HAWAIIAN TEXTILE CRUISE WORKSHOPS
MY CRUSIN’ VACATION
Now you don’t have to wait to get home before capturing your vacation memories. In this 2-Day workshop we’ll take little treasures we find along the way and pull them together in one special quilt.
On day 1- we’ll take your favorite vacation postcards or photo and turn it into a unique design, and then learn how to stitch it up using Fast-Piece Appliqué™
On day 2 – taking some of the souvenirs trinkets found along the way we’ll add them to your quilted memory.
You’ll take home a unique piece, created from an original design based on your vacation, along with the knowledge of Rose’s special Fast-Piece Appliqué™ method that will allow you to use quickly and easily add curves and circles to future projects.
Length: 6 hours (each day) Level: Confident Beginner
HAWAIIAN TIKI MASTER!
In this workshop you’ll be working with a kit and a pattern to create a Island Tiki quilt while learning the two fabric way to quickly stitch up a background quilts using Fast-Piece Appliqué™ methods found in Rose’s book, Exploring Embellishments! (kit purchase is required)
By the afternoon you’ll be couching and embellishing your small fun & easy TIki God using beads, yarns, wool felt. A wonderful treat to take home and hang on the wall to remember your island visit!
Length: 6 hours Level: Confident Beginner
HOT HAWAIIAN HIBISCUS!
In this workshop you’ll be working with a kit and a pattern to create a island memory while learning the two fabric way to quickly stitch up a background quilts using Fast-Piece Appliqué™ methods found in Rose’s book, Exploring Embellishments! (kit purchase is required)
By the afternoon you’ll be couching and embellishing your small fun & easy Hawaiian hibiscus flower memories using beads, yarns, wool felt. A wonderful treat to take home and hang on the wall to remember your island visit!
Length: 6 hours Level: Confident Beginner
COLOR CRUSIN’
Drop that needle and open your eyes! We're going to take off on a visual journey, stretch your mind to exciting new dimensions, and add more color confidence and competence to your fabric creations.
In this no-sew class we'll explore color and how to use it in our art. We'll look around at color in nature and cut, paste, paint, dip and dabble in search of our own magic island of color.
This workshop trains your eyes to see in a new way, and is guaranteed to enable you to see a more color-full world than you ever saw before.
Length: 6 hours Level: Everyone
WHAT’S ON TOP?
EMBELLISHMENTS, that's what! In this class we'll explore the varied and delightfully creative forms embellishments can take in our work, and how you can use them to add drama, whimsy, character and sparkle to your quilts.
You will learn the skills for adding beads, bangles, buttons, found objects, personal trinkets and treasures, and even paper to your fabric art plus how to add and layer these embellishment elements by hand or by machine
With these easy & fun embellishment techniques, your projects will be dressed up for show-and-tell, top to bottom and bottom to top.
10 different techniques will be demonstrated & at the end of the day you’ll have a set of samples of your own. (kit purchase is required)
Length: 6 hours Level: Confident Beginner
