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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.
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 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)
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 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 List ($20 Kit fee)
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 New
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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)
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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
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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 Supply
List ($20 Kit fee)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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Fuse
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
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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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New Class!
New
Class!
