Austin Area Quilt Guild

In this workshop the designing of a small fused project will begin. We will work from one of five of Lenore's patterns that are shown on the Patterns page of her website: Yellow Poppies, Yellow Cone Flower, Magenta Cone Flower, One Poppy, and Red Poppies since these are the least complex patterns for beginners. It will be outlined on freezer paper and then transferred to a background fabric on which the design will be fused. No sewing will be done during the workshop, only the designing and fusing. You will learn how to make your own patterns from your own photos too! Lenore will also demonstrate how to add fabric painting to your design to add detail and depth; students will do painting on their own designs in the two day workshops. $15 supplies fee required includes patterns by Lenore plus other supplies she provides. The kit does not include fabric. Select your fabric before class for the pattern you choose to bring to class! (Lenore says she does not use any solid fabrics--always some texture/ movement. Batiks are nice, but she does not limit herself to batiks.)

Using tiny pieces of fabric and tweezers students will create mini-blended designs to take home and frame. Fabric paints are used on strips of fabrics to create the birch trees. Lenore will supply fabrics, fabric paints, muslin, and scraps for creating trees. Finished size of minis can be 4" X 6" or 6" X 8" which can be matted on 8" X 10" and 11" X 14" mat board to be framed or even larger if desired. $20 supplies fee required, and this does include the fabric.

Lenore Crawford's fabric art combine her love of France, their architecture, and flower gardens along with her passion for color and realism. Their texture and warmth achieved from the fabric itself along with fabric painting give the art an impressionistic feeling that only this medium can produce. She has won several prizes for her art and continues to develop and grow her medium and style in new and beautiful ways.

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This graphic design has so many possibilities, it is hard to know where to start, but we do begin at the beginning with one classic Pineapple block, pieced on a vellum foundation. The pattern has been computer-generated, and is accurate and easy to see and sew on. Sewing with strips, upside-down or on the back of the pattern, may be new to some, so everyone makes one practice block. Then on to whatever design you fancy. The choices are two kinds of off-center patterns, a Flying Geese pattern, or playing with the classic block to create new designs. Pineapples are so versatile, there is always one more just waiting to be made, and it�s my hope that you will become enamored of them too.

String piecing is simple and fun to learn. We will work with strips from 1� � 2�. We will talk about strings and will make a couple of basic string blocks. Then we will advance to the pieced 8 pointed star. An 8 pointed start can be tricky, but you will learn a new way to construct this well-loved star pattern, giving you perfect points and centers.

A survey of design categories ranging from classic patterns through innovative contemporary designs and an overview of where we are now with this old-made-new technique we take for granted. In addition to the three basic techniques we�ve all used for years, there are now several times that number of ways to work on foundations. Clever innovative tweaks make the technique even more versatile, no matter what the design or project. Slides, quilts, and words.

Jane is intrigued by the interaction of colors in fabrics and the graphics of quilt designs, especially the geometry of patterns such as Mariner�s Compasses, Log Cabins and Pineapples. She works most often with traditional patterns using innovative sets and coloration, taking a fresh approach to the designs. The Chroma series of Pineapple colorwash designs is among her most recent work.

Departure Time: 7:00 a.m.

Departure Place: Anderson Lane close to the Quilt Store. Use the back area by the Asian Medical Center.

Return Time: 5:00 p.m. Location to be announced in Dallas.

Cost for AAQG members: $45 (includes bus trip and addmission).

Cost for non-AAQG members: $50 (non-members may register after February 10, 2012).

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Frieda finds each step of quilt making, from the beginning to the end, a real challenge. She loves the pure creativity involved in conceiving and designing a new quilt. Frieda discovered hand dyeing fabric 16 years ago, and works almost exclusively with her own hand dyed cottons and silks. She has been an instructor at the International Quilt Festival in Chicago and Houston.