to create a comfortable, casual one-of-a-kind jacket. Strip piecing will be used to create the design. Students should be familiar with rotary cutting and stitching of ¼" seams. The teacher will also discuss various ways of finishing your sweatshirt jacket.
Funky Flower and Batik Flower Quilts
Freeform cutting three concentric circles in an irregular way leads to some very interesting flower shapes! Machine appliqueing each to a background square, then piecing the 6 squares together will produce a fun, fast and cheery wall hanging. I used flower prints for one quilt and batiks for the second.
Stack and Slash
Choose 9 fabrics that contrast well with each other (but still play well together) and cut a 12" square of each. You will then cut and stitch repeatedly to get nine blocks with the same pattern but different fabrics in each part of the pattern. Piecing the blocks together will produce a fascinating wall quilt or lap quilt.
Lecture-Trunk Show
This lecture will feature many of the garments that I have made, including a winner at the Williamsburg Quilt Festival and my Bernina Fashion Garment. Models will show the garments while I describe their construction and techniques. I will also talk about general principles that I use when I design wearable art garments including the rule "There are no mistakes-just opportunities for creativity."
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