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• Virtual Workshop - Sarah Nishiura

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    Sat, January 27, 2024
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    9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
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    Privacy of your own home
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  Virtual Workshop - Foundation Piecing with Scraps

  
  

                       
  

                      
  

  Sign-up starts: Members 09/23/2023 and Non-Member 10/24/2023

                      

  Throughout quilt history, foundation piecing has allowed quilters to work with scrappy materials of different weights, textures, and weaves (think crazy quilts and string quilts). Beginning with a brief history of foundation piecing and an introduction to the technique, participants will have the opportunity to sew their own simple unique blocks from the bits in their scrap bags. Finally, students will have a chance to experiment with their blocks, exploring the geometric potential of  symmetry, repetition, and rotation as they create one-of-a-kind compositions and discover complex patterns from their humble leftovers.

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• Virtual Workshop - Sarah Nishiura

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    Sun, January 28, 2024
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    9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
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  Virtual Workshop - Reconsider the Grid

  
  

                       
  

                      
  

  Sign-up starts: Members 9/24/2023 and Non-Member 10/25/2023

                      

  From the use of one point perspective as a compositional tool in Renaissance Italy, to the fantastic Op Art creations of the 1960s, artists have been finding ways to manipulate the standard square based grid for centuries as a means of introducing space and movement into two-dimensional design. This workshop will introduce students to some simple ways to enrich designs by stretching, warping, and re-imagining the grid.

  This workshop will include discussion of the use of the grid in art history and quilt history, exercises on paper which will demonstrate simple ways to manipulate the grid, and open work time during which students can try out some basic templates provided by the teacher, and work on creating their own.

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• In Person Workshop - Mel Beach

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    Sat, February 24, 2024
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    9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
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    Albany United Methodist Church, 980 Stannage Ave. (cross street Marin Ave.)
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  Crazy in Love with Free Motion Quilting

  
  

                            

                      
  

  Sign-up starts: Members 11/26/2023 and Non-Member 12/26/2023

                      

  Finally! an In Person workshop.

  Let's go crazy with free-motion quilting! Beginners and experienced quilters alike will fall in love with these fun-to-stitch that are surprisingly easy, versatile, and check out that spectacular texture!! Add new designs and mark-free tools to your quilter's toolbox, as you map out your own, unique whole cloth crazy quilt. You'll have lots of opportunities to customize, embellish, and incorporate messages of love into your free-motion quilting!

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• Virtual Workshop - Mel Beach

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    Sun, February 25, 2024
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    9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
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    Privacy of your own home
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  Virtual Workshop - Intriguing Interleaves

  
  

                          
  

                      
  

  Sign-up starts: Members 11/27/2023 and Non-Member 12/27/2023

                      

  We will unlock the fun and intrigue of Interleave quilts. This workshop will reveal all the secrets behind creating the illusion of curves and transparency. Best of all, these Interleaves are assembled using a quilt-as-you-go technique, so your unique Interleave quilt will be pieced and quilted at the same time!
  

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