Nina Clotfelter Presents
Thread Painting
Thread Painting is many things…creating a picture, adding details, dimension, and/or depth to an applique, making fur on an animal, or just adding little details to make your creation come alive. You will learn loads of techniques in this class, and you'll learn all about stabilizers. You'll create different items using the stabilizers. This is a fabulous technique to add to your skills! You’ll be surprised how fun and forgiving Thread Painting is!!! Let yourself be warned…this is addictingly fun!!!!
You MUST be some what comfortable with free motion quilting on your domestic machine.
(You can be a beginning free motion quilter who has taken a class and played some with it. You DON'T have to be an expert!)
Class Fee Members: $55.00 (opens 7/14/26) + $35 Required Kit Fee
Class Fee Non-Members: $70.00 (available 8/13/26) + $35 Required Kit Fee
Supply List:
Sewing machine & Manual– CLEANED and in good working order!
Marking tool - fine tip permanent marker, water erasable, or your favorite
Power cord and foot pedal...please!
Feed dogs DOWN
Extension table – This is a must!
Free Motion quilting foot – If you have more than one, use your favorite, (or bring them all). We can talk more about this in class if you have a question.
Single Hole Needle Plate – if you have one, I have a trick if you don’t have one.
Regular sewing supplies
Extra Empty Bobbins - several
90/14 Topstitch Needle
1 Fat quarter sandwich without the top – Top Fabric is in your kit, (the
top to your sandwich).
Bring pins or spray for Basted by pins, 505 spray, or hand stitching.
1 Fat quarter sandwich - with light blue fabric for our project
Threads - All kinds and colors of threads! Cotton, Polyester, Metallic,
Rayon, whatever you have you can use...even embroidery threads!
Quilting gloves - if you have them ( I like Machingers)
Drawing Paper and Pencil! – School lined paper is fine
Willingness to make mistakes! Ready to have some FUN!!!
Skill level: Creative beginner and beyond!
Chop It Like It's Hot
Watch Nina describe class here:
https://www.ninaquilts.com/chop-it-like-its-hot.html
Sewing machine – CLEANED and in good working order!
Feed dogs DOWN & Free Motion Quilting Foot
Extension table – This is a must
Single Hole Needle Plate - only if you have one
90/14 Topstitch needle
Monofilament Thread - clear (small spool)
Scraps of fabric – These can be large or small, have shapes cut out of them from previous projects...I mean real scraps! Bring what you have!
We will be covering the 9” square of white fabric listed below, so bring plenty of scraps! These scraps do NOT have to match or “go together,” they can be totally random. (They can coordinate if you must, but it’s more interesting if they don’t.)
Threads in many colors – All kinds of threads, different weights and colors, metallic, shiny, rayons, tribal polyester, etc.... Any colors you have will work great!
Quilting gloves - If you use them for quilting
Small iron & ironing surface - If you don’t have one there will be plenty!
Fat Quarter sandwich - Black fabric for top, batting, muslin or white for backing. (You can also use that “ugly” fabric for the backing.)
9”x 9” white (or muslin) fabric (can also be “ugly” fabric)
You can also bring other yarns, lace, ribbons, etc from home if you want to...there’s some in your kit.
Smile and good attitude!!!
Ready to have some fun!!!
Kit includes: Zipper pouch full of yarns, ribbons, cording, nettings, Angelina
fibers, Mistyfuse, glue stick. (Kits will vary) Canvas for finishing piece.
Class Fee Members: $55.00 (opens 7/14/26) + $25 Required Kit Fee
Class Fee Non-Members: $70.00 (available 8/13/26) + $25 Required Kit Fee
Dorene Joyce Presents
Animal Portraiture
What to Bring:
Complete Supply list to follow
A printed large - 8 X 10 or larger photo of your subject – in Color please.
Basic sewing supplies
LED light pad or rent one in advance for $5.00
Your creativity and sense of adventure
Once registered, please send a copy of your pet or favorite person photo to dorene@dorenejoyce.com
Class Fee Members: $55.00
Class Fee Non-Members: $70.00
Optional light pad rental: $5.00
Dorene Joyce
Stained Glass Flowers
Pick one or all of these flowers, to allow participants to create their favorite flower. Choose from My Roses, Iris Dreams, Hydrangeas or Tulips. This class features Dorene's method for making an Art Quilt that looks like stained glass but instead uses fabric. Instead of lead lines, students will use a black background, learning a new technique for applique placement, that makes everything easy, with stunning results! Students can change the colors to your desired color palette. You can make the roses on black or the whole stained glass. Make both if you like! Use your imagination to create your own color palette for your Roses-Stained Glass art quilt. This pattern makes it easy to achieve realistic results for your Faux stained glass art quilt with paint by number ease. Students will have most of the applique completed and will be ready with tips, techniques, and ideas to finish the art quilt at home.
AAQG Members: $55
Non-members: $70
IMPORTANT:
For class prep, please OPEN Preparation Worksheet link at: https://www.dorenejoyce.com/learn.html
Emma Jane Powell Presents
Improv: Cactus Play
Emma Jane Powell Presents:
Ripple Effect
Improvisationally curious? Improv is a great way to break free of traditional piecing rules and challenge your creativity. Skills taught will include: color & fabric combinations, straight lines, triangles, curves, and putting together segments. Bring your scraps and create a small sample for each skill, or build up to a larger final project. You will finish this class with a toolbox full of techniques to create more expressive, spontaneous work in the future.
*Kit fee $15.00, optional.
Austin Area Quilt Guild is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. P.O. Box 5757, Austin, TX 78763
