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Through
a Quilted Kaleidoscope
The Pieced Snowflake
Simple Symmetry
Simpler Symmetry: Simple Blocks, Complex Fabrics
Needle Stars
The Puzzle Quilt
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The
Pieced Snowflake
Intermediate
to advanced skill levels
Limit: 18 students in 2 day class
20 students in 2+ day class
Recommended Format: 2, 2 1/2, 3 or 4 day workshop
Price: $650/day for 2 day class,
$625/day for 3 day or 3+ day class.
Supplies (* will be available for purchase in class)
| 1. Graph paper with an eight-to-the-inch grid and a bold inch line; one sheet per student will be provided by instructor. |
| *2. Sheets of see-through plastic template material with an eight-to-the-inch grid and a bold inch line. |
| 3. A thin 12" x 2" ruler made of clear plastic with accurate one-eighth-inch grid lines. |
| 4. Well-sharpened pencils with ample and accessible erasers |
| *5 .Extra fine-point permanent marker, Ex: PILOT® Extra Fine Point Permanent Marker, SCA-UF. |
| 6. A method for marking dark-colored fabric. Consider white chalk pencil that can be sharpened to a fine point or extra-fine, light-colored jelly pens (must be permanent) |
| 7. Fabric scissor |
| 8. Template/paper scissors |
| 9. Set-up for rotary cutting, including a rotary cutter, ruler and mat |
| 10. Sewing machine with well-defined quarter-inch seam allowance guide. |
| 11. General sewing supplies |
| 12. See-thru ziplock baggies to hold templates |
Color:
Class examples are in diverse blues, silver and white against dark blue ground.
Stick to a color family with flexibility. If it catches your eye, bring it!
Fabric: Important: Intricately printed fabrics with at least 6or 12 on-grain
motifs which are identical and bilaterally symmetrical; in other words, the
motif can be divided into identical halves by a line passing through the center.
Also good: mirror-imaged motifs printed off-grain (ie: paisleys).
Background: Access to 2 yards of dark allover print which reads as solid.
Also: 1/4 to 1/2 yards of big and small all-over prints including textures,
gradations, stripes, marbled, stuff speckled with silver. Bring prints on
a background similar to the quilt's intended background.
Explore the common hexagonal pattern and endless variety of structural
details synonymous with a snow crystal. The class covers a unique machine-piecing
technique and both color and fabric guidelines for translating this pure gem
of nature into fabric.
For examples, please see:
Snowflakes & Quilts
or Kaleidoscopes & Quilts
(C&T Publisher) by Paula Nadelstern.
QNM: PHOTO FINISH, Dec '95.
American Quilter, Spring '94, Patchwork Quilt Tshushin, 1997 #78
Through a Quilted Kaleidoscope
The Pieced Snowflake
Simple Symmetry
Simpler Symmetry: Simple Blocks, Complex Fabrics
Needle Stars
The Puzzle Quilt
Lectures
Back to Workshops and Lectures