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Workshops
$700 per day for full-day workshops. $350 per half-day for half-day workshops. The following workshops are presented in a one-day or half-day format except for Fusing Fun and Fuse and Tell. See Laura's Contract for more information.

New Class!

Four Little Landscapes

Create 4 little landscapes and place them in fabulou fabric frames. Learn how free-cutting, pattern building, and improvisation can dress up a simple view of sky and ground. Your colorful kit of hand-dyed fabrics is designed to make 4 individual fused quilts. Show them separately or combine them for a larger art quilt. (No sewing machine needed.)
Full-Day Workshop Supply List. ($20 Kit fee)

New Class!

Folk Art Fusing

Adapt the evocative silhouette of traditional folk art shapes to the contemporary art of fusing. Simple folk art shapes like horses, rabbits, and pineapples are created with quick fused collage techniques. Fun, decorative borders frame your art quilt adding more pattern and color. You are the designer with a kit of pre-fused hand-dyed fabrics in folk art colors and basic silhouette shapes provided for the center motif. (No sewing machine needed.)
Half-Day Workshop Supply List ($25 Kit fee)
Full-Day Workshop Supply Lis
t ($20 Kit fee)

New Class!

Stitch After Fusing

A well placed embroidery stitch on the surface of fabric brings a quilt to life. It lends the surface additional color, pattern, definition, and texture. In this class you will make a small flower quilt from a pre-fused fabric kit. Basic embroidery stitches are reviewed using brilliantly colored pearl cotton threads (also part of the kit). Learn to entice the viewer closer to your art with free form, unfettered embroidery.  (No sewing machine needed.)
Full
-Day Workshop Supply List ($25 Kit fee)

New Class!

Inside Stories

Are you a frustrated interior designer? Need at least one room in your home that is neat and inviting? Like a dollhouse in fabric, create a room of your own complete with wallpaper, flooring, furniture and accessories. Learn fusing techniques like free-cutting, collage building, bias fusing, fused weaving, and other textural devices to make your colorful interior setting. Furniture templates and a kit of hand-dyed fabrics are provided, just bring your imagination. (No sewing machine needed.)

Full-Day Workshop Supply List ($25 Kit fee)

Class Samples and Outline


Bad Dog! Cute Cat!
Bad Dog and Cute Cat quilts are like the Sunbonnet Sue quilts only of the canine and cat world. In this class you create your own dog or cat quilt with colorful fused fabrics and an easy pattern transfer technique. You learn to construct an improvised background for Fido or Fluffy and fusing techniques like free-cutting, collage building, and other textural devices. Dog and cat patterns and a kit of hand-dyed fabrics are provided, just bring kibble. (No sewing machine necessary.)
Full-Day Workshop Supply List
($25 Kit fee)


Garden of Eden

In this tempting class create a small art quilt teeming with every flower in creation. Build a blooming garden on a green base of lush leaves, curly ferns and wavy blades of grass. Add simple daisies, jolly tulips, and colorful chrysanthemums to the mix and you have a garden that Eve would envy. All from colorful fused fabrics. Directions for free cutting flowers, bias leaves and fused quilt assembly processes are covered. (No sewing machine needed.)
Half-Day Workshop Supply List ($25 Kit fee)
Full-Day Workshop Supply List ($20 Kit fee)

 


Woodcut Quilts

Adapt the graphic impact of woodcuts to quilt making. Create beautiful woodcut inspired quilts by free cutting fused fabrics in intricate shapes and ironing them on black fabric. Learn free cutting, pattern transfer, and the design secrets of the woodcut quilt. This type of art quilt construction is painstaking and so only one small quilt can be completed in one day. But the results are worth it! (No sewing machine needed.)

Full-Day Workshop Supply List ($20 Kit fee)



Color Chip Collage

Make an art quilt that is a treat for the eyes! Create an improvisational quilt from bright, fused fabrics by building quick collages from free-cut fabric chips. Learn to arrange the collage blocks into pictorial or abstract designs with simple fusing techniques. The result is a free-from art quilt that is improvisational, innovative, and has the surface texture of paint dabs on canvas. (no sewing machine needed).

Full-Day Workshop S
upply List ($20 Kit fee)


Tree Top Be-Bop
Build a small, peaceful, landscape quilt from cheerful fused fabrics. Learn fusing basics like free cutting, strip-fusing, bias fusing and collage construction to make an art quilt with
rolling hills, swaying trees, and unique surface patterning. With fusing, your landscape design possibilities are endless! (no sewing machine needed.)
Half-Day Workshop Supply List ($25 Kit fee)
Full-
Day Workshop Supply List ($20 Kit fee)


Tiny Homes
Create a little house quilt and receive a degree in Architecture from the Chicago School of Fusing at the same time! In this workshop we explore the many techniques of fusing: free cutting, layering, collage building, improvisational design, and more. The result is a whimsical neighborhood placed in a colorful landscape setting and made from beautifully hand-dyed fabrics. (No sewing machine is needed.)
Half-Day Workshop Supply List ($25 Kit fee)
Full-Day Workshop Supply List ($20 Kit fee)


Object Lesson
To truly make your
own art quilts, begin by designing your own fabric. In this class you will make swatches of colorful fused fabrics like florals, checks, stripes, and dots. Using those fused fabric swatches, you can then create an art quilt illustrating a familiar object. It can be an object of personal meaning such as a teapot, chair, or birdhouse or possibly an abstract collage full of texture and pattern. Either way, it is an original quilt made with original fabric designs. (No sewing machine is needed.)

Full-Day Workshop Supply List ($20
Kit fee)



Fus
e and Tell: Journal Quilts
(This is a 4 - 5
Day Workshop)

Like a journal or photo album, quilts illustrate the stories of our lives. In this class, capture the essence of your own story and translate it into a fused art quilt. From the simple free-cutting of fabric to adapting your personal sketches or photos, your narrative quilt comes alive. Begin with basic fusing terms and practices then quickly move on to learn the many processes of converting your design source into fabric shapes. Whether your inspiration is an idea in your head, a sketch, or digital photo there is a fusing method to make the construction of your story easy. A computer, digital camera, and digital projector are provided to help you multiply or enlarge your designs. Tell your own story in cloth.
(Sewing machine is optional.)
Supply List for 4 - 5 Day Workshop (
$20 Kit fee)

Fusing Fun: Fast, Fearless Art Quilts
(This is a 4 - 5 Day Workshop or a 2-Day Workshop)

Toss the templates and trash the rulers! Fusing is free form art making at its best. Working with fusible web on fabric, discover fusing techniques like free cutting, strip fusing, confetti collage, playing blocks, and improvisational assemblage. The grand mystery of a woodcut quilt is also revealed (in the 4-5 day version of the class). Because fusing is fast and free you quickly invent your own design language to explore. In this class you will create multiple pieces of fun, fast, free, fused fiber art and get loose, really loose. As an added bonus, learn tunes from the Chicago School of Fusing Glee Club and graduate with an advanced degree in Fusology. (Sewing machine is optional.)
Supply List for 4 - 5 Day Workshop ($20 Kit fee)
Supply List for 2- Day Workshop ($20 Kit fee)

 

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