Create a Face - 6 hours

Fabric Portraiture

This is fabric portraiture at its simplest.  Start with a whole cloth face silhouette and be guided in transforming it into a face full of expression and begging a name.  Your creation will be ready to place on a welcoming background, highlighting your work.  You might want to follow this class with Thread Painting and More in which you will enhance your face and integrate your creation into a free-style landscape environment.  No sewing machine is required.   All skill levels. (Supply kit and in-class materials fee $5.00)

I Know That Face! - 12 hours (two class days)

Specific Portrait Fabrication

Transform your cherished photograph into a unique fabric portrait destined to become a family heirloom.  You will capture the likeness of your selected image and also his/her personality while in pursuit of a favorite pastime.  Prerequisite: Create a Face class.  Sewing machine is required on second day.   All skill levels. (Supply kit $5.00)

Thread Painting and More - 6 hours

Free-Style Nature Composition

Using nature’s palette with prints, hand-dyes, batiks, and embellishment fibers you will capture an inspirational object or scene from nature and observe the magic of embroidery-style thread work as it provides the realistic creation of 3-D depth.  This class will also offer a chance to explore other methods to further enhance your work: Snippets in Tulle, Building on Felt; Smudged Shadows.  You may choose to work with a preprinted-on-fabric object or small scene or provide a creation of your own design such as a tree, a waterfall, an animal, a bird.  (Here is a chance to work with your fabric portrait from Create a Face class.)  Sewing machine is required.  This class is for the adventurous of all skill levels.  (In-class materials fee $3.00)

Giving Fabric Another Dimension - 6 hours; 12 hours (one or two class days)
Multi-Dimensional Fabric Art
Take the mystery out of designing unique fabric art.  Experiment with embellishment products and techniques guaranteed to excite your sense of adventure:   soluble stabilizer fusing, bonded weathering, dimensional stitching, foiling, resist discharge and recolor, mixed-media couching, honeycomb structuring, Tyvek® manipulation and filigree excising. Upon completion of the class you will have a  good start on a wall hanging to enjoy and to use as a reference at home as well as resources for many more creations.  Sewing machine required.  Moderate to proficient skill levels.  Class offered as a one-day or more in-depth two-day workshop. (Supply kit fee $15.00)

Elderberries at the Reunion - 6 hours

Adapting a Pattern and Whimsical Fusing

Do you have an urge to capture on cloth an unforgettable family vacation, a fond memory of a group reunion or a humorous scene depicting your friends in action?  The Elderberries pattern “We All Have Our Differences” is the vehicle for the trip down memory lane with class adaptations and techniques to enhance the figures and make the scenes your very own.  A sewing machine is not required as only the speedy might elect to get to machine work during the second half of this class.